Incomplete Draft #1 (Compilation)

Hari Shankar, 26, passed away a week back on the 27th of December. He always said and we all expected that the liver would give up before the lungs, but he died a hero in the attack on our city last week. It truly is a sad day in the history of troubleshooting.
He was a good son, brother, husband, father, friend, and a terrible cook.

“…So basically, i had maintained a file with all his pictures. Like a really really thick file you know.” Medha said, as she desperately tried to explain how big the book was, motioning her hands in the air. The light evening breeze found its way through her wavy black hair, but it never seemed to annoy her. It was always dreamy around her. The café seemed like a photograph daubed in sepia, soft around the edges, as she sat there chatting ever so animatedly to Kanika

”Really?? How thick? How thick?? Show again!”

”... yeah, so i still have it you know. Its like one of my most precious things.” She always ignored my sarcasm. At times she wouldn’t realize it, and she’d continue. But when she’d sense it, she’d rather ignore it.

”That is So awesome. Almost unbelievable! A whole big, thick file? With his pictures.. Wow!” Its surprinsing how good I had gotten at imitating her tone. And that always pinched her.

”Listen stop it haan...” She poked me on my side. I almost jumped. Yeah, I’m ticklish. She obviously knows.

“So i still have it..” She continued, as she glanced at me, then shifted her gaze back to Kanika. Slow motion.

Born on the 5th of December 1986, he was a puny kid who liked to draw and read. But his first computer killed both with a vengeance. He was an average student and an above average geek, but a pleasant one he was.

“But where? How come you've never shown it to me?”

”Back home Kanoo. It must be somewhere. I maintained it for the longest time.”

”Awwww.. how sweet..” I don’t think I ever got tired of poking her, even if I’d get poked back for an entire lifetime. Conversations can get kinda inane, specially when you’re not in it. And then came the poke, like a sniper makes a hit.

“i wanna see! i wanna see!” Kanika’s always the shrill one. Wonder why bollywood gossip makes women toggle into hyper modes.

”You'l love it! I had every possible news cutout about his forthcoming films. Almost every picture of him ever printed! Yaadein and all I had 3-4 pages about it before it was gonna get released!”

”Accha, but why didnt he get his finger removed? i was so concerned.. so many sleepless nights you know..” I slipped that in, figuring how drawn into the conversation she was.

”Yaaaa.. because, you know, it was like.... Shutup yaa. Not funny..” And He Scores! She didn’t see that coming. But well, that didn’t even invite the ritualistic poke. She just went on.

”You know, i even had a big piece on how he learned how to drive also. !”

”Aaaaawww.. So cute!” Kanika chimed in. I felt ever shrinking, non-present. Bah humbug!

After all these years of cigarette and alcohol abuse, and much contemplation about which one would hit first, he has left the building. Finally.

“Did he get some quota for that extra finger of his?” I desperately pulled that outta my seemingly dwindling and ineffective wit. And I reckon it hit them both. My boredom was duly acknowledged.

”Shutup smartass. Go get our coffees no? Pleaaase!” And I was sent off on a mission.

”Yeaaahh.. Pity I'd miss out on this incredibly interesting conversation. Save some for me.. “ Nothing like the last word.

I walked up to the counter, where our coffees were waiting. As I picked up the tray, there was a loud electric screech, and the next instant, the sound of a huge explosion that shook the entire building. The coffee cups spilled out on the tray. I dropped it and ran towards Medha. She stood there, quite shook.

Rough Story Outline- Digbejoy Ghosh

An obituary reads in the e-papers - the hacker who fought long and hard against the oppression of the infotech Conglomerates is no longer with us..
In the vast libraries of digitised information lies a hidden secret- the hacker's journal which sheds light on a telltale sea voyage to Mauritius that turns out to be a covert intelligence operation. The aim of the mission -infiltrate the Conglomerate server hubs, and expose their megalomania. The journal, however is incomplete. It is up to the young protagonist to uncover the truth, and redeem himself in his old mother's eyes, whom he deserted years ago.

NO NARRATIVE CLASS ON 27.2.2010 - you have regular classes with Vijai and Ramana

Hi All
There will be no Narratives class on Saturday 27.2.2010 as I am out of station.
Instead you will all have regular classes with Vijai and Ramana.
This will make up for the holiday on Monday for Holi - March 1.
I also want the consolidated Narrative that I have asked all of you to create - in terms of bringing together the Obituary, Funeral Oration, Character Diary, Description, etc - up on the Blog right away.
Avy

Mitalee : Tickets

Tickets : Structure

Tickets is constructed in the format of a and b and c = the story instead of,
a after c after b = the story of x

Story One

Early on in the film, the scene where the train is checked before everybody gets on suggests anticipation of something negative to occur. This is added to, later on, when one of the military personnel on the train acts in the most insensitive manner with other passengers who are carrying a young child.

The opening sequence introduces a few characters including the old professor at the station who keeps looking back at the Indian family. Later cuts of his immediate past unfold as he writes a thank you letter to the kind woman who helps him.

There are constant cuts to an old, beautiful building and a window through which is the sound of a piano and a little girl playing it. There is a man sitting opposite to the professor who is seen watching him at three points. These appearances are of short duration but are a noticeable because the action is repeated twice again.

The next story starts through the family with the child getting off and looking for the next train. The station is the device of continuity for the film.

The next story begins with a fat old woman getting on the train with someone that looks like a nephew or some relation. She doesn’t reveal much about her life, her appearance, body language and the next course of events tell about her character.

The scene when she is accused is made around audience assumption that the obnoxious woman must also be a thief. The occurrence concluded as she is found innocent and the man is mistaken. She seems to be ridden by stressful situations and conversations. Later on revealed that she is attending her husbands memorial service might explain the constant staring at the posh looking young woman sitting opposite her.

What every central character in the sub stories has common is that their lives have changed on the train, encountering kindness and hostility.


Framing

A lot of the shots in the film are framed in a central fashion. Central usually means importance. This film has used these to emphasize the central character in the first story


Set : The stories are woven around the common thread of being on a train.

Sound: Story One
The sound of the piano playing repeats at set intervals following the professors memory of Sabine and followed by a glance at the Indian family sitting at the back.


Acting/Dialogue: In the first act the dialogues are very important as to the personality of the characters which can otherwise be portrayed without dialogue.

In the second story the woman sais to the boy that she is disappointed in him, which indicates that they share a history in which he did something to put her off and chooses to bear with her behavior toward him out of some guilt.

The buildup: The peak is in every story and the amount of anticipation is increased with every story. The Final story has the most amount of drama. With the scene of the argument between the three boys and the girl the tension point rises every point henceforth.

Climax: The plot is resolved when one of the boys gives the girl his ticket in the fourth story. The story make one last twist at the fag end with the escape of the three boys. This is the final note the movie ends on.

As a narrative none of the events coincide with eachother or have any connection, which is why it is not as predictable as it would have been otherwise.

Analysis of Tickets-James

The film is about the quick assumptions we make when we can’t see the whole picture. Part two seems to follow the traditional 3-act structure of rising action climaxing around the end of the second act. However, at the end of the second act, after the final conflict has taken place, there seems to be little resolution for the characters and the audience. In this way, the film deviates from the normal structure.

The directors quickly establish the personalities of the main players but they are vague about their roles in the film. At first, the old woman appears to be the antagonist as she bosses around the young man who we assume is her son. Because of the reputation she has gained in the first minutes as a bitter old hag, we assume that the man who has lost his phone is in the right and that the young man is really going to take on the role of the hero later on. After the conflict with the stranger who mistook the old woman’s phone for his own, we gain some sympathy for her despite how rude she appears. Also, the fact that the young man would allow the woman to treat him as she does and because she keeps alluding to the notion that he did something disappointing beyond being unhelpful, the audience is lead to believe that he has perhaps done something to deserve his current position. Later on, as the woman continues to act unreasonably, we lose sympathy for her and begin to see the young man as the victim of the situation. However, as we can also see her struggle and change of heart after the young man has left her, we again see her in a different light. It is because of these uncertainties that remain throughout the film that part two of “Tickets” strays from the established structure of most movies. Aside from using unconventional methods of establishing character roles, the filmmakers also used an unusual method for presenting the pattern of action, again drifting from the more common archetype.

