Screenplay BOLLY-ALPS (extract)

Louis Mouchet

Description

The beginning of my script BOLLY-ALPS:
An Indian film crew, specialized in second class Bollywood films , arrive to Switzerland to carry out what they hope will be the film of their life. As they have neglected the customs formalities, here are cut of of half of their meager production budget. Fortunately their local contact, a wily location manager, has brilliant ideas to bring them back on business…
As a result, they find themselves in the middle of alpine magic, where Indian dances and Alpine traditions mix in a dazing swirl.
I would be happy to send you the full script on request.

Sujets

• Alps
• Bollywood
• Script
• Screenplay
• Film
• Cinema

Informations

• Publié par: louismouchet
• Publié le: 18 décembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 223
• Langue: English

Extrait

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         OPENING ON:                                                                            A hand lighting an incense stick and approaching it to a  statuette of Ganesh, the Indian divinity with elephant  trunk.                                                                            LARGE TO REVEAL:                                                                                                                                                      1 INT. LONG-RANGE AIRCRAFT - NIGHT 1                                                                            The statuette is laid on the shelf of a passenger’s seat.  The incense is lit by a thin tall 40 years old Indian man,  SANJAY.                                                                            Smoke arrives to his neighbor of the same age, RAMESH,  pudgy, short with fine mustache. He awakes suddenly.                                                                            RAMESH  Are you mad?                                                                            He quickly blow out the incense and dissipates the smoke.                                                                            SANJAY  (upset)  Now Ganesh will not open the  doors for us.                                                                            Other passengers awake.                                                                            A FLIGHT ATTENDANT arrives precipitately.                                                                            FLIGHT ATTENDANT  Anything wrong?                                                                            RAMESH  Everything’s fine... My friend  had a bad dream.                                                                            FLIGHT ATTENDANT  You didn’t smoke, did you?                                                                            RAMESH  Of course not.                                                                            He addresses a large smile to her, and to the awakened  passengers.                                                                            The flight attendant looks around before going away.                                                                            Ramesh pretends to fall into a deep sleep, while kicking  his neighbor.                                                                            RAMESH  (whispering)  Go back to sleep!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 2.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                SANJAY  I am not sleepy.                                                                            RAMESH  Pretend!                                                                            Sanjay curls up on his seat.                                                                            VIEW FROM AIRCRAFT:                                                                            The sun is rising on the snowy Alps.                                                                            CREDITS with Swiss national anthem:                                                                            "Sur nos monts quand le soleil,  annonce un brillant réveil. "  ..                           (“On our mounts when the                                                    sun, announces a brilliant                                                  awakening...”)                                                                                                               DISSOLVE TO:                                                                            Moving advertisement of private banks and luxury watches.                                                                            They are seen from the LANDING AREA of GENEVA AIRPORT.                                                                            Ramesh and Sanjay advance on the travolator, heavy bags on  their shoulders.                                                                            RAMESH  This is Switzerland: look how  clean and rich it is!                                                                            Still sleepy, Sanjay remains completely indifferent.                                                                            RAMESH  Here we’ll make it big!                                                                            KARISMA and SIDDHARTH, two youngsters with indecent  beauty, follow motionless like statues. Beauty case in  hand, they wear black glasses and bright Indian clothes,  contrasting with those of Sanjay and Ramesh, of rather  dull “Indo-European” style.                                                                                                                                                      2 INT. GENEVA AIRPORT / LUGGAGE - DAY 2                                                                            The luggage go down a conveyor. Among standards bags, we  can notice some large metal cases with painted Indian  divinities.                                                                            Ramesh and Sanjay pile up the carriage.