In the course of the years, Shravan carried himself with grace and used his pet word hanhji. Nadeem, who lived his family at Mumbai Central, moved to an upscale apartment in Bandra and for a while would be featured in tabloids for a liaison with actor Pratibha Sinha.
Be that as it may, throughout the ‘90s the duo amassed a vast fan-base of loyal listeners, right from auto-rickshaw drivers and the campus crowd to those who hankered for a vestige of melody, which had deteriorated largely to the violence-spewing multi-starrers, spearheaded by that era’s ‘angry young man’ Amitabh Bachchan.
The pair had entered the showbiz scene with the little-known Bhojpuri film Dangal (with the rambunctious track ‘Kashi Hile Patna Hile’ sung by Manna Dey) and fretted with half a dozen B-grade features till Aashiqui happened. Whether as strugglers or as mega-successes Shravan remained the reticent one who’d speak when spoken to while Nadeem became more flamboyant with more radio…