Ek Pepsi … Ek Lassi … (FIRST DRAFT) Fade in: TITLING : soul of ek pepsi ... ek lassi [SOUND TRACK] Montage 1: Dir Tanmay watching outside the window, staring at nothing. Leaves floating in the air as storm. Pigeons outside are flying as something is bouncing in his head. Sound of heavy rain drops. Tanmay’s hands [ECS N/E] writing poem. Papers shattered, floating in the air. Young Tanmay looks frustrate. Dir Tanmay walks over the papers, he bends down to pick up one paper- finds nothing on the floor. Dir Tanmay takes out glasses; he seems as lost in a thought. Dir Tanmay opens the door of Bathroom; Young Tanmay who was crying looks straight into his eyes. Dir Tanmay is about to wright, he wrights ‘Nayan’ Nandini’s eyes [ECS] blink, - slow motion. Page 1 of 90
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Ek Pepsi … Ek Lassi … (FIRST DRAFT)
Fade in:
TITLING: soul of ek pepsi ... ek lassi [SOUND TRACK]
Montage 1:
Dir Tanmay watching outside the window, staring at
nothing.
Leaves floating in the air as storm.
Pigeons outside are flying as something is bouncing in
his head.
Sound of heavy rain drops.
Tanmay’s hands [ECS N/E] writing poem.
Papers shattered, floating in the air. Young Tanmay
looks frustrate.
Dir Tanmay walks over the papers, he bends down to
pick up one paper- finds nothing on the floor.
Dir Tanmay takes out glasses; he seems as lost in a
thought.
Dir Tanmay opens the door of Bathroom; Young Tanmay
who was crying looks straight into his eyes.
Dir Tanmay is about to wright, he wrights ‘Nayan’
Nandini’s eyes [ECS] blink, - slow motion.
Fuse with Fire work.
Young Tanmay running,
Some kind of street play is going on.
Small gals playing- marks on ground.
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Dir Tanmay wipes the dust of some gift.
Nandini’s forehead is full of kukum, her painful eyes.
Dir Tanmay puts on fire, the movie script of ‘ek
pepsi… ek lassi…’ starts burning and we hear a kid’s
Emotions are more important than words...Everything is incomplete in this universe;But still darkness to brightness is the summary…Love is like a twinkling star in the sky…When it shines, everybody comes to know,In rainy season even though it doesn’t appear…Its there, its existence remains at the same position.Lonely…but in awhile, it again starts shining.May be its shining; in memories of someone.
NANDINI (V.O.)
The way you sound, it seems like somebody has pulled the strings of my heart, Feet’s shuffle as they want to stand by you, eyes doesn't blink for a fraction as they want to see you forever and ever... but I hide all my emotions from you and my heart wears a mask of hatred... but whatsoever... my soul always keep on running around you like a bird ... but ... but in this season ... beneath the shower of love... my heart is shattered and suffering with despair as that bird has lost everything in the forth night disaster.
NANDINI (V.O.)
I didn't understand the language of love but when I’m lost at words, I break down crying, My world starts spinning around you, I close my eyes and see your face
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washed away by the salt of my tears. Then I realize a deeper love that I've never known is so precious & pure ... But... knowing ... unknowingly I can't confess and it remains in my heart...
TANMAY
Uncle what's a time?
X # PERSON
7.30 am
TANMAY
Thank you.
TANMAY
Excuse me... What’s a time?
Y # PERSON
9.00 am
TANMAY
Thanks.
TANMAY
Excuse me ... hello ... boss... hello ... friend...What’s a time?
Y # PERSON
It's 10.30 am
TANMAY
Nandini...
Nandini...
I... I want to say something...
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NANDINI
What? ...
TANMAY
aa...hh ... something ...hhh...
NANDINI
But...
TANMAY
Right here?!... hhh.. Can we go to a better place?
NANDINI
But ... I don't want to talk to you.
TANMAY
Nandini... Nandini...
Nandini...
NANDINI
Not here... you ... you go ahead... I'll come...
TANMAY
But why? ... Where? ...
NANDINI
How come ... you don't understand...?!You... you go ahead... I'll come...
TANMAY
Nandini ... what will you have? Would you like to eat something?
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NANDINI
No...
TANMAY
Then, would you prefer lunch?
NANDINI
Tanmay... I really don't want to have anything.
TANMAY
But really, you won't get anything over here.
NANDINI
One... Pepsi...
TANMAY
One ... Lassi...
TANMAY
Nandini...
NANDINI
...?
TANMAY
What happened?
Why are you laughing?
Nandini? ...
What’s the matter? Why aren't you telling me?Nandini?...
