NO ONE KILLED JESSICA Draft 11

Screenplay and Dialogues Raj Kumar Gupta Directed by Raj kumar Gupta

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F A D E I N CREDITS RUN THROUGH THE VOICE OVER OF Varsha(27) a woman Journalist CUT ON A referential VISUAL MONTAGE WITH MUSIC. VARSHA (V.O.) 1999. Ek saal pehle India Pokhran mein apna doosra nuclear test karke nuclear club ke darwaze pe dastak de raha tha. The mushroom of a nuclear explosion. The screen goes black. VARSHA(CONT 'D) Duniya aane wale naye

millennium ke darwaze pe dastak de rahi thi aur main ek news channel ke darwaze par dastak dene ke baad reporting shuroo kar chuki thi. Posting Delhi mein thi. Shots of Delhiit's people. VARSHA(CONT 'D) Delhi jahan mein paida hui, jahan main pali badhi aur jisey main aaj tak samajh nahi paayi. A girl is brushed by a man in a DTC bus. She is angry. VARSHA(CONT 'D) Log kehtey hain Mumbai is about money but Delhi is about power! A queue in a government office. Promptly

the clerk puts up a' LUNCH' board. People in the crowd fume. VARSHA (V.O.) (CONT'D) Pehchaan ladana, Jack lagana, Pull badana...Is ke bagair koi sarkari office mein ek application bhi nahi deta... An argument between a cyclist and a motorist has stopped all traffic. VARSHA (V.O.) (CONT'D) Aur har jhagde ke shuroo mein har aadmi kehta haiJaanta nahi main kaun hoon? Everybody is somebody in Delhi, Nobody is a nobody. Shots of traffic being diverted for VIP movement. VARSHA(CONT 'D) Pearls of wisdom hain ya

over simplificati on, main decide nahi kar paayi...isliy e apne tareeqey se Delhi ko samajhney ki koshish ki. Shots of the major centres of power in Delhi... the Parliament, the Supreme court, North Block etc. VARSHA(CONT 'D) I failed. Phir socha har bade shehar jaisa ek aur shehar hai lekin jitna kareeb se dekha utna hi iski complexity mein khoney lagi. 'Hero Pharmacy- Milein Ya Likhein' advertisements on the wall for sexual disorders. VARSHA(CONT 'D) Isliye samajhney ki koshish hi bandh kar di. Shots of the major landmarks of the city.

People and residential areas. Coolers being carted in huge numbers. VARSHA (CONT'D) Cooler mein paani bharkey Delhi garmiyon ke liye taiyyar ho gayi thi. Cricket world cup ke liye exchange offer mein hazaron TV khareed liye gaye thaiy. Tabhie achanak discussion garmi aur cricket se hatkar ek aur badi khabar pe aaya... Shot of people glued to their television. VARSHA (CONT'D) Kargil ki peaks par Pakistani army regulars aur militants ne kabza kar liya

Shots of TIGER HILLgun shotsrockets being fired VARSHA (CONT'D) Bahrat Sarkar ne kabza chhudaney ke liye ek major military operation shuroo kar diya Shot of heavily armed Soldiers on military trucks on the move VARSHA(CONT 'D) KARGIL ki jung shuroo ho gayi. BOFORS tanks being firedMirage in the sky. VARSHA'S VOICE OVER (V.O.) Hindustani aur Hindustani ho gaye... Shot of a crowd with Indian flag...a man shouts... MAN BHARAT MATA KI JAI...JAAN JAYE PAR EK INCH NA JAYYE...INDI AN ARMY

WE ARE WITH YOU! Guys on bike carrying Indian flag and shouting... VARSHA'S VOICE OVER (V.O.) Pehle cricket matches ke dauran India ek hua tha aur ab ladayi ke dauran India dobara ek ho gaya. Main kargil chali gayi. Kargil se main reporting kar hi rahi thi ki ek aur ghatna ho gayi...aisi ghatna jo Delhi ki shakal aur power ke matlab donon ko badalne wali thi. BLACK F A D E I N

: SUPER: 1999 DELHI. F A D E O U T : INT. SABRINA HOUSE - NIGHT Black...a cell phone rings...the darkness of night is cut through by the screen of the cell phone by the bed side ...PRADEEP CALLING flashes on it...it rings few more time before a hand comes, searches for the cell phone...finds the red button... disconnects...few seconds...the phone goes off again...this time the hand involuntarily picks it up...gets the phone closer to have a look at it...face of a female as she looks at the screen in half asleep half awake state...we don't see her clearly...she looks at the table clock...it's 2am...hint of irritation on her face...she look back at the screen for a second...then disconnects the call, switches off her cell phone and goes back to bed. Again a phone rings...this time it's the land line...she pulls the quilt over her head...few rings...somebody in the other room picks it up...we just hear a female voice say 'Hello'...few seconds...we hear footsteps.. FEMALE VOICE (O.S.) Didi...phon e hai...Pradee p bhaiyya

hain...bol rahe hain urgent hai... Table lights comes on...Now we see the face of the female, not clearly though...she is Sabrina(25)...her eyes are still closed...she reaches for the land line phone on the side of the table...unwillingly picks it up. SABRINA Hello... MALE VOICE Sabrina...Pr adeep... SABRINA Pradeep...R aat ke do baj rahe hain? PRADEEP (i m p a t i e n t ) Sabrina...Je ssica is hurt...come quickly! SABRINA What...wha t do you mean she is hurt?

PRADEEP (u r g e n c y i n h i s v o i c e ) Usse chot lagi hai... SABRINA (ir r i t a t e d ) Arre yaar usse chhot lagti rahti hai...take her to a doctor, theek ho jayegi...i can't come now,tum log ho na udh...

PRADEEP (c u t s h e r s h o r t ) Sabrina...Je ssica ko goli lagi hai... Sudden silence...Sabrina springs up off her bed... SABRINA What do you mean...goli lagi hai? Beat PRADEEP She has been shot! Expression on Sabrina'a face changes. C U T T O : EXT.STREET.NIGHT Car speeds up...Face of Sabrina...scared

and confused... Nalini(30),her friend driving the car...there is urgency ...Nalini looks towards Sabrina... NALINI Which hospital? Sabrina is too stunned to respond...Nalini realizes... NALINI (CONT'D) Sabrina? Sabrina looks towards her. NALINI (CONT'D) Which hospital? SABRINA Aashlok. Nalini looks at her. NALINI She will be fine. Sabrina doesn't respond...keeps looking ahead blankly. C U T T O : EXT.ASHLOK HOSPTAL.NIGHT Shot of Ashlok hospital. C U

T T O : INT.ASHLOK HOSPITAL.NIGHT Corridor flies open...Sabrina and Nalani rush in...lots of people waiting there...whispering, talking to each other... we just hear the cacophony...everybody turns and looks towards Sabrina...there is lot of tension and confusion... everything happens very fast. SABRINA (t o e v e r y b o d y ) Kahan hai? Pradeep(32), a lanky guy rushes to her... PRADEEP OT... SABRINA How is she? PRADEEP We don't know... SABRINA Hua kaise?

PRADEEP Exactly mujhe bhi nahin pata...It happened inside the restaurant.. . main bahar tha... Quick cuts intercut with blank reactions. People really don't have an answer SABRINA Aise kaise kisi ne goli chala di? Usske saath kaun tha... kisi ne dekha nahin, kisi ne roka nahin... how can somebody just shoot her?? hua kya tha? A frazzled voice- I don't know...Vikram Jaisingh was there. SABRINA (CONT'D) Was there a fight? Kaun? Tha kaun? Was anybody...k itni...kitni goliyaan...t um log to party mein thaiy na?

Koi gun leke kaise aa gaya ? Sabrina looks for an answer...no one responds...from the crowd a voice informs... VOICE (O.S.) Vikram was there... Sabrina reacts... Standing in a corner is Vikram Jaisingh (20),blabbering to himself. He is surrounded by a few policemen. VIKRAM (i n c o h e r e n t ) Crazy bastard...I.. .how could he... maine...the re were no drinks lekin wo... He starts sobbing, sniffing. Sabrina walking towards him in the corridor. RAVINDER HIRAN,the PI looks at Vikram Jaisingh - There he goes again look...loosing his patience...Sabrina walking towards them. VIKRAM (CONT'D)

(c r y i n g ) Time hi nahi tha and what could I do... bahut fast... Ravinder Hiran shifts his weight. Looks at his watch... curses Under his breath in frustration. RAVINDER HIRAN Behenchod. .. The other cop looks at Ravinder Hiran...Shocked VIKRAM continues blabbering. VIKRAM (s n i f f s ) Sab kuch itni jaldi hua... poor Jess... she didn't get it... Sabrina reaches them. VIKRAM stops mid sentence as he looks at her. Tears well up in his eyes. He tries to say something. The other cops look at Ravinder Hiran. He

makes a sign for them to step aside. The police men scatter awkwardly to give them time together. Ravinder Hiran steps a bit away but within hearing distance. VIKRAM (CONT'D) (b l a b b e r i n g ) He shot her...he shot her...i was right there...usn e drink maangi ...then he shot her... Sabrina is much more composed then she was few minutes back. SABRINA VIKRAM look at me...look here... kaise hua? Ravinder Hiran looks at Sabrina. VIKRAM (k e e p s l

o o k i n g a w a y a n d b l a b b e r i n g ) He shot her...drink thi nahin...i wasn't lying...she refused him... usne pistol nikali...and fired... Sabrina holds him... SABRINA Vikram...Vi kram (g e s

t u r e s ) SHHHHHH.. .SHHH... She almost holds his face...VIKRAM stops blabbering... looks straight at her... SABRINA (CONT'D) Hua kaise... kisne goli chalayi? Ravinder Hiran looks at Sabrina and then at VIKRAM. FACE OF VIKRAM...FEW SECONDS...MUSIC FADES IN... C U T T O : INT.TAMARIND COURT- NIGHT. Face of DJ... DJ Ladies and gentleman. ..last song for the night...enjo y Before the DJ can finish his announcement, the mike is hijacked by a very pretty looking female in a white shirt and denim shorts...She is Jessica...

JESSICA (a n i m a t e d ) LADIES AND GENTLEMA N ALSO LAST DRINK AT THE BAR...SO GET SET... DJ and Jessica look at each other, smile and both go in unison BOTH GOOOO!!! Iggy Pop's 'Lust For Life' streams in As soon as the music comes on,the eclectic crowd on the dance floor that had temporarily halted for the announcement immediately springs into action...among others is Naina Sehgal(25), with a drink in her hand,she is letting her hair loose... Various cuts of her and others dancing. This place is an open courtyard...and is teeming with people- from young to old one's,from bureaucrats to politicians to police officer's, from designers to film stars, from trendy to the not so happening. C U T

T O : VIKRAM and Jessica are behind the bar counter serving the last few drinks left to whoever is asking for them... a guy walks up to the bar...he is Bhuvan(30) BHUVAN (c a ll s o u t t o J e s s i c a ) Coffee ke liye aa rahi hai na? JESSICA (s h o u t s b a c k ) Haan

haan...dus minute... She turns to VIKRAM JESSICA (CONT'D) Chalna hai? VIKRAM (S h a k e s h i s h e a d ) No...too tired...aur subah college jana hai... He looks up... C U T T O : His POV... A lady in the crowd amidst a conversation gestures for a drink...she is Veena Sehgal(55)... C

U T T O : DANCEFLOOR Music tempo increases...Naina Sehgal dancing...her moves much wilder now...and she looks peeping hot. C U T T O : Man turns looking away from the dance floor to look at Veena Sehgal(50)... MAN Your daughter is something! VEENA (s m il e s ) Sure she is... MAN 1 (a d m i r i n

g t h e p l a c e ) VEENA...Thi s place is lovely! VEENA (b o a s t i n g ) The best in town dear! VIKRAM walks in with two drinks...gives it to VEENA and Man 1. VEENA (CONT'D) Thank you darling... VEENA notices a foreigner passing by...calls out... VEENA (CONT'D) PETER... PPETER(60) stops...walks up to her VEENA

(CONT'D) (t o t h e m a n s h e w a s t a l k i n g t o ) My husband...P PETER...Pet er ...This is Prem Nath's son...The Chairman Of... C U T T O

: DANCE FLOOR Dancing continues... C U T T O : VIKRAM making his way through the crowd... camera follows him... VIKRAM (a s h e m o v e s a l o n g ) Excuse me... We hear a voice off screen MAN (O.S.) Nagpal sahab commission er kab ban rahe hai? DADWAL

(O.S.) Mantriji aap jab bhi bana dean... main toh bas intezar mein baitha hoon! Laughter... C U T T O : DANCEFLOOR Dance continues...tempo has increased...three guys come to the dance floor...close to where Naina Sehgal is and start moving their body... C U T T O : VIKRAM passes by looking at the dance floor...a hand comes in from behind and taps him...VIKRAM turns...It is Rohit... ROHIT Hey dude...com e here... VIKRAM looks at him...Rohit is standing with a group of friends...Rina and Tarun among them...

ROHIT (CONT'D) Let me tell you... (p o i n t i n g t o w a r d s V I K R A M ) This guy is going to burn the ramp next year...VIKR AM... Tarun and Rina... VIKRAM looks at them and smiles VIKRAM Hi... ROHIT (t o V I

K R A M ) If you have to walk the ramp in Delhi, they are the people you should be dying to walk for! VIKRAM nods aand excuses himself...leaves...Rohit turns to Rina and Tarun... ROHIT (CONT'D) So what do you make of him? RINA (l o o k i n g a t V I K R A M ) He has a nice face and good

body... he might just do well... Tarun takes a sip from his drink TARUN I doubt it...he looks like a tight ass to me! ROHIT Tarun...trus t me...he has a tight ass! Everybody bursts into laughter. C U T T O : DANCE FLOOR The three guys dancing just beside Naina Sehgal...they are Manish, Vishal and Tony...she makes her moves oblivious of their presence...These guys try to dance, not sure of any movement they are making...they look completely out of place... Manish keeps staring at Naina Sehgal...then looks at Vishal...Vishal makes a gesture at him...Manish gets closer to Naina Sehgal and just brushes her...Naina doesn't react...Vishal looks at Manish and winks... Manish smiles. C U T

T O : BAR VIKRAM Jess... JESSICA (t u r n s ) Kya? VIKRAM smiles and gestures towards the dance floor C U T T O : DANCE FLOOR Manish Vishal Lucky with their dance moves look completely out of place...Manish keeps looking at Naina... C U T T O : BAR JESSICA (CONT'D

(s m il e s ) Hain kaun yeh log? VIKRAM Pata nahin... Jessica notices a guy passing by... JESSICA (c a ll s o u t ) RAHUL... RAHUL(30) stops...walks up to her.. RAHUL (s m il e s ) Yes darling...fin ally you want to marry me? JESSICA Shut up...kitne coupons hain tere pass?

RAHUL Do... JESSICA Give it to me. RAHUL Kyon?? JESSICA Drinks kucch hi bacche hain...phir rona mat. RAHUL quickly takes out the coupons from his pocket... C U T T O : DANCE FLOOR Tempo of music at it's highest...crowd moves their bodies matching the beats...Naina does it perfectly...Manish keeps looking at her...he exchanges a look with Vishal...then gets close to Naina Sehgal and almost rubs against her...Naina Sehgal realizes it this time...takes a last swig from her glass...moves out... C U T T O :

BAR RAHUL grabs his last two drinks from the counter... RAHUL I knew you love me! JESSICA (t o R A H U L ) Fuck off. VIKRAM smiles...RAHUL moves out...Naina Sehgal enters... NAINA Don' tell me the drinks are over! VIKRAM (s m il e s ) OVER... NAINA NO... VIKRAM YES! NAINA NO....

VIKRAM YES!! NAINA (l o o k s t o w a r d s j e s s i c a ) Please please...jus t one... (s t a r t s p l e a d i n g ) please please please...JES S you

always save the last one for me... (a n i m a t e d w i t h f o l d e d h a n d s ) pleassee... pleassssse Jessica smiles...pulls out a glass full from under the counter... NAINA (CONT'D) (e c s t a t i

c ) I knew...i knew you love me! NAINA moves out...Jessica and VIKRAM look at each other... smiles... VIKRAM Everybody loves you! Jessica just smiles... VIKRAM (CONT'D) Ab kya? JESSICA SAAF SAFAI...aur kya! They start clearing...just then... VOICE (O.S.) Humen bhi ek ek de de! VIKRAM looks up...its Manish Bhardwaj and Vishal VIKRAM Sir drinks are over! VISHAL Arre upar neeche dekh le...nikal aayega... A beat JESSICA

(h e r b a c k t o w a r d s t h e m ) Drinks are over! A beat MANISH Sab ko toh baant rahi hai! Face of Jessica...a beat...she turns...and flips the board announcing 'BAR IS CLOSED' towards them. C U T T O : DANCEFLOOR Last thirty seconds of 'Lust For Life'...tempo at it's highest...faces of people...the crowd makes the most of it...wild movements...

C U T T O : Manish bumps into RAHUL.. MANISH (l o o k i n g a t t h e g l a s s i n h i s h a n d ) Yaar humen ek nahin mil raha, tu do do le kar

ghoom raha hai... C U T T O : DANCEFLOOR - NAINA is the wildest...few seconds...she excuses herself and walks away from the dance floor...camera follows her...music continues... C U T T O : INT. RESTAURANT Camera follows NAINA as she walks inside the restaurant with her drink in her hand...She heads straight to the bar... VIKRAM is arranging the empty bottles at the non functional bar...there are two other men inside the restaurant...Shiv Das(34) standing behind the bar, who is helping VIKRAM arrange the bar and Dharam saxena(37) sitting in a corner just beside a piano player. NAINA (t o V I K R A M

) WILD IT WAS! Kuch khane ko hai idhar? VIKRAM (s m il e s a n d g e s t u r e s ) Look behind the counter... NAINA goes behind the counter...finds something...picks it up. NAINA (d i s a p p o i n t e d )

Peanuts! At that moment Vishal, Manish and Lucky enter...walk straight to VIKRAM. VISHAL (t o V I K R A M ) Chal idhar ek ek de de! VIKRAM is surprised to see them again. VIKRAM Sir maine aapko kaha na drinks khatam hain! Manish looks at him...takes out two five hundred rupee note from his pocket and flashes it to VIKRAM. MANISH Ab toh milegi na? VIKRAM Sir kaha... MANISH (c u t s h i

m s h o r t ) Sir pair bahut kar liya tune...chal nikaal le abhi... NAINA (i n t e r r u p t s ) Usne kaha na drinks nahin hain! Manish looks towards NAINA...notices the glass in her hand ...few seconds... MANISH (g e s t u r i n g t

o w a r d s h e r d r i n k ) Tere pass toh hai, tu hi de de! NAINA darts a look to Manish...comes out from behind the bar counter...takes few steps towards him. NAINA (p o i n t i n g t o w a r d s h e r d r i

n k ) I won't even let you have a sip of MY DRINK for your THOUSAND BUCKS! A beat... MANISH Can I have a sip of you for... whatever you want? NAINA looks at him...feels disgusted...walks out...Manish and Vishal look at each other...they burst into laughter... Manish turns to VIKRAM... MANISH (CONT'D) Yeh rakh aur nikaal... VIKRAM looks around helplessly...Dharam Saxenaand SHANKARlook at him from where they are seated... JESSICA (O.S.) Kya problem hai? Manish turns towards Jessica... MANISH Kuch nahin...bas daru chahiyye...

