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The Instagram clip has more than twenty million views and over one million likes, and he named varan bhaat, batata bhaji and prawn curry as favourites.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSachin Tendulkar has a video with more than twenty million views where he says he'd call his mother two or three days before getting home to tell her what he wanted to eat.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVaran bhaat, a lentil and rice dish, and batata bhaji, a potato dish. With me is publicist Bartholomew Nkemelu, from a yacht.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIs this a good story for him?

  4. Bartholomew NkemeluIt's a masterclass, Kenji. Two or three days of lead time, from a man who could have just walked in. And that's a win.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLead time. Is that a thing you give your clients?

  6. Bartholomew NkemeluNo. Last month a client gave us eleven minutes, and he spent ten of them choosing a font for the word sorry.

  7. Bartholomew NkemeluAnd that's a win!

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo her notice period is better than your whole firm's.

  9. Bartholomew NkemeluShe delivered every time. I present bad news on this silver tray, and nobody has ever once wanted to eat it.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe also named kolambi bhaji, a prawn curry. That's three dishes. What would you call that?

  11. Bartholomew NkemeluA product line. With a caption, too: life is a beautiful journey as long as such food is cooked at home.

  12. Bartholomew NkemeluI'd have charged four hundred thousand for that. And that's a win!

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou'd bill her for it?

  14. Bartholomew NkemeluI'd hire her. Chief of staff, Halcyon Reef. I'd offer her the tray.

  15. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe legend gave her three days for batata bhaji. Your clients gave the public three years for a sorry.

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