Holy Cowboys depicts the vigilante activities of Hindu nationalists that are taking place in modern India, but it doesn’t merely document such activities. In fact, it presents a good and innocent boy and a world of hate that has a powerful influence on him. In accordance with the Hindu law that regards cattle as sacred, and the cry of nationalist politics to “unity and defend religion”, vigilantes strongly express hostility to Muslims and even resort to violence. The boy who was caring for the calf gradually loses his face in such a dangerous energy. Holy Cowboys illuminates a group that is already obsessed with a kind of fictional logic and actively borrows the grammar of a feature film, which is an appropriate method. Holy Cowboys is a genre film that appropriately harmonizes the gaze, the operation of the narrative, and the depiction of the collective landscape, and in itself becomes a powerful indicator of reality.​