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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 75 of 130 · ≈ 2 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.
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.
The shopkeeper shows them a matching ring priced at five lakhs.
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They walk out and KARTHIK throws a fit outside the shop.
KARTHIK
FIVE LAKHS AH !! Nee amma ! 5 lakhs
ra.. Oh shit .. ! ekkada nundi
theevali ra antha dabbu !
UPENDRA
Andharam pool in cheddam ra .. Naa
deggara antha ledhu kaani oka
20,000 daaka elthayi.. Ayina Vivek
ACL kadha .. Arey nuvvu easyga oka
1 -2 lakhs arrange cheyyochu kadha
ra ?
KAUSHIK
1- 2 lakhs ah ? Ninna ne barla
vaadi cardlu anni decline ayinavi..
Everyone look at VIVEK.
VIVEK
Naa job poyi 11 months avuthundhi..
KARTHIK
Join ayyi ye 1 year avuthundhi
kadha ra ?
VIVEK
One month tharavatha alcohol
thaaguthunte office lo
pattukunnaru..
KARTHIK
Aha.
He claps.
KAUSHIK
Rey.. Konchum maturega
alochinchandii.. Manam Goa lo unnam
unna dabbulu teeska poyyi
patthalaaadudhaam.. Okka night la
minimum triple chestha..
Oka two nights addithey pakka 5
lakhs chesthamm.. Em antaru..
Pratical plan.
Everyone just glare at him.
All this while SUBASH has been purchasing an ice cream from a vendor nearby.
He comes back with an ice cream cone in his hand and a poster in the other.
He goes upto KARTHIK.
SUBASH
Idhigo, practical plan.
UPENDRA begins to read it.
UPENDRA
48 hr short film contest. Prize
money 6 lakhs. contest begins
tomorrow venue calingute plaza,
calingute.
UPENDRA, KARTHIK & KAUSHIK read it aloud at once and look at VIVEK who’s standing in front of them.
VIVEK looks at KARTHIK.
VIVEK
Inkem option ledha ?
KARTHIK
Ledhu.
They stare at each other.
A wide of them standing on the road, UPENDRA, KAUSHIK, SUBASH, KARTHIK on one side & opposite them is VIVEK.
The poster flies away from KARTHIK’s hand towards the camera.
It reads “SHORT FILM CONTEST”
The text animates to :
INTERMISSION.