NANDINI
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Nandini...Nandini...Nandini...
TANMAY
Oh you... Nandini...
NANDINI
Wh... What happened?Tanmay ... Tanmay...
TANMAY
After six years, today I am seeing you...
NANDINI
Do you remember when did you saw me for the last time... before six ... six years?
TANMAY
Do you remember...Where did we meet for the first time?
NANDINI
Yes. Outside, Rohini's house...
At that tunnel...
TANMAY
How do you remember?!
The beginning of love still exists in your memory...
NANDINI
You remember how many years have been passed since then...?
TANMAY
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Ten Years...
NANDINI
Eleven years...
TANMAY
What...?
NANDINI
Nothing ... Ten years has been passed...
TANMAY
Actually Twelve years...
Before we spoke for the first time, I was watching you for almost two years...
NANDINI
Really?!
You must have been got angry on me... You must have hated me like anything... And my Mommy-Daddy too...
TANMAY
No...
At that point of time, Whatever they did was right from there perspective... End of the day, They are your mother-father...
TANMAY
I like everything about you... The streets on which you had a walk,My heart just can’t go on without the feeling...
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of your presence in the air.
TANMAY
'Nandini... I love you', These words are incomplete, as these four words are not enough to explain my love.
TANMAY
In those six years, you didn't remember me?
NANDINI
No...
TANMAY
Look into my eyes... and tell me...
NANDINI
No...
TANMAY
Not even once...
NANDINI
Not even once...
TANMAY
Truly you don't love me?!
NANDINI
No...
TANMAY
Nandini ... You remember...
NANDINI
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...?
TANMAY
In Diwali... you used to wear new attire and used to enjoy the fire-work.
NANDINI
In every festival, every girl wears new attire.
TANMAY
I'm not talking about everyone... I'm talking only about you...
Don't you get angry now?
Before you’re so short tempered...You used to get hyper on small... small things... But again a moment later, You used to smile...
I didn't understand you...
NANDINI
May I ask you?
TANMAY
...?
NANDINI
Did you'd affair with Harshita?
TANMAY
...Yes. But it was only for a very small duration...
TANMAY
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...After that day, I was in depression and at that point of time she did friendship with me and one fine day she proposed me and I was not in a position to say anything and I didn't intend to hurt her or make her upset either...
TANMAY
... And not only with Harshita, I'd affaire but also with Bhavini and Trisha...
NANDINI
That means you don't need me...
TANMAY
Nandini... you know something, in my childhood... I was liar but ever since I’m in love with you... everything got changed...My behavior was completely changed... the age in which kids play and study... in that age I just loved you, dreaming of playing and studying with you...
TANMAY
I... I...don't want anything in my life...I'm not greedy about anything...I have only two wishes/dreams...
NANDINI
... Which ones?
TANMAY
One, I want to spend my entire life with you.
NANDINI
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... Two?!...
TANMAY
You’ll laugh, you would say, I've gone mad...I'm not going to tell you...
NANDINI
I won't say, tell me...
TANMAY
I... want to be a known personality...I want to earn a lot of name and fame...
NANDINI
... Why would anybody laugh at it?!
TANMAY
Once I'd told to my friends... They laughed at it...
NANDINI
But I trust you; You will accomplish all your dreams...
TANMAY
Really?
NANDINI
Really.
TANMAY
But I didn't tell you the complete story?
NANDINI
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...?
TANMAY
I'd told my friends that I want to be a Raj Kapoor!
NANDINI
...What?
TANMAY
... I mean ... Like Raj Kapoor, Shekhar Kapoor, Steven Spielberg.I want to be a great film maker.
NANDINI
Film Maker?!
TANMAY
Yes. And our production house will be known as Nandini Films.
NANDINI
Nandini films, why not Tanmay films.
TANMAY
Because you’re the beginning and end of me, My existence is not without you.
Once I become an international celebrate, I wish to roam around this world with you, only with you...
NANDINI
Only with me?! …
TANMAY
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Yes. I can't live without you; though it’s an old and bore dialogue but its true...
Still in my wallet, I have your photograph...Still your things have been kept safe...Once Mommy had seen your photograph...
NANDINI
Then? ... What Mommy said?
TANMAY
What would she say...She was damn angry…
NANDINI
What have you done with my photograph?
TANMAY
Nothing. I kept one more photograph of an actress in front of your photograph...
Whenever I remember you, I see your photograph...
NANDINI
And when you don't remember me then? ...
TANMAY
Then ... I see that actress’s photo...
NANDINI
Tanmay, what kind of films do you like?
TANMAY
I, I like films, which are blended with complicated emotions, and that common person can not understand.
