Anup Singh talks about his bond with Irrfan The Song of Scorpions emerged as a dream, a nightmare actually. The horrific rape of a young woman on a bus in 2012 scarred my mind and my spirit, as it did of everyone else in India. I kept having the same nightmare for almost a year and, slowly, I started to feel that these images were telling me something about the violence of our times. My attempts to understand what my dream was telling me led me to this film.