Spectrum of an individual butterfly

Presenting the most giggle-inducing passage I have read in a book this past month. Christina Daniels’ I’ll do it My Way: The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan contains this rhapsodic quote by Indra Kumar, director of the 1990 film Dil:

In Dil, I saw Aamir turning from a larva to a beautiful butterfly. But today, he can transform himself into a beautiful evening or a brilliant sunset with clouds of magnificent colours. He has the capacity to be the moon shimmering in the water below. He is such a powerhouse of talent that he can transform his personality into all these things and look beautiful. If in the beginning, Aamir was just an individual butterfly and his beauty limited, now he has acquired the capacity to create a spectrum of his own. That is his evolution.

I thought Karan Johar loved SRK and Herzog loved Klaus Kinski (remember “From the moment I saw him, I knew it was my destiny to make films and his to act in them”?), but this takes the director-star relationship into a hitherto unimagined dimension. I will never think of Dil the same way again (not that I ever really thought about it before).
[Coming soon: a review of the book]

P.S. I watched Dhobi Ghat recently. Aamir's determinedly faux-intense gaze, pursed lips and pointy ears reminded me of something but I didn't know what it was until a few days ago. Then I figured it out and felt happy again. See.