While dissecting film characters, Kalpak Bhinde has to limit himself to 2,200 characters. "If a character has a lot of depth, I could write a chapter," he says. "But I have to edit and omit stuff to make it fewer than 2,200 characters." That's Instagram's caption limit, on which Bhinde runs an account called @characterbiopsies. On it, he makes complex roles appear simple. And sometimes, makes simple roles appear complex.

Bhinde can give you a lot to chew on with just cameos. Just like great actors can. "I like characters that have a lot of layers, but don't have a major part in the story." In Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Naseeruddin Shah, while playing Salman Habib, appears for fewer than 10 minutes, but Bhinde is able to break down why his character is "unapologetically self-centred."