Between Needs & Desires

INDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION (INS) GARUDA

On a heavily populated hill station with tiny two storied

houses stacked together, Niranjan, a petite man probably

in his mid twenties dressed in a sweater and muffler is

walking in a narrow yet busy street. It's a cold day.

Breathing heavy and adjusting his glasses he enters an

internet cafe. The owner of the shop looks at him and

gives him a slight nod, conveying that they already know

each other.

The owner guides him to a three screen desk with a heavy

duty processor at a corner of the tiny centre. Niranjan

takes out a hi-tech device and connects it to the system

using a fire wall. The black device shows a display with

a bunch of Chinese characters. By quickly moving fingers

on the device screen he rearranges the Chinese characters

and an unlock sign appears on the screen. This will

trigger a display on the three computer screens connected

to the processor. Niranjan quickly grabs the keyboard and

starts typing in special characters and moves information

from one screen to another. Digital satellite images pop

up on one screen and a digital world map on the other. He

then takes out a small pencil like device from his bag

and places it on top of the screen. The magnet at the

base of the device sticks to the metal casing around the

screen. The device opens up to a tiny dish. The image of

the device appears on the screen. He opens a dialogue box

and types in a 5 line code. A progressive bar appears on

the screen and as it reaches 100%, a green light appears

on the dish. He then opens a window with message box and

starts typing in a message. "I have what you want".

Simultaneously, on screen two he types a code and a

message appears, "Connecting to Server", followed by,

"Connection Acquired" and a progressive bar appears with

a message, "downloading files" and series of files are

being downloaded and each file is being pushed to screen

three. Icons of different Indian government organizations

appear on screen three as the files are being saved.

Words like "High Priority", "Top Secret", "For Internal

Government Use only" appear on the screen. Half of screen

three is filled with satellite signals jumping between

satellites and part of screen two has internet

connections jumping from one IP-address to another across

the world. Niranjan uses a cloth to wipe his sweat off

while constantly checking his surroundings.

As soon as he sends the message, he adjusts his watch to

60 second timer. The progression bar keeps changing from

10% to 20% to 30% while the timer on the watch keeps

ticking. At 90% the download is stuck and his watch

starts beeping as it reaches 0. He starts perspiring

looking at the watch and starts typing random code on the

screen. Download percent slowly starts increasing and

reaches 100% and "Complete" appears on the screen. With a

smile on his face he picks up his bag to pack and a

message appears on the screen, "Hyderabad". His smile broadens. He quickly disconnects the devices, packs them

and heads out.

Finally, he enters the railway station and in to the

train that is just leaving the station. Bikes soon catch

up.

Three bikes behind the train. One on the tracks, one on

the road parallel to the track and one tries to cut

through the mountain slopes to intersect the train at the

next curve. Niranjan picks a seat in the last compartment

and sits down hoping he had lost his tail. The bike on

the tracks, catches up with the train and the guy leaves

the bike behind and gets in to the train. Niranjan spots

the assassin entering the train from the last

compartment. He quickly turns back and starts heading in

the other direction. The guy driving through the woods

hits a log and falls flat on the rocks busting his back.

He quickly pulls himself up as the train enters a tunnel.

He runs on top of the tunnel as fast as he can and leaps

forward in full speed to land on top of the engine. The

bike on the road is still chasing the train. Niranjan

realizes that he might get caught. He looks around with

one hand on the equipment in the bag. He sees a women

probably in her 50's and a bag next to her. A tag on the

bag gives away her address. Train hits a tunnel. It's

pitch dark all of a sudden. As the train crosses the

tunnel, Niranjan is startled by one of the assassins

standing right in front of him. In an instant reaction,

Niranjan pushes a passenger on to him and runs to the

front of the train. The assassin from the front of the

train catches up and he gets pinned between two

compartments out in the open. One of them tries to grab

his shoulder but instead catches the bag as Niranjan

jumps off of the train in to a river below. Assassins are

left with Niranjan's bag while he is gone. They quickly

browse through the bag only to find nothing in it. A

close shot on the bag next to the 50 year old women hinting that the equipment is in that bag.

Shekhar, Venkat Rao, Yadav and one other well built man

in uniform are getting briefed by their commanding

officer. Their shoulder tags read NIA (National

Investigation Agency) with a flag. Commanding officer

points at an undisclosed location on the satellite map.

Up on zooming in closer, it looks like an abandoned

reservoir. The footage shown on the screen is a live

satellite feed.

At the reservoir, men dressed in civil are seen holding

weapons to guard the place. The live feed minimizes in to

a small box at the top right corner of the screen and an

animated map appears on the screen. It shows the safest

route to enter in to the reservoir from a metal door at

the East entrance, through a series of dimly lit narrow

channels which opens up to a large chamber with rotating

turbines and heavily pressurized water pumping system. At

every intersection of the channels there are two guards.

The large chamber is where narcotics are prepared, packed

and boxed for shipping. Since East entrance opens to the

water side of the reservoir, it's not guarded. West

entrance which opens to the jungle is heavily guarded

since all transactions happen through that. Reservoirs

top is lightly guarded and if they can slip those guards,

the operation would be a piece of cake.

