Ashraf Sayed loves a good story. A custodian of earthquake folklore, he narrates a night in 1993 when cracks in the earth travelled over 14 miles from Killari in Latur only to be halted by the tomb of the patron saint of Nilanga, his village in Maharashtra. “For any story to be powerful,” the 64 year-old lightman in the Hindi film industry believes, “it needs to store dramatic memories, something unforgettable. Say…like the pandemic,” he points, “it reminded us that darkness always looms behind the camera. And light doesn’t always reflect.”