Behind the Decks

From cabin crew to one of India's biggest Bollywood DJs — she handed back the uniform after her father died mid-flight, topped the DJ institute, then spent 15 years earning the 'celebrity DJ' label everyone now claims a month in. On the craft nobody films, the two songs that are actually hers, and Saheli — the women-first venture she built in a city she doesn't even live in.

Twenty-seven years freelance in one city, and still standing. He started DJing in Bengaluru in 1999 — before laptops, before streaming — with no agency, no manager and no club with his name on the door, and quietly put out 36 records rebuilt from old film music along the way.

A stranger at Comic Con gave him the name. A Tiësto edit gave him the career — and he's spent the decade since digging up forgotten Indian voices and moving rooms in fourteen countries, self-taught, no label, no manager.

Sunburn main stages, a global progressive-house co-sign, and a live saxophone almost nobody in India plays — built on an obsession with sound he still can't quite explain.

From a phone and an aux cable to 7 million views — he figured it out without waiting for permission.

34 years. No shortcut. No formula. Just music.

The Mother of Electronica — a title that was earned, not given.

Tabloids, trance, and the album India forgot.

What nobody tells you about 30 years as a DJ.

What does it really take to programme a night that people remember?

More than a female DJ — an honest conversation about what it really takes.

Speed, sound, survival — the life behind the DJ set nobody tells you about.

At 16, he was playing Bangalore's earliest clubs. He never stopped.

The mad, funny, and unbelievable stories that didn't fit in Part 1.

One nightclub. One cassette. One moment that changed everything.

Before Bangalore had club culture, Vachan was already building his own.

Rejected by the DJs he admired. Then he built something they couldn't ignore.

He didn't choose the decks — the decks chose him.

From being called 'DJ Henry' at weddings to building Bangalore's most iconic party series.

Sabotaged sets, club politics, and the raw truth India's nightlife never talks about.

Running the scene long before most people even knew what a DJ career looked like.

Decades at the heart of Bangalore's nightlife — the wisdom only time gives you.

Born in the Pub Capital of India — this is what that actually means.

Club residencies, Mumbai's Dome & Ark Bar, and two decades of holding the floor.

An iconic journey rewound, one track at a time.

Seventeen years of spinning — and still redefining the scene.

The original who set the tone for everything that followed.