CLOUDS THUNDER
MOTORBIKE REVS
CLOUDS THUNDER
MOTORBIKE REVS
FAINT AGONIZING SCREAMS
CLOUDS THUNDER
FAINT AGONIZING SCREAMS
Vaibhav:I spoke to the Pandit yesterday itself.
Mother was saying that an ausipicious date of three months hence would be correct.
A gap of more than three months doesn't look good.
Especially as you work alone in another town. People make up stories then, you can understand that.
I'll take care of all the venue bookings as well. I have to speak to your father as well.
The car has to be booked now by him.
if we want the delivery by the wedding date.
I'll take a leave from office also for the wedding.
For the wedding and honeymoon, 15 days should suffice.
My friends were saying that we should go to Goa for the bachelors party.
You do one thing, come over next week.
Mother needs to start with the shopping.
She has selected some stuff for me... you as well.
Anuja: I cannot take a leave now Vaibhav.
It is my first day tomorrow.
I'll try sometime next month..
Vaibhav: Listen the preparations for our wedding cannot stop for you.
Is your job more important than the wedding?
Anuja: Uncle the duplicate key?
Landlord: I looked for it but couldn't find it.
I'll give it to you tomorrow.
That's ok. Thank you.
Just check for the water and all.
Yes will check.
Alright.
DISTANT TELEVISION SOUNDS
KEYS JINGLING
Vaibhav: So you come over next week and don't give these silly reasons about your job.
Is the school going to close if you don't go for a few days?
You anyway have to quit after a few months and come here.
Then give importance to the things that are important.
And anyway, mother doesn't like the fact that you work.
So whenever you speak to her, don't throw this working woman attitude.
Got it?
Anuja:(pleading) Vaibhav you are making a mountain out of...
Vaibhav: (Angry) This isn't a molehill. This may be small for you...
I'll have a word with your father about this. Things cannot go on like this.
What is mother supposed to tell people? The girl is busy with work?
Anuja: I am just requesting that....
Vaibhav: What?
This is a major problem that needs to be sorted.
I'll speak to your father.
Anuja (pleading): No Vaibhav please don't tell him.
Vaibhav: No this cannot go on like this. This is not how marriage works.
I am a grown up, I have seen the world, I understand things.
Anuja: No please Vaibhav no please.
Vaibhav: Am speaking to your father. I don't want to say anything else.
PHONE VIBRATING
DISTANT LOUDSPEAKER SOUNDS
PHONE VIBRATING
Father (angry): What the fuck do you think you are doing?
Just because I've allowed you to work, you seem to have become independent.
I'll drag you back home by your hair.
You are not going to find another groom at this age.
Plead, beg or kiss his feet.
If he's asking you to quit your job then quit it dammit.
If I get another complaint from him then you better watch out.
Understood?
TEACHERS CHATTING
Anuja: Hello.
Teachers:Hello. Hello.
Please sit.
Teacher: Is she joining today?
What does she teach?
Teacher: No idea.
Amol: Hello.
Anuja: Hello.
Amol: Myself Amol Joshi.
I teach Maths.
Yourself?
I am Anuja Rao. I teach English and Geography.
2 subjects!
Nice!
If you ever need any help, at any time, let me know.
Teachers: Good morning Madam.
Neha: Good Morning.
Amol: I mean day or middle of the night. Anytime.Anything you need.
Let me know!
Anuja: Ok.
Amol: My brother's friend is in the Government here.
So I know people here.
Neha: Joshi Sir!
Amol: Yes...Yes!
Neha: You'd said you'd help me out with the science project.
Amol:Ofcourse I will.
Neha: You look occupied.
Amol: No. Not at all.
Tell me.
Neha: Take these then.
Neha: You'll do them in the lab right?
Amol: Yes ofcourse.
Anuja: What is success?
Children: What is success?
Anuja: To laugh often and much.
Children: To laugh oftan and much.
Anuja: Not OFTAN...OFFEN.
Say it again.
Children: To laugh often and much.
Anuja: What is this regarding?
Peon: It's from the collector's office. For the census count duty.
Anuja: Ok .Thank you.
Anuja: Let us continue.
Clerk: Anuja Rao?
Anuja: Yes Sir.
Anuja: Hello Sir.
Clerk: Hmm..
