For decades, veteran action director and Vicky Kaushal's father Sham Kaushal has redefined how action is portrayed in Indian films, steering away from the exaggerated, physics-defying stunts of the 1990s toward sequences grounded in emotion, character, and story. In a recent conversation, he opens up about collaborating with directors such as Anurag Kashyap, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and Danny Boyle, his fight against cancer, the acting careers of his sons Vicky and Sunny Kaushal, and his belief that Indian cinema needs to tell authentic, homegrown stories to truly succeed on the world stage.