TRANSITION
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B/W:
Camera follows two doctors from behind as they are running through a lobby.
The lobby is dim lit .
The doctors proceed to the ICU room at the end of it.
Opens door. Camera follows. stops at door.
Doctors at each side of the bed.
Nurses.
Lot of commotion.
CUT:
Camera shows ECG Screen. FLAT LINE.
CUT:
Camera pans down the wall at head of patient to finally focus on eyes of patient.
FACE NOT FULLY SHOWN. ONLY EYES.
CHANGE TO Color:
Extreme Close up of eyes.
ECG tone changes to Alarm.
Eyes open as if in a jolt.
CUT:
Camera at side of bed:
Coincide with he gets up as if in a jolt.
He takes some time to recover.
CUT:
Camera follows his hands to switch off the ALARM.
THere is a calendar near the ALarm. November 1999.
CUT:
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Original Chronological Order.
Snap shots of lovers.
Speeding bike shot.
BLACK OUT ACCIDENT.
ICU SHOT. FLAT LINE.
CAMERA PANS DOWN WALL. CLOCK ON WALL SHOWS 10:10 pm.
CLOSE UP ON EYES.
CHANGE TO EYES COLOR>
GETS UP.
FATHER COMES - COUNSELLINGINU POKANDE ?
CONFUSED.
DEJA VU ?
BREAKFAST TABLE>
" BUT ELECTRONICS WILL GET OVER AT 416 "
COUNSELLING HALL.
COUNSELLING IS FROM 300 TO 450.
" SORRY ELECTRONICS OVER AT 416 "
DEJA VU SEQUENCE:
FATHER: IS ELECTRICAL THERE?
COUNSELLING: YES.
FATHER: WE WILL TAKE IT THEN. SHALL WE SON?
CUT:
FATHER SHAKING HIM: WHAT HAPPENED ?
HE WAKES UP AS IF FROM DREAM.
SAME SEQUENCE REPEATS>
" I DONT WANT Engineering. I AM GOING TO JOIN FOR BA "
AT COLLEGE:
MEETS ANOTHER GIRL AT SAME POSITION AS IN SNAP SHOT 1.
STARTS HEARING VOICE OF ANOTHER GIRL : DONT LEAVE ME.
CUT TO LORDS>
WITH OTHER GIRL ;
SAME AS SNAP SHOT 2.
GIVES RING. CRYING OF ANOTHER GIRLS GETS STRONGER AND STRONGER.
CLOSE UP ON HIS EYES. HE CLOSES EYES AND COVERS HIS EARS AS IF IN DISTRESS.
B/W
EXTREME CLOSE UP.
CLOSED EYES OPEN .
CAMERA PULLS BACK.
FLAT LINE BECOMES NORMAL.
CLOCK ON WALL SHOWS 10:15 PM.
NINA AT BED SIDE. CRYING.
DOCTOR: I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FLAT LINER WAKE UP!
DOCTOR AND NURSE AFTER MAKING SURE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL LEAVES.
NINA: ( STILL CRYING ) I LOVE YOU...
HE: just SMILES.
V.O. I DONT KNOW HOW I AM GOING TO SAY THIS.
I KNOW MY LOVE FOR YOU WASNT REAL.
I KNOW I CANT CHANGE EVERYTHING.
BUT I CAN DO THIS....
HE: SORRY... I NEVER REALLY LOVED YOU.
FADE OUT TO BLACK.
DEATH TAUGHT ME WHAT LIFE COULDNT
BUT I GOT A SECOND CHANCE TO COME BACK.
EVERYBODY DONT.
CREDITS.
script draft
FADE IN:
Extreme CU on young man, SID, lying in bed. Tear-streaked NINA holds his hand. We hear off screen voices….but only just.
OS1: never seen a flatliner recover…
OS2: me neither….guess these things happen….
NINA: I love you….
SID(hesitant): Thank you….
SID(voice over): but I don’t feel the same way anymore. Death can do that to people sometimes.
Cut
B&W
Camera moves back focusing on two doctors as they pace through the corridors through the moderate crowd.
Dr1: so what is new?
Dr2: the usual……loverbirds in an accident….
Dr1: situation?
Dr2: the girl is ok….bruised but …ok. The guy is looking bad though.
Dr1: lets take a look…
Doctors abruptly turn into the emergency room.
Fade out.
3colour
camera follows sid as he walks through the main lobby of the college…..
sid v.o:
life looks better with O.Henry than with Ohms law….
Peer pressure to perform..peer pressure to conform…
None of that here…..