Your partner is Amol Joshi.
Amol: Hunh..
Clerk (Stern): Hunh...What Hunh?
Collect the files from there.
Sir...
Sir please listen...
Clerk: Huh?
I am not comfortable with Joshi sir.
Gestures to speak louder
I am not comfortable going with Joshi Sir.
(giggling) Ohhh Joshi!
Listen to what she is saying.
She says she isn't comfortable going with you?
What do you want me to do?
Sit.
Oye.
Return the files.
Clerk: Sit.
Clerk (mumbling): Anuja Rao doesn't want Amol Joshi.
Now who am I supposed to partner up with you?
Neha: I'll go.
Clerk: Hunh? I'll go?
Clerk: Who are you?
Neha Kewle.
We are from the same area.
Clerk: Alright. Go take the files.
So Ma'am..
You're comfortable with her right?
Yes.
Clerk (singing): Neha Kewle...
Thank you Sir. Th...
Clerk (singing): She's comfortable with this one..
Thank you.
Rao means you aren't from around here, are you?
No I am from Hyderabad. But grew up in Pune.
Hmmm
So what do we have now? Borda... Maholi..
All these areas are close by.
Gogaashi! Hmmm...
What happened?
They're constructing roads there.
Too may potholes.
But there are 35 houses there!
So what?
So we'll go right?
Yes..Maybe...Where is Kubaala?
Anuja: Kubaala??
Chuck it. There is just one house, we'll write no one was home. Let's go.
Anuja: But...
Neha: You really live alone?
Anuja: Yes
Neha: Why?
Anuja: Why meaning?
Neha: Just asking.
And your family?
Father is in Pune and mom passed away.
And your husband?
Fiance!
He works in Pune.
We are going the correct way right?
Yes yes it's correct.
Neha: Just park it here.
Anuja: Uncle...
How mean people stay in this house?
[inaudible]
Lady: That boy. And those two.
Neha: What about him?
Girl: Father?
Girl: He's 55
Neha: I have no clue... [fades away]
Khubaala. 1 House.
Anuja: Should we go?
We'll come back quickly.
Neha: Yes alright. Lets.
Neha: This way!
Neha: No one stays this far off in the middle of nowhere. Let us head back.
Anuja: It must be here somewhere.
Neha: Anuja it's enough now. let's head back. There are absolutely no houses here. Let's go back.
Anuja: Alright
OMINOUS MUSIC
THUNDER RUMBLES
Neha: I told you this must be an old address. No one must be staying here. Let's head back.
Anuja: Just 2 minutes. We have come so far fo this. Let's wait a few minutes and see.
RAIN POURS
Anuja: Hello. We have come for the census population count. We need to ask a few questions, may we come in?
SWEETLY OMINOUS MUSIC
Madam can you please open the door? It's pouring outside.
Neha: Madam!!!
Neha: It's raining... Therefore...
Anuja: We just need to ask a couple of questions.
SWEETLY OMINOUS MUSIC
Neha: Let's go.
Hmm
OMINOUS MUSIC
Neha: Come and sit.
Anuja: Have a seat please.
OMINOUS MUSIC
THUNDER RUMBLES
Your name?
Prerna: Prerna
Full name?
Hunh?
Full name?
How many people are in the house?
Who all stay here?
Prerna: Amma...
me...
him.
Him meaning your husband.
And? Anybody else?
Prerna: Bhola!
Anuja: Is Bhola your brother?
Prerna: Hunh?
Anuja: Is Bhola... Neha: What does Bhola do?
Prerna: He cooks!
Neha: Write it down. Is a servant.
Is this your first child?
No.
Anuja: Meaning there are more kids?
Anuja: We'll have to note that down here. We have to count everyone.
But children die.
Meaning?
They come out. Cry a bit and then they die. (giggles)
All of them?
Yes.
TENSE MUSIC
Which hospital do you go to?
Hmm?
Where does the delivery happen?
I mean..
Hello.
Amma: Who are you people?
Anuja: We have come for the Census count.
Every ten years the governement does a count of the country's population.
That is what we have come for.
Amma: Done?
Yes. Done..
Thank you.
Anuja: Thank you.
TENSE MUSIC
Neha: Were we eating the old prick!?
Hold them for a minute.
