A slice of Indian music history

Updated On: 30 May, 2013 01:24 AM IST | | Hassan M Kamal

Music Circle, a pre-owned vinyl record store in Kandivali started by collector Pilak Bhatt, offers thousands of gramophone records in a variety of genres and is a storehouse of trivia on Indian music

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Kandivali seems an unlikely location for a music collector to set up shop, especially a store that deals in niche vinyl records. Located on the first floor of V Mall in Thakur Complex, Music Circle is a tiny record store with little space to move around but it boasts of over 5,000 vinyl records - including RD Burman hits, songs by Pink Floyd, and rare collections of songs by Gauhar Jaan and Ustad Akbar Ali Khan, among others.

Pilak Bhatt with a copy of the Abhilasha LP at his pre-owned gramophone records store, Music Circle in Kandivali (E). pics/Hassan M Kamal