- Opening Scene, a shuttle takes off from earth, title credits.
- Title over, and the shuttle docks with a space station and opens with Rajni’s leg shown first.
- Rajni bends and touches space ( don't ask how, you don't ask these questions in a Rajni film ) and takes his hands to his eyes, worshipping the Supreme power.
- Shot cut, and Rajni touches the earth at Sholavandan and opens his store, which is in front of his watch repair shop. And the opening song. ( Song about how Time is important & every second is critical rendered by SPB )
- He is a technician; an expert in precision repairs is established.
- His life at the village, with comedy scenes and do-good acts.
- We show Trisha, the heroine. She has her own flashbacks, cut within cuts. As a baby, she is supposed to be a victim of female infanticide and Rajni as a 10 year old, saves her life somehow.
- She has excelled in studies and gone further to IIT and then joined NASA.
- Back at her village on a holiday, she recalls her past and falls in love with Rajni.
- A dream sequence and song.
- Trisha goes back to US.
- Jump cut, crisis at NASA. The space station has issues in a specific problem that only best of the precision experts can solve.
- The top honchos at NASA try to zero in on the expert and realize that the best guy is Rajni.
- Interval
- NASA scientists arrive at Sholavandan to convince Rajni to take up the task.
- Rajni hesitates, but the space station is powered by nuclear fuel, so a failure of that and crash landing will annihilate the earth.
- Rajni’s mom coaxes him to take up the task.
- Rajni travels to US and a song about the new world.
- Rajni’s training sequence at NASA to resolve the issue in the space station.
- Rajni takes off from earth, flash back over.
- At docking, Rajni is into the job.
- But Trisha is an astronaut in that space station.
- Trisha falls in love all over again.
- A dream sequence song again in the space.
- When Rajni is yet to fix the issue, when he faces the enmity of another haughty astronaut who has his eyes on Trisha.
- A zero gravity fight sequence ( with a remix of the song 'Vaanam Keezhe, Bhoomi Mele" in the background ) and then as a race against time of how Rajni gets the space station back forms rest of the story.
Fun apart, I made this stuff up, just to expand our own thinking of how we can build a fantasy and not get restricted by our imagination. This has all elements what folks would want. A message on female infanticide, a simple guy saving the world on a one man crusade, mother sentiment, comedy, songs, fight and scope for Computer Graphics that seems to be the vogue these days.
It’s not tough making up a story, that even a guy like me can make that. It’s anyway a rehash of something. Arthur Koestler says there are only 36 story knots possible. This is a rehash of Armageddon, Space Cowboys and a typical Tamil movie. But still, if someone can make it in a credible manner, this could be a great movie. It could be titled ' Ulagam Suttrum Valiban', which is once again a recent trend. And who cares about what reaches whom ? If money laundering and black money getting green, white and whiter can reach B & C Centers with Rajni popularity, so can a space mishap. Maybe we name the heroine Sunita to keep it topical.
I am already counting my dollars. Afterall Sivaji made 100 crores easily. And hoping blogs reach directors like Mani Ratnam.
PS: A punch dialogue contest is open and readers can send their entries, the best & chosen one will get free tickets for the opening show and my autographed credit card bills to pay.
4 comments:
Opening punchline "Ellarukkum time paakka theriyum aana indha singathukku mattum than endha timeukku enna pannanumnu theriyum"
will come up with more in due course...
Here's a punch :P Ur reward needs to be better though!
Kanna intha ulagathule irukkardhu ore vaanam.Adhule parandhu po. sooriyan kitte poitta, nee HOT, illaina COOL. Dhoppunu keezhe vizhuntha nee thool thool. Idhu eppidi irukku. ?
I would exercise my resources to think of a real good punchline--in English though--- but would prefer to have your autograph on a cheque leaf..
I want ranji to say the most Favorite lines of all times
"Naahi un raktham kudinpe"
Regards MrX
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