Did you see the mark on her neck?
TENSE RHYTHMIC MUSIC
KICKING THE SCOOTER
Neha: We are dead!
Anuja: What happened?
Neha: That's my brother's bike.
Let's go back home directly.
Just tell him that you got delayed because of work.
I'd told you we shouldn't have gone.
Naru: (angry) What bullshit is this?
Do I look like your servant or what?
Neha: No brother. Anuja was feeling dizzy, so we stopped for a bite.
Where did you eat?
Neha: At the Anand Bhandar eatery.
Why the fuck would you go to that place!
And what do you call this nonsense? Who the fuck got this for you?
No one. I bought it myself.
Listen to me very clearly..
if you continue this stupid wannabe independence...
I will make you stop working and shut you in a room.
And if they ever ask you to step out of the school again for anything, say no and stay put.
Did you go with this one?
Neha: Yes. She is Anuja.
Naru: (Stern) Anuja...What's your full name?
Anuja Rao. Hello.
Naru: Hello. Where do you stay?
Anuja: At Sewashran lane. I have just joined the school.
Naru: Then do you live alone here?
Anuja: Yes as of now.
Naru: Alright. Sudaama you come and meet me tomorrow then.
AGONISING SCREAMS
DOOR OPENS
Hardish: (awkward laugh) May I get some water?
NEW BORN BABY CRIES
Vaibhav: (on the phone) Yes but it has already been a month since you went there. We haven't even met properly.
Everyone keeps asking about you here. Even. My colleagues were asking where is our dear sister in law,
And since I've had my promotion, they've started asking even more questions.
Vaibhav: Parashar aunty also came by the other day.
Was enquiring whether our wedding is still happening or no.
She wants me for her neice.
You need to watch out.
I have a lot of options apart from you. But if I go away, who will you find?
Neha: Have you lost your mind!
We'll just check on her and come back at once. We even know the way properly now.
Even if her husband beats her, abuses her, what has that got to do with you?
Didn't your father ever hit your mother?
My brother beats me up everyday. So what?
I am not going back there.
Didn't you find those people odd?
They were horrendously odd.
But I am not going back.
Please come along.
Neha: No.
Bhola: Oh! You girls have come again. Wow!
Anuja: Yes we'd come for the census count.
Bhola: Oh yes.
Please come in, why are you standing outside. I'll open the door for you.
Please please come in.
Let's go.
Hello Aunty. How are you?
These girls had come for the census count the other day remember. It's them.
Please come in. Sit.
Prerna doesn't seem to be around.
She's unwell. Yes.
May we meet her once?
Didn't I say she is unwell.
Since when have you been staying in this house?
Anuja: Hello.
We had some other...
Leela: (cutting across) I had told you that two girls had come for the census count. It's them.
How many people are there in this house?
Leela: Four
Anuja: Since when have you been living here?
It's been around 20-25 years.
He's on a vow of silence for 5 years. It has been 3 years already, 2 years remaining.
How is the child?
(awkard laugh) Surely must have been born by now.
Leela: He's no more. Died 2 weeks ago.
[CLOUDS THUNDER]
Ok.
Bhola: I make really awesome coffee. Should I make some?
CLOUDS THUNDER
RAIN POURS
It's raining too heavily. Stay back for a while.
Amma is saying you should come inside.
If you go now you'll be drenched. (giggles)
How are we supposed to go now?
Anuja: (panicked) You try kickstarting this. Harder.
Anuja..
We won't be able to go in this downpour.
What should we do now?
RAIN POURS
CLOUDS THUNDER
BELL TINKLING
Leela: Did you put fodder for Ganga?
Yes. Have given.
Leela: Ok. You can eat now.
SMACKING SOUNDS
CLOUDS THUNDER
You won't be able to leave tonight. Stay. We have a spare room.
Please come
Bhola: Light!
RAIN POURS CONTINUOUSLY
WHITE NOISE ON TELEVISION
SIDE FAN WHIRRING LOUDLY
We should not stay here. Should we go?
How will we go? There is neither a proper road nor any light. Can't you see?
Your old scooter won't ride over this muck and hell knows what we'll find in this jungle around.
Neha: On top of that my brother is conitnuously calling me. I don't know what should I tell him.
Something is not right here.
