In the video, she said that the idea came "out of the blue" and it just clicked for her. She said, "Completely randomly and out of the blue, I stumbled upon the idea of Humans of Bombay and I ...

In the resurfaced old video, Mehta can be seen delivering a speech at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi where she explains that the idea for HOB came to her “out of the blue.” ...