We tell Abbas Tyrewala, we are curious about Jim’s lines. The villain, played with easy amusement by John Abraham, has the best of the lot. He starts off saying something, and then by the end of it, the punch line has changed. “We created an erudite villain, with so much sympathy built from his back story [he and the family are abandoned by Indian authorities]. Today, he is a sociopath. So, it’s hard not to hate him. The character is fascinating, and it’s him I wrote the lines for, not John per se. After that’s done, I think of John, so that can I embellish the lines in some  way. That’s why a sense of surprise in the dialogues exists. The mistake some in Bollywood make is to think of the actor, not character. Let’s be excited about the character.” 

Tyrewala’s excitement shows. Jim’s dialogues are amusing and relaxed all of once. “He has turned his pain into mockery for the world. It’s his justification for everything that he does.”