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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 29 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen
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.
Reunited at the bar, the four are dared by Shirley's crew to tell the story of the thing that brings them together — the film they've never dared to finish.
In college, Vivek fakes a phone call to sneak the gang out of a lecture to catch a Gautam Menon film.
The gang escapes over a wall past the watchman using stolen tickets.
In the theatre, Vivek is moved to tears by the film as Gautam Menon arrives.
This scene
The boys are squeezing through a group of guys to meet the Crew of the film.
VIVEK
SIR ! GAUTAM SIR !! Sir ! Nenu kuda
direction department.
Gautam Menon looks into the crowd and points at VIVEK and asks him to come forward.
VIVEK, KARTHIK, KAUSHIK and Uppu go to take a pic.
While posing for the picture, they talk.
GAUTAM MENON
Direction department ante emaina
work chesara ?
VIVEK
Yes sir upcoming..
GAUTAM MENON
Short films chesara emaina ?
VIVEK
Yes sir.
GAUTAM MENON
Mee team ?
VIVEK
Velle sir.
GAUTAM MENON
Good good. Team peru ?
VIVEK pauses for a moment.
VIVEK
Vivek and team sir.
GAUTAM MENON
Oh good. All the best.
Everyone look at VIVEK.
The picture looks odd where KAUSHIK, KARTHIK and UPENDRA glare at VIVEK.