Fire in their bellies

BROTHERS KEEPING CURRY MILE FAVOURITE GOING STRONG 30 YEARS ON IN MEMORY OF THEIR DAD

- ADAM MAIDMENT

IN THE mid-90s on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme, Sax Arshad and his brothers would throw water bombs at each other and the other kids in the street as their dad worked tirelessly behind the grill at Mughli's.

In-between each water fight, the kids would pop into one of the neighbouring shops or restaurants, fill their balloons back up with the nearest tap they could find and go for round two.

But today Sax says that those shops and the families behind them have all but gone instead replaced by other families and business owners trying to make a name for themselves in the different Curry Mile that exists now. But whilst the neighbours may have changed, Mughli is still going strong.

"The idea when our dad first set the restaurant up was to have a late-night curry house available to students and people who worked late," Sax, 44, told the M.E.N. "It was during the heyday of the Curry Mile but there weren't too many people doing that at the time who were offering something decent."