Bizarre video emerged Wednesday purporting to show a captured Indian pilot calmly sipping tea and insisting he’s been treated fairly by Pakistani forces — hours after he was beaten up after his plane was shot down.

The pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, was captured in Pakistan after the country’s army shot down two Indian fighter jets in a retaliatory airstrike near the disputed territory of Kashmir. He was first clobbered by a mob, according to video that purported to depict him, and then questioned by members of the Pakistani military.

“I hope you have been treated well with us,” a Pakistani interrogator can be heard saying off-camera in the odd, minute-and-a-half clip.

“Yes I have and I would like to put this on the record and I will not change my statement if I go back to my country. The officers of the Pakistani army have looked after me very well. They are thorough gentlemen, starting from the captain who rescued me from the mob,” Varthaman, with a swollen and bruised face, says into the camera.

“This is what I would expect my army to behave as and I’m very impressed by the Pakistani army.”

The commander is then asked where he’s from and if he has a wife.

“Am I supposed to tell you this? Major, I’m sorry, I’m from down south,” he replies, adding he is married.

Varthaman sips his tea between questions.

“I hope you like the tea,” the off-camera interrogator says to Varthaman.

“The tea is fantastic, thank you,” Varthaman replies.

The video appears to be an attempt on the Pakistani front to de-escalate rising tensions between the neighboring countries since the pilot’s capture. The two have feuded for decades over the disputed Kashmir territory north of New Delhi and east of Pakistan, over which both countries claim control.

Some outlets have declined to publish videos, including a mob attacking the pilot and the tea video.

Gulf News called the unspecified video “war propaganda” and a violation of the Geneva convention, which in part outlined standards for how prisoners of war should be treated following the end of World War II.

Wednesday’s air strikes and subsequent pilot capture came one day after India bombed parts of Pakistan. The airstrikes across the Line of Control dividing the two territories are the first since a 1971 war.