Conflict is evident even from the first shot. The tension rises and the audience grows more interested in the central conflict between the young man and the old woman. However, after the climax of the tension in their relationship occurs when the young man leaves her helpless at the station, there is no resolution of events. As the aforementioned states, the roles of the characters are unclear, thus the audience cannot readily assume that there is resolution in the fact that the young man escaped his horrific duties catering to the old woman’s every whim as the audience can sympathize with both characters’ situations. Had she been portrayed as a more two-dimensional character who the audience could not sympathize with, the ending would have been more aligned with the traditional structure of most films.

NO CLASS ON 13.2.2010

No class on 13.2.2010 because college was closed thanks to Valentine's Day threat of bandh by the Sri Rama Sena Bandar crowd.
This is for the record.

TICKETS - BFI REVIEW

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/2645

An Analysis of the Ticket by Nayantara.

Exposition: The events take place during a train journey, where many interactions take place between people of different age groups and places. The story largely focuses on the relationship between a bitter old lady and a patient young man. These characteristics are established through the many conversations and series of events that take place between them and other passengers on the train. The old lady is the dominating character out of the two, who repeatedly takes Fillipo's high tolerance and peaceful nature for granted along with constantly scruntinising him.

The rising action of the film begins when Fillipo is sent to get the old lady some coffee, here he encounters the two gentlemen who had earlier gotten into a tussle with the old lady as she refused to give them their seat. During their conversation he mentions that she was the widow of a general in the army who's funeral they were going to attend, at this point, he also mentions the fact that he was not related to the old lady in anyway and that he was just doing his community service.

The climax occurs when Fillipo finally reaches his breaking point, unable deal with her behaviour anymore. He loses his temper, picks up his bag and walks out of the cabin leaving her alone.

Falling action: Once Fillipo is gone, the fear of the station approaching fills her with panic as she frantically searches for him through the train. An important characteristic of the woman is revealed at this point, when she realises that she had lost her only support, she is overcome with insecurity and most importantly,the fear of being alone.

Denouncement: The train arrives at the platform but Fillipo is nowhere to be found, so she gets of the train with some help and sits on the platform all alone, feeling lost and confused..

HKW ticket.

The story occurs on a train. The train is crowded, noisy, and chaotic, and it’s already moving by the time the characters are introduced.The first shot of the woman is from the front, which helps in introducing the woman. The woman is big and fat, which immediately gives the impression that that woman is going to be the character running the story. She is loud, dominating, confident, and protective. The young man accompanying her on the other hand is calm, helpful, quite, and meek. The characters introduction continues until the climax.

Rising action: The characters are introduced, mostly by their speech, their attire,etc. However, the nature of the relationship between the two main characters remain unclear until late in the story. Some additional characters are introduced to develop the two main characters even further. eg. The man who mistook the woman’s phone for his, the train ticket collector, two men with the correct tickets, and the young girl who the Filippo talks to. The story develops when these characters interact with one another, and the establishment of the characters is solidifies. The constant nagging and rude behaviour of the woman starts to get consistent and louder, Philippo still remain calm.

Climax: When they are about to reach their destination the woman wants to get ready for her husband’s funeral, which is why she made the journey. Her rudeness and insistent complain about the incompetence of Philippo leads him to an outburst. Here for the first time the other darker side of the young man is shown. He then runs off and disappear. The woman tries in vain to find him.

Falling action: Dejected, confused and scared, the woman goes back to her cabin and realises how helpless she is without Philippo. With some help, she manages to unload her possessions and is stranded on the platform without Philippo, without anyone to help him.

Conclusion: I liked the fact that the story was staged on a train, and the characters not being overly dramatic, and the activities were everyday, mundane activities; it was relatable. We don’t have to go out of the way to understand what is being said.

Nilisha- Film Analysis

Introduction/ exposition- The story is born out of incidents that take place on a train traveling across Italy to Rome. It starts with an old woman making her way through other passengers in the train along with a young gentleman. They choose the comfortable seats which did not belong to them. The young man seems to show respect towards the older woman but she seems very shrewd in her manners, hinting of something like the young man being paid to serve her. Their relationship is not clear in the beginning. The old woman looks defensive and exchanges her seat as the man gives fleeting looks at some other female. Yet the man is polite and asks her coyly if he can go to the rest room.
The old woman’s character is persistent since the beginning; she literally forces things her way, and mostly gets away with it. Later in the film we get to know that Fillipo is doing his community service and has been burdened with the task of escorting a general's widow to a memorial service. The supporting characters like the young girl, ticket checker and few passengers are tools through which the main characters are exposed and we get to know of their backgrounds.
There are several complications owing to old woman's annoying nature and her conflict with other travelers which lead to the pinnacle where the man finally leaves her and goes.Her first argument with a confused man about the phone portrays her right in front of the ticket checker which is why he shifts them to the 1st class cabin.

Rising action- After the arguments she had with other people, causing problems, the old woman continuously yells out and asks for favors from Fillipo. Then his tolerance reaches its limits and he explodes. At this point the story his character is in foreground which comes out through his conversations with the teenage girl and other people at the cafeteria.

Climax- Fillipo has been patient with her till a point and the he suddenly there is an outburst of his emotions and he disappears from the cabin, leaving her behind. This is the turning point in the film since he argues back with her for the first time and finally leaves.

Falling action- The woman then realizes how much she needs him and runs to find him. The moment of suspense is build when you wonder whether he will return to her or not? Or what happens now? She feels at fault and is helpless.

Catastrophe/Denouement- By now it’s clear that the man won’t return. She is left on her own. The confused man with whom she had argued earlier about the phone helps her get the luggage down to the platform when the train stops and she sits on it hoping that Fillipo will come back.

3 Act Structure Analysis - Bharat.

Act ONE
The first act in itself is pretty simple in the structure but leaves certain foreshadowing for a more complex and layered next act.

Act I
The story begins with a shot of the platform. It’s a still frame with extremely minimal moment until an old woman and a boy come into the frame and the camera follows them. On the train the woman looks really tensed and stressed out while the boy appears to be extremely passive. The characters are mainly set in the beginning when Filippo is staring at a girl and the old woman on noticing this exchanges his seat with him and at the same time makes up a lame excuse for a very obvious act. She also blames him for not knowing what she prefers. He asks her permission to go to the bathroom and leaves.

Act II
Filippo comes across a young girl and they exchange a dialogue. Another girl enters and both of them whisper to each other while looking at Filippo. (Foreshadowing to later events that establish that there is some connection between these characters.)
Filippo enters the bathroom and a man comes out of it, who goes on to take Filippo’s seat by mistake and mistakes the old lady’s phone as his. A small quarrel ensues and the old lady is adamant to not show him the phone and sort of ignores him. The man has to ask the ticket inspector for help but still the old lady refuses to show him the phone.

Act III
The ticket inspector calls the number the man gives him and the phone rings on the seat behind him. He realizes his mistake and moves back to his original seat saying that people do make mistakes and things happen. Filippo is back on his seat. The old lady looks at him and says she is disappointed in him. She asks him to get water for her medicine and he leaves. While leaving he comes across the two young girls again and through a short dialogue they realize that they know each other from before but Filippo doesn’t remember the girls two well as they were really young.

Act TWO
This act is the act which is complex and has three different stories going on. The first and the main one being of the Old Lady and FIlippo. The second one being of the interaction between Filippo and the young about the past. The third one, the one that sets up this act, of the two gentlemen entering the train who rightfully own the sits the old lady and filippo are sitting on.

Act I
The train stops at a station and two men enter the train on whose seats the old lady and Filippo are sitting. They tell the lady that she is sitting in their places and she should move but lady refuses to move saying its her place. During this quarrel Filippo comes back but the lady orders him not to sort out the situation and sit quietly. The inspector again arrives to solve the situation and informs the lady that she is indeed sitting in the wrong class. The lady refuses to move saying she is unwell. The inspector arranges a different seat inside a cabin for her in first class only. Settled in the new place, Filippo walks out and notices the girl he knows from before. He starts a conversation.
Note: I think this particular section can be further broken down into a 3 act structure. It has the introduction of characters, a conflict and a small resolution.