Shekhar and his three NIA officers have to create a

diversion to attract attention from the guards on the

wrong side of the reservoir while they sneak in from the

other side. It's a full moon day and a plane flies by the

reservoir in the night sky A plane flies by the reservoir in the night sky and a

load of parachutes are deployed. Parachutes slowly make

their way close to the dam. As the parachutes approach

the forest floor, they get entangled to the tree tops.

Each parachute is buckled with hefty things (unknown at

this point). As the light on the safety belt turns green,

the buckles snap and the things fall to the forest floor.

As soon as they fall, they start making their way towards

the West entrance of the reservoir by stepping on dry

leaves, breaking twigs, moving trees. Their movement

creates lot of noise in the otherwise peaceful jungle

alerting the people guarding the place. With pointed

weapons, guards start searching for a visual of what is

moving in their direction.

At the same time, four parachutes drop down at the east

entrance behind the guards on the reservoirs top and

lands on the water surface. They quickly unlock

themselves from the parachutes and a short swim to the

reservoir wall will get them close to the metal door.

Shekhar pulls out a hand held metal cutting device and

starts cutting the door.

On the other side of the reservoir, Guards are nervous

and confused about the unknown behind the woods. trees

are moving, sounds of someone or something is closing in

on them and one of them panics and fires few rounds. A

squeaking sound of an wounded animal slowly succumbing to

death, reverberates the jungle. Guards look at each other

terrified. They can't make out what that is.

INT.RESERVOIR.NIGHT

The door is cut open. Shekhar and his team slowly make

their way in to the narrow channels. The channels are wet

with water seeping in from the reservoir. Weapons ready,

they head in the direction of the dot on Shekhar's wrist

watch.

EXT.RESERVOIR.NIGHT

Guards are more terrified as the sounds from

different directions are closing in. Suddenly something

starts launching ahead and multiple shots are fired. The

thing lands just outside the wooded area gravely wounded.

To find out what it is, some one has to make the dreadful

journey of few yards towards it. No one seems wanting to

take the first step.

INT.RESERVOIR.NIGHT

Shekhar and team reach the first intersection and

disengage the two guards. They hide them in the dark and

head forward. Through the middle of the channel, they

hear foot steps coming in their direction and they have

no place to hide. three guys, one seems like a middleman

and two buyers are walking out with a stack of white

powder. One of the buyer has round tattoo on the neck like a pointer or a target. They pass right through the

place where Shekhar and team are last seen. As they turn

the corner and out of sight, Shekhar slowly crawls down

from the sealing. The other three are clamped to the

sealing as well. After they determine the area is safe,

they head forward.

EXT.RESERVOIR.NIGHT.RESERVOIR.NIGHT

Two guards, hand in hand slowly make their way to the

dead thing. It looks like an animal. one flashes a light

while the other shuts his eyes tight. After flipping the

animal to the side, they realize that it's a pig. They

are little annoyed. They call out to others that it's

just a pig. Everyone laughs. 

Shekhar’s and team reach the main entrance of the large

chamber with turbines and pressurized water pumping

system. Water is gushing out of large pipes. The sound of

the water is too loud for anyone to hear anything. They

see that a transaction is happening in a sign language

about a box load of weapons. Shekhar and team make hand

gestures and move to strategic positions around the

chamber and on Shekhar’s mark of flipping the third

finger, all four of them open fire.

Guards are playing with the pigs at the west entrance.

Some get on top of the pigs playfully and some feed them

bread. They don't hear a thing from inside.

Everyone in the large chamber is down. Smoke fills the

chamber. weapons stop firing. a moment of dullness. Some

one from the fallen moves and a barrage of bullets hit

him. No more movement. Shekhar and team regroup and pull

out the possessions of the place. The place is filled

with weapons and narcotics. In his ear piece, he gives

out instructions.

SHEKHAR

Team B, you are up.

Guards are still playing with the pigs and suddenly,

multiple red dots appear on every guard and before they

could react, they are hit with multiple bullets. All down.

EXT.FOREST ROAD.NIGHT

Wooden boxes of weapons and narcotics are loaded in a

truck. The middle man and the two buyers are tied down in

the front seats of the truck and the truck is driven to

the nearest forest check post and left rolling in the

first gear. The truck slowly makes its way to the check

post, hits the gate and stops.  Wiping his eyes he

approaches the truck, asks for the drivers license and

casually walks behind the truck. As he opens the covers

behind, he falls back on the road. Runs to the post

yelling out his officers name.

FOREST GUARD

SIR...SIR...SIR...

Few yards down the road, Shekhar and team slip in to the

darkness of the jungle.

A picture of the check post

guard and his officer with a broad smile next to the

ceased truck.

Shekhar and team are carrying two nuclear weapons out of

the reservoir. counsellor drinks an entire glass of water in terror.

