As someone fed on a steady diet of Hindi cinema, this writer’s first introduction to an art gallery was through Basu Chatterjee’s Choti Si Baat in which Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha set off on a 1970s date in Café Samovar at Kala Ghoda. It felt too good to be real. But once upon a time, it was. While Samovar is no longer around, Chemould Prescott Road’s upcoming exhibition, Remembering, is a throwback to a time when the history of India’s modern art was being shaped over cups of tea on the first floor of the building at Gallery Chemould.

(From left) KK Hebbar, Laxman Pai, Gal Arya, Siaxes Chandan and Gaitonde with the family and staff at the opening of the gallery in September 1963. Pics Courtesy/Chemould Prescott Road