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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 85 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.
At the festival stage, Vivek is transfixed by Shirley singing and scribbles a story on a napkin.
Vivek's tissue-note flirtation with Shirley plays out over dinner, and the gang lands the gear budget and meets Shirley's friend Ginny.
The car arrives at Ginny's house for the night.
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SHIRLEY, GINNIand SUBASH put out a couple of mattresses.
KARTHIK
Thank you !
GINNY
Thats ok. Are you sure you’ll be
fine here.
KARTHIK signals a “yes”.
KAUSHIK
Maa vaadu ekkada ?
GINNY
He’s sleeping in our room.
SUBASH smiles at KAUSHIK, as they leave.
SUBASH
Good night maama !
KAUSHIK looks on.
All of them are lying down on the terrace facing the skies.
The camera dollies out (aerial view)
KAUSHIK
raahukalam la puttina ra nenu.
UPENDRA
Poni raasipetti undaali.
KAUSHIK
Andukane ra mana group peru Kanya
raasi ani petina ra nenu... mana
daridram atla edisindhi.
UPENDRA
Padukunnava ra KARTHIK ?
KARTHIK
Ledu.. Naaku raatri nidra
pattatledhu.. one year nundi..
KAUSHIK
Oho.. Mana group nenookadini
maatrame manshi lekka unta
anamaata.
UPENDRA laughs.
UPENDRA
Ala nuvvu anukunte saripodhu ra..
janalanukovali.
VIVEK
Enni rojulu ayyindhi ra manam itla
night out chesi.
UPENDRA
Avunra almost three years ah ?
KARTHIK
Four years.. Last time KAUSHIK gani
cousin room lo ..
KAUSHIK
Correct.
A moment of silence.
KAUSHIK (CONT’D)
Appudappudu manam itla kalisi night
out cheyyali ra..
UPENDRA
Nannadigithey at least monthly okka
tensions marchipovochchu..
KARTHIK is snoring.
KAUSHIK
Thoo. Pannadu. Nidra paattadhu
pattadhu ani jurrasic park ki
background score vayisthundhu
choodu.