Little more than Oddjob in a turban, Kabir Bedi’s glowering hoodlum puts the Pussy in Octopussy. Yes, he’s fine when it comes to crushing loaded backgammon dice and waving a scimitar about.

When it comes to doing something actually useful, though – battling 007 atop an airborne jet plane, for example – he’s a complete waste of space, cravenly losing his life to a radio aerial flicked in his mush. It’s not the actor’s fault to be fair, Bedi’s original suggestion that Gobinda have a cobra-like ability to hypnotise his enemies with his stare nixed in favour of a more physical approach.