Brigadier Usman

The Lion Of Naushera

Based on a True Story

Original Script & Screenplay Created

By

Sanjay Khan

Dialogues

Javed Siddiqi

Registered SWA: 392433 Dt: 10/11/19

Property of Kingdom Entertainment Pvt Ltd

 Opening Credits: Powerful Images of the imperial British power over India
with the credits captioned and a strong musical score depicting the theme of
the film.

Fade In

SC:1: Kashmir, Jhangar HQ/High Hill Feature/ VFX

FIRING STARTS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING…

The high hill feature: We see Pakistan’s heavy artillery. A frenzied

atmosphere of activity of the gunners commanded by a young major speaking
on the walkie talkie.

Young Major

Bravo to eagle, bravo to eagle--

Cut To

On the other side we see Akbar Khan holding a walkie talkie standing on top of
a hill at the artillery observation post leaning on a walking stick in his right
hand and a bandage on his left eye, looking bruised and battered. Holding the
walkie talkie with his left hand.

Akbar Khan (order)

Eagle here-- target Fox one… I repeat Target Fox one- … range calculations
waqt aane par diye jaayenge- keep artillery ready at 0600 hrs - Over and out.

C/U of the watch: Akbar looks at his watch. It shows 0550hrs… He gets up
with the help of the walking stick… We see him limping.

Cut To

The observation post consists of several men and one officer. He stops and
looks through his binoculars at Usman’s brigade HQ. Akbar’s POV:

Cut To

He sees the Indian artillery positions and the activity around it. He looks
around and finds the sand bag model camp with Indian soldiers and officers
doing their chores. The armoured cars, jeeps and an array of tanks are parked
in and around.
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Akbar looks at his watch. It shows 0600hrs.

Cut To

The leading young major looks at his watch, its shows 0600 hrs.

Cut To

Akbar Khan

Set range to 3,250mts- 5 rounds - har ek gun se.—FIRE— Udaado usko!! Blow
him—

Akbar Khan quickly orders the artillery gunners to fire on his walkie talkie.
The artillery open fire.

Cut To

The artillery fire finds its target on several other tanks and vehicles. There
are casualties.

Cut To

In an effort to silence the enemy guns, Bhagwan Singh’s battery begins to

return the fire.

Cut To

The Pakistan artillery fires back with more determination.

Cut To

The gunners around this heavy thunder of shots looked dazed with bleeding
noses, feeding the cannons with huge shells.

Cut To

Usman observes the Pakistani observation post accurately. He tells Bhagwan

Singh speaking loudly into his ears:

Usman

Turn left, turn left…

Cut To

Akbar Khan looking through his binoculars spots Usman and speaks on his
walkie talkie .
 Akbar Khan

Fox Spotted… Lower your guns, range 3100mts…

Cut To

We see a large artillery barrel being lowered in slow motion and a 25 pounder
shell is being loaded.

Cut To

Akbar khan

Fire

VFX showing the 25 pounder travelling in slow motion straight towards

Usman and hitting a rock nearby.

Cut To

The rock is splintered into large pieces and one of them hits Usman at the back
like a missile. Mortally Usman Falls, all this is in slow motion.

Fade out

Fade In

Sc: 2: A Collage of shots in various locations in the format of newspaper

interviews. VFX

Karachi, The Dawn newspaper

Headlines “Naushera ka sher- Brigadier Mohammed Usman Halaak”.

Jinnah reading the news with a smile.

Cut To

Pandit:

Toh naushera ke sher usman ne apna farz poora kardiya- ab kashmir ko koi
khatra nahi hai--!

Cut To

J&K Command HQ- Gen Cariappa is reading a cable

Gen Cariappa:
 Mera gift Jhangar mujhe mil gaya—thankyou usman!

Cut To

Karachi Prime Minister office:

Liaquat

Saare pakistan ke liye khushkhabri hai ke brigadier usman maara jaa chuka
hai!

Reporter

Sir humari report to yeh hai ke who zinda hai – aur saari duniya usse hero
karar de rahi hai—

Liaqat

Yeh bakwas hai, bharti propaganda hai—

Sardar patel

humara hero usman sapna nahi sachai hai!— Pakistani pradhan mantri ko din
mein bhi sapne dikhai dete hain—

Cariappa:

He is very much Alive

Fade Out

Fade In

Sc 3: Sandhurst England: 1932/ Royal Military College Building- (

Acquire actual footage from Pathe London)

We open with an imposing shot of the building of the Sandhurst Military

collage. (Same Music continue)

CUT TO

English landscape : We see 25 Indian military cadets in fatigues with battle

gears holding rifles.

CUT TO

Close up of a English sergeant looking towards the cadets, he shouts a

command.
 English Sergeant

Get……Prepared……

We see the cadets taking positions.

CUT TO

Close up of sergeant turns to his left he looks at one set of hurdles like stairs,
the highest hurdle is almost about 10ft the lowest is 3ft. we see the hurdles
with leaping flames of fire.

CUT TO

A composite shot, sergeant the 25 Indian cadets and the hurdles with the
flames.

CUT TO

A close up of the English sergeant shouts…

English Sergeant

Mohammed Usman……

CUT TO

We catch the running feet of boots, the camera tracks matching the speed of
the running cadet.

CUT TO

The camera pans catching the back of the cadet running towards the fire and
leaps up.

CUT TO

The frame is full of leaping fire, we see the cadet emerge leaping over the fire
in slow motion. We reveal Usman.

CUT TO

Another angle Usman neatly jumping over the fire with rifle holding up in
both his hands lands gracefully.

CUT TO

We show several other cadets with full battle gear holding guns over their
heads jumping over leaping flames of fire.
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Several other intriguing hurdle exercises including some with live fire. The
soldiers are shown steeping up and running over it.

CUT TO

Usman leading, rope climbing and jumping hurdles.

CUT TO

Moving, hanging grappling the bars with hands and feet. Some slipping falling
out.

CUT TO

Usman rapidly reloading his rifle shoots bulls eyes at target practise.

CUT TO

Leaping over comrades stretched on the ground firing their rifles.

CUT TO

We show the English sergeant bellowing orders throughout the above

exercises. Usman is clearly excelling above the others, nearly 12 cadets have
dropped out.

CUT TO

The cadets are now seen running with heavy military backpacks and the
English sergeant on horseback keeping abreast shouting at them. His attitude
is like a bull dog. Trotting on his horse screaming.

Cut To

Sergeant
Come on. faster... faster ... faster

Cut To

He seems to be relishing this with a superior air.

Cut To

A tracking close shot of the 13 cadets who are sweating and panting heavily
look exhausted. One of the cadets drops down. He cannot take it anymore.
Usman who was running close by stops turns around and run towards fallen
comrade to help him. The sergeant turns his horse and charging menacingly
towards Usman, screams at him.
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Sergeant

Cadet Mohammed Usman! Don’t you touch him… I said don’t touch him.. run
all of you.

Cut To

( We see expression of deep concern on Usman’s face for the fallen cadet )

Cut To

A close up of Usman with pain in his eyes looking at his falling comrade forced
to follow orders and runs on to join his soldiers.

Cut To

A tight close up of the horse’s face, the nostrils bellowing, showing exhaustion
in the fraught in his mouth and a steel bit tightly held back.

CUT TO

SC 4: Another Remote Location : Chroma shoot VFX

We hear the sound of machine gun fire. We see about 11 soldiers sitting on the
ground in a line with machine guns kept between their legs firing away just 3
feet above the ground.

Sergeant

Yeh training mein jaan ka khatra hai-- Live fire 3 feet ground ke upar hai—
apne sir neeche rakho- nahi to goli sirke paar hojayega

OR (in english)

This part of training is very crucial-- Live fire is 3 feet above the ground— keep
your heads low – or you’ll be shot!

Cut To

Another angle the cadets we have seen before are taking this battle
inoculations which means they have to crawl upto 50 metres of live fire
without being shot.

Cut To

They are holding on their guns and moving on their elbows and knees flat on
the ground keeping low. We show the sergeant screaming.
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Sergeant
Come on faster keep low keep low... nahi to you’ll be dead!

Cut To

Two to three shots from different angles capturing Usman crawling under the
intense fire just as he passes the camera. We see another cadet is hit by a
bullet right in the fore head and falls dead.

Cut To

This is observed by Usman. The stress on the faces of the young cadets is
immense. The heavy din of the machine gun fire is deafening them so much
that the shouting voice and the screaming sergeant are seemingly heard like a
distant thunder.

Cut TO

Sc 5: Interior Office of the Commandant.

Two senior officers standing- looking at the seated commandant. The

commandant is going through the sergeant’s report. After glancing through
the report.

Cut To

Sergeant

Sir sandhurst ke first batch of 25 cadets mein se10 fail hogaye 2 resigned 2
died

OR in English

Sir- Of the first batch of the 25 Indian cadets admitted to Sandhurst, ten failed
to meet the requisite standard, two died, two resigned, one was deprived of his
commission and ten passed.

Commandant
Indian boys aur humare boys mein se kaun achcha hai?

Or in english

Commandant.
How do you compare indian boys to our boys?

Sergeant

Waise to sab barabar they sir—Par Mohammed Usman is the best!

 Or in english

Sergeant

Huh… On Par sir.- Mohammed Usman is the best!

CUT TO

Sc 6 : Royal Military Academy 1936 Passing

Parade.(Chroma and VFX brief with Usman marching
with cadets)

We show a very impressive building of the academy with

hundreds of cadets lined up and standing to attention. The
commander of the group mounted on a white horse is seen
right in front centre of the cadets.

Cut To

We show a large group of a military band playing and

marching smartly in rhythm to their military music.

Cut To

Another angle we show Field Marshal Cyril Deverryll

inspecting the smartly lined up cadets. We see Usman
amongst the cadets. We hear the military band being
played continuously in the background.

Cut To

A large canopy holding hundreds of invitees watching the

parade. Several cuts of civilians and dignitaries talking to
the military officers.

Cut To

We cut to the investiture ceremony on a raised platform.

Standing on the platform Field Marshal Cyril Deverryll
distributing the medals and sword of honour to various
officers.
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After the investiture ceremony we show the cadets

mounted on their horses, with drawn swords in hands
holding their reins with their left hand in smart
formations. The leading cadet carrying a banner climbing
up the stairs entering into the military academy.

Fade out
Fade In
Before the visual sound the sound of war starts---

Sc 7 : 1944 Arakan, Burma ( Myanmar) British Indian army bunkers

Chroma and VFX

We see British Indian army post bunkers being

bombarded. We show a powerful collage of military
attacks- air and ground troops by the Japanese armies on
British position.

Cut To

Usman along with Akbar Khan of the 13th Force Rifle of

the British Indian Army along with their patrols come
across a hill feature held by the Japanese and come under
heavy fire. They report this to Lieutenant Colonel John
Fairley who is part of this unit. ( Note: We intercut the
battle which is raging in nearby surroundings)
Cut To

Akbar khan
Sir order dijiye – main apni pathan regiment lekar aagay jaata hoon aur
japani batalion ko khatam kardeta hoon!

Fairley

Tum akele nahi jaaoge leutinant akbar— you will take dogra regiment with
you!

Cut To
 Akbar:

Japaniyon ko sabak sikhane ke liye Main akela hi kaafi hoon sir!

Usman

(Addressing akbar in polite manner)

Khudki taaqat par bharosa karna achchi aadat hai — magar dushman ko
kamzor samajhna bewakoofi hai!—aapko humari zarurat padegi!

Akbar is about to say something… when fairley says

Fairley

Leuteniant Usman is right, you take his Dogra regiment with you... that’s an
order

Akbar gives a snarling look at usman

Cut To

Off scene sound of heavy guns firing. Usman moves rapidly ahead with the
Dogra company, launches an attack on the hill feature from two sides.

Cut To

Akbar Khan is seen leading the 13th Force Rifle from the third side under
intense firing from the hill top. Usman orders Sepoy Bhandari Ram to take a
platoon to attack from the right side, like a pincer movement.

Usman:

Bhandari ram ghera bandi—pincer movement mein--- right se aagay badho,

right se,

Cut To

Bhandari Ram swings into action and leads his men with immense gallantry-
attacking and killing several Japanese.

Cut To

In the thick of the battle after shooting down several Japanese, he is riddled
with the fierce fire from the Japanese as he charges directly in a frontal
attack on the entrenched Japanese troops shooting down almost all the JAPs .

Cut To
On the far side akbar leading his Pathan platoon under intense fire charges on
the other Japanese position and swamps them.

Cut To

A grenade blasts right in front of Bhandari Ram and he is seriously wounded.

Usman rushes in and firing his sten gun at the Japanese engaging some in
hand to hand combat and finishes off the remaining squad of Japanese who
had shot at Bhandari Ram. The feature hill is captured.

Cut To

Usman and few men rush and jump into a bunker avoiding the fire from the
rushing zeros, the Japanese fighter who are heading straight towards them
strafing them with heavy fire, and swoops out of frame.

Cut To

Just then akbar comes back with few of his men who are carrying Bhandari
Ram- who is very seriously wounded.

Cut To

He looks at Bhandari Ram and moves towards him. Camera catches them in a
two shot c/u, a visibly emotional Usman looking at Bhandari Ram whose blood
oozing from his face. Usman showing concern

Usman:

Bhandari bhandari— (he orders the soldiers) durjan singh, ram lal, isse field
hospital lekar jaana hoga—jaldi

Ramlal:

Yes sir…

Bhandari:

Sir- sir humne japanese command post udaa dii hai—aagay badhiye sir, meri
chinta mat kijiye—jaaiye jaaiye sir..

He squirms in pain…

Usman:

Tum bahot bahadur ho bhandari ram… tumhe kuch nahi hoga…

 Cut To

Usman rushes out followed by Zorawar entering their makeshift office in the
bunker and meet the officiating Commandging officer-an Indian officer named
Col Sen.

Cut To

Usman

Sir sipahi bhandari ram ne zabardast bahaduri dikhai hai! Uss akele ne apni
jaan ki baazi lagakar japaniyon ki post ko udaya, aur humari army ko aagay
badhna ka rasta banadiya— iss bahaduri ke liye usse Victoria Cross milna
chahiye!

Cut To

Sen

Victoria Cross har ek ko nahi diya jaata leftinant-- main sipahi bhandari ram
ko Indian Order of Merit dilane ki sifarish karunga!

Cut To

Usman and Zorawar look at each other. Usman looks disturbed and grim with
a look of determination on his face. Both of them leave the room after saluting.

Cut To

SC 8 : Brigade Headquarters.

We catch a jeep arriving and stops. Usman comes out of it. A board indicates
Brigade headquarters off the field

Cut To

Usman (make it hindi)

Sir bhandari ram ki bahaduri ki report aapko dii jaa chuki hai—usne jo
karnama kiya hai, uske liye meri sifarish hai ke bhandari ram ko victoria
cross milna chahiye!

Hutton
TEEK HAI--- I agree I read your report– bhandari ram ko Victoria Cross milni
chahiye!!

Usman salutes him, clicking his boots with a happy smile on his face.
 Fade OUT

Fade In

Sc 9 : Music Fades In Varanasi

A drone shot panoramic view of Varanasi at dawn as the sun rises slowly. In
the morning light we see the majesty of the alluring Varanasi. We show
several shots of boats moving to and fro from the banks by the boatmen with
their passengers and goods.

Cut To

Few other interesting curious shots- temples, mahants chanting prayers,

temple bells and sound of aarti. There is warm celebratory music in the
background. General activities of the early morning Varanasi.

Cut To

A close up of Usman in a boat approaching the Ghats of Varanasi. He is filled

with joy and looks admiringly at the city of his birth.

Cut To

Another angle composite boat and Varanasi, moving towards the banks.

Cut To

A scenic shot of the lord Hanuman temple. We cut to the interior- Usman
sitting on the steps the sankat mochan temple-- taking out his boots watched
by two other young priests. He observes a few monkeys playing on the walls
nearby and smiles.

We cut a flashback

Close up of a lord Hanuman idol. Camera tracks back and we include the
mahant finishing his last rites. We hear the lord hanuman chalisa in the
background and the temple bells ringing. The atmosphere is august. Usman
and his father are observing the rituals. A big close of the Mahant distributing
the aarti and people are offering coins while being blessed.

Cut To

We show Usman and his father sitting on nearby steps in the precincts of the
temple. We see a bunch of monkeys playing with each other. Mahant with
noble bearings comes towards Usman and Kotwal with an assistant and
affectionately greets. Kotwal and Usman both get up reverently and greet

Kotwal offers a coin as per custom and accepts the prasad. The prasad thali is
taken away by the assistant.
 Kotwal:

namashkar mahantji

Mahant

Salam, kotwal sahab- sukhi rahiye!— lijiye prasad lijiye, (to usman) lo beta…

Cut To

Mahant, beckons kotwal to sit, puts his hand affectionately on Usman’s head
and draws him to sit beside him.

Cut To

Usman notices some monkeys and smiles and walks towards them.

Cut To

Kotwal

Police commissioner gordon sahab ki maherbani se usman ko harishchandar

high school mein daakhla mil gaya hai lekin hum bahot pareshan hain ke yeh
padhega kaise?

Mahant:

Kyon? kya padhai mein man nahi lagta?

Kotwal:

Man to bahot lagta hai magar iske haklane se hum sab pareshan hain—
bachche ke bhavishya ka sawaal hai

Mahant:

Haan yeh to chinta ka vishay hai!

Cut To

As they speak they are looking at Usman playing with the monkey.

Cut To

Usman taking out a toffee from his pocket opening the wrapper ,offering it to
the monkey who grabs it and runs away. Mahants POV…Usman claps with joy.

Cut To
 Mahant and Kotwal observing this both have a warm smile, Mahant calls
Usman. Usman rushes in and sits next to the Mahant. As he sits we see a
couple of monkeys come and sit nearby him. Mahant observing this.

Mahant

aap chinta na karen, aapke bete par, sankat mochan ki daya dhrishti hai—isse
vaidraj vishwanath sharmaji ke paas lejaaiye—unke paas koi na koi upaaye
avashya hoga!

Flashback Ends

Cut To

Usman enter the inner sanctum sanctorium.

Cut To

Camera catches the mahant and tracks with him. He looks aged with white
beard and a good natured face smilingly welcomes Usman as the camera
includes Usman. He looks at him and his uniform and catches him by his
shoulders.

Cut To

Mahant

Jeete raho, sukhi raho, desh ka naam ooncha karo—bahot garv horaha hai
tumhe fauji vardi mein dekh kar

Usman

Yeh sab aapka aashirwad hai mahantji, agar aap na hote to hum iss uniform
mein bhi nahi hote!

Mahant

Sipahi ki vardi uski pehchaan hi nahi hoti uski aan bhi hoti hai! bada ooncha
sthaan hai sipahi kaa—hazrat mohammed ne farmaya hai “ek raat sarhad kii
hifazat karne ka sawaab ek mahine ke rozon se zyada hai”

Usman

Aapko islam ki malumat bhi hai?

Mahant (smiles)

Saare dharm Raaste hain beta, pahonchna to wahi hai!

 Mahant Points his finger up… Usman is emotionally moved. He smiles and
after greeting him with a namaskar, he kisses the mahants hand in Islamic
style of respect.

Cut to

Usman’s father looking older, impatiently pacing the balcony of his house,
looks at the clock and the clock strikes.

Mother of Usman

Usman ke abbu abhi tak humra lal pahoncha naahi! Itti der kaahe hui gayi!
tanik pata to lagaiye!

Kotwal

(Shouting out to his wife)

Bas aahi raha hoga!—fauji waqt ke bahot pabandh hote hain!

Cut To

Aerial drone shot showing a straight road heading towards the village with
vast mustard fields shinning like gold in the morning light capturing its sheer
beauty. We see a tonga drawn by a white horse racing speeding towards the
village.

Cut To

Two shot of Usman and the taonga. Usman sitting next to the driver. Camera
closes in on Usman flushing with happiness. We can see joy on his face in
anticipation looking yonder towards his village.

Cut To

SC: 10 : Location Usman’s Village: ( Ext VFX)

A top shot rush of people excitedly running towards the approach road of the
village anxious to see Usman. Another high angle shot- other streams of
people coming out from their houses and gullies and moving towards the
village entrance. Camera is tracking the people.

Cut To

Another angle- more people passing the same well we had seen before where
Usman saved Savitri.

Cut To
 Crane mounted camera lift up and catches Usman’s father and mother
followed by his two brothers, rush into the balcony looking at the vast number
of people heading towards the road of the village.

Cut To

The camera frames the crowd in a composite shot with his parents. Usman’s
father very excited and emotional. His POV the taonga.

Cut To

Usman’s father

Dekho, dekho who dekho, who tanga, who humara usman hi hai!

Gufran

Bhaiya aagaye, bhaiya aagaye, amma bhaiya aagaye

Subhan (shouts)

Usman bhaiya… usman bhaiya…

Subhan waves his hands

Usman’s mother

( Visibly emotional wiping tears with her pallu)

Allah tera lakh lakh sukar hai, humri aankh ka tara aai gawa! Humra usman
aai gawa!

A shot of the taonga racing towards the village.

Cut To

Taonga stops and Usman steps out wearing his military tunic. Villagers
garlanding him.

Cut To

We catch his mother, father along with Sufran and Gufran running towards
Usman. Camera tracks and includes Usman.

Kotwal:

Dekh rahi ho tumhare fauji ka kaisa swagat horaha hai, hona hi chahiye
aakhir kiska beta hai!

Mother:
 Aur humra naahi hai kaa?

Kotwal zor se hasta hai

Cut To

We see a young girl whom Usman had saved from drowning in the well. She is
grown up wearing a Mangal sutra accompanying a young man-her husband.

Cut To

We catch her moving towards Usman. Camera tracking includes Usman and
we pull back to include Usman’s parents.

Cut To

The young girl is carrying a thaali. As she is doing the aarti and tilak, Usman
is focussing on her deeply

Savitri:

Bhaiya pehchane humka—hum savitri—

( a flash cut of him saving the drowning girl). A smile lights up Usman’s face.

Savitri:

aur ee humre who hain…

usman:

arey kya baat hai—sukhi raho tum dono—

Cut To

He walks up to his parents… he has tears in his eyes… baap se gale milta hai—

Father:

tumne humara sir fakhar se ooncha kardiya hai…

Usman, maa se gale milta hai

Usman:

Amma, ab to hum aaigaye hain ab kaahe ro rahi ho--

Maa:
Chal pagle hum ro thodi rahe hain—toko dekhan waaste apni aankh dho rahe
hain!

Usman kisses his mothers eyes!

And song fades in

Cut To

SONG 1: A villager striking the school bell with a metal rod heralding the
sound of the bell is mixed with very robust drums played by some villagers
and blends into an exciting dance music.

Cut To

We hear the sound of forceful drums music. A bevy of village girls with oomph
and grace in ghagras and boys in traditional costumes. A dynamic song and
dance number stuns the audience for its beauty, grace and entertainment
welcoming their hero.

(The sense of the lyrics: Usman the son of our soil, the bravest of all, the
courageous and noble, our true son of the soil. You are in the hearts of us all.
We are sure you will defend our country against our enemies. We have faith in
you dear Usman, we have faith in you dear Usman).

Song is intercut with joyous village people including Usman’s family.

Cut To

Sc 11 : Usman’s father’s House Night:

The family is seated for dinner on a dasterkhwan. We see Usman wearing his
khadi attire, enters the sitting room.

Usman

Salamalaikum

Sab ‘valekum salam’ se jawaab dete hain

His mother observes the khadi attire. He sits between his mother and Subhan
and Gufran.

( Delighted and happy with the presence of her sons)

Usman’s Mother

Ee kaisa kapda pehne ho bachwa, humto tumhara kamra mein lakhnawi

chikkan ka kurta rakhwaye they—
 Usman smiles

Isse humri vardi samajhlo amma

Maa

Vardi??

Usman

Haan amma is desh mein ek jung aur bhi hai jo badi khamoshi se ladi jaa rahi
hai, uske sipahi yehi baana pahente hain!

Maa

Tumri paheliyan humri samajh ke bahar hai bhaiya—chalo bismillah karo!

Subhan

Ek pagal dictator hitler ne saari duniya ko jung ki aag mein jhonk diya hai—

Usman (smiles)

Lagta hai akhbaar bade gaur se padte ho?

Kotwal

Arey tumhe pata nahi subhan ne BHU se journalism ka course kiya aur ab
times of india ke liye kaam kar raha hai!—

Usman:

Bahot achche subhan-- kalam ki dhaar, talvaar se zyada tez hoti hai--

Gufran

Arey koi humari tareef bhi karo bhai… humne tumhari tarhan army mein
commisiion leliya hai!

Usman

Sach!! Yeh hui na mardon wali baat!—jee khush kardiya gufran!

Maa

Ek se badhkar ek hain humre lal

Kotwal

Allah ne humein teen bete nahi, teen sher diye hain!

 Maa

Najar na lagay!

Usman

Sameena aur saleena aapa- ke kya haal hain abbuji?

Kotwal

Bhai tumhari dono behnen nani ke paas rehti thi, unhone shaadi bhi karwadi,
aram se hain khush hain, agli dafa aaoge to mulaqat hogi!

Usman

Inshallah!

CUT TO

Sc 12: Usman’s Bedroom Night

We see Usman seated on a chatai spinning a charkha, composed with a

Mahatma Gandhi picture in the background. Off scene sound of his father’s
voice.

Cut To

Kotwal

Hum aajayen?

Usman looks up smilingly and getting up greets his father

Usman

Aaiye aaiye abbu

They both sit down on the chatai.

Father:

Tumbhi gandhiji ki tarhan charkha chalate ho?

Usman:

Yeh tohfa gandhiji ne desh ko diya hai--- hum unko bahot maante hain abbuji!

Father

Who gandhi nahi, azadi ki aandhi hain! jo saare desh mein chal rahi hai!
 Usman

Humein yakeen hai ke bapu aur unke saathiyon ki koshish se humara mulq
bahot jald azad hojayega! Angrezon ki ghulami ki zanjeeren toot jaayengi—
magar ek badi fikar bhi hai…

Kotwal

Kis baat ki fikar?

Usman

Agar siyasi partiyon mein samjhauta nahi hua to hindustan ke tukde

hojayenge!

Father

Pata nahi kya hone wala hai, kal raat humne ek bahot bura khwaab dekha—
humne dekha ke pehli ka chand chamak raha hai aur achanak uske do tukde
hojate hain!

He pauses. Camera stays on Usman looking thoughtful.

Usman

Is khwaab ki tabeer kya hosakti hai abbuji?

Father

Chand ka tootna achcha shagun nahi hai!—

MOTHER IS STANDING IN THE CORNER AND WATCHING

Mother:

allah hum sabka apni amaan ma rakhe!

Usman & Father

Ameen!

Cut To

Usman gets up, opens a drawer and brings out two envelopes.

Usman

Abbuji yeh basti ke gareeb bachon ki school fees hai jo hum humesha bheja
karte hain—iss baar aarahe they isliye khud hi le aaye!
 Kotwal

Mashallah- Gareebon ki madad se zyada nek kaam aur koi nahi hota! Saari
basti tumhe duaen deti hai

Cut To

Usman handing over the second envelope.

Cut To

Usman

Aur iss lifafe mein thodi si rakkam hai, ghar kharch ke liye rakh lijiye! Jung
ke wajah se mahengai badhti jaa rahi hai—kaam aayegi!

Kotwal

Jabtak haath paaon salamat hain, tumhe pareshan hone ki zarurat nahi hai
beta!—hum yeh paise tumhari taraf se gareebon mein baant denge

Usman

Jaisa aap theek samjhe!

Father

Tumhari posting kahan hui hai?

Usman

Abhi pata nahi- final order delhi se aayega!

Lap Dissolve To

Sc 13 : Collage with voice over 1min 12 sec begins:

Chroma Shoot/ Plates of Rastrapati Bhavan
We see VICEROY HOUSE-- Rastrapati Bhavan with a British flag flying.

Cut To

We see the leaders of the Indian National Congress and the members of the
Indian Muslim League entering the precincts of Rastrapati Bhavan from the
section of the garden gate.

Cut To
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Vallabhbhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad,
Maulana Azad and others are seen.

Cut To

Staircase to one of the entrance of Rastrapati Bhavan.

Cut To

We see Mohd Ali Jinnah, Liquat Ali Khan and other members of the Muslim
league.

Cut To

Sir Stafford Cripps along with some other English men. Stafford Cripps
smiling in conversation and a few more standing behind him. Camera pans
revealing all.

Cut To

Stafford Cripps enters a room smiling eagerly. He extends his hand to Jinnah
who is getting up from sofa along with two colleagues sitting on either side.
They shake hands greeting each other and move towards a round conference
table.

Cut To

Open shot showing Nehru and Wavell Cut to another larger angle revealing
Maulana Azad and Stafford Cripps seated in conversation.

Cut To

Ext. Rastrapati Bhavan. A section we show the Nawab of Bhopal chatting with
some turbaned Indian officers.

Cut To

Top angle group of maharajas with turbans in conversation with few British
officers. Men gathered chatting in traditional dress and turbans.

Cut To

A group of Maharajas in serious conversation. Few people crossing in the

background.

Cut To

A back of a British military officer and a maharaja in turban talking seriously.

Another maharaja walking past the officer.
 Cut To

Another angle: A group of maharajas followed by a British officer exiting

frame to the right of camera- shot cuts mid-way.

Cut To

Jinnah walks out from the conference. A groups of people and reporters
anxiously walk towards him. Camera pans with Jinnah and the group of
people following him.

Cut To

British delegate speaks to camera leader of the princely order walking down
steps with other men in military uniform. Nawab of Bhopal in uniform with
British men in uniform behind. Group of men in traditional dress gather
chatting. We cut the shot mid-way with group exiting the camera.

Cut To

Muslim league delegation seated at a table. Jinnah smoking a large cigar with
Liaquat Ali.

Cut To

Three men in sherwani and Muslim caps- two of them seriously reading
documents.

Cut To

Leader of Congress and Nehru on right, seated on cushions.

Cut To

Camera pans- We see Sardar Patel and Wavell speaking.

Cut To

Nehru leaning forward placing a paper on the table. Rajendra Prasad sitting
on the right.

Cut To

Ext: Jinnah stepping out into the garden- camera pans.

Cut To

Nehru wearing sunglasses carrying a satchel with Maulana Azad and young
assistant on his left and 3 others following him walking towards camera.
 Cut To

Another angle Nehru in the lead exiting camera which pans and stays on
Maulana Azad and the asst.

The Voice Over for the above shots

Ek baar phir wohi horaha hai jo baar-baar hua hai— angrez hukumat ne phir
ek mission bheja hai jo hindustani leaderon se baatchit kar raha hai—Mr
Mohammed Ali Jinnah apni zid par ade hue hain ke hindustani musalmanon
ko ek alahida azad mulq milna chahiye—jabki pandit nehru aur congress ke
doosre netaon ka khyaal hai ke hindustan ka batwara nahi hona chahiye!

Bhopal ke nawaab Hamidullah khan sahab jo tamam hindustani riyaston ke

numainde hain iss baat ki koshsish kar rahe hain ke congress aur muslim
league dono partiyan - baatchit ke zariye kisi ek nateeje par pahonch jaayen,
jo hindustan ki awaam ke liye faidemand ho—magar abhi tak unhe koi
kamyabi nahi mili hai!

mission ki taraf se sujhaav diya gaya hai ke British India aur Indian states
milkar ek Union banayen, jismein 3 zone banaye jaayen!—jismein se 2 who
ilaaqe honge, jahan musalmanon ki abadi zyada hai!—

jo interim government banayi jaayegi usmein congress aur muslim league ke

numaindon ki tadad barabar hogi!—muslim league ka khyaal hai ke iss tajveez
mein ek tareeqe se pakistan ke demand ko maan liya gaya hai- jabki congressi
leader iss baat ke liye bilkul tayyar nahi hain ke interim government mein
dono partiyon ke numaindon ki tadad barabar ho- isliye unhone mission ki
tajveez ko na-manzoor kardiya hai!

congress ki is mukhalifat ke bawajood british sirkaar ne taye kiya hai—ke who

interim government banayegi aur usmein muslim league ke wazir shaamil
honge –league ne iss tajveez ko manzoor karliya hai—mr mohammad ali
jinnah ke liye yeh ek badi kamyabi hai!

congress kisi bhi keemat par is mansoobe(proposal) ko manzoor nahi kar rahi
hai--- agar interim government mein unke wazir, muslim league se zyada nahi
hue to who government mein shaamil nahi honge!—

Aur british sirkaar ko apne purane plan par wapis jaana padega!

CUT TO

Sc 14: 1946 Bombay Malabar Hill Jinnah Residence.

A drone shot of the famous 1946 Bombay Malabar Hill. The camera catches
Jinnah’s spacious white washed bungalow. As the camera moves closer to the
rear garden of the bungalow, we see hordes of news reporters on the lawns.

Cut To
Top angle camera pans from them and catches the front entrance gate of the
bungalow with a large car entering the gates.

Cut To

We cut to a lower angle and we see the same car cruise along the road leading
to the spacious veranda.

Cut To

Another angle the car reaches the patio, a dozen odd people rushing down the
stairs towards the car. Camera comes to an angle centralizing on Nehru.

Cut To

He gets out, he smiles and walks up the stairs lead by the officers who have
received him showing the way up.

Cut To

Another angle catching the inner precincts of the house. Nehru climbs a flight
of stairs leading to the upper storey by the officers.

Cut To

We see a grim Jinnah in his study which is lined up with law books and piles
high of documents in neatly arranged stacks. There is a knock on the door.
Jinnah looks up towards the door.

Jinnah

Come in.

Cut To

The door opens, the officers enter leading Nehru in. Camera tracks and pans
with them, taking in Jinnah getting up from his chair. He dismisses the
officers who leave them and walk out closing the door gently with respect.

Cut To

They shake hands like two lost friends. We can feel the undercurrent of two
opposite views on Indian independence.