Act II
One small issue gets resolved and both the main characters get relocated. Right at the beginning of this act an issue of history and memory comes up as Filippo and the girl start interacting.
They start talking and Filippo finds out that she is his sister’s friend and when he used to live in the town of Bracciano he used to know her but she was very young then. Filippo asks her if she has a boyfriend but the girl instead of answering this tells him that his sister was upset that he didn’t show up at his father’s funeral and called home about two months later.
Suddenly the old lady calls out to FIlippo and rebukes him for getting out of sight constantly. She doesn’t want anything from him but tells him to respond whenever she calls.
Back with the girl. She talks about his past girlfriend and narrates an old event that happened. Again the lady interferes here and calls out to Filippo. Filippo is obviously annoyed by her constant nagging and unappreciative behavior but responds to her. She again spits out some a bit of abuse and asks him to get a coffee.
He goes out to get the coffee and from a small dialogue we learn that he is with the Lady for some community service work. She is a widow of an army officer and is going to attend his death anniversary. (Here an interesting thing happens. The character of the lady suddenly builds up a bit of sympathy and instead of looking at her as this constant nagging old hag, we look at her as an helpless old lady. This is extremely important for the end of the story I think. And the fact that it comes near the end of the story is also important because if we would have known this fact from the beginning we would have lost sympathy for her by this point.)
He goes back and gives her the coffee.

Act III
He again comes out and is barely able to start the conversation with the girl that the lady again calls him out.
(This particular scenario of interruption happens here for the third time. By now as soon as Filippo starts the conversation with the young girl we know what is going to happen. It’s a pattern by now. Since it’s a pattern we also expect something different to happen this time at the end.)
The lady asks him to help him get dressed which he does. In the process the lady is constantly disrespecting Filippo and abusing him verbally and the tension builds up.


Act THREE
This is a fairly short act compared to the previous two.

Act I
Pissed off and tired of taking her abuses, Filippo leaves her and runs of somewhere. After Filippo leaves the Old Lady rushes out to follow him but as she is still putting on her shoes the boy has disappears. She starts following where he went looking for him.

Act II
The lady passes through different carriages and looks into different restrooms to find Filippo but she can’t find him anywhere. She comes across different characters who had been already seen in minor roles here and there. She reaches the end of the train and she still hasn’t been able to find him. She stands dejected, knowing for sure that he is gone. She peers down onto the tracks and notices the track diverging into two new tracks. The train driver can be seen in his carriage taking a call and putting on his shirt. We get to know that the journey is about to end. The Old Lady starts making her way back to her place.

Act III
Announcement for the train station arrivals are made. The lady is seen struggling with her heavy luggage. The man with whom she had the quarrel about the phone sees her plight and helps her to get her stuff off the train. At the end, the young girl who was talking to Filippo is seen looking at the Old Lady who is standing alone on the platform with her luggage, looking here and there. The train starts to move and the Old Lady sits on her suitcase. She is the only person there and Filippo is nowhere to be seen.

3 Act Analysis (Tickets) - Jijo

Introduction /Exposition

The setting of the story is in a train and the whole film revolves around the train journey of an old woman accompanied by a young man on this journey.
The two characters are introduced in the first shot, and characteristics of the two characters are revealed through dialogues, gestures and expressions all along the film.
The relation between the two characters is not very clear in the beginning of the story, and leaves you guessing till the point where one of the characters says that the old woman with whom he is traveling is not his mother nor his grandmother but just an old lady from his community and traveling with her to her husband’s memorial service is part of his community service.This is where the purpose of the train journey is revealed and the relation between the two characters is revealed.
As the story progresses we come to know the dominating nature of the old woman and the clam nature of the young man. Almost in every dialogue between the young man and the old woman she seems to be dominating him and treats him like a slave.
The young mans calm nature is revealed all along the story by his calm replies to the old lady in spite of her constant nagging, the way he tries resolving the issues of them sitting on the wrong seats, the polite manner in which he talks to the young girls and the way he apologizes to the two gentlemen who he meets when he goes to get coffee.
The complication in the story is the old lady’s constant nagging on everything the young man does.

Rising Action:

The rising action of the story is the constant nagging of the old woman while the young man is helping her change her clothes. She constantly tells him how good for nothing he is and how she has to tolerate him in spite of him being so clumsy, slow and irresponsible.

Climax:

The climax of the story is the argument between the two characters and the young man leaving her and telling her that he prefers hell to the so called heaven he was experiencing with her.
Falling Action:
The falling action is the desperate attempt of the old woman to search for the young man all throughout the train after the argument as she realizes how dependent she was on him.

Denouement:

The denouement of the story is when the man with whom the lady fights for the phone helps her with her luggage to get off the train where she is left all alone and she is helplessly starring at the train when it leaves.

3 Act Analysis for the 2nd Episode of Tickets - Hari

Act 1:
Introduction:
An old lady accompanied by a young man lugging a couple of suitcases/bags get on to a  crowded compartment of the train, when it halts at their station. The old lady seems to be in command, as she leads the young man through the crowded compartment, and then decides to take up reserved seats (which arent theirs) in the adjacent compartment, which isn't crowded. The young man goes with whatever the old lady says, obeying her directions without questioning them. Evidently to avoid conflict or argument, but does not appear to be too submissive either. Their characters are established that way.

Act 2:
Rising Action
The incident with the man who returns to the wrong seat, and thinks that the lady was using his phone contributes to making us think that the lady is stubborn, and that she is wrong. But the man turns out to be at fault, when the ticket inspector resolves their issue. This contributes to the rising action.
The men who've actually reserved the seats the lady and the young man are sitting on, get on the train, and try to get the lady to give them their seats. The woman keeps refusing. The Ticket Inspector resolves this again, giving her a vacant box. The lady keeps up with testing the young man's patience, calling him back when he's having a conversation with a girl (who is related to his past). The young man seems to take it all in its stride, avoiding an argument. This in turn, seems to empower the old lady a lot more, and she keeps pushing his buttons. This is the build-up, as the viewer is obviously expecting an outburst, or a resolve, or probably a reason why the young man is almost unperturbed. We also get to know that they're going to her husband's funeral amidst all this.

Climax : The lady finally succeeds in getting on his nerves. They have an argument, and the young man grabs his bag and leaves the lady behind. The lady at this, is helpless, or atleast realizes her helplessness, in a way.

Act 3:
Falling Action
The lady walks down the entire train, looking for the young man. The station at which she has to get off the train is also fast approaching. The final suspense builds up, with every carriage she looks into, and every compartment she walks through.

She finally resigns to the fact that the young man isn't coming back, and she goes back. The man who accused her of using her phone, helps her with her luggage.

Catastrophe/Purgation: She stands at the station, looking quite helpless, but probably still in hope that the young man might just come back to help. Which doesnt happen.

The woman, quite alone, sits atop her luggage with all hope lost about the young man coming back, as the train leaves the station.

