This chapter seeks to locate the career and destiny of the idea of human rights in the work of Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam. From the 1990s onwards, Ratnam has made a series of extremely important films regarding the onset of genocidal political and cultural violence in India, mainly occasioned by the rise of Right Wing ultra-nationalist Hinduism culminating in the coming to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the spearhead of Right Wing Hinduism, in 2014. In these films, he has time and again explicitly or implicitly presented us scales of state-sponsored violence that immediately raise, for us as spectators, issues of human rights. The chapter argues that Ratnam complicates human rights practice around issues of scale and Realism by relentlessly presenting monumental visions of historical passion as well as vast scales of historical complexity that legalistic rights discourse may find difficult to respond to. Ratnam also posits, in opposition to the Realism of Rights discourse, the spectacularly monumental traditions of romantic fantasy in Indian cinema as probably capturing the true scale of Indic histories of genocides as well as providing an apt response to the rise of the rogue totalitarian nation-state in our times.