FADE IN 151- INT. UNKNOWN HOUSE, SIBERIA - DAY
OPENING LOCATION
Almost bare room...14" TV, Ash tray, cigarettes, mattress, semi naked K...phone rings...Woman on TV speaks Russian...K wakes up...He looks at the phone...picks it up...
K Hello...
VOICE K...
K Anjali?
VOICE K...tum kahan ho ?
K Tum zinda ho...
ANJALI
Main zinda hoon matlab...
It hits K, he realizes...looks at the TV...CURFEW...
K
Main sapna dekh raha hoon shayad...
ANJALI
Tum sapna nahin dekh rahe ho, mujhse baat kar rahe ho...tumne kyon poocha main zinda hoon...
K walks to the window looks out...
K
Tumhe yaad hai woh sapna jo mujhe aata tha...jab main nahene jaata tha bath tub mein so jata tha...
ANJALI Kaun sa sapna ? Soldiers march in snow...
K
Mera sapna...sapna jo main pata nahin kaun se kamre main hoon...
ANJALI
Tum kya bol rahe ho K...kahan ho?
K
Tumne yahan kaise phone kiya...
ANJALI
Tumhare office se number mila...
K Kaise...
ANJALI
K...I'm your wife...I'm your secretary...remember...tum nahin chahte the office mein kisi ko pata chale...main tumhari patni bhi hoon ...You liked that they gossiped about us...
K
Tum kya bakwaas kar rahi ho...My secretary got married.
ANJALI
To you K...K please...kya ho gaya hai tumhen...
K
I think I'm having a nightmare...
ANJALI No...
K
I need a cigarette...
ANJALI
Tumne to cigarette chhod di thi...
K
Main phone karta hoon...I can't take this anymore...I would rather he kill me...achcha hai mujhe maar daale woh Guruji...main cigarette piyoonga to woh mujhe maar dega...main jalaoonga to bhi maar dega...
ANJALI Kaun ?
K
Main baad mein phone karta hoon...
He puts the phone down...frantically hunts for the cigarette ...Can't find one...He opens the door...tries to pull it, then remembers pushes it...it opens...He walks to the other door...Its exactly like the dream...He rings the bell...
Noises...Slit opens...Eyes...
K
I need a cigarette...Cigarette chahiye mujhe...
Slit shuts...Footsteps retreat...He looks at the door...he is angry...He shuts his eyes remembers the gunshot...touches the spot on the door where bullet came through...Stands in front of it...Rings the bell...Gunshot...Bullet goes over his head ...He is even more furious...bangs at the door...Nothing... He remembers something...He takes few steps back...Makes sound like retreating footsteps...Door opens slight...K runs into it with all force...breaking it open...Falls over a fat Russian...
RUSSIAN
(screams in russian) Help...
Suddenly lots of soldiers cock their guns at him...K looks ...He is in a mess /restaurant...with only soldiers in it.
K Sorry...
He stands up...looks at them...determination on his face...
K
Shoot me...You want to shoot me...
The fat Russian gets up...picks him up, throws him out...
picks the broken door...puts it back...turns...says in Russian...to the guns still cocked...
FAT MAN
Stalin...Putin...
K walks back in...comes to his room...looks around...he is very angry...looks at the TV...Bathtub with rose petals, cigarette packet in the snow...looks at the window...takes out the bullet lodged...Glass falls...He looks out...picks the ashtray...throws it out...The soldier looks back...
nothing...Soldier marches on...K jumps in the snow...he runs ...runs hard...gun fire...a bullet wizzes past him...he runs harder...another gunshot...the bullets hits him...he gets up and runs again...firing continues...cigarette in foreground as K running towards it followed by the soldier...Doesn't go for the cigarette...soldier cocks his gun...aims...
K jumps into the bathtub
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152- INT. UNDERWATER - DAY
Underwater...K goes down leaving a trail of blood...his eyes shut...
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153- INT. BATHTUB, DIFFERENT PLACE - DAY
He sinks underwater...his eyes open...he sees something.His POV...it narrow's into a drain.
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He comes down the drain pipe and falls tothe bottom and looks
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154- INT. CAPSULE, PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY
A lot of people ...dressed like him at the door waiting to see who has arrived...K looks at them...
K
Main galat jagah aa gaya hoon...
mujhe bath tub mein se nikalna tha...
ONE
Idhar kisi ko kuch nahin pata...
main trunk mein se nikalta hoon...
is baar yeh nikla hai...
TWO
Aur yeh cupboard, almari se, main bistar ke niche se nikalta hoon...
THIRD
Bath tub se nikla...main bhi bath tub se nikla tha...
FOURTH
Unhon-ne bola aaj humko nahlayenge.
FIFTH
Chalo Chalo.. yeh woh nahin hai...
K
Kaun woh ? (He looks at
himself...his costume has changed.
All Wet.)
All turn away..K walks out slowly...in the area...There are lots of them...He walks slowly and then he sees...Himself ...He is surprised...He walks to himself...Another K with hair, the way he always looked like...Inmate K walks to him and realizes he is separated by the other with a glass...
Inmate screams...his hand on the glass...The other on with hands folded behind him looks at the inmate and puts his hand on the other hand...Inmate starts to cry as he sees Anjali walk behind normal K...followed by the Guruji...Another Inmate...
INMATE-2
Usko kutch sunai nahin dega...
Inmate hands come down and reveal other K with two fingers missing...
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155- INT . ANOTHER ROOM, PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY
Normal K is actually standing in front of the mirror...
ANJALI K...
He turns...
ANJALI
Yeh bol rahe hain koi problem nahin hai sab theek hai...dheere dheere sab yaad aa jayega...
K
Mujhe laga jaise ki koi bula raha tha...