Film analysis- Payal

The setting for Tickets is a long-distance train journey. Formidable general's widow, heading to her dead husband's memorial service, with an embarrassed young companion. The nature of the relationship between these two individuals is not revealed in the beginning.
The characters are introduced slowly through the film. The older woman seems to be very commanding and shrewd where as the younger man on the other hand, seems to be calmer and uncomplaining, inspite of her constant nagging at him.
Various complications takes place before the young man finally explodes in fury and leaves the older women to fend for herself, which is the climax of the story.
When the old lady notices the young man to be staring at this young and beautiful woman sitting diagonally opposite to him she immediately asks him to swap his seat with hers. The younger man agrees to all of it, without any resistance.
Meanwhile the younger man goes to the bathroom, another passenger comes and sits on his seat, while the older lady is on the phone with someone. This leads to a huge fight as the passenger accuses her of using his phone which turns out to be a false accusation later. Even if the fight could have been easily resolved if she had agreed on showing the numbers in the directory of the phone, she comes upon very stern, stubborn at the same time ridiculous in her arguments. She comes across as someone with a lot of angry energy, with an attitude that nothing can stand in her way and she will co-operate with no one she considers beneath her.
Afterwards when the younger man returns, she seems she is about to break down but instead tells him she is disappointed in him and orders him to get water for her, to which he silently obeys again.
The complications increase after the real passengers of the seats arrive and request her to show them her ticket. Again her arguments seems very arrogant and Uncooperative. She refuses to show them her tickets on the pretext that it’s their problem and not hers and that she will not move from her seat what so ever. Soon the younger man returns with water and inquires about the problem upon which she shouts at him to not to intervene, in front of all the passengers and orders him to sit down. He politely tells her that there isn’t any need to shout.
Upon the inspectors arrival she is asked to move into another carriage.
After they have settled in the carriage the younger man comes outside, to talk to a girl. There we learn a little bit more about his character. The girl seems to know him, and his many affairs. She is also good friends with his sister. From their conversation we learn he is not in touch with his sister for a long time. But then he is more interested to know if the girl currently has a boyfriend. We also learn that he never bothered to come back to Bracciano when his dad died, rather only chose to call that too after two months of his father’s death. This also highlights his distant attitude towards his family. In between their conversations, the older lady shrieks out for him twice, again embarrassing him a little in front of the girl. He is a little irritated but patiently asks what she needs. The 1st time she forgets what she had called him for and the second time she orders him to go get coffee for her. It seems that ,of an on she had been a little jealous of the women in d train he has been staring at and also the girl he was talking to outside his carriage.
While he is in the canteen for the coffee he converses with the two gentlemen; the older lady had fought over the seats with. He apologises about whatever happened before. One of the men tells him how all women at old age become a bit difficult and that even his mother is like that. The younger man makes it clear that that lady isn’t his mother or grandmother. They suspect if she is his lover. Upon asking, he clarifies that he is doing a community service and that he is helping her to go to her dead husband’s memorial service. These conversations do manage to disturn him a little. Once again after getting her the coffee, he goes back to the girl to talk and once again the old lady interrupts as she wants him to help her get dressed.

Rising action happens when throughout that time she tells him what to do and what not to do. She complaints about his service and that he is not very well trained. She keeps telling him that he is not doing things properly or that he is too slow, she tells him it’s all because he has led a comfortable life. She raises her volume and tells him to do exactly she says and not to criticise her. She tells him that she needs patience of a saint when it comes to him and that he is only good at going out and chatting and pleasing himself. She keeps getting at him till the time he loses his patience and screams at her and leaves the carriage.

The falling action begins when she starts searching for him helplessly in the entire train. She realises she needs his help getting to the memorial service. The suspense for the audience is whether she will find him or that he might be waiting for her back in the cabin in order to help her out.
But towards the end she is left alone at the station and it’s evident that the he did not come back. The man, who fought over the phone with her, rather helps her with her luggage which is the denouement of the film.

Plot Structure- Digbejoy Ghosh

The Ticket, Part 2
Plot Structure

ACT 1:
Introduction to characters.
Establishment of relationships between man and old woman, as well as supporting characters, namely the young girls, the confused man, the ticket collector etc.
Establishment of environment, purpose of travel.
Conflict and resolution between the confused man and the old woman (Subplot/ Comic Relief)


ACT 2:
Further exposition, strengthening the relationships between the man and the old woman, as well as the young girl and the man.
Creation of complication, owing to old woman's constant nagging.
Conflict between business travellers and old woman (Subplot), leading to transfer to first class cabin.
Rising action occurs when woman continues to nag at young man, when he helps her with her dress.
Climax: argument between man and old woman.
Turning point: man leaves the old woman and disappears with his baggage.

ACT 3:
Falling action: woman searches in vain for the man.
Suspense created as the audience is left wondering whether the young man will disembark with the old woman.
Catastrophe, denouement: old woman is left sitting on the platform by herself, with no sign of the man as the train departs.

Narrative structure- Mukta

Narrative Structure
Introduction/ Exposition
The story takes place in train where there are different kind of people from different places and different background.
The old lady who gets inside the train is very tempered and argues with everyone who comes across her. The conversation and the way she talks with ticket inspector, the two gentlemen’s who board the train afterwards and the way she even talks to Filippo. She doesn’t allow anyone to come across her way. The relationship between the old lady and Filippo is not defined clearly.
Filippo personality shows that how polite he is and how he obeys the order of the old lady. He silently obeys her order and if he controls his anger for her. The relationship between old lady and Filippo is revealed in the conversation between Filippo and the two gentlemen’s in café where he says that the old lady is wife of general army who passed away last year and they are going for his funeral. The background of Filippo is revealed when he is talking to girl in train.

Rising action/ Complication
The complication arises where old lady she has argument for the seats which is not hers and she stops Filippo also to talk to those two gentlemen. She shows her bossy affect all the time on Filippo. The complication also shows when he is talking to girl in train and from behind old lady is calling him.
These complication shows that old lady doesn’t want Filippo to talk to anyone. This complication rises to climax.


Climax
Climax arises where Filippo loses his temper and leaves old lady and goes away where he doesn’t needs to listen to her order any more. As where this climax shows how much she is dependent on him.


Falling of Action
Falling action is where she runs inside the train to find Filippo. There she realises that she needs him and apologises in front of the loo door. The suspense is that whether she able to find Filippo or not.



Catastrophe
The catastrophe is where she is not able to find Filippo and she gets down from train all alone.

Aniruddh's analysis of the 2nd Episode of Tickets.

The second episode of tickets, for a while, seems like the story about the child and the girl carrying him and their family, but later we realize that its about an old woman traveling in a train, with another young man, who seems to be in his twenties.

The Introduction is set up when they step into the train. They settle down in the First Class compartment, even though it is made clear that the seats are not theirs. Various dialogues between her and Fillipo, the young man traveling with her suggest that she is a woman of a controlling nature, who does not like it when Fillipo's attention is diverted from her. We do not get to know the relationship between the two until much later, when Fillipo steps into the resturant area to get her a coffee. It is then established, that he is doing community service for her, and she is a widow of an army general, who is now been dead for a year, and they're traveling to attend his memorial service. Fillipo's character is established as a young, quiet, polite and submissive guy, who is not too happy working for the old woman and is constantly trying to find some way out, even if it is for a while. One way he finds is in the teenage girl he talks to, who is a childhood friend. That conversation also establishes details of Fillipo's character.

The conversation between Fillipo and the girl is disturbed many times by the old woman's yelling and finding out faults in him. She does not like it that he is talking to the girl and tells him to get her a coffee. This part leads us into the Rising Action, where Fillipo is beginning to get irritated. Later in a conversation with two people in the resturant area, we get to know their relationship and also see that the anger in Fillipo is building up slowly, also building the narrative up to the climax.

The climax concept in the narrative seems a little complex, as there is not one, but three climaxes.

The first two help in establishing the two main characters.

The First Climax happens when Fillipo has gone to the bathroom and another man comes and sits in Fillipo's seat, thinking its his. He also asks for his phone, which he thinks the old woman is using. The woman's firm, confident character is established here.

In the Second Climax, the actual owners of the seats board the train,and an argument is built up, showing the controlling nature of the old woman, who bosses Fillipo around and yells at him in front of the two passengers, and fights with them for seats which are actually not hers. Fillipo's submissiveness is also enhanced here.

The Final Climax, and the most intense one,so to speak, occurs when Fillipo cannot take it anymore and reacts to her yelling, in the cabin, while he's helping her change. He yells back at her and leaves the cabin, leaving her yelling for him.

This leads to the Falling Action, where the woman searches for Fillipo in the entire train, but cannot find him. This is where we see how dependent on him she actually is. She is left feeling helpless, and almost scared, as now she knows that her only support system has left her, all because of her own doing.

Right at the end of this second episode, the Denouement occurs when the man who had fought with her for his phone, helps her get off the train, where she is left alone, helpless, and confused as the train leaves.

As per the 3-act structure, in the first act, both the characters are established through conversations between them and with other passengers, and the first climax occurs. The second climax occurs at the end of the first act, the falling action of which, leads us into the second act, which builds up the narrative towards the climax. The main conflict is built up when Fillipo talks to the passengers in the resturant area and returns with the old woman's coffee. She yells at him again later for talking to the teenager girl and calls him into the cabin to help her change. This leads us into the third and final act, where they are seen arguing, as a build-up to the final climax, which finally occurs when he yells back at her for treating him like her slave, and finally leaves her. The falling action of this final climax is shown through the old woman's helplessness and her struggle in the search for Fillipo. The narrative comes to a rest when she is left alone and confused at the station, as the train leaves.

