The fun with the screenplay!

While working on the screenplay Kiran and I soon realized it was going to be much more challenging than we initially thought it to be. It was supposed to be a short film. But as we started developing the story we realized that ,the kind of characters we needed to create and stories we needed to weave around them ,giving them sufficient reasons to be distracted at the party and also do justice to them by following those stories through the film, wasn’t possible to fit into a short film’s time frame.Having never written a feature earlier, we spent a lot of time researching, trying to understand the different writing styles,character building, story designing while trying to understand what might and mightn’t work.We wanted to keep the story less dramatized and very real. With each character we wanted to break some kind of stereotype. The biggest challenge for us was to create the character of Nirmal Pandey .We wanted to create a cop who was almost opposite of all the on screen cop characters we had seen. His laid back attitude towards everything makes you question his capability and honesty,but there is a dormant aggression that plays throughout. We wanted him to be the sutradhar or anchor taking the audience through the story while trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

I always wanted to tell a story exploring the complexity of human emotions. As a child, it was simpler times when I could just label things under two categories bad and good. But life and growing up process teaches you a lot of things and you tend to realize there is no bad or good people, there are just people and their extraordinary circumstances. I wanted to base the story on this thought.

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