I can feel that too.
But I don't see any other option.
Listen...
I am calling my brother and telling him that I am staying over at your..
Loud knocking on the door
Girls scream in fright
KNOCKING CONTINUES
Anuja: Yes?
Water.
Neha (on the phone): Yes hello. Yes we are in Khubaala. Yes certainly.
I'll be back tomorrow morning itself. I'll keep calling you every couple of hours tonight.
Neha (on the phone): Hello. No bhaiya (elder brother) no. I am at Anuja's house.
She wasn't feeling very well so I...Yes I am at her house.
I'll be back tomorrow morning around 8 for sure. Yes... No.. No I'll be back at 8. Won't be late.
Bhaiya... Those girls upstairs...
(whispering) Bhaiya those girls are very bad girls.
They have lied at their homes about their whereabouts.
No one knows that they're here tonight.
Bhaiya...
It has been too long.
May I go please?
May I?
Bhaiya...
Please, may I?
Bhola: (pleading) Bhaiya the girls are liars!
No one knows about them.
Honestly!
Bhaiya...
They kept nosing about our business too.
Bhaiya...May I please go?
(crying) May I go please? Please Bhaiya. May I please go?
Bhaiya...Please...May I go?
May I go Bhaiya?
Bhaiya...May I?
Bhaiya...
May I?
Bhola sniffles
Don't deny him these things.
You get these for him.
Therefore he stays.
If you start denying, he'll run away.
COT CREAKS
CRICKETS CHIRPING
FOOTSTEPS ON MUCK
DOOR CREAKS OPEN
Anuja (whispering): Neha... Neha. Get up, get up get up.
Neha: What happened?
Neha: Hunh?
Anuja: Ssshhhh
Anuja: (whispering) Let's go. We need to leave now.
Neha: Hunh?
Anuja: Sssshhhh..
Chappal. There.
Neha: What happened?
Sssssshhhh!
Don't scream.
I saw a dead body outside.
Anuja: (whispering) We need to leave now..
Ba.. Bag.
Door opened
CRICKETS CHIRPING
SHOES SQUEAKING
FOOTSTEPS
WHITE NOISE
LEELA SNORING
Anuja: (whispering) It's locked.
(whispering) This one is locked as well.
Anuja: (whispering) Now? What?
LEELA SNORING
KEYS JINGLE
SNORING PAUSES
SNORING RESUMES
SNORING CONTINUES
LOCK CLICKS
LEELA SNORING
DOOR CREAKS
(whispering) Did you really see a corpse?
(Whispering) Yes.
That old man was coming out from there...
And I glimpsed a corpse inside.
(whispering) Are you sure it was a corpse?
Maybe.
What the hell does Maybe mean?
Anuja: Something is very wrong here.
Let's leave now. Didn't you notice how that lady stopped us. Let's go.
Leave and go where?
Take a look outside, you can't see anything.
It's a jungle outside, pitch darkness!
Neha: We won't be able to see a thing.
Are you absolutely certain that you saw a corpse?
Neha: Let's go there and check.
No No!
Let's go and see..
if we find a corpse we will leave this instant.
Let's go.
Anuja: No.
Let's go.
ELECTRIC HUMMING
DOOR CREAKS
OMINOUS MUSIC
Girls scream
Man grunting
THRILLING MUSIC
Neha screams
Anuja: Neha...
Neha...Neha?..
Neha...Neha.
Neha: Phone.. Give your phone quick.
Anuja: My phone fell in the water. Where is yours?
WILD DOGS GROWLING
Anuja: Neha.. Neha..
Anuja: Remove your phone from the bag.
[WILD DOGS GROWLING]
Neha: My phone was kept on the bed. Didn't you pick it up with the bag?
The battery is dead.
Charger?
Neha whimpers
Anuja: Listen.
These people do not know that we stepped out..
And that we saw that man.
Let's wait here for now and leave at first light.
LEELA SNORING
KEYS JINGLE
Sorry. This is all my fault.
It's alright.
You didn't do this on purpose.
It happened.
Neha: Tell me one thing
if your phone hadn't fallen in the water, whom would you call?
My Mother.
She would have done anything to get me out of here.
Neha: Means your mother was a strong woman.
Anuja: Not at all.
My father beat her up all her life
but she never uttered a word.