Tickets narrative analysis-CHITRA

Introduction/Exposition

The setting of the story is in a train where there is a chance of encountering different people of different places ,ages and backgrounds.

The personality of each character is revealed through the initial dialogues itself. The woman comes across as a bad tempered, argumentative , un cooperative and controlling woman . This comes across during the conversation with Fillipo and the fight over the phone . She is not a person who will let anything stand in her way. Some times she treats him like a toy boy as she looks annoyed when he gives attention to other women. The relationship between them is not clear initially.

Filippo is submissive, polite and a sad look stays constant in his eyes.He tries his best to bear with the woman. The revelation of the background of the characters are being exposed later .The relationship between them is brought out through the talk at the café between Filippo and people who witnessed her inappropriate behaviour. She is a widow traveling to attend her
Husbands memorial service and Filippo, is doing service to the old lady.

More about Filippo’s background and relationships come out through the conversation with the girl in the train.

Rising Action

The woman’s behaviour to the guy is very bossy and she treats him as if she overpowers him. Different dialogues from the beginning irritates the guy,but he keeps his cool.
A major complication that occurred was the fight over the seat where the woman fights for the seat that doesn’t belong to her. She doesn’t even let Filippo utter a word and embarrasses him .As he goes to the café ,the comments on his relationship with the woman annoys him further. The woman keeps interrupting his conversation with girl with her authoritarian call ‘Filippo’ . showing him that her main problem is that she doesn’t want him to talk to her,not like she wants any help .Also,she keeps finding faults with him all the time and talks in an angry tone. All these complications pile up in his mind until he reaches his peak point of tolerance. This change in his attitude due to the complications leads to the climax.

Climax

The turning point of the story occurs when Filippo retaliates for the first time and leaves ,proving that it’s the lady who is dependent on him but not vice versa. He doesn’t have to obey like a dog to her all the time.

Falling action

The lady realizes how important the service was to her .His reaction bruises her ego and she runs all around the train to find him. For the first time she speaks in a normal tone ,seeking apology,assuming he is in the loo. She keeps her ego aside as she really needs him now.

The moment is suspense is whether she would find Filippo or not.

Denouement

The lady is left unaided at the station and she had to be on her own. Filippo had left her.

A very intelligent conversation

This conversation took place between several American and English teenagers at the Hard Rock Café. The Hard Rock is a very loud place so I was unable to catch every bit of dialogue.

Boy 1- I call that seat.

Girl 1- I want the barbeque burger

Girl 2- you’ll be so full

Girl 3- see how hard it is?

Boy 1- see this? I told you I’m sitting there

(The boy who took his seat climbs over the table from the booth, knocking over salt and pepper shakers in the process)

Girl 1- o my god

Girl 2- are they going to the bar?

Boy 2- no they’re going to buy ice

Girl 1- what?

Girl 2- they better buy for us too if they are at the bar

Girl 1- no they won’t

(can’t make out what they are saying)

Girl 4- are Josh and Thomas staying back

Girl 1- no we just saw them

Girl 2- you were the worst last night, just insane

Boy 2- no Thomas was

Girl 1- Thomas just can’t be explained

(can’t make out what they are saying)

Boy 1- I was joking

Girl 2- don’t imagine, it doesn’t happen that way

Girl 1- you’re just terrible, ok I know

Boy 1- are you guys feeling ok? (to the girls) Let me sit in between you so I get more attention

Girl 2- where are Thomas and Josh

Boy 2- I told you they went to buy ice, they’re coming back

Boy 1- dude, I’m supposed to teach him

( At this point the music got louder so it became even more difficult to make out their conversation, especially without looking conspicuous, thus I couldn’t read their lips. I could hear bits and pieces of dialogue so I knew they were discussing sex, something about it being better for girls.)

Girl 1- I weigh 120 pounds, that’s like 51 kilograms right?

Girl 2- no, I don’t know but I think that’s wrong. I weigh 115 pounds

Boy 1- wow you’re tall

(other two boys return with “ice”? I’m thinking its drugs but I’m not sure)

Boy 1- finally, where the hell did you go?

Boy 3- look (sits down at booth and starts to unzip his pants when I notice that there is an unusually large round bulge on his crotch)

Boy 1- what the fuck are you doing?

Boy 4- we got melons

(boy 3, the kid with the bulge reveals that it is a large green and yellow striped melon in a plastic bag)

Boy 1- why didn’t you just carry them in that bag, no one will want those now

Boy 3- cause its funny

Boy 1- you seriously walked all the way over there to buy fucking melons, now

Boy 3- yes

Freytag Triangle

Narrative Structure

Conversation- Nilisha

Location – Pecos
Conversation between three college students

Guy 1- O man! Neha looks hot in bed .
Guy 2- Hmmm!??
Guy 1- what moves man! Lemme call her.
…shit man! (Couldn’t get through her number)
Guy 2- so you guys had sex? (Whispers)
Guy1 nods.
Guy 3- You are fast man!
Guy 1- well I follow simple strategies, 1st meeting, become friends; 2nd meeting
take her out for a date; 3rd meet… Bed. Or else she doesn’t deserve you.
Guy 2- Arre! Arre! Kya baat kar raha hai yaar? This is bad.(Gujrati accent)
Guy 1- Ey! You don’t tell me you have never done it?
Guy 2- No. never. I will only do it with my wife..And I will also expect her to be a
virgin.
Guy 3- Ye saalaa stone age se aaya hai. (Laughs loudly)
Guy 1. Seriously man! What era are you living in?
Guy 2- Arre! But.
Guy 1- virgin wife waali baat se I will agree... Even I will want my wife to be a
virgin. Of course! Who wouldn’t want?
Guy 2- Arre! But..
Guy 3- I am ordering Chilli beef.
Guy 1- Arre but but kya kar raha hai? See. It’s simple. I will love to fuck around
till I get caught up with only one girl for the rest of my life. I am just
enjoying the moment. Why are you getting worried?
Guy 2- You want a virgin wife and you will not leave any woman virgin, coming your
way, till you get your virgin wife. Achha Hai Bhai! Keep it up.
Guy 1- Haha! Beef is yumm!
O dude. One minute she is calling.

Gets up and leaves smilingly.

Lesson Plan 6.2.2010

Lesson Plan 6.2.2010

RECAP AND MOVEMENT FORWARD
1. Getting out of yourself and becoming another character – diary/journal - ANAIS NIN Journals, Max Brod – Kafka’s Diaries
2. Fleshing out a character through narrative – The Diary was first attempt.
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty/Hills Like White Elephants – Short Story as a form of narrative
4. Narratorial Devices
(a) The funeral Oration – The Light has Gone Out by Jawaharlal Nehru, Brutus and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar
(b) The Obituary – a different kind of Biography
(c) Conversation/Dialogue, Exposition, 3 act structure which can work inside a single act too – Conversation is passé but can you use dialogue not as some purposive attempt to reach conclusions or express mere points of view, but as the very prerequisite of authentic relationship between man and man, and between man and God, man and nature, man and objects, etc?
(d) Descriptive writing – turning a space or object into visual language
(e) Rhetoric – point of view, art of persuasion
(f) Character, setting, conversation – they must become integrated in a natural manner in any narrative
(g) The Ballad – Hurricane by Bob Dylan, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
(h) What is the central idea that allows a story to emerge?
(i) The Process = Ideation – Visualisation – Process (use of and integration of narratorial devices) – Execution – Form
(j) In creating a narrative, move from the General/generic to the Particular/Focused/Pointed, from the Idea to the Story.
(k) Every narrative has other narratives attached to them – every story has a counter story – Multiple Narratives about singular events, an event is looked at from Multiple Perspectives.
(l) Narratives that are formulaic are “control or conditioning mechanisms”. They can be used in both free countries and totalitarian countries. How do you break narrative structures that are used to control you or define/ imprison/restrict your creative possibilities?
(m) Poetry as form – Sleeper in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud
What is the central idea behind the Raven?
State of mind – Loss (Love)
Are there different types of love that can be explored through narratives?
Puppy love
Carnal love
Platonic love
Romantic love
Obsessive love
Voyeuristic love
Tragic love
Gay love
Oedipal love – Oedipus Complex
Electra love – Electra Complex (Miklos Jansco – Electra)
Consensual love
Eros – sexual, romantic, creative, energy, eros personified as a God - Kama-
Storge – love that exists among friends – through thick and thin, all for one and one for all - The Three Musketeers, Sholay, Lord of the Rings
Philia – within family relationship – The Parent Trap, Friends
Agape – unconditional love – supposedly only God is capable, supposedly only one type of God is capable of – The Giving Tree, The Mighty River, Christ on the Cross, The Little Prince
Logline: A 40-year old man experiences puppy love.
L’Ennui , Lolita – are these narratives examples of the above log line or is it about some other kind of love?
What is the central idea behind Hurricane?
Racism
Justice-Injustice-Denial of Justice
http://www.chameleon-translations.com/sample-Zola.shtml
J’Accuse is also a narrative in the form of a Letter. It tells the Dreyfuss story from the other side of the fence just as Hurricane does.
READING:
Anais Nin – Preface to Delta of Venus
Relationship between creator of narrative and consumer (market/purchaser) of the narrative.
Who controls the transaction? How or why is it controlled?
The mix of narrative.
VIEWING
2nd Episode of the film Tickets
Homework:
Do an analysis of the second episode of Tickets using the 3-act structure combined with the Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Denouement.

