Akshay Kumar’s upcoming action drama Gabbar Is Back is a remake of the original Tamil film Ramanaa directed by superhit director AR Murugadoss.The film is about a common man who decides to abolish corruption in society. In our country where we believe that corruption is inevitable, rape is no longer rare and laws are easily broken, excerpts from a conversation with the super disciplined Akshay Kumar on his formula of making society crime free – ‘Make strict laws with severe punishment, strong enforcement and public display of the effect of breaking it.’I was recently shooting in Ras Al Khaimah when I discovered to my utmost surprise that for a city that is geographically bigger than even Dubai, it had just about 30 policemen guarding it. The hotel rooms are never locked by any guest as no one ever steals. And do you know why in places like UAE and Saudi Arabia there is no crime? Because their laws are very stringent, discipline is strictly enforced by the authorities and punishment is so severe that people feel scared at even the thought of committing a crime. You try and touch a girl there and you see what happens. One Indian man narrated an incident to me. He had broken the red light signal and was happy and relieved to find that no one caught him till after sometime, he saw two policemen come up to him, made him stop the car and took him to the police station. They asked him very politely if he had broken the signal. And of course, he confessed to breaking it. All they did was that they took him to another room and made him bald all along, talking to him very politely.The kind of humiliation they put him through, no one would dare even break a signal there. In Dubai, if you drop your wallet on the ground and you walk back the next day, you will still find it lying there as they are shit scared of stealing due to the very strict laws and its enforcement. In our country, I recently heard an interview with a rapist who said, ‘ Kya hoga zyada se zyada? I will have to go to jail for a couple of years if I am found guilty.’ We need to increase the scare amongst people who commit crimes about the punishment they will face if they are caught and they must believe that there is a good chance that they will be caught.Why should women need to learn martial arts in India to defend themselves? They should be able to walk freely. But no, they can’t, so they need to be taught martial arts for self-defence. The percentage of rape in India is not higher than other countries. But the punishment needs to be severe and made public, so that it is seen and makes people scared to ever repeat that heinous crime.Recently in Juhu, there was a case where a houseboy killed an old woman and ran away. He was later found somewhere in UP. How could he think of doing it? Law should be made and enforced in such a way that he would not even dream of doing this. In Hong Kong, if you drive 20km above the speed limit, you pay a fine. If you drive further 20km faster, you pay a heavier fine and further if you drive 20km faster, you land up spending two days in jail. Imagine that’s just for fast driving, so obviously people don’t break the law. These candle light marches are just fashionable and I am totally against it. Look at our own Mumbai. Why has drinking and driving almost stopped? Only because the rules were made stricter. And if you were found drinking and driving, you have no option but to spend a few days in jail. The law has not just been formed but enforced, as a result people know that they have seen enough people getting caught and thus, the scare is enough to keep them away from drinking and driving. And that is the only solution.Films do make a difference for sure. I know for sure that post seeing my film Oh My God!, there are people who stopped offering milk and money to idols of God In the film, I play a vigilante and go above the gunda raaj to find the solution, but in real life the effect of Gabbar should be that people should be scared of law, nahi toh Gabbar aa jayega. So it means that be scared of the law, otherwise Gabbar aa jayega or law aa jayega. Gabbar is thus metaphorically comparable to the law.