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She was born on March 5, 1985, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

She was active mainly in Hindi serials, Bhojpuri and Marathi films.

Pakhi Hegde started her acting career with a lead role in a daily soap on Doordarshan named Main Banungi Miss India.

She played the female protagonist in the Marathi film Sat Na Gat, with Sayaji Shinde and Mahesh Manjrekar.

I remember even our Biology teacher in the sixth grade ridiculed us and said that we never saw the UGC science programmes on doordarshan and wasted our valuable time watching crap on superhit muqabla.

However I forgot to doff my cap to the personalities and artists who have had a similar deeply emotional effect on me.

Hopefully in the future, I shall also acknowledge my other inspirations.

In the early 90s, when DD Metro was revolutionizing the entertainment landscape in India with Superhit Muqabla (a show he was the DJ of till he moved to ATN with Superhit Hungama), Baba Sehgal had come into my life.

It was actually on Superhit Muqabla that I had first seen him, in the Ken Ghosh-directed music video Dil Dhadke Video which had caught my eye based on the oomph provided by the then-scandalous Pooja Bodi (Her Kamasutra ad and her Monroe-style blowing skirt in Pahela Nasha had firmly imprinted her in the consciousness of high-school kids like yours truly).

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However on multiple listenings, I became more and more drawn to the artistic talents of the man standing near the industrial fan baring his pigeon-like chest, his white shirt open, showing the world that you dont need strong pectoral muscles but just attitude to strut your stuff.

Soon I found myself sitting during Statistics paper 1 class, shaking my head and whispering the lyrics to myself as the teacher droned on about standard and mean deviation.

Not Baba Sehgal. I bought Main Bhi Madonna purely because of the cassette picture which had Baba Sehgal dressed in drag.

The video of Baba Deewana Audio,which showed him trapped in a TV trying to look at a girl taking a bath, got enormous playtime, though I accept that it was the beautiful words especially the reference to mera figure 36 24 36 that was specially pleasing for the scientist in me.

I can remember, as clearly as yesterday, coming back from Prithwish-Babus mathematics tuition at night singing happily Shopping karne main jaati Hong Kong, Mathematics mein main kabhi naheen wrong (I dont know whether these were the actual lyrics though, since the genius of Babas fast rapping was that the song lyrics appeared to be different every time you heard it) after a particularly satisfying problem-solving session.

If he gave me a voice in Mathematics, he also blessed me with one for Chemistry.

Baba Sehgals song Manjula from his album Dr.

Dhingra had a video wherein a mad scientist makes a beautiful girl come in a chemistry experiment, through a combination of dry and wet tests.

Needless to say, in this plethora of artists there were people trying to copy the great Baba.

There was the Vodoo rapper whose lame trick lay in always wearing a mask in his videos and of course Style-Bhai whose song I never quite internalized in the same way I did Baba Sehgals because I was too eager following the trajectory of the golden key tied around Ashwini Bhaves waist in the video.

In any case, with the amount of original material he was producing (in one of his songs Sehgal had defensed having copying Ice Ice Baby as Thanda Thanda Pani because even Ice Ice Baby had been copied from Under Pressure-a logic of transitiveness if there ever was one), it would only be a matter of months before he caught the attention of mainstream Bollywood.

It was an inspired choicefew other people would be able to put that feeling behind those words, definitely not Hariharan.

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However it was in Akashdeeps great movie Miss 420 where Baba Sehgal appeared as a hero and playback that his talents as an actor and artist were given proper room to play.

Rarely has been the act of picking up women in cars as beautifully depicted as in Aja meri gadi main baith ja Video with its sinisterly-meaningful Pom Pom squeezing of horn or the simple joys of keeping it up as in So gya to khada hona hoga mushkil from Gora chehra, kala til Video.

Horrendous servants of Sauron were remixing classic oldies and pure talent like Baba Sehgal gradually became side-lined.

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The last really great song from Baba Sehgal I remember was Tora Tora Video, a very clever tribute both to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (Tora Tora being the code message transmitted to denote the success of the surprise attack) as well as to well-endowed women (kudiya maalamaal hai yaaron) before he vanished into marginality, occasionally popping up on reality shows or in soundtracks of movies like 13B with songs like Oh sexy mama wont you do the saregama.

Shamed to admit I actually knew the lyrics to thanda thanda paani.

Thats probably the reason why all his performances are electric.

But if you have not, give a look in; you might discover something which my ordinary eye could not.

And yes, even I thought Baba Sehgal had talent, contrary to what most people thought at the time.