Eaves Dropping- Mukta Sinha

Eaves Dropping
Conversation between two girls.
A: - Hey hi
B: - Hi, how are you? It’s been long time talking to you yaar.
A: - I m fine. Ya I know it’s been long time.
B:- Hey I am busy in office right now. Can we meet in the evening somewhere out.
A:- Ya sure, but where.
B:- Ill message you in a while where d o we have to meet

(Evening time, In Café Coffee Day)
A:- Hi.
B:- Hi. How is everything going?
A:- Going good. You tell me?
B:- Ya, everything is fine.
A:- Hey what happened, you sound upset. What happened?
B:- Nothing much yaar. I broke up last week. So bit sad about that.
A:- Ooops. I m sorry. But I think it’s good, he wasn’t right guy for you. He used to demand from you a lot.
B:- Ya, I know. But I used to love him yaar.
A:- Hmmmm. It’s ok. Just chill. Find some else now. Hangout with someone else. Hey just see to your right. There is handsome guy sitting there. He is damn cute yaar. Hey he is looking here only.
B:- ( looking towards him). Ya he is so cute and handsome. But the girl sitting next to her looks so ugly. How can he go on with this girl?
A:- Ya. Is she his girlfriend or someone else? I think we should stop staring at him; he is looking at us only.
B:- Hmmmm. How sad the life has become now. Only work nothing else. I am actually fed up with us.
(as they both are talking to each other, the guy they were staring at leaves some paper at their desk)
B:- Oyeeee. What has he left on our table?
(They open the paper and see that there was that’s guy number and below number it was written that she wasn’t my girlfriend she was my client. waiting for your call)
These girls look towards each other and smile. Then they look towards the door where that guy was standing and staring at these girls.
These again look towards each other and again smile and say “naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”. Then they pay the bill and hug each other and they are back to their own way.

Conversation: 3 boys in Coffee house (All of them carrying bags of Manipal institute of animation)

Boy 1: Hey are you guys done with the storyboard?

Boy2: Yeah some what

Boy 3: Yeah but am sure he’ll reject it. It’s quite shabby.

Boy 1: It’s ok man as long as you has done it. Now let him decide if it’s good or bad.

Bay 2 Yeah don’t worry about it.

Boy3: Dude no jokes I still can’t make a decent story board after two years of this course and in three months I have to choose my specialisation.

Boy3: (waving towards the waiter) Sir moor coffee

Boy2: Yah man ......even I am kind of worried about it. I want to get into gaming but am not too keen on the programming part and the course available has programming in it.

Boy3: Am sure if you talk to the dean you can opt only for the designing part. Try talking to him.

Boy2: Dumb fuck you think I never thought about this. I already spoke to him and he said only for me he can’t change the course structure. If there are others also who want to do only designing like me then he will consider the matter.

Boy1: Oh cool.......... then even I am game for it. I wasn’t considering that option for the programming part.

Boy2:Wah beta Wah..... without even talking to the dean you took your decision.

Boy1: See when the specialisation notice was put up on the board it wasn’t mentioned that we could negotiate the course structure with the dean.

Boy3: Wah..... so you will assume things and opt for something you don’t like .Fucker i swear you and your assumptions.

Boy 2: Hahahahahaha i swear this guy is too funny. If we wouldn’t have spoken about this topic our man would have opted for pre production and animation and got his ass cracked the whole of third year.

Boy3: Hahahahahahahahah I would have loved to see that happen.

Boy1: Tell me honestly guys ..... you guys are my friends or enemies. Every time I am in trouble instead of helping me out you guys stand and laugh.

Boy2: Dude I swear I don’t know how you manage to get stuck in such strange situations.

Boy3: And your situations are such that we can’t stop laughing (he giggle)

Boy2: Dude who the fuck told you become the class rep. You know how our class is and with guys like (the name wasn’t audible) in class you know we are bound to be in trouble every other day.

Boy3: Fucker he became class rep so that he could impress all the chicks in class.

Boy2: Impression my ass......... .Now look at him poor guy is always answerable to the teachers for whatever shit we do.

Boy2 & Boy3 laugh and take the last sip of their coffee.

Boy1: waiter .......bill Kodi.

Boy 1: Let’s go enough for today. I swear you guys never get tired of taking my case.

Boy 2: Arre..... trust me dude life would be so dull without you (he smirks and winks at boy 3)

All three of them get up and leave.

Free Writing Exercises - Bharat

Duration: 10 mins.

And as she stood there, there was nothing. She looked out at the sky and saw some clouds moving along towards a center in the sky. They are marching out for a war. There was nothing but water at her feet that was trickling down a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. The water was cold and someone was singing far away in a distant valley. Maybe it was lament for a lost lover. The lines were not defined. It was as if someone was trying to evoke form by using just paint and colors and not worrying if they merged or if the silent green went a little too far out. She looked again at the sky. A A A A A A A A A A A A A. A crow flew across a a a a a a a a a a . The water. She liked water. It reminded her of being safe. It reminded her of being in the womb. A A A A A A A A A A A A. If she could, she would have folded herself up like a baby and let herself sink but that would eventually lead to death. The lament rose in the air. The singer was grieving. She could a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. Maybe she a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. she looked at her hand and then started walking back. Cars and truck passed by but she didn’t bother to look around or wait. She went straight ahead. No looking left or right. Her fists were clenched and her nails were digging into her palms. It didn’t matter. It didn’t bother her. She kept on walking. The road itself started to rise and steeped upwards and she like a determined traveler kept on walking. She was barefoot. The black asphalt was still was from the day. waves of heat were escaping out of it. maybe it would shower later in the night. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a.




Duration: 15 mins

The sunlight slipped though the curtain leaving lines of brilliant white on the wall. A dog was howling outside. The fan wasn’t working again. The fucking fan. The room a a a a a a a a a a. The man was sitting in his vest and was still sweating. Only if the fan worked. Opening the door would just make it worse. The wind might cool him down a little a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. It was as if his skin was suffocating. He kept on looking at his phone and kept on walking up and down the length of the room. Not the fast walking but walking almost as if it was a stroll in the park. a a a a a a a a a a. He picked up the phone again and dialed a number. He didn’t even have to go to directory. He remembered the number well. The bell rang three times bef….. it was the same shitty song on the caller tune that had been there for the past six months. If he could a a a a a a a a a. He thought this time when she answers he would scream at her to change the fucking tune. He would be happy to hear the monotonous ringing of the phone instead of the same ear piercing sound of this song. He tried to place the song in his head but he didn’t remember what it was exactly. Maybe it was Green Day or some other crappy punk band like that. It didn’t matter. He would tell her to change it for sure. a a a a a a a a a a.

“Hey,” he spoke in the phone.

“Yeah?”

“I was wondering if you are a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a you didn’t call back? So I called just to check.”

“Dad, I told you I’m fine. You don’t have to keep on calling me every five minutes. I’m doing ok. I’m fine. I think I told that to you about an hour back. The world won’t change in an hour.”