JESICA Bahar aapko bataya na drinks are over...Kitni baar kahenge aapko... samajh mein nahin aa raha... MANISH Nahin...nah in aa raha. Manish pushes VIKRAM aside and goes behind the empty bar... starts looking under the counter... JESSICA (l o o s e s i t ) Stop it...what nonsense is this ...aapko samajh main nahin aata... now just get out of here. Manish stops. MANISH Kya boli?

JESSICA I said...get out! Manish looks at her...few seconds...suddenly Manish pulls out a gun from his pocket...everybody reacts... C U T T O DANCE FLOOR: The crowd outside dances to lust for life....suddenly she reacts to a SOUND...she turns and looks towards the restaurant...she turns...walks towards the restaurant... camera follows her...as she rushes in...VEENA notices Manish putting something in his pocket...looks at the floor where bleeding Jessica lies in the pool of blood...Music keeps blaring...VEENA grabs hold of his hand...there Is a scuffle...she tries to stop him and keeps saying something to him...we don't hear them...we just hear the music... Manish violently pushes VEENA aside...hurriedly walks out... Vishal and Lucky follows...VEENA runs after him...calling out desperately to somebody in the crowd... C U T T O : Stunned face of VIKRAM...there is panic

and chaos...He looks at a bleeding Jessica...her body in convulsions...few seconds...he runs towards the door...in slow motion...camera follows him...as he reaches to the door, camera comes from behind to his front...VIKRAM comes out shouting. VIKRAM (s h o u t i n g ) SOMEBODY SHOT JESSICA! Music on...people are still dancing...no one reacts... VIKRAM (CONT'D) SOMEBODY SHOT JESSICA!! Music...again no one reacts. VIKRAM (CONT'D) (a t h i s h i g h e s t

p i t c h ) SOMEBODY SHOT JESSICA!!!! Music comes to a sudden halt. C U T T O : INT.ASHLOK HOSPITAL.NIGHT Stunned face of Sabrina...speechless...VIKRAM is still in a bad state...few seconds... SABRINA (s t u n n e d ) He shot her just because she refused him a drink! No one responds...few seconds of silence... C U

T T O : Ravinder Hiran, the PI who has heard this, looks at his junior RAVINDER HIRAN Statement le...F.I.R bana aur sign kara isse... JUNIOR Abhi? Ravinder Hiran darts a look at him. C U T T O : Suddenly the doors to the corridor fly open... an old couple walk in... MAY and AJIT LAL, Jessica's parents...they walk towards Sabrina MAY Where is my baby...wher e is my baby ...Kaisi hai voh...i want to see her... Sabrina rushes to them...

SABRINA Mom...she will be fine...theek ho jayegi voh... MAY My baby... Sabrina holds her Mom... SABRINA Mom...thee k ho jaayegi... Before she can finish the sentence... A doctor rushes out of the OT. DOCTOR Patient ko apollo shift karna padega. Sabrina looks at the doctor...ambulance siren fades in C U T T O : EXT. STREET.NIGHT Ambulance speeds up... C U T T O

: INT.AMBULANCE,STREET.NIGHT Inside the ambulance...Jessica lies on the stretcher...her head bandaged...strapped with various equipment, one pumping her heart...doctor keeps an eye on her...Sabrina keeps looking at Jessica's face...face looks very calm...Sabrina keeps looking at it...suddenly there is some movement in Jessica's face...except Sabrina nobody notices it...she looks at her for few seconds...and then as if she has realized something; SABRINA (b l a n k l y ) Jessica is gone! NALINI What? SABRINA Jessica is gone. Nalini looks towards Jessica, then turns to Sabrina... NALINI Kuch nahin hoga usse...she will be fine. A beat SABRINA

She is gone...she has stopped breathing! Suddenly Nalini looks towards the doctor...doctor looks at Jessica...realizes...quickly checks her pulse...few seconds ...Nalini keeps looking at the doctor...doctor looks back at them...a beat... DOCTOR I am sorry! C U T T O : EXT. WAR ZONE,KARGIL- DAY A coffin crosses from screen left to right revealing Varsha's face. She is showing no emotion but her eyes are not blinking at all. She stands beside a truck on which the coffins wrapped with Indian flags are being loaded to be flown back to their families. Her ear piece crackles. CRACKLING VOICE Varsha you are on Air! Varsha doesn't respond...keeps staring...ear piece crackles again... CRACKLING VOICE (CONT'D) Varsha...we Are

live...you are on air! Suddenly Varsha reacts...She breathes and the worlds flow easily. VARSHA Bhaartiye sena ne Pakistani sena aur aatankwadi yoan ko khaded diya hai...ek mahine tak chali goli baari ke baad aakhir sena ne TIGER HILL par wapis apna kabza jama liya hai... C U T T O : A group of Indian soldiers smile...give the victory sign... C U T T O : VARSHA

(CONT'D) Jahaan ek taraf Sanikoan ko iss ladai mein mili jeet ki khushi hai,wahin shaheed huey apne saathiyoan ke shaw ko kandha dene ka gham bhi... C U T T O : Coffins being carried away... SOLDIER Ji dukh toh hota hai...chahh e hamara gaya ho ya unka...insa an toh insaan hi hai. C U T T O : Varsha looks on as another soldier

speaks to her... SOLIDER (p r o u d l y ) Fauji hain...wardi desh ki raksha ke liye hi pehni hai...ladai mein ya toh aadmi marega ya maarega... VARSHA Kya kehna chahenge desh ke logoan ko? C U T T O : Another soldier...carrying the body of a colleague inside a coffin...camera moves as it takes his reaction... SOLIDER Unko bhi kehna chahenge, aap media walon ko

bhi kehna chahengeladai jab chalti hai toh sabhi log humen yaad karte hain...kai fauji desh ke liye apni jaan kurbaan kar chuke hain...unhe aur unke parivaar ko yaad rakhen itna ki kehna chahenge! Involuntarily Smiles... C U T T O : VARSHA Dedh mahine tak chali iss ladai mein na sirf Bharat ke sanikoan ki jaane gayi, kai Pakistani sainik bhi maare gaye. Dono deshoan ke

samne ek eham sawaal khada hota hai - kya yeh ladai zaroori thi? Kargil se aakhri baar Varsha Dutt star news ke liye! We hear the drone of a plane C U T T O : INT. ABOARD INDIAN AIRLINES - DAY Varsha on the plane. She stops a passing stewardess... VARSHA Can I get a newspape r? STEWARDES S Sure...one moment maam... A gentleman seated besides recognizes her and is eager and excited to strike a conversation with her. GENTLEMAN Maine

aapko dekha hai... Varsha looks towards him... GENTLEMAN (CONT'D) T.V pe...Great Job...bahu t dum hai aap mein. Varsha nods... GENTLEMAN (CONT'D) Maine kabhi iss tarh ladai dekhi nahin thi...Bada mazza aaya dekhne mein... Varsha keeps looking at him... GENTLEMAN (CONT'D) It was so excitingbadi badi bandoonk ean, bade gague ki tanks, fighter planes, ROCKETS aurVARSHA (c

u t t i n g h i m ) Hamarey soldiers ki laashein. Wo dekhke bhi bada maza aaya hoga? A beat. GENTLEMAN ( u n n e r v e d ) Well wo toh... VARSHA Vahan hotey na toh G phat ke haath mein aa jaati! Gentleman reacts... GENTLEMAN

(s h o c k e d ) Excused me...what did you say? VARSHA (r e p e a t s l o u d l y ) VAHAAN HOTEY TOH (d r a w s t h e l e t t e

r G w i t h h e r f o r e f i n g e r ) G PHAT KE HAATH MEIN AA JAATI! Suddenly there is complete silence in the plane- the rest of the passenger turn and looks towards her seat almost animatedly... silence is broken by a kid's suppressed laughter... Gentleman is shocked and speechless and looks away...Varsha turns...the stewardess stands with the newspaper. STEWARDES S Your...ne wspaper maam. VARSHA (s

m i l e s ) Thank You! She unfolds the newspaper...something catches her attention ...the headline announcing... 'NO ARREST IN JESSICA LAL MURDER CASE. MINISTERS SON ON THE RUN'. C U T T O : INT.MANISH BHARDWAJ'S RESIDENCE, CHANDIGARH -DAY R.D.RASTOGI Manali wale guest house mein hain, safe hain par zyada din tak nahin ...paper mein istehaar toh aap dekh hi rahe hain! Few more newspaper with the same headlines spread on the table... A visibly upset and tense Pramod Bhardwaj

(55),father of Manish Bhardwaj, stands with R.D.Rastogi, father of Vishal Rastogi... surrounded by a few more people... R.D ( m a t t e r o f f a c t ) Jawan hain, galti ho gayi...jawa ni mein humne bhi gul khilayen hain! Pramod Bhardwajgives him a disapproving look. DP is a man who doesn't think too much before shooting his mouth off...Few seconds of tense silence. Pramod Bhardwajthinks for a moment. FEAMLE VOICE (O.S.) Kucch bhi karo par mera Manish mujhe wapis chahiyye.

It's teary eyed Manish Bhardwaj's mother from the inside room addressing her husband. Pramod Bhardwajreacts...doesn't say anything... R.D. Bhai saab...itna kya soch rahe hain...khoo n toh apna hi hai...mera ho ya aapka...dar d bhi humen hi sehna padega! A beat...then Pramod Bhardwajlooks at him VINOD Voh ladki kaun thi? R.D. Thi koi do takkey ki model! C U T T O : INT.SABRINA'S OFFICE -EVENING THUD An envelop lands on Sabrina's table...Sabrina looks up... smiles...Jessica stands smiling in front...

SABRINA Kya hai? JESSICA Khol ke dekh... SABRINA Bata na... JESSICA Unhuh...kh ol ke dekh. Sabrina takes the envelope...pulls out it's contents...starts going through it...excited, she jumps out of her seat SABRINA Tujhe job mil gayi! JESSICA As an assistant manager! SABRINA Voh bhi Dubai mein! JESSICA (s m il e s ) India doesn't deserve me baby! SABRINA Shut up...jaana

kab hai? JESSICA Agley mahine... SABRINA Mom Dad ko bataya? JESSICA (s h a k e s h e r h e a d ) NOPE! Sabrina looks at her questioningly... JESSICA (CONT'D) Tu batayegi na... Batayegi bhi aur unhe manayegi bhi... SABRINA Very smart!! Jessica smiles...suddenly she realizes... JESSICA Oh god...i

am late...bhagt i hoon... aaj raat party mein aa rahi hai na? SABRINA Yaar main nahin aaongi... JESSICA Kyon? SABRINA I am not used to these parties ...mujhe mazza nahin aata... JESSICA Shut up...thodi der ke liye aa jana na...i will make a nice cocktail for you. SABRINA Kya karoongi uska...main peeti hoon kya? Nalini walks in...Jessica rushes out... NALINI Hi...

JESSICA (t o N a li n i ) Bye...i will see you girls at the party...Is behanji ko bhi le aana ...TA...TA! Jessica rushes out... SABRINA (c a ll s o u t ) Ye behanji nahin aa rahi...i will see you at home in the morning. Hold onto Sabrina smiling and looking at Jess go away. SOUND OVERLAP INT. CEMETERY- DAY Face of Sabrina. The priest is reading the memorial. Jessica'S burial in progress. Friends and family in full attendance.

Few cuts of grieving friends. But Ajit, May Lal and Sabrina don't shed tears. The Priest finishes reading the last verse. Sabrina turns to looks at her mother...who stares blankly at the grave. C U T T O : EXT. ROAD - DAY Shot of A Maruti ZEN... C U T T O : INT. ZEN - DAY Sabrina in the car. Mother besides her in the back seat. Father occupies the front seat. No one speaks. C U T T O : EXT. STREET. DAY Another car, an ESTEEM crosses the ZEN from the opposite direction. Camera leaves the ZEN and follows the ESTEEM.

C U T T O : INT. ESTEEM,STREET DAY Varsha in the back seat of the car...she is on the phone... VARSHA Now dad don't start crying like nani! Main kahin aur nahin bhaag rahi ...PROMISE. ..aapke saath dinner kiye begair kahin nahin jaoongi... OK...take care...I love you TOO! She disconnects the call. C U T T O : EXT.STAR NEWS OFFICE-DAY Shot of the building...

C U T T O : INT. STAR NEWS OFFICE -DAY Varsha walks into her office. As she enters the main work station - one by one all her colleagues and the entire staff gets up and starts clapping. Suddenly all the screens on the wall cabinet start playing the recorded footage of her coverage of KARGIL. There is whistling, clapping and cheering...one male voice calls out... GUY VARSHA... WILL YOU MARRY ME? VARSHA Your girlfriend said you are lousy in bed. People hoot... GUY Try me! VARSHA (r a i s e s

h e r m i d d l e f i n g e r ) Try this! Everyone laughs, the guy feels embarrassed... VOICE (O.S.) Tum celebrity ho gayi ho! Varsha turns...Her managing editor...NAVDEEP(35) smiles... NAVDEEP Good work...cong ratulations! VARSHA (s m il e s ) Thank you...main tumse hi milne aa

rahi thi...i wanted to talk to you about... NAVDEEP (i n t e r r u p t s ) ...a vacation or a raise? Varsha looks at him...shakes her head... VARSHA My new assignment ... NAVDEEP Kya karna chahogi? VARSHA (t o n g u e i n c h e e

k ) Kya karvana chahoge? C U T T O : INT.NAVDEEP'S CABIN - DAY Newspaper with the headline 'MURDER OF A MODEL- MINISTERS SON STILL AT LARGE' is spread on the table... NAVDEEP What about this? VARSHA C'mmon Navdeep ab toh Hindi Films mein bhi politicians villian nahi hotey! He won't get away. Navdeep there are so many eye witnesses... 300 or so...aur aisey waisey witnesses nahi hain...Koi

model hai,koi bureaucrat hai,koi police officer hai toh koi celebrity...i ts an Open and Shut case...he is fucked. NAVDEEP Varsha this is a huge...ther e is lot of public interest in this story? VARSHA This is crime beat stuff. Ek kaam karo, Rajesh Roy se cover karvao. Shakal se hi criminal lagta hai. Main ek bigger aur better story deserve karti hoon. NAVDEEP Come on

Varsha ab tumhare profile ko match karne ke liye India koi aur war nahin ladne wala! Varsha looks at him. VARSHA Fuck You NAVDEEP.. .maine apne aap ko war correspond ent declare nahin kiya...aur mujhe aisa kyon lag raha hai ki mere profile ko jaan bujh kar lower kiya ja raha hai! Navdeep reacts... NAVDEEP You are a bitch you know that! VARSHA I do - Who else do you think I was? They look at each other...a beat. Cabin

door flies open...a young girl(22)... GIRL Check out the news...They have arrested Manish Bhardwaj...i t's live... A beat...Navdeep looks at Varsha... VARSHA (s h r u g s ) The bitch is always right! C U T T O : TELEVISION Manish Bhardwaj is flanked by police officers including Ravinder Hiran...a barrage of media people running to capture the visuals...Ravinder Hiran puts him in the waiting car...car takes off...Police jeep follows it...reporting cameramen run behind the car...while the news reporter keeps informing us. REPORTER Dilli mein

hue model Jessica Lal ke katl ke aaropi Manish Bhardwaj ne aaj chandigarh ke ek court mein aatmsamar pan kar diya...Polic e ne usse hirasat mein le liya hai aur pooch taach ke liye usse dilli le jaya ja raha hai... M A T C H C U T T O : ANOTHER TELEVISION...ANOTHER TIME...PLAYS REPORTER Hum darshakoan ko batana chahenge

ki Manish Bhardwaj ke pita Pramod BhardwajH aryana cabinet mein minister hain... Ajit and May Lal sit on the sofa looking at the television... Sabrina in the background putting dinner on the dinning table... REPORTER (CONT'D) Jab Pramod Bhardwajse iss baare mein poocha gaya... Sabrina looks up towards the television... C U T T O : TELEVISION PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Usse phansaya ja raha hai... C U T

T O : Face of Sabrina as she keeps looking... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ(O. S.) (CONT'D) Mujhe kanoon pe poora bharosa hai ...sacchai sab ke samne aa jayegi ...mera beta nirdosh hai... REPORTER (i n t e r r u p t s ) Aur nahin hua toh... A beat... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ (fi r m l y

) Hoga! C U T T O : May Lal breaks down, as if on cue...for the first time... music...Sabrina rushes to her...holds her mom...May Lal clings to her like a child. Ajit Lal looks towards his wife...tears tickle down his cheek. C U T T O : INT.MANISH BHARDWAJ'S RESIDENCE -DAY Tensed Pramod Bhardwaj sits surrounded by men...R.D is also there...a lanky man in his early forties does most of the talking...he is Amit Pujari , their family lawyer... PUJARI B.M.Pandit ko case de detey hain ...Dilli ke sabse bade criminal lawyer hain...mahi r hain aise cases mein!

PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Aur voh doosra...Hu ndred percent record vala... PUJARI Ram Jethmalan i...retire ho chuke hain...cas e nahin lete... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Kitna chahiyye, poocho? PUJARI Poocha...na hin maane. Pramod Bhardwajlooks at him...silence... FEMALE VOICE (fr o m i n s i d e ) Kucch bhi karo par mera Manish mujhe

wapis chahiyye. Pramod Bhardwaj reacts... VOICE (O.S.) Sir gussa aa gaya tha mujhe... C U T T O : INT.ROOM, POLICE STATION-NIGHT Haggard Manish Bhardwaj sits in front of Ravinder Hiran...a policeman types his statement on his typewriter...an old tape recorder records it... MANISH Hazaar rupiyye tak dene ko taiyyar tha main...phir bhi drinks dene ko mana kar rahi thi... Ravinder Hiran looks at him... RAVINDER HIRAN Usko pahle se janta tha? MANISH (s h

a k e s h i s h e a d ) Nahin... A second RAVINDER HIRAN Phir... MANISH Maine pistol nikaali... RAVINDER HIRAN Kaun si... MANISH 22/.2Z...ital iyan...Barre ta RAVINDER HIRAN Kab kharidi? MANISH Chaar mahine pehle...Am bala se... F L

A S H C U T T O : Manish pulls out a gun from his pocket... MANISH VOICE OVER Sir bas darana chahata tha main... Manish fires the gun at the ceiling... C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM MANISH Kisi ne kucch nahin bola... F L A S H C U

T T O : Manish aims towards Jessica... MANISH VOICE OVER Kaan se ek inch door marna chahta tha... RAVINDER HIRAN Chashma pehantey hai na tu? Manish hesitates. MANISH Ji. RAVINDER HIRAN Us din pehna tha? Manish shakes his head in a no. RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Goli kaan se ek inch door maarna chahta tha?. Manish doesn't know what to say. RAVINDER

HIRAN (CONT'D) Bol... aagey bol. Manish is quiet. RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Aagey! Manish is still quiet. RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Dekh bhai...terey pe haath na uthaney ka bahut pressure hai... chhup rahega toh mera haath uth jayega...toh tooney kaan se ek inch door goli chalayi! C U T T O : Fire...THUD...a bullet hits Jessica's temple...everything slows down...ANOTHER THUD...she falls on the ground... bleeding...

C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM MANISH Budddi aurat aa kar boli... F L A S H C U T T O : VEENA (s h o u t s a t h e r ) Why did you shoot her? F

L A S H C U T T O : VEENA (CONT'D) (h o l d s h i s h a n d ) Give me the gun...why did you shoot her? C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM MANISH Main

wahan se bhaaga... C U T T O : Manish violently pushes VEENA aside...hurriedly walks out... F L A S H C U T T O : EXT. STREET- NIGHT Manish on the road...traffic...trying to hitch a ride...a motorcycle stops...Manish jumps on it... MANISH VOICE OVER Scooter mein lift li...ek dhaabe ke peeche garden dikha... F L A

S H C U T T O : INT. GARDEN-NIGHT Scared Manish...digging...places the pistol....covers it with the mud... MANISH VOICE OVER Pehle scooter... F L A S H C U T T O : Manish hitching a ride on a scooter... F L A S H C U T

T O : MANISH VOICE OVER (CONT'D) Phir tractor... Manish on back seat of the tractor... F L A S H C U T T O : MANISH VOICE OVER (CONT'D)5 Phir Safari mein lift le kar... Manish sits on the passenger seat of a Safari C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM Manish's face...

MANISH Luckyke ghar pahuncha... F L A S H C U T T O : INT.TONY'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT TONY Lagta hai mar gayi! Scared Tony, Vishal, Alok and Manish... C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM MANISH Maine Poocha...Ka un thi? F L A S

H C U T T O : INT.TONY'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT VISHAL Jessica... C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM Face of Ravinder Hiran...as he listens... MANISH Wo mar gayi sunke main aur darr gaya... F L A S H C U T T O :

INT.TONY'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT MANISH (s c a r e d a n d p e r s p i r i n g ) Yaar meri...meri gaadi wahin hai... They all look at each other... MANISH (CONT'D) (a l m o s t p a r a n o

i d ) Vishal...pha ns jaayyege... meri gaadi vahin hai... VISHAL Tu idhar hi reh main aur Luckynikaal ke laate hain... C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM Face of Manish...full of sweat...silence...few seconds... RAVINDER HIRAN Phir... MANISH Voh gaadi nikaal kar laaye...phir mujhe yaad aaya... F L A S H

C U T T O : INT.TONY'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT MANISH Yaar meri pistol...mai ne paas hi main chhupa di hai... VAKAS Kidhar? F L A S H C U T T O : INT.GARDEN -NIGHT Manish digging the ground frantically...with his hand... Vishal looks on...then looks around...Manish keeps digging ...the butt of the pistol emerges...Manish pulls it out... C U T

T O : Vishal driving Safari...Manish on the passenger seat... MANISH VOICE OVER Subah hone ko thi... Daylight breaking out at a distance... MANISH VOICE OVER (CONT'D) Tata Safari le kar hum Vishal ke ghar gaye... Knock on the door... C U T T O : INTERROGATION ROOM Ravinder Hiran looks towards the door...gets up...opens it...a constable stands... CONSTABLE Bade sahab baat karna chahte hain... RAVINDER HIRAN

Bola nahin busy hoon... CONSTABLE Bola...bole abhi baat karao... Ravinder looks back towards Manish...then leaves...the constable looks at the typist... CONSTABLE (CONT'D) (t o t h e t y p i s t ) Tu bhi haanth muh dho ke aa... chehra dekh apna...ja... main hoon idhar... Typist realizes...gets up...goes out...constable looks towards Manish...then takes out a chit and hands it to him...Manish looks at him...the looks at the chit... C U T

T O : C H I T : A TEXT ON IT: KUCCH BATANA MAT- AMIT PUJARI C U T T O : Manish keeps looking at the constable...on his face...music... NEWSREADER (V.O.) Jessica lal maamle mein police ne aaj teen aur aaropiyoan ko girftaar kar liya... C U T T O : NEWS MONTAGE-QUICK CUTS VARIOUS PLACES

Vishal Rastogi being taken away by PI Ravinder Hiran and his men... surrounded by media... NEWSREADER (V.O.) Vishal Rastogi...U. P ke neta R.D.Rastogi ke bete hain... On the screen itself in a window we see a picture of R.D. Camera goes to Vishal's face in the live footage...he pushes the cameraman...Camera Flash...freeze frame... C U T T O : Lucky Gill being taken away by the police... NEWSREADER (CONT'D) Lucky Gill...jo ki ek M.B.A hain aur dilli ke rehne wale hain... He looks up into the camera...Camera Flash...freeze frame. C U

T T O : Shlok Khanna being taken away... NEWSREADER (CONT'D) Aur Shlok Khanna... Face of Shlok Khanna...as he tries to hide his face...Camera Flash...freeze Frame C U T T O : NEWSROOM FACE OF NEWS READER NEWSREADER Police ne voh TATA SAFARI bhi baramad kar li jissmen yeh log tamarind court se bhaage thaiy... C U T T O :

ABANDONED PLACE NIGHT...TORCHLIGHT...ON ABANDONED TATA SAFARI... NEWSREADER Iss gaadi ki talashi ke dauraan... C U T T O : Torch light searches inside the Safari... NEWSREADER (CONT'D) Police ne ek zinda kartoos(bull et) bhi baramad kiya... Empty bullet on the car seat... NEWSREADER (CONT'D) Police issey ek eaham saboot maan rahi hai... A gloved hand with the bullet...brings it up...focus on the bullet...BANG- bullet sound...Camera Flash...freeze frame... C U T T

O : Empty bullet on the floor...top angle... NEWSREADER (CONT'D) .22 Bore ke aisi hi do khaali kartoos Tamarind court mein police ko mile thaiy... Quick ZOOM on the bullet...BANG another bullet sound... Camera flash...another bullet... C U T T O : ANOTHER NEWS READER Ismein se ek goli chhat se takrayi thi aur doosri Jessica ko lagi thi jinse unke maut ho gayi! C U T T O : NEWSREADER Hamare studio mein expert Dr.Jha hain

unse jaante hain ki yeh kitni eham saboot hai? EXPERT (BEARDED OLD GUY) Yeh ek bahut ehaam sabbot hai chunki teeno kartoos jo miley hain do khaali jo fire kiye gaye tamarind court mein aur ek zinda jo tata safari mein mila...yeh teenon ek hi bandook se chalne wale kartoos hain...most likely ussi pistol ke hain jiski goli se jessica ki maut hui...bahut bada saboot hai yeh! C U T

T O : EXT.POLICE STATION - DAY PI Ravinder Hiran talking to the press... RAVINDER HIRAN Ji nahin abhi tak humen murder weapon nahin mila hai...murde r weapon ek.22 Bore ki pistol hai... REPORTER Aur bhi saboot milen hain? RAVINDER HIRAN Ji aur kaafi circumstant ial evidence bhi hai hamarey paas... C U T T O : REPORTER

Police ne aaropiyoan ko pakad liya hai...kya kehna hai aapka? C U T T O : Face of Sabrina...press has surrounded her... SABRINA Meri behan ko maara gaya hai...Main aur meri family yehi chahtey hain ki muzrim ko sazza ho aur humen insaaf miley. FEMALE REPORTER Inke pita bade politicians hain... aapko darr nahin lag raha yeh chhoot bhi sakte hain? A beat...she thinks for a moment...looks

towards the camera. SABRINA Nahin. Face of Sabrina...we pull back to reveal the footage being played on television...we pull back to include...a drawing room...Varsha's father and her sister sit around dinning table having dinner talking, joking while a maid serves them...an empty plate lies on the table..we don't hear what they are talking...music...the television plays at the far end of the room...slowly camera comes out from the drawing room to the balcony to include Varsha, who is smoking looking at the city lights...her voice starts to play... VARSHA VOICE OVER Kabhie kabhie zindagi mein hum kuch cheezoan ko utni ehmiyat nahin dete, jitni ki unhey deni chahhiyye ! Actor kisi classic film ko mamooli samajh ke chhod deta hai, aam aadmi kisi

achi investmen t policy ko jhansa samajh ke chhod deta hai, koi jawan ladka ya ladki kisi anjaane ke chakkar mein apne soul mate ko nazar andaz kar detey hain. Vasie hi koi journalist kisi ghatna ko sirf ghatna samajh ke chhod deta hai. Mere saath bhi wohi hua. Mujhe wo khabar sirf khabar nazar aa rahi thi. Shine hone wale India ki History ka ek mile stone nahi!

F A D E O U T . F A D E I N RAVINDER HIRAN Tu alert ho ja Sabrina... C U T T O : INT.POLICE STATION-DAY Sabrina sits in front of Ravinder Hiran...Nalini sits with her RAVINDER HIRAN Bahut pressure hai...charo taraf se...phone pe phone aa rahe hain...

Ravinder Hiran looks at her for a moment...get up...shuts the door of his cabin... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Tujhe pata hai na tu kinse lad rahi hai? SABRINA (c u t s h i m s h o r t ) Unhone meri behan ko mara hai... police jaanti hai, aap jaante hain,sab jaante hain, wahan kareeb teen sau log thaiy voh... RAVINDER HIRAN (i n t

e r r u p t s ) SIRF SAAT LOG... A beat... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Baki koi nahin tha vahaan... SABRINA Kya? RAVINDER HIRAN Nafrat ho gayi hai mujhe tumhare high society ke logoan se...main pooch pooch ke thak gaya kya aap tamarind court main thay? F L A S H C

U T T O : A business executive whom we have seen at the party. EXECUTIVE Jab goli chali usse pahele hi main nikal chuka tha...barah baje! C U T T O : A female model FEMALE MODEL I left at Twelve O Clock... C U T T O : A middle age socialite RAVINDER HIRAN

Aap wahan thi? SOCIALITE Twelve O clock, i was out! Its too hot here, can you put on the AC... Ravinder Hiran looks at her... C U T T O : Another man RAVINDER HIRAN Aap tamarind court mein thaiy? MAN Main nikal chuka tha...karee b... RAVINDER HIRAN Barah baje! MAN Ji ji... C U T

T O : RAVINDER HIRAN Aap bhi barah baje nikal chuke honge? MALE MODEL Agar main hota toh...chhod ta nahin uss harami ko... C U T T O : A designer couple MAN Nahi nahi humne to drinks nahin pi... RAVINDER HIRAN (l o o s e s i t ) Maine

aapse poocha,ki aapne paani piya,cola piya,sharba t piya... WOMEN Nahin nahin we never drank anything ... hum toh barah baje nikal gayye thaiy... RAVINDER HIRAN CHUP...EKD AM CHUP!!! C U T T O : INT.POLICE STATION-DAY Stunned face of Sabrina...Ravinder Hiran is moving around the room... RAVINDER HIRAN (a n g r y ) Aap hi batao agar

sab ke sab teen sau barah baje nikal chuke thaiy toh party mein wahaan kya bhoot thaiy? Sabrina doesn't react... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Aap aise logoan ke saath kaise ghoomtey ho...wahan ek ladki ki jaan gayi hai aur (stops)...m ujhe toh lagta hai yeh insaan hi nahin. Sabrina is still stunned...Ravinder picks up a file... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Iss file mein un SAAT witnesses ke naam aur statements hai... He opens the file... RAVINDER HIRAN

(CONT'D) VIKRAM... Q U I C K C U T Face of VIKRAM...Same dress as on that night. RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Jisne goli chalate huey dekhi...aur FIR register karvayi... VIKRAM yehi tha...isi ne Jessica ko maara! RAVINDER HIRAN Pakka yahi tha? VIKRAM (n o d s ) haan sir! RAVINDER HIRAN

Sign kijiyye. VIKRAM signs on the photograph of Manish Bhardwaj...quick zoom on the signature...freeze frame. C U T T O : RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) SHANKAR... Q U I C K C U T : SHANKAR looks at the photograph of Manish Bhardwaj... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Iss ne goli chalayyi.. SHANKAR nods... C U T T

O : RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Dharam Saxena... QUICK CUT Dharam Saxena looks at the photograph... DHARAM SAXENA Hundred percent...y ehi tha Sir...maa kasam! C U T T O : RAVINDER HIRAN Veena Sehgal... C U T T O : Veena sits in front of Ravinder Hiran... VEENA (s w

e a t i n g ) I saw him putting the gun in his pocket...he pushed me...and ran away C U T T O : RAVINDER HIRAN Naina Sehgal... QUICK CUT NAINA Main bar mein thi...voh aaya... drinks maangi...Sa b ne kaha drinks are over... C U T T

O : RAVINDER HIRAN PETER... QUICK CUT PETER I saw him running out of the bar ...i tried to stop him...i ran after him...but he disappeare d... C U T T O : RAVINDER HIRAN Rahul Bhojwani... C U T T O : RAHUL Aakhri drinks

bacche thaiy, jessica ne bula kar mujhe de diya... QUICK CUT

JESSICA Drinks kucch hi bacche hain...phir rona mat... QUICK CUT RAHUL Main drinks le kar wapis aa raha tha ki... C U T T O : Manish stops him... MANISH (l o o k i n g a t t h

e g l a s s i n h i s h a n d ) Yaar humen ek nahin mil raha, tu do do le kar ghoom raha hai... C U T T O : INT.POLICE STATION-DAY RAVINDER HIRAN In saat logoan ne saaf saaf bataya ki wahan uss raat kya hua...yeh hamare

prime witnesses hain. Sabrina looks towards the file... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Agley mahine case court mein jaayegA, aur agar... Ravinder stops...a beat...Sabrina turns to look towards him. RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Agar inme se kisi ne kisi bhi karan jhooth bola toh.. A beat RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Kuch bhi ho sakta hai. SABRINA (s t u n n e d ) Kuch bhi ho

sakta hai ka kya matlab? A beat... RAVINDER HIRAN Iss case mein kucch bhi ka kya matlab hoga...aap hi soccho! Stunned face of Sabrina... VOICE (O.S.) Utth na...Sunday hai...church nahin jana! C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina and Jessica in the same bed...camera handheld... JESSICA mujhe nahin jana...Sone de na... neend aa rahi hai... She turns and pulls the sheet over her head...Sabrina again pullS it 0ff...

SABRINA Utth ja nahin toh mom din bhar tanna deti rahegi... C U T T O : EXT.INT -CAR DAY Sabrina and Jessica on the back seat of the car...Ajit Lal and May Lal in the front...Ajit Lal drives...Jessica has dozed off on the back seat...Sabrina looks at her,smiles. C U T T O : INT.CHURCH -DAY A group sings...Sunday mass in progress. C U T T O : Jessica with her sunglasses ON...she has dozed off to sleep behind THEM...Sabrina notices this...few seconds...

C U T T O : Both the sisters have dozed off to sleep behind their sunglasses. C U T T O : EXT.INT.TAXI -DAY Sabrina sits on the back seat of the taxi...her face...she blankly looks out... C U T T O : The taxi navigates through a crowded market.... C U T T O : EXT. PARATHA GULLI - DAY Sabrina walks through paratha gulli...looks around...stops a man inquires

from him...Man gestures in a direction...we hear a knock off screen. C U T T O : Sabrina stands in front of a room...she knocks again...door opens...SHANKAR stands taken aback...he keeps looking at her for few seconds. SHANKAR(O.S. ) Jo sahi hai voh karna chahata hoon... C U T T O : INT.SHANKAR'S ROOM-DAY SHANKAR Par gareeb hoon...gaan v mein biwi hai,do chottey bacche hain...dono taraf se nahin peesna chahata, aap meri majboori

samjho... SABRINA (a l m o s t p l e a d s ) Meri behan mari hai...majbo ori meri bhi hai SHANKARji. SHANKAR looks at her... SABRINA (CONT'D) Aapko court mein wahin bolna hai jo aapne dekha...aap vahan thaiy iss liyye... SHANKAR Thaiy toh TEEN sao log madam... Face of Sabrina...silence... SHANKAR(CON T'D) ...aap

mujhe maaf kar do, mujhse nahin hoga! A beat... SABRINA Daraya kisi ne aapko? SHANKAR looks at her...doesn't reply...on his face DCP (O.S.) Relax...tum he tension lene ki zaroorat nahin hai... C U T T O : INT.DCP'S OFFICE -DAY Sabrina sits in front of DCP Pramod Kanth...Ravinder Hiran stands in a corner... SABRINA Please sir...mujhe lagta hai...they are being threatened! DCP Sabrina relax...agar

dhamki milti toh voh complaint kartey aur hum unhe zaroor protect karte... SABRINA (e a r n e s t l y ) Witness protection bhi toh... DCP ...Hamare yahaan witness protection programme nahin hai...LEKIN PROCEDUR E HAI...COMP LAINT AAYEGI... HUM ACT KAREINGEY ...BINA COMPLAINT KE KISI KE AGAINST KAISE ACT KAR

SAKTEY HAIN? eVEN THEN, WE WILL KEEP A WATCH. Sabrina looks at him helplessly... DCP (CONT'D) Yeh Mr.Saxena.. .PROSECUT ION lawyer hain aur mere accheY dost bhi...HE HAS PROMISED TO DO HIS BEST. Saxena looks at her... SAXENA Witness ko todhney ki koshish kaun nahi karta? In sab baaton se...aap ghabraiyye mat...we have a strong case. DCP Pramod Kanth's cell phone rings...he picks it up... Ravinder Hiran looks at him...DCP listens... DCP (s m

il e s ) Befikrr rahiyye... Sabrina looks at him...DCP and Sabrina's eyes meet...DCP looks away... Burst of music...song -'OOH OOH Ahh Ahh...SEXY EYES, I AM GONNA TAKE YOU TO PARADISE' C U T T O : EXT.STREET- CHANDIGARH Music blasts off from an oncoming Pajero...we see it from someone's POV from a moving vehicle...as the vehicle comes closer...rich spoilt college kids inside...they cross heckling...Camera pans left...Amit Pujari disconnects his cell phone...turns to look back... PUJARI Ek ko toh set kar liya hai! C U T T O : Pramod Bhardwaj looks out of the window...few seconds...

PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Baki sab? PUJARI Unpe bhi lage hain...ho jayyega! Pajero catches speed. C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT Sabrina,Nalini,Pradeep stand...Ajit and May Lal are seated...silence...no one speaks... MAY Lagta hai wo...wo...la dka Chhoot jaayega! Silence...no one responds. C U T T O : EXT.DHABA,MEHRAULI -DAY MALE VOICE Aise kaise choot

jaayega Sabrinaji! C U T T O : Dharam Saxenasits in front of Sabrina sipping tea at the roadside dhaba...we feel somebody is watching them. Sabrina looks shifty.She looks.There are all kinds of men around...A man looks towards Sabrina...their eyes meet...man looks away... DHARAM SAXENA Zameer naam ki cheez abhi tak hai mujme...sa cchai jo hai zaroor batayenge.. .police ko bataya hai court mein bhi batayyenge ... Sabrina instinctively holds his hand... SABRINA (r e li v e d ) Thank

you...aapne tension thoda kam kar diya.... DHARAM SAXENA Aisa kyon keh rahi hain...aapki behen thi,meri bhi ho sakti thi... Takes another sip... DHARAM SAXENA(CONT 'D) Sabrinaji... meri bhi ek chooti si tension hai...agar aapse ho sake toh... Sabrina looks at him... SABRINA Haan boliyye na.. AJIT (O.S.) Yeh court mein sach bolega? C U T T O :

INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina takes out money from her Almirah.Ajit lal looks on... SABRINA Keh toh raha hai...aur kya kar sakte hain! C U T T O : LIVING ROOM Sabrina emerges out from her bedroom...Dharam Saxena and May Lal are seated there. SABRINA Paachas hazaar toh nahin hamare paas par yeh bees... Dharam Saxena gets up and takes the money... DHARAM SAXENA Koi nahin ji...chalega. ..baki ka baad mein le loonga. Dharam Saxenalooks at the money...feels its weight...Sabrina keeps looking at him.

SABRINA Aappe bharosa kar sakti hoon na? DHARAM SAXENA Hundred percent...m aa kasam! Touches his chin in the usual manner. C U T T O : INT.DHARAM SAXENA'S ROOM -NIGHT Dharam Saxena drinking...knock on the door...he looks towards the door...gets up...walks up to the door...opens it... VOICE (O.S.) Dharam? Expression on his face changes. C U T T O : EXT.STREET -DAY Face of Sabrina as she travels in her car...car stops at a signal... C

U T T O : TRAFFIC LIGHT Turns from red to green... NAINA (O.S) I can't speak for my mom... C U T T O : INT.'S RESIDENCE -DAY Sabrina sits in front of Naina... NAINA I am with you...(in anger) i want that bastard punished! C U T T O : INT.LE MEREDIAN -DAY Camera follows a tray with two mud

cakes and couple of plates atop as it moves through the crowd. VEENA (O.S.) Pata nahin Sabrina... C U T T O : VEENA eating the mud cake...Sabrina keeps looking at her... VEENA (CONT'D) Maine usse dekha bhi...aur ek tarah se nahin bhi...i don't know...i am not sure...i am so confused... She takes another scoop from the cake...starts crying... VEENA (CONT'D) (s o b b i n g ) Jess! Poor Jess!

THEN STOPS...composes her self...wipes her tears,wears her glasses again..eats... VEENA (CONT'D) ( m a t t e r o f f a c t ) You want some? Sabrina shakes her head in a NO. VEENA enjoys another scoop of her mud cake(high speed) as Sabrina looks on...Her face goes out of focus... C U T T O : Another out of focus image...comes to focus...it's strobe light of a disc...tilt down...Face of Jessica...as she dances in with the crowd...high speed...looks at Sabrina who is also moving her body but awkwardly...Surely one can make out it's her first such outing...Jessica grabs her and shows her the right moves...Both burst into laughter and continue dancing. C

U T B A C K T O : Sabrina out of focus face comes to focus... B.M.PANDIT (O.S.) VIKRAM... C U T T O : INT. B.M.PANDIT 'S OFFICE-DAY B.M.PANDIT Iski gawahi sabse zaroori hai... Pramod Bhardwaj ,R.D,p4rominent lawyer BM Pandit,Amit Pujari and few more men are seated... B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) Unka sabse important witness hai... Isne FIR register karvaya

hai... agar isne court mein Manish ko identify kiya toh main kya duniya ka koi bhi lawyer kuch nahin kar sakta... There is complete silence for a few seconds... B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) Aur sirf pandrah din reh gayye hain! AMIT PUJARI Main isko sambhaal loonga...MA IN AAPKO SAAREY WITNESS PREPARE KARKEY DOONGA... AAP TRIAL SAMBHALO, WITNESSES ki tension aap mujhpe chhod do! B.M.PANDIT Toh bachti hai Ballistic report... R.D. Sir kya progress

hai? R.D. makes a gesture "Taken care of". Face of Pramod Bhardwaj ...phone rings. C U T T O : EXT.CALCUTTA -NIGHT Wide shot of Calcutta...phone rings... C U T T O : INT.VIKRAM'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT Living room...phone rings... I N T E R C U T : Sabrina waits on the phone from the other side... C U T T

O : VIKRAM walks into the living room...picks up the phone...we keep cutting between the conversation. VIKRAM Hello... SABRINA VIKRAM? VIKRAM Ji... SABRINA Sabrina VIKRAM... VIKRAM goes speechless... SABRINA (CONT'D) How are you VIKRAM? VIKRAM doesn't respond...VIKRAM's mother walks in...looks at VIKRAM... MOTHER Ho ki(kaun hai)? A beat...VIKRAM passes the receiver towards his mother... MOTHER (CONT'D) Hello...kaun ? SABRINA Aunty...Sab rina...Jessic a's sister...

A beat... cut on mother's ambiguous looks C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT Ajit and May Lal look at her...Sabrina is still holding receiver to her ears... AJIT Kya hua? A beat... SABRINA kaat diya. All are too stunned to react... C U T T O : INT.POLICE STATION-DAY A constable(we have seen him earlier)walks in with a chit in his hand...gives it to Ravinder Hiran...then looks towards Sabrina for a second...leaves RAVINDER HIRAN (t o

s a b r i n a ) Yeh hai... Sabrina looks at the chit...keeps looking...drone of a plane C U T T O : EXT.CALCUTTA AIRPORT -NIGHT A plane lands... C U T T O : EXT.AIRPORT -DAY Sabrina flags off a taxi...taxi stops...cell phone rings... C U T T O : EXT.STREET.CAR -DAY

Pramod Bhardwaj travelling in his Pajero...his cell phone rings...he picks it up... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Hello... He listens... C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -DAY Ajit and May Lal sits in the living room...doorbell rings... Ajit Lal gets up... C U T T O : Door opens...Ajit Lal reacts C U T T O : Pramod Bhardwaj and his wife stand in front of him... C U T

T O : Pramod Bhardwaj and his wife sits in front of Ajit and May Lal ...No one speaks...awkward silence...time passes...no one speaks...then,Pramod Bhardwaj gets up, picks up the wreath he has got along and places it in front of Jessica's photograph which is on the side table... C U T T O : They are still seated...few more seconds of awkward silence ...then... AJIT Chai? C U T T O : Pramod Bhardwaj and his wife sip tea...still no one speaks... C U T T O :

INT. CALCUTTA METRO -DAY Sabrina travels on a jam packed metro... C U T T O : EXT.STREET,CALCUTTA-DAY She walks through a very congested street making inquiries... GUARD (O.S.) Sabrina Lal... C U T T O : EXT. RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX -DAY The guards at the gate talks on the intercom...Sabrina waits... GUARD Dilli se... The guard listens, then disconnects the phone...turns to Sabrina... GUARD (CONT'D) Ghar pe nahin hain. Sabrina looks at the guard stunned... SABRINA

Mujhe bas paach minute ke liye milna hai. GUARD Madam kaha na nahin hai... SABRINA (i n a n g e r ) Agar ghar par nahin hain toh aapne baat kisse ki? GUARD (h e s i t a t e s ) Ka...kaamw ali.. SABRINA (c o n t

r o l s h e r s e l f ) Dekhiye Please... GUARD Nahin bola na madam, please ab aap jao... Face of helpless Sabrina. C U T T O : INT.EXT.FLAT,RESIDENTIAL COMPLEXDAY A figure stands over looking a window...we look down over his shoulder from the twentieth floor apartment...Sabrina still pleading with the security guard... C U T T O :

Face of VIKRAM as he looks down. C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE-EVENING SABRINA (i n a n g e r ) Aur aapne unhe ghar mein ghoosne diya!!! Ajit Lal stands...Sabrina is livid AJIT LAL Beta maine darwaza khola voh khaade thaiy...kya karta main? SABRINA (y e ll s i n a

n g e r ) KYA KARTE AAP!!! Dad unke bete ne JESS KO MAAR DAALA...ky a karte aap...ek ek kar ke voh witnesses ko dara rahe hain, dhamka rahe hain... paise khila rahein hain...pata nahin uss...uss...u sko sazza hogi bhi ki nahin...KYA KARTEY AAP... voh...voh... chhoot sakta hai dad... WO CHHOOT SAKTA HAI! Ajit Lal doesn't know how to react... AJIT LAL (c h o k e s )

Sorry beta... Music... C U T T O : EXT. ROOF TOP, LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina cries her lungs out...as if letting out the entire bottled up anger and frustration inside her...the sun sets at a distance. D I S S O L V E T O : INT. PRISON -DAY Face of Manish Bhardwaj...Pramod Bhardwajand gang stand in front of him...Manish checks the size of a T shirt...keepa it back in a ploybag... Pramod Bhardwaj takes out a wad of notes and hands it to him...Manish takes it...for a moment looks at his father...Pramod Bhardwaj smiles at him...Manish smiles back...rest of the gang starts smiling...Police siren fades in...

C U T T O : EXT.INT.STREET.POLICE GYPSY-DAY Police gypsy driven away... C U T T O : Face of Ravinder Hiran inside the gypsy...tensed. C U T T O : INT.SABRINA'S OFFICE-DAY Camera follows Ravinder Hiran as he walks in...stops at the reception... RAVINDER HIRAN Sabrina??? RECEPTIONIST Ek minute... Ravinder Hiran waits...few seconds...Sabrina rushes out...

RAVINDER HIRAN Gadbad ho gayi hai... Sabrina looks at him... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Jo do khaali bullets forensic ke liye bheji thin , usmein se ek badal di gayi hai... SABRINA Badal di gayi hai? Yeh... Yeh kaise ho sakta hai? RAVINDER HIRAN Sattar lakh mile thaiy mujhe... Sirf lock up mein Mannu ko haath na laganey ke liye! Khata har koi hai? Sirf kisliye mein farq hai? kis duniya mein rehti ho sabrinaji aap! For a moment Sabrina is speechless.

SABRINA Kisne badli bullets? RAVINDER HIRAN Shayad Roop Singh ne... SABRINA Roop Singh? RAVINDER HIRAN Lab incharge... Sabrina looks at him... RAVINDER HIRAN (CONT'D) Woh R.D.Rastogi ke gaanv ka banda hai...Settin g R.D.RASTO GI ki hai...Aap DCP sahab se baat karo...Jitna case maine bana ke diya hai, poora bigad jayega nahi toh. C U T

T O : INT.DCP'S OFFICE -DAY DCP Don't be paranoid Sabrina... prosecution ko case INVESTIGAT ING AUTHORITI ES ne jama kar diya hai... unpe toh bharosa rakhna HI hoga... you have to trust us! SABRINA Sir aap samajh kyon nahin rahe... DCP reacts... SABRINA (CONT'D) Kuch gadbad chal rahi hai...bullets sachmuch badli gayin hain... DCP (i n t e

r r u p t s ) Sabrina! Aisa nahin ho sakta...EVE N THEN I will have a look...nowmujhe aur bhi cases attend karne hain...pleas e,if you can excuse me. Sabrina's helpless face. F A D E O U T . F A D E I N INT.UPPER MIDDLE CLASS FLATLATE NIGHT Door opens...a couple enters aggressively and passionately

kissing...they start doing it there and then...the girl rips off guys shirt, stars kissing him all over...dominating the act...everything happens in the darkness...we keep hearing funny noises...Girl pushes and pins him down on the ground... climbs over him...again starts kissing him all over...unzips his trousers...the guy is on a high...Suddenly a cell phone rings...it's the girl's...she searches for it in her purse ...pulls it out...takes the call...the screen light flickers on her face...it's Varsha... VARSHA Ya... She listens while the guy keeps caressing her... VARSHA (CONT'D) Kab(listen s) I will be right there... She gets up...Guy who is almost naked looks at her... GUY Kya hua? VARSHA I have to go. GUY WHAT? HOW CAN YOU? Not now... She crosses him...he holds her leg...forcefully tries to pull her

towards him... GUY (CONT'D) You can't do this! Varsha breaks free...and is buttoning her jacket/shirt VARSHA I can, it's a free country. She starts walking out... GUY And what am i suppose to do now? She stops...looks back...switches the light on... VARSHA Fly solo! A beat...she switches off the light...walks out and shuts the door behind her...while the guy is on the ground still naked keeps looking towards the door. C U T T O : VOICE OF VARSHA...THEN HER FACE...

VARSHA Abhi abhi ek badi khabar aa rahi haiIndian airlines ki udaan sankhya IC 814 jo ki katmandu se dilli aa rahi thi usse hijack kar liya gaya hai. iss vimaan mein kareeb do sau yatri sawaar hain... sutroan ka kehna hai iss vimaan ko filhaal Amritsar mein uttara ja raha hai... C U T T O : FOOTAGE OF IC 814 PARKED AT THE AMRITSAR RUNWAY... VARSHA

(CONT'D) Abhi tak pata nahin chal paya hai ki hijack karne wale kiss sangthan se sambandh rakhte hain ya kya chahate hain... C U T T O : INT.STAR NEWS OFFICE-DAY Varsha walks with Navdeep hurriedly as they talk, camera follows them...flurry of activity VARSHA Listen to this- Voh plane ko afganista n le kar ja rahe hain... unhone apni maange bhi rakhi hain,teen aatankwa diyoan ko

chhodne ki-ussmen JAISHE-EMOHAMM ED chief Maulana Masood Azhaar bhi hai Navdeep looks at her VARSHA (CONT'D) ...Par usse badi khabar yeh haiNavdeep looks at her 'what?' VARSHA (CONT'D) Sarkaar yatriyoan ke badle unhe chhodne ka mann bana chuki hai! Navdeep stops...looks at her... VARSHA (CONT'D) Mere sources ne bataya... NAVDEEP Mere ne nahin bataya... VARSHA

Lets face it- your sources suck mine don't! NAVDEEP Fuck you! VARSHA In your dreams! A beat... NAVDEEP Tumhare sources hain kaun? VARSHA Do you really think i am going to answer that? NAVDEEP (f r u s t r a t e d ) OK...how reliable? VARSHA More than yours!

Navdeep reacts... NAVDEEP Sometime you act like a bitch... VARSHA Sometime ??? All the time! C U T T O : INT. CONFERENCE ROOM,STAR NEWS-DAY Both walk in...there are other reporters waiting... NAVDEEP (a d d r e s s e s t o a l l ) IC 814 sabse

badi news hai...ever y body gets on to it...chooti se chooti report bhi isse related honi chahiye...l ets be the first to get everythin g out there...Va rsha will lead the story...res t will back her up. A young reporter(whom we have seen earlier) looks at NAVDEEP... YOUNG GIRL NAVDEEP. ..Jessica case mein kucch baatein strongly ubhar kar aa rahi hain...aisa lagta hai witnesses are being influenced ... VARSHA (i n t

e r r u p t s ) Listen Cutie...IC 814 abhi priority hai... YOUNG GIRL Par Navdeep Jessica case mein humen... VARSHA (c u t s h e r s h o r t ) Shut the fuck up! There is complete silence...everybody looks towards her including Navdeep...before he can say something... VARSHA (CONT'D)

IC 814 priority hai...anyo ne who thinks otherwise can leave...res t, i will need a lot of support ...so start moving your asses! Face of the young reporter. C U T T O : EXT.STREET,DELHI-DAY A blue line bus slows down...Dharam Saxena comes out from the running bus... DHARAM SAXENA(O.S.) Sacch bol raha hoon sabrinaji... maa kasam! C U T T O :

INT.SABRINA'S OFFICE-DAY Dharam Saxena sits...Sabrina and Nalini stands in front of her... DHARAM SAXENA Five star hotel mein ruka hai voh ...ek crore bhi mile usko... Sabrina and Nalini look at each other... DHARAM SAXENA(CONT 'D) Mujhe kahaVIKRAM ko toh humne offer diya -ek crore le le ya ek goli kha le...voh toh samajhdaar nikla...tu kya karega? Sabrina reacts... DHARAM SAXENA(CONT 'D) Main vahi karoonga jo sach hai...jo maine aapko bola hai...gawah i toh main aapki taraf

se hi doonga... gareeb hoon par bikaoo nahin! Sabrina keeps looking at him.... DHARAM SAXENA(CONT 'D) (g e s t u r e s t o t h e m o n e y i n h i s h a n d ) Yeh paise toh main

aapse...ma a kasam...zar oorat hai is liyye... SABRINA Voh kaun se hotel mein hai aapko kuch pata hai? Face of Dharam saxena...phone rings. C U T T O : INT.MAURYA SHRATON- EVENING Front desk girl attends the phone GIRL Good evening,Ma urya Sherton...m ay i help you? SABRINA I am concerned about a friend of mine...Vikr am JaiSingh...h e was supposed to check in yesterday

or today...has he checked in? GIRL May i know your name... SABRINA Sabrina...S abrina Lal. Girl makes a note of her name...a moment... GIRL Yes maam...Mr. VIKRAM has checked in day before yesterday... any message maam? Sabrina doesn't respond... GIRL (CONT'D) Maam?? C U T T O : Sabrina and Nalini stand shocked. DHARAM SAXENA Kya bola maine

aapko! C U T T O : INT.MAURYA SHERATON-DAY Sabrina and Nalini walk in...head straight to the front desk...to the same girl as on the phone... SABRINA My friend VIKRAM is staying here...i have to meet him... GIRL You called last evening,rig ht? SABRINA Yes. GIRL Maam...he checked out last night! SABRINA What??? are you sure? GIRL (n o

d s ) He checked out! Sabrina and Nalini look at each other...dejected...they turn to leave... GIRL (CONT'D) Maam... Sabrina turns... GIRL (CONT'D) I told him you had called! Face of Sabrina... VARSHA (O.S.) Sarkaar ne cheh din baad IC 814 aur usmein sawaar kareeb eksau-nabbey yatriyoan ko chudda liya hai... C U T T O : INT.START NEWS-DAY NAVDEEP, Varsha and team of journalist are looking at the report...Varsha is smoking...

