At one such audition, Sura shocked those in the room when he stopped suddenly reciting his lines. "There were two men beside me who were talking endlessly. I politely offered to wait till they finished their conversation," he says. The episodes deal with bureaucracy and house hunting to getting an Aadhaar card made, and dating. For Sura, there have been many 'firsts' in the last eight years. For starters, she's never been duped as many times in London as she has here. "That includes everybody, from the vegetable vendor to the rickshaw driver. Apparently, it wasn't my accent that gave me away, but my appearance. It seems I had 'take me for a ride' written on my face." The experience drove home the relevance of her mother's advice. "When I was moving out, she said, 'Don't be too polite because people will walk all over you'."

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There was novelty even when it came to dating. "In England, you are either in a relationship or not. The romance scene here is all grey. You're dating but not exclusive, or you're married but still open." Although the two have known each other since their London days, it's only now that they can call themselves good friends. It's over a cup of coffee that they decided to approach the streaming service with the idea. Their chemistry helped clinch the deal.

"The idea was brewing in my head for long. Sometimes, when I go back to London, I am asked ignorant questions about the country, like whether we saw elephants on the road. The podcast is also a way of dispelling those myths," she says. Sura, meanwhile, is trying to integrate with the Lokhandwala crowd. "When I set up home in Versova, I was told it's the land of strugglers. I didn't know what they meant until I saw beefy men with unbuttoned shirts strutting about coffee shops." For now, both have a lifetime-worth of content to discuss in the podcast but are taking it slow and steady. Khunti thinks that's the beauty of Mumbai. "You never run out of stories to tell."

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