Among places you can find yourself as height of human achievement is to be turned into a general knowledge test. Simply reduced to trivia, despite a staggering body of work—depending on how you view that reward/acknowledgement.

That's how Bollywood's most prolific costume designer, consummate aesthete, Kolhapur born Bhanumati Rajopadhye (1929-2020), was known to most Indians. As a quiz question: Who was the first Indian to receive the Oscar? Bhanu Athaiya—for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, 1983.