“I just called because I care you know. Sometimes I care a lot,” she didn’t get his side. Maybe that’s why they never got along.

“God! Yes I know that you care and I’m very thankful for that but you worry too much a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. You talking to your friend again?”
a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

Conversation between 2 girls( 21- 23 years old)- Payal

A-I hate this school teacher thingy

B-Ya, man same here.

A-It’s as if now I will have to ask her “Madam may I go to the loo”

B-Hahahahha

A-No seriously man!...it’s so not funny. I felt terribly offended today. She bloody well has no right to do this.

B-Haha.. guess what? She has all the rights to do this and that is precisely the problem.

A-Yaar.. she needs to know we are not in some stupid kindergarten. We are grown ups and besides I have never given any answers to my own boy friend, why the fuck will I ever tell her anything.

B-You have a boyfriend? Bitch you never even told me?

A-Abb , what is there to publicise. Besides I thought you will figure it out yourself since me and Pramod hang around together literally all the time.

B-Ahaa..so its Pramod.

A-How hard was it to guess.. duhh??

B-Duhh?? and all ehh?..ohh please keep that Delhi lingo away from me?

A-What is with you guys and Delhi people anyways? Were you guys in some kind of a war with us, long time back or what?

B-Ya ya very funny. Its jus that Delhi lingo is so tacky.

A-Hahahha...by the way ‘tacky’ is also a part of Delhi lingo.

B-Ya ya whateva, finish your beer smart ass. Wanna do bottoms up??

A-I don’t mind, but I am sure you will end up puking.

B-Ohh shut up! I have a much better capacity than yours.

A-Remember the last time we came with Divya and Ashish’s gang, God you got so high and so soon, you were all over that new guy, shit I forgot his name....ummm..

B-Let me help you..”chetan” right?

A-Ohh ya Chetan...so you remember?

B-Abbe! Dumb ass! I wasn’t so high on beer as much as I was on Chetan...hahhahha man he was hot. Can’t forget that day.

A-Hahhahah...Bitch, no wonder you were all over him.

B-hahhahhaha

A-Okay seriously...we got to finish this beer fast because I have to leave, so bottoms up?

B-Absolutely!

Cling!!...gulp gulp..!! aahh!

A-Cool.. ask him for the bill, you have enough money on you right?

B-Ya ya don’t worry, dad ka credit card kab kaam mai ayega.

A-Haha! Spoilt child!

B-Shut up! Don’t forget if not for this spoilt child, you wouldn’t be having this beer.

A-Ya ya! Chal chal! Let’s go.

Lesson Plan 30.1.2010

9.30 am -10 am - Schlessinger Video on Creative and Narrative Writing
10 am – 11.30 am - Feedback on all the diaries written - the characterisation assignment.
11.45-1.00 pm – Reading and discussing Hills Like White Elephants
Homework: Eavesdrop and bring back a conversation/dialogue.

Coffeecup Conversations

A(girl, about 19), B(guy, about 20-21 or older), C(girl, about 20 or older)

A: ... So basically, i had maintained a file with all his pictures. Like a really really thick file you know. (motions her hands in the air)

B: Really?? How thick? How thick?? Show again!

A: (ignoring the comment) ... yeah, so i still have it you know. Its like one of my most precious things.

B:(imitating the girl's tone) That is So awesome. Almost unbelievable! A whole big, thick file? With his pictures.. Wow!

A: Listen stop it haan.. (playfully) ... Yeah, so i still have it..

C: But where? How come you've never shown it to me?

A: Back home yaa. It must be somewhere. I maintained it for the longest time.

B:(sarcastically) Awwww.. how sweet..

C:(excited, moving to the edge of her chair) i wanna see! i wanna see!

A:(also excited) You'l love it! I had every possible news cutout about his forthcoming films. Almost every picture of him ever printed! Yaadein andA all i had 3-4 pages about it before it was gonna get released!

B: Accha, but why didnt he get his finger removed? i was so concerned.. so many sleepless nights you know..

A: Yaaaa.. because, you know, it was like..... (realizing that he was pulling her leg) Shutup yaa. Not funny..
   (looking at C) you know, i even had a big piece on how he learned how to drive also. !

C: Aaaaawww.. So cute!

B: Did he get some quota for that extra finger of his?

    (everyone laughs)

A: Shutup smartass. Go get our coffees no? Pleaaase!

B: Yeaaahh.. Pity i'd miss out on this incredibly interesting conversation. Save some for me..

Coversations- Digbejoy Ghosh

Man 1: Yea! I remember seeing her there.. what was her name?

Woman: I don't know...

Man 1: We used to go out together..part of one big group..Aashna or something..from Baldwin's?

Man 2: Hey what should we order? I'm having a chilli beef...or maybe beef tacos..
Excuse me.

Waiter: Yes?

Man 2: Yea..I think i'll have a plate of beef tacos and a mug of beer.

Waiter: Sure.
Why don't you order a pitcher instead?

Man 2: Guys! Listen. Do you want a pitcher?

Man 1 : Yea. Why not?

Woman: Sure.

Man 2: Alright. We'll take a pitcher. How much is it for though?

Waiter : Two hundred and twenty.

Man 2 : Ok we'll have one of those. And one plate of beer tacos. And.....
What do you guys want?

Woman: I'm fine. I'll just have the beer.

Man 1: I'll have a plate of chilli beef then.
Listen. I'm going downstairs for a smoke. Wanna come?

Woman 2 : Um..you want to go?

Man 1: Yea sure.

Man 2 : Chal. Lets go.

Woman: Uh..Uncle! We're just going downstairs for a bit. Can i leave my bag here?

Waiter : Sure. No problem.

Woman: Thanks! We'll just be back ok? Thanks.

IT GOES LIKE THIS -

Two elderly women sitting on a park bench-

WOMAN 1- I was walking past that house only the other day and “uosho” this dog… big black one… like this “ WOOF WOOF” stared barking (laughs out loud) I died there only. My heart jumped …GURAGURA GURAGURA… (Both lady laughs).

WOMAN 2- Sometimes I feel like throwing something at the dog. Afternoon only when I want to sleep he will bark.

WOMAN 1-Bah (second lady exclaims) all her dogs…WOOF WOOF (they laugh)…all of the family is like that only… (The both of them burst out laughing.)

Elderly German lady and a shopkeeper.

Shop keeper: How much u want madam?

Lady: 3 kilos please and I want my cigarettes also, put my cigarettes in.

Shop keeper: madam woman should not smoke madam. Bad for health (he smiles)

Lady: And u men are made of gold or what?

Shop keeper: (laughs shyly)

Lady: now make it two packets of cigarettes because u said that (Laughs)

Shop keeper also laughs and put one more packet in.

Ok thankyooooooou… kiss for you, muah muah!

Shopkeepers laugh and blush.

Three women on their evening walk

HW 1 - Haina? Today when esha got home today, she said “mama today anju’s mother made rajma chawal why don’t you also make food like that. It is so yummy.

HW 2 - Aaj kal ke bache to by god, hum apne ma bap se bolte to they would have killed us by now.

HW 1- I know. And mrs Sharma ki daughter bhi bari “bretty” hai, that way… bohot bolti hai.

HW 3- how old is she “sewan”(seven)?

(recording were taken which will be uploaded by today evening… they are not very clear however, certain words can be identified.… )

Conversation- Chitra

Dad and son enters Coffee Day.
Kid takes menu card and looks at it to order.

