It was the worst kind of bootleg. Someone had smuggled a shaky handicam into a morning show at a suburban multiplex. The audio was a war between crunching popcorn and a man coughing his lungs out in the row behind. The video—supposedly "1080p"—looked like it had been filmed through a wet napkin.

At 0:31:22, another glitch. A blurry hospital room. A heart monitor flatlining. A patient wristband reading: Sharma, Mohan – Room 204. Arjun felt a cold finger run down his spine.

The film opened with a Bollywood dance number. Neon colors bled across the screen. But at 0:04:17—a glitch. The image shattered into digital artifacts. For exactly one frame, he saw a close-up of a woman’s terrified face, not from the film. Then a newspaper headline: "FIRE AT ANDHERI PLAZA – 12 DEAD."