VARSHA (O.S.) In yatriyoan ke badle sarkaar ko teen kattarnak aatankwadi yoan ko chhodna pada hai... Varsha looks away from her report stubs her cigarette... VARSHA (CONT'D) (fr u s t r a t e d ) We are a soft state! Humari sarkar hamesha ghutney kyon tekti hai! NAVDEEP Tough calldo sau logon ki jaan ya teen aatankwadi yon ki custody? Phone rings...The young girl picks it

up...she listens... GIRL Aa rahi hoon. Girl excuses herself... VARSHA Tamasha khatam, main ghar ja rahi hoon. Camera leaves her,goes up looks out through the glass... Sabrina sits on the sofa at the waiting area...the young girl walks in...exchanges greetings...Sabrina gets up... C U T T O : Varsha emerges from the conference room...walks towards the exit...camera follows her... GIRL (O.S.) Five minutes Sabrina...w e will be ready... Camera follows Varsha...girl passes her... GIRL (CONT'D) Bye... VARSHA Bye!

As she crosses Sabrina who is seated on the sofa...high speed ...she slows down...few seconds...she stops...something crosses her mind...her face...few seconds...she turns...walks back to where Sabrina is sitting... VARSHA (CONT'D) Hi... Sabrina looks up...then gets up... VARSHA (CONT'D) Varsha... SABRINA ( n o d s ) Jaanti hoon...TV pe dekha hai! Varsha nods in the self effacing manner of a public personality. VARSHA Hang in there. That bastard is going down. Sabrina smiles faintly and nods. There is an awkward silence now broken by the girl who comes back... GIRL Sabrina

we are ready! Sabrina picks up her bag... SABRINA Bye... Sabrina leaves...we are still on Varsha...she stands there and then moves. C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY Face of Sabrina INTERVIEWER (O.S.) Kal case shuru ho rahi hai...kya lagta hai aapko? A moment of silence...we are on Sabrina's face as he recollects her words...composes herself... SABRINA Jessica...me ri badi behan thikisi ki bhi behen ho sakti thi... A guy(22) in the studio looks keeps looking at her.

I N T E R C U T : INT-LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT SABRINA Meri mom dad ki ladli beti thi... Ajit and May Lal keeps looking... I N T E R C U T : INT.A MIDDLE CLASS LIVING ROOMNIGHT SABRINA Kisi ki bhi ladli beti ho sakti thi... A man stops flicking channel... C U T T O :

INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-NIGHT SABRINA'S FACE... SABRINA Voh ek seedhi saadhi ladki thi, jiske kisi aur ladki ki tarah hi sapne thaiy I N T E R C U T : INT.DELHI AIRPORT -NIGHT A girl(25) sitting in the airport lobby reading TAHELKA looks up towards the television... C U T T O : SABRINA ...restauran t kholna chahati thi, pyaar karna chahati thi,shaadi karna

chahati thi aur (smiles) bahut saare bacche bhi chahati thi... The interviewer smiles... C U T T O : SABRINA (CONT'D) Par...isse pehale voh yeh sab kar pati, she was shot dead. I N T E R C U T : Pistol goes off... C U T T O : SABRINA

(CONT'D) Sirf is liye kyonki uske paas kisi ko serve karney ke liye drink nahi thi. INT. GYM - NIGHT Varsha on a treadmill running. The TV screen in front is playing Sabrina's story. C U T T O : INT.MANISH BHARDWAJ'S RESIDENCE Pramod Bhardwaj with his drink sits watching... SABRINA She was shot dead because one guy with pistol in his hand and power in his head decided that her LIFE was cheaper than a glass of his DRINK! Kisi ki jaan ki keemat itni kum hai

kya hamari country mein... ek drink se bhi kum? I N T E R C U T : Face of Manish Bhardwaj...he fires...Pistol goes off... Sabrina's body hits the floor...high speed with a loud thud... C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY SABRINA Maine apni behan ko khoya, mere parents ne apni beti ko...is baar hum thaiy lekin koi aur bhi hamari jagah ho sakta tha! I N

T E R C U T : Face of an elderly man watching the interview... FAMALE (O.S.) Dad...i am going! Man looks away from the television...a moment...keeps looking at his daughter. C U T T O : SABRINA Chhotey thaiy to Jessica aur main bahut hi proudlysare jahan se accha, hindustan hamara gaatey thaiy school mein...wo ye gaane ke liye bachi nahi, mera ye gaane ka mann shayad ab

kabhie karega nahi! C U T T O : Everybody in the studio is silent...they just listen to her... C U T T O : SABRINA (CONT'D) Pata hai main ek baar bhi nayi royi tabse...rona aata hai lekin main roti nahi...main e (s t o p s h e r s e l

f f r o m c r y i n g ) Maine Jess se ek promise kiya hai ...Khud se bhi...Jab tak ussey insaaf nahi milta main nahi rovoongi... C U T T O : INT. VARSHA HOUSE - NIGHT Varsha takes a sip of her wine as she watches the TV and then hits the food. As she tastes it, she screws up her nose. VARSHA Promila Salt! C U T

T O : SABRINA Jess toh chali gayi, kabhie wapis na aane ke liye lekin itna to karna hi chahiye uske liye....mujh e , uske sab friends ko...jinmein se almost saare us raat ko uske saath thaiy...itna to unhey karna hi chahiye apni jess ke liye. I N T E R C U T : EXT. OUTSIDE PATIALA HOUSE-DAY Barrage of media...quick cuts of: Sabrina walks in with her family and lawyers...Pramod Bhardwaj walks in with

his army of lawyers...Ravinder Hiran walks in with constables... A man leans over media guys to see...a media guy give him a 'fuck off' dirty look...poor guy leaves...he takes few steps and looks at the purse in his hand which he has flicked... smiles... INT.COURTROOM There is no place to sit in the courtroom for Sabrina's father to sit. Vinod Sharma looks at Sabrina and her father. He quickly gets up and tabs her father and gives him his seat and walks straight to back. Mr.Lal looks at Sabrina. She makes a gesture 'SIT' Everybody sits in the courtroom...Sabrina and her family, her lawyers...Pramod Bhardwaj ,RD Rastogi and his people...the courtroom is full...buzzing with frantic murmurs...Judge walks in...everybody gets up. C U T T O : INT.COURTROOM-DAY Rahul Bhojwani in the witness box... B.M.PANDIT Aap jab inse party mein takrayye toh aapke haanth mein do glass drinks

thi...aur aapne kitni aur pi rakhi thi? RAHUL Mujhe yaad nahin... B.M.PANDIT Par aapko yeh yaad hai ki party mein jis aadmi se aap takrayye voh yeh thaiy? C U T T O : Camera trollies to face of Manish Bhardwaj... RAHUL Ji... B.M.PANDIT Sure? RAHUL Yes! B.M.PANDIT Jhooth bol rahe hain aap! SAXENA Objection!

Everyone reacts... B.M.PANDIT My lord is baat ko note kiya jaye ki jis aadmi ko yeh yaad nahin ki usne kitni drinks pi thi usse yeh yaad hai ki kareeb teen sau logoan ki party mein jis aadmi se voh takrayye voh mere client hain! Camera trollies to the judge...he makes a note on his pad. C U T T O : INT. COURTROOM Face of NAINA at the witness box... NAINA Yahi tha...isne kaha... Q U I

C K C U T : MANISH Can i have a sip of you for whatever you want! C U T T O : B.M.PANDIT NAINAji aap sure hain yeh aadmi vahi tha? NAINA Yes... B.M.PANDIT Inhone kya pehen rakha tha? NAINA Blue jeans white t shirt? B.M.PANDIT Are you sure? NAINA

Damn sure? B.M.PANDIT What were you wearing? NAINA reacts...a beat... B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) Answer the question? A beat... B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) Bahut pi rakhi thi...shayad yaad nahi aapko? B M Pandit smiles...turns... NAINA I was wearing a blue Versace top, a pair of white polo shorts... a pink Yves St. Laurent bra under the top...I also remember what I was wearing underneath the white polo shorts-

the color, the make, the style- I remember it clearly Mr Naseem...d o you want me to tell you all that! B.M.Pandit is taken aback... the courtroom is stunned into silence. C U T T O : INT. CONFERENCE ROOM. B.M.PANDIT Kya isi ko aapne pistol rakhte dekha... VEENA I am not sure... SAXENA Objection my lord! B.M.PANDIT Kya yahi tha? Q U I C

K C U T : VEENA Why did you shoot her...give me the gun, give me the gun... C U T T O : VEENA (CONT'D) I am not sure. SAXENA Objection... B.M.PANDIT Yahi tha?? SAXENA OBJECTION! !! B.M.PANDIT Yahi tha??? VEENA (b r e a

k s d o w n ) I am not sure...i am not sure...i am not sure! Starts crying...Saxena looks down in dejection...B M Pandit turns...looks towards Pramod Bhardwaj...twitch of smile on his face... I N T E R C U T : Face of PETER PETER Yes sir, he was the guy whom i saw running out... Q U I C K C U T

: Manish running out...PETER looks out... C U T T O : B.M.PANDIT Who was the guy? PETER (p o i n t i n g ) He was the guy. B.M.PANDIT Are you sure? PETER looks at him...few seconds...gets up...gets out of the witness box...everybody reacts even the judge...PETER goes to where Manish Bhardwaj is sitting...holds him from behind, shakes him and shouts... PETER He was the guy...he was the guy ...he was the guy!

There is stunned silence in the courtroom. C U T T O : INT.COURTROOM Perspiring SHANKAR in the witness box...everyone waits... SHANKAR Maine kucch nahin dekha...mai n chaat pe tha... Q U I C K C U T : Face of Shankar...he looks on horrified...as Manish fires... at Jessica... C U T T O : SAXENA

Police ko aapne bola aapne usse deka... SHANKAR Main nahin dekha main chhat pe tha... SAXENA Jhoot bol rahe hain aap... SHANKAR Main chaat pe tah... SAXENA Jhooth bol rahe hain... B.M.PANDIT Objection my lord! SAXENA Jhoot... SHANKAR Main chhat pe tha... SAXENA (ir r i t a t e d ) Arre SHANKAR

chhat par kab tak rahoge...ab toh neeche uttar jao! SHANKAR goes speechless...silence...suddenly a laughter... everybody turns to look at the person who is laughing...it's Sabrina...She notices everybody looking at her...does a sorry gesture, continues laughing... one by one the entire courtroom bursts into laughter...Pramod Bhardwaj...even the judge. C U T T O : Dharam Saxena sits at the witness box...he looks towards Sabrina...she smiles...he looks away...Sabrina reacts... SABRINA (N a li n i w h o i s s e a t e d

n e x t t o h e r ) Nazrein nahi mila pa raha...i think they have got to him! Nalini looks at her...then looks back towards Dharam saxena. FACE OF DHARAM SAXENA...HIS LIPS MOVE... Q U I C K C U T : Horrified face of Dharam saxena...gunshot...Manish Bhardwaj fires... C U T T O :

DHARAM SAXENA Sir ji main toh dilli mein tha hi nahin...maa bimar thi, gaanv mein ...vahin tha main...maa kasam! Sabrina can't believe her ears... SAXENA (O.S.) Objection my lord...hostil e witness! Pramod Bhardwaj 's face...he reacts...Judge makes a not on his pad... C U T T O : B.M.PANDIT My lord...main ab iss case ke sabse important witness hai unko bulana chahoonga. .. C U T

T O : Everybody keeps looking towards the entrance...silence... suddenly in a black suit emerges VIKRAM from the entrance surrounded by barrage of lawyers and his mom and dad accompany him...high speed... Face of Sabrina...she gets up from her seat...keeps looking towards VIKRAM as he crosses her...he doesn't even look towards her...goes straight to the witness box...enters the witness box. B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) (p o i n t i n g t o w a r d s M a n i s h ) Kya aap uss aadmi ko jaante hain?

A beat... VIKRAM I am sorryi don't understand hindi...can you ask your question in english! B.M.PANDIT Oh...Sorry my mistake! FACE OF SABRINA... B.M.PANDIT (CONT'D) Do you know this guy? VIKRAM I saw him... B.M.PANDIT Was this the guy who shot Jessica that night? Q U I C K C U T : Manish Bhardwaj fires...Bullet hits Jessica's body... horrified VIKRAM looks

on. C U T T O : Face of VIKRAM...everybody waits... VIKRAM NO! There is an uproar... SAXENA OBJECTION MY LORD! WITNESS HOSTILE! Face of Sabrina...she just closes her eye in dejection...Ajit and May Lal are numb. VIKRAM (O.S.) There were two guys...one was short and the other was tall...the short guy fired at the ceiling and the tall guy at Jessica... SAXENA OBJECTION! B.M.PANDIT The Short guy looked like him?

VIKRAM Somewhat like him...i am not sure! SAXENA OBJECTION! WITNESS HOSTILE! My lord witness ne police ko likhayye complain mein yeh saaf saaf kaha hai ki dono goli Manish Bhardwaj ne chalayi... C U T T O : VIKRAM Statement was taken in hindi. And as i said i don't understand the language... So i don't know what the police wrote exactly!

C U T T O : Ravinder Hiran at the witness box... RAVINDER HIRAN Yeh jhoot bol rahe hain...inko humne saaf saaf statement padh kar bataya...sa b kuch samajhne ke baad inhone apne statement par sigh kiya! C U T T O : VIKRAM As i said i don't understand hindi! B.M.PANDIT Does any of these guys look like

the tall guy who fires at Jessica? C U T T O : MANISH BHARDWAJ, VISHAL RASTOGI, LUCKY GILL, Shlok Khanna. Q U I C K C U T : Face of Manish Bhardwaj as he fires...Vishal and Lucky stand in the background... C U T T O : Face of VIKRAM... VIKRAM NO! SAXENA OBJECTION! !! Face of Pramod Bhardwaj ...twitch of

smile on his face... C U T T O : B.M.PANDIT My lord...jaisa ki prime witness VIKRAM ne bataya...th ere was a tall man who fired at Jessica... and a short man who fired at the ceiling SOMEHOW looked like my client...do logoan ne goli chalayi aur do alag alag goli chali...my lord main iss prove karne ke liyye forensic expert Roop Singh ko bulana chahoong... C U

T T O : ROOP SING Jo do khaali kartoos jo hamare pass police ne bheji voh alag alag pistol se chali... SAXENA OBJECTION MY LORD... C U T T O : RAVINDER HIRAN Sir humne jo do khaali kartoos lab mein bheji thi voh ek hi pistol ki thi...kartoos badle gaye hain! C U T T O :

B.M.PANDIT My lord agar prosecution ki maane toh mere clients jhoot bol rahe hain, saare prime witnesses jhoot bol rahe hain,sarkaa ri officer jhooth bol rahe hain...toh sacchai hai kya...Jo saboot nahin bol rahe! Face of the judge as he listens. C U T T O : The courtroom has split into groups. Pramod Bhardwaj, Pandit and others on one side. Nalini, Sabrina all anxious on another side. They are all looking at their watches. Manish shuffles at the back. MANISH Kab aayegi saali judgement? The judge enters. They all become quiet.