Even if I am surrounded by people who don’t understand me….I can at least understand myself….
If only I could do something about these voices in my head.
Cut
Slow motion as a group of students step aside….revealing a beautiful young girl who is blissfully unaware of our attention…
Sid v.o: she was an angel no less……but what does this mean???
Cut
Camera on sid as he looks around.as if trying to figure out where the voice comes from.
Nina v.o: why did you do this to me?????
You know I am waiting for you here……
Where are you going????
B&W
Camera at the door of the emergency room. We see a hurry of technicians…..
Dr1: ok clear this room.
Dr2: he is going into arrest.
Nurse draws the green curtain across the camera. Which quickly blacks out.
2 colour
camera on breakfast table…sid is eating his breakfast with little interest…
father: so your final choice is electronics right????
Sid doesn’t react.
Father: sid???!!
Sid(with a start):what!
Father: I asked if your choice was electronics?
Sid: my choice doesn’t matter……besides electronics wont be available by they time my counseling comes up…..
Mother: just like you ……always the pessimist…
Sid: no mom……realist……rank 421 takes the last seat in CET…. And mine is 422 i may get only electrical or mechanical….
Sid walks off with his parents staring behind him.
Cut
Inside the counseling room…..
Cu on counselor.
Counselor: sorry the last seat for electronics in CET was allotted to the student just before you.
Wide angle shot on sid’s profile. dad turns to look at him incredulously….
Sid (voiceover):
My life was laid out for me…..like a well trodden road.question is….would walk down it again????
Counselor; so what do you want????
Sid: pardon?
Counselor: is going to be electrical or mechanical engg in CET..or looking for communication elsewhere in kerala?
Sid: I think I will join the B.A English course thank you…
Silence….
Counselor(gets angry): what do you mean…..
Father: he is a bit sick…sorry…(to sid)what are you saying bou?
Sid:I think you heard me….
Camera pulls back as sid walks off..leaving father pleading with an irate counselor…we cannot hear what they are saying.
Sid(V.O): this is freedom….you write someone’s story…your own story…don’t like it…just start over again…could say that this is life…but then again…..
Fade out.
B&W
Close up on dr1
Dr1: I am losing him…..
Dr2: I think we have already lost him.
Wide angle….
We see both doctors bent over a patient we cannot see.
Dr1: we better prepare her….do you think she can take it.
Dr2: lets find out.
Cut
Corridor. Nina is sitting worried on a bench. Dr2 comes up.she is quickly on her feet.
Dr2: I am sorry…we lost him.
Nina sits back with a soft sigh…..she is drained.
Dr2 says something but we don’t hear it…..
Fade out
1 Colour
Camera fades in as the POV of a prone SID.
Obscure voices from the OS….
OS(female): wake him up will you???
FATHER who enters the frame, yells a reply….looks directly into the camera.
FATHER(in Malayalam): so the fever is all gone. Get ready for the counseling…
SID(surprised): counseling?????
FATHER(SMILING): may be the fever isn’t gone…..quick boy!!!! No time to lose…
Camera focuses on the bedside clock the calendar shows distinctly…the year 1999 october..
Cut
Camera on SID sitting on the bed.
SID: no it can’t be……am I awake….am I alive…..
The camera follows sid as he walks towards the bathroom.
Cut
Fade in B&W
Cu on ecg monitor.
Grey flat line traces its way.
We hear distant murmurs……
Nina v.o: why did you do this to me?????
You know I am waiting for you here……
Where are you going????
Gradually screen colours as the ecg turns green and comes alive with a start….
Nina: Doctor!!!!
DR1: good lord!!!!
Dr2: never seen a flatliner recover.
Fade out
CREDITS.
working title
Working title
NeoCraft presents
A ZeusProductions film
Snapshots…..
B&W
Intimate moments between our two lovers..
Photos are dropped into our field of vision. Camera turns to center the fallen photographs.
Soft back ground music…overshadowed by the voiceovers.
1st
NINA looks up the steps to see SIDDARTH come out of ice-net.
Both lock eyes.freeze.
(voiceover)
Zoom to sid
SID
She just stepped in….just like that.
Zoom to nina
NINA
There was something about the way he looked……
2nd still
Lords restaurant. Table for 2.
Profile shot of both. Looking intensely into each other’s eyes. As SID gives her a ring.
NINA
That was a dream evening…..
SID
You could say one thing led to another……
Freeze frame of sid and nina on bike…from the side.
Unfreeze.
Sound of a cruising bike…..
As the bike leaves the frame….leaving us with only bg sounds.
Music picks up tempo….reaches its crescendo….which coincides with the sounds of the accident.
