Before anything, let me say, I’m a fan of Madhuri Dixit-Nene u00a0big time. I love her smile, her graceful elbows, her Marathi American accent. Even her iffy dress sense fills me with up affection - memory of a time when people were inherently fabulous instead of merely propped up by stylists. I even endured the pathetic, un-funny jokes about skin colour, body size, accents and age on Jhalak Dikhlaja just for our divine Ms M (ok, two episodes, but still).

Illustration/ Amit Bandre