The distance between the portrayal of the courtroom in popular Indian cinema and the reality of the courtroom is almost unbridgeable. As a corollary, judges are rarely portrayed in negative roles as against the plethora of “evil†politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and policemen. This is probably a reflection of the larger denial in public spaces of role and context of the judiciary in the Indian polity – displaying ostrich-like behavior – where we believe that what we do not see does not exist.