Son: I will say what We will eat. I will decide.
Dad: Okay
You see
Son: You want something?
Dad: No you decide.
The waiter comes.
Son: I need this.
Dad orders something.
Son: mmmm….it is very tasty in coffee day. The coffee here is real coffee.
Dad smiles
Kid takes the banana chips packet.
Son- B- a-n-a-n-a….b-i-t-e-s …Is this banana bits?
Dad:It is not bits,it is bites.
Son:What is it?
Dad:It is some chips.
Son: Must be very yummy!
Dad: Yes,it is very yummy.
Son: Shall I open it?
Dad: Yes,open and eat.
Son: Dad,you should taste first
Dad:No,you taste first,

Son: I will taste
Son looks at the chilli graphics on the cover.
Son: Carrot!!
Dad: No,that is chilly.
Son: Chilly carrot!
It is so tasty…mmmm…
I like it
Dad gets a phone call
The waiter gets coffee
He starts having coffee.
Dad: Is it hot? Hot? Hot? Hot ? Hot?
Son: Mmm….I’ll have with spoon.
Dad: You need sugar? It is there. If you want, put it.
He continues drinking
Son: It is tasty.
Dad: You have got a cream moustache now! I’ll click a picture.
He clicks a pic.
Son: Show me .I want to see.
He shows. Son smiles.
Dad: You have got some on your cheek!
Go and ask for a napkin.
Go there and ask him
Son: Yeah,ok.
He gets up and gets a napkin
He points on his cheek.
Son: Here?
DAD:No(…points to the right)
Son:Here? Here?
Dad points again
Son:Here?
Dad: Ya ok
Son: Lets go now.
Dad: You were the one saying that you want to go to coffee day.Now you want to leave?
Son: I finished eating know? So we can leave.
Dad: You wash your hands.
Son: Where?
Dad: You go find out.
Son walks towards the washroom ,peeps in.
Son: Dad,there is washing facility here. Come. We can wash hands here.
After they come out.
Son: Can I take another banana chips?
Dad: Yes ,take it.
Son : I can take it out? I need not give it back?
Dad: No you can take it.
They go out.

HKW Eaves dropping..

I had to move the words around a little because I wasn’t fast enough to write down word for word.

Address: 101A SFS colony, Yelahanka new town.

It’s late in the evening. The room is pretty dull, the room smells of cooking oil and burned parathas, the only source of light is a tubelight. The room is empty except for a girl in her skyblue Pyjamas, sitting at the dinning table, she is eating.

“Hi!” Says the girl who just entered the room, who obviously just had a bath and her hair is yet to dry off. She’s wearing an exaggerated blue T-shirt, and a boring grey jogging pant.

“Hi! How are you?”

“I’m good. How are you?”

“I have a headache (laughs); hangover.”

“Oh the party....” A faint smirk appears on the face of the girl in the exaggerated blue T-shirt.

“Yes, the party (laugh).... Have you done it?”

“No yaa, can I do it tomorrow?”

“I really need you to be done by the 10^th”

“I should be done by then, I’ll do it tomorrow”

“Okay, you let me know when it’s done”

“Sure! What’s for dinner?”

“Chicken Biryani and some sweet dish, it’s pretty awful, as always....”

“Bhaya vegetarian mein kyaa hein??” inquires the girl in the exaggerated blue T-shirt.“Bhaya?” She goes into the kitchen with an empty plate, which she had picked up from the cheap plywood table where they keep the utensils. The plate is full when she comes out of the kitchen. She sits next to the other girl, pauses, look at her friends’ food, and then hers. She walks to the table where they keep the utensils, picks up a spoon, and comes back to the dining table.

“So how was the vacation?”

“It was good, I had so much fun. But it was freezing cold, thank God for heaters. But I still love Delhi.” Blurts the girl in the exaggerated blue T-shirt.

“I like Bombay more! I mean Delhi is a nice place and all but the weather just sucks: when it’s hot, it’s too hot, when it’s cold, it’s too cold. Bombay even has beaches”(laughs)

“Yeah I guess. So listen, about your thing, what is it that you want me to do?”

“Are yaar... Kuch bhi chalega, just do whatever you want to do with it. But make sure it’s done by the 10^th”

“Yeah I’ll do that.” With a sudden tone of excitement, the girl in the exaggerated blue T-shirt says. “Have you seen Sherlock Holmes? I watched it yesterday, and I loved it”

“I saw it like about a week ago; I thought it was pretty ok.”

“I loved the part where he plans and explain the fight sequences even before the fight starts.”

Meanwhile a bunch of people has just walked in, and they are queuing up towards the table where they keep the utensils and the food.

“Yeah that was pretty cool, but he didn’t do that for the final fights.”

“I love Robert Downey Jr. I’ve watched everyone of his movies. I loved loved loved Tropic thunder... it was hilarious, Ironman was also amazing. Oh and he can even sings, he has a grrr...rreat voice”

“Yeah he’s pretty talented. I love Jude Law.”

“OOOOooooohhhh... I love ‘A series of unfortunate events’, I must have watched it like a thousand times already.”

“Yeah that movie was good. I loved the...” The phone rings, the girl looks at the phone.” It’s my mom.” “Hi mummy... Haa... Nahi mila... toh... Haa Haa... Kab bheja tha?? Toh kal pahonge jani chahiye... Acha mummy mein abhi gharpe nahi hoon, Ghar pahongene par call back karoongi... Mess mein Khana kha rahi hoon... Haahaa... okay... bye!” She hangs up the phone.

“Okay I really have to go now; I have some assignments to do.”

“Okay.”

The girl stands up, drops the empty plate into the bin, and washes her hands.

“So I’ll call you later.”

“Okay”

The girl exits. Meanwhile another group of people have walked in and the room is quickly turning into a public space, which is what it's supposed to, and the noises are getting louder. The room is filling up with words of greetings, word such as ‘Hi’, ‘Hello’, ‘Wassup!!’ etc. And the girl in the exaggerated blue T-shirt and the boring jogging pants is still sitting there.

Conversations - Bharat.

Conversation 1:
Man 1: Kar raha tha kuch, jal gayi. No paise. College mein diwala niklega.
Man 3: College mein notice bhi lag gaya hai.
Man 1: College mein kuch nahi hoga yaar. Le lenge paise. Mil jaenge.
… A few sentence unclear…
Man 2: … kya kar raha tha?
Man 1: Dilli mein government ke liye kaam kar raha tha.
Man 2: Accha. Kitna Saal?
… Missing question
Man 1: Akela? Nahi yaar. Mera baap ke saath.
… Missing lines…
Man 3: Baat karne ka style dekh.
Man 1: Kya baat karta hai? Inke saath… … meri… …know him…
… Missing lines… (I think the conversation went back to his job here.)
Man 1: Haan. Saala ehsaan kar raha tha government ke liye kaam kar ke.
Aur Chaihiye kya? Chahiye ho toh ghar pe mangva doonga. Bol?
Man 3: isse accha roll yahaan kahan milega.
Man 1: Chalo feel toh aaya tere ko… Tera ho gaya?
Man 2: Haan.
Man 1: toh udhar dustbin mein throw karde.
Man 2: Bhaiya kitna hua? … Tissue hoga?
Man 1: Chal yaar phir milenge. (to man 4 who is sitting slightly away.)
Man 4: Sure. See you later.
Man 3: Awaaz aata hai gadi se?
Man 1: Wooh nahi hain na silencer.
Man 3: Tu chalata hain gadi?
Man 1: Main… paanch saal ho gaya.


Conversation 2: (a girl talking on the phone.)

Note: This has been written after hearing the conversation, from memory so won’t be exact. I was following a random girl on the street so couldn’t really write at the same time.

…Nahi main nahi gayi thi. Everyone else went… …I wanted to stay at home and sleep. Waise bhi ussey janti nahi main…
Yeaaaahhh. It was so nice at home… …They weren’t back till night. Toh main pure din soyee. Kaam bhi nahi tha…
… Missing lines…
... in the evening. You know what I did. I was alone in the room toh main bahar gayi living room mein switched on the tv, increased the volume, switched on all the fans and lights all over the house and came back to my room. (Laughs)... Arrey!!! I was scared na…
… Missing lines…

The stalking ends here.

Conversations 3
(short snippets and dialogues picked up)

1. (another phone conversation)
OH shit!!! … … I’m Sorry. I SAID I’M SORRY WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?

2. (I tried listening to a conversation in Kannada and tried to catch words that I knew and see if I could make some sense out of it.)

Some random words/phrases from it:

Number?...
Take it.
98456229…
Three to four boss.
Kerala.
Lauda.
Quarter
Full tight.
Kinga.
I know.
Da.

3.
(A man on bike suddenly stops in front of a guy walking from the opposite direction)
Bike Man: Kidhar jaana hain? Aaja. Aaja.
Man: Esteem Mall.
Bike Man looks at him and laughs and drives off.
Man: Abey!!!

4.
Girl on cycle passing by: Main aayee thee aaj par aap the hi nahi.
Man: toh ab aajao.
Girl: Kha kar aa gayee main udhar. Kal aaongi.