Instead, I want to tell you about one scene that a lot of people remember about the film. That's when the militants set an Indian flag on fire. Predictably, audiences went wild over this heroic display, clapping and cheering our hero on. I thought of this particular scene in Roja recently. That was while I watched another film, one about the Indian tiger.
Tigers exude power and danger, but also beauty and grace.
I know of no animal, no living thing, that captures this seductive combination quite as magnificently as the tiger. No, neither of those. Instead, it was a film about how this symbol of India is vanishing at a truly phenomenal speed. Made by a British organisation called the Environmental Investigative Agency, the film estimates that one or two tigers are dying in India every single day. Not because of disease, nor of old age.