A SWORD OVER THE HEAD written by Author AddressPhoneE-mail
INT. BLACKOpening credits kick in.Credits end. We hear the sound of a phone buzzing.CUT TO:INT. LIVING ROOM (APARTMENT BUILDING) - MORNING (8:33 AM)The buzzing continues in the background.Here and there in the room, we see -- a stubbed cigarette... an empty beer bottle... a solved Rubik's cube... and a LAPTOP.AMEER, a man in his early 30s, sits on his couch -- he just woke up from his sleep.He has a pale face and puffy eyes -- he hasn't slept well for a few weeks.Reveal - his phone's alarm BUZZING.Ameer's hand stretch to turn off the alarm.Ameer slightly twitches his neck... grunts... and gets on his feet.CLINK. His feet touches the beer bottle on the floor.INT. BATHROOM - MORNINGAmeer stands peeing inside the toilet.He yawns.He stops peeing... closes his pants' zip.INT. LIVING ROOM - MORNINGCLOSE UP on the LAPTOP. Ameer picks it up and walks towards --- the bedroom.INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUSAmeer enters and sits at a table.
2.QUICK CUTS: Ameer places the laptop on the table and inserts the charger cable into it... He turns on the charger and opens the laptop.His laptop wallpaper is a big picture of Quentin Tarantino with his quote by the side : "If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one."The wall in the room is covered with posters of films of Padmarajan, Quentin Tarantino, Anurag Kashyap, Bong Joon Ho etc...CLOSE UP on Ameer's face. He stares blankly at the laptop screen.Reveal the laptop screen – A screenplay is opened in MS Word. The first page reads:
"A SWORD OVER THE HEADWritten by Ameer"
Ameer scrolls through the script. There are around 60 pages. He reaches the bottom of the script and opens a new blank page.He stares at the laptop screen.He types in "INT. CRIMINAL'S ROOM - AFTERNOON"Ameer stares at the text cursor.A beat.In the next line, he types "CLOSE UP on the face of Criminal"He stares. Clicks his tongue. He deletes the line.He sighs deeply.He taps his fingers on the table.SERIES OF SHOTS:-- Ameer sits with his finger tips together, rapidly shaking his legs-- Ameer slowly feels the keyboard keys with his fingers. He badly wants to type something.-- Ameer scratches his chin... he rests his chin over his hands
3.-- Ameer rubs his eyes, he is tired of staring at the laptop screen.-- Ameer walks around the room, thinking and rubbing his palms.-- Ameer sits clicking a pen. His laptop is closed. Few A4 size papers lie on the table.AMEER WRITES ON THE PAPER "EXT. RAILWAY STATION"-- Ameer scratches his head.-- Ameer tries to fidget his pen, fails.-- Ameer writes a few sentences. clicks his tongue. He strikes off everything that he wrote. He crumples the paper and throws it in the dustbin.-- Ameer rubs his face.END SERIES OF SHOTS.He drops the pen on the table and gets up.INT. KITCHEN - DAY (9:48 AM)Ameer, with a toothbrush in his mouth, opens the fridge and stares inside for a while.He takes out an egg from the fridge.He closes the fridge and walks to the kitchen drawer. He opens the drawer to find a pack of bread slices.He takes out the pack.CUT TO:Ameer breaks the egg into a steel cup -- Some part of the egg yolk falls outside the cup.The kitchen sink -- there's a few dirty dishes.Ameer takes out a plate from the sink, lazily washes it and places it near.CUT TO:The omelette is getting prepared in the stove.He places a few bread slices on the plate.