It is said that legendary music composer OP Nayyar, one day, walked out of his palatial home in Churchgate, promising to never come back and he didn’t. For the first five years, Nayyar lived in obscurity, shifting from one poor suburb of Mumbai to another. He had stopped composing music in films and the film fraternity had also forgotten him. Then one day, an ardent fan recognized him and took him to his home in Thane. He stayed there for a few weeks or months but slowly, the neighbours began recognizing him and he shifted to Virar.
Nayyar regularly visited a retail shop and made his phone calls from an adjoining phone booth and it was at this booth, that he met his future soul mate, Rani Nakhwa. The two got talking and Nayyar requested Rani to put an advertisement for him in the newspaper for a paying-guest accommodation. Rani obliged unaware that the distinguished stranger was a superstar.
Back home, Rani shared the encounter with the stranger to her mother. Her mother, asked the daughter to invite the stranger home for a meal and the classic Indian hospitality played a part in defining destiny because the guest who came for dinner, stayed back to become the Babuji of the Nakhwa family forever.
OP Nayyar kept his word and never returned to his biological family and the family kept its promise and never searched for him. Nayyar’s last rites, as per his will, were performed by the Nakhwa family.