It sounded maudlin, but it was true. In the past month, among so many others across the world, we had lost Asrani. Then, Piyush Pandey, the adman gave us the ads that never left us. And then, Satish Shah, a face that if you grew up seeing, you knew that you would just be entertained.
For a '90s and 2000s child, Satish Shah was practically in every film -- similar to the omnipresence of Johnny Lever, though while Lever brought the laughs, Shah often gave more weight to the plot. He could be the ladoo-eating uncle in Hum Saath Saath Hain, the snobbish father in Saathiya, or even pop up in the gloriously odd Prem Aggan. He moved through every kind of role: the Anglo-Indian half in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, or Shah Rukh Khan's frosty advisor in Chalte Chalte.