Jinnah

( Trying to be humorous)

Humein congresswalon ki saari khabren milti rehti hain, mujhe malum hai ke
aap aur gandhiji mujhe kya kehte hain—pagal, evil genius, aapki sarojni naidu
 kisi se keh rahi thi ke main itna cold hoon ke meri maujudgi mein who thar
thar kaanpne lagti hain aur unhe fur coat ki zarurat pad jaati hai

(burst out laughing)

Nehru

(poised his charming best laughs along too)

Sarojni hi ka nahi, lady mountbatten ka bhi yehi khyaal hai!

Cut To

Jinnah looks surprized. Nehru laughs.

Nehru cont.

main bhi jaanta hoon ke muslim league wale mujhe kya samajhte hain, aapke
liye main peterpan hoon jo na kuch samajhta hai aur na kuch seekhta hai- bas
apne british doston ko khush karne mein laga rehta hai!!

Cut To

Jinnah gives another burst of laughter leading Nehru towards the sofa. We
suddenly see Jinnah’s expression change into a cold mask.

Jinnah

Aaiye ab kuch kaam ki baatein hojayen!

Nehru intently looking at Jinnah- wears a charming smile.

CUT TO

Reporters in the lawn noisy and restless. Some Muslim league leaders are
trying to quieten them.

Reporter

Nishtar sahab kuch to bataiye, kya horaha hai? hum sab savere se baithe hue
hain—

Subhan:

Qaid-e-azam aur panditji ek ghante se baat kar rahe hain kisi nateeje par
pahonche ke nahi?

3 reporter

Press mein copy bhejni hai sir, kuch to bataiye jaldi!

 A Muslim League leader is trying to pacify them.

Muslim League leader Nishtar

Mulqon aur qaumon ke faisle chand minute mein nahi hote hain—sabr kijiye
qaid-e-azam tashreef laane hi waale hain--

Cut To

As he says this, we cut to another angle. We see Nehru and Jinnah in the lower
veranda on the ground floor, Jinnah leading the way to Nehru’s car. Both men
seem grim. They shake hands with a shade of a smile on their faces. Nehru
gets into the car and drives off.

Cut To

Jinnah after waving a bye bye to Nehru who is moving away in the car, turns
and walks back on the stairs leading to the lawns where the reporters are
waiting for a long period of time with exhausted expressions on their faces.
The reporters rush towards him but they are put to order by the officers. We
see Subhan amongst the journalist.

Subhan

Sir Interim Government mein aapki policy kya hogi?

Jinnah

Muslim league apni jado-jahed jaari rakhegi—aur uske liye humne ek plan
bana liya hai, humne taye kiya hai ke agar musalmanon ko alhaida mulq nahi
diya gaya to hum Direct action shuru karenge!

Reporter 2
Direct action se aapka kya matlab hai sir?

Jinnah

(In an angry tone)

Pehle congress walon se malum kijiye ke who kya mansoobe bana rahe hain—
agar unhone apna plan batadiya to hum bhi batadenge!

Subhan

Sir kya aap chahte hain ke yeh mulq tabah hojaye? Kya aapne socha hai ke
hindustan ki takseem ka nateeja kitna khatarnak hoga?

Jinnah
 Toh kya chahte hain aaplog?—hum haath jodkar baithe rahen aur who apni
manmaani karte rahen!—humne congress ko batadiya hai ke hum ladai
jhagda nahi chahte, lekin agar who apni zid par aday rahe to hum bhi jawaab
dene par majboor hojayenge! Rasta ek hi hai, A divided India aur a Destroyed
India!

Dissolve

Sc 15: Calcutta Nov 1946 Chroma Shoot with VFX

Burrabazar : Troubles starts on the morning of 16 August. Even before 10

o'clock Police Headquarters at Lalbazar had reported that there was
excitement and anger throughout the city.

Cut To

Kelabagan: We see a section of the street. People running all over in panic-
shops shutters being closed, we hear gun shots. A group of people stabbing
each other with knives and blood pouring on the streets.

Cut To

Rajabazar: Dozens of dead bodies drenched in blood lying on the road.

Screams and shouts of destitute women and children crying over the dead
bodies of the men.

Cut To

Colootolla :Mobs throwing stones and brickbats, shops being looted, shattering
glass panes. We see several vehicles in flames and some are overturned. Fire
brigade vehicles dowsing the fires.

Cut To

Harrison Road :The locality is full of black smoke coming out of burning tyres.
People running in panic all over the place chased by mobs fired by political
leaders with banners.

Cut To

College Street: Trams on fire and police vehicles stationed at key points of the
road. The police are trying to contain the mob.

Cut To

The Statesman: “Calcutta death Roll now over 2000“

Cut To

The New York Times: “Overwhelming task now facing authority in Calcutta”.
 Cut To

The Hindustan Times: Gun -Duel In Calcutta

Cut To

The Times Of India: “The Toll of thoughtless Violence In Calcutta” Subhan

reports…

Cut To

Associated press : “170 Killed and over 100 injured in Calcutta”.

CUT TO

Sc 16 : Governor General Palace (Rastrapati Bhavan) New Delhi, Feb

1947 Int: Office of Lord Mountbatten

We see a car stopping in the porch. Pandit Nehru along with Sardar Patel
stepping out walking briskly passing two tall Indian Sikh palace guards
heading towards an impressive door.

Cut To

We see them coming in Lord Mountbatten is seen seated along with

Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liquat Ali Khan. As Panditji and Sardar enter,
they stand up and shake hands. Mountbatten invites them to the conference
table. The mood is sombre.

Cut To

Mountbatten

Ladies & Gentlemen—muje prime minister atlee ne ek message beja hai uske
mutabik – London ke House of Commons mein yeh ailaan kiya gaya hai ke His
Majesty ki hukumat ka faisla hai ke india mein sirkaar chalane ki zimmedari
hindustanii awaam ko sonp dii jaaye aur yeh kaam june 30-1948 tak hojana
chahiye! (This Portion) Prime minsiter atlee chahte hain ke hindustan ki
baare mein pehle jo mansoobe banaye gaye they, unhe amali shakal dedi
jaaye- prime minsiter and secretary of state ne yehii bayaan house of lords
mein bhi diya haii—aur iss baat par afsos ka izhaar kiya hai ke (atlee)
hindustan mein banai jaane wali interim government ki assembly ko, jis
tarhan kaam karna chahiye tha us tarhan kaam nahi kar paa rahi hai kyon ke
yahan ki siyasi partiyon mein bahot zyada differences hain!

Cut To

( Several Intercuts of Panditji, Sardar Patel, Jinnah and Liquat Ali listening
with deep involvement. Their seething anger is apparent.)
 Cut To

Nehru

(Bangs the table with the palm of his hand)

Preposterous—hum yeh sab kabhi nahi maan sakte – iss sujhaao se hindustan
ke tukde tukde hojayenge—aur hindu muslim dange itne zyada badh jaayenge
ke unhe roka nahi jaasakega!

Cut To

Mountbatten

Aur bhi bahot saare issues hain—jaise unresolved Kashmir, Maharajas,

Nizams, Nawabs aur sabse zyada Muslim league and congress ke differences…

He looks them challengingly.

Mountbatten Cont.

Yeh sab ko ignore nahi karsakte!

Cut To

C/U of Nehru, Jinnah, Azad and Patel.

Sardar Patel

(Red in the face controlling his temper speaks sarcastically)

Your excellency… kya aap nahi jaante ke iss waqt desh mein kya horaha hai—
bengal mein aag lagi hui hai - aag!—aap kya chahte hain hindustan raakh ke
dher ban jaaye!

Cut To

Jinnah

Khatra to har taraf hai—mulq ke Western States mein hinduon ki ek bahot

badi tadaad hai—agar wahan fasaad phail gaya to hum rok nahi paayenge!

Cut To

Liaqat

Punjab se fasaadat ki reports aana shuru hogayin hain!

Cut To
 Nehru
Meri darkhaast hai ke British government ko hindustan ki azadi ke baare
mein phir ek baar gaur karna chahiye—agar iss mamle mein der kii gayi to
bada khoon kharaba hoga- aur lakhon begunah hindustani apni jaan se haath
dho baithenge!—kya british government hindustan ki tabahi ki zimmedari
lene ko tayyar hogi!!!

CUT TO

The room is tense, all faces are looking at Mountbatten.

CUT TO

Viceroy Mountbatten is tongue tied merely gazing at the assembly. Camera

closing in on his face, we hear the drone of a Dakota plane.

Dissolve TO

Sc 17: Quetta 1946 - Military Airbase Chroma and VFX

A Dakota military aircraft landing. We hear the screeching of the tyres and
reversed thrust of the engine, as it touches the airfield. Usman gets down
smartly and rushes to a waiting jeep which takes him away.

CUT TO

Sc 18: Office Of Colonel Boucher-an English Officer

Usman enters in. Seated at the entrance, at a table at the door of Colonel
Boucher’s office, a young English lieutenant greets Usman by getting up from
his chair and salutes him.

Cut To

Young lieutenant

Sir! Colonel Boucher is expecting you.

Cut To

He gets up and opens the door of the colonel’s office allowing Usman in. Usman
briskly comes in and salutes the Colonel. We see Colonel Boucher pleasant and
an intelligent looking man walking around the table towards Usman and starts
his conversation. We see in the background a large map of north-west India.

Cut To

Colonel Boucher

Come in usman—tumne calcutta riots ka suna?

 Usman

Yes sir

Colonel boucher

Its wild fire – humko dar hai yeh riots poora india mein phail jaayega-- Mr
Gandhi has pledged -- jabtak riots nahi rukenge who fast nahi todenge!

Usman

Humein yakeen hai sir—bapu ke vrath se riots zaroor ruk jaayenga!

Cut To

Colonel Boucher

Yes even I believe so!--- now lets get to work— leftinant usman tumko bahot
bada zimmedari di jaarahi hai--- (While he is speaking, he picks up a pointer
stick and points it towards the map, pin pointing the various locations which
are encircled with red.) Multan, Jacobabad, Lahore, Ambala Rawalpindi and
several other parts of Punjab se riots aur lootmaar ki khabar aarahi hai—
tumhe is sab jagah pe troops bhejne hoge-- leutinant tumhara kaam hai iss
riots ko control karna— aur hindu minority ko bachakar jitni jaldi hosake
delhi pahochana! Yeh bahot dangerous kaam hai leftinant but I’m sure you
will be successful- I have faith in you!

Usman:

I’ll try my best to save my countrymen sir!

Off scene on Usman’s Close up

I am appointing you GOC of the 77th Para brigade -- Tumhara headquarter

Multan hoga!!

Cut To

A close up of Usman listening to Col. Boucher with resolve. (Sound of a Dakota

plane take off )

Dissolve To

Sc 19: Multan City Day Ext:

We see a Dakota in the air.

Cut To

We see a close of Usman looking down below the window.

 Cut To

We frame him with the beautiful city of Multan down below marred with
bellows of smoke and some fire.

Cut To

We see 2 armored vehicles and 4 jeeps fast approaching the military airport.

Cut To

C/U the wheels of the Dakota touch down to the landing strip.

Cut To

Camera pans with the plane showing it slowing down coming to a stop and
taking a turn.

Cut To

Full group shot of young Sikh man and his men looking at the plane rush
forward and camera pulls back.

Cut To

Usman stepping out smartly from the plane and the camera trucks forward
closer to him.

Cut To

A composite shot of the full group composing the plane, we see the officers
approaching Usman.

Cut To

Camera trucks forward tightens the frame The Sikh officer and his officers
salutes Usman smartly.

Cut To

Usman salutes back with a smile.

Young Sikh captain

Captain Harminder Singh reporting sir !

Cut To

Usman extends his hand for a handshake.

 Cut To

Harminder while shaking his hand

Harminder

I would like to introduce my colleagues Captain Sajid, Captain Ahmed,

Captain Razzak, Lieutenant Rehman, Lieutenant Adil, Captain Salman,
Lieutenant Salim, captain Suleiman, Lieutenant Abdul and Lieutenant Wasim
captain gurdyal and captain ramchand

USMAN:
JAIHIND

EVERYONE LOOKS AT EACH OTHER AND ARE ASTONISHED… THEY REPLY

BACK

EVERYONE SAYS
JAI HIND…

THEY SAY TO HARMINDER

Cut To

The officers salute him and Usman salutes back. He gets into the jeep and the
convoy follows.
Cut To

HARMINDER
SIR YEH NAARA BAHOT ACHCHA LAGA--- JAI HIND…

USMAN
AZAD HINDUSTAN KA PEHLA NAARA YEHI THA… JO SUBHASHCHANDRA
BOSE NE DIYA THA!

On the highway we see the armored vehicles and jeeps approaching. The
camera pans catching the fast moving vehicles.
Cut To

One young Muslim league leader inciting the mob.

Leader
Yeh log humari daulat loot kar leja rahe hain— hum inhe nahi chodhenge

Cut To
One man from the mob throws a hand grenade on a house nearby, it explodes
in a huge ball of flame with screams of anguish of dying men and women.

Cut To

From a small window we see a Muslim man looking through the window with
horror and rushes out of the frame.

Cut To

We show a middle age lady with an elderly man and her frightened family
assembled near a home mandir, the lady is praying fervently in front of large
picture of lord Hanuman and lord Ram Sita & jhulelal

Woman

jhulelal raksha karo raksha karo…

Cut To

As she is praying to lord hanuman we hear a loud knocking on the door the
family looks aghast looking at the door she continues her prayer.

Cut To

Another urgent and loud knock the elderly man of the house in a very
cautious tone.

Kaun hega??

Cut To

The door outside we see a young Muslim man.

Muslim man
Malhotraji main Ashraf-- imam saab ka beta… darwaja kholiye, aapko
bachane aaya hoon, yahan khatra hai!

Old man opens the door Ashraf comes in.

Ashraf
Apne gharwalon ko lijiye aur mere ghar chalke chup jaaiye, yahan humla hone
wala hai!

Cut To

In another section of a bazar street. A close shot of a turbaned man with a

revolver in his hand, trying to snatch a gold necklace of a woman.
 Cut To

Husband of the woman intervenes, shoots him dead grabbing the gold
necklace runs away.

Cut To

We see a street, rapid 3-4 shots of shops shutters coming down, people
running helter skelter screaming. We can clearly see looting going on and
shops being set on fire.

Cut To

Screaming people shouting for help running towards the camera in sheer
panic.

Cut To

Sc 20: Multan City Police station:

Close shot of Telephone, we hear a loud ring, a hand quickly grabs the
receiver.

Cut To

We reveal the local police inspector. He has a disgusted look on his face.

Voice over the phone

Says in sindhi

Hello hello—police police--- jaldi police ko bhejo— fasadiyon ne yahan humla

kardiya, maarkaat horahi hai, dukaanon ko loot rahe hain, jaldi police force ko
bhejo

Cut To

He bangs the phone down without answering.

Cut To

The Police inspector a typical over weight Punjabi with a handle bar
moustache snarling at the constable who is standing close by.

Inspector

Oye rabba- maine to pagal hojana hai—ek ek minute toh phone baj raha hai—
kitho laaon police phorce- sipahi hain kahan?? (He curses) Aye fasadiyan di
maa dii… yeh angrejon ki lagai aag sabko jaladaalegi…
 The phone rings again he picks up the phone and bangs it back.

Cut To

Sc 21: Back to Multan bazar

The mob rushing forward knocking a lot of people.

Cut To

Right in the midst of this crowd, we see a column of jeeps and armoured
vehicles entering, Usman dressed in a military para trooper uniform with
pistol in his hand fires a round in the air.

Cut To

The mob stops suddenly surprised.

Cut To

We see the same man who had snatched the gold necklace, hiding behind a
pillar aims his pistol and shoots towards the jeep.

Cut To

The bullet hits the windshield cracking it barely missing Usman.

Cut To

Usman fires back instantly shooting him dead in the forehead.

Cut To

The other officers getting out of the jeep, fire rounds in the air.

Cut To

A shot of the mob ducking into the gullies and running away.

Cut To

We see a surge of people rush towards Usman and surround his jeep asking for
help.

Cut To

A close shot of Usman with concern on his face.

Cut To
We can clearly see the faces of the women with bindis on their fore head- they
are Hindus.

Cut To

Usman walks towards them followed by Harminder and his men.

Cut To

Usman

Ghabraiye mat, ghabraiye mat, aaplogon ko kuch nahi hoga—aapko bachane

ke liye fauj aagayi hai-- humare saath aaiye!

He gives a command to his troops.

Cut To

Usman

Jawanon— Madad karo inki

Cut To

The troops move towards the crowd guiding them to the waiting military jeeps
and armoured vehicles.

CUT TO

Sc 22: Heavily guarded Refugee Camp (Night) Chroma Shoot VFX master
shots with angles of camps.

We see watch towers with search lights and armed sentries at key positions
standing at the gates. More soldiers positioned at key points with machine
guns.

Cut To

The jeep is rapidly followed by convoy bringing in the rescued people from the
bazaar.

Cut To

As the convoy speedily enters the camp, we intercut with many pathetic & sad
sights of bewildered refugees with fear gripped on their faces.

Cut To
 Another angle- the jeep carrying Usman stops right close to the camera. We
see the convoy stopping behind the jeep and some guards rush towards the
armoured vehicles.

Cut To

Usman

(giving the orders loud and clear)

Aap sab log army relief camp mein hain yahan aapko koi khatra nahi hai hum
aaplogon ko jaldi se jaldi delhi pahonchane ki koshish karenge! Aapko jis
cheez ki bhi zarurat ho, humare jawanon se maang sakte hain!

Cut To

The troops help various group of people to their quarters rapidly.

Cut To

Usman enters in his office followed by Captain Harminder Singh and captain
Suleiman and lieutenant Salim. He gives brisk orders to his officers.

Usman
Refugees ko kisi cheez ki pareshani nahi honi chahiye—agar unhe kambal,
chaddar, dawa ki zarurat hai to bandobast kijiye!

Salim - Suleiman
Yes sir!

Salim suleiman leave. Harminder stays back

Harminder observes a tiny statute of lord Hanumanji on Usman’s desk and a

portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the wall with an inscription on the portrait “

Khudko khojne ka sabse acchcha saadhan hai,

Khudko doosron ki seva mein kho dena!! – M.K.Gandhi.

Cut To

Usman

Kitne log honge harminder?

Harminder Singh

Takreeban 9 hajaar 7 sau log henge sir-- 3 camp mein—iss camp ko milake!
 Usman

Bahot daray hue pareshan haal log hain—inka sabkuch loot chuka hai, is waqt
inko sabse zyada zarurat hai tassali aur bharose kii!

Harminder:
Yes sir!

The two officers standing with Harminder leave, harminder stays backs

Usman:
Humne second world war bhi dekhi hai magar aise dil hiladene wale bhayanak
manzar nahi dekhe—aisa lagta hai jaise har chehre par khauff aur dehshat ki
kahani likhi hui hai—

Harminder:
Bahot bura waqt hai sir

Usman:
Bahot bura--- kabhi socha bhi nahi tha ke, ek din humein dushmanon se nahi
apnon se ladna padega!

Harminder Singh:

Sir agar menu ijaazat howe to ek sawaal poochun?

Usman:

Poocho?

Harminder:

Sir tusi pakke musalmaan ho—namaaz padhte ho phir bhi saamne ---
hanumanji ki murti rakhte ho yeh kya raaj hai?

Usman looks thoughtful at him and smiles warmly.

Usman
Yeh murti nahi hai harminder, ek bahadur sipahi ki yaad hai- jo world war 2
mein, Arakan ke front par humare saath tha!

Dissolve To

Visual Flashback: Chroma and VFX

We hear gunfire and battle sounds. We see Usman and Bhandari Ram right in
the midst of a battle. Both of them are carrying stein guns firing away at the
 attacking Japanese. Suddenly he sees Bhandari Ram fall and quickly turns
firing in the opposite direction.

Usman looks back and he sees a Japanese soldier who was about to bayonet
him in the back. Bhandari Ram shoots him dead…..

Flashback Ends

Dissolve To

Usman

Agar who na hota to hum bhi yahan nahi hote, victoria cross milne par hum
usse badhai dene gaye to usne bajrang bali ki yeh prateema humein dii—jabse
yeh humare saath hai—

Harminder:

Kamaal di kahani hai sir…

Usman

Yehi to apne desh ka culture hai harminder, ganga bhi hai aur jamuna bhi
magar zara sa aagay jaake dekho to pata hi nahi chalta ke ganga kaunsi hai
aur jamuna kahan hai—isliye humare saath jaanamaz bhi hai aur sankat
mochan bhi!!

Cut To

Sc 23 : Early Morning Sunrise Refuge Camp: VFX

The drone captures the refugee camp on the outskirts of the city.

Cut To

A lower angle of the camp- a trucking shot capturing the well-organized camp
with guards, machine gun, pickets etc. Military trucks moving in and out
through the gate.

Cut To

Another angle we see a vast langar with huge dhegs. Food being cooked and
long lines of people being served by the jawaans with dal rice and roti’s etc...

Cut To

We see Usman walking close by with two officers alongside glancing at the
langar.

Cut To
 Another group of people eating and talking to each other. We see several
groups of such people-who all seem to be anxious with tremendous grief and
unhappiness on them.

Cut To

A child crying and a mother trying to console. An old woman coughing and her
husband- an old man holding her head in his lap and crying. He offers her
small bottle of cough mixture.

Cut To

Some young girls and boys sitting with their parents in desperation. Lots of
bundles of clothes and house hold items strewn all around. One young girl
speaks up.

Cut To

Girl

Baba- hum ghar kab jaayenge?

Her father (cries)

Ghar – ghar kahan hai beta?? who to loot gaya

Mother
Yeh armywale humein wahan lejayenge, jahan india hai—

Girl :
Magar hum india kyon jaayenge baba— KYA YEH INDIA NAHI HAI-- ??

Father
Nahi beta ab yeh Pakistan hai

Girl
Pakistan??

Father
Haan beta— Dharti wohi hai, akash wohi hai, log bhi wohi hai, magar naam
badalgaye hain--

Girl:
Magar kyon baba?

Father:
Kyon ke log pagal hogaye hain, uss khoon mein antar dhund rahe hain jo
humesha ek hi rang ka hota hai—chahe musalman ka ho ya hindu ka!

Cut To
 We see a very depraved young man sitting nearby- insecure in looks, afraid,
asking his companion who is this officer, indicating the passing Usman.

Cut To

His companion Whispering to him

Aye tereko malum hai yeh lambu kaun hai?

companion

yeh commander hai- Commander Mohammed Usman

Cut To

The young depraved man screams loudly. He goes into a frenzy.

Depraved Man : (Dialogues in sindhi)

musalman hai – (he starts screaming) inhi musalmanon ne loota hai humein—
yeh sab khooni hain—khooni, main zinda nahi chodhunga, iss commander ko,
jaan se maardunga… yeh khooni hai

A sudden thunderous slap comes down on his face.

Another angle we see Harminder Singh.

Harminder Singh
Chup baith khote de puttar – ek shabd aur bola to goli bheje mein daal dunga—
samjha!--

Usman
Ruk jaao harminder jaane do

Harminder
Sir yeh aapko gaali de raha hai…

Usman uske kandhe pe haath rakh kar bolta hai

Usman
humein nahi haalaat ko gaali de raha hai!

Cut To

A jeep enters the frame. A soldier jumps out and hands over a letter to Usman.

Cut To
Usman opens the letter as he is going through the content camera moves close
to him, there is music bang we show concern on his face.

Dissolve To

Sc 24 : Camera looking down a narrow shabby street Multan Ext:

Butcher’s Market Multan

We see a man running through a busy bazar pushing and shoving knocking
down a few people rudely with total disregard with an aggressive manner.

Cut To

Another angle we show the man entering a butcher’s market camera tracking
with the running man. We see shops with carcases of goats hanging each
butcher busy attending to his customers.

Cut To

A close shot of a meat cutting chopper coming down on a leg of lamb splitting
in two pieces.

Cut To

Close up of a tough looking butcher holding the chopper, wearing a large

Multani turban- a personification of evil on his face, crafty eyes painted with
kohl and nasty subtle disposition.

Cut To

We see him seated on a high pedestal. He reacts to his name being called.

Cut To

OFFSCENE

Sardar Daryab Khan… Sardar Daryab Khan…

Cut To

Swift cuts of several butchers from various shops react to the voice of the
running man.

Cut To

Daryab Khan the butcher seated on his perch reacts.

Cut To
POV, we catch the running man include him, a two shot with Daryab Khan, the
man rushes close to him.

Man 1

(Multani Sarakhi dialect )

Daryab Khan… maine unhe dhund nikala

Daryab Khan

(Multani Sarakhi dialect )

Kahan hain?

Cut To

Man 1

(Multani Sarakhi dialect )

Shahrukh -e -Alam dargah mein

Daryab khan

kitne hain?

man1

bahot hain—woh log sona chandi paisa, sab chupake lejaa rahe hain—

daryab:

nahi lejasakenge (he laughs)

Cut To

Over hearing this we show the butcher’s from the neighbouring shops, leaving
their stalls and rush towards Daryab Khan’s stall.

Cut To

Daryab Khan looks at the group grimly with a sinister smile on his face.

Cut To
Sc 25: Shahrukh-e -Alam Dargah Multan (Ext: Croma Character shoot and
DI with footage.)

The roof of the top of the dargah music fades in.

Cut To

A massive monument with deserted look on the outside. We see Usman along
with 10 of his officers taking out their boots.

Cut To

As they enter from the far end of the dargah a large troop of qawwals headed
by their lead singer somewhere from inside the dargah we hear a Sufi song
acclaiming the strength of belief and faith in the majesty of god, that will
resolve all human suffering.

Cut To

A qawwali with a rhythm which captivates the attention a mesmerising voice

with the beat of the music. The qawwals singing “Allah Hi Allah Ali Ali.”

Cut To

Usman enters the grand interior of the shrine of the peer. A large number of
men and women are offering floral chadars. An elderly man- the Imam
standing at the head of the shrine with noble bearing, turns his head looking
deeply at Usman.

Cut To

Usman entering the dargah with ten of his men in uniforms. His gaze is fixed
on the imam.

Cut To

Daryab Khan with some of his thugs walking in and sits down amongst the
people who are in ecstasy in hearing the Sufi song.

Cut To

Usman along with his junior officers Sajid, Ahmed, Razzak, Rehman, Adil,
Salman, Salim, Suleiman, Abdul and Wasim reciting a dua at the far side of the
shrine.

Cut To

The qawwals continue singing the Sufi song.

Cut To
 Usman and his men are engaged by the qawwali.

Cut To

From a dimly lit corner of the Dargah, we see an elderly lady watching Usman
and his men. We see there is interest and an expression of hope. She closes the
curtain and disappears.

Cut To

Four to Five men of Daryab Khan’s gang walk in casually and join Daryab
Khan.

Cut To

We see the Imam walking past them. Camera tracking him as he turns into the
corridor. The song continues.

Cut To

Usman leaves his men gets up and starts walking towards the corridor.

Cut To

We see the Imam walking ahead of Usman- camera tracking him.

Cut To

Interior of the dargah’s cellar where a very large number of Hindu women and
men with their children with anxiety written faces. The song continues.

Cut To

Imam passes the camera. Camera stays on Usman. Usman addressing

Suleiman in his ears. Song continues.

Cut To

Daryab Khan least interested in the qawwali looking observing the movement
of Usman and Imam.

Cut To

Imam disappearing in the nearby corridor.

Cut To

Another angle: Iman turns into a vestibule and stops, looks behind over his
shoulder. POV
 Cut To

We show Usman walking briskly. Camera tracks and pans includes the Imam
who comes in frame. The song fades out.

Cut To

Usman

Salam alaikum Imam sahib!

Imam

Walaikum salam saain—badi meherbani aap meri chitti padhte hi aagaye,

aaiye mere saath—

Cut To

Camera pans and tracks with them. Imam stops, Usman does likewise. The
camera moves OTS keeping both of them in frame in the far background down
below, we see a mass of people though lighting is not very clear we can see
some women with bindis on their foreheads. We can also see the Malhotra
family.

Cut To

Another low angle Imam and Usman. Two shot close up of both of them.

Cut To

Usman looking at the humanity below with a serious concern on his face.

Usman:
Yeh log yahan kab se hain?

Imam:
Do din se sabko chupake rakha hai saain..

We see suddenly an elderly lady with Ashraf appearing from a shadow wiping
her tears with her pallu. Usman looks surprized and turns to the Imam
askance.

Cut To

Imam

Meri biwi aur beta ashraf jo kar sakte hain who kar rahe hain – main dua
maang raha tha ke aaplog jaldi aajayen---
 Usman:
Zameen par insaniyat ko zinda rakhne ke liye aap jaise logon ki bahot zaruat
hai imam sahab!

Imam
Maine apna farz ada kiya saain

Usman:
Ab hum apna farz ada karenge!

In a dark area close by, the sinister face of Daryab Khan appears from behind
the corner of the wall- his POV.

Imam

Yeh Meri biwi sakeena hain

Imam wife

Inki madad karo saain— yeh kismat ke maare humare padosi hain—humare
dukh dard ke saathi hain— kaisa bura waqt hai- rishton ke beech deewar
khadi hogayi!

Cut To

Usman

Fikar mat kijiye amma, ab hum aagaye hain!

Imam wife

Jinda paii… inhe khairiyat se delhi pahoncha de saayin…

Imam is much relieved.

Cut To

We see Daryab Khan with his men hidden behind in the corridor over hearing
this conversation.

CUT TO

Sc 26: Night : Shahrukh-e Alam Dargah Rear/ Streets of Multan: VFX and
chroma
 Top angle lined up are 50 military trucks, ring of soldiers with guns
surrounding the trucks. We see Usman and Harminder get out from the lead
jeep rushing towards the lined up trucks.

Harminder

Sir jaldi nikal hona hoga yahan se—humla kabhi bhi hosakta hai!

Usman

Hmmm

Cut To

We see Daryab Khan and his men in gaudily painted fast moving trucks with
knives, choppers, swords guns and lathis. About 200men in three trucks.

Cut To

The men, women and children rushing out of the rear door of dargah towards
the trucks, rapidly helped by Usman ,Harminder and the army soldiers. There
is an emergency in the air. Several cuts show men, women, young, old and sick
people.

Cut To

We see Daryab Khan’s trucks charging furiously towards the Dargah.

Cut To

Another angle a closer shot, we spot Daryab Khan in the Multani turban
seated in the leading truck in the front seat holding his chopper.

Cut To

Soldiers rapidly helping children and old people on stretchers being rushed
towards military ambulance which forms the lined up trucks.

Cut To

Interior of the first truck Daryab Khan urging the driver to drive faster…

Daryab Khan

Saala khinzir ki aulad-- Jaldi chalao, who log bhaagne nahi chahiye

Cut To

The last of the refugees are being filled up, we hear a sergeant’s voice
 Sargent Suleiman

Trucks bhar chuke hain sir—hum jaane ko tayyar hain!

Cut To

We hear the roars of successive truck engines being started.

Cut To

Top angle shot we see Daryab Khan’s three trucks racing, camera pans
includes the army trucks with the refugees being loaded in a composite shot.

Cut To

Close up of an army sniper taking a shot.

Cut To

Close up of truck’s tyre bursting.

Cut To

Close up of Daryab Khan jumps as he hears a shot, truck goes out of control
driver screaming under his breath.

Daryab khan

Kya hogaya?

Driver

Punture ho gaya ….

We show the sniper--

Cut To

Another angle Daryab Khan’s truck veering to one side is hit by the following
two trucks in a pile up. We see two trucks turn falling on their sides and men
scrambling out of it.

Cut To

Usman nearby in a corner of a building congratulating an army sniper.

 Usman:

good shot sajid--

Cut To

We see Daryab Khan realizing the moment takes out his revolver and shoot in
the direction of the army possi.

Cut To

The other tribesmen too starts shooting.

Cut To

Usman seen with Harminder order his troops to open fire.

Usman:

open fire… harminder cross charge…

Cut To

Several tribesmen fall dead, Daryab Khan notices Usman and Harminder.

Cut To

Soldiers firing in his direction.

Cut To

Daryab Khan starts running fast ducking the hail of bullets, camera tracking
him. Daryab Khan under his breath cursing foul language.

Daryab Khan

( In Multani)

Saala sooar ka aulad, daryab khan ka rasta rokta hai-- zinda nahi chodhega,
kisi ko zinda nahi chodega

He disappears into the darkness.

Cut To

Sc 27 : Military Camps: Chroma Shoot

We see the convoy of trucks entering the refugee camp rapidly in a mid-long
shot.
 Cut To

Another angle Usman’s jeep head of the convoy stops. Usman quickly steps out
as he is walking followed by his 2 officers.

Cut To

From another angle we see a section of women- old and young and a few men
of middle age being guided by a few army jawans to their quarters.

Cut To

Another angle Usman and the two officers walking, camera tracking them
reveals a lot of refugee families littered all over the place.

Cut To

A two shot of middle age lady consoling a young girl of age 8, who is
emotionally distraught and sobbing silently.

Cut To

Another angle: Usman along with his 2 officers hears the off scene sobbing of
the girl and stops.

Cut To

POV Usman: the woman very affectionately caressing the head of this young
girl.

Cut To

Woman

Tuu savere se roye jaa rahi hai puttar – kya baat hai mujhe bata— (girl keeps
crying) sabar kar bachi sabar hum sab ek jaisi musibat mein hain…

Cut To

Usman and the two officers listening.

Cut To

The girl has an innocent charming face which draws natural sympathy. The
girl looks up at the woman.

Cut To

Another angle a big C/U of Usman. We can see the pain in his eyes, off scene
sound of her sobbing.
 Cut To

Back to girl and woman composite shot.

Cut To

Woman

tera naam kya hai?

Girl:
Sudarshana

Woman:
Tere maa baap kahan hai?

Sudarshana rote hue jawaab deti hai

Sudarshana
Maardala—sabko maardaala, baba ka haath kaat diya maai ke pet mein baala
ghusa diya, mera chota bhai—mera chota bhai…

We could see she is restraining herself from breaking down and starts
narrating her story. She starts narrating her story and camera moves to her
C/U.
Flash Effect

SC 28: Flashback visuals with V/o of Sudarshana Chroma shoot.

