>> We have known his parents Jackie and Ayesha Shroff separately and for Yonkers. After all, both lived down the road, a stone’s throw from our home. And given Mumbai’s interlaced, concentric circles of ubiquity and acquaintance, we have been hearing about their young son, the enigmatically named Tiger for a few years now.

Talk of his prowess as a football player has only been second to news of his much awaited film debut, his gruelling fitness regime, his cover feature in Men’s Health and his six (or were they eight?) packs.u00a0