GURUJI
Woh tumhari apni aawaz thi...
tumhari apni antar-aatma bula rahi thi...
K Antar-aatma ?
GURUJI
(takes out a cigarette, offers him)
Smoke...
He looks at it...looks at the Guruji...
K Nahin...
Guruji looks at the wife...smiles...
WIFE Can I take him ?
GURUJI Sure...
Wife takes him...as a pager beeps...Guruji looks at it...
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Wife brings K out...
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Guruji walks to his cabin, goes in...picks the phone...
GURUJI
Haan theek hai...Nahla do unhen...
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156- INT. CAPSULE, PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY Inmate K sits...as another comes...
ANOTHER
Nahane ka time ho gaya hai...
Inmate K gets up...walks...
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As he moves away we follow him. He stops...sees something ahead of him...
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157- HIS P.O.V
All the other inmates are gathered next to the window like they're looking out. He walks towards them...looks out...
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Its a man walking through the alley following a woman in a burqa...all together...
MAN
Yeh log kaun hain. Mujhe aise kyon dekh rahe hain...Hello main aapse pooch raha hoon...
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Man's P.O.V...Exactly like how it was when K came the first time.
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VOICE ON SPEAKER SYSTEM Khidkee se door ho jao...Khidkee se door.
Electricity runs through the bars.
They back off.
They walk further.
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On the way it all starts to come together. K sees the lock up...filled with water...A new inmate brought in.
K Yeh woh...
Looks at the stranger GUY
Haan mujhe bhi tab nahi samaj mein aaya tha.
SPEAKER
Koi rukiyye mat...chalte rahiyye...
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They come to the room where they are 8 exhibits in glass cases.
All of them similar exhibits of a house in the snow and a entry exit portal...
Bathtub Trunk Cupboard
Mobile toilet Bed
Big dust bin Refrigerator Easy chair
He looks below the bathtub portal His name written on it.
He looks at the other inmate...who is looking elsewhere shocked.
K gets up and walks to him looks at what he is looking.
Its the interrogation room...with the same two cops with another patient...as they walk...the ACP walks out with the cop...
ACP Kya lagta hai...
K Bastard
K shouts ACP doesn't react.
K walks to him and K
Tumse baat kar raha hoon. Tum sab mile huey ho.
He hits out at the ACP.
Who continues talking as K's hand goes through the ACP.
He tries again.
He releases...he is just a soul...the body does not exist anymore.
K looks back at the inmate.
Who just looks on...blank faced...
K Yeh...
MAN
Aatma hai to Shareer ishwar hai...
aatma nahi to nashwar hai.
ACP and the cop go back in.
SPEAKER
Sabko soochit kiya jaata hai ki aagle do minute mein nahane
pahoonchiye...darwaza khulne wala hai.
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All of them take off their clothes stand in a line holding their clothes in hand...
HOLOCAUST IMAGE - They walk in a line...As they reach the door they put their clothes in a bin...and enter naked in the bathroom...K follows.
VOICE Sab Andar hain...
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158- INT. PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY Guruji sits...
VOICE(O.S) Sab andar hain...
Guruji nods...
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159- INT. SHOWER, CAPSULE, PRAYOGSHALA,SLUMS - DAY All stands inside under showers...
ONE MAN Paani kab aayega ?
TWO Aayega...
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A lever is pulled down...
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Heater coils light up...
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People inside...sweating...
ONE
Paani kyon nahin aa raha ? TWO
Aayega...
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Inmate K stands quietly looks at the smoke...We go close...
CUT TO 160- INT. ANOTHER ROOM, PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY
GURUJI
Yahan hamaari prayogshaala mein yeh hamari zimmedari hogi ke hum
tumhari cigarette pine ki tivra ichchha ko, tumhari is gair
zimmedarana aadat ko sampoorn roop se khatm kar denge...Aur agar hum apni koshish mein chhooke aur tumhara ilaaj karne mein asafal rahen to phir hamare saamne bus ek hi rasta bachhega jis pe koi chalna nahin chahega...Kyon ki beta aatma hai to sharir ishwar hai...Aatma nahin to nashwar hai...Aatma...
Antaraatma...bhogi hoti hai...Lekin ...Mann mazboot ho to aatma par kaabu kiya jaa sakta hai...Aur yadi ...Mann hi kamzor hai to bekaboo aatma ko phir jhaad phoonk kar mukt karna padta hai...Laazmi hai...
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161- INT. CAPSULE, PRAYOGSHALA, SLUMS - DAY
K waiting for something to happen, so does the others..as they first become translucent then transparent then they all become smoke and dissolve into one another
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GURUJI Jaane do...
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Another lever...
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All the smoke and fire gets sucked in...
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162- EXT. CHIMNEY -DAY
A chimney...smoke and fire comes out of it...
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163- EXT. STREET -DAY
K with Anjali in a car driving...Chimney smokes behind them...
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164- EXT. STREET - DAY
K driving...numb...thinking...
He looks at Anjali...music plays in the background...she looks at him..suddenly she looks behind him..fear on her face...as a truck smashes into it...camera remains where it is as the truck passes around the camera, taking the SUV along and smashing it into the wall...
FADE OUT.
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165- INT. HOUSE -NIGHT
K wakes up with a start..gasping..sweating..
He realizes he was having a nightmare Anjali looks at him
ANJALI
Kya hua K? Bura sapna dekha?
K doesn't reply...Silently gets up..walks to the
window...looks out at the city..all seems normal.. Much to Anjali's dismay, he turns...walks to the bathroom.. Puts on the light.. Stands in front of the mirror...looks at
himself...opens the tap...puts his hands under the flowing water...looks down...
His 2 smoking fingers are missing...