It is ten-thirty on a weekday night. Dressed casually in a white shirt and jeans, Arjun Sajnani doesn’t look like someone who was in another city only a few hours ago.

“The minute the plane lands at the airport I feel the energy of this city; it’s just the same energy as New York,” says the director, who once lived in the most populous city in the United States, and for who Bangalore is now home.