Mumbai lawyer Suril Desai has an IMDb page. It boasts of one credit (producer of Iron Khan, a documentary), and will soon have company (executive producer of Mumbai Jews). Iron Khan is about Parvez Khan, a rehabilitated militant from Kashmir, who runs a lodge in Gulmarg; Mumbai Jews needs no explanation. The two stories are linked, according to Desai, as "sitting in India, if I can do these two stories together, it can influence societies and it can influence the Middle-East peace crisis. Because it's the same entities, which are against each other."

We meet Desai, 38, in the office of his father's highly sought-after firm, Nishith Desai Associates, in BKC. The firm is into trend forecasting. "We look at different technologies, at social and political movements, [because] with every new technology, every new business model, every new political change, comes along a new legal and tax problem." Desai, however, is the in-house disruptor. "I focus a lot on innovation, technology, privatisation of space exploration, humanitarian laws." He's an expert on bitcoin and its applications, about which he says, "Blockchain without bitcoin is like saying, 'I give you the Internet, but I won't allow you to have your website.'" So, how does a square gent like him get into the world of films?