He picked up his phone and texted Meera: “I get it now. Every frame matters.”

“You seek the story. But the story seeks you.”

A hand gripped his shoulder. He turned. A man with fierce eyes and a rolled-up lungi smiled. “You’re late,” the man said. It was Chitti Babu (Ram Charan’s character), but he spoke in a mix of Telugu and Hindi, the dual audio blending seamlessly. “The President of the village has new rules. And you, city boy, are going to help us break them.”