Dork by SIDIN VADUKUT

Author:SIDIN VADUKUT
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780143067115
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

10.20 p.m.

Two hours of rigorous practise later I feel very confident.

I even have this little speck of an idea for a very cool film script in my head. Preeti is going to love this one!

More tomorrow.

Cut! And scene!

5 September 2006

11.09 p.m.

A disaster averted today thanks to some quick on-the-feet thinking on my part.

After quickly wrapping up some Panchatantra work by lunch I sat for a few hours typing out my film script idea. And then around 4.30 Preeti asked me to join her in the conference room for the script description and the sample filming.

I gave her my script treatment and told her to read it quickly before we began. She read through it in rapt attention and when she was done I could see the respect in her eyes.

The idea was quite simple really. Our film would be loosely based on The Usual Suspects. It would open with a bunch of guys in suits sitting in a room, each one representing a different consulting firm. Like in the movie, the story would progress but instead of a policeman we have a client looking for advice and instead of crime there is a serious business problem that the client is facing. No one knows exactly which of the five or six consulting firms wins the project till the very final scene in which the last remaining suit walks out of the client’s office and walks down the road till suddenly, like Kevin Spacey, he pulls out a visiting card and you can see the words Dufresne Partners printed on it. I strongly suggested that Jerry should play the role of Kaiser Soze, the mass murderer in the original movie, but in my treatment a highly qualified veteran management consultant.

Preeti thought the idea was exciting but too experimental for a company like Dufresne. But I insisted that she keep the script with her and think over it when she had time. Her script, meanwhile, was nothing special. It had a few good touches here and there but by and large it was just a lot of people in Dufresne talking about what makes them feel special there. In Preeti’s story, the office boy goes around the whole office talking to various people. She thinks that this will tell people that Dufresne cares for even the small people.

She also wanted to shoot the movie in one single moving shot for dramatic effect.

We went over the fifteen appearances by people in the script and then called in our office boy to do some sample shots. Shankar was overwhelmed by the occasion and immediately started overacting. Preeti was very patient but nothing irritates me more than people screwing up a good creative script. I tried telling him several times that he should not speak in good English or be too graceful because it would not look natural for an office boy.

After twenty minutes Shankar submitted his resignation to the HR department and went home. It seems that he felt insulted when I told him that his hair was combed too cleanly.

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