In 2017, the journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru. “I saw this as a Faustian exploration of one man’s actions, “ says Behl, who holds Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View and All the President’s Men—masterworks of the paranoid press procedural—in high regard. “Despatch is probably the maximum sex I’ve had on screen,” …
