Screenplay for my short story ::: Are you listening ??
Scene
Office setting , looks a very busy and hectic day i office..people are busy with their work...typing into their laptops...busy attending telephone calls
focus: On a guy, who looks very stressed out and is working . .a senior official comes upto him...this man is that guys boss
Scenes start
Boss: Shyam how are u feeling now ?
shyam: i am fine sir..(in a very matter of factly and stressed out tone)
Boss: Hows your son doing ?? Kya naam tha uskaaa...ya Anuj.....hows he doing ?? Must be a big boy now
Shyam: theek hai sir...he troubles us a lot...me and jyoti both
Boss::(with a troubled expression) ...Shyan...u know how much this organisation values you and especially me...But i think you need to now start accepting the reality and move on.....thats how life is ???
Shyam: Boss i have moved on...and living with a reality....all of us have a different view of reality boss.... i am living with my view of that elusive reality ...
In the evening, after work, while going back to office , picking up vegetables from market & buying medicines from the medicine shop.....reaches his home
Background ::: Now at home :::sees his mother...Mother looks happy to see the son
Mother: aaj thodaa late ho gaya betaa.....
Shyam: haan maa...aaj late ho gaya tbods..where is Anuj ?
Mother: Anuj has gone out with his friends...will u have tea ?
Shyam; not now maa....i will go to jyotis room 1st....
(This had been a ritual which Shyam had been following for the last 2 years religuously..straight on reaching home from work..he would head to Jyotis room and chat up with her...on his day at office ...the daily rigours )
Shyam : Jyoti really sorry yaar...just cudnt find time to call you...had a terribly bad day..i wonder at times, why are we working so hard ? For what ?
u know what today Varun had called
(Cut to Shyams mother talking over the phone with somebody )
Doctor sahaab...still not much inprovement in shyam.....its almost 2 years....
(Cut to the scene in room with Jyoti and Shyam)
Shyam: Varun told me that he and urvashi are separating...they are filing for divorce...
I couldn't believe my ears...In fact i even asked him to speak to you....so that u could counsel both him and urvashi...10 years of marriage + 5 years of a courtship .....15 years of togetherness just vanishing into thin air......whats happening to our lives and the world we live in ?? This also has a negative impact on kids.....
Touchwood apnaa Arjun theek ja rahaa hai....achcha listen.....y dont you pick up Arjuns call....whenever i tell him that he should call you to discuss any issues at school, he gives me a very cold look and says "mummaa nahin uthaayengi phone"
(There was a knock on the door....Shyaam come and have some tea betaa....Arjun is also back)
Shyam: Chal...i will go out and chat with Arjun.....theek hai ....
( and he walks out .....cut to focus in the dark room and zoom in jyotis photo with garlands)
Cut to the conversation between mother and doctor ....
doctor...Mrs mehraa....Shyam is living in a delusion ...at times breaking such delusions can be harmful for the patient ...especially after jyotis death....hes gone into a shell and his delysional belief that jyoti is alive...is whats giving him that relief....soon he shall start coming to terms with tgis reality...till such time....please let him be in this delusional world )......
Scene
Office setting , looks a very busy and hectic day i office..people are busy with their work...typing into their laptops...busy attending telephone calls
focus: On a guy, who looks very stressed out and is working . .a senior official comes upto him...this man is that guys boss
Scenes start
Boss: Shyam how are u feeling now ?
shyam: i am fine sir..(in a very matter of factly and stressed out tone)
Boss: Hows your son doing ?? Kya naam tha uskaaa...ya Anuj.....hows he doing ?? Must be a big boy now
Shyam: theek hai sir...he troubles us a lot...me and jyoti both
Boss::(with a troubled expression) ...Shyan...u know how much this organisation values you and especially me...But i think you need to now start accepting the reality and move on.....thats how life is ???
Shyam: Boss i have moved on...and living with a reality....all of us have a different view of reality boss.... i am living with my view of that elusive reality ...
In the evening, after work, while going back to office , picking up vegetables from market & buying medicines from the medicine shop.....reaches his home
Background ::: Now at home :::sees his mother...Mother looks happy to see the son
Mother: aaj thodaa late ho gaya betaa.....
Shyam: haan maa...aaj late ho gaya tbods..where is Anuj ?
Mother: Anuj has gone out with his friends...will u have tea ?
Shyam; not now maa....i will go to jyotis room 1st....
(This had been a ritual which Shyam had been following for the last 2 years religuously..straight on reaching home from work..he would head to Jyotis room and chat up with her...on his day at office ...the daily rigours )
Shyam : Jyoti really sorry yaar...just cudnt find time to call you...had a terribly bad day..i wonder at times, why are we working so hard ? For what ?
u know what today Varun had called
(Cut to Shyams mother talking over the phone with somebody )
Doctor sahaab...still not much inprovement in shyam.....its almost 2 years....
(Cut to the scene in room with Jyoti and Shyam)
Shyam: Varun told me that he and urvashi are separating...they are filing for divorce...
I couldn't believe my ears...In fact i even asked him to speak to you....so that u could counsel both him and urvashi...10 years of marriage + 5 years of a courtship .....15 years of togetherness just vanishing into thin air......whats happening to our lives and the world we live in ?? This also has a negative impact on kids.....
Touchwood apnaa Arjun theek ja rahaa hai....achcha listen.....y dont you pick up Arjuns call....whenever i tell him that he should call you to discuss any issues at school, he gives me a very cold look and says "mummaa nahin uthaayengi phone"
(There was a knock on the door....Shyaam come and have some tea betaa....Arjun is also back)
Shyam: Chal...i will go out and chat with Arjun.....theek hai ....
( and he walks out .....cut to focus in the dark room and zoom in jyotis photo with garlands)
Cut to the conversation between mother and doctor ....
doctor...Mrs mehraa....Shyam is living in a delusion ...at times breaking such delusions can be harmful for the patient ...especially after jyotis death....hes gone into a shell and his delysional belief that jyoti is alive...is whats giving him that relief....soon he shall start coming to terms with tgis reality...till such time....please let him be in this delusional world )......
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