For years, the term ‘Opera House’ was simply used by the denizens of Mumbai to describe a locality in South Mumbai where they needed to get to, mostly for work, courtesy the several legacy commercial establishments to be found there.
Somewhere along the way, the relevance of the iconic structure that lent its name to that neighbourhood, a stone’s throw from the shore of the Arabian Sea, was lost. The reason: Changing tastes with changing times, closure, decay and dilapidation.