But for me she would fight with the world.
Neha: Means your mother was a strong woman.
This even your mother will do.
No. My mother doesn't.
My mother bears everything very quietly.
I mean no matter what someone says or does to her, she takes it quietly.
That is why, even when my brother beats me up..
I never go and tell her.
Because she scolds me for even that, telling me to behave as per his wishes.
It's not her fault.
That whole generation of women functions that way.
Maybe that is the right way.
You take shit from your fiance..
I get beat up by my brother.
Even this Prerna is getting beaten up by her old husband.
We're proof.
Two girls set out to do something on their own and landed in trouble.
Neha the half dead person out there..
He is a man.
Trouble doesn't differentiate between sexes.
Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere.
BIRDS CHIRPING
BHAGVAD GEETA SHLOK
Oh!
You are up so early.
Anuja: Yes. We need to leave.
Bhola: Listen please. Have some breakfast atleast.
Anuja: No no it's alright.
Bhola: I make brilliant porridge. You'll love it.
Thank you.
Bhola: Please listen. Why aren't you listening to me?
Have something atleast. Shall I make some pancakes?
You won't stop them?
The girls stepped out last night.
Neha: Anuja hurry.
Anuja hurry! Speed up.
Anuja screams
Neha panting
Bhola laughs
Anuja screaming
Anuja: Neha?
Neha are you here?
Neha?
Neha: Anuja...
Anuja...
Where are we?
Anuja: Ssshh... Softly.
METALLIC SCRAPING
WATER DRIPPING
Neha whimpers
Anuja panting
Neha, Neha, we are still in the house.
Neha: What?
Anuja: Yes. Come. I...
I saw... from underneath that door. We are under the house.
See.
What are you doing? Neha!Nehaaa...
Nehaaa...
Open! open the door.
Neha: Open this door.
Let us go.
We won't say a word. Let us go.
Let us go.
DOOR BEING RATTLED
Neha: (Pleading)Open the door...
Neha: Let us go.
Neha: Is anyone there, open this door.
Bhaiya,
May I go?
Bhaiya say yes now atleast
We've captured them now.
May I go?
Let them break a little, then you may go.
Leela: Go and boil the water.
Neha: Open this door please...Open...Open the door.
Open the door let us go.
BOILING WATER HISSES
Anuja: Neha..
Neha are you alright? Are you okay?
Neha: We'll die here.
They'll kill us and no one will ever find out.
Anuja: No..No.. Everthing will be alright..
We will escape from here.
Neha: (crying) What escape? We are here because of you.
You kept nagging let's go let's go let's go.
Now because of you they'll murder us.
Move away.
We cannot do anything and we'll die here.
Move away!
(crying) Maa...
RAT SQUEAKING
Vaibhav: She must have told you something about where she went.
Landlord: No.
Why will she tell me?
Go to the school in ask.
(irritated)Uncle...
Speak in Hindi please.
Go to the school and ask then.
She must have gone for some trip or something.
Do you have the school address?
Come downstairs. Will give it to you.
Landlord: She isn't home.
Naru: Where did she go then?
Landlord: How would I know!
Naru: She didn't tell you anything either?
Vaibhav: Who are you?
I am Naru.
My sister has been roaming around with your wife the past month.
Mister she is my fiance.
Hmmm..
I visited the school just now.
They say she's been having an affair with the Amol Joshi fellow.
Your dear fiance!
First you need to start speaking with some respect.
She is not that kind of girl.
Oye!
Don't tell me what she is and is not. I know everything that goes around here.
Motherfucker! She's run off with my sister in tow.
Who do you think you are abusing?
You! What the fuck are you going to do you dick?
Fuck your happiness if I want to.
Who do you think you are talking to you shitfaced asshole?
Landlord: What do you think you guys are doing?
Have you lost your mind?
Your sister fiance are missing..
and you both are assuming that they've run off?
Go to the cops and file a complaint.
Ohh! What am I supposed to tell the cops?
Naru's sister ran away?
I'll lose face in the whole town.
Naru: And listen you fucker...
If you want to go to the cops and tell them who all your fiance is blowing, do...
Vaibhav: I..
Naru: Listen.
Naru: Please Do. But neither mine nor my sister's name should come anywhere near that complaint.
