He is one of Bollywood’s most closely followed critics. And he isn’t Indian. Mike McCahill, who claims to have watched 8,000 movies in his lifetime, was just another cinema hungry youngster lapping up everything shown on the late-night slot of Channel 4, when he happened to watch Mani Ratnam’s Roja. The fledgling film critic was “slightly thrown” by the unusual ‘foreign language film’ that veered “from kidnap drama to lavish romance and back again,” although he loved the musical sequences. A few years later, his girlfriend and her family introduced him to Shah Rukh Khan and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.