Nepal, April 19 -- If you're invested in the business of storytelling and the individuals doing it, let me describe a disappointing sight: a filmmaker with a distinct voice, making something that has echoes of things seen many, many times before. The Scarface-arc has been adapted in Hindi cinema over the years in films like Agneepath (1990), Vaastav (1999), Raees (2016) - apart from dozens of other knockoffs before and after.

An immigrant 'outsider' turns their desperation into fuel for survival, inventing a morally dubious way of making money and becoming a maverick of a corrupt society. Soon enough, they become too big to be ignored, and the very system that powered their rise, turns on them. It's a part-underdog journey; part-cautiona...