DJ Paroma

Paroma Chatterjee grew up in Thane, left studying when the money was needed, and at 18 was flying as cabin crew. When her father died while she was on a flight abroad, she handed back the uniform and everything tying her to that life, then spent eight months deciding what came next. The answer was music — in a world where she knew no one. She broke a fixed deposit to pay for a DJ course, walked in knowing the least in the class and left with the highest score the institute had recorded, took a ₹4,000-a-month job and played to an empty club for eight months.

Fifteen years on: official Bollywood remixes across two film industries, a national-TV jury seat, runner-up for Best Bollywood DJ two years running in an open category, and close to a million followers — built on weddings, corporate and broadcast, not clubs. Here she gets into the thing behind the title everyone now claims a month in, why she swapped 'celebrity' and 'influencer' for 'producer,' the pay-for-trophy award racket she refused, and Saheli — 'a female friend' — the women-first venture she launched quietly in Bangalore and Kochi to give a local female DJ her first real break.

The VIC Fix is hosted by DJ VIC — an international DJ and producer who performs at weddings, corporate events and festivals across India, staged as a signature audio-visual show.