The idea for Jerax didn't arrive in a writer's room. It came from a neighbourhood Xerox shop. For filmmaker Srinidhi Bengaluru, it was just another visit, the kind that rarely leaves an impression. But somewhere in that routine, a thought began to take shape and refused to leave. What if human beings could be duplicated the way paper is?"At that point, it wasn't a story yet," he says. "I was at a Xerox shop near my house, and suddenly I thought, what if we could duplicate human beings the way we duplicate paper? That one idea stayed with me.
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Copy Chaos Comedy: Srinidhi Bengaluru On Turning A Wild Idea Into Jerax
April 23, 2026
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