imagined indian films

23.01.2026

S: In this head, strange new tunes and songs take shape. Revolutionary new ideas. Words, literature, art. And also, scenes from films.

A: A busy head, a creative’s head.

S: There is a father by his grown son’s bed. The father has some terminal illness too. They are both close to death’s door. They have attacked his son. His only son. His beloved son. We watch scenes of him raising this child. He stands up. He says ‘Your father is still alive’. Tera baap abhi tak zinda hai. He vows to hunt them down and kill them all.

A: The film of one addicted to action. So, all the characters in your films are Indian?

S: Yes. The next scene. The brother who is to fight the villain for honour has been brutally defeated and killed in a fight with him. The son that no one expects, one with a disability, he is the one that has to fight.

A: Another underdog story. Another story about revenge.

S: But also about relationships. The family. Another? They raped his mother. They killed men in his family. He is the son from that rape. She hid the truth from him. She wants to protect him from revenge. When he learns, he asks who the father is. She will not tell him. He puts a gun to his head. He knows he is in the photograph. He says to his mother, it is him or me. One has to die. You have to choose. Just point your finger. She chooses the photograph and he bathes in blood.

A: Violence. Family. Honour. Action.

S: The components of an Indian film. The imagination of the warrior culture.

A: And the scenes of love?

S: These are the scenes of love. Anyone that is against the family is our enemy. We are Tigers. Our love is ferocious. We have sworn to protect each other.