Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017

Vivek confronts Shruthi's friends at her college and she reads his script on the spot.

Scene 37 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen

Karthik
Vivek
Shruthi
Shruthi’S Friend
Shruthi’S Friend 2
Kaushik

Act two

Begins 37 min into a 2:05 film

The story so farBefore scene 37

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.
Scene 25
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.
Just before
Scene 34
The gang mocks Vivek for writing a love story instead of taking the exam.
Scene 35
Vivek fills page after page of story instead of answers while stealing glances at Shruthi.
Scene 36
Vivek realizes Shruthi kept the pen he wrote his story with.
Scene 37
This scene

37INT. SHRUTHI’S COLLEGE - DAY

The gang is walking towards the canteen.

KARTHIK

Rey, veelu asale peddha posh ollu

.. Anavasanga godava pettukuntaru..

VIVEK

Ednuku bhayapadthav ra.. Ah ammayi

no ante elipodham silentga.

They enter the canteen. She is seated at one end and a group of friends are around her.

VIVEK walks up to her.

VIVEK (CONT’D)

Hey. Im Vivek. Adhi ah exam hall

lo.

SHRUTHI

Enti pen return chedaam ana ?

VIVEK

Ledhu. Ah pen poyindhi. I wrote a

script. Ante nenu short films

chesthuntanu.. Cheyyaledu but oka

script raasanu. Cheddam

anukuntunna... i was hoping you

could act in it. Ante try ..

Anyway..

He hands out the script, it’s the same bunch of additional sheets he wrote in the exam hall.

VIVEK (CONT’D)

Script. If you like it. My number

is on the last page.

One of shruthi’s friend, gets up.

SHRUTHI’S FRIEND

Hello ? Boss. Eh college ? Ra...

He grabs him by the arm and walks him to the gate.

VIVEK looks back, Shruthi is reading the script.

KARTHIK, UPENDRA & KAUSHIK stop the friend.

Another few guys join shruthi’s friend.

VIVEK

Boss. Lite teesko. Vere college

nenu.

SHRUTHI’S FRIEND

Script enti ? Number enti ah ? who

allowed you in ?

KARTHIK

Nuvvu watchman ah ra ?

SHRUTHI’S FRIEND

Rey ! em annav ra ?

Another friend joins in.

SHRUTHI’S FRIEND 2

Whats happening Rajesh ?

SHRUTHI’S FRIEND