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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 110 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two
Reunited three years after a car crash scattered them into hollow versions of success, four friends stumble into a bachelor-party trip to Goa where making one last short film forces them to confront the heartbreak, cowardice, and unfinished business each of them has been outrunning.
Four friends comfortable in their compromises: an engagement for money, a job that fired him, a dubbing gig, an editing hustle — none of it what nineteen-year-old them wanted.
Dared to explain what holds them together, they need to finish the short film they abandoned — and to know why Vivek can't write an ending anymore.
The crash in Goa, the lost engagement ring and the forced improvisation strand them in an unfamiliar situation with no money, no gear and no way home.
Scrounging camera gear through theft and bargaining, faking IDs, courting Shirley and Ginny, and finally shooting the short film pays every cost the plan demands.
Kaushik's take on the beach is the best acting of his life — the film they set out to make finally exists, in the same instant it stops being fiction.
The gang wakes up arrested in a police cell, with Karthik anxious about his imminent Skype engagement.
Karthik conducts his Skype engagement ceremony from the police station while a suspect is beaten in the background.
Vivek discovers on Upendra's laptop that Kaushik secretly filmed an alternate ending behind his back and erupts in fury.
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KARTHIK is busy on the laptop with his Skype conversation.
VIVEK is yelling at him from one end.
KARTHIK’S FATHER
Evarra adhi ?
KARTHIK
Paalodu.
BOSS
He’s extrememly late i guess.
KARTHIK
Yeah, bill kattaledu late
osthunaadani .. Andukane.. Scene
chesthunddau.
VIVEK
entha phekuthav ra inka.. Reyy
KAUSHIK and UPENDRA try to back him off.
KARTHIK
Sir, ignore it manam kaanidhaam
KARTHIK’S MOTHER
Enduko .. VIVEK voice laga undhi ..
KARTHIK
Ah sarey.. Neeku andaru .. Poni
inka.. Kaniddham engagement.
VIVEK
etha dhammu ra neeku ! Naa short
film ending change chesthava !
Nuvvu evadivi bhe...naa script naa
film.. selfish ga
KARTHIK immediately puts the laptop aside & wishpers harshly to VIVEK
KARTHIK
Sarey bhe ! dayachesi noor musuko
bhe ! Nee ending eh pettudham.. Naa
engagement paadu cheyyaku ra..
VIVEK
Arey thoo ! siggu ledhu ra neeku..
? adhi oka engagement eh na ra ?
Asalu manasu petti alochisthunnavu
ra ?
The voice is heard stongly in the backgroud while KARTHIK is intesly waiting the event to get done.
BOSS
Who is that ?
KARTHIK
Sir, konchum thodara.
BOSS
What ?
KARTHIK
THONDARA ! FAST !
He yells, The BOSS looks shocked.
KARTHIK (CONT’D)
Ring eyyi !
BOSS’S DAUGHTER
Ok.. ?
She takes a ring and animates it towards the screen, she isnt sure and its awkward.
VIVEK
Rey ! KARTHIK em chesthunnavu ra ?
Maredpally nundi jubilee hillls.
Akkada nuni US.. Idhey na nee idea
of development ante ? Nuvvu entha
jubilee hills ki shift ayina US ki
shift ayina.. nuvvu marredpally eh.
Adhi realize ayina roju neeku
haayiga nidra pattutadhi..
gurthupettuko... assal ikkadiki
raanniki reason nuvve ra.. Nenu
kaadhu !