Screen play – it doesn’t happen
Characters -Mohan 50 year old businessman
Kanti-45 year old wife of Mohan
And 62-65 year old Mohan’s mother and father.
Sc-1int. Night, Mohan’s bedroom
(Mohan and Kanti are sleeping together on the bed at 2 o’clock in the night)
Kanti (waking up) – Hey, you are awake, not sleeping yet?
Mohan – I was sleeping but my eyes opened due to worry..
Kanti (surprised) – Worry… what kind of worry?
Mohan – Hey! There.. where should I keep my 2 lakhs… I have to leave the day after tomorrow, haven’t even thought of anything yet…
Kanti – Yes! I am preparing everything today..
Mohan (immersed in his thoughts) – I am thinking where to keep Rs 2 lakh so that it can be saved from thieves…
Kanti – Yes sir! Thieves have created terror these days. Just the day before yesterday they had broken the lock of Gupta ji’s place…
Mohan: Wait, let me think something.
(Mohan gets lost in thought)
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(Both come to the store room of the same house)
Mohan (turning his eyes) – Where should I keep it? Where should I keep it?
(Mohan’s eyes go to the TV)
Mohan (happy pinching) – Idea..
(Kanti looks at Mohan questioningly)
Mohan – Hey, look at that TV, not me!
Kanti (surprised) – Rupees in TV…
Mohan (extending his hand) – Bring it! Bring the screwdriver..
(pauses) Wait, I will bring…
(brings a screwdriver and opens the TV)
Mohan (cleaning the TV from inside) – We will keep money in this… bring the money..
(Kanti looks at him with surprise)
Mohan (takes out a bundle of money from the cupboard and puts it in the TV, then tightens it with a screwdriver) – Now! Look! You feel as if there might be money hidden somewhere in it…
Kanti – No sir! I don’t feel like it at all..
Mohan – Oh God! No one should look at this TV…
(Saying this, Mohan covers the TV with a sheet.)
cut to
Sc-2 ext. Day
(The things are kept outside the house; Mohan and Kanti touch the feet of mother and father)
Babuji – Look! I have to go carefully..
Mohan – Yes! Babuji! Keep taking the medicine on time…
(Both go by rickshaw on foot)
Cut to—
after 15 days
Sc-3, ext. 2 o’clock in the night
(Mohan and Kanti both get down from the rickshaw on foot. Mohan gives money to the rickshaw puller and moves towards the gate.)
Mohan (surprised) – Hey! Why has Babuji kept this gate open? Don’t know what will happen to our money? I’m scared just thinking about it..
Kanti (going inside) – Oh! Come on now… Babuji often forgets…
(Just then two thieves come running from inside the house and while running, one of them collides with Mohan and falls down)
Mohan (catching the thief) – Wait… where are you running?
(The thief jerks his hand free and runs away)
Mohan – Hey catch me! That thief is running away..
Kanti-Oh! Let him go! If he had killed me with a knife… he would have lost his life trying to catch me… Come! Let’s see inside whether these thieves have done anything…
(Both go inside the house)
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(Both come inside with luggage)
Babuji-Son! Have you guys come?
Babuji (again getting nervous) – But how did you come inside, we had closed the gate from inside.
Mohan (excitedly) – Babuji! Thieves had entered the house..
Babuji (in a nervous, trembling voice) – What are you saying, Mohan? How did the thieves enter?
Amma (looking here and there in fear) Thief! Where is the thief?
Mohan (looking ahead) – Our room is also open..
Come! Let’s see first..