Sudarshana

Humara gaon shekhupura hai--- who haina jahan ooncha pahad hai uske
neeche--- wahan naddi bhi behti hai— hum sablog bahot pyar se rehte they---
ahmed chacha ki beti jameela ne mere saath milke gudiya ka ghar banaya tha,
kitni pyari gudiya thi… phir pata nahi kya hua… ek din bahot se log aagaye
sabko maarne lagay— sablog cheekh rahe they bhaag rahe they-- amma ne
kaha ke tuu chup jaa, main chup gayi—magar maine dekha, ahmed chacha,
baba ko bacha rahe they to unko bhi maardiya—phir gharpe mitti ka tel daalke
aag lagadi—jameela mujhe aawaaz de rahi thi, phir pata nahi who kahan chali
gayi!—koi aaya hi nahi mujhe bachane ke liye—to main bhagne lagi—aur bhi
sab bhaag rahe they aur kuch log pathar maar rahe they, who jo nadi thi naa—
who lal hogayi – aur usmein aadmi beh rahe they--- ek aadmi ne mere upar
bhi tel daal diya—magar tara singh chacha ne bola—darshi bhaag—to main
bhaagne lagi aur bhi log bhaag rahe they phir main gir padi, phir mujhe yaad
nahi kya hua? Aankh khuli to main yahan thi—mera bhai, mera bapu, meri
maa…

She starts crying uncontrollobly

 Flashback Ends

Cut To

We come back to Sudarshana Kumari. She is silent with her head on the lap of
the old woman. There is silence in the air. We hear a painful tune from the
violins as if it is a human cry in anguish. She starts singing in a soft voice.

Cut To

Close up of Usman riveted by the sorrow.

Cut To

Song: “ Mind don’t dwell on the things of the past, what do you get from it,
your eyes will have to cry, your eyes will have to stay all night. Your eyes will
cry ! Your eyes will cry !

Cut To

The impassioned pain of the song permeates into the atmosphere of refugee
camp. We cut several shots of the people who are sitting around listening with
deep attachments as if they were hearing their own story. We could see some
with tears dropping from their eyes- sharing the pain of the anguished girl.

Cut To

We cut back to the girl in the lap of the woman with her eyes oblivious to the
present and has an inward look into the past. Her words are like stabs of pain
in the bodies and minds of the people listening to it.

Cut To

We show three shot of Usman and his two officers visibly dismayed and
confounded by her song.

Cut To

Three shot of Usman and his two officers. Usman moves towards the girl,
camera pans and includes the girl. Usman sits down on his knees and lifts the
girl warmly and embraces her to his chest.

Cut To

Two shot of Usman’s face and the girl. Quick cuts of few people watching and
Harminder with 2 other officers witnessing the plight of the refugees.
 Usman

( His voice affected by the pathos of the song almost in a crocked voice)
Tum bahot bahadur beti ho darshana— tumhe ghabrane ki zarurat nahi hai
hum tumhe jaldi jaldi delhi pahoncha denge!- ab aansoo pocho aur humein
muskura ke dikhao— nahi dikhati—achcha hum tumhe ek jadoo dikhate hain—
yeh dekho humare dono haath, khaali haina—achcha ab hum bandhkarte hain
– tofeee to dono haathon mein nahi hogi – haina?? (she shakes her head
slightly) achcha yeh batao agar toffe hoti to kaunsa haath chunti--- (and she
chooses left) and he opens it and there is toffee in it… (she is eyes of
amazement) achcha ab doosre haath pe maaro… (she hits the other hand and
more toffee come out from that also) she smiles…

Girl tries to smile in tears

Usman:
Shabaash… waise to hum ek khaate hain -- magar yeh dono toffee tumhari—
aur aise hi muskurati rahin to hum tumhe bahot bahot si toffes laakar denge!

Usman leaves the girl, gets up and walks out. Camera tracks behind Usman
catching all 3 of them- Usman and the 3 stop.

Cut To

Harminder has tears in his eyes. An emotional Usman puts a comforting hand
on his shoulder.

Cut To

Harminder

Saade deshich aisi tabahi honi hai, eh to kabhi socha hi nahi tha sir

Usman
apne aapko sambhalo harminder, humare upar bahot badi zimmedari hai--
mulq ke tukde horahe hain aur humein inn tukdon mein se insaniyat ko
bachana hai!

Usman looks at his watch it shows 1200hrs.

Usman
Jitne refugees hain— un sabke naam patay ka register banna chahiye—

Harminder
Yes sir!

We see them exit the frame…

 Cut To

Sc 29 : Streets of Multan Night Curfew.

A military cantonment road, we see few passing trucks with soldiers.

Cut To

Few Military policemen on the beat.

Cut To

Another angle we see a jeep with Usman and Harminder Singh driving. Usman
is seated in the front with him. The jeep slows down and stops at a military
checkpoint.

Cut To

The military police officer bends down and looks inside and recognizes Usman.
He salutes him and orders his colleague to lift the barricade bar.

Cut To

Usman salutes back and moves on.

Cut To

Another angle jeep turning into a narrow lane.

Cut To

Two shot of Usman and Harminder in jeep: Usman spots something on the
road and cautions him.

Cut To

Car turns and stops-- they see the barricade—

Usman

yeh barricade yahan kisne lagaya hoga?

From his POV we see a barricade with a whole bunch of armed people with
swords and lathis suddenly emerging from behind the barricade.

Cut To

In the middle of them is Daryab Khan. One man from the bunch throws a hand
grenade under the jeep.
 Cut To

Usman and Harminder notice it and jump out from their respective side…. jeep
blows up.. The bunch attacks them. There is a fierce fight. Usman and
Harminder draw out their revolvers and shoot a couple of them dead as they
are attacking them with naked swords.

Cut To

Several shots are fired and we see 3-4 men fall dead to the ground.

Cut To

Daryab Khan attacks Usman from back and slashes his back with his sword.
Usman falls flat on the ground.

Cut To

The turban man jumping over Usman’s body rushes towards Harminder
attacking him. Before he could hit Harminder, we show Usman shoot the
turbaned leader in the head. He falls dead..

Cut To

They hear the sound of a military police sirens. The military police opens fire
in the air. The bunch scatter out and run away.

Cut To

Usman is bleeding from the back and is being helped by Harminder.

Harminder:

Kamaan singh jeep aagay laao… jaldi

Cut To

The military police rush in and help lift Usman.

He helps him to sit in the jeep and they exit.

CUT TO

SC 30: Interior Civil Hospital: VFX

Long corridor: we hear the approaching sound of the jeep.

Cut To

A close shot of a nurse reacting to the sound, runs out of the frame.
 Cut To

Long shot of the corridor: we see the same nurse rushing towards the camera.

Cut To

We see the ambulance rushing in, camera tracking and panning with the
ambulance. Camera swish pans fast framing the emergency entrance. The
ambulance enters the same frame and stops.

Cut To

Another angle we catch the nurse entering the emergency ward. She sees the
military officers carrying Usman and quickly guides them to the emergency
ward.

Cut To

The hospital staff led by the nurse take Usman’s stretcher inside the
emergency ward and the doors are closed. The two MP’s leave after saluting
Harminder. The camera follows Harminder as he moves towards the bench
and sits down.

Fade Out

Fade In

SC 31: Early Morning Multan

Panoramic shot: we hear the sound of multiple azans from several mosques
which we see In the visuals.

Cut To

Camera pans to a minaret framing a muezzin who is reciting the azan.

Cut To

A close shot of Harminder sitting on the hospital bench with his head resting
on his clenched hands and leaning forward with his elbows on his knees. We
can hear the distant sound of the azan.

Cut To

Another angle C/U of his shoulder and part of his head, a feminine hand enters
and gives him a soft nudge on his shoulder.

Harminder :

commander saab kaise hain?

 nurse:

(Looking at Harminder with faint smile, she speaks with cultured voice)

Aap apne commander sahab ko itna chahte hain, ke raat bhar is bench par
baithe rahe—

Harminder

(smiling)

Oji-- Commander usman, jaisa bahadur sipahi aur behtareen dost dooja nahi
hosakta who jabtak discharge nahi hojate, menu aithey hi baitha rehna hai !

(Anxiously enquires again about Usman)

Harminder

Par aapne bataya nahi unki tabiyat kaisi hai?

Cut To

While speaking the nurse starts moving.

Nurse

Mere saath aaiye!

As she moves the camera tracks with her. Harminder gets up and joins her.

Cut To

Usman in the hospital room- We catch him in the midst of wearing his shirt.
We can see the bandages tied across his muscular body. He quickly starts
buttoning the shirt as he sees them arrive.

Cut To

Off scene voice of the nurse.

Nurse

Yeh kya kar rahe hain aap? Doctor ne aapko lete rehne ke liye kaha hai!

Cut To

Usman looks towards the direction of the voice.

Cut To
Two shot of Usman and the Nurse who has walked up close to him, their eyes
meet, Two intercuts of their close ups.

Cut To

Harminder saluting smartly.

Harminder:

Good morning sir! (usman comes out of his reverie usman continues) aur
thankyou sir!

Usman

Thankyou kis baat kaa?

Harminder

jaan bachane kaa, kal raat agar aap…

usman cuts in

usman

fauji ek doosre ko shukriya nahi karte—jo kiya who meri duty thi!

Cut To

The nurse feels quite put off as she is out of the conversation and quickly
retrieves the situation and says.

Cut To

Nurse

Aur meri duty yeh hai ke aapko bahar na jaane dun!—doctor ka order hai ke
jabtak aapka zakham bhar nahi jaata, aapko araam karna hoga!

Cut To

Usman shows her respect.

( Big C/U of Usman looking at her with interest)

Cut To

Usman (smilingly)

I’m sorry mujhe jaana hoga – Call of duty—

Usman leaves abruptly followed by Harminder. As usman reaches the door he
stops and turns to the nurse who is still standing by the bed… usman with
ultimate politeness says

Usman:

Thankyou!

And exits… We see both Harminder & Usman walking away and before
reaching the end of the corridor we see the nurse standing in the doorway
looking at Usman going away, turning around the corridor and disappearing.

Cut To

A close shot of the Nurse looking at the empty corridor.

CUT TO

Sc 32 : 77th Para Brigade Headquarters, Multan

In the cantonment with a simple board displaying 77th Para Brigade

Headquarters. A bungalow type building with both the gates open and a sentry
at the gates.

Cut To

Usman and Harminder’s jeep enters, the sentry gives a smart salute. Jeep
comes to a stop in the porch of the bungalow. Both men get down and rush in.

Cut To

We see an orderly opening Usman’s office door. Usman quickly takes his seat
and 4 other officers join him. Usman gets up from his seat and goes to a map
on the wall.

(Using a pointer stick)

Cut To

Usman

Leftinant Salim butt

Salim

Sir

Usman
Rawalpindi, lahore, ambala, jacobabad, units ko coded message bhejiye ke in
ilaqon mein minority community ki security ka poora bandobast kiya jaaye
aur unhe delhi bhejne ke intezamat fauran shuru kardiye jaayen!

Salim

Yes sir, right away sir!

Salim salutes and leaves

Usman

Captain Rehman…. Transport ki kya situation hai?

Rehman

Transport bahot bada problem hai sir, minority committee ke zyadatar log
punjab aur sindh se nikal jaana chahte hain— aur who lakhon ki tadaad mein
hain

Cut To

Usman

Humare paas special powers hain— jitne bhi aircrafts aur trains milti hain,
unka requisition kiya jaaye— agar unhe oonth gaadi, bailgadi paidal bhi lejana
pade to bhi unki jaan-o-maal ki zimmedari humari hai!- please take care!

Rehman salutes and leaves

Rehman:

Yes sir!

Ahmed

Sir… yeh dispatches dekhiye jo aapki table par rakhe hain— bada confusion
hai sir English officers kuch aur order de rahe hain aur indians officers kuch
aur keh rahe hain—samajh mein nahi aata kiski baat maani jaaye?

Abdul

Yes sir mujhe lagta hai English officers confused hain!---

Cut To

Usman:

Yeh waqt kisiko ilzaam dene ka nahi hai! – humein apni zimmedari nibhani
hai aur uske liye jo sahi hai who hum kar rahe hain!
 Cut To

The officers salute smartly saying “Yes Sir” and leave.

CUT TO

Sc 33: New Delhi, Viceroy’s Palace, Rastrapati Bhavan

Interior Lord Mountbatten’s conference room. The atmosphere is very tense.

Cut To

We see in a mid-long shot: Military officers and civilian bureaucrats all seated.

Cut To

We see Lord Mountbatten seated at the head of the table. On his right general
Auchinleck- Commander-in-chief of the Royal Indian army.

Cut To

Another angle: Two shot- Auchinleck looking at Lord Mountbatten.

Cut To

Mountbatten

Gentleman! As you all are aware General Auchinleck, Commander-in-chief of

the Indian Army will brief you on his plan.

Auchinleck

Excellency with your permission may I?

Mountbatten

Yes please!

Cut To

Another angle camera frames the conference table full shot.

Auchinleck

Gentleman, main aapke saamne who proposal rakhta hoon—jo maine Congress
and Muslim league ke saamne rakha hai. maine his excellency the viceroy ko
ek armed forces reconstitution committee banane ka proposal diya hai—is
committee ka kaam – indian armed forces, the royal indian navy, the indian
army and the royal indian airforce ko reconstitute karna hoga— Maine
deliberately apne aproposal mein re-constitution ka word use kiya hai aur
division nahi kaha hai—isliye ke division bolne se uss officers aur jawanon par
bura impression padega jo aajtak khudko ek integrated body samajhte aayen
hain!—magar indian politicians armed forces ko alag karna chahte hain- they
believe in class and creed!

Cut To

The camera captures the full conference table. Half way between the dialogue,
it cuts to a full shot of the general combined with intercuts of C/U of
Mountbatten and other officers to capture their reactions.

Cut To

Mountbatten looking squarely at General Auchinleck and there is a moment of

silence. All heads are looking at Mountbatten.

Cut To

Mountbatten

Very Frankly I agree with general Auchinlek— current scenario mein

communal violence har jagah hai – east and west—isliye armed forces ka
immediate Division bahot zaruri hai—par humein iss baat ka dhyaan rakhna
hoga ke iss baat se forces ki efficiency par koi asar na pade!— I request ke
division ke mamle mein koi political parties koi pressure na daale!—at the
same time main Indian Armed forces the royal indian navy and air force ke
division ka order deta hai!

Camera closes on Mountbatten as he sums up his speech. Off scene sound of a

very sharp robust drumbeat of a bhangra.

CUT TO

SC 34: Parade Ground

We open the shot with a group of Sikh officers and men dancing the bhangra in
a robust style.

Cut To

Another angle: The troops of the Sikh and Dogra squadrons of Probyn’s Horse,
one of the army’s legendary old cavalry regiments, offers a gigantic banquet to
the men of the departing Muslim squadron.

Cut To

They savour together on an open parade ground- a final feast of mountains of

steaming rice, chicken curry, lamb kebab and the regiment’s traditional
pudding, rice baked with caramel, cinnamon and almonds.
 Cut To

Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus joined hands and danced a last bhangra, a wild,
swirling farandole climaxing the most moving evening in their regiment’s
history.

DISSOLVE

NOTE: AKBAR KHAN TO BE ADDED…

SC 35: Delhi a Military Cantonment

Shot of a door. We hear a knock.

Cut To

Another angle: A seated officer at his desk. There is a plaque on the desk
which reads COL Sarfaraz Hussain.

Colonel

Come in.

The door opens and the orderly hands over an invitation card.

Colonel

Thank You.. You may leave.

Cut To

Colonel opens the invitation card. Invitation card C/U reading ‘The Officers of
the Armed Forces of the Dominion of India’ inviting guests to a ‘Farewell to Old
Comrades Reception in Honour of the Officers of the Armed Forces of the
Dominion of Pakistan.’

WE DISSOLVE TO

CUT TO

SC 36: The Imperial Delhi Gymkhana Club

An air of overwhelming sadness and unreality overlaid the evening.

Cut To

Bar- the camera tracks and we see a bar-man with two bottles in his hands
pouring into the glasses of the out stretched hands.

Cut To
The bar-man pouring Rum in a rapid manner and camera pans showing room
full of officers drinking, smoking and talking seriously.

Cut To

A Two shot of two officers sitting on the bar stools leaning on the bar shelf are
quite emotional. We see Gufran sipping orange juice sitting by himself in a
corner observing his colleagues.

Cut To

Allah Baksh

Oye yaar Harbhajan, menu dus ee kii horiya eh—haalay kaldi to baat hai hum
dono ekkoi rajiment te-se, burme de morche var meri jaan bachane wala bhi
tuiisi-- aur hun aamne saamne howange—main iss paar to tuu uss paar—ee
keda hosakta hai yaar?

Cut To

Harbhajan

(Smiles sadly putting his arm on the officers shoulder)

Oye chadh yaar, ee sab purani kahani hai assi toh ekkoi gal jaante hain—
armyda usool hai, ek sab ke liye aur sab ek ke liye!- cheers

Cut To

Another angle: A group of officers also seated at the bar- some standing, one of
them is slightly high and has tears rolling down his eyes.

Cut To

Ranjeet Singh

Oye rizwan, tu hunn uss mulukte jaariya hai jo kadi mera mulaksi, mera!----
parjo teri posting lahore wich hui to mere kaar jaroor chala jaayin—oh gawal
mandich, maseet-te saamne o lal patak wala!—(rone lagta hai) oye pata nahi
yaar meri chameli di bel kiwe howegi?

Cut To

Rizwan Alam

“oye yaar kyon fikar karta hai—september mein milenge—polo match ke liye!

Cut To
 Col Sarfaraz
“aur kashmir mein PAHADI BAKRON ka shikaar bhi to khelna hai

Cut To

Another end of the bar: There is a raised dance floor. We show officers with
their respective wives dancing away. The music we hear is the famous popular
hit 1947 Peg O’ My Heart – Harmonicists.

Cut To

Somebody takes the mic and announces: Doston humari khushqismati hai ke
humare beech Brigadier Carriapa tashreef laayen hain!— ab who aapse kuch
kehenge !

Cut To

Another angle: We show group of officers led by Brigadier K.M Cariappa walk
on the raised dance platform.

Cut To

Brigadier Cariappa

Goodevening Doston, aajka din undinon mein se hai jo aadmi kabhi nahi
bhoolta!—hum sab uss maa ke bete hain jo india kehlata hai—kaltak yeh india
ek tha par ab iske do tukde hogaye hain—india and pakistan – friends desh
alag alag hue hain magar aur kuch alag nahi hua— humare dil aaj bhi ek hain,
humare rishte aaj bhi ek hain—humari language humara pehnawa sab kuch ek
jaisa hai—aur jab SAB- ek jaisa ho to hum alag kaise hosakte hain—hum kal bhi
bhai they aaj bhi bhai hain aur kal bhi bhai rahenge-- isliye aaj main apne
saathiyon ko goodbye bolne ya alvida bolne nahi aaya—main bolne aaya hoon--
au revoir , FRENCH MEIN ISKA MATLAB HOTA HAI--— “phir milenge” aur
hum zaroor milenge—ussi spirit mein, ussi dosti ke saath jisse aajtak
humsabko ek tasbi ki tarhan, ek mala ki tarhan, saath jodke rakha hai!--- hum
phir milenge- aur baar baar milenge! Au Revoir…

Rest of the crowd shouts—“PHIR MILENGE, PHIR MILENGE”

Cut To

Intercut inserts of Gufran, Allah Baksh, Harbhajan, Ranjeet, Rizwan and other
officers overwhelmed with the circumstances of the evening.

Cut To
A C/U of Col Sarfaraz Hussain looking sad and emotional. He is dabbing a tear
with his white handkerchief.

CUT TO

SC 37 : Military Parade Ground: Multan

The Muslim regiments in the areas which would fall to Pakistan offered
similar banquets to their Sikh and Hindu comrades leaving for India. In
Multan, 77th para Brigade gave an enormous barkana, a ‘good luck’ banquet to
their former comrades.

Cut To

Every Sikh and Hindu officer spoke with tears in his eyes to bid farewell to
their Muslim comrades.

Cut To

Usman

“saathiyon aapko malum haina ke khoon ke rishte se bada koi rishta nahi
hota!—humara aapka bhi khoon ka rishta hai, uss khoon ka jo humne milkar
front par bahaya hai--- mulq badal sakte hain magar yeh rishte nahi badlenge

Someone

Commander mohammed usman zindabad—mohammed usman ki jai!

Cut To

Baluchi Officer

Sir? Aapne apne baare mein kya socha hai? bharat ya pakistan?

AKBAR AND USMAN FACEOFF

Usman

Abhi sochne ka waqt kiske paas hai major—

He turns and goes away

Walks away leaving them the two officers look each other quizzically.

Cut To

THIS CUT BELOW WILL BE ANOTHER PLACE--

 Cut To

Harminder

Sir! Headquarter se order aaya hai ke saare officers aur jawaan new posting
pe jaane se pehle apne weapons yahin chodhkar jaayenge!—

Cut To

Usman

Hum soldiers hain, weapons humare wajood ka ek hissa hai!—hum yahan inke
saath aaye they aur inke saath hi jaayenge! I cancel this order right away

Cut To

There is a roar of hip hip hurray…hip hip hurray in the air.

Fade Out

Fade In

SC 38: Multan Air Base: Chroma shoot/ VFX

We open the shot with a Dakota landing. Camera captures the landing and
pans to two other Dakotas parked on the bay.

Cut To

We see throngs of refugees lined up impatiently to board in the parked

Dakotas with their engines running.

Cut To

Another angle: We see Usman and Harminder assisted by few other officers
guiding the disorderly lines to board the flights.

Cut To

Women and children preceding the rest. We hear people calling each other-

One person:

Kanta arey o kanta- (CRYING) arey maari kanta ka se?

obviously someone calling to their members of the families. Another corner a
scuffle is going one between refugees

man:

yeh aadmi mere peeche tha isse aagay kyon liya? Tere saga wala lagta hai
kya?

Fauji:

Yeh zakhmi hai bhaisaab, khada bhi nahi hosakta!

Zamkhmi aadmi: says

Army humari madad kar rahi hai saain—inko bura mat bolo—tereko aagay
jaane ka hai—le aagay aaja!

Cut To

We show bunch of people pushing the officers who are regulating them. We
spot the depraved man amongst them.

Cut To

Usman and Harminder rush into the frame .

Cut To

Usman

Line mein khade rahiiye yahan hungama mat kijiye—aap sab ko jagah milegi—

Cut To

One sly looking middle aged man looks at Usman’s name plate on his uniform.

Sly man

(Whispering curse words to his friend against Usman under his breath)

Yeh saala musalman hai, hum sabko raste mein hi maardega— SAALA
HARAMI…

Cut To

The sly man gets a hard slap on his face and we reveal that the slap was from
the depraved man.
 Cut To

Depraved Man

Jeeb ko daant mein dabake rakh kutre, commander ko gali dii to muu tod
dunga

Cut To

Another angle we see Usman conducting the excited rushing lines of people to
the parked Dakotas.

Cut To

Another angle: Both parked Dakotas are filled with refugees. The 3rd Dakota
which landed is moving closer to the bay.

Cut To

We see a big line disappearing into one of the Dakotas and the door being shut.

Cut To

Usman gives a thumps up to an officer standing opposite the airman who in

turn gives a thump up to the pilot and the Dakota starts rolling out.

Cut To

We see the second Dakota likewise is full and the door closing and the airman
next to the second Dakota gives a thumps up. The second Dakota starts
taxing. The first Dakota is already taking off.

Cut To

The 3rd Dakota which has now arrived is being filled in with the last batch of
refugees.

Cut To

A shot of an ambulance arriving at the aerodrome coming to halt nearby

where Usman is. The nurse whom we had seen earlier steps out smartly from
the ambulance giving orders to the orderly’s. We see them pulling out the
stretcher with an old lady from the ambulance.

Cut To

The Nurse walks up to Usman. We can hear the drones of the running engines
in the background. The Nurse stands on her toes and reaches Usman’s ears
and speaks bit loudly because of the roar of the Dakota engine.
 Cut To

Nurse

Suniye yeh emergency case hai, yeh BAHOT ZAKHMI HAI, ISKA ASPATAL
PAHONCHNA BAHOT ZARURUI HAI WARNA YEH MARJAAYEGI!

Cut To

Usman looking at the old lady passing him on the stretcher. The camera is on
track as the nurse follows the stretcher. Usman joins her.

Cut To

Usman says

Usman:

Isse andar lo…

By the time we reach the Dakota, the man from inside the plane standing at
the door loudly says

Man:

we are full sir koi jagah nahi hai

His voice is getting drowned in the roar of the engines.

Cut To

Camera on crane catching Usman climbing the steps along with the nurse and
settles down on 3-shot with Usman, Nurse and the airman.

Cut To

Usman

Yeh emergency hai- ek aadmi ki jagah banalo

Airman

Sorry sir! Par iss ko lene ke liye kisi ko offload karna padega sir!

Cut To

This is heard by the depraved man who was inside the plane.

Depraved man:
 Main baadmein chala jaaunga, stretcher andar lelo

He volunteers to get down to give his place to the old lady.

Cut To

The Depraved comes out and starts helping the orderly with the stretcher.
The old lady is taken and the door closes. Usman looks at the depraved man
and tells him-

Cut To

Usman

Tumne bahot nek kaam kiya hai—humare saath aao

Cut To

A shot of Harminder turning his jeep in a semi-circle, camera catches Usman,

Nurse and the depraved man walking towards the jeep.

Cut To

Usman escort’s the Nurse to the ambulance. Camera tracking them both
walking without talking in their own thoughts. They stop as they reach the
ambulance.

Cut To

Shaheen

aapka zakham kaisa hai?

Usman looks in to her eyes

Usman

Theek hai

Shaheen

Dressing kaun karta hai?

Usman

Jab yaad aata hai to khud hi karlete hain

Shaheen

Yeh kaam main bhi kar sakti hoon… hospital se base zyada duur nahi hai—
 Usman usse thodi der ke liye dekhta rehta hai he has amused look on his
face… They look at each other. Both are locked in a gaze. Intercut C/U we see
yearnings in their eyes for each other. ( Their theme music is heard in the
background) Usman warmly smiles at her speaking to her affectionately.

Usman

Kya tum apne saare patients ke liye itni hi pareshan hoti ho

Shaheen

Nahi, unlogon ke liye jo doosre ke zakham bharne mein apne zakham bhool
jaate hain, aap ek ideal soldier hain!

Usman

Thankyou eh eh… kya naam hai tumhara?

Shaheen

Shaheen— (pause) shaheen khan!

Usman

Thankyou shaheen see you later!

She gets in and the ambulance leaves. Usman standing and looking at the
ambulance (Theme music in the BG).

Cut To

C/U of Harminder sitting in the jeep on the driver side with his hands on
driving wheel looking at Usman with a warm smile.

Cut To

Usman walks up and gets into the jeep. Usman notices the depraved man
sitting in the rear seat.

Cut To

Usman gives a smile to him. The depraved man smiles back- 3 shot of all 3
men with smile on their faces.

Cut To

The jeep moves from the base.

Cut To
 Long panoramic shot of a road with splendid landscape of the evening sun
about to set. We see the jeep disappear in the far distance.

CUT TO

SC 39: Picturesque Hilly Countryside Location

The golden hue of the setting sun, the flight of birds flying homeward
combined with the mountains and river of the landscape is purely enchanting.
Camera pans slowly capturing these elements and stops.

Cut To

Another angle: We see a figure in the distance on top of a hill looking towards
this lovely scenic backdrop.

Cut To

Another angle: A mid-front shot of Shaheen looking pensive into the distance.
We hear the evenings sounds of the elements.

Cut To

Camera goes close to her and we can see she is deep in her own thoughts.

Cut To

Her POV: We see the golden hue of the setting sun. We frame Shaheen with her
back to camera. The camera moves slowly to her closing on to her back and
we hear an off scene voice of Usman.

Cut To

Usman

Hello Shaheen..!!

Cut To

Shaheen surprised, turns quickly looking at the camera. Her POV- we show
Usman, who is close by taking the last step forward towards her.

Cut To

Another angle: two shot both in profile. Shaheen is stunned to see him. We can
see the happiness bloom on her face. She says in a raspy voice.

Cut To

Shaheen
 Huh—kya surprise diya hai-- meri toh jaan hi nikal gayi!!

Usman

You look so beautiful…

Cut To

Usman holds her by her shoulder with both his hands and slowly draws her
close to him. She is looking at Usman with so much love in her eyes. Likewise
Usman fascinated by her beauty and her presence.

Cut To

Both look at each other lovingly. Shahen lifts her face up to Usman as if
offering her mouth. Usman tenderly kisses her on her mouth and the theme
music swells. The lovers hold on to each other passionately locked in the kiss
as if there is no tomorrow.

Dissolve To

A picturesque mountain top. A windy day. We see Usman and Shaheen. A

drone shot circling above- camera closes on them. They are flouncing happily
embracing each other. Usman picks her up and twirls her around, she
wriggles out and starts running. Usman chasing her. Their love song.

Dissolve To

SC 40 : Shaheen’s Cottage Room

The scene opens with fire place, warm flames leaping gently. (Overlap
Usman’s Voice)

Cut To

Usman

Shaheen

Cut To

Usman and Shaheen both lounging on a sofa huddled together looking at the
fire.

Cut To

Usman
 Tumne aajtak apne baare mein kuch nahi bataya?

Cut To

Shaheen turning towards Usman.

Cut To

Shaheen

Kya jaan-na chahte hain?

Usman:

Sab kuch

Shaheen:

Main BANGALORE ki rehne wali hoon, mere baba major they—

Usman:

Major?? – army mein they?

Shaheen:

Hunh—Major Sadiq Ali Khan, Mysore cavalry BRITISH ARMY! Aur meri
mummy, english thi---

Usman: (LOVINGLY, SMILING)

Oh to yeh khoobsurti east aur west ki mili juli koshish hai! (She smiles) ab
kahan hai who?

Shaheen

Pata nahi

Usman

Kya matlab?

Shaheen mellows down

Shaheen

Main chotti si thi…

Insert of Usman listening intently as she continues talking.

 Flashback Starts

A small colonial house in Bangalore with tiled roofs and a veranda with a
compound.

Cut To

Close up of Shaheen looking happily, we hear hoofbeats of a horse off scene

she looks up, her POV .

Cut To

A handsome man of age 35 on horseback in his military attire approaches her

gets down from his horse.

Cut To

Shaheen’s father dismounts rushing up to her. SHAHEEN IS A 13 YEARS OF

AGE

Shaheen

papa

Father

Kya kar raha tha humara beta

Shaheen

Tiger ZAKHMI HOGAYA hai-- DAWA LAGA RAHI thi—!

He hugs and lifts her taking a circle laughing happily.

Father

Yeh to tumne bahot achcha KAAM kiya hai—yeh lo aajka gift

(Gives her something)… tumhari mummy kahan hai?

Shaheen looking at him curiously

Shaheen

So rahi hain--

Cut To

Shaheen holding her father’s hand they both walk into the bedroom. Their
POV, an English lady sleeping on the bed.
 Cut To

Shaheen’s father sits down tenderly next to her and wakes her up by gently
putting his hand on her forehead.

Father

Sara?

Sara gets up… she reacts at his uniform?

Sara:

Saadiq whats this??—(notices uniform) tum kahan jaa rahe ho ?? war pe

jaarahe ho kya--?

Cut To

, changes mood, suddenly looking at the uniform curiously asks him.

Father:

Nahi darling training pe jaa raha hoon-- jaipur

Sara

Darling – please come back soon!

He kisses her, kisses the kid and leaves

Cut To

Shaheen’s voice over on these visuals

Shaheen

MUJHE UNKI AAKHRI JHALAK YAAD HAI, JAB WHO GHODE PAR BAITHE
HUMSE DUUR JAA RAHE THEY—WHO PHIR KABHI WAPIS NAHI AAYE! who
singapore mein japaniyon se ladte hue shaheed hogaye? Mummy ka dil na
dukhe isliye papa ne war par jaane ki baat chupaii thi magar mummy ne unhe
kabhi maaf nahi kiya—

Flashback Ends

She has tears in her eyes

Cut To
 Usman is totally engrossed in what he is hearing, moves closer to her and
brings her close to his chest.

Cut To

Usman

Ab who kahan hain?

Cut To

Shaheen resting her head on Usman’s chest with eyes filled to the brim with
tears.

Shaheen

Kuch dinon baad who london chali gayin- aur wahan kisi se shaadi karli—

Cut To

Usman comforting her more warmly.

Usman

Who tumhe saath lekar nahi gayin?

Cut To

Shaheen

Unhone bahot zor daala tha, magar main apne papa ki beti hoon, isliye india
chodh ke nahi gayi—akeli reh gayi thi isliye nursing ka course kiya aur red
cross join karliya!

Cut To

Usman tenderly and lovingly.

Usman

Ab tum akeli nahi ho— ab hum tumhare saath hain shaheen–

Shaheen is intoxicated to hear this. She turns towards Usman. Looks at him
lovingly and holds her warmly

Sc 41: Somewhere On the Railway Tracks- Border Area VFX/ Chroma

Shoot

Drone shot of a distant train approaching towards the camera. We see there
are parallel tracks.
 Cut To

The camera swings down catching the approaching train full front. The train
rushes for a moment and it looks that the train will smash into the camera.

Cut To

Camera shifts to the left side pulling back catching the rushing side of the
train, slowly pans, the moving train catching the tail end of the train racing
away. Same time it catches the approaching train from the opposite side.

Cut To

Drone shot: High angle- showing one train heading east and the other heading
west. The rooftops of both the trains are full of people.

Cut To

Several rapid shots of both the trains intercutting- showing the interior of the
train bogeys with more dead bodies than alive. The few remaining men &
women we see alive - women holding their children tightly and comforting
them.

Cut To

Men looked dazed without any expression on their faces. We show an acute
angle shot of the blood flowing from the train on the tracks, making a long line
of blood trail.

Cut To

The trains which are moving west have dead Muslim women and children. We
can make this out by their attire. There are screams and loud sobbing of
children and the injured are wriggling with their pain with anguish.

Cut To

The train moving east has dead bodies of Hindu and Sikh men, women and
children with survivors.

