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"Remember our finale performance?" Sachin asked, his voice softer now, touched by time.

The studio lights in 2005 had been blinding, but not as blinding as the silence in their living room twenty-one years later.

"Then we'll stand," he said. "We'll just sway. Like the first time. Before the lights, before the votes. Just us."

And somewhere, an old audience of two gave them a standing ovation. Note: The actual winners of Nach Baliye Season 1 (2005) were the real-life couple Sachin Shroff and Supriya Shroff (née Kumari).