Over the years, Pathak would write about heroes who were rakes and criminals and pepper his plots with high-octane chases, mildly scandalous sexual escapades and gory details of violence. He hands over a printout outlining an easy blueprint for a “nail-biting thriller”. The sub-heads read: Immediate take-off, lively characters, “what happens next” element, prominence to dialogues than description, and spectacular ending. “The most significant part of any thriller is its climax.
A thriller is not shaped from beginning to end, but from the end to the beginning, and for a writer like me, I have had a lifetime of practice in perfecting it,” he says.
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