The judge settles. They all wait with bated breath. As the judge adjusts his specs to read, he looks briefly at Sabrina. We hold onto Sabrina. Off screen we hear a cycle bell ringing. D I S S O L V E T O : EXT. DELHI NEIGHBOUR HOOD -EARLY MORNING. A newspaper boy is delivering newspapers. Promila comes out and picks up the newspaper. C U T T O : INT. VARSHA'S HOUSE - DAY Top Angle. The newspaper is lying open on the coffee table. A mug of coffee is kept next to it. Varsha comes down from the stairs and reaches the table. She picks up the coffee mug with her right hand and picks up the

newspaper with her left. She is about to take a sip when she reads the headline and is shocked. She stops. VARSHA What the The camera slowly tracks into her face. Expression on her face begins to change...we are on her face for few seconds... VARSHA VOICE OVER Subah uss headline ne mere muh pe tamacha maar diya...muj he galat saabit kar diya...Ek murder, 300 high profile witnesses. .an open and shut case...No Story...Bu t i was wrong... Music fades in. VARSHA VOICE OVER (CONT'D) I felt betrayed, I let down...It reminded

me once again that - Delhi is about power aur taaqat sirf taaqatwar logon ke paas hoti hai. Aam aadmi ke paas hoti hai toh bas ussey sehney ki aadat! This was a fact but i wasn't ready to live with it! She storms out of the room dunking her coffee mug on the table. The camera cranes into the newspaper down on the table. Music fades up. The headline in the paper is clear. "NO ONE KILLED JESSICA!" Manish Bhardwaj, Vishal Rastogi, Raj Khanna and Lucky Gill Acquitted. INTERVAL FADE IN Burst of music...news montage... Dissolve to the headlines of various newspapers'NO ONE KILLED JESSICA' Times of India

D I S S O L V E T O : 'NOT GULITY' Hindustan Times D I S S O L V E T O : 'ALL ACCUSED ACQUITTED IN JESSICA MURDER CASE' The Hindu D I S S O L V E T O : 'AND THEY ALL GET AWAY FOR JESSICA'S MURDER' Indian Express

D I S S O L V E T O : 'I DON'T KNOW WHO KILLED JESSICA' Indian Express NEWSREADER Jessica hatya kaand mein court ne sabhi aaropiyoan ko bari kar diya hai... All the accused almost jump up in excitement as they hear the verdict...Manish, Vishal, Lucky look at each other and smile ...There is relief on Pramod Bhardwaj 's face... C U T T O : INT.COURTROOM -DAY Shocked Sabrina and family sit speechless in the empty courtroom. NEWSREADER Court ne

inko barri karne ke mukhyatah chaar karan diye hain jismen sabse ehham iss case ke chasmadee d gawahoan ka court mein mukar jaana... C U T T O : EXT.COURTROOM -DAY Face of Vikram, Dharam Saxena and Shankar being taken away from the court... NEWSREADER Inn tino gawahoan ne police ko diyye statement mein kaha tha ki Manish Bhardwaj ne Jessica par Goli chalayyi...p ar court mein

unhoney iss baat se saaf saaf inkaar kiya ki unhoney Manish Bhardwaj ko goli chalate huey dekha. Court ne forensic expert ROOP SINGH ki report ko bhi sahi maanaC U T T O : EXT.COURTROOM-DAY Roop Singh looks towards R D RASTOGI...RD gives a nod and smiles. NEWSREADER ..ki uss raat wahan jo do goli chali voh alag alag pistol se chalayyi gayi...court ne police ki kadi ninda karte huey kaha-

C U T T O : EXT.COURTROOM -DAY Upset Ravinder Hiran keeps drinking and listening... NEWSREADE R ...ki jis pistol se yeh goli chali, jo ki murder weapon hai voh police court mein pesh nahin kar paayi aur yeh bhi saabit nahin kar paayi ki dono goliyaan ek hi pistol se chaali aur voh pistol Manish Bhardwaj ki thi! Furious he just smashes the glass on the ground...Wife comes out running from the kitchen to have a look...stops...looks at him...Phone rings... C

U T T O : INT. DCP PRAMOD KANT'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Pramod Kant on phone...smiles...keeps talking and smiling... NEWSREADER Judge ne yeh bhi kaha ki police unn paristithiyo an ke taar ko bhi nahin jod paayi jisse yeh saabit ho... C U T T O : INT. VARSHA'S RESIDENCE-EVENING Varsha stands smoking looking at the news report...She stubs it... NEWSREADER ...ki Jessica ka katl Manish Bhardwaj ne kiya! Camera trollies to her face...remain on

her face for few seconds. C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina walks into her mom's room with a cup of tea...May Lal sits on a chair blankly staring at the wall...Sabrina puts the cup in front of her... SABRINA Chai mom... Turns to leave...stops...realizes...turns...looks towards her mom... SABRINA (CONT'D) MOM? Sabrina's face C U T T O : INT.CORRIDOR HOSPITAL-DAY May Lal being rushed through the corridor to the ICU on a stretcher...Sabrina runs behind...She is stopped at one point by the nurse...stretcher moves away from her...music...goes behind the wall...we

hear chants of 'JOR SE BOLO JAI MATA DI' C U T T O : EXT.INT.VAISHNO DEVI-DELHI Another wall...camera comes out from the wall of rocks to reveal Pramod Bhardwaj, Manish Bhardwaj,Vishal Rastogi, R.D.RASTOGI, Amit Pujari climbing there way up barefoot to Vaishnodevi...chants of 'JOR SE BOLO JAI MATA DI, SAARE BOLO JAI MATA DI' continues all around... C U T T O : May Lal in ICU...strapped with all the medical equipment... Sabrina keeps looking through the glass...Suddenly the electric cardiac gram stars to dip. C U T T O : Doctors and nurses makes a dash towards the ICU...Sabrina reacts...'SHERAWALI JAI MATADI,JOTHAWALI JAI MATA DI"

I N T E R C U T : Faces of Manish, Vishal, Pramod, RD and rest...as they cahnt 'JOR SE BOLO JAI MATA DI,SAARE BOLO JAI MATA DI,JAI MATA DI JAI MATA DI' C U T T O : The cardiac gram dips further...May Lal's body moves for a second...stops...Cardiac gram runs flat. I N T E R C U T : Chant continues...Faces of Manish, Vishal, Pramod, RD and rest... Pandit puts tikka of their forehead and gives aashirvad one by one...Pramod Bhardwaj looks on at his son as Pandit puts tikka on Manish's forehead. C U T

T O : Face of Ajit Lal as he waits in the corridor...Sabrina slowly walks towards him...she says 'DAD'...we don't hear...music continues...Ajit Lal turns...they keep looking at each other ...Sabrina just shakes her head to mean 'She didn't make it Dad'...a moment...Suddenly, Ajit Lal falls from his chair face down on the ground. C U T T O : EXT.INT. STREET, CAR -NIGHT Varsha face...as she drives frantically on an almost empty street... NAVDEEP(O.S. ) No! C U T T O : INT. NAVDEEPS CABIN -LATE NIGHT Varsha reacts VARSHA Why?

Navdeep looks at Varsha... NAVDEEP I said NO! He switches off his cabin light and leaves...She reacts. C U T T O : INT. BASEMENT CAR PARK - NIGHT Navdeep gets in his car, starts the engine and is about to drive, when Varsha jumps in front of his car... NAVDEEP Have you lost it? MOVE! She doesn't. He tries to move...she blocks him again... VARSHA I am not good at saying sorry. But i am saying it! I want to do this! NAVDEEP Shayad tumhe uppar samajh mein nahi aaya...let

me spell it out..N.O. VARSHA F.O. NAVDEEP Voh tumne tab kaha tha clebrity jab tumhare liye yeh open aur shut case tha? Ab kya hua? VARSHA Beacuse he got away with it damn it! He shouldn't have. The bastard should be in jail and not at the next happening party.Usn e Mara hai tumhe pata hai,mujhe pata hai,300 witnesses aur aadhey India ko pata hai and he

still got away with it! NAVDEEP And nobody gives a damn. Ismein ab koi story nahin hai court ne THE END ka board laga diya hai. See you good night. He again tries to drive past her...this time she again blocks the car and jumps climbs on to the bonnet...looks at him through the windscreen... VARSHA Don't be a Prick- i want to do this story! Navdeep looks at her for a second... NAVDEEP Kyon? VARSHA Because justice has been denied! You can live with it,i will not!

A beat... NAVDEEP Ye journalism kum activism zyada hai. Hamara kaam hai public tak khabar aur opinions pahuncha na - insaaf dilana nahi. VARSHA (s n e e r s ) Oh c'mmon Navdeepkayi baar toh hum sirf apna profile bananey ke chakkar mein stories kartey hain... sahi hai galat hai sochtey tak nahi. Let's face

it- aisa maine, tumney,b ade badon ne kiya hai lekin ye ek mauka hai galat ko sahi karney ka or at least ek koshish karney ka - we owe it to ourselves - as journalists and as human beings. NAVDEEP Don't be so dramatic Varsha! VARSHA (c a l m l y ) I wasn't being dramatic lekin shayad dramatics ki zaroorat

hai - so here it is ya toh mujhe yeh story karney do or else FIRE ME! Navdeep keeps looking at her...She at him...for few seconds they keep staring at eachother.. NAVDEEP Get your 50 kg's off my car! VARSHA 45... NAVDEEP Get off... VARSHA So you are not firing me? Navdeep reacts... NAVDEEP Ab kucch nahin kar sakte? VARSHA Kar sakte hain- i have an idea! NAVDEEP What? Varsha keeps staring at him...

NAVDEEP (CONT'D) Some times you... VARSHA ...Act like a sweethear t! Navdeep makes a face...Phone rings offscreen. C U T T O : INT. MIDDLE CLASS FLAT - NIGHT Lights come on... a sleepy eyed Aditi (the young reporter who was following the case) picks up the phone from her bed... ADITI Hello... I N T E R C U T : VARSHA Aditi... Varsha... mil sakti

ho? ADITI Abhi? VARSHA (s a r c a s t i c a l l y ) Nahi jab aapke paas time ho! ADITI To phir kal subaVARSHA Hello! I was being sarcastic. Wake up. Smell some coffee bitch. Kya sarkari bank mein kaam karti ho jo sirf 9 to 5 mil sakti ho...This is the

world of televison news. Tears well up in Aditi's eyes. VARSHA (CONT'D) I want your ass right now! ADITI Sorry Varsha. I will just leave. VARSHA Good. Grab a tissue. Aansoo poch lo. I am about to make you famous. ADITI (s u r p r i s e d ) What? VARSHA Yes love... Tum us din hijack story se

pehle jo bol rahi thi main abhi tak bhooli nahi hoon. Aditi springs up from her bed... expression on her face changes... ADITI Huh Kya? VARSHA Yehi ki Jessica case mein witnesses ko influence kiya gaya hai... Hamey yeh story pursue karni chahiyye! Let's nail the bastards! A smile appears on Aditi's face. ADITI Kahan milna hai? C U T T O : INT. CANTEEN STAR NEWS - NIGHT

Aditi talks to Varsha... we see them through the glass of the canteen... music continues... Varsha keeps listening... Aditi keeps informing her while showing her couple of papers... VARSHA Voh ek model aur actor bhi hai... right? ADITI Haan...kyon ? Varsha's face. C U T T O : INT.CABIN STAR NEWS -DAY Navdeep and Varsha stands in front of Prabal Rai, the owner of news channel...we just see his back... NAVDEEP This whole style is sensation alistic...It' s dead wrong! VARSHA Tum hamesha na hi kyon kehtey ho? Is that

your favourite word? NAVDEEP Varsha this is against journalisti c ethics... VARSHA Screw ethics Navdeep.. .hamari ethics kya kehti hain - ki aankh mein patti baandh lean...aga r galat ho raha hai usse hone dean...uss ey muh mod lean aur ghar ja kar aaram se so jaayen... NAVDEEP Voh bhi nahin kehtin jo tum karna chahati ho... VARSHA Kya karna chahati hoon

main- Kya kisi ka murder karna chahti hoon?? NAHIN!! Sirf sacchai ko saamne lana chahati hoon...bas apne tarike se... NAVDEEP Tarika sahi hai ya galat voh kaun decide karega? PRABAL RAI (i n t e r r u p t s ) DO IT! NAVDEEP What? Both sharply turn and look towards him...a beat... PRABAL RAI It's a

question of justice...f or truth...GO AHEAD! Varsha's face...Phone rings... C U T T O : INT. VIKRAM'S RESIDENCE -DAY Phone rings...mother picks up the phone... MOTHER Hello... I N T E R C U T : ADITI Hi...Main Aditi FUTURE FILMS Bombay se...mujhe VIKRAM se baat karni hai ek film ki casting ke silsilay

mein ... MOTHER One minute... (she calls out) VIKRAM... I N T E R C U T : Aditi waits...looks towards Varsha...Varsha nods... C U T T O : VIKRAM on phone... VIKRAM Hello... ADITI Is that VIKRAM? VIKRAM Yes... Drone of a plane... C U T

T O : EXT.RUNWAY, MUMBAI AIRPORT-DAY A plane lands at the airport... C U T T O : EXT. HOTEL J W MARRIOT -DAY Shot of Marriot... ADITI (O.S.) It's a love story about two guys and two girls set in Delhi Campus.. C U T T O : INT.ROOM, MARRIOT -DAY VIKRAM sits in front of Aditi and a foreign lady... ADITI (t o

V I K R A M ) Racheal is producing the film... VIKRAM (t o R a c h e a l ) Hi... RACHEAL Hi... ADITI She really liked you...She wants to go ahead with you...almos t! VIKRAM (s m i l e s ) Thank

you. ADITI It's a bilingual film... RACHEAL What languages you speak? VIKRAM I speak English, i speak Hindi and I speak Bengali. ADITI Film is in English and Hindi... RACHEAL (t o a d i t i ) What's his Hindi like? VIKRAM reacts... As Vikram starts speaking the camera goes to the side wall and through it into the next room where the whole recording set up is being monitored by Varsha and a team of technicians.

VIKRAM Its fine...abso lutely fine... there is a Hindi film that I am doing called AHISTA AHISTA... we start shooting next month! Rachael and Aditi nodding. Varsha sees them on the monitor. VIKRAM (CONT'D) I was auditione d for it and all the lines were in Hindi. I got the part so there is no problem there. Aditi and Rachael just nodding now seen on the monitor. VARSHA (i n t o h

e r h e a d s e t m i c ) Usko bolo bio data nahi chahiye. Hindi bol ke dikhaye bas. The last bit is heard through Adit's small earpiece. A delay of seconds as Aditi understands the instruction. ADITI (p r o m p t l y ) Why don't you speak for two minutes in hindi, that will make her comfortab le...

VIKRAM (t o R a c h e a l ) Hindi mein main kya baat karoon aapse? Racheal reacts... ADITI (t o R a c h e a l ) He wants to know if he can speak to you in Hindi for a few minutes? RACHEAL Would you? I want to hear the

shape of your voice. Tell me, speak... VIKRAM Kya kahoon main aapse? VARSHA ( m u m b l e s ) Kuch bhi keh lekin chaar paanch words se zyada! ADITI Kucch bhi bayan kariye aap... tassali ho jayegi unko! VIKRAM Main aaya hoon aapse milne itni door se aur ummeed

yahi karta hoon ki yeh film main kar paoon aapke saath. VARSHA ( m u m b l e s ) Shooting kabki shuroo ho chuki hai handsome ! (t o A d i t i ) Give me some more. C U T T O : Flower pot on a table stand...camera

zooms on to it... ADITI (O.S.) Give her some more... VIKRAM (O.S.) Vahi soch raha hoon aur kya baat karoon... C U T T O : POV of a digital camera...footage being recorded... Varsha seeing the odd silence in the room off the screen. VARSHA That dumb haanh. Kisi film ka dialogue bolne ko kaho.. ADITI Koi film ka dialouge bol dijiyye... VIKRAM Dialouge

toh yaad nahin par... chooki Hindi ke bare mein baat ho rahi hai yeh batana chahta hoon ki hindi aur bengali mein ek fark hai... ADITI Hmmh. Rachael seen nodding on screen. VARSHA ( q u i c k l y ) Kya hmmh Aditi? Hindi ki knowledg e show off karney ka poora mauka do na? ADITI Kya? Kya farq hai exactly?

VIKRAM Bengali mein koi gender nahin hota...koi sex nahin hota...jais e hindi mein aadmi aata hai aurat aati hai,par bengali mein aadmi bhi aata hai aur aurat bhi aati hai... ADITI Matlab jaise hindi mein gaadi aati hai... VIKRAM Par bengali mein gaadi aata hai! RACHEAL I like the way you speak. VIKRAM smiles... VARSHA Hindi nahi aati? Yeh to tutions

de sakta hai. Aditi ab uthke ek jhapad maar usko. Aditi is frozen for a moment. Then is about to get up. VARSHA (CONT'D) Just joking. Continue.

C U T T O : Pull back from the same smile...music...the footage plays on TV in an upper middle class house... C U T T O Face of a middle aged man(we have seen him earlier)... ADITI (o n t e l

e v i s i o n ) Inko maine bataya nahin hai,aur zaroorat bhi nahin hai,par aapko visa problem toh nahin hoga na... VIKRAM Nahin nahin.. ADITI Case ki wajah se... C U T T O : A muslim woman watches television from her bed... C U T T

O : ADITI (CONT'D) Par uss raat aap wahan? VIKRAM Voh chhodiyye na... ADITI Par goli to Manish ne hi chalayyi .. .duniya jaanti hai... VIKRAM Toh duniya kucch kar kyon nahin rahi...kyo nki duniya kucch kar nahin sakti...poli tical clout is so big! C U T T O : A couple in their living room is glued to the television set...

C U T T O : ADITI Bhardwaj' s ka? VIKRAM All these people man. Whole gang involved. They cannot even touch these guys! C U T T O : A elderly man(55)watches the telecast while smoking his cigar ...he looks engrossed. ADITI (O.S.) Aap bhi toh wahan thaiy? VIKRAM looks at her...few seconds... VIKRAM (O.S.)

Ek crore aur ek goli mein chunana ho toh aap kya choose karengi? C U T T O : Aditi keeps looking at VIKRAM ADITI Not an easy choice... VIKRAM Not at all...Mujhe ek crore nahin chahiyye par mujhe ek goli bhi nahin khaani! Aditi looks on... VIKRAM (CONT'D) Chhodiyye na in sab batoan ko...iss film pe baat karte hain!

Frame freezes... VARSHA'S VOICE OVER Kya SAACH vahi hai jo court mein saabit kiya ja sake ya voh jo SACCH hai... C U T T O : INT. STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY Face of Varsha as she talks to the camera.. VARSHA Yeh ehham sawaal Jessica mamle mein khada hota hai...par sawaal sirf ek nahin kayi khade hotey hain... Kya Jessica mamle mein insaaf hua? Aisa kya hua ke

saare chasmadee d gawah ek ek karke apne bayaan se mukarte gaye AUR saboot ek ek kar mujrim ke saath hote gaye? C U T T O : INT. SOUND STUDIO - DAY Varsha is talking into a mic. The output has been given into a small speaker next to the mouth piece of a telephone. A recordist is hearing the tone on the other side. Another is fiddling with the faders. RECORDIST# 1 Speak! VARSHA (t r y i n g t o a

c t s o f t s p o k e n b u t i s s t i l l a g r e s s i v e ) Haan to main ye pooch rahi thiRECORDIST# 2 Still sounds like Varsha on TV!

VARSHA Fish! RECORDIST# 1 Hold back the agression. VARSHA Wohi toh control nahi hota. OK. Let's go again. C U T T O : Face of SHANKAR...talks on the phone...nervous, perspiring... VARSHA (CONT'D) Sabrina bol rahi hoon... SHANKARj i... SHANKAR Mujhe aapse hamdardi hai madam par main kucch nahin kar sakta...sam jho aap...

