Mumbai, July 25 -- For most people, Amit Dubey is one of India's leading cybercrime investigators. For Rajkumar Hirani, he became something else, a storyteller whose real-life experiences opened the door to an entirely new world.

When Hirani was exploring the idea of making a story around cybercrime during the pandemic, he found himself speaking to Amit Dubey. Dubey shared a collection of his stories, drawn from years of investigating digital crime. They weren't simply accounts of hacking or technology. They were stories about people, their fears, their mistakes, their resilience, and the strange ways in which the digital world had begun to shape everyday life. Those conversations and stories eventually inspired what audiences now know a...