I HAVE only met Mr Mallya once. I sat barely a foot away from him in a court in London at one of his hearings," says Dylan Mohan Gray, director of the just-released film, Bad Boy Billionaires. "I had been talking to his son, Siddharth, a lot, as he was representing the family and is also in the movie, so Sid introduced us. It was strange saying hello—especially as I had been sitting in an edit room for months going through hundreds of hours of archival material on him. It was surreal to meet a person I felt like I knew so well by that point. It was like we had history, but yet had never met."

The Netflix docu-series on infamous business tycoons, also features a segment each on the controversial jeweller Nirav Modi and Sahara founder Subrota Roy. Ray's film, The King of Good Times, follows Mallya, who continues to be the chairman of United Breweries, and his meteoric rise as the owner of Kingfisher Airlines. It also goes into the making of his larger-than-life party boy image, and the inevitable crash that comes with reckless confidence, and uncontrolled ambition. After borrowing indiscriminately from government banks, the airlines was closed down in 2013. By November 2015, the amount owed had grown to $1.35 billion. In March 2016, a consortium of banks approached the Supreme Court to stop Mallya from going abroad, but he had managed to leave the country. In April 2016, a Mumbai court also issued an undated non-bailable arrest warrant against the businessman. He continues to live in London while his lawyer contests the warrant with a higher court. He has been accused of defaulting on the loans, money laundering and misappropriation.