Readers of this column will know that our childhood was spent in Juhu and that our family shared a close friendship with our neighbours, the famous Khans of Juhu.

With their drop-dead good looks, their charm, and their zest, this family of five swash-buckling sons, Feroze, Shah Rukh, Sanjay, Sameer and Akbar, and beautiful daughter Dilshad, nurtured lovingly by their ethereally dignified mother Bibi Fatima Begum Khan, who had been widowed young, became the darlings of our neighbourhood.