Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017

Racing back with the render still unfinished, the gang detonates every old grudge — Vivek's job, the playstation, the cricket bat — until the car crashes again.

Scene 113 of 130 · ≈ 4 min on screen · Act two

Karthik
Upendra
Kaushik
Vivek
Subash

Act two

Begins 1:47 into a 2:05 film

The story so farBefore scene 113

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.

Scenes 1–24
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.
Scenes 25–56
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.
Scenes 57–71
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.
Scenes 72–103
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.
Scene 104
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.
Scenes 105–110
The price: Kaushik and Ginny's relationship, Vivek's trust in Kaushik, a night in a police cell, and Vivek's discovery that his ending was secretly overridden.
Just before
Scene 110
Vivek's shouting bleeds into Karthik's Skype engagement call, blowing it up in front of Karthik's boss and family.
Scene 111
In the restroom, Karthik admits to Vivek he doesn't actually want the US life or the engagement, only the friendship and the short films.
Scene 112
The ruined engagement call ends and the police release the gang so they can make the submission deadline.
Scene 113
This scene

113EXT. ROAD - MOMENTS LATER

KARTHIK is driving, VIVEK is sitting beside him. Behind him are KAUSHIK and UPENDRA who are fidgeting something on a laptop between them is SUBASH.

KARTHIK

Rendering entha ayyidhi ?

UPENDRA

96 percent.

KARTHIK

Shit.

KAUSHIK

Enni saarladigina.. Adhi daani

speedlane pothadhi.

VIVEK

Sorry KARTHIK..

A moment of silence ensues.

VIVEK (CONT’D)

Naa,...

KARTHIK

Odhdhu em maatladaduku.

VIVEK

Naaku sumbit cheyyalani ledhu.

KAUSHIK

Ending nuvvanukunte pettinam kadha

ra inkendhi problem.

VIVEK turns around and gives him a glare.

KAUSHIK (CONT’D)

Your wish VIVEK. Im just a puppet.

UPENDRA turns to KAUSHIK.

UPENDRA

Thoo.

VIVEK

Naa short film naa ishtam.. Naaku

evvariki choopinchey avasaram ledhu

KARTHIK

Nee degaarne pettuko ra.. Pettukoni

em peekuthav.

VIVEK

Rey ipuudey sorry cheppina manchiga

maatladu..

KARTHIK

enti ra ? Peddha favour chesinnatu

maatlaaduthunnav ?? Chinappudu

nundi choosthunna.. 8th class lo

text book chimpesaavav. ah

tharavaatha naa favourite cricket

bat iragkottinav..

VIVEK

Nenu daaniki sagam paisal pettina..

KARTHIK

Two thousand lo sagam entha ra

KAUSHIK ? 500 ah ?

KAUSHIK

Nenu mathsla weak ra. nannu involve