Black out.
Sounds of sirens and rushing feet….
DOCTOR: we have an emergency here……..
Sirens fade as we fade in thru POV of NINA who is lying in bed.
Insistent voices say something, which is drowned by the sound of the still fading sirens.
FATHER enters frame.
Hand moves above the camera as if touching NINA’s forehead….
FATHER: aaa…..pani ellam poyyallo……pettunnu ready ayittivennum counsellinginnu povaan…..
NINA: acha….
Bare lefthand enters frame and rubs the finger where the ring should have been….
Fucked up story line beyond all recognition. FUSLBAR.
Transition
Story and Screenplay
Nihas Abdul Rahman.
Bala Sankar.
Shot 1 <
Extreme CU of profile of the young man, SID, lying in bed. Tear-streaked NINA holds his hand, is just out of focus. We hear off screen voices….but only just.
OS1: never seen a flatliner recover…
OS2: me neither….guess these things happen….
Focus on nina.
NINA: I love you….
Shot 2 <
Wide angle shot of nina and sid, from above.
SID(hesitant): Thank you….
SID(voice over): but I don’t feel the same way anymore. Death kills…(sarcastic laugh)…at least a part of me. We will never be the same again.
Shot 3<
Camera moves back focusing on two doctors as they pace through the corridors
Dr1: so what is new?
Dr2: the usual……lover birds in an accident….
Dr1: where is it from this time?
Dr2: tvm engg college…
Dr1: situation?
Dr2: the girl is ok….bruised but …ok. The guy is looking bad though.
Dr1: lets take a look…
Doctors abruptly turn into the emergency room.
Camera moves forward and turns to face the door way through which the doctors passed. We see a doctor close the door on the camera.we barely see the room.
Fade out.
Shot 4<
camera leads sid as he walks through the main lobby of the college…..
sid v.o:
life looks better with O.Henry than with Ohms law….
Peer pressure to perform..peer pressure to conform…
None of that here…..
Even if I am surrounded by people who don’t understand me….I can at least understand myself….
If only I could do something about these voices in my head.
Shot 5:<
Slow motion as a group of students step aside….revealing a beautiful young girl who is blissfully unaware of our attention…
Sid v.o: she was an angel no less……but what does this mean???
Shot 6:<
Camera on sid as he looks around.as if trying to figure out where the voice comes from.
Nina v.o: why did you do this to me?????
You know I am waiting for you here……
Where are you going?
Shot 7:<
Camera inside the room.we see the doc close the door.we pull back to the upper right corner of the bed as the doctor approaches the bed. The other doctor appears in the frame.
Dr1: this doesn’t look good.
Dr2: he is going into arrest.
Nurse draws the green curtain across the camera. Which quickly blacks out.
Shot 8:<
Camera on breakfast table…sid is eating his breakfast with little interest…
father: so your final choice is electronics right????
Sid doesn’t react.
Father: sid???!!
Sid(with a start):what!
Father: I asked if your choice was electronics?
Sid: my choice doesn’t matter……besides electronics wont be available by they time my counseling comes up…..
Mother: just like you(looks at father) ……always the pessimist…
Sid: no mom……just a realist……rank 421 takes the last seat in CET…. And mine is 422 I may get only electrical or mechanical….
Sid walks off with his parents staring behind him.who then look at each other, surprised.
Shot 9:<
Inside the counseling room…..
Cu on counselor.
Counselor: sorry the last seat for electronics in CET was allotted to the student just before you.
Shot 10:<
Wide angle shot on sid’s profile. dad turns to look at him incredulously….
Shot 11:<
Close up, Sid.
Sid (voiceover):
My life was laid out for me…..like a well trodden road.question is….would I walk down it again????
Counselor(V.O): so what do you want????
Sid: pardon?
Shot 12:<
Wide Angle.
Counselor: is it going to be electrical or mechanical engg in CET..or looking for communication elsewhere in kerala?
Sid: I think I will join the B.A English course thank you…
Silence….
Counselor(gets angry): what do you mean…..
Shot 13:<
Camera behind counselor.
Focus father.
Father: he is a bit sick…sorry…(to sid)what are you saying ?
Sid:I think you heard me….
Camera rises as sid walks off..leaving father pleading with an irate counselor…we cannot hear what they are saying.
Shot 14:<
Camera in corridor. We watch sid’s back.
Sid(V.O): this is freedom….you write someone’s story…your own story…don’t like it…just start over again…could say that this is life…but then again…..
Fade out.
Shot 15:<
Close up on dr1
Dr1: I am losing him…..
