“I’ve adopted 'take it easy' policy,” quipped Y S Rajashekhara Reddy smilingly when I asked him in late 1994 what he was doing to bring the Congress back to power at a time when N T Rama Rao of the Telugu Desam looked all set to sweep Andhra Pradesh. It was the 1994 assembly elections and YSR was cooling his heels in his home at Kadapa and apparently catching up on current blockbusters because of his reference to the song “Take it Easy”, which was ruling the airwaves then. Every taxi driver worth his salt would have a cassette (MP3 had not been discovered and CDs were too expensive) of Prema Desham (that included the hummable “Take it easy”, "Muqabla", etc ) which was dubbed from the Tamil original Kaadal Desham. That film had put the dancing sensation Prabhu Deva and music maestro A R Rahman on the map.