Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017

Over chai, Karthik goads a silent Vivek about Shruthi moving on and the world leaving him behind.

Scene 55 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen

Karthik
Vivek

Act two

Begins 48 min into a 2:05 film

The story so farBefore scene 55

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 52
Back in the bar's present, Karthik tells Shirley it was all just accidents from there.
Scene 53
A montage shows Vivek drinking alone in his darkened room for months.
Scene 54
Vivek's mother tells Karthik and Upendra how far Vivek has spiraled.
Scene 55
This scene

55INT. CHAI CAFE - DAY

KAUSHIK, KARTHIK & UPENDRA are siting around VIVEK.

There a cup of tea in front of him.

KARTHIK

Taagu.

VIVEK doesnt respond. He just started at the tea with his hands folded.

KARTHIK (CONT’D)

Daanlo kuda emaina posthey

taaguthava ?

VIVEK gives him a glare.

KARTHIK (CONT’D)

Deeniki em thakkuva ledhu.. enni

rojulu ani pichhodo laaga ala room

lo untav bhe ? ame akkada hayi ga

kottha boyfriend tho facebook lo

likes kottesindhi ..

VIVEK looks at everyone.

KARTHIK (CONT’D)

Oho facebook ante endho thelidhu

emo ? Ela thelusthundhi ? Nuvvu

room lo kurchoni edhusthey.. the

world is moving on.

KARTHIK leans back and sips on his chai.

KARTHIK (CONT’D)

Choodu ra games ki time

ayyipoyidhi.. Kalisi cinema

cheddham anukunnam.. intlo pressure

solid padhuthundhi.. kalishi

cheddam ani confidentga bayata

gaaliki thiruguthunnam.. Idhi ika

last year manaki.. Script raasi

short film cheddam ante ok.. 48 hr

contest occhhindhi.. Daantlo

gelisthey producers kantlo padutham

ledha nuvvu shruthi guruchuni

alonchi.

VIVEK signals him to stop.

VIVEK

Contest eppudu ?