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Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi · written by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam · 2017
Scene 91 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.
Upendra, Kaushik and Karthik haggle uselessly with a stubborn rental-shop owner over equipment and a coveted lens.
Karthik gets an ominous call from his boss as the gang catches up outside the shop.
Stranded without money, the gang sits roadside weighing a fake Skype engagement against finishing the short film.
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UPENDRA walks into the shop and faces the old owner.
He recognizes him and frowns. UPENDRA looks tensed and fakes a smile.
UPENDRA looks beyond into the shop.
He spots SUBASH being pushed through a small window.
Immediately he strikes up a conversation.
UPENDRA
Kaisa hai ?
The shopkeeper raises an eyebrow.
SHOPKEEPER
What do you want ?
UPENDRA
Tera number kya hai re ?
SHOPKEEPER
Card mein hai. Le lo.
Theres a bunch of cards lying near him.
SUBASH is creeping upto the LENS KIT.
KAUSHIK is signaling him to go further.
SUBASH hits something, a sound is made.
The shopkeeper looks towards the lens, almost instantly UPENDRA yells at him.
UPENDRA
Arey suvar ka aulad.
SHOPKEEPER
Kya bola ?!
UPENDRA
Yeh ded kilo ka haath jab moh pe
padtha .. Insaaf dilata..
SHOPKEEPER
What are you saying .. Paagal hai
kya ?
Shopkeeper springs up from his chair.
UPENDRA looks at SUBASH.
He’s reached out for the lens and runs towards the window again.
UPENDRA
Arey zindagi nahi melegi re
dobara..
SHOPKEEPER
Bahar nikal ! Get out.
UPENDRA
Entha sep ra nee ayya !!
He spots SUBASH’s behind wiggling out of the window.
The shopkeeper runs behind UPENDRA.
UPENDRA runs out. The shopkeeper only follows him till the outside of his shop and stops.