You make sure he understands.
The school's address?
WATER DRIPPING
Anuja crying
Anuja: They...
They keep Prerna captive here itself.
All her kids are born here too. Look at all this stuff here. See.
Maybe...
Maybe... Prerna isn't his wife at all.
She's stuck like us.
DOOR BANGING
Anuja: Hold this.
RAT SQUEAKING
Girls screaming
Leela: Prerna!
Neha whimpering
Bhola, get some turmeric.
Bhola, did you feed the girls?
If I feed them they'll become strong.
You said that we need to break them.
If you don't feed them now, they'll die.
Go and give them food.
Neha...
We have to get out from here anyhow.
Neha crying.
Bhola: Please have something to eat.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
I'll feed you with my hands then.
Eat.
Please eat.
Bhola: Please take.
What happened?
Bhola: When I am feeding you nicely, why won't you eat!
Eat!
Bhola: Oye! Wake up.
Oye... Wake up. Up!
BELL TINKLES
Anuja coughing.
Anuja gasping.
RATS SQUEAKING
We can escape from here.
Anuja gagging
Naru: Did two girls come up here?
Hunh?
DOOR CREAKS
Yes sir?
Did two girls come here?
No.
See this.
No Sir. No girls came here.
Naru: See it properly.
Anuja: Sshhh...
I...
I'll come back with help. Promise.
I... I heard the the birth of the child, his first cries.
I am here since the day that child was born.
I am telling the truth sir, no girls came by here.
And what is this old man's problem?
Is he deaf??
No sir. He isn't speaking. Has taken a vow of silence.
I haven't seen you people around.
We don't step out much sir.
Alright.
If you see the girl...
Just inform in the village to call Naru.
Ok?
Yes sir.
That old man killed the child.
Like he has killed all children born before.
That mad stooge of his told me.
What happened sir?
Where is my sister?
You SISTERFUCKER where is she?
You MOTHERFUCKER!
Dadaaa (brother)
Dadaaa!!
Neha crying, screaming
Neha crying
Bhola: Oye my baby! Come baby!
What happened? Call your brother now. Call.
Yes Bhaiya?
Bhaiya...Shall I go?
I'll go?
Bhaiya!
Aaayyeee!! Why did you kill my brother? Why did you kill my brother?
Bhola: Why do you behave like this?
Nooooo....
Nehaaa! Neha!
Nehaa!
Bhola: Enough enough. Sshh quiet.
Neha: No! No!
Just once please. I like it.
Neha: No! No!
Neha!!
Ne..Neha..
Neha! Neha.
Nehaaaaaa....
Oye! Make some noise. Oye. Make some noise.
Make some noise please.
It's alright. We'll do it later.
Oye! What is this?
I'll slap you.
Don't ever do this again. Ok?
Ganga screaming
Prerna: Water.
Drink.
You should have told us before.
Hunh?
Neha: Given a hint.
Maybe we wouldn't have come back then.
We would have run away.
Sssshhh. Quiet.
Water.
Father will punish. Ssshh.
Neha: Papa?
Hmm... Papa.
He beats me up a lot.
Scolds also.
Doesn't even give food.
Stick...
With a stick he beats.
If you listen to him, then he doesn't hit.
Gives food also.
He just explains with that, with the stick.
He explained it to mother also.
One day she didn't understand
so she was killed.
Water?
Aye...
I need to go from here.
Papa will beat me up.
Please please please help me..
Prerna: No.
Neha: I want to go from here.
Prerna: Papa will punish.
Neha: I need to get out of here.
Neha: (crying) I want to go from here.
TABLE FAN WHIRRING
WILD DOGS GROWLING
Bhola screaming
Neha crying
Neha: Anuja, that Bhola...
I killed him.
And now I am going to kill that old man.
Neha: No no no no Anuja. Don't go.
Let's run away. That man will kill us.
No no no Anuja.
Prerna is his daughter.
Daughter?
Anuja: He has been raping his daughter since years
killed so many of his own children,
Did all this to us.
I don't want to run
I want to kill him.
After all that he did to you, do you want that he should stay alive?
FAN WHIRRING LOUDLY
Anuja screaming
Body thumps
Ghanshyam: Amm..Amma.. Ammaaaaaa (Mother)