In the past few years, Hong Kong and India have seen totalitarian governments toppled and democracy set up; India has overcome colonialism but is still holding on to parts of ancient culture, and Hong Kong has struggled to make a full democratic transition. Two films that greatly highlight the process of nation building behind contextual ideas are Confessions of Pain and Kahaani . These movies are a representation of Asian metropolises in their dynamic postcolonial states. The films focus on globalized identities as a critical site for the mapping of a convergence of anxieties about urbanity and modernity. Hong Kong and Indian cinema are driven by one narrative over another narrative, in the sense where the movies here are telling a cover-up story about political states. Both films have taken a scope of crime as a method to convey a moment of change in the world. These films are centered on police affairs but perfectly manage to deliver an alternative portrayal. Confessions of Pain ...