Cut To

This is a carnage, an extraordinary revolting and appalling site. Humanity has

been thrown to the winds. This is the darkest period of the partition of India.

CUT TO

Sc: 42: 77th Para Brigade Headquarters- Multan Shooting Range located in
a scenic landscape.
 Usman is standing with his hand stretched holding a revolver, in deep
concentration looking at the six target boards. Harminder standing nearby
watching Usman take aim at the target boards.

Cut To

Usman shoots six rapid round- one for each target board in rapid succession.
All 6 are bulls eyes.

Cut To

Harminder amazed, claps his hands.

Harminder

Bebe di sau- Kamaal kardiya sir maine aisa nishana kabhi nahi dekha –

shaheen also claps--

shaheen:

amazing—I love you usman

Cut To

Just then the other 2 officers enter the frame, each one carrying a register.

Capt razzaq

Sir rawalpindi se report aayi hai – 12000 refugee bheje jaa chuke hain!

Second officer

Usse bhi jyada refugess lahore se bheje gaye hain 17000 ke kareeb! Sab kaam
aapke order ke mutabik horaha hai sir!

Adil

Ab Multan camp mein 11000 refugees hain- jinhe parso delhi rawana kiya
jaayega—

Usman

Iska matlab hai hindustan jaane wale refugess ki tadadd 50000 ke kareeeb
hojayegi!

CAPT RAZZAQ
LOG ZYADA HAI TRAINEN KAM HAI-- PAGALPAN KA YEH AALAM HAI KE
LOG KHIDKIYON SE LATKE HUE HAIN AUR CHATON PAR CHADHE HUE
HAIN—

USMAN

HUMSE JITNA CONTROL HOGA HUMEIN KARNA CHAHIYE!

Harminder

sir musibat yeh hai ke Multan aur Punjab mein Maar kaat rukne da naam nahi
le rahi hai! iss sab ke beech mein se refugess ko sahi salamat nikalke lejana,
bahot bada RISK hai sir!

Cut To

Usman

RISK to uthana padega— refugees ki salamti humari SABSE BADI zimmedari

hai---

Harminder

Bada mushkil kaam hai sir

Usman

Pahad chadhna ho to uski oonchai nahi, apne joote ki mazbooti dekhni

chahiye!

Everyone reacts

CUT TO

Sc 43: Multan Railway Station Evening VFX/ Chroma

We see a long train with many bogeys. The station is thronged with refugees
from the camp. We recognise a few faces.

Cut To

The depraved man holding Sudarshana protectively walking and making

space through the thick crowd to board the train.

Cut To
Usman is talking to the engineer of the train. The engine bellowing smoke and
hissing steam. He is with two other soldiers holding their STEIN guns
standing by.

Cut To

Usman

THOMAS tumhara selection isliye kiya gaya hai ke tum purane tajurbekar
driver ho—safar lamba hai aur kadam, kadam par khatra hai—hazaron jaanon
ki zimmedari tumhare upar hai—

Thomas

Main anglo indian hain sir magar is country ko apna country maanta hai,
apna countryman ko bachane ke liye jaan bhi desakta hai—

Usman

Thankyou Thomas, musafiron ki hifazat ke liye train par army ke jawaan

maujood rahenge, har junction par koyla paani bharne ka bandobast kar diya
gaya hai! Jaao goodluck

Thomas

Thankyou sir… god save my country!

(Speaking to him in an urgent manner from time to time looking to the

platform where people are loaded on the train).

Cut To

The station is filled up with the refugees. Harminder Singh giving orders to the
refugees.

Cut To

Harminder

Oye jaldi karo jaldi jaldi dhakka pel mat karo, ek ek karke andar jaao oye…

Cut To

We see the platform is guarded well with many military soldiers with guns.

Cut To

We see Usman walking up to the depraved man and Sudarshana. The

depraved man is very happy to see Usman.Shudharshana calls usman
 Sudarshana

Bhaiya

Usman uske paas aata hai

Usman

Kaisi hai humari bahadur sudarshana

Sudarshana

Achchi hoon

Usman Extends his right hand for a handshake, putting his left hand on his
shoulder. Amar Singh takes his hand)

Usman

Maaf karna dost hum tumse naam poochna hi bhool gaye?

Depraved man

Amarsingh naam hai sir

Usman

Humein doosre logon se tumhari kahani malum hochuki hai, tumhari aankhon
ke ssaamne tumhari saari family ko…

Usman stops…

Usman:

Tum bahot himmat wale ho dost, hum tumhe humesha yaad rakhenge!

Amar singh

Main bhi aapko kabhi nahi bhoolunga sir— mere andar jo zaher phail gaya tha
-- aapki niswarth seva ne usse dho diya!

Usman

Sudarshana ka dhyaan rakhna amarsingh, iska koi nahi hai—

Sudarshana

Bhaiya aaap kab miloge?

Usman
 Jaldi hi beta--- lahore mein milege--!

Off scene sound of engine whistle blow.

Cut To

Another angle catching Usman, Amar Singh and Sudarshana. They react to
the whistle.

Cut To

We see a shot of the engine chugging, engineer standing on the engine door
looking on his left to the platform which looks almost empty now. Few people
hurriedly getting in.

Cut To

Engineer pulls a chain and blows the engine whistle and the huge steel wheels
starts moving, pushed by the piston rods.

Cut To

The train starts moving away slowly. Harminder starts moving towards
where Usman was standing.. walking briskly he joins Usman.. they both see
the train moving.

CUT TO

SC 44: Somewhere Between Multan and Lahore Chroma and VFX

It’s a dark night somewhere between Multan and Lahore. A drone shot, the
camera captures both sides of the railway track. We see a train moving fast
with its headlights, on either side of the dark night we see hundreds of fires in
the distant wilderness of the night of the burning villages.

Cut To

The interior of one of the bogeys. We see a lot of people whom we recognise as
the refugees of the camp. They all look anxious, frightened and some are
crying and some covering looking out of the window.

Cut To

Sudarshana sitting next to Amar Singh. Both looking grim clearly stunned by
the burning fires. Camera moves close to Sudarshana- her eyes full of tears,
her face gripped with fear. The camera moves close to her- she is trying to
hear the faint distinct sounds of woman screaming for help.

Cut To
Camera shows a fire in the village. We see a woman carrying a baby, two other
children running away along with her and her husband looking back. Over the
shoulder shot of the advancing mob. From their POV we see a mob of about
hundred odd people with lathis and swords advancing rapidly on them. They
are Sikhs.

Cut To

A composite shot- the rioting mob advancing on the victims and the victims
fall to the ground. The woman trying to shield her children and the man is
trying helplessly to protect his family.

Cut To

A top angle: The Sikh mob circling the family, slash mercilessly the woman
and the children. We hear one cry of anguish “Allah, maulaaaa”.

Cut To

A tracking shot: it’s a pitch dark night, the village is on fire. We see burning
houses as a frenzied mob of Sikhs rush into a tight lane of a village and burst
open a door and enter a house. We see an elderly Sikh man with full white
beard and a noble face standing there facing the mob who have entered his
house. Mob leader speaking in Punjabi.

NOTE: MORE CLAP TRAP LINE

Cut To

Mob Leader

Tune musalmanon ko chupa ke rakha hai—

Old Man

Haan chupa ke rakha hai, who humare padosi hain, janam janam ka saath hai
humara--

He pulls out a revolver.

Old Man

Sab aurten aur bachche hain—tum unhe haath nahi laga sakte!

Cut To

He fires a shot killing the mob leader dead. The rest of the hysterical mob
slash him with their swords.

Cut To
 The man falls dead. Stepping over his body some enter the inner house. The
frightened women and children look as the mob raises their swords. They
know this is their end. The women screams.

Cut To

We cut to the dead body of the old Sikh. We hear the off scene sounds of
screams and slashing sound of the swords. “Allah" “Maula” and the screaming
children.

Cut To

A huge mob of Punjabi Muslims with swords, guns and lathis are in animated
discussion. We see anger and madness on their faces. The entire village is on
fire and we see the houses burning.

Cut To

The mob has surrounded a house. The leader of the mob shouting in Punjabi.

Cut To

Leader

Oye Budhe lajwanti ko mere hawale karde—aur mainu kuch nahi chaida hai

Cut To

The mob is shouting unintelligible curse words.

Cut To

We show a very brave looking elderly Sikh man looking at the door, the mob is
trying to break. He hears the screaming mob advance.

Cut To

We cut back to the mob leader shouting.

Cut To

Leader

Oye khotiya cheti cheti—nahi toh tod daalenge darwaja— tenu maarke lajwanti
ko lejayenge—

Intercutting a stunningly beautiful Sikh girl of about 18.. frightened with

tears in her eyes.. looking through an inner room at her father from behind a
door calmly.
 Cut To

Interior of the house- the Sikh man draws a sword from its sheath while the
mob outside surges towards the door trying to break in.

Cut To

The father enters the room very emotional and distraught looking at his
beautiful daughter.

Cut To

Father

Beti.. teri laaj aur meri ijjat ka sawaal hai—

Cut To

The girl looks at her father in anguish and puts her hand on his mouth
stopping him from speaking further. We can see the courage and helpless
resignation in her large beautiful eyes.

Cut To

The girl dutifully moves forward. She removes her dupatta and bends towards
her father, offering her neck.

Cut To

C/U of girl murmuring “ Waheguru ji da Khalsa, Waheguru ji di Fateh”.

Cut To

The raised sword held by her father comes down in a swift blow. We hear the
thud of the severed head.

Cut To

The shrill whistle of the fast moving train sounds as though expressing her
anguish. The shaft of the wheels of the engine are speeding away.

Cut To

Two shot: Amar Singh and Sudarshana, both grim with tears in their eyes.
Their POV is the burning villages. Amar Singh comforting her, puts his arm
around her protectively. We can see the deep concern for the child on his face.

Cut To
 We hear a doha (FROM GURU GRANTH- THE VALUES ARE MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THE LIVES- ) mixed with the sound of the moving train
wheels. In the background, an anguish voice of a woman which can only be
described as a tormented and agonised pain of humanity trying to reach the
skies.

Cut To

The engineer ordering the coalman to rapidly feed the engines with more coal.
We can see the grim anxiety on his face looking at the genocide being raged on
both sides. He wipes his forehead with a cloth.

Dissolve To

Sc: 45: Outskirts of Lahore Day/ VFX

An aerial shot train moving towards Delhi alongside on the road running
parallel to the tracks. We see a long line of bullock carts filled with people.
Hundreds of Thousands walking besides the bullock carts heading in the
opposite directions towards Delhi. The line is almost 50 miles long.

Cut To

Another angle we see the caravan of bullock carts with the Hindu and Sikh
refugees walking on foot passing in the foreground with women, children and
old people with their chattels and goods on foot moving towards Delhi. A
miserable sight..

Cut To

Another sea of immigrants walking parallelly to the caravan of bullock carts.

A woman who is carrying her two children is so tired that she drops one child
and keeps walking with the other. With a total look of anguish, desperation,
helplessness on her face and devoid of strength in her hands, she drops one of
her babies..

Cut To

After few steps, she turns and looks at her fallen baby, her POV her child
crying with open arms stretched out towards her.

Cut To

She turns her face away crying out loud and keeps walking, looking back at
her helpless child. She can’t hear his voice anymore… she looks up in the sky
and screams in agony beating her head.

Cut To
The camera catches the fallen child and trucks to reveal dozens of several
such unfortunate children left behind crying for their mothers.

Cut To

A train is passing parallelly in a little distance above. We hear the heavy

clanging of the wheels.

CUT TO

SC 46: Lahore Railway Station Day. VFX/ Chroma

As the train slows, we can clearly see Sudarshana and Amar Singh looking out
to the platform anxiously.

Cut To

As the train halts, we see the various groups pull out their weapons and
prepare to fire.

Cut To

There is a sudden burst of machine guns and stein guns. Fire is heard. We see
Usman leading his men firing at the armed groups who are about to kill the
refugees.

Cut To

The precision of the fire power led by Usman is so immense, we see in rapid
several intercuts including the refugees hitting the floor to escape the hail of
bullets.

Cut To

We see Sudarshana and Amar Singh do likewise. Harminder, who is right next
to Usman firing his gun at the groups, a two shot of them.

Cut To

The platform is strewn with several dead bodies of attacking tribesmen, the
rest of them run away. The platform is clouded with gun smoke. Usman is
running towards the engine.

Cut To

We cut to him with the engineer and his crew. The crew is busy filling the
water and coal as fast as they could. Engineer desperately urging them on to
do their best. Usman climbs up the engine and talks to him.

Cut To
 Usman

SHABAASH THOMAS ab jitni jaldi hosake yahan se nikal jaao – atari yahan
se sirf 16 mile duur hai magar raste mein khatra bahot hai—ghabrana mat
army ke jawaan tumhare saath hain—

Cut To

Engineer nods. Usman gets down and rushes towards the train looking
anxiously for Sudarshana and Amar Singh.

Cut To

Another angle we see Usman rushing towards them.

Cut To

Aah tum log yahan ho—(to sudarshana) kaisi hai humari bahadur ladki—
achcha batao kaunsi mutthi mein hai tumhare chocolate—

Sudarshana

Dono khaali hain

Usman

Galat dono bhari hui hain…

Cut To

Usman

(can we have a magic show again) Yeh lo sab tumhare liye—amar chacha ke
saath rehna --- kuch ghante ke baad tumlog hindustan mein hoge— agar sab
theek raha to delhi mein milenge

Cut To

We hear the whistle of the train.

The train starts moving. Usman holding Sudarshana’s hand walks along with
the moving train he waves out

Cut To

Another angle: the train gains momentum after a few more steps. Usman
stops. A close up of Sudarshana's hand being separated from Usman’s. Usman
smilingly waving away at the kid. She has tears in her eyes waving bye bye to
Usman.
 Cut To

Harminder enters the frame and tells Usman.

Harminder

Bebe di sau - Tusi kamaal kardita sir, aapne bilkul theek socha tha, sade
achanak humle se fasadiyon ko hathiyar nikalne da time bhi nahi mila-- ek
bhi bande ko kharonch tak nahi aai

Usman puts up his high five Harminder takes it and salutes him back and
Usman pats his back affectionately.

Usman

Haan kamaal to kardiya humne--- bas Dua karo sab khairiyat se pahonch
jaayen!

Cut To

We see the back of the receding train into the distance.

CUT TO

Sc 47: New Delhi, INC office INT.

We open the shot with Nehru walking. Camera tracking with him. He comes
and thumps the table with his fist.

CUT TO

The room is charged with the concern of the events the leaders are up on their
feet talking animated and angry.

CUT TO

We see Patel and Azad getting up from their seats.

Cut To

Nehru

Hum sab yahan baithke jis desh ke bhavishya ko banane aur savaarne ke
khwaab dekh rahe hain—who pagal hochuka hai—charon taraf aag lagi hui
hai—har shaher se sholay buland horahe hain—log ek doosre ko maar rahe
hain—kaat rahe hain, punjab aur bengal ki jo reports aarahi hain—who aisi
hain ke aaplog sun bhi nahi sakte—
 Sardar

Khoon se likha jaa raha hai naye bharat ka itihaas-

Azad

Lekin haiwaniyat aur barbariyat ki yeh kahaniyan jinubi asia ke bahar tak
kabhi nahi pahonchengii

Patel

Jee Kabhi nahi pahonchengi maulana! Isliye ke angrez pahonchne nahi

denge--- duniya to wohi dekhegi jo british press usse dikhayega—!

Nehru

Lord atlee ki sirkaar to yehi kahegi ke hindustan ki azadi unki sabse badi
kamyabi hai

Azad

Is kamyabi ke chehre par khoon ke kitne dhabbe hain who bhi toh kabhi na
kabhi duniya ko dikhai denge!

Nehru

Aaj jo kuch horaha hai, who uss jhoot ka nateeja hai jo 200sau saal se
hindustan ki ragon mein utaara gaya hai, 2 qaumi nazariye ke naam par
hazar saal se saath rehnewalon ko samjhaya gaya ke musalman ek alag qaum
hai aur hindu alag! Aur yeh dono kabhi nahi mil sakte! Yeh zehreeli saazish
karnewale ANGREZ chale jaayenge magar hindustan ko apni ragon se yeh
zaher nikalne mein sadiyan lag jaayengi—sadiyan!

Cut To

SC 48: Lahore early Evening VFX/ Chroma

A drone shot capturing the majesty of Badshah Masjid and the Deraa sahib
gurudwara with shimmering domes and minarets lit by the evening light. We
can hear the gurbani and the sound of azan blend together.

Cut To

We see a military jeep with Usman and Akbar Khan. Camera moves in close
on Usman looking pensively towards the Badshah mosque and Deraa sahib
Gurudwara.

Cut To
A close up of Jinnah wearing a white sherwani with a karaquli cap. Looking
deeply towards Akbar Khan.

Cut To

Close up of Akbar Khan looking uncomfortable.

Cut To

Three shot Jinnah shifting his gaze from Akbar to Liaquat Ali in a striped grey
sherwani.

Cut To

Jinnah

Gentlemen! Bharat-Pak treaty ke mutabik british indian armed forces ka 64

percent bharat ko aur 36 percent pakistan ko milega!- ismein forces ke teenon
wings shaamil hain- mujhe bataya gaya hai ke bahot se muslim officers indian
army mein hi rehna chahte hain—yeh bahot afsos ki baat hai!

Cut To

Int of the jeep Akbar looking at Usman with the corner of his eye.

Cut To

Liquat

60-40 ka ratio hona chahiye tha magar nehru toh mountbatten ke chaheete
hain—isliye humara mutaalba manzoor nahi kiya gaya- maine poori koshish
kii hai ke tamam achche muslim officers humari taraf aajayen—zyadatar aa
bhi gaye hain, kuch reh gaye hain.

60-40 would have been better if it wasn’t for Mountbatten’s political

patronage towards Nehru. I have assigned a team to get the best of the Muslim
officers on our side.

Cut To

Two shot Usman and Akbar in their thoughts . Akbar looks tensed.

Cut To

Usman turns and looks towards the mosque as the jeep passes.
 Cut To

Usman’s POV, a panoramic shot of hundreds of people going in sajda in the

mosque.

Cut To

Usman’s eyes shift, he turns slightly.

Cut To

Sikh gurus reciting the gurbani to a large attendance in the gurudwara.

Cut To

Liquat

Maine Ek muslim military commander Mohammed usman ki bahot tareef suni

hai usse to pakistan army mein hona hi chahiye!

Cut To

Entrance of an impressive building. We see Usman and Akbar alight from the
jeep. The squad of soldiers with their sergeant smartly welcome Usman with a
salute. Usman returns the salute.

Cut To

C/U of Usman with a thoughtful smile on his face.

Cut To

They walk up the stairs rapidly.

Cut To

The squad looking towards Usman and Akbar.

Cut To

Two shot one soldier whispering something under his breath to his comrade.

Cut To

Akbar Khan

(Speaks with envious sarcasm)

 Main Mohammed usman ko jaanta hoon sir-- —who sharab ko haath nahi
lagata, paanch waqt ki namaaz padhta hai, aadhi tankha gareeb students ko
baant deta hai,

Cut To

A mid long shot capturing the panorama of the veranda we show Usman and
Akbar walking briskly.

Akbar:

Gandhiji ka chela hai sir—khadi pahenta hai aur charkha bhi chalata hai jo
usse gandhi ne diya hai—

Cut To

Insert of Jinnah reaction.

Jinnah

Remarkable… irade ka pakka lagta hai-- (pauses he taps his index fingers on
his chin) … usse humari fauj mein hona chahiye—

Cut To

Jinnah V/O cont. A mid close of Usman camera trucking back walking.

Cut To

Akbar Khan

Sir usne punjab aur sindh ke 50000 hazar hindu refugees jo bharat bheja hai

Cut To

Jinnah looking at Liaqat.

Cut To

Jinnah

Main usman se milna chahunga!

Cut To
Another angle: Usman and Akbar reach an impressive door. They enter the
door. There is an anti-room where a secretary gets up greeting Akbar and
looking curiously at Usman.

Cut To

Secretary

Sahi waqt par aayen hain—aaiye mere saath!

Cut To

He politely knocks the door and hears a voice.

Voice

Come in please..

Usman and Akbar follow the secretary into the larger room. Interior of a
spacious conference room with a big portrait of Jinnah in the background and
flags of Pakistan on both sides. We see Liaquat Ali seated at a big mahogany
table wearing a plain grey sherwani.

Cut To

Jinnah wearing a black sherwani and a karaquli cap enter from the side room
with a smile on his face.

Cut To

Usman and Akbar salute the leaders. Jinnah and Liaquat likewise happily
looking at Usman walk around the table towards him.

Cut To

Jinnah

Welcome Usman! I am happy to see you—Tumhe bulane ka maqsad yeh hai ke

hum tumhare kaarnamon se waqif hai, itne kam arse mein aisa military
record banana tumhari kabliyat ka saboot hai, mujhe yakeen hai ke tum bahot
jald top position par hoge- isliye meri khwaish hai ke tum pakistan army join
karo!—main tumhe bahot jaldi army chief bana dunga

Cut To

We intercut these lines with Usman, Akbar and Liaquat’s C/U.

Cut To

Jinnah Cont.…
Tum muslim ho aur jaante ho ke musalmanon ne kitni mushkil se apne liye ek
azad mulq haasil kiya hai, main chahta hoon ke har kaabil musalman chahe
who kisi bhi field mein ho, pakistan ki taraqqi mein haath bataye—gandhi aur
nehru musalmanon se jo waade kar rahe hain!

Cut To

Liaquat interjects hurriedly…

Liaquat

Unlogon par kisi musalman ko bharosa nahi karna chahiye, ab pakistan

humara mulq hai, jahan tumhara mazhab bhi mehfooz hai aur tumhara
mustaqbil bhi!

Cut To

Akbar is trying his best to conceal his annoyance. We can see the envy on his
face.

Cut To

The room is silent for a while. All eyes are on Usman. A big close up of Usman.

Cut To

Jinnah

To tumhara kya faisla hai usman?

Cut To

Usman is calm and composed. We can see the supressed outrage on his face.
Flash cuts of Liquat and Akbar Khan.

Cut To

Usman

Bahot bahot shukriya sir ke aapne ek mamuli soldier kii itni tareef kii, uski
izzat badhaii, yeh aapka ehsaan hai sir—(slight pause) sir hum banares ke
paas ek choti si basti ke rehne wale hain, jabse aankhon ne dekhna seekha hai-
- apne saamne uss ganga ko dekha hai jiski pavitrata ki saugandh lii jaati hai--
jo chup chaap sabke kheton ko sairaab karti hai—aur kabhi nahi poochti ke
kheti hindu ki hai ke musalman kii --- jabse kaanon ne sunna shuru kiya
masjid ki azaan aur mandir ke ghante dono ek saath sune, sir aaj bhi jab hum
apne gaon jaate hain aur sarson ka sona, gehun ke moti aur thandi ret ki
chandi humpar nichawar hote hain to aisa lagta hai jaise humare seene mein
dil nahi hai --- ek chotta sa hindustan hai jo dhadak raha hai…
 Cut To

Usman stops speaking abruptly.

Cut To

There is a stunned silence that fills the room. Its charged with electricity.

Cut To

Liaquat

( In a supressed angry tone)

Gair zaruri baatein mat karo officer – qaid-e-azam ke sawaal ka jawaab do?

Cut To

Usman

yeh baat kehne ki nahi hai sir--- samajh lene ki!

Cut To

He smartly salutes and walks out. Jinnah , Liaquat and Akbar look stunned as
he leaves.

Cut To

The camera tracking with Usman, a very strong and striking music plays out
with Usman’s macho gait.

The figures of Jinnah, Liaquat and Akbar receding in the background. We hear
Akbar Khan’s speaks in a furious note.

Cut To

Akbar

tumne Qaid-e-Azam ki tauheen kii hai, pakistan ko gaali dii hai—

Cut To

Akbar Khan looks at Usman walking away

Cut To

Quick intercut C/U pulls out his revolver.

Cut To
 Usman keeps walking undeterred..

Cut To

Akbar Khan fires …

Cut To

As Usman steps out and closes the door shut..

Cut To

The bullet pierces and shatters the door missing Usman by an inch.

Cut To

Usman looking at the door pierced by the bullet, keeps walking with sardonic
smile…. Camera tracking with him.

On Screen caption INTERMISSION.

Sc:49 : Jama Masjid New Delhi,

A long shot catching the appealing grace of the great Jama Masjid in New
Delhi. We hear the sound of Azan.

Cut To

The muezzin giving the call to prayer.

Dissolve To

Another aerial shot of a mass of people performing the Friday namaz.

Dissolve To

The worshippers are preforming the last part of the namaz. We see Usman
along with his other Indian Muslim army officers praying with him.

Dissolve To

After the prayers we see huge lot of people walking out to the immense
courtyard of the mosque.

Cut To
 Usman dressed in white khadi along with Sajid, Ahmed, Razzak, Rehman,
Adil, Salman, Salim and Suleiman whom we recognise as his Indian army
colleagues.

Cut To

Sajid gesturing towards each of his colleagues one by one.

Sajid

Sir, aapto jaante hain ke ahmed razzak adil, salman, rehman aur mera talluq
punjab se hai— DIL TO NAHI CHAHTA SIR—MAGAR HUMARE PUNJAB KI
MITTI AWAAZ DE RAHI HAI-- isliye humne pakistan army join karne ka faisla
kiya hai--

Usman

Agar faisla kar hi liya hai to hum rokenge nahi-- Humari duaen aap sabke
saath hain—jahan bhi rahen tarakki karen, agar zindagi rahi to phir mulaqat
hogi, aman ka mausam hua to galay milenge aur agar Maidaan par aamna
saamna hua to apna-apna farz ada karenge!

Ahmed

Hum aapko kabhi nahi bhool sakenge sir -- Salim, Sulaiman bhi bahot yaad
aayenge— (to usman) ek request hai sir, ek baar galay mil lijiye sir!

We see Rehman, Suleiman standing on either side of Usman facing the

departing soldiers.

Cut To

The moment is gripped with emotion as they embrace each other. Most of the
men have tears in their eyes. Usman is standing along with rehman and
Suleiman. The 6 others are walking away.

Cut To

Camera swish pans to a large flock of pigeons flying away.

Dissolve To

SC: 50: 15th Aug India’s Independence Day, New Delhi Chroma and VFX

The British Flag coming down and replaced by the Tiranga soaring proudly.
Nehru looking up pulling the string of the hoisted flag.

MERRIMENT---
 Jigar muradabadi

Bhaag musafir, mere watan se mere chaman se bhaag, upar upar phool khile
hain bheetar bheetar aag…

Tin ka dabba peet rahe they…

Majaaz

Bol ari o dharti bol, raj singhasan damadol

Another

Nacho gaao, aaj kisi ki jeet hui hai aaj kisi ki haar

Iqbal

Saare jahan se achcha hindustan humara…

Cut To

We cut to a shot of the Indian Army soldiers firing the 44 gun salute from the
cannons lined up for the occasion. We see a fly past of the Indian Air Force
bomber squadron.

Cut To

We see Pandit Nehru on the ramparts of Red Fort in a massive shot framing a
sea of people seated against the backdrop of the massive walls of the Red fort.

Cut To

Several close up shots of men, women, children, young and old emotionally
hugging each other.

Cut To

The crowds are shouting “Jai Hind” “Jai Hind” in a festive atmosphere. We see
quite a lot of proud Indians happily waving the tricolour, the emblem of free
India.

Cut To

We see all the congress leaders including Sardar Patel Maulana Azad,
Rajendra Prasad, Sarojini Naidu, Indira Gandhi, Military commanders
including Cariappa and Viceroy Mountbatten, - his wife and his daughter &
chinmaya-all seated in the front row.

Cut To
 We see English army officers along with the Indian army officers with their
families.

Cut To

Usman is in his military uniform along with Shaheen holding hands, happily
looking at the bombers and listening to the salvo of the gun salute.

The camera moves in close to a two shot: both of them are talking to each
other but we can’t hear what they speak..

Cut To

The Independence of India is being captured by the world media as Nehru

starts his speech.

Cut To

Pandit Nehru

I warmly welcome honourable guests, the heads of state-- who hav come from
far away land- to join us in celebrating the independence of india, distuinguish
guests, ladies & gentlemen, behnon, bhaiyon, aur bachon – Aaj hum sab iss
tareeqi lal qile par isliye jama hue hain, ke aajka din bhi ek tareeqi din hai, ek
itahasik aur yaadgar din hai, aajke din humne who cheez haasil kii hai jo
humesha se humari thi magar kuch dinon ke liye humse cheen lii gayi thi—yeh
Tiranga jo humare siron par lehra raha hai, kisi ek insaan ki ya congress
party ki jeet ka nishaan nahi hai—yeh nishaan hai uss jeet ka, us kamyabi ka
jo saare mulk ko haasil hui hai—yeh parcham, nishaan hai humari azaadi ka,
aur humare loktantra ka, keval humare liye nahi, balki saari duniya ke liye-
aaj humari khushi mein saara desh hi nahi, saara asia balki saari duniya
humare saath khushi mana rahi hai!—Jai Hind…

The tumultuous crowd roars.. Jai Hind!! .. Jai Hind!! ..

Dissolve TO

Calcutta: We see Gandhiji spinning his charkha. Off scene voice "

Gandhiji:
Mere liye desh ka batwara, bade dukh ki baat hai, magar azadi ki khushi bhi
hai—dukh mere man mein hai aur main apni khushi ko prarthna karke prakat
kar raha hoon, yeh sab uski den hai, jiska naam eeshwar bhi hai aur allah
bhi!!!

Cut To

Camera closes on his face. We see a single drop of tear fall out.
 Background music-
"Ragu Pati Raghav Raja ram,
Ishwar Allah tero naam,
sab ko sanmati de bhagwan…" softly playing.

CUT TO

Sc 51: Agra.

Aerial shot of the spectacular Taj Mahal catching the bed

of the Yamuna with the Taj.

CUT TO

Opposite angle foreground we show a very beautiful

shikara gliding on the silver sheet of water, catching the
reflections of Taj Mahal along the mosque like monument
complementing it. We can hear the soft rhythm of the
boats men paddle.

CUT TO

Seated alongside each other are Usman and Shaheen

looking with fascination at the 7th wonder of the world.

A composite shot of Usman and Shaheen looking at it in

amazement. Usman holding Shaheen close to him.

CUT TO

Usman covers Shaheen’s eyes with his hands and closes

his eyes too.
Shaheen

Ek baat bataiye-- aap army mein kaise aagaye?

Usman

hum to Amma se kiya waada nibha rahe hain,

Flashback
 Mother is speaking

Mother

Bachwa apne abbu ki tarhan kotwali na karna--- humse waada karo tum police
mein naahi fauj mein jaaoge—humra bada armaan hai tohre kandhon par
cham cham karte taare dekhe ka!

Back from flash

Shaheen

How sweet-- Agar aap army mein nahi hote to kahan hote?

Usman

kahin bhi nahi hote—humein to koi apne paas bhi khada nahi karta –

shaheen is surprised

shaheen

kyon nahi karta??

usman

arey hum haklate jo they—

shaheen

sach much?? –

FLASHBACK

Shot of a sign board “ Charles Gordon Commissioner of Police, Varanasi”

Cut To

Passing the sign board, Usman with his father in Kotwal’s uniform walking the
long corridor. kotwal is talking to usman

Kotwal:

angrez KI qaum ki taraqqi ka raaz hai taleem, duniya mein jisse bhi kamyab
hona hai usse padhna chahiye isliye hum tumhe harishchandra high school
mein daakhil karana chahte hain, is ilaaqe ka sabse achcha school hai.

Usman nods his head happily. They stop at a large door of the commissioner’s
office. They enter the office.
 Hawaldaar salutes kotwal

Kotwal

sahab ko khabar karo hum aayen hain!

Hawaldaar

jee sir!

Kotwal to usman

Kotwal

humne jaise hi tumhare daakhile ki baat kii gordon sahab khush hogaye
kehne lagay usman ko saath lekar aana!

Hawaldar appears

Hawaldar:

sahab kotwal sahab aayen hain

Gordon busy writing something. Looks up at the orderly and double nods his
head.

Cut To

outside

Kotwal to usman:

Tumhare saath hum andar nahi jaayenge—sahab tumse akele mein milna
chahte hain--

Hawaldar comes out

Hawaldar to usman:

Commissioner sahab bula rahe hain!

Kotwal usman ke sirpe haath pherta hai…

Kotwal:

ghabrana nahi aur bahot adab se salaam karna!

Cut to
The British police commissioner sitting at his desk. There is a polite knock on
the inner swing door and an orderly walks in

Usman enters the room. Gordon looks up briefly, goes back to his writing. He
gestures Usman with his left hand to sit, without even looking at him. Usman
respectfully takes the chair at the table.

Cut To

Gordon looking up at Usman.

Cut To

Gordon
(Speaks with a Stammer)

Naam naam k.kya tumhara?

Cut To

Usman is surprised by the stammering. Usman is quite alarmed and keeps

looking at the commissioner with an open mouth.

Cut To

Gordon (Speaking politely)

batao.. ka.. ka.. kya naam?

Cut To

Intercut one insert of Usman puzzled and curious. You can see the effort on
his face.

Gordon:

c-mon boy speak speak speak up…

Cut To

Usman

Me ma ma mera naam mohamam—mohammed usman

Cut To

Gordon is visibly annoyed.

Gordon
(Without Stammering)
 What?? B.ba.bl.Bloody cheek – tum tum mera mazaak karta hai!

Cut To

Usman
(Alarmed and scared)

Nah naahi nahi sir… main bhi-- main bhi-- sir…

Cut To

looks at the boy with great amusement and curiosity.

Cut To

Gordon
iiss is si iis that so? Toh tum tum bhi??

Cut To

Usman is relieved.

Cut To

Usman
jee. Jee sir—main main bhi…

Cut To

Commissioner starts laughing for a moment. Usman doesn’t know what to do.
The commissioner’s laughter is contagious. Usman starts laughing along as
they are two buddies (a charming moment his first inoculation to the English
world).

Cut To

The commissioner gets up from his chair putting his right hand in his pocket,
takes out few toffees and extends his hand to Usman. Close up of
commissioner’s hand with one toffee. Close up of Usman looking at them.

