This wasn't just another stop — Mumbai got The Odyssey's actual first public screening anywhere in the world, ahead of London, Paris and New York. Nolan explained why he'd waited this long: he'd originally wanted to premiere Tenet here in 2020, but COVID killed those plans. "I've never been anywhere in the world with an appreciation of what movies can be and what they should be for audiences," he told Hindustan Times. "It seemed crazy that we wouldn't be bringing our film here."
Matt Damon didn't undersell how hard the shoot was either — no green screen, nothing faked, Nolan shooting everything practically. Tom Holland greeted the crowd with a namaste and called the whole thing "a love letter to cinema." Before any of it, the three of them slipped into a Mumbai café for chai and bun maska — the kind of detail that made the trip feel less like a stop on a tour.