• Zoheb Hassan reflected on his meeting with the late Ratan Tata.
• Zoheb described their first encounter in an Instagram post.
• He revealed that Tata lived in a small, two-bedroom flat.

Famous singer Zoheb Hassan recounted his first meeting with the late Ratan Tata, the powerful Indian businessman who died on Wednesday night at the age of 86.

Zoheb and his late sister Nazia Hassan were invited to record an album for his record label in India by Tata, who ran the Tata Group for twenty years and received India’s second-highest civilian award for revolutionizing the country’s trade and industry,

Taking to Instagram after Tata’s passing, Zoheb described their first encounter, noting, “On Friday a tall, impeccably dressed man in a suit arrived at our residence. He had a gentle smile on his face and was extremely soft spoken.” He added, “He seemed so sincere when he spoke. We had no idea who he was and he never bragged about himself.”

With the release of the Young Tarang album, the siblings created what was probably the first music video in South and India. Zoheb recalled, “MTV called us and said they had never seen anything like it.” They only learned of Tata’s significance at the album launch at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai.

Zoheb shared, “Ratan Tata lived in a small two-bedroom flat, sparsely decorated. It was a simple dinner with a great man that I will never forget.” He concluded, “A true gentleman and an icon of the business world RIP.”

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