The brief was the most universal Indian afternoon — a gully cricket match — set in Jodhpur's blue lanes and composed the way Marwar painters composed a hunt or a sporting chase. It works because the grammar fits: a diagonal action line, a clear hero in mid-action, spectators framed in the windows above. We kept the cast small and let the action read in one sweep — batsman swinging, red ball mid-air, brick-and-stick stumps about to fall, a fielder full-stretch on the dive — while the blue-washed houses and the fort on the hill do the place-setting. The cricket gear is drawn flat and folk-stylised so the lane reads as a courtly street first; the women watching from the windows give it the gentle audience every Marwar scene wants.