India, Sept. 17 -- In Delhi, the room wasn't talking about the box office. At the press conference of crime thriller Daayra, which was followed by a special screening, everyone kept circling the same question: what do you do when the law can't move fast enough, and someone decides they will? Meghna Gulzar, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran didn't come with answers. They came with a film that leaves you pondering in the middle of that question and doesn't let you off easy. An encounter that might be self-defence, or might be something else. Daayra doesn't tell you which. It just makes you sit with it.

"For me, as a director of Daayra, it was difficult to pick sides. Because the moral conundrum is overlapping on both. On the law...