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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 74 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
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.
Dared to explain what holds them together, they need to finish the short film they abandoned — and to know why Vivek can't write an ending anymore.
The crash in Goa, the lost engagement ring and the forced improvisation strand them in an unfamiliar situation with no money, no gear and no way home.
Karthik wakes hungover on the car roof on a Goa beach and realizes his engagement ring is gone.
At the shack, the gang — now including Kaushik's stowaway nephew Subash — argues about finding the ring versus enjoying the trip, until Karthik calls his boss for a lead on the antique shop.
The gang stakes out the antique shop from across the street.
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All of them enter the shop and clearly look like misfits.
The shopkeeper walks towards them and KARTHIK takes his phone out and shows him a pic of the ring.
KARTHIK
Do you have a similar one ?
The shopkeeper looks at him from top to bottom and then looks into the phone.
He inspects it thoroughly and points towards the center of the shop where inside a display is a similar looking ring.
The whole gang circle around it and look at it in awe.
KARTHIK compares the picture with the one in the display
KARTHIK (CONT’D)
Same undhi.
SHOPKEEPER
Same no difference at all.
KARTHIK slowly stands up and looks at the shopkeeper.
KARTHIK
So how much ?
SHOPKEEPER
5 lakhs change.
KARTHIK
Oh no problem, i’ll just come back
please keep it aside.
SHOPKEEPER
Sure.
He smiles.