“Kyun dekhu main ganne ke khet? Nai dekhne mujhe ganne ke khet” – Iconic lines from a Bollywood caper, which seem to form the perfect speech bubble for sports fans up in arms about, “Why should we watch badminton? We don’t want to watch badminton.” Without mentioning the C-word, the answer to the question was laughing its head off, out there on a Friday blockbuster of a match between Lakshya Sen and Kunlavut Vitidsarn. Not unlike the PV Sindhu of 2014-17 whose runner-up finishes like the 2017 World Championships remained popcorn munchers, or even the Satwik-Chirag of recent vintage in men’s doubles’ hyper competitive era where they pause spectators’ breathing in tense, taut rallies, Sen too delivers on sport’s highest metric: he makes badminton irresistibly watchable. Sen, playing at Thailand Open, a regulation Super 500 (third rung after Super 1000 and 750), was up against the local favourite in the last match of the quarterfinals day – and he put on a show that makes badminton imminently watchable for those one-sport fans resisting it simply …