Dr2:(v.o) I think we have already lost him.
Shot 16:<
Foot of the bed.Wide angle….
We see both doctors bent over a patient we cannot see.
Dr1: we better prepare her….do you think she can take it.
Dr2: lets find out.
Shot 17:<
Corridor. Camera focuses Nina’s profile. Nina is sitting worried on a bench. We see an out of focus Dr2 come up. Nina is quickly on her feet.Camera rises with nina to bring both nina and dr in frame.
Shot 18:<
Close up Doctor.
Dr2: I am sorry…we lost him.
Shot 19:<
Camera infront of Neena.
Nina sits back with a soft sigh…..she is drained.
Dr2 says something but we don’t hear it…..
Fade out
Shot 20:<
Camera fades in as the POV of a prone SID.
Obscure voices from the OS….
OS(female): wake him up will you???
FATHER who enters the frame, yells a reply….looks directly into the camera.
FATHER(in Malayalam): so the fever is all gone. Get ready for the counseling…
Shot 21:<
Camera on Sid getting up.
SID(surprised): counseling?????
FATHER(SMILING): may be the fever isn’t gone…..quick boy!!!! No time to lose…
Camera turns to focus on the bedside clock the calendar shows distinctly…the year 1999 october..
Shot 22:<
Camera at foot of bed. Focus on Sid.
SID: no it can’t be……am I awake….am I alive…..
Sid gets up.
The camera turns as Sid moves to bathroom.
Shot 23:<
Fade in B&W
Cu on ecg monitor.
Grey flat line traces its way.
We hear distant murmurs……
Nina v.o: “why did you do this to me?????
You know I am waiting for you here……
Where are you going?”
Gradually screen colours as the ecg turns green and comes alive with a start….
Nina(v.o): “Doctor!”
DR1(v.o): “Good lord!”
Dr2(v.o): “Never seen a flatliner recover”.
Repeat Shot 1:<
Focus on nina.
NINA: I love you….
Repeat Shot 2:<
Wide angle shot of nina and sid, from above , FREEZE.
SID
Fade out.
Credits.
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Extra Shots for Chrono.
Shot 24:<
Intimate moments between our two lovers..
Photos are dropped into our field of vision. Camera turns to center the fallen photographs.
Soft back ground music…overshadowed by the voiceovers.
1st
NINA looks up the steps to see SIDDARTH come out of ice-net.
Both lock eyes.freeze.
(voiceover)
Zoom to sid
SID: She just stepped in….just like that.
Zoom to nina
NINA: There was something about the way he looked……
2nd still
Lords restaurant. Table for 2.
Profile shot of both. Looking intensely into each other’s eyes. As SID gives her a ring.
NINA : That was a dream evening…..
SID : You could say one thing led to another……
Shot 25:<
Freeze frame of sid and nina on bike…from the side.
Unfreeze.
Sound of a cruising bike…..
As the bike leaves the frame….leaving us with only bg sounds.
Music picks up tempo….reaches its crescendo….which coincides with the sounds of the accident.
Black out.
Shot 26:<
Photos are dropped into our field of vision. Camera turns to center the fallen photographs.
Soft back ground music…overshadowed by the voiceovers.
1st
PREETHI looks up the steps to see SIDDARTH come out of ice-net.
Both lock eyes.freeze.
(voiceover)
Zoom to sid
SID: She just stepped in….just like that.
Zoom to nina
PREETHI: There was something about the way he looked……
2nd still
Lords restaurant. Table for 2.
Profile shot of both. Looking intensely into each other’s eyes. As SID gives her a ring.
PREETHI : That was a dream evening…..
SID : You could say one thing led to another……
Shot 27:<
Doctor’s V.O: He is going in to arrest.
Camera rapid motion. From ECG Flat line. To clock on wall (11:20).
Close up on eyes.
Shot 28:<
Close up on eyes. Opens.
Shot 29:<
Close up on Last Photo (PREETHI-SID).
Hand enters frame to Tear it.
Cast
Cast
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Sid: joe
Nina: Nina.
Preethi : Preethi.
Doc1: Balu.
Doc2: Aparna.
Father:lrd
Counsellor: ajay
Locations:
Hospital. – ICU + Corridor.
College. – Corridor + Class Room.
Props.
ECG.
Stethoscope + Lab Coat.
