What does it mean to show India to the world—not as a postcard cliché, but in all its layers and contradictions?

Mira Nair has kept at it for over three decades—whether through Monsoon Wedding (2001), which took Delhi’s chaotic beauty global, or The Namesake (2006), which tenderly captured the sharp pangs of diasporic longing. And today, Bijoy Shetty is attempting something similar in a different medium. The 27-year-old director’s music videos for artists like Hanumankind, Martin Garrix, and Badshah push Indian hip-hop beyond borrowed aesthetics, rooting it in local culture—dahi handi pyramids, daredevil riders, traditional martial arts—while speaking in a visual language that has universal appeal.

When Nair and Shetty meet over Zoom for a conversation with Vogue , they exchange no

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