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1 INT - DAY - LIVING ROOM 1

An empty spacious room. A man lying on the floor. He wakes up

to find 4 people surrounding him. He gets up. They sing
“Happy birthday” in chorus.

INTERN
Kya? Kaun? Kidhar? Kidhar hoon
main? Kaun hai aap sab?

GHOST 1
Welcome!

GHOST 2
(chuckles)
He’s so confused. I love when
people die.

INTERN
Huh?

GHOST 1
(CHUCKLES)

GHOST 2
You’re dead, son!

Confused look on intern’s face while the ghosts grin.

FADE TO TITLE.

2 INT - DAY- BEDROOM 2

Sound of the creaking of door opening.

GHOST 1
Rule no. 1. Play with sounds.

GHOST 2
Aaaand....

Ghost 2 pushes stuff off of tables in the room.

GHOST 1
(exasperated) Learn to play with
sounds first.

INTERN
Guys, i’ve been repeatedly asking
this. Whyyyyy?

GHOST 2
Why ‘what?’
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INTERN
Why do we have to do this?
Why do I have to learn this.

GHOST 1
Do as you’re told.

GHOST 1 (CONT'D)
Quick, quick, our prey is on his
way (grins and hides)

GHOST 2
Why are you hiding? We’re ghosts.

GHOST 1
(being aware of his mistake) DO AS
YOU’RE TOLD.

The human comes inside the room, warily. Indicating he’s come
looking for the reason behind the noise.

As he enters and looks around (to find no one from his POV)
ghost 2 switches the light off and says ‘oopsie’ and ghost 1
shuts the door. Intern watches.

CUT TO BLACK.

Sound of scream after a second.

GHOST 1 (CONT'D)
And that’s how it’s done.

CUT TO:

3 EXT- NIGHT - GARDEN (MONTAGE) 3

Intern tries to climb on a peepal tree, fails to do so. The

veterans look at him with disappointment. They discuss
amongst themselves that the intern will never get it.
GHOST 1
Nevermind. Just hide behind this
bush.

GHOST 2
Yay! Ghosts are hiding again.
(sarcastically)

The ‘prey’ is on his night run, with his ear pods on. He
approaches the bush as the intern gets ready to scare his
‘prey’.
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He starts shaking the bush slowly at first, then the

intensity rises as the prey comes close. The prey runs past
that bush without noticing anything. The intern is slightly
irritated and keeps shaking the bush until ghost 1 holds and
stops him.

4 INT- SOME BEDROOM (MONTAGE) 4

Veterans standing near the window, observing what the intern

is doing. Intern proceeds to scare by creeping up behind the
prey. Instead, the prey starts singing in off note, loudly,
and the intern is taken aback.
Ghost 1 facepalms while ghost 2 is visibly pitiful.

5 EXT- NIGHT - ROADSIDE (MONTAGE) 5

GHOST 1
(looks at his watch) It’s time.
Let’s proceed.

GHOST 2
My favourite part in the syllabus.

GHOST 1
Something we can agree on, finally.

Intern is clueless.

INTERN
It’s been a long time... I’m
guessing? You still have not
answered my question. Why do ghosts
HAVE to scare people?

GHOST 1
DO AS-

GHOST 2
DO AS YOU’RE TOLD.

Intern is a little irritated by the constant sidelining of

his genuine query.

GHOST 1
Moving on. Ghosts scare dogs. Dogs
scare humans. Mission accomplished.

INTERN
But-

GHOST 1
GO SCARE THE DOGS.
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Intern unwillingly agrees and proceeds. He starts walking

GHOST 2
You’ve to run for impact.

Intern starts running. The dogs spot him, bark, and run
towards him. Intern turns around quickly and runs with even
more speed. He runs past the veterans.

Two drunk guys, walking on the road get scared looking at the
dogs. They are horrified and start running in a wobbly manner
along with the intern, they are now running together, as
funny music plays.

The intern manages to lose the dogs. He pants and spots the
veterans standing right in front of him. He’s shocked and
looks back at the spot from where he came running.

INTERN
Weren’t you? How did you? Oh right,
the ghost thing.
I’m really scared of do-

GHOST 1
Forget it, it is all going to be a
waste in the end.

GHOST 2
The end?
(Grins as he does the air
quotations.)

Ghost 1 looks at ghost 2 with anger. Ghost 2 realises he

needs to stop.

INTERN
Look, you need to tell me why we’re
doing this. Why do we HAVE to scare
peop-

GHOST 1
You were a failure when you were
alive. And you are a failure even
when you’re dead.

Intern looks at the both of them and walks away in anger.

Dogs whimper as intern goes past it.

Intern walks for a while, comes in his building, the words of

ghost 1 playing in his head.
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6 INT - NIGHT - BUILDING LOBBY 6

The intern is pacing around, still hurt and angry. He stops.

INTERN
He’s right. I was a failure when I
was alive and I am still, a bloody
FAILURE

He pushes the chair in rage, just as the watchman was about

to sit, he falls. The intern looks at the watchman and starts
laughing. The watchman looks scared. The intern continues.

7 EXT- NIGHT - BUILDING PREMISES 7

Ghost 1 and 2 are standing at a distance and watching the

intern laugh loudly as he scared the watchman.

GHOST 1
So it wasn’t a waste after all.

GHOST 2
It wasn’t, this is the first time
he has actually enjoyed the art of
scaring.

GHOST 1
Yeah, I think he has finally found
the purpose of life.

GHOST 2
Uh huh. Death. The purpose of
death.

Intern still laughing in the distance and enjoying himself.

END CREDITS

8 EXT - NIGHT - ROADSIDE (MONTAGE) 8

Same drunk guys from dog scene walking - shot from behind.
One of them has a hand over the other drunkard’s shoulder. As
the camera cuts on their mid shot from front, we see one of
the drunkard fallen down while the other walks with his hand
hanging in the air.
Intern’s VO singing happy birthday’

CUT TO BLACK.