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What about you?
NANDINI
I... I... like all kind of films.
TANMAY
But I, I don't want to give you a common lifestyle.
TANMAY
We will have a very huge bungalow, Mercedes.Our every move will be exclusive news for common people and Media.You know, I don’t want you to struggle with me; I’ll get it for you …Just… just give me some time…. Just give me some time….
TANMAY
You are fond of rings or what?!
NANDINI
Yes. I like to wear rings in all my fingers.
TANMAY
Once I become a film maker I will get you more rings.
TANMAY
And ... What else do you like?I kept on talking about myself onlyWhat are your likes-dislikes, what do you want to be in your life?
NANDINI
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I want you to be successful in your life; That’s all I wish and I am sure that you will accomplish my dream.
TANMAY
You too love me, don't you?
NANDINI
No.
TANMAY
I really don't like the way you speak in puzzles. I used to get angry on you just because of this. Straight, simple words would never comprise your sentence... is it good?!
NANDINI
May be because of this it took almost eleven years just to speak once.We never understood each other.
TANMAY
No. Only I'd never understood you.
TANMAY
You are very beautiful! I really like you...
My friends used to tell me, before falling in love with you I should have seen my face in the mirror so that I would have never dared to fall in love.
NANDINI
Love at first sight; does it really happen?!
TANMAY
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Yeah. In first sight someone can see only the exterior beauty but can't see the beauty of soul.
NANDINI
Can we ... Can we stay together as a friend?
TANMAY
Friend?! No.
NANDINI
Always you used to listen to your friends, isn't it?
TANMAY
Yes.
NANDINI
That’s why I used to get angry on you.
TANMAY
What would I do? They’re telling me different formulae to impress you, but nothing worked out well and I was the one who was trapped in every formula and you hated me like anything... and the fact is I failed to tell you what I real feel about you.
TANMAY
My mind and my body were always around your home... Just to see you once. But every time while doing so, your mommy was catching me then I use to be disappeared for a moment... but in a next moment, again...
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My soul was struggling to see you for one last time... From dusk to dawn, my body was freezes at the same position.... In search of that one last glance of yours...
NANDINI
Whole world has been changed...
TANMAY
Yes but still in that yard...
NANDINI
In spite of broken toys our soul finds peace; isn't it?!
TANMAY
You’re thought, your day, your night...My life is all about your memories.
NANDINI
You love me too much, is it?
TANMAY
No.
NANDINI
I respect your love. I do.
NANDINI
I will talk to Mommy; even my younger brother will be ready but... to speak with my father and elder brother you need to come to my house with your parents.
TANMAY
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Nandini but let me stand on my own feet’s.
NANDINI
Time is hanging on, Tanmay.How should I tell you?I’m engaged.
My marriage will be fixed up at any point of time, How would I be able to give you time?It could happen within two weeks or within two months... If they'll come to know that we've met then... it could happen within two days.
How do you expect me to give you six months? Or a year time?! And I can not go against my parents.
TANMAY
You’re Mommy-Daddy & mine know that how much I love you, to make you happy for every moment I can do anything.
NANDINI
Yes. But still you speak with my Mommy-Daddy.
TANMAY
It’s a very unpredictable field and I won't be able to struggle with you.
I left my education in between... just for this career... I don't want to bother you... I can't see you working hard, sacrificing things; I can't see you in pain...
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But... but still just wait for few days...Just wait for few days, I'll do something...
TANMAY
Your parents will ask you to get married with any roadside person and you'll be easily agreed? You'll get married with that stranger?
NANDINI
Yes. Why not?! My parents bought me up. We solely belong to our parents/Guardians;And every guardian's only wish is to get their foes married with the one they choose.And this is all what foes can do for their parents.
NANDINI
Even if my parents get me married with the roadside stranger they'd do it for my goodness.Parents know their children better than... the children know about themselves.
NANDINI
I can not make my mommy-daddy upset.And running away from parents and getting married. I can't. Whatever will happen; will happen with our parents wish & their blessings.
TANMAY
How Shahrukh & Kajol were got married in the film Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge ... Same way we'll get married, do you think in this way?
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NANDINI
How could be you so senseless at the fact? I don't understand?!
NANDINI
You come once... or even if you send your parents to my house, it will be alright...My mommy will handle everything further...I'll speak with her regarding this.
NANDINI
I believe that you'll get a very beautiful girl, much better than me.
TANMAY
You’re the only one I want… You’re the only one I need in my life.
NANDINI
Concentrate on your career...One day you will accomplish all your dreams.
TANMAY
With, with whom you're getting married?
NANDINI
I don't remember him so well.
