Waiting to exhale

Here are the ingredients you need for a biopic:

• A humble beginning
• A meteoric rise
• The admiration of millions
• Temptation
• Succumbing to the temptation
• Losing everything
• Fighting for dignity
• Hope for the future

If this was Hollywood, a movie would already have been made by now. But Bollywood is not really a biopic kind of place. Columnists have written about this person, notably this one, but no movie is in the making. Maybe in a few decades, after the dust has settled, someone will.

Who am I talking about? Here's a hint: