Azad Yadav is a 24-year-old with a twinkle in his eye. His demeanour is demure at times and at others, brimming with filmy mardaangi. It makes sense then, that at one point in his life, while still an adolescent in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Yadav spent his spare pennies watching movies of Mithun Chakraborty, Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra. Today, between driving his auto, running his YouTube channel and doing seva, he has no time to squander, but he did watch Tiger Shroff’s latest.

He belongs to the peasant- pastoral community of the Hindi belt. At the age of 13, he migrated to Mumbai after his father passed away and worked at a chai shop in Malad West for a few months. "I called my mother one day and started crying. It becomes very difficult for us to get used to a 16- hour work day. Main wapas chala gaya," he recalls. At 19, when Yadav returned, he did a few odd jobs. " Lekin humara mann nahi lag raha tha. Humein kuch bada karna tha," he tells us. So, in 2016, he used all his savings to buy an auto. Now, he was his own boss.