MUMBAI (July 14): As India saw a record jump in coronavirus cases over the weekend, the bulk of the nation’s attention was on Amitabh Bachchan, the country’s biggest movie star, and his family, who are now among the 878,000-plus infected.

The 77-year-old Bollywood patriarch’s image is ubiquitous across the country on advertisements for everything from hair oil to cement, and his infection — along with actor son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai and granddaughter Aaradhya — ignited something akin to an outpouring of national grief.