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A thousand artificial suns carved through the Mumbai darkness, each stadium light desperate for a fragment of the man standing alone on the stage. The air tasted of salt and perfume and the raw, vibrating hum of fifty thousand synchronized heartbeats. Rohan Varma stood motionless at the center, microphone gripped in his hand, his silhouette carved against the glare like a statue of everything the public believed him to be. But the silence that followed his last note was unfamiliar. It wasn't the quiet of a performance ending; it was the stillness of a man about to tear his own script apart. Offstage, you waited in the wing, your equipment bag hanging from your shoulder, your breath trapped somewhere between your ribs and your throat. You'd watched him from this exact spot countless times,…