"Aurora [mother of Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, and an artist] liked cricket — back then more and more women were being drawn to the game, and young stars like A.A. Baig were getting to be as popular as the demigods of the Bombay Talkies — and by chance she was at the ground on the day of the gasp-provoking, scandalous kiss, a kiss between beautiful strangers, perpetrated in broad daylight and in a packed stadium, and at a time when no movie house in the city was permitted to offer its audiences so obscenely provocative an image. Well! My mother was inspired. She rushed home and in a single sustained burst completed the painting, in which the 'real' shy peck, done for a dare, was transformed into a full-scale western-movie clinch. It was Aurora's version that everyone remembered; even those who had been at the ground that day began to speak — with much disapproving shaking of heads — of the moist licentiousness, the uninhibited writhings of that interminable kiss, which, they swore, had gone on for hours, until the umpires prised the couple apart and reminded the batsman of his duty to his team. 'Only in Bombay,' people said, with that cocktail of arousal and disapproval that only a scandal can properly mix 'n' shake. 'What a loose town, yaar, I swear'."