Cut To

Commissioner beckons Usman to take them. Usman takes one.

Gordon Ek khud leleta hai---

Gordon
 Lo khaao

While popping one in his own mouth. Usman does likewise, pops the toffee in
his mouth and puts the other in his pocket. Both are in a jovial mood. THEY
LAUGH TOGETHER---

Cut To

WE OVERLAP LAUGHTER OF USMAN AND SHAHEEN

shaheen is surprised

SHAHEEN

Magar ab to aap bilkul theek bolte hain!

usman

haan, ek tote ne humara ilaaj kiya tha,

shaheen

tote ne?

usman

who tota kisi MBBS se kam nahi tha, hua yun ke…

FLASH BACK

We open the shot with a very ornate cage with a unique and rare blue macaw
with yellow circles around the eyes. The blue colour of the parrot is striking
with two yellow colour streaks on his cheeks.

Cut To

Parrot (Shuka)

Aaiye aaiye vaidraj Vishwanath Sharma ke dawakhane mein aapka swagat

hai.

Usman and his father while entering the room look amazed at this unusual
macaw in the cage. Sharma notices their interest while greeting Usman’s
father and Usman.

As we pull back, we see a man seated on a gaddi is a Ved with half shaved
head, a plume of hair draped down to his neck. He is bare body, wearing a
dhoti and a sacred thread. We see all kinds of old bottled medicinal herbs
behind him on a shelf.
 Vaid:

Jairamji ke kotwal sahab—padhariye mahantji ne humein aapke ladke ki

samasaya batadi hai—(to usman) aao bitwa baitho…

Shuka: (parrot)

Aao

Kotwal:

Yeh tota to bilkul insanon ki tarhan bolta hai vaidji

Sharma

Badi durlabh prajati ka pakshi hai – himalay ki ek guffa mein haath laga tha,
iska naam shuka hai… bahot chamatkari hai

Shuka: (parrot)

bahot chamtkari hai, bahot chamatkari hai

usman laughs

vaid:

rigved mein bhi iska varnan hai, yeh kaamdeo ka vahan hai

kotwal:

kamaal hai

shuka: (parrot)

kamal hai kamal hai kamal hai

vaid:

bitwa aap jara aagay aaiye (usman moves forward) muu kholiye

shuka: (parrot)

aur jeeb bahar nikaliye

vaid smiles and looks towards shuka

vaid:

shukaji humein apna kaam karne dijiye

 shuka:

kijiye kijiye

vaid:

jeeb dikhao bitwa

vaid jeeb dekh raha hai peeche shuka ki aawaz aarahi hai

SHUKA

JEEB DIKHA BITWA

vaid

chinta ki koi baat nahi hai, bajrangbali ki kripa rahi to sab theek hojayega

Sharma gets up and moves towards a thali with few guava in it and places it
in front of lord Hanumanji’s statue and starts reciting lord hanuman baan.

Sharma

Nischay prem Prateet the, binay kare sanmaan, tehi ke kaaj sakal shubh, sidh
kare hanuman, Jai hanumant sant hitkari suni lo prabhu binti hamari jan ke
kaaj vilamb na keeje aatur dauri mahasukh deejay.

Insert of a parrot with eyes closed shaking his head listening to the lord
hanuman baan.

Cut To

He picks a guava and moves towards the parrot cage and offers the guava to
the parrot

Sharma:

Shukaji lijiye amrood khaaiye

Shuka:

Amrood khaiye amrood khaaiye

shuka quickly flies clinging on to the ribs of the cage, starts biting and eating
the guavava. This a two shot close up of Sharma and the parrot taking bites of
the guava.

Cut To
 Sharma grabs the guava from Shuka and rushes towards Usman with great
urgency chanting lord hanuman baan fervently with concentration and
passion. The atmosphere is magical. Camera catching the rhythm of the scene.

Cut To

Sharma Cont.

Lo bitwa usman lapalap khalo…

Kotwal

Khao khao

Cut To

The bewildered Usman looks at his father who is looking hopeful and
expectant. He nods his head fast.

Cut To

Usman bites a big chunk exactly where the parrot had eaten from, munching
the guava with great relish.

Cut To

Shuka is shouting

Amrood khaliya—shuka ka amrood khaa liya!

Cut To

As Usman is eating the guava, Sharmaji leans to the ear of Kotwal.

Cut To

Sharma

Ab bajrang dev ka chamatkar dekhiyega kotwal sahab, usman shuka ki tarhan

far far bolne lagega!

Cut To

Camera closes on Kotwal who looks relieved and happy. Usman is bewildered
with this experience and goes on chewing the guava and stops.

Shuka:

Shuka ka amrood khaa liya, amrood chor, amrood chor…

 Sharma:

Chup raho shuka kaam karne do

Cut To

Sharma

Beta ab apna naam bataiye—zor se boliye

Cut To

C/U Usman, we can see the energy appearing on his face.

Cut To

Usman

Ma mam maam…

Cut To

Sharma

Boliye, aap bol sakte hain—boliye, boliye

Usman:

Humara naam mohammed usman

Vaid

Phir boliye, bole jaaiye

Usman:

Humara naam mohammed usman, humara naam mohammed usman…

Cut To

Shuka

Humara naam mohammed usman, humara naam mohammed usman

Cut To

Usman clapping his hands, dancing in circles and jumping in the air. His
father looks happy.
 We cut to present, Shaheen is rippling with laughter Usman too joins her.
Shaheen quickly looks up at him.

shaheen

Sach mein isse zyada mazedaar chutkula pehle kabhi nahi suna— tote ne ilaaj
kardiya—

She is laughing and he is admiring her looking at the radiant face in the
setting sun’s light,

Shaheen

aapki zindagi to chutkule se bhari hui hai, aur kuch bataiye apne baare mein-
gaon mein kya kya karte they?

Usman

Gaon mein masti karte phirte they—bhaiyon ke saath milke aam, amrud aur
jamun churakar khaate they…

Shaheen (laughs)

Kabhi pakde nahi gaye

Usman

Pakde to nahi gaye, magar do baar marte marte bachay—ek baar ped se gir
gaye they—aur ek dafa doobte doobte bache!—

Shaheen

Ganga mein

Usman

Nahi!- Kueen mein…

We see the mother screaming.

Woman

hair raam – savitri

All the ladies scramble and rush around the well looking down helplessly at
the drowning girl shouting for help.

Savitri:

bachao bachao
 Cut To

The boy on a bicycle turns towards the well.

Woman

: bachao… arey koi bachao, humri savitri bowdi mein gir gayi…

Another woman:

arey kauno aao, prakash, rames…

Mother: (crying) humra bachwa arey humra bachwa… arey kauno madad
karo…

There is a pandemonium in the air we hear the mother screaming some other
women running towards her joined by some men, who rush and look down into
the well.

Cut To

Reaching the well he jumps off the bicycle and looks down in the well at the
drowning girl shouting for help.

Girl: bachao.. bachao…

Cut To

He looks up to the woman screaming for help and then jumps in man reacts

We see the boy down below in the water grabbing the girl trying to push her
up. With great difficulty he manages to catch hold on to one of the steps and
holds the girl with the other hand.

We hear the villagers says

bach gayi, bach gayi…

We come back to the present

Shaheen

Aap bachpan se bahadur hain?

Shaheen looks admiringly at him

Usman
Haan kuch zyada hi bahadur they—ke tairna nahi aata tha phir bhi chalaang
lagadi thi!---

Shaheen

Tairna nahi aata tha—phir bhi?

Usman:

maqsad uski jaan bachana tha - apne baare mein socha hi nahi!

She looks at him admiringly—

Usman looking at Shaheen tenderly

They both smile looking at each suddenly moment gets intense

Usman

Tumhe pata yahan issi jagah jamuna ke kinare shah jahan ne mumtaz mahal
se kya kaha tha?

Shaheen:

Kya?

Usman

Usne kaha tha ‘kya tum meri malikka banna pasand karogi’?

Shaheen smiles understanding the hidden meaning of the lines and asks with
a mischievious smile

Shaheen

Aur mumtaz mahal ne kaha tha ‘Agar aap aakhir waqt tak mohabbat karne ka
waada karen to haan!!’

Usman

Humein manzoor hai!

Both smile…

Usman takes out a small box opening the box takes out a ring. Shaheen looks
at the ring in a total surprize with happiness written all over her face.

Usman puts the ring on her finger.

They look at each other in this unbelievable moment and they kiss gently. As
the camera moves they embrace warmly as there is no tomorrow. We hear
their theme music.

It’s a glorious sunset framing the Taj Mahal and the two lovers.

Dissolve To

Sc: 52 : Karachi, September 1947

Prime Minister’s office in an impressive building: We see a tall flag mast with a
Pakistan flag fluttering in the air. The building is surrounded with impressive
high walls of the colonial architecture. A convoy of trucks led by a jeep swings
into the impressive open gates.

Cut To

A close shot: we see trucks filled with frontier tribesmen in their tribal attire
with rifles and stein guns, bazookas, etc.

Cut To

The convoy comes to a stop in the porch. We see Pakistani military officers
getting down from the jeep and heading to the stairs followed by the armed
tribesmen pouring out of the trucks.

Cut To

The impressive office of the Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, we see Col.
Akbar Khan entering the office along with two other military officers whom
we had seen getting down from the jeep.

Cut To

They are accompanied by three Masud tribesmen- the leader an impressive

looking Pathan wearing grey salwar kameez, black shawl and green turban
with yellow tribal motifs. The other two are his armed bodyguards.

Cut To

Before entering Liaquat’s office, the bodyguards are disarmed.

Bodyguards:

Hum hathiyaar nahi dega

Sardar ibrahim gestures and arms are surrendered! They reluctantly

surrender their weapons to the Pakistani officers.

Cut To
Akbar Khan salutes. Liaquat Ali Khan gets up from his chair ignoring the
salute and moves towards the tribal leader and his hefty bodyguards.

Cut To

Tribal leader

Salamalaikum JANAB-E-ALI

Liaquat

Walekum Assal am SARDAR IBRAHIM- KHUSAMADEED KHUSHAMDEED

TRIBAL LEADER

SALAMALAIKUM AKBAR KHAN SAHAB—

AKBAR KHAN

WALEKUM…

wazeer-e-azam sahab, aapne is hakeer ko kis liye talab farmaya hai!

Liaquat Ali Khan

Aapki madad ki zarurat hai sardar ibrahim

Sardar Ibrahim

Hukum karo!Huzoor! hum kya kar sakta hai?

Liaquat Ali Khan leading him to a sofa nearby.

Cut To

PASHTUN mein they meet akbar khan and ibrahim khan----

Liaquat Ali Khan

Miya ifteqar-ud-din ko to aap jaante hain, who koshish kar rahe hain ke
kashmir ke awaam pakistan mein shaamil hone ke liye bagawat karden—

Ibrahim

Maharaja ka takhta ulatne ka mansooba hai??

Liaquat

Khan sahab, kashmir ek musalman riyasat hai— isliye uski azadi aur uska
pakistan mein shaamil hona behad zaruri hai!
 Liaquat looks at Akbar as if giving him a que.

Akbar Khan

aap log yeh humla wazirastan ki taraf se karenge aur uske liye hum aapko,
hathiyaar gola barood aur rakkam faraham karenge!---- Aap ek teer se do
shikar kar sakte hain khan sahab, humari khufiya report ke mutabik
maharaja hari singh, Bhimber, Dak Bungalow mein jaane wale hain. who jagah
sarhad se qareeb hai aap asaani se humla karke maharaja ko agwa kar sakte
hain—agar usse jaan se maarna pade to who bhi kar sakte hain—is karwaii
mein jo kuch aapko mile who aapka hoga—

Cut To

Liaquat

Maharaja ke paas fauj bahot kam hai aur jo hai uske paas na hathiyaar hai aur
na training— aapke bahadur sathiyon ka muqabla karne wala koi nahi hoga!

Cut To

The tribal leader intently listening and slow in his response. After a pause, he
lights up with a smile.

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim

Qaid-e-millat, aap humpar BHAROSA kiya uska shukriya – colonel akbar khan
jaise hi humko bola, humara kaam shuru hogaya, birother akbar khan humse
10 hazar aadmi maanga tha usmein se 4hazar jaanbaz Kashmir ki sar-zameen
par pahunch chuka hai.

CUT

Sc 53 : Hilly Terrain Baramulla Kashmir /VFX

A drone shot capturing the serpentine flow of the great Indus river with vast
mountains in the backdrop and green fertile landscape.

Cut To

Camera closes in: A broad shot on a large number of tribesmen running below.

Cut To

A low angle shot with a backdrop of a huge mountain chain. In the foreground,
just below a small plateau we see a few villages.

Cut To
 The armed tribesmen are pouring in from the centre of the frame spreading
out in several corners towards the villages.

Cut To

A close tracking shot capturing the tribesmen waving their guns and shouting
war cries.

Cut TO

We see Kashmiri women screaming and run with their children. Their men
are being slaughtered with a massive gunfire.

Dissolve To

Sc: 54: New Delhi, Prime Minister’s Office

Nehru is in a rage and pacing the room. Seated are Maulana Azad and Sardar
Patel.

Nehru

Jammu kashmir ke haalat roz ba-roz kharaab hote jaa rahe hain— KABAILI
humloN ko rokna maharaja ki fauj ke bas ka nahi hai, mainE MAHARAJA SE
ZYATI TAUR PAR darkhast kI HAI ke who sheikh abdullah ko riha karden—jo
wahan ki stithi ko sambhal sakte hain—magar his highness baat sunne ko
tayyar nahi hain, maine liaquat ali khan ko bhi likha ke who QABAILIYON ko
arms and ammunition na den, magar who kehte hain ke hum unpar ilzaam
laga rahe hain.

An angry Sardar Patel.

Sardar Patel

Pakistan kuch nahi karega kyon ke kashmir ka patan, uski vijay hai,

Maulana Azad interjects.

Maulana Azad

Agar maharaja sahab kashmir ki tabahi aur khoon kharabe ko rokna chahte
hain to ek hi tareeka hai ke kashmir indian union mein shaamil hojaye- aur
sheikh abdullah ko riha karde!

Cut To

SC 55: Central Jail, Srinagar

Interior of the jail: Grim & dark- the police Commissioner along with a posse of
policemen walks up to the cell where Sheikh Abdullah is locked in.
 Cut To

We see a tall man with a simple kurta and salwar with a shawl wrapped
around him. His personality is imposing.

Cut To

While a police man unlocking the doors.

Commissioner

Sir his highness maharaja hari singhji ke hukum se aapko riha kiya jaata hai!

The camera moves close to Sheikh Abdullah. He walks out with a smile on his
face.

Cut To

Sc:56 : Hunting Lodge/ Maharaja Hari Singh in Hiding

We see a car enter the compound, The guards salutes the car—as they know
someone important sitting inside

Cut TO

In the interior, sitting next to a fire place warming his hands is Maharaja Hari
Sing. ADC walks in.

ADC

Your highness Deputy Prime Minister Batra saab haazir hue hain!

Hari Singh

Bulao unhe!

The ADC ushers in with an anxious R L Batra. He greets the Maharaja with
great respect. Two other men are with him.

Batra

Huzoor ke hukum ke mutabik sheikh abdullah ko rihaa kardiya gaya hai!

Hari Singh

Humare hukum se nahi Pandit Nehru ke dabao daalne par kiya gaya hai!
 Batra

Sheikh sahab thodi der mein huzoor ke salaam ko haazir honge!

Maharaja Reacts.

Intelligence officer

Your Highness! Waadi ke haalaat tezi se kharaab hote jaa rahe hain—huzoor
ka zyada dinon tak kisi ek jagah thairna theek nahi hai!

Insert

Adjoining room: We see an stately lady along with few other younger women.
The Maharaja’s family are curiously listening to the conversation.

Batra

Huzoor ki jaan ko khatra bhi hosakta hai!

Maharaja

AAP jaa sakte hain!

A quick insert of Maharaja’s wife showing alarm.

Intercut:

In the Pine wood forest: Sardar Ibrahim leading a large number of his armed
tribesmen moving rapidly through the forest.

Outer ante room- the door is opened by ADC. He ushers in Sheikh Abdullah
along with a few of his men.

Cut TO

Sheikh Abdullah in sherwani with karaquli cap, walks in with the ADC leaving
his men behind. A quick cut of Maharaja registering the entry of the Sheikh.

Adc:

Huzoor sheikh abdullah sahab haazir hue hain!

In a composite shot we show Sheikh advancing towards the seated Maharaja

who gets up to greet him. Sheikh is very gracious.

Sheikh

Assalam-alaikum Huzur
 Maharaja:

Walekum, baithiye

The Maharaja offers him a chair. Both men sit down.

Sheikh

Qaid se rihai ke liye huzoor ka shukriya--

Maharaja laughing along with him.

Maharaja

Daal chawal mil raha tha na.

Sheikh

AAPKI MAHERBAANI-

They both laugh and settle in for business.

Sheikh

Your highness wadi ke halaat acche nahi hain—qabaili jagah jagah humle kar
rahe hain— loot maar horahi hai, log bastiyan chodhkar bhaag rahe hain— aur
yeh sabkuch pakistan ke ishare par who pahadi bhediya sardar ibrahim kar
raha hai

Highness

Hum jaante hain

Sheikh

YouR higness humari fauj un junglee kutton ka muqabla nahi karsakti jo

andar ghus aayen hain

Hari Singh is thoughtful. Sheikh is looking at him expectantly, both men look
at each other. Hari Singh searching Sheikh’s face for an answer.

Hari singh

Humari samajh mein nahi aaraha hai ke jab pakistan ke saath humara
samjhauta hochuka tha KE WHO KUCH NAHI KARENGE AUR HUM BHI KUCH
NAHI KARENGE-- to PHIR unhone humari kamar mein churra ghopne kii
saazish kyon kii??

Sheikh
 Pakistan ke saath samjhauta humari nadaani thi— lekin jo hochuka so
hochuka waqt bahot kam hai-- isse pehle ke WAADI KE halaat kaboo se bahar
hojayen, humein hindustan se faujii madad maang leni chahiye!

C/U:

Maharaja listening attentively

C/U:

Sheikh

Your Highness kashmir ko hindustan mein shaamil hojana chahiye - yeh mera
ya awaam hi ka nahi waqt ka takaza bhi hai—

Maharaja is silent

Sheikh

Huzoor history aapke faisle ka intezar kar rahi hai!

The Maharaja is quite calm but we can see desperation.

Intercut:

In the Middle of the Pine wood forest: Sardar Ibrahim and his hoards now
moving faster. A Tribesman rushes in from the opposite direction and a close
shot of Sardar Ibrahim and his man.

Cut TO

Hari Singh comes out of his stupor and speaks decisively with an authority in
his voice.

Cut TO

Hari Singh calls his ADC who rushes in. Addressing ADC-

Hari Singh

Delhi phone lagao hum Pandit Nehruji se baat karenge!

ADC

Jee Huzur.

Cut TO

A quick insert of the Sheikh Abdullah’s happy reaction.

 Maharani is sitting opposite the Dogra deity Vaisho Devi with a few other
ladies and handmaidens standing behind her. Her hands are folded in
supplication to the deity, mummering a prayer happily.

Cut TO

The camera stays on the maharaja offering a cup of Kawa to Sheikh Abdullah.
Camera composing them having Kawa looking at the fire place.

Cut TO

The ADC alarmed rushes back again, straight to the Maharaja and whispers
something softly in his ears which is not audible. The Maharaja’s face changes
the colour. He looks at Sheikh Abdullah.

Dissolve

Sc 57: Deep In the Dark Pine Wood Forest.

We see Sardar Ibrahim with several of his Masud Tribesmen stealthily rushing
through the wooded mountain slopes in the cold winter darkness panting
heavily. The camera pans.

Cut TO

We compose the Bhimber Dak Bungalow with the tribesmen. The military
guards clad in heavy winter clothing are guarding the lodge.

Cut TO

As they approach Bhimber Dak bungalow Sardar Ibrahim gives silent

instructions with his hands for his men to attack the guards.

Cut TO

The sleeping guards are quickly attacked by the tribesmen with their knives
and they kill them all in a super lightning speed.

Cut TO

Sardar Ibrahim looking triumphant, with a finger on his lips, signalling his
tribesmen not to make any sound, leads them boldly to the front door where
all the dead guards are lying around.

Cut TO

He kicks open the door and they all rush in. They are shocked to see room
after room is empty. The guardsmen try to open some cupboards and drawers

The Tribesman
 Sardar idhar maharaja to kya chooha ka bachha bhi nahi hai—

Young tribesman

Tum bola khoche khazana milega kidar hai who khazana ?

We see blood in Sardar Ibrahim's eyes and slaps him-- Insert of a valley we
hear the echo of the slap.

Cut TO

Sc: 58 : New Delhi, Office of the Defence & Deputy Prime Minister

Vallabhai patel:

RAdcliffe ko bharat se jaane ki itni jaldi thi ke kashmir ki seema rekha banana
hi bhool gaye- sab angrezon ki chaal hai ke unke jaane ke baad bhi desh mein
hindu muslim tanav bana rahe—

Phone aaya, baldev picks… baldev tells sardar patel

Baldev:

Sir panditji

Nehru: (on phone)

Abhi abhi srinagar se maharaja hari singhji ka phone aaya tha, kashmir
indian union mein shaamil hone ko tayyar hai-

Sardar:

Yeh to bahot achchi khabar hai!—

Nehru:

lekin wahan ke haalaat bahot kharaab hain—unhe fauri taur par military
relief kii zarurat hai—

vp menon is listenign—

Sardar

main aagay jo bhi uchit hoga karta hoon—

He Keeps the phone sardar gives menon a look

Vp menon .

I’ll order the military movement sir… before that come with me…
Cut To

Sardar Patel gets up and move towards the large map on the wall, picking up
a pointer stick.

Cut To

The map shows the mountains surrounding the Srinagar airport. He moves
the stick in a spiral movement going down to the runway below while he talks.

Cut To

Menon

Balwant Singhji, humare betareen pilots ko bhejiye— magar bhejne se pehle

bata dijiye—srinagar airport charon taraf pahadiyon se ghira hua hai—aur
runway to bahot chotta hai, aur aagay bahot gehri khaai hai…

Morph

The maps morphs into Srinagar airport.

Cut To

Sc: 59 : Srinagar Air field / VFX

V/O Sardar Patel

It is not possible to make a direct approach. The pilot has to make several
circles before approaching the landing field, descending gradually to make
sure he doesn’t eat up the runaway before he stops.

In hindi

A high angle drone shot showing a dozen Dakotas are in different stages of
decent, creating a circular pattern. Camera catches the first Dakota landing
on the airfield. We see the picturesque mountains in the background and the
sheer verdant beauty of the valley.

Cut To

V/O Sardar Patel

Pehla regiment land hote hi—airport ko charon taraf se secure karega!---

Another angle the Dakota has just come to a halt and troops start pouring out
and fanning out in different directions of the air field. In the meantime, Dakota
two has touched down and taxing.
 Cut TO

It’s a ground angle shot capturing this spectacle of the air field combined with
the incoming Dakotas and beautiful mountain surrounding it.

Cut To

The door opens. We see a lot of military personnel and Sheikh Abdullah
waiting at the door of the plane.

Cut To

Another angle: We see Nehru stepping out followed by Indira Gandhi and
Usman.

Cut To

Sheikh Abdullah warmly greets Pandit Nehru with a strong hug and a garland
of flowers.

Sheikh Abdullah

Assalam-alaikum

Nehru

Wale-kum salam

Sheikh abdullah:

Kashmir ki sir zameen apne azeem sapoot ka isteqbal karti hai!

Nehru:

Shukriyaaa -- sher-e-kashmir ko pinjre se bahar dekh kar bahot khushi horahi

hai!

Sheikh abdullah:

Yeh khushi aaphi ka tohfa hai panditji

Cut To

Nehru reciprocates. Sheikh Abdullah smilingly greets Indira Gandhi.

Sheikh abdullah

Kaisi ho indira beti?

Indira:
 Aapki dua hai!

Sheikh abdullah

Mashallah!

Cut To

Nehru

Sheikh Saheb! Inse miliye yeh hain humare diler commander Mohammed
Usman - inse indian army ko bahot umeeden hain!

Sheikh Abdullah

(shaking his hand)

Khushamadeed barkhudar…

Cut To

They both smile looking happy.

Cut To

Usman salutes him

Cut To

SC: 60 : Lal Chowk Srinagar. Chroma/ VFX

Drone shot camera on Nehru, Sheikh Abdullah waving to the crowds Indira
Gandhi and Usman quietly standing and observing this spectacle. Camera tilts
down capturing the crowds and the atmosphere.

Cut To

They are surrounded by a sea of people shouting slogans “ Sher-e-Kashmir

Zindabad”… “Pandit Nehru Zindabad”. Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah
acknowledge the cheers.

Cut To

Sheikh Abdullah moves forward and receives the Maharaja Hari Singh, his
ADC and Prime Minister Batra.

Cut TO

They all move towards the smiling Nehru and Indira Gandhi. After exchanging
pleasantries with Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah.
 Cut TO

The roar of the crowd continues with the slogans. Sheikh Abdullah
respectfully guides Nehru towards the chairs kept on the dais. Nehru takes a
seat next to Indira. Usman is standing beside Indira.

Cut To

Sheikh Abdullah escorts Pandit Nehru and moves towards the microphone.

Cut To

A top angle framing Abdullah and Nehru as the focal point of the shot
capturing the vast multitude surrounding them.

Cut To

Another angle: Sheikh Abdullah and Nehru.

Sheikh Abdullah

( Speaking into the microphone)

Assalawalaikum…. Ab main hindustan ke wazeer-e-azam, aur apne mohtaram

aur mukhlis dost pandit nehru se darkhwast karunga ke who apne khayalat
ka izhar karein—

Awaam

pandit nehru zindabaad, hindustan zindabad

Nehru

Tohy Ch'ivaa Vaarai.

("How are you?"- in Kashmiri)

The public roars and claps with sheer happiness.

Nehru Cont.
Behnon bhaiyon aur bachon - yeh ek tareekhi din hai, aaj itihaas ka ek panna
palat raha hai—purani galat fehmiyan duur horahi hain—aur naye rishte ban
rahe hain—mujhe behad khushi hai ke His Higness maharaja hari singhji ne
indian federation mein shaamil hone ka faisla kiya hai!—yeh ek sahi faisla hai
aur sahi waqt par kiya gaya hai—humne yeh baat bilkul saaf kardi hai ke
jammu aur kashmir ki taqdeer ka aakhri faisla koi aur nahi yahan ke awaam
karenge yaani aaplog (naare lagte hain ‘pandit nehru zindabad, hindustan
zindabad’) humara yeh waada kashmir ki janta se hi nahi hai balki saari
duniya se hai—aur hum apne iss waade par humesha qayam rehne ka ahed
karte hain—
 naare lagte hain:
pandit nehru zindabad, hindustan zindabad, sher-e-kashmir zindabad

Cut To

The public roars and claps overjoyed…. Nehru passes the microphone to
Sheikh Abdullah.

Sheikh Abdullah

Mere azeezon aur sathiyon aap sabko malum hai ke His higness ke hukum se
mujhe jail bhejdiya gaya tha, aur panditji ki maherbani ke unki koshishon se
riha kardiya gaya—in dono hazraat ne apna farz ada kardiya hai!—ab meri
baari hai- aur mera pehla farz hai apne watan, apne kashmir ki hifazat karna
aur mujhe poora yakeen hai ke hindustan ki madad aur allah ke karam se
hum apne maqsad mein zaroor kamyab honge—jeet humari hogi!

Insert of Nehru looking pleased. There is a roar from the public Pandit Nehru
Zindabad!!… Sheikh Abdullah Zindabad!.. Maharaja Hari Singh Zindabad!!..

Cut To

Inserts of Indira and Usman happy and Maharaja now looking pleased.

Naare
Sher-e-kashmir zindabad.. pandit nehru ki jai… hindustan zindabad!-- Sheikh
Abdullah Zindabad!.. Maharaja Hari Singh Zindabad!!..

Cut To

Sc: 61: Shaheen’s House

Its autumn. The changing colours of the leaves lend a vibrant hue. A charming
little cottage is surrounded with mountains, beautiful flowers and birds are
humming in the garden. We hear their theme music.
Cut To

Shaheen

War ke beech mein aapko chutti kaise mil gayi commander sahab?

USMAN

SACHA AASHIQ APNI MASHOOQ SE MILNE 7 SAMANDAR PAAR KARKE BHI

AAJATE HAIN!—HUM BHI AAGAYE

SHE LAUGHS… HE COMES OUT OF THE BATHROOM NAKED—

 HE is humming some song…

SHE THROWS THE TOWEL ON HIM…

HE WRAPS THE TOWEL -- AND LIFTS HER AND gently lays her on the bed

Close shot of the two. They kiss passionately and make love.

Camera tracks-in slowly, morphs into a series of hypnagogic shots of them

together initiating a beautiful love song “man’s love for women”… the visuals
of Usman and Shaheen are artistically composed. Empyreal shots of them
walking, talking, kissing, sitting in various picturesque locations like
mountains, sunsets, riversides etc. The images keep changing with each of
their moments. This is their theme song in the background creating a sense of
sheer heavenly magic equal to dream.

Cut To

As the song fades out, we pull back from the breakfast table. Shaheen is
looking radiant and happy setting the breakfast. Usman in uniform walks in
and pecks her on her cheek. They both sit and Shaheen help him. She pours
cornflakes and milk into the bowl and helps herself too. They both start eating
and talking.

Shaheen

Ab aap wapis kab aayenge?

Usman

5 ghante ki durri par to hain—kabhi bhi aajayenge-

Usman leans across and kisses on her mouth.

Cut To

Usman

Hum soch rahe hain—kisi aise ilaaqe mein jo tumhari tarhan khoobsurat ho—
ek ghar banana chahiye!

Cut To

She mischievously asks

Shaheen

Usmein kaun rahega?

 They look at each other lovingly. We intercut with their silent looks which
speaks volumes of their love for each other.

Usman

Usmein humara pyar rahega—hum rahenge aur humare bachay rahenge!

Shaheen

Who waqt kab aayega ?

Usman

Waqt ke baare mein nahi sochna chahiye, zindagi naam hai kuch lamhon ka,
aur unmein se bhi yeh ek lamha jo iss waqt humare paas hai, yehi haqeeqat
hai! - baqi sab khwaab hai ya khyaal hai!

Cut To

Shaheen tightly embraces Usman, he also holds her tightly in deep embrace.
Their theme music in violins playing softly.

Cut To

We catch a picturesque shot of mountains and verdant surroundings, we see

the armoured car accompanied with two jeeps moving fast on the road. Music
continues.

Cut To

Close up of Usman pensive. Theme music continues

Cut To

Sc: 62 : Jammu and Kashmir Border with Pakistan VFX

We show a series of collage of rapid dramatic shots. Rajauri captured by the

raiders, killing of thousands of Hindus and Muslims at Chingas.

Cut To

Mirpur torched by the raiders. About 400 soldiers and 10,000 refugees
managed to escape and reach Jhangar.

Cut To

The tribesmen killed several hundred soldiers and civilians and captured
hundreds of women. The abducted men and women are taken away.
 Cut To

The number of dead and wounded will be shown through a collage of

newspapers and radio broadcast.

Cut To

SC: 63 : Naushera Airfield, Kashmir VFX

We show the Auster- a small biplane, in the air.

Cut To

Close shot of the Auster’s cramped space. We see three persons- a pilot,
General Cariappa and Major General S.K Sinha. The pilot speaks.

Pilot

Sir who dekhiye - airfield

Cariappa gazes.. POV shot- a solitary airfield with a few military vehicles
moving.

Cariappa

Haan dikhai deta hai—usman humara wait kaRTA HAI-- !—

He wriggles on his seat.

Cariappa Cont.

itna chotta jagah hai—humara pair ek dum mar gaya!

Sinha

Mar gaya nahi sir—sunn hogaya—

Cariappa:

Yes same same…

Cut To

Another angle the armoured vehicle in a composite shot takes a turn and run
parallelly to the Auster and follows it.

Cut To
 The Auster stops with the propeller puttering to a stop. The armoured
vehicles are seen approaching the Auster and come to a halt.

Cut To

General Cariappa gets down stretching himself followed by Major General SK

Sinha.

Cut To

Usman and his officers greet them warmly with a salute. The general responds
with salute and extend his hand warmly. They shake hands and keep walking
towards the armoured vehicle.

Usman

Welcome sir! Aapko yahan dekhkar bahot khushi horahi hai— sir yeh Captain
JP Dhar aur Captain Baldev Singh hain.

They both shake hands with General Cariappa.

Cariappa

Bahot bahot khushi hua-- happy to meet you all gentleman!

Usman looks at his watch quickly.

Usman

Chaliye sir.

Cut To

The three armoured vehicles move away from the camera into the distant
horizon.

Cut To

The armoured vehicles emerge from behind some boulders on a high point of
the feature. We can see the hills in the background. The armoured vehicles
stop. C/U of Cariappa POV.

Cut To

We show a large number of assembled troops in the basin below. We hear the
voice of a sergeant scream in army style “ Attention!!” and the troops stamp
their boots and give a smart salute to their commander.

Cut To
 Three shot of Usman, Cariappa and Sinha returning the salute with happy
smiles on their faces. We see several tanks, mobile artillery and large number
of military vehicles around. Cariappa is looking at the assembled troops and
reacts.

Cut To

Cariappa

Kya yeh movment KOT ki direction mein jaata hai?

Cut To

Inserts of Harminder and Baldev observing.

Usman

Yes sir! 77 para Brigade ki 5 companiyan KOT ko bheji jaarahi hain—taaki

KOT ka route block kiya jaasake!- aapki permission ho to companiyon ko
aagay badhne ka order diya jaaye!

Cariappa

Go ahead Usman..

Baldev Singh salutes and moves forward shouting the order.

Cut To

The assembled men present their arms. All the assembled officers salute their
commander.

Baldev Singh

Prepare to leave… fast.

As the troops start scrambling to the vehicles, Cariappa & Sinha moves
towards the jeep followed by Usman. Cariappa stops.

