But how does a film-maker with a love of exploitation flicks handle scenes in which genuinely hideous exploitation is taking place?
On his laptop, a grim parade of images flicks past.
They also serve delicious samosas and mango lassi and have a flat-screen TV showing what appear to be Bollywood action flicks to divert you while you wait.
The film programming is impressive: multiple rooms screen a well-selected assortment of arthouse flicks from around the world, mostly subtitled in English.
At the end of the road, my wife reaches over and flicks on my left indicator.
Taylor skips down the track and flicks a single away, then Knight manages to blast one through the covers for a couple more.
When close friends or relatives have died suddenly, I have sometimes looked at the retreating back of someone in a crowd whose shoulders hunch similarly, or who flicks their hair as the deceased once did – the thought that it might be them rushing and passing in a second's optimism.
After that, there were plenty of characteristic flicks off his pads through midwicket, some controlled drives and a complete imperturbability throughout the day on the ideal flat pitch.
He was going gaga for flicks that left some in their homeland aghast and disgusted.
But as more and more movies get marketed as nonfiction action flicks, the deeper truths are in danger of being buried underneath CGI explosions.
No sentimentality, no entitlement, no fuss, but – most likely – some regal flicks out of midfield and a couple of battling headers along the way.