VARSHA Aap kyon darre huey hain? SHANKAR Darna padta hai madam... VARSHA Kaun darra raha hai aapko... SHANKAR Ab sabkucch khul ke thodi na bataoonga, samajhdar ko ishara kaafi hota hai madam... C U T T O : Amit Pujari watches...then dials a number from his mobile... waits... AMIT Bhai shaab... C U T T

O : Pramod Bhardwaj on mobile... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Dekh raha hoon... F A S T F O R W A R D : VARSHA Kya hua tha vahan? SHANKAR Aapko bhi pata hai madam... VARSHA Aap wahan thaiy SHANKARji, main nahin thi na wahan... SHANKAR Thaiy to teen sau log madam...vo h kucch

nahin kar pa rahe hain toh ek mamooli waiter hoon... C U T T O : INT.UPPER MIDDLE CLASS HOUSE The designer couple who were interrogated by Ravinder Hiran watches... husband reacts... switches off the TV. C U T T O : VARSHA Kya dekha aapne... SHANKAR Jo dekha statement de diya tha! C U T T O :

VARSHA Kya hamari police itni kamzor aur asahay thi ki ek OPEN and SHUT murder case ko court mein saabit nahi kar paayi? C U T T O : Upset Ravinder Hiran...wife seated on the dinning table cutting vegetable steals a look towards him...he can't take it anymore...Suddenly he gets up. C U T T O : VARSHA (CONT'D) Kya paisey aur takat se insaaf kharida gaya?

C U T T O : Dharam Saxena captured on camera...place appears to be a bar...he drinks from an expensive bottle... DHARAM SAXENA Yaar boli lag rahi thi...voh dono taraf se de rahe thaiy...main le raha tha...jisne zyada diya...de di saali gawahi uski taraf se! C U T T O : VARSHA Kya insaaf ki boli lagayi ja sakti hai? C U T T

O : INT.RAVINDER HIRAN'S RESIDENCENIGHT Ravinder Hiran frantically searches drawers...makes mess of the documents...finds what he was looking for...a CD...keeps looking at it. C U T T O : EXT.INT. VARSHA'S RESIDENCE- LATE NIGHT A taxi comes and stops at a distance from the house... Ravinder Hiran seated on the back seat...he has a small envelop in his hand,he looks at it,on his distressed face. C U T T O : INT. VARSHA'S RESIDENCE - LATE NIGHT Varsha is on the phone... VARSHA Stress nahin le rahi dad! TV pe stressed

out lag rahi thi? Make up lagna bhool gayi thi! I am not lying come on dad, main apna khayal rakh sakti hoon! Door bell rings... She reacts... VARSHA (CONT'D) ( q u i c k l y ) Ok I will call you back. (c a l l i n g o u t ) Promila! Promila! C

U T T O : She walks into the living room in her night dress. Sees that the maid PROMILA has crashed out on the living room carpet and is not responding to the door bell. Varsha takes one look at her and deliberately crashes into the coffee table letting some brass figurines drop onto the floor. The door bell stops ringing. PROMILA (s t a r t l e d ) Kya hua? Kya hua didi? VARSHA ( m o v i n g t o w a r

d s t h e d o o r ) Kuch nahi - darwaze pe koi hai, main kholti hoon. PROMILA (s t a r t s p u t t i n g h e r h e a d d o w

n ) Acha didVARSHA ( w i t h o u t t u r n i n g b a c k ) Tu bas jaake coffee bana! PROMILA (s t o p s h e r h e a d

m i d w a y a n d m u m b l e s ) Kutti! VARSHA (o p e n i n g t h e d o o r ) Suna maine. Hoon. Ja coffee bana! As the front door is opened... she

doesn't see anyone... she is surprise for a few seconds... as she is about to turn, she spots something on the floor... its the envelope... she picks it up, tears it open... it is a C.D. C U T T O : A POV from a distance - we see her opening the CD... C U T T O : Face of Ravinder Hiran...on the back seat of the taxi... RAVINDER HIRAN Wapis le lo! MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Sir gussa aa gaya tha mujhehazaar rupiyye dene ko tayyiar tha phir bhi drinks dene se

mana kar rahi thi... C U T T O : CD plays in her music system...Varsha listens to it with rapt attention... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE (CONT'D) Kaan se do inch door rakh kar marna chahta tha... RAVINDER HIRAN (V.O.) Chasma pehnta hai na tu... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Ji... C U T T O : INT.CABIN STAR NEWS -DAY

Varsha, Navdeep and Aditi listen to the tape...camera outside the cabin...tape plays... RAVINDER HIRAN (V.O.) Uss raat pehna tha? MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Nahin... Navdeep looks towards Varsha. NAVDEEP It's explosive! Varsha nods... C U T T O : INT. STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY Varsha now speaks to the camera... VARSHA Abhi tak aapne suna witnesses ko yeh kehtey huey ki unhone court mein sacch

nahin bola - voh sachchai kya thi jise court mein na bolane ke liyye unhe majboor kiya gaya - aap khud yeh sacchai suniyye from the horses mouth Suniyye Manish Bhardwaj ne kya kaha Jab police ne unse poocha ki ...uss raat wahan kya hua? MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Gussa aa gaya tha mujhe...H azaar rupiyye tak dene ko tayiyyar tha phir bhi drink dene se mana kar rahi thi...

C U T T O : INT.MANISH BHARDWAJ'S RESIDENCE Camera trollies on to the face Pramod Bhardwaj as he listens to the telecast...stands beside is Amit Pujari, Manish and few others... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Kaan se do inch door rakh kar marana chahata tha! RAVINDER HIRAN VOICE Chasma pehanta hai na tu? MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Ji... RAVINDER HIRAN VOICE Uss din pehne tha... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Nahin...

RAVINDER HIRAN VOICE Aur goli kaan se do inch door Furious Manish storms out of the room...

C U T T O : INT. LEKHA VERMA RESIDENCE - DAY The telecast has not gone unheeded for high court Justice Lekha Verma(55)...she watches it with rapt attention. MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Buddhi aurat aa kar boli...WHY DID YOU SHOOT HER...main vahan se bhaga! C U T T O : INT. RAVINDRA HIRAN RESIDENCE- DAY

Face of Ravinder Hiran...television light flickers on his face...he turns to look at his wife who is looking towards the television. MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Scooter mein lift li...ek dhabbe ke peeche garden dikhi... C U T T O : INT. SARDAR RESIDENCE - DAY A sardar(25) munches on a bucket full of popcorn while watching TV... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Maine pucch kaun thi? VISHAL RASTOGI'S VOICE Jessica Lal... MANISH BHARDWAJ'S VOICE Voh marr gayi sun ke

main aur darr gaya... C U T T O : INT.ROOM, HOSPITAL -DAY Ajit Lal on the bed strapped with the saline...Sabrina stands with her back towards the television peeling off an orange... VARSHA (o n t e l e v i s i o n ) Kya iss kadwi sacchai ko hum aise hi nazarandaz kar dengey? AJIT Beta volume badhana... Face of Sabrina...she stops...a

beat...suddenly...She takes the remote and switches off the TV...Ajit Lal reacts...upset Sabrina holds him... SABRINA (u p s e t ) It's over dad...Bhool jayiyye... IT'S OVER!! Ajit Lal looks at her stunned. C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY VARSHA NO IT'S NOT OVER! Police prashashan kanoon court kechahri sabhi par sawaal khade kiye hain iss case ne? Aur humen inn sab sawaloan ke jawaab chahiyye. Humen

lagta hai ki Jessica mamle mein insaaf nahin hua ...JUSTICE WAS DENIED! C U T T O : An old couple sips tea and watches it... C U T T O : VARSHA (CONT'D) Humen lagta hai ki paise aur taakat ka istemaal kiya gaya sacchai ko chupane mein...Sabo otoan ko jhoothlane mein... C U T

T O : A group of girls in a Delhi University hostel mess listen. C U T T O : VARSHA (CONT'D) Humey lagta hai police nakamyab rahi apna kaam karne mein,court mein sabbot pesh karne mein... C U T T O : A shopping mall...a young couple looks up towards the television on the wall cabinet... C U T T O

: VARSHA (CONT'D) Humen lagta hai is case ki sunwayyi court mein phir se honi chahiyye... insaaf milna chahiyye... C U T T O : A sardar(25) munches on a bucket full of popcorn while watching TV... VARSHA (CONT'D) JUSTICE FOR JESSICA...h amari ek muhim hai insaaf ke liye...Jessic a ke liye...uske parivar ke liye... aapke aur humare liye...Agar aapko lagta hai ki insaaf nahin hua

toh aap humen 'JUSTICE FOR JESSICA' likh kar 6688 par SMS karen! C U T T O : INT.MIDDLE CLASS FLAT-EVENING Middle aged man(whom we have seen earlier) keeps looking at the television...we are on his face...keeps thinking. C U T T O : INT.CORRIDOR, STAR NEWS OFFICE -DAY Aditi hurriedly rushes,almost runs...camera on stead cam... follows her...she reaches a cabin...opens it...Varsha is in her shorts on the ground doing her crunches...... ADITI Guess what? Varsha looks up at her...we can

make out she is nervous. ADITI (CONT'D) Bees minute mein ek hazaar SMS aa chukey hain aur phone calls... Varsha springs up on her feet... VARSHA What? ADITI (e x c i t e d ) Phone lines jaam ho gayye hain itne calls aa rahe hain! Varsha rushes out...Aditi looks at Varsha then at her trousers... ADITI (CONT'D) Your trousers... VARSHA I don't need them.

Aditi keeps looking at her confused... C U T T O : INT. STAR NEWS OFFICE-DAY Varsha in her jacket and shorts rushes through the work stations, Aditi follows her, she looks embarrassed...SMS tones keep buzzing...floor is abuzz with frantic activity... executive taking calls and SMS's...Lots of heads turn and look towards Varsha as she walks...Another girl on the phone calls out Varsha... GIRL Har jagah se calls aa rahin hain... Calcutta Bombay Chandigar h Gawalior Hyderaba d...log react kar rahe hain ...you have to take a few! VARSHA Patch them through!

C U T T O : Varsha in front of the camera in her shorts and her jacket listening... C U T T O : Same middle aged man on phone... MIDLE AGED MAN Mujhe lagta hai insaaf nahin hua... police,pras ahshan aur kanoon bas shabdh hi reh gayye hain is desh mein...meri bhi beti hai... C U T T O : A women reacts angrily WOMEN

Aaj voh log choot gayye kal koi aur choot jayega! C U T T O : A girl writes on her blog...INJUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE TO JESSICA AND FAMILY...We are on her face as she keep writing frantically... C U T T O : Computer screen...FORWARD icon...clicked... C U T T O : A sales guy at Vijay sales looks away from one of the television to his cell phone... C U T

T O : CELL SCREEN Types JUSTICE FOR JESSICA...SEND... C U T T O : A group of angry Delhi university girls... GIRL Aaj Jessica ka murder karke choot gayye, kal hummen se kisi ka rape karke choot jaayenge...t akat aur paisa hai toh kucch bhi karenge kya ...NO...we want justice for Jessica ...i want justice for Jessica! C U T T O :

An group angry of men in Mumbai chawl react... MAN Voh toh khudi bol rela hai ki ussi ne kiya...phir kahe ko saza nahin hua...kanoo n ko yeh sab dekhna mangta hai na...Aam aadmi ya toh police ke pass jayyega ya toh kanoon ke pass...agar idhar insaaf nahin milega toh kidhar jayega humlog? C U T T O : A burqa clad women in Hyderabad reacts... WOMEN Socch ke darr toh lagta hai! Ladies ho

ke aur darr lagta hai... C U T T O : An upper middle class old lady,seated in the park... OLD LADY I feel i have been denied justice! I feel very angry! C U T T O : VARSHA (o n t e l e v i s i o n ) Hamare saath

studio mein retired Chief Justice of India V.N.Khare... A girl watches...her brother comes out from the kitchen and sits beside her... BROTHER Yeh natak abhi tak chaloo hai! Girl darts him a looks...a beat...suddenly she hits him thrice on his head with the magazine in her hand... BROTHER (CONT'D) (r e a c t s ) Tujhe kya hua? She hits him one more time. C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY VARSHA Sir logoan mein gussa hai police

ke khilaff,Pras hashan ke khilaff... Kanoon ke khilaaf... CJI M.N.MORE Dekhiyye humara kanoon jo hai voh angreazoan ne 1860 ke aas pass banayi thi...hum abhi bhi vahi follow kar rahe hain...uss samay mujrim jo hai voh bailgaadi ya ghoda gadi mein crime karke bhaga karte thaiy...abhi duniya bilkool alag hai...Jab tak kanoon mein pher badal nahin karenge...ai sa hota rahega...jo istemaal kar sakte hain karte rahenge... C

U T T O INT.PRAMOD BHARDWAJ 'S RESIDENCE Amit Pujari walks upto Pramod Bhardwaj...passes the phone to him... AMIT CM saheb hain... Pramod Bhardwaj takes the call... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Haan ji... I N T E R C U T : Haryana chief minister on phone... CM Janta mein kaafi aakrosh hai...risk nahin le sakte...High Command bhi yahi chahati hai...party ki chavvi ka sawaal hai...

Face of Pramod Bhardwaj ... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Bhai saab bharosa rakhiyye, bas halki si hawa hai udd jayegi. CM Humen toh aandhi lag rahi haisab ko udda kar le jane wali! Bhardwaj reacts...CM disconnects...there is silence...Amit Pujari keeps looking at him...the silence is broken by. MOTHER (O.S.) Kucch bhi karo, mere mannu ko kucch nahin hona chahiyye! A beat...suddenly upset Pramod Bhardwaj gets up...rushes to the door...slams it shut on her face...Amit Pujari reacts. C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY Aditi looks at Varsha through the glass

from her work station... ADITI (o n h e r t a l k b a c k ) Chandighar h se MIDDLE FINGER PROTEST on line... VARSHA (t o A d i t i ) Middle Finger? Aditi nods animatedly...A beat...Varsha gestures her to patch them through...listens... VARSHA (CONT'D) (s m

il e o n h e r f a c e ) Phandu naam hai? Aditi reacts on the language... C U T T O : EXT. CHANDIGARH- DAY The popcorn Sardar on phone...a group of Sardar's flashing their middle finger rally around him... SARDAR Phadne ke liye hi banayi hai ji me and my friends ne...hadh hi ho gayi ji...hum dus log hain aur ek saath kehna chahenge

(all go in unison) JUSTICE FOR JESSICA! C U T T O : A female social activist expresses her opinion... FEMALE SOCIALITE System ki nakamyabi hai...Police ki nakamyabi hai...witnes ses ko protect kyon nahin kiya gaya? C U T T O : Mahesh Bhatt speaks... MAHESH BHATT WITNESS PROTECTIO N har democracy mein

zaroori hai...nahin toh insaaf pe fark padega, victims affect honge...log inhe todtey madodtey rahenge! C U T T O : INT.ROOM, HOSPITAL -DAY Ajit Lal looks towards the television...turns to look at a nurse standing beside him with mobile in her hand typing... NURSE 6688...send AJIT Gaya? Nurse nods with a smile... AJIT (CONT'D) Thank you beta...bas Sabrina ko matt bolna...Gus sa karegi! NURSE (p o li

t e l y n o d s ) Nahin bolooongi. C U T T O : A group of about thirty people chanting aggressively... GROUP WE WANT JUSTICE FOR JESSICA! WE WANT JUSTICE FOR JESSICA! C U T T O : INT.STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS-DAY VARSHA Shyam Totlani

saab aap dekh rahe hain logoan ka gussa...sac chai ko jhooth bana kar pesh kiya jata hai, mujrim chhod diyye jaatey hain... SHYAM TOTLANI (RETORTS) Mujrim kaun hai nirdosh kaun aap media wale kaun hote hain yeh judge karne wale...sahi faisla court karegi aur court ne kiya hai! VARSHA Sahi faisla hi toh nahin hua Shyam Totlani saab? SHYAM TOTLANI Kyon kyonki aap ko aisa lagta hai is liyye? kya

saboot gawah yeh kucch mayne nahin rakhtey...a ap mediawale is mahaan desh ke judicial system ko badnaam kar rahe hain! VARSHA Par sir court toh log nyay maangne hi jaate hai? SHYAM TOTLANI Kaun decide karega ki nyay nahin hua...aap mediawale? C U T T O : INT.CORRIDOR,START NEWS -DAY Varsha rushes through the corridor...she has a paper in her hand...camera follows her...she reaches the cabin... C

U T T O : THUD...cabin door flies open...Navdeep and Aditi turn to look at her...she raises the paper in her hand...THUD...she slams the paper on the table...Navdeep and Aditi react...Varsha looks at them animatedly for few seconds...then.. VARSHA High Court se press release aayi haiunhone Sua moto notice bheja hai police ko...explan ation manga hai unse ki - kis karan aaropiyoan ko choda gaya... Navdeep and Aditi's face light up...Navdeep looks at the paper... NAVDEEP Yeh toh badi developme nt hai! Varsha nods animatedly. C U T

T O : EXT.INT. POLICE HEADQUARTERS-DAY Police commissioner K.K.Paul in jam packed press conference ...Vinita Gupta(50), new counsel addressed the reporters... VINITA GUPTA High court ke notice ka jawab toh hum bhej rahe hain...hum high court mein lower court ke faisle ke khilaaf phir se appeal kar rahe hai... REPORTER Agar High Court ne aapke appeal ko radd kar diya toh? There is an uncomfortable silence... C U T T O : EXT.CHANAKYA CINEMA -DAY

Poster of RANG DE BASANTI among the others... C U T T O : INT.SCREEN,CHANAKYA CINEMA-DAY The scene where Candle is being lit at INDIA GATE runs... C U T T O : Among the audience is the girl whom we have seen earlier (first half) at the airport reading TEHALKA...camera slowly trollies on to her face... C U T T O : Show gets over...crowd comes out...camera trollies to the girl...she stops...she takes out her mobile...types... C U T T O

: MOBILE SCREEN: Candle Light For Jessica...India Gate, 5th March...send. C U T T O : EXT.INT.STREET, DTC BUS -DAY Mobile beeps...a guy looks at the mobile in his hand...flips it open...keeps looking...another mobile beeps... SPLIT SCREEN 1 A girl in an auto rickshaw reacts...looks at her mobile. SPLIT SCREEN 2 Another beep...a middle age man working at his office turns to look at mobile on his table...checks it... SPLIT SCREEN 3 The pickpocket (whom we have seen in the first half) praying at Patiala house bumps into a man, flicks his mobile, as he walks away, the mobile rings...he takes it out from his pocket and looks at it. SPLIT SCREEN 4 Manish Bhardwaj and Vishal Rastogi having a beer at his bar...his mobile beeps...he takes it out...reads...expression on his face changes...he smashes the cell phone on

the ground. C U T T O : INT.CORRIDOR STAR NEWS -DAY Varsha rushes towards Studio floor...Aditi with her... VARSHA Sabrina se baat karo...we need her reaction! ADITI OK... Mobile beeps...Varsha reacts...looks at her mobile...checks her message...Suddenly stops...keeps looking at the message. ADITI (CONT'D) Kya hua? Camera moves on to her face. VARSHA VOICE (O.S.) Thodi der pahele mere mobile pe ek SMS aaya... C U

T T O : INT. STUDIO FLOOR,STAR NEWS -DAY Varsha talks to the camera...she looks at the mobile in her hand and reads... VARSHA Candle Light For Jessica...Ind ia Gate, 5the March,5 PM...Parso Shaam Paanch baje! I will be there...will you? Music... C U T T O : INT.DELHI METRO -EVENING Sabrina stands in a jam packed Delhi Metro... SABRINA (O.S.) Mere liyye case Khatam ho chukka

hai,main iss bare mein baat nahin karna chahati! C U T T O : INT.WORK STATION,STAR NEWS-DAY Aditi disconnects her phone...Varsha looks at her... ADITI She is upset...baa t nahin karna chahati! VARSHA Try again...mai n baat karti hoon. C U T T O : INT.KITCHEN, LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina washes the leftover utensils in the kitchen sink... phone keeps ringing in the drawing room...she doesn't bother to pick it up.