Cariappa looking at Usman with deep concentration

Cariappa

KOT par kabzaa hogaya to naushera aur jhangar ka rasta khul jaayega-- Tavi
Ghati par apna advantage ban jaayega!

Usman listens intently has a faint smile.

Usman
 You are right sir—isliye humara pehla nishana KOT hoga!

Cut To

We see the troops are rushing towards their trucks… the tank commanders
rush to the tanks and armoured cars. The mobile artillery units and others to
their respective groups.

Cut To

We see Usman, General Cariappa and Major general Sinha in conversation.

Right behind them on the road below we see the army column moving with
their rumbling tanks and artillery pieces.

Cut To

Three shot of Usman, Cariappa and Sinha.

Cut To

General Cariappa

Report mila hai ke pakistan army naushera par large force ke saath attack
karega—naushera aur jhangar humare liye bahot important hai,

( Off scene on Usman’s c/u)

Usman looks at him listening intently.

Cariappa (Cont.)

jhangar humare haath se nikal gaya yeh achcha nahi hua—AUR BRIGADIER
PARANJPE BHI BURI TARHAN ZAKHMI HOGAYE--- phir bhi KOT humare
kabze mein aata hai to jhangar ko wapis le sakta hai---

usman

yes sir

cariappa

usman I want jhangar—as a gift from you!

Usman looks with resolve at General Cariappa

Usman:

Aapka gift aapko zaroor milega sir! Mumkin hai tab-bhi aur AGAR na-mumkin
hai tab-bhi!
General Cariappa is exhilarated and holds Usman’s shoulder with both hands.
Both men smile warmly at each other.

Cariappa

That’s my boy-- Usman, I appoint you the GOC of 50th para Brigade. Jammu
Kashmir ka operation ab tumhare haath mein hai – BRIGADIER -

It is a poignant moment in the life of Usman.

Cut To

Both men look at each other with a great resolve in their eyes. Usman salutes.
General Sinha looks on.

Sc: 64 : Pakistan Military Intelligence Headquarters

WAR ROOM: The atmosphere is filled with activities of officers of the Pakistan
military with Col Abkar Khan heading the proceedings. They are standing in
front of a large map which fills the wall. Using a pointer stick one of the
officers is briefing Akbar Khan.

Officer

Sir jhangar ke charon taraf fauji ghera bandi ko dugna kiya jaa chuka hai—
naushera aur chingas ko jaanewale raste ko bhi block kardiya gaya hai!

Akbar

Bahot Achche

Inserts of Akbar Khan and other officers listening intently looking at the map
on the wall. Pointing out the areas on the map.

Officer 2

Report mili hai sir ke brigadier paranjpe abhi tak hospital mein hai—who
humare last attack mein zakhmi hua tha!

Col Akbar Khan

Jhangar wadiye kashmir ka darwaza hai, uski hifazat bahot zaruri hai—
humein Naushera har qeemat par chahiye -- humari policy yeh rahegi ke
pehle qabailiyon ka lashkar humla karega phir hum saare morche khol denge!

You can see a depraved expression on his face. Quick cuts of the Pakistani
officers looking at the map like hawks.

Cut To
 Just then a telephone rings. An officer picks up the phone and abruptly
looking at Akbar Khan.

Officer 1

Sir aapke liye!

Akbar grabs the phone.

Cut To

A senior intelligence officer from the other end.

Officer

“sir abhi abhi report mili hai ke brigadier paranjpe ki jagah, Brigadier usman
ne 50th para brigade ka charge leliya hai!

Cut To

Close shot of Akbar Khan: As he puts the phone down, you can see the
seething anger on his face.

Akbar Khan

Usman.. BRIGADIER (to his man) Advance army ko alert karo- usman KOT se
aagay na badhne paaye—hum usse wahin DAFNAYENGE!

Cut To

Sc: 65: 50th Brigade field HQ Mess

Captain Randeep holding a drink in his left hand standing opposite a dart
board holding a dart in his right hand, aims and hits the target hard missing
the bulls eye. He is irritated turns around sharply.

Cut To

Seated at the bar drinking are Major Dhillon, Captain Ram Chand, Harminder
Singh and Lieutenant Satpal Basin. It's apparent that they have taken couple
of drinks and seem a bit sozzled. All of them drinking in silence. Bar-man
while serving the drinks pretending to clean glasses is observing them
curiously.

Cut To

Randeep Singh
 Samajh nahi aata general cariappa aisa kaise kar sakte hain, hum jin
dushmanon se lad rahe hain, who musalman hain—aur general ne ek
musalman ko GOC banadiya!

Ram Chand The bar man filling his glass held in his stretched hand)

Major Dhillon who has been listening carefully interjects calmly takes a sip of
his drink.

Dhillon

Brigadier usman ki integrity ko challenge nahi kiya jaa sakta—aisa shandar

record hai ke jawaab nahi

Listening to Dhillon, Captain Randeep throws another dart at the board this
time with more force misses the bulls eye again.

Randeep

Record hai to kya hua—who muslaman to haina? Agar ek musalman ne

pakistani musalmanon ka saath dediya to hum kahan honge?

An insert of the bar man not liking what he has heard. Harminder is observing
their conversation. We can see the anger build up on his face.

Harbhajan

Oye randeep yaar tenu chadh gayi hai—yeh kya hindu musalman ka jhagda
lekar baitha hai—tujhe pata hai indian army ki history - un musalmanon se
bhari padi hai jo desh ke liye shaheed hue—

Shivaji:

Mee boltoyo--

Cut To

Harminder getting up picking up a dart

Harminder

(Very angry, raising his voice)

Waqt mile to delhi mein All India War Memorial jaakar dekhna – first world
war mein-- 95300 shaheedon mein se 61,395 Muslim war heroes ke naam
hain— more than 60 percent!

He hits the dart board with fury it’s a bulls eye.

Harminder cont.
 musalmanon ne iss desh ke liye apne itne bete kurbaan kiye aur hum ussi
qaum par shak kar rahe hain-

Randeep

Tabki baat aur hai-- abki baat aur?

Harminder

Tabki aur abki nahi—soch ki baaat hai – apni soch badal de randeep— angrezon
ke chashme se bharat ko dekhna bandh karde—DESH AZAD HOCHUKA HAI!!

Barman is happy…

Captain Ram Chand, Captain Randeep Singh and Lieutenant Satpal Basin
react in stunned silence. The bar man looking please.

Cut To

Sc: 66 : Field HQ 50th Para Late Evening. VFX

We see a number of tents, vehicles, a couple of armoured cars and tanks, two
lines of soldiers with Major Dhillon, Captain Randeep, Captain Ram Chand,
Harminder Singh and Lieutenant Satpal waiting outside the command post.

Cut To

Two jeeps and an armoured car roll in. The cavalcade stops right opposite the
post where the guard of honour is awaiting for Usman.

Cut To

Usman gets out smartly accompanied by Baldev Singh. Khullar and Grewal
come out of the armoured car.

Cut To

The waiting officers salute Usman smartly. Usman reciprocates.

Cut To

Dhillon moves forward. Usman extends his hand and they shake hands.

Dhillon

AAPKA SWAGAT KARTE HUE HUM SAB KO KHUSHI HORAHI HAI—AAIYE

SIR SAB AAPKA INTEZAR KAR RAHE HAIN!--- AAPKO SALUTE KARNE KE
LIYE SIPAHI BECHAIN HAIN--

Dhillon gives a nod to a junior officer.

 Junior officer

Attention!

The troops present arms in showing respect to the commander and stand to
attention. Usman returns the salute

Usman

At ease !

Cut To

Dhillon leads him to the camp.

Cut To

While walking in, Usman is talking to Harminder.

Usman

Kya haal hai CAPTAIN Harminder Singh.

Usman puts his hand in his pocket and takes out two toffees. He offers one to
Harminder and pops the other in his mouth. Harminder does likewise.

Harminder

I’m fine sir—chaliye aapko, aapke quarters tak pahoncha dun!

All of them look surprised and look at each other..

Cut To

Harminder leads Usman into a fairly large tent with a bed, writing table with a
chair and a portrait of Mahatma on the centre pole of the tent. There is also an
attached tent bathroom.

Cut To

Usman puts his satchel on the left side of the table and pulls out the lord
Hanuman statute from his left upper pocket and sets it on the right side of the
table.

Cut To

A dark looking, good natured man enters the room and salutes Usman.
Harminder quickly introduces him.

Harminder
 Sir! Yeh murugum hai aapka batman yeh saaf safai karega aapka khaana
banayega aur aapke boot polish karega!

Usman offers his hand. Murugam surprized- extends his hand hesitantly.
Usman grabs his hand warmly and gives him a tap on his shoulder with his
left hand.

Usman

Tumhe humare boot polish karne ki zarurat nahi hai Murugam, yeh kaam
hum khud karte hain— tum is cot ko bhi nikalwado—hum zameen par
soyenge!-

Harminder and Murugam look at each other very surprized and astonished.

Dissolve TO

Night: Usman at the dining table alone. Murugam while serving the food
asking.

Murugam

Sir, aap whisky sode se lega ya water se, ya phir straight ji?

Usman

Thankyou murugum, hum whisky nahi lete

Murugum

Rum bhi hai sir

Usman

Hum sharaab nahi peete!

Murugam

Sir main bahot achcha chicken curry banaya hai, aap khaana to kAYEGA NA
SIR?

Usman has deta hai uske kandhe pe haath rakh ke bolta hai

Usman

Hum gandhi bapu ko mante hain Murugam, who maas machi nahi khaate
isliye hum bhi nahi khaate-

Murugam
– gandhiji nahi khaaya—toh kitna weak hogaya dekha aapne? Sir aapko kabhi
kabhi khaana chahiye

Usman laughs loudly

Murugam

One more thing sir—yeh gandhiji aapko jameen par sone ko bola?

Usman

Nahi yeh humari qasam hai, jabtak jhangar humare kabze mein nahi aayega—
hum cot par nahi soyenge!

Murugam

Very good sir main bhi aaj se cot par nahi soyega jii-- ( making a sign of cross)
aap bahot achcha hai sir—par aap mere ko mera job karne do sir—main bahot
achcha boot polish karta hai —

Usman

Nahi murugam, angrez offsar, hindustaniyon ko zaleel karne ke liye apne

sipahiyon se joote polish karate they—azad hindustan mein sab barabar hain—
ab officers ko apne joote khud polish karne chahiye!—ab tum jaao aram karo

Murugam touches Usman’s feet. has tears in his eyes – murugam turns ---
singing happy south Indian tune Abhuri Raag as he goes out…

Cut To

Usman looks amused in the direction of the song with a smile.

Cut To

Sc: 67 : Outskirts of Jhangar, POK. VFX

Camera mounted on a height, captures the picturesque mountain landscape

and a tribal village while zooming and panning along on several armoured
cars speeding up through the narrow roads surrounded with both side of fur
trees. We can see the markings of the Pakistan army on the trucks.

Cut To

A close shot of Akbar Khan in the lead vehicle in his military uniform wearing
sunglasses.

Cut To
A drone shot: The cavalcade of armoured vehicles entering into tribal village
with thousands of tribesmen holding their guns waving them in the air.

Cut To

Camera pans in with the armoured vehicle and includes the tribal hoards who
are firing rifle shots in the air welcoming their guests.

Cut To

Mid long shot: The leading armoured vehicle coming in.

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim along with his son Babraq who is a tough looking shrewd thug,
welcomes Akbar Khan.

Sardar Ibrahim

Khusham-aam-e-deed, Khusham-aam-e-deed brother Akbar Khan

Akbar

Saamalaikum

Sardar

Walekum salam—humara noor-e-nazar farzand-- Khan Babraq se milo, yeh

humare baad jirgaa ka sardar banega, inshallah!

Akbar Khan and Babraq shake hands.

Akbar:

mashallah

They all enter into a well furbished tent and sit down on the carpet while tea is
being served.

Cut To

Akbar Khan

Sardar Waade ke mutabiq hum 10,000 automatic rifles, grenades, mortars

aur rocket launchers le aayen hain

Sardar Ibrahim

Subhanallah—subhanallah—hum humle ke waaste tayyar hain, bas ishare ki

der hai— magar aap ek waada aur bhi kiya tha--
 Sardar Ibrahim is very happy and pleased.

Akbar Khan (Cont.)

Who bhi laayen hain—

(Lifting his hand towards the tent entrance)

Cut To

We see Pakistan army jawans carrying a suitcase placing it on the ground and
opening it in front of Sardar Ibrahim and Babraq . The suitcase opens up and
we see it filled with full of high denomination Indian currency notes.

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim

Masha Allah!!… Masha Allah!! Aap humle ka tareeq batao - hum DUSHMAN
ke khoon se Jhelum dariya ko laal kar dega…

Babraq gives an evil laughter.

Akbar Khan

Sardar tumhara nishana, Brigadier Mohammed Usman hai—charon taraf

laashen bichado magar usman naushera tak nahi pahonchna chahiye--
naushera pakistan ke haath se jaana nahi chahiye!---

Sardar Ibrahim

(Nodding his head)

Insha Allah!!

Akbar

aapki madad ke liye Aapke peeche bhanu brigade hogi jiski kamaan colonel
khurshid karenge!

They moving out as they speaking…

Cut To

Sc :68 : Operation Kipper, Battlefield, KOT Chroma /VFX

We see usman in armoured car—he is seeing through his binoculars---

Usman
 Prepare and fire

We see a huge hoard of tribesmen rushing with their weapons from different
directions on their jeeps and some in armoured cars.

Cut To

Close shot: Barrel of a tank shoots a walloping blast from its gun. Camera
tracks and captures a long line of Indian tanks moving and intermittingly
blasting away their guns. We see groups of infantry moving in the shadows of
the tanks.

Cut To

The gunfire from the tanks takes a huge toll on the tribesmen. The tribesmen
are also shooting bazookas at the moving tanks.

Cut To

Several cuts of the advancing Indian troops and the charging tribesmen in a
massive slaughter. We see large number of tribesmen fall and one Indian tank
being hit by a bazooka. The infantry is taking several casualties. It’s a pitched
battle.

Cut To

Intercuts between the Indian army firing weapons and the intense response of
the tribesmen. Murugam is seen running behind 3-4 troops. Suddenly a group
of tribesmen open fire on the troops. Murugam who is unarmed, hits the
ground but sees the three Indian soldiers fall dead around him. He is so
enraged that he picks up one of the rifles of the dead soldier and shoots four
tribesmen dead.

Murugam

(Spiting on the ground)

Ennoda poola oombuda (suck my dick)

Cut To

The pitched battle.. Usman looking through his field glasses flanked by
Harminder moving in an armoured vehicle. Usman on the field phone to
Baldev.

Usman

Baldev, I’m positive ab pakistan army troops enter karegii—secure north- I

repeat secure north
 Cut To

We see Sardar Ibrahim spotting Usman in the armoured vehicle. He quickly

commands the driver to position the jeep.

Sardar

Dekho dushman, dushman— maar – maar- usko(in pashtun)

Aims his bazooka and shoots.

Cut To

Usman’s armoured vehicle is hit by a bazooka. The armoured vehicle is

dislodged by the impact of the hit. We see Usman emerging from the burning
vehicle.

Cut To

Usman looks around for Harminder

but he can’t see him. He is attacked by some tribesmen with gunfire. He dives
to the ground somersaulting, picking up a STEIN gun and fires at the
tribesmen getting four in a row.

Cut To

He is under intense fire from Sardar Ibrahim and his men as he get behind a
fallen vehicle and starts shooting again at the tribesmen. Usman is under
heavy gunfire and we see a Pakistani tank racing towards him to crush him.

Cut To

Usman grabs a bazooka from a tribesmen after shooting him dead. The tank is
closing on him fast. He quickly kneels, take a position and aims the bazooka.
The tank is almost on him and Usman fires the bazooka in the belly of the
tank.

Cut To

The tank goes up in flames. Just then an Indian armoured vehicle swings in
and halts right in front of him.

Cut To

We see Harminder at the driving wheel calling out to Usman.

Harminder

Sir sir (haath deta)

 Cut To

As he says this, two tribesmen pounce on him pulling him out of the vehicle.
Harminder loses his temper…. He smashes his fist and drawing tribesmen
dagger plunges it into the other tribesmen. The tribesman is clinging on to
him. Harminder wrenching himself free, kicks him with his boot.

Harminder (Angrily)

Oye maiiova--- chadh menu…

Kicks him in the balls…

(Choice Punjabi abuses)

Cut To

From behind him another tribesman is about to shoot him but Usman shoots
him down.

Cut To

They both get into the vehicle and speed off…

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim’s jeep with men carrying bazookas and machine guns
charging towards their armoured vehicle with guns blazing from the opposite
direction.

Usman

Harminder! – zig zag---

Harminder is furious and gets into the act. He rushes his armoured vehicle
zig-zagging towards the approaching jeep with their guns blazing.

Cut To

Usman’s POV: Sardar Ibrahim desperately screaming at the driver.

Sardar

Left, right (in pashtun)

Cut To

Ibrahim’s POV: The fast approaching zig zag of the armoured vehicle.

Cut To
The armoured vehicle hits the front right side of the jeep with an impact that
spins the jeep around and it overturns.

Cut To

We see the armoured vehicle racing out. Usman puts his hand in his pocket,
takes out a couple of toffees and offers one to Harminder as he pops one in his
mouth. They both laugh.

Cut To

Usman from his armoured vehicle sees the 23rd SSD infantry brigade appear
suddenly.

Looking through his binoculars his POV: The infantry supported by tanks of
the 23rdSSD appear menacing in the near distance. He smiles.

Cut To

Usman

( Addressing Harminder)

Harminder Party shuru horahi hai!

Harminder

Yes sir! Bebe di sau- phadde Chak deyange

Cut To

We can see determination and anger on their faces as they speak.

Cut To

We see the 23rd SSD Infantry armoured vehicle- the Pakistani commander
looking at the approaching Indian column. The Pakistani commander talking
to his second in command on the field phone in code.

Commander

Sir Fox range mein hai… preparing to fire!

Cut To

A large number of the Pakistan 23rd SSD infantry brigade supported by tanks
is rumbling head long to the approaching column headed by Usman.

Cut To
 Usman

Order all units --- open fire Now—I say NOW

Cut To

The 23rd SSD infantry brigade are surprized by the sudden attack by Usman.
The Pakistani tanks are hit by the fierce Indian fire.

Cut To

At the same instant the 23rd SSD infantry open fire.

Cut To

The battle is on.

Usman

Yes right on time--!! Harminder signal Grewal --- fire 14th Baloch brigade from
the south… Achanak humla hona chahiye

Harminder looking at Usman very proudly speaks with enthusiasm.

Harminder

Right Sir..!!

All around them battle rages with fury. Harminder communicates on the
radio in code.

Cut To

SC: 69: KOT / VFX Chroma

We see the approaching 14th Baloch infantry brigade with support of tanks
and armoured cars.

Cut To

There is a sudden attack from Captain Grewal & Captain Khullar’s forces
from two sides on the Baloch infantry brigade. An Indian column of tanks
appears from behind a hill and the horizon fills up with a long line of Indian
army tanks.

Cut To

The well positioned Indian army tanks open fire rapidly knocking out tank
after tank with great precision. The Baloch tanks return fire hitting the Indian
tanks. The battle rages on.
 Cut To

There is a wave of attack by the Indian infantry on the Baloch infantry.

Cut To

Sc: 70: A Local Mosque (VFX)

A score of tribesmen led by Babraq rush into a small mosque through the open
doors. There is a namaz in session. One of them grabs the Imam and puts a gun
to his head. The worshippers are stunned looking on helplessly.

Babraq

Hogayi ibadat ab jaao yahan se

As he is saying this more and more tribesmen pour into the mosque. They are
placing heavy guns and mortars in the mosque and its doorways.

The Imam protests.

Imam

Yeh kya gustakhi hai aapki-- —kamse kam khuda ke ghar ka to izzat karo—
masjid ko napaak mat karo—

Other namazis

tum kaisa bekaar musalman hai—jaao jaao yahan se…

Babraq:

Hum batata hai hum kaisa musalman hai--

Babraq shoots the Imam in his head, dead. There is an outcry in the mosque by
the worshippers who attack the tribesmen. The tribesmen mow them down
with their fire.

Cut To

They start firing their mortars and heavy machine guns on the Indian army
positions.

Cut To

The fire from the mosque has pinned them down. There is no fire from the
Indian army.

Cut To
 Captain Grewal on the walkie talkie.

Grewal

Sir kabaili masjid ke andar ghus gaye hain aur wahin se fire kar rahe hain—
hum masjid par fire kaise karsakte hain?

A moment of silence all eyes on usman what will he say--- when he suddenly
shocks everyone by saying

Usman

—(sabke reaction jaate hain) agar kisi paak jagah ko na-paak kaam ke liye
istemal kiya jaaye to who paak nahi rehti— Udado Masjid

Grewal

R.Right sir...

There is stiff fire from the mosque by the tribesmen.

Cut To

Two bazookas are fired by the Indian army on Grewal’s order. The tribesmen
are blown up with the mosque. The dead bodies flying in the air.

Cut To

We see Babraq getting up from the dead bodies and runs away.

Cut To

Sc: 71: Jhelum Riverside Chroma/ VFX

Dhillon’s post is under heavy fire. The battle has now moved to the banks of
the river Jhelum.

Cut To

There is sharp exchange of fire between the Indian troops and the tribesmen.
We show several groups fighting very heroically. The tribesmen are shooting
bazookas with great accuracy knocking down a few tanks and taking heavy
casualties.

Cut To

Another area on the river bank. The Indian tanks and the infantry intensifies
the fire on the tribesmen who keep pouring in from all directions.

Cut To
 We see hand to hand combat with bayonets on the river side between the
Indian soldiers and the tribesmen. Lots of bodies falling in to the river and
floating away.

Cut To

Harminder stops the armoured vehicle on Usman’s orders. They see a huge
hoard of tribesmen urged by Sardar Ibrahim are in pitch battle with the
Maratha infantry soldiers.

Cut To

Usman and Harminder get down from the armoured vehicle, throw hand
grenades first and start firing with STEIN guns at the tribesmen.

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim notices Usman and starts screaming at his tribesmen in

Pashtun

Sardar ibrahim

(in pashtun he says)

Da zama, da zama khkaarde -- Yeh humara shikaar hai isse nahi chodhna hai

Only in pashtun needed

to concentrate the attack on Usman.

Cut To

The tribesmen surge on Usman and Harminder led by Sardar Ibrahim. The
tribesmen have circled the armoured vehicle and are closing in fast.

Cut To

A Maratha officer musters his courage and shouts a slogan.

Shivaji rao--

Bolo Chahtrapati Shivaji Maharaj Ki Jai !

Cut To

There is a kind of electricity which intensifies in a roar from the Maratha

infantry as they charge roaring “Chahtrapati shivaji Maharaj Ki Jai “

Cut To
They charge with their bayonets fixed on the rifles in a pitched battle ensues.
The toll of the tribesmen is heavy. We see more bodies falling into the Jhelum.

Cut To

Sardar Ibrahim plunges on Usman from the rear with a large knife in his
hand.

Cut To

POV: Usman spots a Dogra dagger. He dive and picks it up avoiding the thrust
of Ibrahim’s large knife.

Ibrahim

Khanakharaab-- hum tumko nahi chodega…

Before Ibrahim could jab him, he pierces Ibrahim’s chest with the dagger.
Sardar Ibrahim falls in the river flows away.

Cut To

The river is running red with blood of the slaughtered tribesmen and some
Indian and Pakistani troops and Ibrahim’s body flowing away with the
current.

Cut To

In the armoured car racing ahead, Usman looking through his binoculars. He
spots the Pakistan army 23rd SSD infantry accompanied by a large number of
tanks move in their direction. Usman still looking through his binoculars.

Usman

As planned -- pincer attack -- surprise the enemy

Cut To

We see a large number of Indian army tanks with the infantry in tow emerge
from a hillock.

Cut To

Tank commander of the Pakistan army looks surprised by the attack on both
his flank. He quickly commands his radioman to turn the 23rd SSD to the left
to meet the Indian army attack.

Cut To
The Indian army tanks have an advantage over the enemy who are moving in
a straight line.

Usman racing in his armoured car towards the battle area.

Usman

open fire… udda do unhe mudne se pehle -- blast them

Cut To

The tanks blast a volley of shots on the enemy, not giving them time to turn
their tanks to engage the Indian attack.

Cut To

The damage to the Pakistani side is heavy. They manage to turn their tanks
and fire back.

Cut To

Drone shot: The camera captures dramatic wide angle shot of the fighting
forces and the battle raging below. The Indian infantry is moving rapidly along
with their tanks towards their enemy firing their guns.

Cut To

In the midst of all this, Khullar’s column and the tanks roll in and open fire on
the 23rd SSD infantry. The battle is also raging on the side of Jhelum river.

Cut To

There are several rapid shots of raging battle between Usman’s troops and the
Pakistan army. The Indian army has a clear advantage.

Cut To

We see several Pakistani tanks retreat in confusion.

Cut To

Usman watching through the binoculars. He has a big smile.

Usman

Party khatam hogayi doston – Dushman bhaag raha hai!

Harminder filled with pride and emotion looking at Usman with deep respect,
as if he was God.
 Harminder

Mubarkan sir mubarkan! Sir aaj to menu dasdo – itne tension vich tusi itne
cool kaise raindo ho sir

Cut To

Usman smiles at him warmly..

Usman

Napolean ne kaha tha-- Wohi Commander kamyab hote hain jinke khoon mein
garmi ho aur dimag thanda ho!

Cut To

A couple of soldiers running with the tricolour and jab the flag pole into the
ground. KOT is captured… we see the Indian tricolour fluttering proudly. Sikh
troops doing a bhangra with victory beat.

Cut To

Sc : 72: Shaheen’s Hospital/ Kashmir

There is an atmosphere of festivity. We see a lot of young nurses surrounding

Shaheen congratulating her. A box of sweets is being passed around. All the
nurses looking at Usman’s picture in the front page.

Cut To

The camera close on headlines of the newspaper. The nurses giggling crowding
around Shaheen.

Nurse 1

Badhai ho badhai ho, Wow!! Kitna khoobsurat aadmi hai

Nurse 2

Shaheen tuu kitni lucky hai—

Nurse 4

Su gabru jawaan che, The lion of Naushera…. Sunne mein hi kitna accha lagta
hai—

Nurses are chatting away happily.

Cut To
 Close up of Shaheen reacts. The happy chatter of the nurses fades out in the
background. She hears Usman’s voice off scene.

Usman

zindagi naam hai kuch lamhon ka, aur unmein se bhi yeh ek lamha jo iss waqt
humare paas hai, yehi haqeeqat hai! baqi sab khwaab hai ya khyaal hai!

Cut To

As the camera goes in closer her smile changes into a look of concern and fear.
We see tears in her eyes she looks up and whispers

Shaheen

God-- protect him please !

Cut To

NOTE: CHANGED SCENES

Sc 73: Col Akbar Khan’s Bungalow, Karachi

Camera close on a newspaper with Usman’s photograph with a caption of “The

lion of Naushera”.Camera pulls back slowly and trucks to reveal a smart
looking lady in salwar kameez sitting on a sofa reading the newspaper.

We see Col Akbar nearby walking behind her curiously and stops, looking at
the newspaper.

Cut To

She quickly feels his presence turns and looks up at him.

Akbar Khan

Kya padh rahi hain?

She is a little naughty and humorous type of lady

Lady

Main hi nahi—saare ofsaron ki biwiyan yehi padh rahi hain— sara akhbaar uss
hindustani brigadier usman ki tareefon se bhara pada hai – bada sona munda
hai--

She giggles-- He controls his rage—hearing

Akbar:
 Dushmanon ki tareef baadmein karein, pehle batayen nashte mein kya hai?

She giggles innocently

Lady

Aapka paseenda aloo paratha, lassi aur gajrela hai--

She is engrossed in the paper. Close up of Akbar Khan holding his temper,
moves away from her,.

Cut To

Akbar at the breakfast table.

Cut To

Lady voice off scene

ek baat batayen? Naushera ki haar ka zimmedar kaun hai?

Akbar Khan who was at the breakfast table angrily sweeps the crockery off
the table.

The lady rushes to the scene and Akbar getting up the table brushing her off
walks out in a huff.

Lady

Hai Allah maine aisa kya keh diya?

Cut To

SC: 74: Karachi, Prime Minister’s Office

In the corridor, Akbar Khan walking desperately towards the Prime

Minister’s office chambers. We can see anger and frustration oozing on his
face.

Cut To

Interior of the Prime minister’s office: The door opens and an officer on duty of
the prime minister ushering in Akbar Khan. Akbar Khan walks in and salutes.

Cut To

Liaquat Ali Khan gets up from his chair without even responding to the salute,
walks towards the window of his room punching his left palm with his right
fist. Saying:
 Liaquat Ali Khan

Sardar ibrahiim ne dawaa kiya tha ke who hindustaniyon ke khoon se jhelum

ke paani ko lal kardega, aur hua kya-- jhelum uske khoon se lal hogaya!

Turns and walks towards Akbar speaking angrily. Liaquat grabs the
newspaper and shows the front page to Akbar Khan.

Liaquat Ali Khan

Dekho dekho kya likha hai, usman ne KOT aur naushera par kabza karliya
hai! (camera captures the headlines) “Brigadier Usman- Naushera ka
sher…” naushera ka sher kaha jaa raha hai usse…

Cut To

Akbar Khan is silent. Liaqat bangs them back on the table.

Liaquat Ali Khan

Kashmir ka darwaza uspar khul chuka hai— ab batao main Quaid-e Azam ko
kya jawaab dunga—mera muu mat dekho, yeh reports dekho jismein, tumhare
karnaame likhe hain!

Cut To

Liaquat Ali Khan

Ek hazaar pakistani fauji shaheed, aur ek hazar se zyada zakhmi- aur unke
kitne maare gaye?—taitees, sirf taitees AUR 200 ZAKHMI… who jhangar tak
aagaya hai, kal lahore aajayega—parso mere office mein ghus aayega-- batao
hum kya karenge! – mujhe kashmir chahiye akbar khan aur tum jhangar se
aagay nahi badh sake-- (screams) mujhe kashmir chahiye, kuch bhi karo
usman ko raste se hatao mujhe kashmir chahiye! do you understand !!!

Cut To

Sc: 75: Naushera- On the Border of Jhangar

Usman walking towards a charpoy followed by Harminder. They sit down on

one of the charpoy. Murugam brings a glass of tea. Usman accepting the glass
looks up at

Usman

Suna hai aaj tumne kamaal kar diya murugam –

Murugam
 (Laughing funnily)

Apne jawaan ko girte dekha to mereko kya hogaya malum nahi sar—main
ekdum gun,utaya aur shooting chalu kardiya—ennodo poodu CHITTE PADE
AMMA MAGAY…

Usman Interjects

Tumne dushman ke teen jawanon ko maara aur apne subedar ko bacha liya,
hum tumhara naam medal ke liye bhejenge!

Murugam

Medal? Aiya yo sir- Mera wife adiyala wadike mata,

Harminder

Kya bola?

Murugam

Main bola sar, mera waife, mereko danda nahi maarega salute maarega!

Usman and Harminder both laugh.

Murugum

Aap sabke ke liye garam samosa laata…

Murugam leaves

Usman

Harminder I hope zakhmiyon ka barabar dhyaan rakha jaa raha hai—

Harminder:

Yes sir

Usman:

humare dushman surprise attack kar sakta hai— perimeters secure hone
chahiye

DHILLON AND GREWAL COME IN

DHILLON

Yes sir, saare perimeters pe apne soldiers tainat hain – intelligence bhi high
alert par hai… koi bhi movement hua dushman ki taraf se to hum tayyar hain!
 Cut To

We see the Indian tanks, artillery units and trucks are parked all over on the
road to the gateway of Jhangar. Army soldiers are relaxing idle, chatting,
drinking rum, resting and some soldiers are on sentry duties. Red Cross
medicos are carrying wounded soldiers on stretchers towards a building
marked with a Red Cross.

Cut TO

Usman and Harminder are joined by Grewal and Dhillon. Just then Murugam
comes with a big tray of samosas and takes the tray to Usman. Usman directs
him to serve the officers first. Suddenly his eyes fall on a bunch of local
Kashmiri boys standing nearby looking at them.

Cut TO

He beacons them to come forward with a smile. The boys look hesitantly
among each other. Usman calls out.

Usman

samosa khaana hai? aajao ajaao daro mat

The boys move towards Usman, Dhillon, Grewal and Harminder while eating
samosas are looking on. Murugam gaping at the boys with the tray of samosas
in his hands.

Cut TO

Usman takes the samosa tray from Murugam, getting up from the charpoy
offers the samosas to the boys. The boys hesitate but on Usman’s command
they start taking the samosas and eat them hurriedly THEY GRAB AND
EMPTY OUT THE TRAY. A C/U of Usman with a kind and sympathetic look on
his face. NOTHING IS LEFT FOR HIM

Cut TO

Murugam hits his head with the palm of his hand.

Murugam (PRIVATELY SAYS)

Aiyaa ayyo!! Yeh rascal bacha log kidhar se aagaya… COMMANDER KE LIYE
EK BHI SAMOSA NAHI CHODHA…

OR in TAMIL

Commander kai, oru, samosa kude, baki vakele—pokiri- sab kaa gaya!
 Fade out

Fade in

Sc: 76 : A Village in Naushera

The next day morning Usman is sitting in the front seat, Harminder is driving.
The jeep enters and stops at the nearby refugee camp.

Cut TO

Usman and Harminder enter a makeshift area where a large number of

children are playing. We recognise some of the children who ate samosas
yesterday run towards Usman and salute him. The others also rush in and
salute him.

Cut TO

Usman notices a group of Kashmiri ladies, some of them very pretty and some
are old. They walk towards him from various refuge tents and stop at a
distance. Some are wearing bindis. Usman busy with children.

Usman

Baith jaaiye aaplog

They all sit down obediently. An orderly rushes with a chair for Usman. He
politely refuses and sits down on the ground with the children.

Usman cont..

