Age 17 was the turning point of my life. It was when I decided I didn’t want to be in Calcutta and moved to Bombay. I knew that in order to pursue my dreams of becoming a well-known musician and gain recognition, I had to be in the Hindi film industry. My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music. The first movie for which I scored music was Dada, in Bengali, for which Lata Mangeshkar and Usha Mangeshkar sang.