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Agent Cringe: Real-life spies reckon Indian espionage movies hardly ever get it right; here’s why

I laugh when I see how intelligence officers and people in uniform are portrayed in movies. Sometimes I feel angry too. We are protecting the country, you know.” The exasperation is clear as one of the top names in India’s intelligence talks about the representation of spies in movies. “They reduce us to caricatures.” Spy thrillers have long been viewed…