Hum jaante hain ke tum sabke upar kya guzri hai—tumhare sab gharwalon ko
khatam kardiya gaya hai— magar tumlog ghabrana nahi— aur yeh mat
samajhna ke tumhare maabaap nahi hain—Aajse Indian Army tumhari saari
zimmedari leti hai—tumhare khaane peene aur rehne ka poora bandobast
hoga!-- HARMINDER

The children happily in chorus say-

Children:

Shukriya shukriyaa…

Cut TO
Intercuts of the ladies listening to Usman’s talk compassionately and offering
help to the children brings tears to their eyes, an expression of satisfaction.

Cut TO

POV of the women: Usman talking to the children.

Cut TO

The group of women walk in closer to Usman. Usman looks at them politely.

Cut TO

Lady 1

Huzur inn bacchon ke dard ka aapko ehsaas hai, aapki badi maherbani.

Pointing towards the ladies with her.

Lady 1 Cont.

Janabeali, humari aankhon ke saamne humare chote-chote bachon ko

maara gaya hai— bade bache aur bachiyon ko agwa karke legaye!

Hindu woman

kitni maaon ki koke ujdi hai aap soch nahi sakte sahab!

The hindu woman breaks down—other women support her-- We see the group
of women are covering their grief with their pallus and dupattas. It’s a sad
moment.

Lady 1

Bahot bahot dua lagegi aapko humari aur in yateem baccohn ki

Cut TO

Lady 2

(With Bindi)

Yeh hamare goan ke bacche jo aapke saamne khade huye hain… hindu bhi
hain.. mussalman bhi hain… aap jo inke liye kar rahe hain.. hum aapke
abhaari hain.. Bhagwan aapko sada sukhi rakhe…

Usman

Yeh sab kashmir ke bahadur bachche hain aur bahadur apna sahara khud
hote hain— fikar mat kijiye sab theek hojayega- indian army inki taleem,
 tarbiyat karegi AUR TRAINING BHI DEGI TAAKI YEH NANHE SIPAHI
HUMARA SAATH DE SAKEN

HARMINDER

HAAN SIR- INKI EK BAAL SENA BANADETE HAIN!

USMAN

YES!

Close up of Usman sharing their pain turns and exits camera.

Cut TO

SC: 77: 30th January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi Assassination. New Delhi.
Chroma and VFX

Camera placed in a crane capturing the activities of that fateful day. Birla
Bhawan is filled with people moving in slow motion. There is no audio, the arm
of the crane comes down slowly.

Cut To

We see a silhouette image walking slowly morphing into a shape of a man. A

hand holding a revolver lifts up, points the revolver to the centre of the frame
at the audience, the revolver comes in sharp focus and fires straight to the
audience…… loud BANG!!!. The bullet leaving the barrel in slow motion.

Cut To

The image of the Mahatma impacted with the first bullet.

Cut To

The gun firing the second shot.

Cut To

Mahatma taking the second and the third shot in his chest and abdomen.

Mahatma

Hey RRRRam………..

He falls to the ground. We see some people and his niece and another girl
rushing into frame towards the fallen mahatma. ( slow motion silent).

Fade Out
 Fade In

Original visuals of actual funeral cortege. Millions mourning and following the
Mahatma’s cortege . We see Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel seated on a
special floral decked carriage.

V/O: Nehru with deep pain.

Humari zindagiyon se, roshni chali gayi hai- aur charon taraf andhera chaa
gaya hai—samajh mein nahi aata, kaise kahoon aur kya kahoon ke humare
margdarshak, humare neta, humare rashtriyapita—jinhe hum hum pyar se
bapu kaha karte they-- Nahi rahe – ab hum unhe kabhi na dekh paayenge, na
unki salah lene ke liye unke paas jaa sakenge— Yeh dukh mujh akele ka nahi
hai, yeh matam saare desh ka hai, saari duniya ka hai!

Cut To

An enormous crowd estimated at nearly one million people lined the five-mile
route of the funeral procession to the bank of the Jumna River as the body,
draped in the Indian flag, was carried on an army truck while air force planes
overhead dropped flowers. It seemed like the whole world drowned with
sorrow. Passing of the great Mahatma was unbelievable. It’s a spectacle of
grief and disbelief.

Cut To

V/O : News reporter : lakhon insaanon ka yeh rota bilakta matam karta jan
samuh ek aise aadmi ke liye hai jiske paas na daulat thi, na koi ohda tha,
na kisi fauj ka commadar tha na kisi riyasat ka raja—uske paas kuch bhi
nahi tha siwaye khadi ki ek dhoti aur ek lathi ke—uske bawajood saari
duniya ke neta, aur janta uss hasti ke saamne apna sir jhuka rahe hain--
jisse kabhi angrezon ne ek nanga fakeer kaha tha!

V/O : News reporter:

Mahatma Gandhi duniya ke gareebo,n mazdooron, aur kuch kuchle hue

awaam ke dil ki awaaz they—

V/O: News Reporters:

bapu ne saabit kardikhaya ke, ek chotta sa sach badi si badi taaqat ko

jhuka sakta hai

Reporter 4:

aanewali peedhiyan jab itihaas padhengi to ascharya karengi ke mahatma

gandhi jaisa koi manushya issi dharti par chalta tha jispar hum chalte
hain—aur issi hawa mein saas leta tha JISMEIN HUM LETE HAIN-- who
manushya dekhne mein bilkul humari tarhan tha magar jo hum sabse alag
tha is desh ka rashtrya pita mohandas karamchand gandhi- Bapu!

Dissolve To

SC: 78: Naushera Road to Jhangar tent: Song Male Voice… Vaishnava
Bhajan. Chroma

A hand spinning the charkha.

Cut To

Full shot: Usman in white khadi spinning the charkha. A portrait of Mahatma
is placed on a white sheet with a garland of flowers and some incense burning.
Seated just behind him is Shaheen in white khadi saree.

Cut To

Usman singing the first part of Vaishnava bhajan, the second part is in female
voice, Shaheen joins in singing.

Cut To

Intercut these shots with the exterior. On the road to Jhangar where the
Indian army has stopped, we see tanks, guns and armoured vehicles in the
background.

Cut To

Several intercuts C/U of Harminder, Baldev, Murugam, Randeep , Dhillon.,

Grewal and other soldiers. Orderlies, Nurses, and Army Doctors.

Cut To

We can clearly see tears dropping from each one's eyes. Some soldiers in
hospital with bandages. The Bal Sena sitting in a group together visibly
shedding tears. The magic of Vaishnava Bhajan of the Mahatma has cast a
spell of melancholy and deep sorrow.

Dissolve To

SC: 79: Outside the Tents late Evening VFX

We pull back slowly and see Shaheen and Usman both covered with blankets
sitting close to each other looking at the crackling campfire. We can see the
tents in the far background.
 Cut To

Shaheen

Maine bapu ko kabhi nahi dekha – bas naam hi suna hai magar aaj aisa lag
raha hai jaise koi apna guzar gaya ho--

Usman

Who sabke apne they shaheen, yeh saara desh unki santaan tha aur who
sabke bapu they

Shaheen

Who ek chirag they jo dunia ko rasta dikha raha tha,

Usman

Aur yeh chirag us waqt bujha hai jab roshni ki sakht zarurat hai!

Usman gives an envelope to Shaheen. She looks at it very curiously.

Usman

Shaheen yeh envelope rakhlo, isse ghar jaakar kholna!

Cut To

Shaheen looks curious. They look at each other. Usman moves in close to her
and kisses her lightly on her mouth and leads her to a nearby military jeep.

Cut To

Shaheen stops before getting into the jeep and looks at Usman. Her eyes are
moist and marked with deep concern.

Shaheen

AB Milne kab aayenge ?

Usman looks at her affectionately… with a very brief pause..

Usman

( with his characteristic smile)

Inshallah bahot jaldi!

Cut To
 The jeep moves away from him. Usman stands looking at the receding jeep
with Shaheen in the distant horizon…

Fade Out

Fade In

Sc: 80: Night Camp Headquarters. Night

We can see a large map hanging on the tent wall. Interior of the briefing tent is
lit by a single gas light. The lighting is so that each and every one of the
officers are highlighted. Background is pitch black.Usman is briefing his
officers. He has a pointer stick in his hand.

Cut To

Taps the area with the stick as he speaks. We can see the officers listening to
Usman with rapt attention. Camera moves to Usman’s C/U.

Usman

Humara pehla target hai dushman ko pir thal naka se peeche hatana –
intelligence ki report hai, ke pakistani army bhari gola baari karke humare
advance troop ko block karne ki tayyari kar chuki hai- aur yeh to aap sab
jaante hain ke amali dhar jhangar ka darwaza hai jisse kholna humare liye
zaruri hai! --- humein har qeemat par jhangar par kabza karna hai!

Cut To

C/U of the officers listening and absorbing Usman’s briefing. The faces are
accentuated with the light separating them from the darkness in the
background.

Cut To

Usman

Jhangar ko dushman se azad karane ke liye humein 3 taraf se attack karna

hoga!

Dhillon’s C/U listening .

Usman Cont.

PHASE 1- humare troops dushman ke defence ko kamzor karke Pir Thal

Naka par kabza karenge!

Grewal’s C/U listening carefully.

Usman Cont.
PHASE 2 - Amali Dhar aur Kaman Ghosha Gala pe kabzaa karke usse secure
karna hoga.

Harminder’s C/U attentive.

Usman Cont.

Teesra aur aakhri phase hoga Operation Vijay – yaani jhangar par ek baar
phir tiranga lehraya jaayega!

Cut To

C/U of all the officers nodding their heads subtly.

Cut To

Usman Cont.

Koi shak koi sawaal ?

Harminder:

perfect planning hai sir!

DHILLON & GREWAL TO BE ADDED

Cut To

Usman enters his tent. We see a table and a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.
Usman extends his hand towards a small statue of lord Hanuman and puts it
in his pocket reverently and does a namaskar to Bapu bowing his head.

Cut To

SC: 81: Naushera Base, Operation Vijay/ Phase 1

A jeep comes to a halt right opposite the platform. We see the Indian tricolour
and the brigade command flags fluttering proudly on their masts.

Cut To

Usman, Baldev and Harminder get out of the jeep and follow Usman to the
platform. They are guided by some other officers up the steps.

Cut To

Usman comes in and stand in the centre of the platform. Just behind him are
Dhillon, Baldev, Randeep and Harminder.

Cut To
 One officer shouts:

Officer

Attention!!…. Salute!!

Cut To

All the assembled troops smartly salute their commander. We can hear the
thump of the boots coming down. Usman salutes back. A big close up of Usman
surveying. His POV: the mass troops before him, tanks and mobile artillery
units are seen further back in the background.

Usman

50 Para Brigade ke saathiyon… jhangar ko wapis jeetne ka waqt aagaya hai—

yeh asaan nahi hoga magar humein apni kamyabi ka poora yakeen hai isliye
ke humare irade buland hain aur tayyari poori hai— aur sabse badi baat yeh
ke humein aap par aur aapki bahaduri par poora bharosa hai- hum sabko
milke uss haar ko jo humein 24 december ko hui thi, jeet mein badal dena hai
aur apne khoye hue samman ko wapis haasil karna!

Cut To

We can see and feel the rapt attention of the soldiers listening to Usman with
intercuts of the officers on the platform standing behind him.

Usman Cont.

saathiyon maut, zindagi ki sabse badi HAQEEQAT hai, magar humein maut se
darna nahi hai balki usse jeetna hai --- iss waqt saari duniya ki nazren humpar
hain!—aur saara desh humse kamyabi ki umeed lagaye baitha hai—hum apne
desh wasiyon ko nirash nahi karsakte—-- zindagi naam hai aagay badhne ka
aur apne maqsad ko haasil karne ka—aur humara ek hi maqsad hai jhangar ki
zameen par tiranga lehrana – to aagay badhiye jhangar humara intezar kar
raha hai-- Jai Hind

Cut To

The troops roar Jai Hind..

Cut To

Usman

Jai Hind!!

Top angle camera looking down at the troops. The troops roar Jai Hind..
Another angle with Usman in frame with a large profile filled with troops. The
troops roar Jai Hind..

Intercuts of a few soldiers moved by the oration and zeal of Usman’s appeal
are wiping their tears with pride. A C/U of Harminder turning towards
Randeep. Randeep looks back at Harminder, walks towards him and whispers
in his ears.

CHOPRA

OYE yaar MENU MAAF KARDE YAAR—SAMAJHNE MEIN BAHOT BHOOL

HOGAYI-- apna commander to sach much sher hai sher!--

Cut To

There is movement of troops, tanks and the armoured cars getting battle
ready.

Cut To

Sc:82: Shaheen’s Cottage Night

Shaheen sitting in a warm sweater next to a fire place. She is looking at

Usman’s letter on a nearby table.

Usman’s Voice over

isse ghar jaakar kholna!

She slowly gets up, picks up the envelop, opens the envelop and sees the letter
along with some documents. She reads the letter.

Usman’s voice over…

Shaheen meri jaan, THE LOVE OF MY LIFE-- tumne itne kam waqt mein
MUJHE jitni bahot si Khushi di hai-- na uska hisaab kiya jaa sakta hai aur na
UNKI qeemat lagayi jaa sakti hai – tumhare diye hue pyar ka ek ek pal anmol
hai –

AUR PHIR EK BAAR AGRA JAAYENGE JAHAN HUMARI ZINDAGI KA SABSE

KHOOBSURAT MOD AAYA THA!
(SHE GETS A FLASH THAT HE IS GIVING HER A RING- WE COME BACK AND
SHE HAS TEARS IN HER EYES)

is khat ke sath insurance policy hai jo tumhare naam hai aur dilli mein jo
ghar liya hai woh bhi tumhare naam hai – BANK ACCOUNT BHI TUMHARE
NAAM TRANSFER KIYA JAA CHUKA HAI—FOR ALL THE LOVE AND THE
LOVE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME--- – kal savere hum Jhanagar ki taraf ravana
honge – dua karo ki jeet humari ho – zindagi rahi to jaldi mulaqat hogi –
tumhara aur sirf tumhara Usman.
 Cut To

Another angle: Catching Shaheen’s face and the fire place, camera slowly
moves close to her. She slides down on the sofa with her head buried in the
pillow and we hear her silently sobbing.

Cut To

SC:83: The Road to Jhangar / Chroma & VFX

Close up of Usman in an armoured car lost in his thoughts. Camera pulls back
to show Harminder, Dhillon and Grewal.

Cut To:

A drone shot of a moving large formation of Indian army tanks, mobile field
artillery, armoured cars and long line of military trucks carrying troops.

Cut To

A Pakistani military picket on a distant mountain. The officer with the field
glasses catches the formation of the Indian army moving. He lowers his
binoculars looking at the large formation and his eyes pop out. He lifts his
binoculars to his eyes again looking at the advancing column and quickly
looks at the soldier next to him.

Cut To

The soldier is fast asleep, he is so angry he kicks the sleeping soldier awake
with an alarm.

Officer

oh maiwaa – soaar de puttar uth maut aa rahi hai--- jaldi lightening code
message bhej…

Cut To

Sc: 84: Karachi

We show an army intelligence section with radio telephones and military

communication apparatus with a couple of soldiers.

Cut To

One of them is writing down the coded transcript from the tickertape.

Cut To
 He rushes out of the room into the office of the ADC Zafar Khan to General
Zaman Kiani.

Cut To

Zaman Kiani picks up the phone and answers it in a very cultured voice

Kiani

Yes… please come in!

Zafar Khan walks in right to his table.

Zafar

Sir coded message

Cut To

Camera closes on General Kiani who is reading the coded message. He is

perfectly calm but you can see his eyes sparkle on reading the content. He
turns towards Zafar.

Cut To

Two shot of Kiani and Zafar.

Cut To

Kiani

meeting call karo fauran, Col Akbar Khan and the commanders of Bannu
Brigade, 55th Coke’s Infantry, 29th Mountain Battery and Gilgit Scouts sabko
command room mein bulao

Zafar salutes and rushes out. General Kiani picks up his phone and calls
Akbar Khan.

Cut To

We see an impressive War room with a large map on the wall. Seated at the
conference table are Col Akbar Khan, Col Khurshid Anwar, Col Khanzada, Col
Sarfaraz Hussein and a number of other officers.

Cut To

We show general Kiani enter and they all stand up to attention.

Kiani
 Relax gentleman! Take your seats.

As Kiani starts speaking and starts walking behind the officers while
speaking.

Kiani

intelligence ki report hai ki Brigadier Usman bahot badi force ke sath Jhangar
ki taraf tezi se badh raha hai – usse fauri taur par rokna hai aur aisa sabaq
sikhana hai jisse wo zindagi bhar na bhool sake.

Turns around stops at the bottom end of the table his POV Akbar Khan camera
moving slowly towards him. Addressing

Kiani

Colonel anwar of bannu brigade—aap Artillery ko Instruct kijiye ke Amali

Dhar hill par position jamaye rakhen!

Camera moves C/U of Khurshid Anwar

Kiani

Col Sarfaraz of the 55th Coke’s Rifles..

Camera moves C/U of Col Sarfaraz

Kiani

Col Khanzada of 29th Mountain Battery..

Cut To

Camera moves C/U of Col Khanzada

Cut To

Kiani moves camera trucking

Kiani

Raja Muhammed of the Gilgit Scouts -- aap sab, sab tayyar rahen hindustani
humle ka jawaab dene ke liye— is operation ke incharge Col Akbar Khan honge
jo mujhe direct report denge. (to colonel akbar)
Colonel Akbar! Aap pehle bhi brigadier Usman ka saamna kar chuke hain –
main chahta hoon ki aap apna experience batayen.

Col Akbar Khan clearing his throat gets up and walks towards the map on the
wall, picks up the pointer stick.
 Akbar Khan:
Janab-e-ali – Usman siyaar ki tarhan siyana hai aur cheete ke tarhan tez hai–
woh apne surprise attack ke liye mashhoor hai.
Naushera ke pehle encounter mein usne yahan se yahan tak ka behad
dushwar pahadi ilaqa jis tezi se cover kiya tha, jiski military history mein koi
misaal nahi milti – usse muqable ke liye zaroori hai ki hum apne jawanon ka
moral na girne dein – aur use kisi bhi qeemat par pir thal naka se aage na
badhne dein.

Inserts close ups of General Kiani, Col Khurshid Anwar, Col Sarfaraz, Col
Khanzada and Captain Raja Muhammed all listening intently.

Sarfaraz

Usman - mehnati, imandaar aur bahut hi hoshiyar commander hai.

They all look at Sarfaraz in surprize, including Kiani.

Akbar Khan interjects

Aap kehna kya chahte hain?

Sarfaraz

main Usman ke sath kaam kar chuka hoon – woh kaisa aadmi hai achchi tarah
janta hoon – agar uski pesh qadmi rokni hai to ussi ki tarah mehnat aur
hoshiyari dikhani padegi.—pichli martaba humne kabailiyon ko aagay karke
usman se muu ki khaai thi, iss baar agar kabailiyon ko bhejna hai to unki
kamaan pakistani offsaron ke haath mein hona chahiye!!!

A close up of Kiani looking at Sarfaraz thoughtful.

Kiani:
Humara maqsad ek hi hai ke Jhanagar ko Naushehra ke sher ka qabristan
bana dijiye…

All the officers in a chorus:

Officers

Yes Sir!!!

All salute.. while leaving, Akbar gives a dirty look to Sarfaraz. Sarfaraz looks
away with a smile.

Cut To

Sc: 85 : Operation Vijay, Chroma & VFX

A Pakistani picket of the Gilgit Scouts, a soldier watches trough his binoculars.
Through his binoculars he sees in the distant horizon a large formation of
Indian army approaching with tanks, field artillery infantry and armoured
vehicles fast moving forward.

Cut To

As he watches, the formation splits in three parts. He puts down his

binoculars and runs towards his commanding officer, who is in the bunker.

Cut To

Officer screaming

Hamla ! Hamla!

The officers rush towards the bunker. What they see is the Indian army
splitting of the three formations of the Indian army. Centre heading towards
the picket, the other 2 in South and North are also moving fast in a pincer.

Cut To

We show in the centre column Usman is in his armoured car.

Cut To

Picket of Gilgit Scouts a Pakistani officer.

Officer

sir Indian army south ki taraf se advance kar rahi hai!

A quick cut of Raja Muhammed.

Raja Muhammed

Jawabi humle ka order do!

Cut To

The rear end part of Usman’s column trucks are full of soldiers. The last three
trucks with troops are suddenly attacked by a hoard of tribesmen led by a
Pakistani officer in jeep. They come alongside the column. The soldiers are at a
disadvantage as they can’t see the tribesmen. They open fire taking a few
casualties of the Indian troops.

Cut To
 Usman looking back POV, he sees the rear of the column being attacked in
gorilla passion by the tribals. Who are spraying machine gun fire on the
covered trucks, taking a few casualties.

Cut To

Interior of the truck: A machine gun quickly placed in the centre of the truck
swings to the left. Soldiers duck to the ground and lets go- a sweeping bust of
fire tearing the canvas of the truck.

Cut To

Outside, several tribesmen are hit with this fire and fall. There is an exchange
of fire and more jeeps come in. The Indian army inflicts heavy casualties on
the tribesmen firing from the interior of the truck. We see several tribesmen
have been killed. Army taking a few casualties. Usman rushes in his armoured
car firing away at the tribesmen.

Usman

Ruk jaao -- Peeche se humla horaha hai

The army column of the trucks are moving left and right to circle the
tribesmen with heavy firings from both side. We can see this on a drone shot.
Several more tribesmen are killed.

Cut To

Usman in his armoured car is shooting from the mounted gun. The first person
he knocks down is the Pakistani officer including a few tribesman.

Cut To

Usman is talking to his officers.

Usman

re-group aur aagay badho

Cut To

Aerial shot: Tribesmen retreating from the heavy fire of the army. We see the
Indian army trucks moving smartly in their column formation.

Cut To

We show the Gilgit Scouts are watching anxiously the movements of the
Indian army formations moving fast towards them.

Cut To
 Pakistani Amali Dhar position: We see a range of heavy field artillery with
their crews busy loading their artillery guns to get into action and adjusting
their artillery barrels.

Cut To

We see a huge column of tanks and infantry of the Bannu Brigade appear
suddenly heading towards the centre. A close up of Col Khurshid Anwar
looking intently at Usman’s armoured car.

Cut To

Quick shot of Usman looking through his binoculars at Bannu brigade and he
has a smile on his face.

Usman

Good Boys… bahot sahi time par aaye!

He quickly talks on the field phone to his tank commanders to get the Bannu
brigade in sight and open fire on them. As he says this, we see a closer
formation of Bannu brigade tanks approaching.

Cut To

We see the fast moving Indian tank formation swing in towards the Bannu
brigade. The Indian tank commander orders:

Tank commander

FIREEEEE

A series of blasts from the Indian tanks hit. A couple of Bannu brigade tanks
are destroyed.

Cut To

Col Khurshid Anwar gives order to fire. There are several shots fired from the
Pakistani tanks disabling couple of Indian tanks.

Cut To

The battle between these groups is escalating rapidly with fire and counter
fire from both sides.

Cut To
Usman directs his armoured cars and infantry to attack the rear of the Bannu
brigades infantry. There is a fierce clash between the two armies.

Cut To

Usman’s armoured vehicle is riddled with bullets.

Cut To

The Indian infantry clash with the Bannu brigade infantry. After a brief firing,
they get into a hand to hand bayonet fight.

Cut To

Dhillon is attacked by the 29th Mountain Battery brigade led by Col Khanzada,
which swings an attack aiming the centre of the column.

Cut To

Dhillon understands this quickly and orders them to part which allows the
Pakistanis to take the centre with minimum casualties. Dhillon’s two portion
of the formation attacks the mountain brigade's rear. A fierce tank
bombardment continues.

Cut To

Harminder separates his group from this and heads towards south as
commanded by Usman.

Cut To

Grewal comes under heavy attack by the Coke’s Rifle led by Col Sarfaraz
Hussein, who are all well trenched with guns placed directly facing Grewal.
Grewal meets a sudden barrage from Sarfaraz Hussain.

Grewal orders..

Grewal

Attention all units!!... spread out—parallel to the enemy— and attack

Cut To

Grewal’s guns are quickly turned towards the enemy, receiving heavy
bombardment. The infantry units take up positions. Grewal’s tanks open fire
on the enemy from their left. Grewal calls Usman on the field phone..

Grewal

SIR WHO LOG BHARI GOLA BAARI KAR RAHE HAIN!

 Usman

main Col Sarfraz Hussain's ki tactics jaanta hoon-- advantageous position par
hone se poora faida uthayega— apni poori taakat lagkar uske kamzor section
par humla kijiye jisse woh confuse hojayega— aur who humare liye advantage
banjaayega!

Off scene, we hear the sound of "Allah Hu Akbar" by the Pakistani charging
infantry.

Usman

Grewal kya unki infantry tumpar charge kar rahi hai?

Grewal

Yes sir!

Usman

Order Captain rehman aur Lieutenant Suleiman - apni

indian Muslim infantry ko aagay badhne bolo... rehman jaanta hai usse kya
karna hai

Grewal over the field phone orders

Grewal

captain rehman, leftinant suleiman— attack

rehman

Ok sir

Cut To

Captain Salim and Lieutenant Suleiman leading the charge

Captain Salim

Naare-e Tadbir

There is a roar of “Allah Hu Akbar!!” from the Indian

Muslim infantry as the charge to meet the Pakistani
forces.
 Cut To

The Pakistani soldiers who are advancing with the slogan

suddenly stop looking at the Indian soldiers shouting
"Allah Hu Akbar", which has confused them. Just then
Grewal’s tanks start blasting away blowing the Pakistani
soldiers and their bodies are seen flying in the air.

Cut To

The wave of the slogan shouting Indian Muslim Infantry

charge the Pakistani position inflicting heavy damage and
overrunning their field.

Cut To

The heavy guns are taking a big toll of the enemy. We show
several cuts of pickets blown up in the air with the fire
power. The Indian infantry without taking heavy
casualties have almost reached their target.
Grewal

Oh teri—kya Sixer maara hai brigadier ne!

The Pakistani troops are retreating.

Cut To

Office of kiaani we show…

Kiani:

Brilliant

CUT

Sc
We show Brigadier Usman’s force reaching the base camp
of Pir Thal Naka, almost swamping a battalion of troops. It
seemed that the Pakistan army have fled in a hurry from
their bunkers leaving the food which was being cooked and
the kettles are still on the boil. Just then the rain pours
heavily with thunder and lightning.

Harminder

namak kam hai

Cut To

We show several cuts of all the groups trapped in the rain.

Fighting has stopped as the visibility is poor. Several shots
of the army bogged down by rain and slush.

Cut To

We show tanks, trucks and various heavy vehicles buried

in the mud. Troops are huddled in makeshift shelters-
some sitting in trucks and some are looking at the raging
skies.

Cut To

SC between naseem and col akbar!

Buzdil ki tarhan goli mat maaro apne aapko-- Hitler ne

haarne ke baad apne aapko goli maari thi, abhi pakistan
nahi haare ho, ek jhangar haare ho… Go and face the
music --

Sc: 86: Karachi, Prime Minister’s Office

Several senior army officers including Gen Zaman Kiani and Col Akbar Khan
are in attendance. There is an atmosphere of gloom. Prime Minister Liquat Ali
is pacing around the conference table in a bad mood.

Liaquat

Aapko malum hain taaza khabar kya hai – pir thaal naka par bharti fauj ka
kabza hochuka hai—aur humein bahot zyada nuksaan uthana pada hai—
usman lagataar aagay badh raha hai!

He suddenly stops and walks up to Akbar Khan who gets up from his chair. He
looks at him enquiringly..

Akbar khan

Sir usman nahi uski kismat jeet rahi hai!

Kiani (Cool)

Usman ki kismat nahi uski kaabliyat jeet rahi hai, akbar khan!

Akbar khan looks down

Liaquat

Kuch karo, kuch bhi karo magar usko raste se hatao…

Akbar Khan

Usman ko maarne ke liye inaam ka ailaan kardena chahiye sir—

Liaquat

Jeet humari honi chahiye-! Yeh pakistan ki izzat, waqar aur salamti ka sawaal
hai—

Kiani

jo kaam humein karna chahiye hum doosron ko de rahe hain -- Is Ailaan ka

matlab hoga hum usman se haar gaye…

Liaquat

Yeh bahes bandh kijiye—kuch bhi kijiye- just get him out!

inserts of all the officers. Liaquat reacts thoughtful and looks at Akbar Khan.

Full shot of the assembled generals witnessing this announcement.

Dissolve To
 A collage of Pakistani newspapers including the leading "Dawn" publish-

“Pakistan Government announces A bounty of 50,000 on Brigadier

Usman’s Head”

In URDU

“Nawae waqt urdu newspaper”- Bharti commander brigadier usman ke

sirpar 50000 ka inaam”

Cut To

Sc: 87: Red Cross Hospital Office

Shaheen in her hospital office listening to the All India radio along with her
colleagues-

“karachi se mile ek samachar mein bataya gaya hai ke pakistan ki sarkaar ne

naushera ke sher ‘brigadier mohammed usman ke sirpar 50000 rupaye ke
inaam ka ailaan kiya hai”- is ghoshna se pata lagta hai ke pakistan ki fauj ko
humare veer sainani ne kis prakar hataash kardiya hai—

Cut To

Close up of Shaheen. While listening, camera moves slowly towards her. Her
eyes riveted on the radio and her face flushed with anxiety soliloquizing,
closes her eyes and whispers. Shaheen is sad look

Cut To

USMAN’S FAMILY IS SITTING NEXT TO RADIO, EK TENSE SAMA HAI

NEWS SUNKAR…

delhi se aane wali doosri khabar mein…

Radio is switched offf…

Father and mother is concerned they are tensed

Mother:

mere malik usman ki hifazat karna—usse dushmanon se bachaye rakhna!

Sc: 88: Command Headquarters J&K

 General Cariappa listening to the radio on Brigadier Usman’s bounty by the
Pakistan Government. He laughs aloud cheerfuly along with few other officers
in his office.

Cariappa

50 thousand rupees bounty – iska meaning hai usman ne unka naak mein dam
kardiya hai!

All the officers laugh. The phone rings. The assistant picks up the phone and
urgently passes on to Cariappa.

Assistant

Sir PM ka phone hai!

Cut To

Cariappa takes the phone.

Cariappa

Good morning Sir!!

Pandit Nehru from the other end.

Naseem

Achcha achcha hap hap- kadwa kadwa thu thu

Nehru

Morning -- mujhe vishwas hai general iss samaye aapko bhi utna hi garv hoga
jitna mujhe horaha hai, uss ladke ne desh ka sir ooncha kardiya hai

Cariappa

Yes sir! Usman ne promise kiya hai ke who jhangar mereko gift karega!

Nehru

Is that so? Very good—I wish him all the luck!

He puts the phone down and smiles.

Cut To

Sc: 89: Somewhere in POK, Tribesmen Village

A top angle shot showing the tribal village in a valley surrounded with heavy
pine tree forest .Col Akbar Khan laying a floral chadars on the grave of
Ibrahim Khan. Babraq looks grief ridden.

Cut To

In the background we can see several tribesmen with their horses and guns
watching the proceedings. We also see a couple of Pakistani armoured cars
parked around with a few soldiers standing by watching the ceremony.

Cut To

Two Pakistani security guards carrying STEIN guns are flanking Akbar Khan
keeping a watch on the tribesmen standing nearby.

Cut To

Akbar Khan kneeling reciting Muslim prayer. After he finishes, he looks at the
young man.

Akbar Khan

Allah jannat de sardaar ibrahim ko bahot bahadur aadmi tha

Babraq

(In a pathan accent, looks at Akbar Khan defiant )

Hum baba khan ko jhelum dariya se mushkil se nikala—wahan itna laash tha
ke ke dhundna mushkil tha!

Akbar Khan

Sardar ibrahim ko tabtak chain nahi milega jab tum uske qaatil se badla nain
lelete!

Babraq furious as if grinding his teeth while talking..

Babraq

Hum badla lega—khuda ki kasam hum badla lega—uss usman ko apne haath se
tukda tukda karega

Cut To

Akbar Khan

To der kyon kar rahe ho—jaao khatam kardo usse—pachaas hazar ka inaam
bhi milega!
 Babraq looks intently at Akbar Khan.

Cut To

SC: 90 : Amali Dhar/ High Hill feature Post Pt 3399/Chroma and VFX

A drone shot of the heavy mountain artillery of the Pakistani army pointed
towards the immediate valley below.

Cut To

Each artillery piece is manned by 5-6 Pakistani army gunners. Heaps of

ammunition is stored nearby each artillery piece.

Cut To

Another angle: We see Akbar Khan with his officers pointing to the valley
below with his swagger stick. He is in a very angry mood. Akbar Khan's POV:
the wooded valley below. There is a hollow sound of an echo of Akbar’s voice.

Akbar Khan

Pahadon se ghiri hui yeh waadi usman ke liye maut ka kuaan saabit honi
chahiye—yahan se who zinda wapis nahi jaayega

Cut To

The assembled officers around Akbar are looking down into the valley with
engaged attention. Major Khalid looking towards Akbar.

Major Khalid

Sir hum musalsal bombardement karenge— humne pahadi pag dandiyon par
mines bhi bicha rakhi hain--

Akbar Khan

range aur calculations barabar rakhna, main observation post se instruction

deta rahunga--- bahot chaukana rehna!

Cut To

One Pakistani officer rushes in salutes Akbar Khan.

Pakistani officer

Sir report mili hai neeche indian troops movment kar rahe hain!

Akbar Khan
 Bahot sahi waqt par aaya hai—bachna nahi chahiye!

Cut To

Sc:91 : In the Valley Below / VFX

We see Usman along with Dhillon, Harminder and Grewal walking up followed
by a dozen other junior officers.

Cut To

Camera tracking with Usman with rest in the background. We see the
armoured columns and field guns being positioned rapidly. They all walk over
to a nearby rock formation.

Cut To

Usman stops and sits down on a rock. Starts addressing the officers who are
standing around him. Looking at the Pakistani pickets on the hill.

Cut To

Usman

Who log upar se humara har ek move dekh rahe honge—

Harminder

Yes sir!