C U T T O : INT.CORRIDOR,STAR NEWS OFFICENIGHT Varsha walks...camera on her face...doorbell rings... VARSHA What's wrong with her? Try again...mai n baat karti hoon. C U T T O : INT.KITCHEN, LALL'S RESIDENCE -EVENING Sabrina washes the leftover utensils in the kitchen sink... phone keeps ringing in the drawing room...she doesn't bother to pick it up. C U T T O :

INT.CORRIDOR,STAR NEWS OFFICENIGHT Varsha walks determined...camera on her face...doorbell rings... C U T T O : EXT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT Sabrina opens the door...Varsha stands in front of her...They keep looking at each other. VARSHA (O.S.) Poora desh tumhare liyye lad raha hai aur ab tum nahin ladna chahati! C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT Varsha stands in front of Sabrina... SABRINA Nahin!

VARSHA kyon? SABRINA Kyonki jo tumne TV pe dikhaya aur sunaya...j o logoan ne dekha aur suna voh mujhe pahele se pata hai ...chilla chilla kar thak gayi main...par hua kya...kya kar liye police ne,kanoon ne,kisi ne...aur ab bhi kucch nahi kar sakte...i don't want to go through it all over again...i am fed up... Varsha keeps looking at her... SABRINA (CONT'D) ...pahele

meri behen gayi,phir meri maa gayi,dad hospital mein pade hain...mer i zindagi police,sab oot, court ke beech rahi nahin...I AM 28 ...JUST 28...last time i checked i was 22...JUST 22...i have no life.. Face of Varsha...a beat... SABRINA (CONT'D) Ek normal zindagi jo ek normal ladki to milti hai mujhe shayad voh bhi maangni padegi kisi se...jeena chahati hoon par ji nahin sakti... police station,co

urt,kecha hri... thak gayi main bhag bhag ke lad lad ke...i can't do this anymore.. . there is no hope...the re never was ...I just want to move on! I am fed up! Varsha has enough of her... VARSHA YOU ARE FED UP?? Tum aur nahin ladogi because you are FED UP?? Kya theatre mein picture dekh rahi ho that you are fed up and you can just walk out! Aur yeh ladai tumhare bare mein kab se ho gayi??

SABRINA You don't understan d... VARSHA (c u t t i n g h e r s h o r t ) Yes i don't understan d...I don't understan d how you can let your sister's killers get away. I Don't understan d how you can give up when the entire country is fighting for her...Tum hari behen thi meri

nahin, un hazaroan lakhoan ki nahin jo lad rahe hain and you are FED UP! BULLSHIT! ! Sabrina looks away... VARSHA (CONT'D) Don't look away, look at me and you better listen to me- if you stop now, all the work that you have done will mean nothing. This is not the time to give up- this is the time to give it back to those son of a bitches! Sabrina looks at her... VARSHA (CONT'D) Jaanna chahati ho

log tumhari sister ke liye kya kar rahe hainhamare pass do lakh se uppar sms's aa chuki hai aur har din hazaroan aur aa rahe hain...yeh SMS's president of jaane wale hain...Log iss case ko chhodne waley nahin... unko jawab chahiyye.. .pressure badh raha hai...polic e pe judiciary pe poore establish ment pe...aur tum isse haanth dhona chahati ho just because

you are fed up and 28 and you can't live a normal life or go out for candleligh t dinner?? This is not about you or how you feel SWEETHE ART, this is about Jessica and you better understan d that! Sabrina face...she is shaken.... VARSHA (CONT'D) Candle light kal paanch baje hai... aur tumhe vahaan aana hoga...An d i am not leaving until you say Yes! Sabrina reacts...she looks at Varsha...Varsha keeps staring at her for few seconds...then goes an plonks her ass on sofa...Sabrina reacts...Sabrina looks at her...

J U M P C U T T O : Sabrina stands at the door of Jessica's room...she keeps looking... C U T T O : Her POV- Jessica's smiling photograph by the bed side...her nick knacks...she keeps looking at it...we hear a bicycle bell ring. C U T T O : EXT.STREET -DAY Two guys in a bicycle touches past Sabrina as she walks back home with Jessica...Jessica realizes...a beat...she is off in a flash chasing the two guys...guys realize...they make desperate attempt to escape...but Jessica catches hold of the guy sitting on the carrier, grabs

holds of his collar...pulls him down to the ground...and starts kicking him... JESSICA (k i c k i n g t h e g u y ) Behencho d teri behan thi jo usse chua...kyo n chua usko?? The other guy makes an escape...For a moment Sabrina is too stunned to react, then she runs towards Jessica...Jessica keeps kicking and abusing the guy...Sabrina tries to pulls her out... SABRINA Chhod na jaane de na... JESSICA Haanth kaise lagaya tune

kuttey ...apni maa ko chu na jaake... GUY Cycle ka balance bigad gaya... JESSICA (k i c k s h i m a g a i n ) Tere dimaag ka balance bigadti hoon abhi! SABRINA ( d e s p e r a t

e l y p u l l s h e r ) Jess chhod na...jaane de na...jess kyon inse lad rahi hai... In desperate pulling and pushing the guy makes an escape... JESSICA Bhaag kahan raha hai bahencho d... mujhe haanth laga na... SABRINA Jess chhod na...kyon lad rahi hai aisey logoan se... Jessica darts a look at her... JESSICA

(a n g r y ) Tu pagal hai kya...lado ongi nahin toh kya chhod doongi... SABRINA Chhod na jaane de na... JESSICA JAANE DOON? Jessica grabs hold of her... JESSICA (CONT'D) Behanji tu Behanji rehna chhod... yeh DILLI hai DILLIyahaan tu ladna seekh, aaj chu kar gaye kar rape kar ke jayyenge.. ladna seekh ja tu...idiot.. .JAANE DOON!

She hits Sabrina on her forehead... C U T T O : INT.LALL'S RESIDENCE -NIGHT Sabrina reacts as if hit again..realizes...she is holding on to Jessica's photograph...camera slowly moves to her face... we are on her face as music tempo increases...she turns and looks back C U T T O : INT.HALL, LALL'S RESIDENCE-NIGHT Varsha seated on the sofa waiting...She looks up...Sabrina stands in the middle of hall looking at her...she reacts... VARSHA I am not going anywhere and you can't throw me out. So tell me... Face of Sabrina...music tempo increases...

C U T T O : EXT.STREET -EVENING Sabrina flags off a taxi...Taxi stops...she hails it. C U T T O : INT.TAXI -EVENING Sabrina anxious face...urgency visible...looks at her watch ...music. C U T T O : EXT.INDIA GATE -EVENING Face of Varsha...for about four seconds...She reacts as if someone called for her from behind...She turns... C U T T O :

Her POV Sabrina stands at a distance of about twenty meters looking at her... C U T T O : Surprised Varsha smiles...gestures her to come up...we realize she is standing at the podium...Sabrina slowly walks up on the podium...At the podium stands her and Jessica's many friend including NAINA,RAHUL,Nalini...Varsha gestures her to look up in front...Sabrina looks up... C U T T O : Her POV...THOUSANDS of people stand in front of her with candles and placard in their hand.... C U T T O : Face of Sabrina...She can't believe her eyes...camera trollies to her...The scene is too overwhelming for her... chanting fades in...

OFFSCREEN CHANTING JESSICA JESSICA...JE SSICA JESSICA! C U T T O : About 300 Delhi university students including the girls we saw voicing their opinion earlier pump their fist in air... STUDENTS Justice for Jessica, Justice for Jessica! Few more cuts of students chanting... CHANTING JESSICA JESSICA...JE SSICA JESSICA! C U T T O : INT.'S RESIDENCE -DAY NAINA , VEENA and PETER sit...visible tension... NAINA

(u p s e t ) Uss bastard ko aapko pehchanna chahiyye tha mom...Jessi ca ki Jagah main bhi ho sakti thi...how can you do that mom? Upset she storms out of the room... VEENA Pehchana toh...Jo maine dekha bataya... (she looks at PETER) Didn't i PETER...Did n't I? PETER looks away... VEENA (CONT'D) Maine jo dekha maine bataya... (breaks down)ab court nahin maan rahi toh meri

kya galti hai...why is everybody blaming me! She starts crying... CHANTING (O.S.) Jessica Jessica...Jes sica Jessica! C U T T O : Face of Models and designer friends of Jessica including Rahul Bhojwani,NAINA with candles...the TEHALKA/Rang De Basanti' girl among others, beside her stands Tarun Tejpal,Aniruddh Bahal and the entire Tehalka gang the with placard that reads... PLACARD Wake Up From Your Slumber! VARSHA (O.S.) Dilli ki mukhya mantri hone ke naatey aap kya kahengi? C U

T T O : INT.CM'S RESIDENCE -DAY Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit adresses a press conference... CM Dekh aur sun kar toh yahi lagta hai iss case mein insaaf nahin hua... aur ek mahila hone ke naatey aur mahilaoan ki tarah zyada dukh ho raha hai! C U T T O : A group of elderly man and women with candle in their hand march...including the young girl's father...he holds a placard that reads... PLACARD Nyay nahin, Nyay ki maut hai! C

U T T O : EXT. INDIA GATE - EVENING Among the marching crowd we spot the pick pocket with a candle in his hand...as he looks at the camera...expression on his face changes... C U T T O : A media guy reporting the event spots him through his lens... It's the same guy whose pocket he has picked in the court earlier...they keep looking at each other... C U T T O : Muslim men and women in burqua march with candle in their hand... C U T T O :

INT.VIKRAM'S RESIDENCE -DAY Face of VIKRAM as he watches the footage of candle light being played on television...his parents also watch sitting beside him...suddenly he gets up and storms out of the drawing room...into his room and slams the door shut... parents react...music. C U T T O : EXT.MATKA CHOWK,CHANDIGARH Middle Finger Group members with candle in one hand and with the other hand flash their middle finger...mostly Sardars... Main Sardar holds a placard. PLACARD Paise waloan insaaf tumhare baap ki nahin,huma rey maa ki hai! C U T T O : EXT.RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN-DAY Shot of Rashtrapati Bhavan

C U T T O : INT.RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN Prabal Rai, Navdeep, Varsha present the list of SMS's to the President Abu Kalam....We just see his back. PRABAL RAI Mr. President we have received over two lakh SMS and lots of emails. President accepts the list. PRESIDENT I will have a look at it. REPORTER (O.S.) Kya party ke Dabav mein aa kar aap istifa de rahe hain? C U T T O :

EXT.HARYANA CM'S RESIDENCE-DAY Pramod Bhardwaj answers the press... PRAMOD BHARDWAJ Bilkul nahin...koi pressure nahin hai... Before reporter can ask him any more question, he flashes a namaskar gesture and gets into his vehicle. C U T T O : Aamir Khan speaks to the camera... AAMIR KHAN See...i mean...JUS TICE is the moral fabric of our society...th e justice system holds us together as a civil society...hu men ek saath band kar rakhta hai...sahi kya hai galat mein fark batata hai...if

justice is denied...th en toh... C U T T O : EXT.GATEWAY OF INDIA, MUMBAI -EVENING Crowd of about two hundred people protest silently with candles and placard reading 'We Want Justice For Jessica'... as the camera moves from one face to the other- face of Aamir Khan,Rakesh Mehra,Ronnie Screwvala,Mahesh Bhatt holding candles come and go... C U T T O : EXT.INT.ABOARD AIR INDIA-DAY President APJ Abdul Kalam addresses a press conference aboard Air India... REPORTER Rashtrapati ji iss mamle mein aapki kya rai hai... PRESIDENT I have got over two lakh SMS's

and i am going through each one of i... let me assure you if something needs to be done from my side...i Will not hesitate in doing that! C U T T O : EXT.SHRIRAM CENTER -DAY A board reads '25TH CONVENTION OF LAWMAKERS' C U T T O : INT. SHRIRAM CENTER-DAY Prime minister addresses a convention of lawmakers...we see his back...Board on the table reads - PRIME MINISTER PM Hum sab ko mil kar sochna hoga kya

hamare kanoon ke pravdhanoa n mein badlaw ki zaroorat hai ya nahin - taki jinhe nyayy milna chahiyye unhe nyayy kanoon dila sakey! Seated in the audience is the elderly man whom we saw earlier smoking cigars...He is Justice Virender Jain...seated beside Jain is Justice Rekha Sharma. C U T T O : EXT.HIGH COURT -DAY Exterior Shot of the High Court... C U T T O : INT.HIGH COURT -DAY Justice Mohinder Sen and Justice Lekha Verma sits with two senior High Court Judges. SENIOR JUDGE

Sawaal toh khade huey hain? JUSTICE MOHINDER SEN No one should make a mockery out of judiciary! Senior Judge looks at the other senior judge... SENIOR JUDGE Aapko kya lagta hai? Before the Judge could say... C U T T O : EXT.INDIA GATE -EVENING. NIGHT Face of Sabrina...as she looks at the massive crowd in front of her holding candles and placards in their hands...she is overwhelmed...Varsha passes on the mike to her...Sabrina looks at her...Varsha nods...few seconds... SABRINA (o v e r w h

e l m e d ) Jiske liyye aap yahan aaye hian, ussi ke liyye main bhi yahan aayi hoon...Than k you! Suddenly the crowd erupts with JESSICA JESSICA...JESSICA JESSICA chant. From Sabrina face camera moves on to Varsha...few seconds... her voice streams in... VARSHA'S VOICE OVER Uss shaam teesri baar India ko ek hotey dekha...ais a laga jaise unke saath nainsaafi hui hai aur Jessica unsab ki aawaaz ban gayi...jaise Sabrina akeli asahay nahin poora desh uske saath tha,uske liye lad

raha tha...sabhi ne aawaaz utthayi ...sabhi ek sawaal kar rahe thaiy ...aur Uss sawaal ka jawaab kisi na kisi ko toh dena hi tha? Face of crowd as the chant at their highest pitch...JESSICA JESSICA...face of crowd...sudden freeze frame...Chant overlaps... F A D E O U T . F A D E I N . EXT.INT. CEMETERY Someone's P.O.V- Camera moves towards Sabrina Varsha walks into the cemetery...camera goes from her front to her back, follows as she walks...we see the back of Sabrina- she sits in front of Jessica's

grave... C U T T O : Face of Sabrina as she stands in front of Jessica's grave. Varsha comes and stops behind her...few seconds of silence... VARSHA You won! Sabrina reacts... SABRINA Matlab? VARSHA Tum jeet gayi! SABRINA (c o n f u s e d ) Kya? Varsha flashes her a sheet of paper in her hand...Sabrina looks at her still confused... VARSHA Abhi Abhi High Court se press release

aayi hai police ne High Court mein jo appeal dali thi lower court ke judgement ke khilaaf voh court ne accept ki hai...aur case ko fast track bhi kar diya! Sabrina is too stunned to react...a moment...then she snatches the press release from Varsha...looks at it...keeps looking... JUSTICE MOHINDER SEN(O.S.) Yeh iss case ne kai sawaal khade kiye hain... C U T T O : INT.HIGH COURT -DAY Justice Mohinder Sen and Justice Lekha Verma address the court... JUSTICE MOHINDER SEN

High Court iss case ko phir se sunana chahegi...c ourt sabhi abhiyuktoa n ke khilaaf bailable warrant bhi jari karti hai aur iss case ki sunvayyi Face of Sabrina...she can't believe JUSTICE MOHINDER SEN(O.S.) (CONT'D) Court iss case ko fast track karti hai aur iss case ko daily basis par sunana chahegi taki iss case mein insaaf ho sake, jaldi ho sake! Overwhelmed Sabrina looks at Varsha...Varsha nods... VARSHA You won! C U T T

O : Sabrina looks back at the press release...suddenly she breaks down and collapses on the ground in front of Jessica's grave ...starts crying. C U T T O : Face of Varsha...for a moment she keeps looking at Sabrina... her eyes are also moist... C U T T O : Sabrina still crying... C U T T O : Varsha's face......a beat... VARSHA (CONT'D) I will leave you too alone! Few seconds...then slowly Varsha

turns...starts walking back...leaving Sabrina alone at Jessica's grave. C U T T O : Wide shot...Music kicks in as Varsha starts walking out of the cemetery...high speed...as the camera travels and comes closer to her face... VARSHA VOICE As i told you...i never understood Delhi, i never will...just when i was thinking that Delhi was about power and the powerful, that summer,th e power came into the hands of those it belonged to - the people! Manish Bhardwaj was convicted by the High

Court for the murder of Jessica Lal! Camera crosses her...keeps travelling towards back of Sabrina ...FADE OUT. END CREDITS ROLL...as the end credits roll Varsha's voice informs us for the last time.... Manish Bhardwaj was sentenced life imprisonment for killing of Jessica Lal. Vishal Rastogi, Lucky Gill and Shlok Khanna were sentenced four years in prison. There appeal against the High Court order is still pending in the Supreme Court. Ajit Lal passed away last year. Sabrina runs her own travel agency. She still doesn't have a boyfriend. And i am still a bitch!