Not only has Hrishida (as he is universally called) lived on Carter Road,Bandra, for almost fifty years now, but he must be the one person whose house(former house, now) ‘Anupama’ (opposite Otter’s Club) has featured themost in Indian cinema. He had moved into the house in 1960, soon after Anuradha,the successful remake of Madam Bovary, with Leela Naidu and BalrajSahni. The shoestring budgets on which he made his films on the one hand, andthe debilitating Gout condition which used to frequently immobilize him sincethe late 1970s resulted in his making a series of ‘home-bound’ films like Golmaaland Khubsoorat in which the main set was his own house. There was aperiod when, for some five years at a stretch, every time you visited the houseyou could lose your way as major portions of it would have been remodeled for aset.