Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017

In college, Vivek fakes a phone call to sneak the gang out of a lecture to catch a Gautam Menon film.

Scene 26 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen

Karthik
Vivek
Lecturer
Kaushik
Upendra

Act two

Begins 29 min into a 2:05 film

The story so farBefore scene 26

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.
Just before
Scene 23
Vivek drives recklessly toward his office building.
Scene 24
Vivek spikes his soft drink at his desk, dodges Karthik's calls, then is caught in the act by Karthik parked beside him.
Scene 25
At the bar, Shirley dares the reunited gang to tell the story of what holds them together — the frame for the flashback that follows.
Scene 26
This scene

26INT. COLLEGE - DAY

KARTHIK, VIVEK, UPENDRA & KAUSHIK are seated in the back bench.

There is a class going on.

VIVEK is busy searching for something on his phone.

KARTHIK

Em ayyindhi bhe ?

KAUSHIK is sleeping.

VIVEK

Aagandi ra.

VIVEK gets a call, He almost immediately silences it and goes below his bench.

The lecturer who looks like a young lady yells.

LECTURER

Evar adhi ? No cell phones in

class.

KAUSHIK who looks like he is sleeping mocks a girls voice.

KAUSHIK

Sorry madam !

The class giggles.

LECTURER

Who is that ?

VIVEK takes the call.

VIVEK

(hushes)

Dorikinaya ? .. Enni ra Karthik ?

KARTHIK

Arey uppu osthava ?

UPENDRA

Etu ?

KARTHIK

Happy days.

KAUSHIK

Arey nenguda ostha ra..

KARTHIK

Nalugu.

VIVEK

Four.

He cuts the call and gets up.

VIVEK (CONT’D)

Done.

UPENDRA

Eh show ra ?

VIVEK

Inko half an hour. Manju theatre.

UPENDRA

Ela eltham ?

KAUSHIK

Hello brother, im there no ?

All of them look up at the lecturer in front of them.

She’s busy teaching Java.

KAUSHIK sneaks upto the window.

KAUSHIK (CONT’D)

One ruppee coin.

VIVEK gives it to him.

KAUSHIK starts unscrewing the window grill beside him

LECTURER