Shekhar is driving his car, he is lost in thought. The

traffic sounds are slowly replaced with slow back ground

music, shekhar though driving the car physically he is

recollecting all the pleasant memories he had with

Swathi...

SONG BEGINS...

He smiles and the car drives off.

Present. Swathi is in her car. Driving home, she too is

lost in thought. They are having a good conversation and both look

happy. The waiting brings in a cake with "Happy

Anniversary" on it. She is pleasantly surprised. Shekhar

gives her a gold chain. while Swathi gifts him a watch. dissolve shots of her waiting over some period of

time. She gets impatient gradually. A message pops up on

her phone. "I a sorry. something urgent came up." She

asks for the check.

Middle of the night, Shekhar and Swathi are both sleeping

together on a bed. Shekhar phone illuminates on the

table, implying that someone is calling him. He silently

wakes up trying not to disturb her. He puts a pillow in

his place and leaves the room tip toeing like a cat..

Swathi opens her eyes after his leave. she is already

awake.

Swathi is in labour. She is being carried away on a

stretcher, she is in severe labour pains but her eyes are

searching for Shekhar. He is nowhere to be found, she is

screaming his name, it is evident through her lip

movement, she is being consoled by some relative of her.

They carry her to labour ward and door close behind her. Shekhar stops the car in front of hospital in midway, he

doesn't even bother to park the car. He runs in a hurry

to the labour ward and gets into Swathi's room. seeing

him the nurse who is attending her tries to wake her up,

but Shekhar stops her from doing so. he just looks at his

son with a cheerful face and plays with him.

Its early in the morning, Shekhar parks the car in front

of his house and at the front yard he finds all his clothes and suitcase packed. He takes all his stuff,

confused and tries to go inside. The door is locked. He

sees Swathi sitting on the couch through the window. He

is banging the door repeatedly calling her name.

Irritated Swathi opens the door and yells at him. He

realizes that Rishi is sick. He tries to reach out to the

kid but swathi stops him from doing so. shekhar tries to

convince her, she is not in a mood to listen. She is

angry, frustrated and fed up with him. She closes the

door in the middle of conversation. Shekahar bangs the

door again but no response..

nothing else to do he takes all his stuff and gets in the

car and leaves.

Shekhar call to the George he is also one Commander.

George attend call and orders.

George's men take palm sized magnetic detonators and

stick them at various locations. Each detonator has a

timer and all are set to 10 minutes. They pull up an

equipment using the cranes on the rig. Once the equipment

reaches to the deck level George speaks. George and his men lower themselves in to their boats and

quickly get away to the ship. Shekhar starts to look out

for a way to get out of the shackle

Shekhar and Niranjan work together and get out of their

shackles. Once all three are undone Shekhar tries to find

a way to get rid of the bombs. George is already on the

ship. Shekhar spots a pipe with valve's and knobs. "High

pressure pipe" is written on it. He takes Niranjan's help

and twists the pipe in the direction of the ship. He then

directs everyone to collect the bombs.

Shekhar uses all his energy and bends the pipe in the

upward direction to give an extra push and air time.

Niranjan puts another bomb in it and waits for Shekhar.

SHEKHAR

Now!!!

Niranjan releases the bomb and it flies off. 

SHEKHAR

next.. next .. next..

Time on the bombs is less than 30 seconds. They rush

things and shoot out almost all the bombs out on to the

ship. The last bomb is less than 10 seconds before they

shoot it out. Swathi confirms all bombs to be on the

ship. They wait on the rig waiting for the bombs to go

off.

George is on the bridge of the ship and checking his

watch for the count down.

GEORGE

4...3...2...1

Boom!!! multiple bombs blow up at different parts of the

ship. The ship is badly damaged with a huge hole on the

side but it's still floating. Shekhar and party are

disappointed. They see fire and smoke coming out of the

ship but they expected a lot more than this. This will

not kill George. The material inside the ship catches

fire and BHAM!!! a huge explosion lifts the ship above

water and splits it in to two half's and the entire ship

is on fire and blown in to pieces. the explosion is so

huge that Shekhar and party take cover and the oil rig

shakes. Ariel shot of the sinking ship. Ariel shot of

Shekhar hugging Swathi and Niranjan sitting on the deck

tired.

SHEKHAR

I am just an ordinary man...

Slowly visuals ...

EXT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

A house adjacent to a lake covered with thickly grown

woods on one side is guarded by several armed men in

Military uniforms spread across the property.

INT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

Rishi and Swathi are watching a comedy show on TV and

Rishi is laughing out loud. Shekhar is in his pajamas.

EXT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

Deep inside the woods, men in black with sniper riffles

take up various positions adjusting their scopes.

.INT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

He picks up a hot bag of popcorn from the microwave and

juggling between his two hands he dumps it in a bowl and

brings it to the family.

EXIT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

Close on the military men. Silent bullets hit them

between their eyebrows and they all fall to the ground.

INT.LAKE HOUSE.DAY

Shekhar, sitting in a recliner seat is enjoying the show

on TV. He picks up a pop corn and places it between his

teeth and pauses. his expression changes. Trolley forward.