Bollywood bawarchi no 1. The rise of Dilip, Farah Khan’s cook

Madhubani : He is the original Bollywood Bawarchi. The man who chops vegetables in Mumbai bungalows one day and poses with stars the next. But in the late 1990s, he was a 16-year-old teen from a small Bihar village who was handed Rs 250 by his father, enough for a one-way train ride into the anonymous labour circuits of India’s metro cities. More than two decades later, that same boy, now 42-year-old Dilip Mukhiya, returned to his village in Darbhanga and his Mallah Tola neighbourhood as a local celebrity the villagers had only ever seen on mobile screens: Farah Khan’s cook-turned-internet sensation.

The man whom Shruti Haasan calls “the real star.” The man Jackie Shroff corrects when he calls him “Beeru” instead of “Beedu.” The man royals from Rajasthan greet with excitement. The man Fa