Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017

At a 48-hour short film contest, Vivek draws Romantic Comedy and refuses on the mike, but Kaushik plays it off as a joke and re-commits the team.

Scene 56 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen

Plot Point I
Save the Cat: Break into Two
Anchor
Karthik
Vivek
Kaushik

Act two

Begins 49 min into a 2:05 film

The story so farBefore scene 56

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 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
Over chai, Karthik goads a silent Vivek about Shruthi moving on and the world leaving him behind.
Scene 56
This scene

56INT. STUDIO - DAY

There is a huge crowd of filmmakers. On the stage is a huge board that reads “ make a film in 48 hours”

There are a few judges and hosts on the stage.

The anchor is reading out the rules.

ANCHOR

“ ok guys so malli repeat

chesthunnanu. Meeku genres ante

topics or themes ee hat lo nundi

teeyali.. Lucky draw anamaata ..

Teesina tharuvatha mee 48 hours

start avuthundhi.. Meeku occhina

topic/genre gurinchey meeru 10

minute short film two days lo

raasi, prodiucer chesi final

product submit cheyyali.. detailed

rules mee kit lo..

She goes on.

At one corner of the auditorium are KARTHIK, KAUSHIK, VIVEK & UPENDRA.

KARTHIK

Poyi genre select cheyyi.

ANCHOR

Team Kanyaraasi !

VIVEK walks up to the stage.

He picks the chit from the hat.

It reads “ ROMANTIC COMEDY.”

The anchor asks him to announce it on the mike.

VIVEK grabs the mike.

VIVEK

Romantic comedy. Arey karthik,

kauhsikga.. Nenu sachchina

cheyyanu.. No. Im not doing this.

Lite teesko.

Everyone murmurs.

The people on the stage look perplexed.

KAUSHIK runs up to the stage and grabs the mike away from him.

KAUSHIK

Joking. Thank you ! All the best to

everyone.