After playing a carefree lover boy in Ludo (2020), it’s guns and gore for Aditya Roy Kapur in Om: The Battle Within. Even though he was coming from the charming world of an Anurag Basu film, the universe of the actioner drew him in immediately. He attributes it to the film’s strong emotional anchor. “For an action movie, it has a lot of heart,” he says. “It is about a family’s trials and tribulations. It doesn’t feel like I have departed from emotions, and landed in an action bonanza. The film has to have more because it’s the emotional core that makes people care for the characters.”