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The team may never have found this clandestine jail – a stone's throw from Dhaka's International Airport – without the recollections of Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem and others.

That is precisely the psychological mechanism behind Russia’s “Russkiy mir,” where people yearn for a strongman to protect the imagined moral and national order.

Mir, a high-strung anxious perfectionist, was written as more of the audience stand-in, the straight man.

Asif Ali: “Die a Raj or live long enough to see yourself become a Mir.”

Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh star as the two leads, Mir and Raj, respectively, Baba’s coddled sons, who eventually learn what their father really did for a living.