Pretty much all courtroom dramas hinge on a verbal showdown, that neatly underlines the picture’s point. “The final monologue”—as debutant filmmaker, Apoorv Singh Karki, of the scintillating Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai (Bandaa; on Zee5), calls it.

There’s that Amitabh Bachchan line, “No means no”, if you recall, from Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s Pink (2016). Likewise, probably my favourite: Naseeruddin Shah as a maulvi delivering, “Deen mein dadhi hai, dhaadi mein deen nahin,” in Shoaib Mansoor’s Pakistani film, Khuda Kay Liye (2007).