The room was silent. Tense. Numbers on the screen not looking great, everyone braced for a difficult stretch of conversation. Then someone's phone rang, loud, unmistakably Bollywood, cutting straight through the heaviness.
And the CFO, mid-serious-discussion, started humming along. Not on purpose. Just reflexively, unconsciously, caught up in a melody he clearly knew well before catching himself.
Everyone noticed. Nobody said a word about it. But the tension in that meeting genuinely dropped by half in that one small, unguarded moment. Sometimes a ringtone does more for a room than an entire agenda ever could.