Farah Khan says she remembers the year exactly. 1992. That's when she first choreographed the Filmfare Awards, and that's when she first ran into a young Bosco Martis and Caesar Gonsalves, long before they became one of Bollywood's most decorated choreography duos.

The memory surfaced on Dance Masti, the new podcast from Bosco and Caesar, who just marked 25 years in the industry and picked Farah as their very first guest. Fitting, given how far back the three of them go.

The story, as Farah tells it, is a classic before-the-internet production scramble. For the opening act of the 36th Filmfare Awards, she had her dancers dressed as the trophy itself, the Black Lady, in black leotards that got made the night before the show. "We overnight made those black leotards. And everyone had to stand," she said on the podcast.

Bosco and Caesar remember the pose better than anyone. Caesar asked Bosco on air if he still recalled how they stood for it, and Bosco didn't miss a beat. "And even today we stand like this," he said, with Caesar adding, "Even then we used to stand like this for them." A quarter-century on, the trophy stance is apparently muscle memory now.

Farah wasn't done. She threw in a compliment for old time's sake, telling the two, "You all were cute looking. You all are still very good looking." Which is the kind of line that only lands when you've actually known someone for decades.

Here's where the timeline gets a little fuzzy. Farah places the meeting in 1992, at her first Filmfare Awards as choreographer. But earlier accounts of Bosco and Caesar's own history have put their audition for the 36th Filmfare Awards in 1991. The gap is small, a year at most, and neither version changes the substance of the story. Still, worth flagging that the dates don't quite line up depending on who's telling it.

What isn't in dispute is what came after. Bosco and Caesar went from backup dancers auditioning for a stage act to choreographing some of Hindi cinema's most recognisable songs, picking up major honours along the way, Filmfare's own included. Twenty-five years is the kind of run that turns an awards-night costume story into an origin myth.

Dance Masti is still finding its footing as a podcast, one guest deep with Farah. If the first episode is any indication, there's no shortage of this kind of archive to draw on, three people who've watched Bollywood's award season evolve from the inside of a leotard.