Carter Promenade

This guide to Carter Promenade in Mumbai begins with a boy from Lucknow who arrived in Bombay in 1937 against his father's wishes, determined to make a life in music his father's world had no room for. It follows Naushad Ali's rise through the 1940s into one of Hindi cinema's most in-demand composers, scoring landmark films across six decades. You'll hear how he carried the classical music of his Lucknow upbringing into Bombay's film studios, reshaping what a generation absorbed without ever studying it. Look out at the Arabian Sea along this stretch and consider how many people cross it without knowing whose name is attached.