This top boss wears Khadi-made work shirts

Parmesh Shahani, Head, Godrej India Culture Lab shares his preferences in restaurants, phones, music, movie and clothes.

Restaurant

Samovar Café at Jehangir Art Gallery. Everything there is steeped in love, like the old recipe books of its proprietor Usha Khanna. I go there for the nostalgia, the excellent bean sprouts salad and guava juice.

Phone

The Samsung Galaxy series. It's efficient. I'm not really a phone person though.

Music

Voctronica — India's leading beat-boxing ensemble. See their youtube tribute to classic Indian ads. If it doesn't bring a smile to your face, i don't know what will.

Movie

Y tu mamá también. Alfonso Cuaron's coming-of-age road trip for two Mexican teenage boys is tender, harsh, sensuous, funny and sad, all at the same time... much like life.

Clothes

My favourite brand is Khadi Bhandar, even though I don't think that they consider themselves to be a brand. I buy fabric for my work shirts from there. I like edgy Indian designers like Celldsgn 11.11, Ikai, Sneha Arora. In global, i choose Lanvin, Balenciaga and Dries Van Noten.