Robin Williams. Oh Mork from outer space. O Captain! My Captain! I’m so sorry about this. It was so unexpected, so utterly tragic. We love you here in India. That you could pull off mimicry, method acting, melodrama, melancholia and menace with so much elan.

That you could shift between sitcoms, stand up comedy, saccharine sweetness and sombreness with such ease. (Bollywood loved you too, just rent out Munnabhai MBBS and Chachi 420 from any video library in the sky, you’ll see what I mean.)