Computers.
shooting day
SHOT TAKE IN OUT DESCRIPTION
HOSPITAL ICU
7 4 1.59 2.25 ok
15 1 2.25 2.47 poor dialogue
2 2.47 3.14 ok
16 1 3.14 3.42 eyes open (JOE)
2 3.42
3 3.5* 4.32 ok
16A 1 4.34 5.06 ok
1 1 5.06 5.32 ok
2 1 5.32 5.54 ok
32(zoom) 1 5.54 6.31 ok
32(static for still) 2 6.31 7.14 ok (cut shots)
33 1 7.14 7.37 ok fast
34 close up 1 7.37 8.27 joe
35 close up 1 8.27 8.39 nina
3 1 8.39 9.25 ok
2 9.25 10.07 sound
3 10.07 10.53 ok
17 1 10.51 11.25 ok
2 11.25 12.01
3 12.01 12.51 ok
18 1 12.51 13.5
2 13.5 14.08
3 14.08 14.21
4 14.21 14.49 ok
VOICE OVERS
1 15.01 15.16 not ok
2 15.16 15.29 why did you….
1 15.29 15.41 why do… (ok)
1 15.41 15.54 DOCTOR!! (ok)
2 15.54 16.02 DOCTOR!! (ok)
1 16.1 16.14 Two Doctors
2 16.14 16.27
3 16.3 16.42 ok
1 16.42 x not ok
2 16.54 x DO I (ok) - joe
1 17.02 17.14 I don’t feel … (joe) ok
BEDROOM
MISC 17.23 MOVING… JOE SLEEPING
20 1 17.35 18.14 JOE STANDS UP -SOUND NOT OK
2 18.14 18.52 SOUND NOT OK
(No clap) 3 18.52 19.34 OK
20A 1 19.34 20.14 X
2 20.17 20.44 OK
21 1 20.47 21.07 OK
2 21.07 21.31 STRAIGHT (OK)
MISC 3 21.31 21.46 FACE (STRAIGHT)
21A 1 21.46 22.07 OK
2 22.07 22.36 HANDS
8 1 22.47 23.2 X
2 23.2 24.17 X
3 24.15 25.11 OK
8A 1 25.09 26.25 OK
CGPU
9 1 26.25 26.4 CLOSE UP AJAY (X)
2 26.4 26.59 OK
9A 1 26.59 27.18 PROFILE (OK)
12 1 27.2 27.43 OK
12B 1 27.43 27.57 X
2 27.57 28.07 OK
3 28.07 28.12 PROFILE (OK)
10 1 28.12 X X
2 X 28.36 X
3 28.36 28.52 OK
10A 1 28.52 29.42 MISC CLOSE UP JOE
12A 1 29.42 30.07 OK
1 30.07 30.48 UNCLE RESPONSE JOE LEAVING
2 30.48 31.02 X
3 30.48 31.15 OK
13 1 31.15 31.43 OK
NO CLAP
Z1 1 31.43 X JOE WALKING (BACK)
2 31.54 X DO
Z2 1 32.18 X (FRONT) WITH FILE
2 32.4 X DO
Z3 1 33.03 X WITHOUT FILE
2 33.15 X DO
Z4 1 33.38 34.08 COMING UP STAIRS -NOT OK
2 34.08 34.39 OK
Z5 1 34.49 35 C.U JOE
2 35 35.1 OK
Z6 1 35.1 X LOOK
2 35.38 X
3 35.58 36.09
Z7 1 36.09 38.07 FREE CORRIDOR
Z8 1 38.07 X PREETHI TURNING AROUND (OK)
2 X 38.26 OK
Z9 1 38.24 X JOE L->R MID ANGLE
6A 1 39.01 X CLOSEUP BLUR…(NOT ok)
2 39.15 39.28 X
3 X 39.37 OK
25 X 40.37 ROMANCE (ACACIA)
40.37 40.55
40.55 41.1
41.1 41.23
Z10 1 41.49 X WALKING TOGETHER TO .. (NOT OK)
2 42.02 X X
Z11 1 42.11 X WALKING TOGETHER FRO…..(NOT OK)
2 42.48 X X
3 43.08 X OK
MAKING - UNTIMED
VOICE OVER
SID1 47.12 47.41 OK
SID2 47.41 X X
47.45 47.56 OK
SID3 47.56 48.03 OK
SID4 48.03 48.14 OK
SID5 48.14 48.23 OK
SID6 48.23 48.36 OK
X 48.36 CUT SHE WAS AN ANGEL …
48.48 48.52
X 48.52 49.03 DEATH TAUGHT ME…
SID7 49.03 49.17 OK
JOE'S BIRTHDAY 49.17 50.52
INTRO V.O
NIHAS 50.52 51.12 OK
51.12 51.26 NOT OK
ECG SEQUENCE 51.26 END
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