I remember watching Zakir bhai keenly when he used to perform with my uncle, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Because of the generation gap, I used to just keep admiring him from afar, always hoping that one day I would be able to play with him. I was about 16 or 18 then.
The dream was also to be able to experience the high of doing a solo with him on stage and that happened at a time when I was doing a lot of Bollywood recordings and accompanying a lot of artistes on stage. I remember a common friend in London telling me that when he asked Zakir ji about what he thought of me, he replied, “Haan, let him get in a serious mode in classical music.” So, that is when I decided to focus even more on classical music and began practising harder, because I realised that is what he wanted of me. And then, my dream came true when I got a call to play with him in Scotland in 2011. We were backstage, and I told him how long I had been waiting for this moment. All he said was, “No, no, I had my eyes on you, but I was just waiting, you know.” I asked, “Waiting for me to grow up or grow old?” And, he said, “I was waiting for you to get matured.”
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