More than a year after the four-day India-Pakistan military confrontation of May 2025, New Delhi's effort to shape global perception of events is gaining little traction. A new Indian documentary on what it calls 'Operation Sindoor' has been challenged by independent analysts, including the Stimson Centre's Christopher Clary, whose study described the crisis as the most serious between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in decades and found evidence that Pakistan achieved an early counter-air success on 7 May. India's insistence that the ceasefire was a bilateral outcome is also complicated by findings from the British American Security Information Council and the Stimson Centre, both of which confirmed that the United States — with President Trump publicly claiming Washington threatened to withhold trade to halt the fighting — played the primary role in brokering the end to hostilities. Pakistan's military spokesman body, the ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations), dismissed the documentary as 'cinematic perjury' and 'Bollywood-style' propaganda, reiterating its claim that Pakistani forces shot down eight Indian aircraft during the conflict.