In a cramped green room, Prakash taught Rohan a forgotten Marathi abhang—a devotional song about a potter’s wheel that cracks but still spins. Prakash’s voice was rusty, cracked, like old wood. But when he sang the line, “The broken clay still holds the rain,” the room fell silent.

Prakash simply smiled. “You hit the high Sargam notes, beta. But you’ve never felt them.”

Rohan was furious. “I have to sing with the man who changes my bathroom bulb?”

Each contestant would be paired with a "ghost mentor"—a failed or struggling singer from their own city, someone who had given up music due to life's pressures. The contestants had to learn a forgotten song from their mentor and perform it as a duet.