EXT. MBA BLOCK
A girl follows another girl leaving after the commencement of a practice session of a fashion show troop.
TANYA
Maya........
Maya stops and turns around, to look at the girl.
EXT. COLLEGE CAMPUS ROAD
Maya is walking trough the road, a few people are walking with her, she keeps on walking, all those people disappear, she reaches IT park, sits on the steps. Another girl sits besideher and talks to her.
RIA
It is so comfortable to flow with the stream isn't it. Hiding your own self within the monotony of life, so that others can't see you, you can't see them.
Maya doesn't respond to Ria stands up and starts walking, she nears MBA block building, a bunch of people are sitting, they don't care about her, she doesn't care about them. She
continues to walk, as she passes through that place, a tall boy, Robin, comes to that place, seeing him everyone stands, and converges towards him. Ria comes and talks to her,everyone behind disappears.
RIA just stay on the surface to see the stars. Yet you know very well inside
your heart, your brightness that you hide within yourself, which will make your soul much more vibrant than those fake stars.
MAYA
They should see that by themselves.
RIA
You can't expect your song to be tuneful in your very own way for everyone else, unless you sing it
yourself to them.
Ria disappears
EXT. MBA BLOCK
Maya and Tanya are talking
MAYA
Tanya, What always keeps you happy, that smile on your face, how do you always retain it?
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TANYA
I enjoy every moment of my life and every one and every thing around me, as if they were so special, which in turn makes me special to them.
MAYA
I can't do that, I don't like people and no one makes me feel I am special.
Tanya disappears, the celebrity boy, Robin, comes and talks to
Maya.
ROBIN
Ramp is all yours to be articulated, manipulated, choreographed and designed
MAYA
I don't want to, anymore.
ROBIN
We need an orginal formation, not those TV copied sequences like everytime we have had. You always proposed a design based on natural entities like, flowers and clouds, We need that.
MAYA
3 years back when I was there telling everyone for me coordinating Ram walk was a drift away from monotonous randomness of daily life where designed choreography opposed haphzardness and symmetry and logic defied aimlessness, I was called Crazy
ROBIN
I have always acknowledged your visual interpretation of what we do but I had people above me, and there is no need to pay that much attention to what Ria said, by the time she
could come back to you, you had given up.
MAYA
And so still I do not bother, coming back to you and your people.
ROBIN
If not anything, then at-least choreograph for the team involved and people who represent this place.
MAYA
my vision will not be wasted on just 2 another bunch of attention seekers. EXT. COLLEGE CAMPUS ROAD Maya is walking on the road, she sees the fashion troop practising, suddenly she sees the team going out of synchronization. She stares at them for quite some time, they
fall back into synchronization, suddenly she sees, herself, standing in the middle of no where, all alone, no one can be seen.
Ria comes and talks to her
RIA
Finding yourself deserted from everyone, cloaked by your own loneliness. Still just hoping to
speak, through your symmetry and logic, the reason behind their un-synchronized movements, to
co-ordinate them back into synchronization, but why would you,because you are pulled back by self imposed estrangement.
MAYA
How does some one feel if not estranged, when his ideas are called crazy?
Ria disappears,
EXT. MBA BLOCK
Maya and Tanya are talking to each other
MAYA
You know, what do I find most satisfying, when I see everyone doing
whatever he is supposed to, in the most organized, neat and logical form of way, at the same time expressing what they feel, inspiring others to follow that brilliance, but I also believe in human imperfections, selfishness, attitude problems and their hunger for attention, and there
is only one way I find, to express them all the emotions and actions I believe in, all of them together at once, and that is through Ramp walk.
Tanya disappears, One model comes in front presents and disappears, another comes presents and disappears, slowly all of them come one by one and disappear.
Ria comes and talks to her
RIA
What have you become, so unwilling to 3 do what best you can do.
MAYA
I have told Robin already, I don't want to waste my vision on attention
seekers and work with some one who finds my work to be crazy.
RIA
I called you crazy because I was jealus of your craft, so what I did
what I wanted to, what came to my mind at that time, because it was I
just being me. But look at you, you are running away from yourself. You are so much devoid of your own free will.
MAYA
I still hold my free will, I am free to choose what I want to do and what
not. I am free to not to take the burden of co-ordinating your event
and choreographing your guys.
RIA
but you are not free to be Maya as I know her. How do I call a high flying
skylark, a high flying skylark, who refuses to fly because her flight
will be mocked or it will in turn trigger a dozen other birds in going
in the race for ruling the sky. Or has the bird given up flying because
she feels, the sky is becoming too limited for tiny birds to capture it.
Both ways I can't call the bird, The bird, because she is not doing what
she is supposed to do and she is supposed to fly.
EXT. MBA BLOCK
Tanya and Maya are talking.
MAYA
I don't want to earn money from it, I
have a bunch of other ways for that, but Choreographing ramp walk help me
create a stable symmetry, it gives me an opportunity to move away from
normal day to day unorganized lifestyle and more over people, just
because they wish to be in limelight, they build a society, so that others
who can praise them for anything makes me move away from them.
Tanya disappears.
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Robin comes in and starts talking to Maya.
ROBIN
You build your logical symmetry, as it is, I agree my troop is indeed a bunch of attention seekers, but that is very much an integral part of every expressive performance isn't it. These are the people who go on in front of people exclusively to express how do they feel in that attire with that make up and style, but they need to organize their energies into specified and defined
movements that only you can do. Do it not for them but for your own
expressive satisfaction.
MAYA
You want me to coordinate that event of yours, because you feel that I can
add an artistic expression to your tasteless event.
ROBIN
No, no not at all Maya, you are missing the whole point, we want you to be the way you should be, we just want you to be happy, we just want you to be your self. the whole fashion troop reappears from behind. The whole fashion troop reorganizes itself in 2 queues, while Maya
watches, it starts moving forwards towards Maya. Slowly from the right and left queues, one by one each member starts moving towards the center. converting 2 vertical queues into a
single horizontal line that moves in front and stops. Two models enter from either sides, they cross their paths, and reach on either sides with a considerable distance. In between
that space 3 couple models and they split apart with distance, in the order, first one, farthest, second couple split at lesser distance, third at least distance, giving a formation
of blossomingflower.
A girl follows another girl leaving after the commencement of a practice session of a fashion show troop.
TANYA
Maya........
Maya stops and turns around, to look at the girl.
TANYA
Its the first time you have joined us to choreograph, the formation shines,I have never felt like that before when I walked. I think there is a very special very reason for you to
co-ordinate this ramp walk. Its 5 suddenly, although this is something
great for us but What suddenly inspired you to do this? By the way my name is Tanya.
MAYA
Sometimes, Tanya all what you want is an opportunity to speak, and sometimes you need someone to help you speak, who usually are the ones who understand your urge and Once you
start speaking, more and more you become yourself because you become free to do what you should. That's why we need friends, and that's why we need people, because we are human
beings and we need someone to remind who we are what we should be.As Maya leaves, footage of her fashion show is incorporated with her leaving the scene.
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