TANMAY
Why? Have you not seen him? Without seeing each other... your engagement ceremony was over?!
TANMAY
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What he does?
NANDINI
He's a M.R., I mean Pharmacy, and He’d done a B. Pharmacy... Daddy was telling that He owns a Medical Shop... and has a salary around 20,... 22,ooo Rupees.
TANMAY
Even I'd have done B. Pharmacy If your daddy would have told me earlier …
TANMAY
Where does he stay?
NANDINI
Kolhapur.
TANMAY
I'm very possessive about you... in your childhood, when you use to play... and then if anybody touch you... I use to get hyper even if that was your brother...
TANMAY
Like... kids protect their things; as they don't allow anyone to touch... as they are madly in love with their belongings... just like that...
TANMAY
In your life, whoever loves you but... my love... would be always greater by eleven years.
TANMAY
If your husband troubles you...
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then I'll bit him.
TANMAY
I used to write poems on you, 'til date I've written more than 200 poems... the time I see you, I spend sleepless nights... your memories, your beauty, your pain, I tried to bind all emotions in words.
TANMAY
I'll give you to read... sometime...
NANDINI
Fine...
NANDINI
One... One day you'll also get married, then in her love you'll write new poems, new songs, even if the words remain same, the meaning will differ.
TANMAY
..You're also making poems!
NANDINI
Finally ... I'm all yours...
NANDINI
Mommy must be waiting... I didn't inform her… otherwise we'd have stayed awhile.
TANMAY
After six years I'm seeing you, before that we never ever spoke to each other with such close distance.
NANDINI
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Sometimes, sometimes it’s too important to express your love... the time when you realize it. Isn’t it?! You remember... the first time that you'd written a letter to me?
TANMAY
Yes. I'd written that I want to say something but I'll let you know once I pass my SSC Exam... but at that point of time I was in Ninth standard and you're in Seventh...I thought that we'll be 'lil bit matured and by the time I'll have enough courage to propose you...
NANDINI
But it took eleven years... to say three words.
TANMAY
Why don't you ever celebrate your B'day?
NANDINI
The day when I was born my grandmother was ceased. My daddy's mother... So since then my B'day is been never celebrated.
TANMAY
You don't feel bad?
NANDINI
Wish: Expectations, Fortunate: Unfortunate...A life could be beyond that?!
TANMAY
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Whenever I'll receive an award for my film, I won’t forget to take your name and say I love you...
TANMAY
Will you ever forget me? Won’t you remember me after your marriage?
TANMAY
Nandini, if it's true that Human Beings have seven lifetimes, then... in rest of six lifetimes I won't allow anyone to enter in our love.
NANDINI
What will you do with my photograph after my marriage?
TANMAY
Either I'll tear it or put it on fire...
TANMAY
But in future if anybody asks me who was that girl; who made my life or destroyed?What would I say? Even if I explain about you, how will they understand?
NANDINI
Tell them that, that girl has traveled so far; now she is moved out of sight;Her image has been faded in my memory, you're unable to recollect... then nobody will ask you...
TANMAY
But looking at the pages of my life; faded memories of me and you; before the
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last breathe I take, if I feel like seeing you … then what should I do?
NANDINI
Leave it all behind, your past and mine; the road keeps on turning and all we can do is travel each day to the next.While taking new breathe, we should not think of last breathe...
TANMAY
But whatsoever, neither I'm going to tear your photograph nor going to put it on fire... in spite of your permanent image on my mind and soul... one fine day I'll loose on my memory but… still at that point of time your photograph will be with me forever… and ever...
NANDINI
Everything will be all right,You'll become a great film maker...You'll earn name and fame,You'll get a very beautiful girl; much... much better than me... and who will love you utmost.
NANDINI
Take care of yourself, and your health.
NANDINI
Are you not going to escort me till Auto-Rickshaw stand?
TANMAY
If anybody sees... then, what will they say? Don't you get scared now?!
NANDINI
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No. I don't care what they say...
TANMAY
In eleven years I'd never touched you...I... love... you... Nandini
Opening Sequence:
Your eyes are fixed on my soul…Crazy heart is calling for love…
How come the ocean of love is rising up…?!Thru’ which, reflection of ours is seeing the sky…This boat is leaving behind the shore…
Your eyes are fixed on my soul…Crazy heart is calling for love…
How can I forget …?!A look of yours, blended with shyness…
Now in my memory … Your false commitments exist…A lover like me…Is walking alone like a cold wind…
Your eyes are fixed on my soul…Crazy heart is calling for love…
End Sequence:
Still on this path, my soul is expecting you…You’ll come back… This consoles me for awhile…