New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Have you watched Sunil Grover play Aamir Khan?

Week after week, Sunil Grover deconstructs a celebrity on The Great Indian Kapil Show (Netflix). In the latest episode, Grover, dressed as Aamir Khan in a printed kurta, harem pants and a hairband, doesn't merely play "perfectionist" or parrot a catchphrase. He is instead after the blinking eyes, the beatific half-smile that looks like it has been vetted by focus-groups, the way Khan leans forward as he speaks, as if test-screening his own sentence.

Khan himself has refused to call it mimicry, praising the act as "so authentic" he felt he was watching himself, saying he laughed so hard he couldn't breathe. That is the highest praise: the original reduced to a giggling ...