We briefed this as Kolkata's oldest derby distilled into a single leap: the maath fanatic airborne, roaring, stretching the half-and-half scarf that carries the fish and the prawn — the food-tribe emblems of the city's two great clubs. A diagonal sweep gives him the leap, both arms flung up so the scarf becomes the picture's banner, the painted fish and prawn doing the loyalty without a single logo. Red on one half, blue on the other, his split jersey echoing the scarf. We kept the ground plain so the airborne roar carries everything, and rendered the fish and prawn with patua scale-and-shell lines so they read as Kalighat motifs, not merchandise. Boneless shading rounds his shout and his straining arms.