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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 89 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.
Shirley and Ginny enter the present-day story at the fest, giving Vivek and Kaushik new relationships that will carry the theme of moving on and being honest.
Lying under the stars, the friends confess how rarely they get nights like this anymore.
Shirley makes breakfast and needles Vivek about why his love story still has no ending.
Upendra, Kaushik and Karthik haggle uselessly with a stubborn rental-shop owner over equipment and a coveted lens.
This scene
All of them are seated while SUBASH is busy reading from a book.
UPENDRA
Engagement prepone avvadam enti ?
Ammaiyi US lo unte ela osthundhi
Ellundi kella ?
KARTHIK
Skype engagement.
UPENDRA
Enti ?
KARTHIK
Ante webcam lo iddharam choosukoni
, family ni add chesi.. Rings
exchange chestham.
KAUSHIK
Etla chestharu ?
KARTHIK animates a movement.
KARTHIK
Itla computer screen lo nundi
estha..
KAUSHIK looks at UPENDRA & KARTHIK for a brief moment.
KAUSHIK
Atlane Computerla kaapuram chesi CD
la pillani pampukondi. Thoo.. Em
zamaana ra.
UPENDRA
Mari short film ela ?
KAUSHIK
(in the NAT GEO tone)
Eh, Mike, Nuvvu joke chesthunnava ?
Manam ila ee advilo aadivaasula
laaga gochi gudda esukoni
thirigedhi veedi ungaram kosam, ah
engagment eh prepone ayithey inka
manam short film chesi em peekutham
Mike ? I think neeku...
UPENDRA
Ayithe inke !? Happyga chesko ra ..
Skype eh kadha.. ey coffee shop
lono kurchoni enganement chesko..
KAUSHIK
Mari ah ungaram mee thathagaru
testhara Mike ?
UPENDRA
Mike, ah ungaram fake oh real oh..
Computer screen lo nundi thelidhu
mike.
They turn to KARTHIK.
KARTHIK
Emo ra life lo jarigey events
meeedha control lekunda pothundhi.
KAUSHIK gets up.
KAUSHIK
Rey ippudu emaindhi..
He takes a look at KARTHIK’s face hung in disappointment.
KAUSHIK (CONT’D)
Uppi ga, ah buddodini teesukoni ra.
KAUSHIK starts walking away.
UPENDRA
Rey etu ?