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City Lights!!

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{Visual Atmosphere} The frame opens with sweeping shots of the city. These sweeping shots expose the magnanimous view and the over view of the city. All of a sudden there is a rush that gives way to a dazzling imagery filled with quick cuts. All we see are various images and news reel footages of the city shot during the night as well as during the day time. The shots are filled with visuals of the dabbawallahs, the pedestrians, scores of people walking and crossing the road, traffic jams, screaming rings of the mobile phones, gangsters in the sleazy by lanes, pimps, whores, children playing with parents on the beach, cinema halls, and crowded malls. All the shots intercut into each other almost with the feeling of a butcher knife cutting in to your skin. Cut to a normal life : Amidst all the horns and sirens, my train Vidarbha Express arrives at the Chattrapati Shivaji railway station at around 7.00 am. Great, finally! I've arrived! Excuse me, can you just you

Tripped, am I?

Sometime in 2050 and somewhere in the deep alleys beyond the horizons of clouds – seemingly in a place we all call HEAVEN, a sound of a forceful fist breaks the divine and pure ambience filled with soulful Vedic chants. Crap yaar! What has the world come to? Kya hua parmeshwar? Yeh shor kaisa? – asks a stunned and shocked Indra clad in a black t-shirt and a faded blue Levi's jeans . Kuch nahi! This whole world seems to be heading nowhere man! It's all going down. Everything seems to be fucked! – replies Lord Shiva with his hand on his forehead and with his face seemingly perplexed. ( Cold sweat dropping off his forehead ). Tossing his laptop aside which has the screen displaying the home page of The Times of India lord Shiva says, I've been following the news for quite a few months now, in fact quite a few years now. Everything and I repeat everything just seems to be hitting a dead end man. This is so fuckin' frustrating. Brahma – Nahi Shi