It's the 1970s and Bandra’s youth are strolling home from church in their Sunday best. Aromas of bottle masala, sorpotel, and Sunday roasts fill the air from the kitchen windows of bungalows in the East Indian villages. But it’s the music blaring from the Saldanha home that gives the passing youngsters pause — “Is that Jimi Hendrix?” “Is that Santana?”

“That’s what Bandra has always been about — music, food, and community,” say Captain Allwyn Saldanha, a 65-year-old businessman, and his engineer brother Nelson Saldanha, 73. Music is also what drew the Saldanha brothers and their band of friends together 45 years ago, when every Bandra boy wanted to check out Nelson’s enviable collection of rock LPs.