Cut To

Observation Post: Akbar Khan watching intently trough his field glasses. His
POV: Usman sitting on the rock. He smiles picking up the field phone.

Akbar

siyaar Range mein hai— turn artillery to 2156 and fire

Cut To

As he says this, the valley reverberates with the boom of the artillery shot.
Usman screams “ Cover” and they all dive behind rocks. The shell hits exactly
at the spot where Usman was sitting, breaking the rock into smithereens.

Cut To

The Pakistani artillery fire commences from the top. We see the bombardment
exhilarates. We see small groups of Indian army troops take various positions
on the slope of the hill feature.
 Cut To

The Indian artillery division is a beehive of activity preparing their guns

aiming them towards the heights.

Cut To

The Pakistani artillery shots are getting closer to the Indian positions below
and finding their targets. There are various intercuts of the Pakistan gunners
firing away rapidly and impacting some positions of the Indian troops, causing
some casualties and loss of equipment and trucks.

Cut To

We see several small units of the Indian army infantries taking up position all
along the slope of the hill feature pickets.

Cut To

Some of the units have been hit with land mines taking casualties. Akbar
Khan with binoculars looking down the artillery positions below being
impacted on the Indian positions. There is a smile on his face.

Akbar Khan

Bombardement karte raho -- saans lene ka mauka mat dena!

We show the Pakistan artillery crews relishing the firing are very excited and
happy.

Cut To

Several cuts of Usman, Harminder, Grewal and Dhillon in separate areas

bracing the heavy bombardment which is shaking the earth. Usman smiling
towards Harminder who is with him.

Usman

Bombardement ki tezi se pata lagta hai ke humare dost Akbar khan ka mood
bahot kharaab hai!

He says this with his hands on his ears shouting at Harminder close by.

Cut To

We see rapid positioning of the Indian troops in various groups taking various
spots on the slopes of the hill feature. The miners successfully sweeping the
mines, but some blow up causing casualties to the Indian troops.

Cut To
 We can clearly see the artillery section of the Pakistan army’s gunners
exhausted, their movements are slow and tired.

Cut To

The sun is setting fast. A high drone shot catching the Pakistani artillery and
the Indian positions in the valley.

Cut To

Usman crouches behind a large rock, talking to a junior officer nearby him.

Usman

Send a signal to the artillery unit to standby to fire.. (he looks at his watch) at
1900hrs..

Cut To

The 24 pieces of the heavy artillery of Indian artillery positions has been
arranged in sections spread out over a parameter of 5oo mts.

Cut To

The sunset is completely creating a golden hue with the darkness creeping.
The guns on the hill blazing away with their leaping tongue of fire look
formidable.

Cut To

Suddenly the barrage from the top increases its momentum hitting several
areas of the Indian positions below, causing damage to troops and equipment.
All of a sudden the guns stop firing and an eerie silence pervades the
battlefield.

Usman

(talking to the artillery commander on the field phone)

Now-- Open fire!

We see the Indian artillery opening a huge barrage on the picket above with
quick shots from several guns look dramatic in the darkness of light with
leaping shafts of fire, the artillery impacting the Pakistani pickets with
devastating effect. The Pakistanis are pinned down.

Cut To
 We show several cuts of the Pakistani officers seen earlier being blown up in
the blast. A shell hits a nearby bunker where Akbar was taking shelter. The
impact lifts him up in the air and he falls hard on the ground with a groan.

Cut To

A drone shot: A pitch dark night is lighted up by the intense artillery fire
which is finding its target accurately on the Pakistani position impacting them
with heavy casualties. Series of cuts of the Pakistani troops and material been
blown up all over the place by the heavy bombardment.

Cut To

The Indian troops as per plan are moving up to the pickets rapidly directly
under the Indian artillery fire. We can see some of the troops carrying
mortars.

Cut To

Usman with his group has reached almost underneath the artillery picket on
the top. The Indian artillery fire goes silent.

Cut To

He quickly talks on the walkie talkie in code.

Usman

Doston khaane ka waqt hogaya hai… apni apni jagah le-lijiye—

We show the various groups of the Indian army led by Grewal, Dhillon and
Harminder swamp the Pakistani pickets from all around to the hill feature.

Cut To

There is a hand to hand combat between the Indian and the Pakistani troops.
We see limping Akbar Khan running towards a waiting jeep with few of his
bodyguards driving away.

Cut To

The several army soldiers fire at the fleeing jeep. Close up of Akbar looking
back at the firing with great alarm on his face.

Akbar Khan

(looking at driver screaming at him).. tez chalao, aur tez chalaoo…

We show several soldiers of the Indian army hoisting the Indian tricolour on
the captured picket signalling the conquest of Jhangar.
 Usman along with officers and some men is looking at the Tiranga proudly.
They all salute. Usman turning to his men…

Usman

Jawanon!! Humne jo waada apne desh se kiya tha, who poora hogaya hai—
pakistan ka aakhri defence post udaa diya gaya hai - ab JHANGAR humara
hai…

There is a roar of hurrahs by the troops.

Harminder

Naushera da sher…

Everyone

Brigadier Usman…

USMAN

Humne jung jeeti hai- ek morcha baaki hai—jabtak yeh pahadiyan humare
kabze mein nahi aati—jhangar mehfooz nahi hai--

Fade Out

Fade In

SC: 92 : Field Hospital a Little Away from Battle Zone in Jhangar.

We open the shot with Usman walking followed by Harminder rapidly. Camera
tracking- both are talking.

Usman

Grewal ki kya halat hai?

Harminder

Achchi nahi hai sir—buri tarhan zakhmi hua hai!

Usman

Humare kaafi jawaan zakhmi hue hain—I hope Red Cross unka dhyaan rakh
rahi hai!

Usman enters into a big tent and walks towards the corner to Grewal’s bed
side. Grewal is heavily bandaged. Usman looks at him holding his left hand
affectionately which is without bandages and smiles.
 Usman

Kya haal hai humare bahadur major ka—

Grewal looks at Usman with a feeble smile. We see him in great pain.

Grewal

theek hoon—ek farishta humari dekhbaal kar raha hai!

Shaheen enters in a routine way as a nurse to check on her patient. She sees
Usman. She is totally surprised and Usman gets equally surprised.

SC: 93: Outside Hospital in the Woods

The camera pans on pine woods there is a slight wind blowing. We can hear
the rustle of the Pine leaves. Shaheen and Usman a little further away in the
woods from the hospital area. Usman’s armoured car is parked with four
soldiers keeping a watch at a little distance. They both are standing under a
large Pine tree.

Cut To

We show them in profile. Both are looking at each other without saying a
word. We catch their excitement and happiness swell. Shaheen is caressing
Usman’s lips with her fingers. We see tears of happiness in Shaheen’s eyes.
Their theme music is introduced. They both quickly kiss passionately. There
is an urgency in their movement.

shaheen

MUBARAK HO JHANGAR AAPNE JEET LIYA---

Usman

Haan JHANGAR JEET LIYA---MAGAR Pakistaniyon ki buri aadat hai—

Haarjaane ke baad bhi haar nahi maante !

They laugh

Shaheen

(Smiles)

Tumne yeh sab kaise socha usman—you are my soul, my existence, cant
breathe with -- Aap bhi kamaal karte hain-- (pause) aapne jo letter mujhe diya
– main har roz padhti thi—aur sochti thi ke aapko yeh sab karne ki kya
zarurat thi— apni saari life saving mere naam kardi, delhi mein jo makaan liya
tha who bhi mere naam kardiya —

Usman

(Laughs)

Tumhare hoton se shikayaten bhi kitni khoobsurat lagti hain- “omar

khayyam…..” (to be written)

kaise zarurat nahi thi— zindagi bhar uss ghar mein bitayenge—bache
paalenge—aur jab hum dono ke baal safed hojayenge to apne naati poto ko
godh mein bitha kar iss din ki kahaniyan sunayenge—sunayenge kaise mile
they hum dono… (she has tears in her eyes) ab tumhari aankhon mein aansoo
kyon aagaye-- Zindagi rone ka naam nahi hai, zindagi naam hai KUCH lamhon
ka, aur unmein se bhi yeh ek lamha jo iss waqt humare paas hai, yehi
haqeeqat hai! – baki sab

Shaheen puts her hand on Usman’s mouth and repeats his unspoken lines.

Shaheen

khyaal hai ya khwaab hai!

they smile at each other

Just then we hear a machine gun fire. Usman reacts and looks at his
armoured car. He sees his four jawans dropping dead, a dozen tribesmen lead
by Babraq come towards Usman and Shaheen with blazing guns. Usman
pushes Shaheen down into a cavity in the rocks and urges to her sharply.

Cut To

Pulling out his revolver with precision, he shoots and kills 6 of the 10 men
attacking. Babraq and the remaining 3 attack Usman. There is hand to hand
fight where Usman over powers the 4 with well-aimed punches and kicks.

Cut To

Babraq plunges on him with a knife as he is grappling with him. The other 3
come up to attack. He pushes Babraq to the ground with a roll, picking up a
fallen STEIN gun and fire, kills 3 men. Babraq is very determined. It’s a fierce
fight.

Cut To

Inserts of Shaheen behind the cavity in the rocks looking tensed. Her POV:
Usman swings the butt of his stein gun and knocks Babraq to the ground.

Cut To
 A hoard of 20 odd tribesmen emerge from another feature just below them
and charge to assist their leader.

Cut To

A close up of Shaheen shouting…

Cut To

Shaheen

Usman peeche!

Quick insert of Babraq noticing Shaheen.

Cut To

Usman quickly turns. POV of Usman: The tribesmen charging towards him
blazing guns. He dodges behind trees and chunks of barks fly around. The
tribesmen advance closer. Shaheen is pulverized.

Cut To

An armoured car swings in. A close cut of Harminder. His POV: The tribesmen
rushing towards Usman. He mows down the tribesmen with his machine gun
mounted on the armoured car.

Cut To

Usman rushes to fetch Shaheen from the cavity in the rocks. He is shocked,
the cavity is empty. Shaheen has been taken. He hears the sound of jeep which
comes to a halt. His POV: Babraq pushing Shaheen into the jeep. The jeep
moves away fast into a left turn of the slope of the hill.

Intercut

Interior of the jeep: Babraq and two men holding Shaheen in the backseat with
her mouth gagged. Another armed man sitting next to the driver pointing the
gun at Shaheen threateningly.

Cut To

Usman sprints fast and comes to the edge of the cliff. He sees the jeep racing
away on the road below.

Cut To

Two armoured cars racing towards from the opposite side.

Cut To
 Usman's POV: He sees these 2 armoured cars blocking the escaping jeep with
Shaheen. He cuts across with lightning speed on the slopes and as he reaches
the road, we see Harminder in his armoured car moving in fast from the right.

Cut To

The jeep is hemmed in between oncoming two armoured car and Harminder.
Usman is in the centre of the road. The jeep carrying Shaheen comes to a stop
in front of him followed by the armoured cars. Harminder is right behind him.

Cut To

Interior of the car: Babraq looks at the armoured car in the rear and turns the
head to the front. His POV: Armoured cars blocking both ends of the road. He
puts a revolver to the head of Shaheen and speaks out in Pashtun to his
companions.

Babaraq (PASHTUN LANGUAGE)

tupak chamto vasatain…

Guns ready rakho aur mere order ka wait karo!

Usman standing on the centre of the road just a little away of the car with a
pistol in his hand. His POV: Babraq getting out of the car holding Shaheen as a
hostage, keeps the revolver aimed at Shaheen’s head.

Cut To

C/U of Harminder angry. Another C/U his finger on his machine gun trigger.
Likewise quick intercuts of the troops holding guns ready aimed at the
tribesmen. But they are constrained as Usman and Shaheen are right in the
middle. There is an intense moment of suspense.

Cut To

The driver of the jeep pointing a revolver at Usman. Babraq is holding

Shaheen. Usman pointing his revolver at both of them is battle ready.

Babraq

Tum humare saath chalo—ladki ko chodh dega!

Cut To

As he says this the camera goes close to Shaheen and Babraq . He corks the
trigger of his revolver pointed at Shaheen’s head menacingly.

Cut To
 Quick Insert of Usman. We hear three quick gun shot..

Cut To

Close up of Babraq: Usman has shot him right between the eyes. And the two
other fall dead.

Cut To

He falls dead. Shaheen and Usman rush towards each other and they embrace.

Cut To

Harminder turns his head with smile and says:

Harminder

Babe di sau kya nishana tha!

Cut To

Sc: 94: Office of the Quaid -e- Azam Jinnah

There is a room of military commanders. Liaquat Ali listening to the roaring

Jinnah.

Jinnah

Kashmir ko pakistan mein shamil karne ka khwaab jo humne dekha tha usse
chankna choor kardiya aap aur aapki military ne—saari duniya has rahi hai
humari shikast par, mazak uda rahi hai humara—aur hum yahan muu
chupaye baithe hain—ek aadmi, sirf ek aadmi usman ne poore pakistan ko
sharminda kardiya! -- kijiye kuch kijiye- warna pakistan ke awaam aapko
kabhi maaf nahi karenge!

General Kiani

Sir! Mere paas ek plan hai jisse bridaier usman bhi khatam hojayega aur
jhangar aur naushera bhi humko wapis mil jaayenge!

Jinnah

Meri taraf se poori ijazat hai, go ahead with operation usman – destroy him!

Cut To

Jinnah looking unhinged with anger. We can see the rage on his gaunt face.

Cut To
 SC: 95: Sand Bag bunker Jhangar

Sinha listening to a voice on the field phone. The message is in code.

Voice

SIYAAR ki khoj mein kaale badal aarahe hain!

Sinha

Understand- Over and Out!

Cut To

Usman is looking up at the heights of the neighbouring mountain feature

which are higher than the point he is standing on.

Cut To

He scans the mountain top with his binoculars. He sees nothing except empty
landscape. He looks at the point he was just watching and something catches
his eye.

Cut To

He finds a difference between the landscape he just scanned and the

neighbouring hill feature.

Cut To

He sees a lot of birds fly about in their natural habitat. He looks again to the
left of the hill feature but does not find any activities of the birds.

Cut To

He smiles. Bhagwan singh

USMAN

BHAGWAN SINGH… TUMHARI ARTILLERY KA CONCENTRATION RIGHT

WALI CHOTTI PAHADI PAR HONA CHAHIYE!— JAHAN KOI PARINDA
DIKHAI NAHI DE RAHA HAI—

BHAGWAN

MAIN SAMJHA NAHI SIR

USMAN
JAHAN MILITARY MOVEMENT HOTA HAI—WAHAN PARINDE NAHI HOTE,
WHO DARR KE BHAAG JAATE HAIN!, TUM APNI 8 piece ARTILLERY IS
POSITION KE LIYE TAYYAR RAKHO!

BHAGWAN SINGH

YES SIR…

Bhagwan Singh salutes and moves out

Cut To

As he moves Harminder drives in a brand new armoured caravan where

Usman was standing and stops, POV Usman brand new caravan Harminder
getting down happily.

Harminder

Sir headoffice ne aapke liye bilkul nayi armoured car bheji hai bebe-di-sau
ispar to bazooka bhi asar nahi karegi— aaiye sir chakkar lagake dekhte hain!

Usman looking at the caravan and puts his hand on the bonnet

Usman

Bahot shandar hai, magar abhi chakkar lagane ka time nahi hai harminder!
Sinha ne coded message bheja hai “SIYAAR ki khoj mein kaale badal aarahe
hain!”

We see Harminder, Dhillon and along with Brigadier Usman. ALL ARE
STANDING TOGETHER…

Dhillon

OH Matlab aapki talash horahi hai sir

Harminder starts laughing along with the two officers.

Harminder

Maaiva who to kabse horahi hai!- unke vichaar mein raste ka sabse bada roda
ekkoi hi hai.. apna commander.

Usman

(Laughing along with them)

Humein lag raha hai dushman achanak humle ki tayyari mein hai!
 C/U pointing to the map with a pointer stick--- HE PLACES THE ARMOURED
CAR--

Inserts C/U of Dhillon and Harminder...

Usman Cont.

Yeh pahadi unke ilaaqe mein hai—humara khyaal hai who apni guns ko is
position par rakhenge—(pointing a feature on the map)

Usman:

Dhillon, harminder humari position yeh hogi!

We show a group shot of Dhillon and Harminder who are focused. We stay on
them. Usman looks at his watch.

Cut To

C/U of watch showing 0530hrs. Usman rushes out.

Cut To

Major Bhagwan Singh looks busy arranging the 8 artillery with his gunner as
commanded by Brigadier Usman…

Cut To

Sc x

Field Hospital we show two lines of wounded soldiers

with bandages one particular soldier composed in a
manner looks bearing serious wounds.

Cut To

We see Shaheen walking rapidly towards him followed

by Murugam carrying a tray with bandages and
medicines.

Cut To

We show washing his hands in his last rites of wazu for

prayers and wipes his hand with a piece of cloth we see
a jaanamaz close by we see Usman’s boots he has taken
out for prayers.

SC:96 : High Hill Feature VFX

The sky looks cloudy we see a distant flash of lightening

without thunder and a faint rumbling. The high hill
feature: We see Pakistan’s heavy artillery. A frenzied
atmosphere of activity of the gunners commanded by a
young major speaking on the walkie talkie.
Young Major

! Hello Eagle!! Bravo here …

Cut To

On the other side we see Akbar Khan holding a walkie

talkie standing on top of a hill at the artillery observation
post leaning on a walking stick in his right hand and a
bandage on his left eye, looking bruised and battered.
Holding the walkie talkie with his left hand.
Akbar Khan (order)

Eagle to Bravo … target Fox one… I repeat Target Fox one- It’s a priority…
range calculations diye jaayenge theek 0600hours pe!

C/U of the watch: Akbar looks at his watch. It shows

0550hrs… He gets up with the help of the walking stick…
We see him limping.

Cut To

The observation post consists of several men and one

officer. He stops and looks through his binoculars at
Usman’s brigade HQ. Akbar’s POV:
 Cut To

He sees the Indian artillery positions and the activity

around it. He looks around and finds the sand bag model
camp with Indian soldiers and officers doing their chores.
The armoured cars, jeeps and an array of tanks are parked
in and around.

Cut To

We see a large group of Pakistani commandos running

stealthily in commando fashion through the pine wooded
forest.

Cut To

We see Usman reciting his evening namaz in the serenity

of nearby forest of the Brigade HQ with some low hanging
pine branches.

Cut To

A distance away from Usman they all crouch behind some

rocks and bushes. Their commander takes out his
binoculars and looks at Usman in a distance.

Cut To

Usman seen praying from the binocular lens.

Cut To

Pakistani Commando (whispergin)

Suna hai ki ek saccha mussalman apni namaz kabhi nahi todta… chahe uski
jaan hi kyu naa chali jaaye… Behtareen mauka hai janaab, chaliye Usman
sahab ko allah ki bargah ke liye ruksat kar dete hai…

Cut To
We see another flash of distant lightening and the hear
the faint rumble. They all look up.

Cut To

We show a mid-close of the Pakistani commandos. They

have blood in their eyes and smile.

Cut To

A top angle mid-close: We see Usman reciting his evening

prayers. We can also see a stein gun placed on his left side
with his boots.

Cut To

The commandos are moving as fast as they could silently

to reach their target.

Intercut

Several shots of Usman praying and the commandos

advancing.

Intercut To

A tight group shot of Akbar Khan and his men at the

observation post. He is holding a walkie talkie in his left
hand.
Akbar Khan

Attack ke liye tayyar raho

Young major

Jee janab!!

Cut To
Akbar Khan quickly turns addressing the observation
team.
Akbar Khan (almost shrieks)

Set range 3250mts… ek minute mein 5 rounds har ek gun se-- Usman aaj
bachna nahi chahiye!

Cut To

The suspense is on the edge. Usman in the last stages of his

prayers. He comes out of his sajda.

Cut To

Usman before going into the last sajda, he sees through the
pine branches, the rapid advance of the crouching
commandos approaching him. He closes his eyes and goes
back into sajda. Usman doesn’t break his prayer.

Cut To

The commandos advancing on him from three directions.

Cut To

He comes out of the sajda and goes back into the final
sajda.

Cut To

Akbar looks at his watch. It shows 0600hrs. We hear the

rumbling again this time a little louder.

Cut To

The leading young major looks at his watch, its 0600 hrs.

Cut To

Akbar Khan quickly orders the artillery gunners to open

up with a thumps up. The artillery opens fire.
 Cut To

Field hospital full of wounded soldiers, who are being

taken care of.

Cut To

Shaheen looks up suddenly in the direction of the sound of

the blast. She is in the process of bandaging Grewal. She
rushes to the door of the tented hospital and she sees
outside.

Cut To

The enemy is shelling the Jhangar Brigade HQ. There are

ranging shots, the first salvo fell nearer.

Cut To

Everyone scrambled for cover, with the medical officer

diving under his charpoy in the mistaken belief that this
would give them adequate protection.

Cut To

The cook Murugam sees a huge hit nearby creating an

explosion, looks at Shaheen running, he dives and covers
and takes the blast on him and falls.

Cut To

Shaheen is aghast looking at Murugam, as she is about to

help him, he dies with a smile looking at her.

Cut To

Before Usman finishes his tasleem. We hear the rumble

again with a flash of lightening.
 Cut To

The commandos open fire on Usman. A hail of bullets hit

the pine branches and the two trees around him
miraculously- none touching him.

Cut To

Usman gets up after finishing his prayer with a rage of a

lion, picks up his stein gun, rolls over takes position and
looking towards the artillery fire he has an expression of
concern on his face, he looks up at the cloudy sky sees the
flash of lightning and hear a loud rumble.

Cut To

As he turns in the direction of the commandos to shoot,

several shots miss him narrowly.

Cut To

The commandos are almost on him. Usman opens fire with

his superb marksmanship. He drops a dozen of the
commandos dead.

Cut To

He runs out of his ammunition, hits one of the commandos

who has body charged him, drops him dead and picks up
his stein gun and shoots. It clicks and he finds there is no
ammunition.

Cut To

Under heavy fire he quickly looks at the body of the dead

commando, snatches a magazine and takes a somersault
to dodge the fire from the other commandos. Usman loads
the magazine and fires- killing six more.

Intercut To
In an effort to silence the enemy guns, Bhagwan Singh’s
battery begins to return the fire.

Cut To

The Pakistan artillery fires back with more determination.

Cut To

Usman fights a hand to hand with the two remaining

commandos who were a bit tough to crack. The Hanuman
idol falls out of his pocket goes unnoticed by Usman. Quick
cut C/U of idol on the ground.

Cut To

Looking at the artillery fire he has an expression of

concern on his face.

Cut To

Shaheen rushing in with two medicos carrying some of

the wounded to the field hospital.

Cut To

Usman quickly finishes the commandos off. As he is

wearing his boots, we see one wounded commando on the
ground.

Cut To

Usman is quickly wearing his boots.

Cut To

A badly wounded commando making his best effort by

stretching his hand to a revolver lying nearby.

Cut To
As Usman finishes tying his laces, senses something. He
turns around like lightening, picking his revolver and
shoots the commando dead.

Cut To

Usman sprints fast towards his headquarters, there are

several commandos from the forest firing and rapidly
advancing towards him from three directions. A hail of
bullets chipping the barks of trees as he passes them.

Cut To

A body of Indian commandos lead by Harminder rapidly

emerge from the camp splitting in three groups engaging
the advancing Pakistani commandos and destroying them.

Cut To

The artillery fire finds its target on several other tanks

and vehicles. There are casualties.

Cut To

A hand comes in and picks up the lord hanuman idol we

reveal its Harminder, he rushes towards the camp along
with other commandos we see him putting the idol in his
pocket.

Cut To

Usman rushes in, dodging the artillery fire towards Major

Bhagwan Singh, who is glad to see Usman.

Cut To

Realising the futility of firing at the enemy guns, which

were well dug in, Usman orders
Usman
 Bhagwan Singh!!… Turn your guns to the West Point 3150 and engage.

Cut To

Bhagwan is surprised.

Bhagwan Singh

Sir, par firing to south se horahi hai!

Cut To

Usman

Tum west ki taraf ghumao west— move I say-- jaldi.

Bhagwan Singh realises and turns his artillery towards

the west. Usman rushes in speaking loudly into the ears of
Bhagwan Singh. As the sound of artillery fire is over
whelming, pointing his finger to the west.
Usman

Point 3150 who unka observation post hai… instructions wahin se aarahe
hain!

Hearing this Bhagwan Singh is very elated.

Bhagwan Singh

Yes sir-- Turn the guns to 3150 --- fire

The Indian gunners blast the Observation Post.

Cut To

The first volley falls short of the observation post rattling

Akbar Khan, who falls from his chair with his walking
stick.

Cut To

We show the Pakistani artillery crew blasting away all

guns.
 Cut To

Usman realises that the volleys are falling short and

orders:
Usman

Bhagwan Singh!!.. Raise the barrels.

Cut To

The gunners around this heavy thunder of shots looked dazed with bleeding
noses, feeding the cannons with huge shells.

Cut To

Usman observes the Pakistani observation post accurately. He tells Bhagwan

Singh speaking loudly into his ears:

Usman

Thoda aur left…

Cut To

Akbar Khan looking through his binoculars spots Usman and speaks on his
walkie talkie .

Akbar Khan

Lower your guns to range 3100mts…

Cut To

We see a large artillery barrel being lowered in slow

motion and a short is fired. VFX showing the 25 pounder
travelling in slow motion straight towards Usman and
hitting a huge rock nearby. The rock is splintered into
large pieces like missiles hitting Usman one after the
other.

Cut To
We show number of shots in different angle of the impact
hitting Usman’s body. Mortally Usman Falls, all this is in
slow motion.

Cut To

Bhagwan Singh reacts. Harminder reacts, The gunners

react.

Cut To

Bhagwan Singh is outraged. He aims straight to the

observation post and his shot finds a bulls eye.

Cut To

We show the remnants of the Observation post go up in the

air. Akbar Khan flying into the air with the explosion. We
show him limping away…

Dissolve To
Sc: 97: Field Hospital/ Jhangar

Usman is unconscious lying on his stomach. His body heavily bandaged. We

compose Usman and Shaheen. She is shocked and has disbelief in her eyes.
Caressing Usman’s hair tenderly, her eyes are filled with tears to the brim.

Cut To

Sinha, Harminder, Dhillon, Bhagwan Singh and Grewal all distort, not
believing their eyes that the lion of Naushera has fallen.

Cut To

Harminder guides them out giving privacy to Shaheen and Usman. Camera
closes on them.

Cut To

Sc: 98: Field Hospital/ Jhangar

Usman in an elevated bed. His upper body fully bandaged, smiling at Shaheen.
Shaheen smiles back. There is deep anguish in her smile and anticipatory fear
grips her.
 Cut To

Usman looks at Shaheen. POV:

Cut To

Shaheen holding and kissing Usman’s hand. Painfully stabbed with the
emptiness of the moment, she is trying hard to smile at Usman.

Cut To

Usman is looking at Shaheen sensing the end of his time. Smiles bravely.
Usman speaks.

Usman

(With a Smile)

Tum ro kyon rahi ho jaan— hum tumhe chodhke kahin nahi jaa rahe hain!

Sc: 99 : New Delhi: Military headquarters communication centre.

Gufran seen standing very grim next to a long line of switchboard operators
busy with radio signalling. Two shot of Gufran and the signal officer typing out
a signal.

Cut To

Sc: 100: Field Hospital Jhangar.

Harminder enters..

Harminder

Sir!! Brigadier Sardanand Singh, ka message aaya hai delhi se—aapke bhai
mohammed gufran bhi aapke liye bahot pareshan hain

Usman in the spirit of joy de vivre .

Usman

Unhe message bhej dijiye hum bilkul theek hain, aur zindagi humare paas
khadi hui hai (looking at shaheen)

Dissolve to
 There is a sudden bust of lightning and thunder and starts pouring with
heavy rain.

CAPTION 3 HRS LATER

Sc: 101: Jhangar Post

Usman’s body is being laid on his brand new caravan presented by Gen
Cariappa, by his soldiers. Troops have lined up to bid him farewell. Soldiers
unashamedly crying for a man who had endeared himself to them all, in so
short a time.

Cut To

C/U of Harminder looking at the body in the caravan ( Voice over of Usman
with the image of caravan ABHI WAQT NAHI AAYA HAI

Cut To

There is a large group of Kashmiri women and children whom we have seen
earlier, crying with suppressed dignity and respect.

Cut To

There is not a single person with dry eyes. Casting a gloom on the entire
garrison.

Dissolve

Sc: 102: Mau Village, Kotwal’s Haveli

Almost all the people of the village are assembled, we show cuts of women and
men wiping tears from their eyes some supressing their emotions

Cut To

Usman’s father aged followed by his two sons and some female members of his
family emerging from the doorway people rush around him.

Cut To

savitri says cryingly

savitri:

humre usman bhaiya veer sainani they—desh ke liye jiye aur desh ke liye jaan
dediye!

The villagers raise a slogan, they say in abundance…

 Usman bhaiya ki jai

A mid shot father telling the people around him

Father

HUMAra beta mara nahi hai, desh ke liye Shaheed hua hai… Aur Shaheed
kabhi marte nahi hain

Dissolve

Sc: 103: New Delhi, Rastrapati Bhavan-- Chroma

The Indian tricolour on top of the Rastrapati Bhavan is flying at half-mast.

Cut To

Camera is on the marching feet of military soldiers doing the funeral march.
Funeral music is heard.

Cut To

Led by an army officer, a full army band playing the bagpipes funeral march
music are leading them.

Cut To

We show the soldiers carrying Usman’s coffin draped in the tricolour followed
by the officers.

Cut To

Both sides of the roads are lined up with the military and a multitude of people
on both sides of the road.

Cut To

The soldiers bearing the coffin are followed by General Cariappa and General
Thimayya. Right behind are Chief of Air Force and Chief of Naval Staff
followed by Dhillon, Grewal in a hand sling bandage, Harminder, Randeep,
Khullar, Bhagwan Singh.

Cut To

A stream of Usman’s relatives and friends, men and women, along with
brothers Subhan and Gufran in white kurta pyjamas with white skull caps
along with a legion of people from Varanasi . The band is playing the funeral
march music in the background.

Cut To
Soldiers marching the funeral march enter the Jamia Milia and proceed to the
burial spot. We see the Mahant with six of his followers looking at the coffin
with deep sorrow.

Cut To

As the coffin enters the gate, we see a huge VVIP pavilion with Governor
General Lord Mountbatten, Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana
Azad, Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, C Raja Gopalachari and a
host of other dignitaries. Quick C/U cuts of the dignitaries.

Cut To

The coffin is being carried towards the burial spot in a funeral march and is
laid to rest on the ground. Funeral music continues..

Cut To

We show Lord Mountbatten flanked by two military officers carrying the

wreath and walking up to the coffin. He lays the wreath and salutes Usman’s
coffin.

Cut To

The military is in full attendance. Soldiers are lined up. Cariappa in a funeral
march flanked by soldiers, carrying the wreath, lays the wreath at the coffin.
The soldiers exit and he salutes.

Cut To

Air Chief marshal flanked by two airmen carrying the wreath. Air Chief lays
the wreath on the coffin. The airmen exit and The Air Chief salutes.

Cut To

Chief of Naval flanked by two naval soldiers carrying wreath. Chief lays the
wreath on the coffin. The soldiers exit and The Chief salutes.

Cut To

We show a group of soldiers carrying out the military custom of lowering of

arms. The sergeant of the team gives an order.

Sergeant

Lower your arms…

Cut To

The troops turn their rifles slowly to the ground.

 Cut To

We hear the bugle playing The Last Post. Everyone is standing to attention..
It’s a poignant moment. The sergeant gives another order to give the gun
salute.

Sergeant

Gun salute…

Cut To

The soldiers smartly raise up their rifles in the air and fire three rounds.. Each
time lowering the rifle, then lifting and firing again.

Cut To

The wreath ceremony is carried out by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru,
Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, C Raja
Gopalachari and a host of other dignitaries along with Subhan and Gufran..

Cut To

The draped flag on Brigadier Usman’s coffin is removed in the customary

military practice. The flag is respectfully held by six men, folded and handed
over to Subhan and Gufran.

Cut To

The coffin is carried away to the freshly dug grave.

Cut To

All the military soldiers led by a captain raise a slogan in a loud call.

“Shaheed Brigadier Usman…. Amar Rahe”

All the soldiers repeat in a chorus.. three times.

The Captain

“Jai Hind”…

All the soldiers repeat three times in a chorus.. “Jai Hind”

Cut To

Off scene sound of Surah-e -Yaseen from the Quran.

Cut To
 A group of white turbaned Maulvis with chequered shawls and people
standing behind them all in white including the relatives.

Cut To

The camera captures the Maulvis reciting Surah-e -Yasin and slowly pans.

Pan left to Right

The Mahant with a group of Pandits reciting Mharamritunjay shlock in the

background. We see a lot of people along with many villagers from Varanasi.

Cut To

The Quranic verse and the Mharamritunjay Jaap is delicately mixed. The
atmosphere is solemn like time standing still.

Cut To

The VVIP group- Governor General Lord Mountbatten, Prime Minister

Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi, Rajendra
Prasad and C Raja Gopalachari pouring earth from their hands into the grave
of Usman.

Cut To

Usman’s grave surrounded with people carrying out the burial ritual. We see
Harminder, Dhillon, Grewal, Randeep, officers, soldiers, friends and relatives
are all pouring a handful of earth into the grave as a sign of respect and love.

Cut To

A close up of a feminine hand pouring earth into the grave. Camera slowly tilts
up, we see Shaheen in full white with a dupatta on her head, choked with
emotion. Tears falling from her eyes. Camera moves in closer- AND WE SHOW
SHE IS HOLDING HIS lord HANUMAN STATUE.

Usman’s voice “zindagi naam hai kuch lamhon ka, aur unmein se bhi yeh ke
lamha jo iss waqt humare paas hai, yehi haqeeqat hai!” baqi sab khwaab hai
khyaal hai”

Mixes with the theme song.

Dissolve

Flashbacks : Their theme song “Man’s love for Woman”. We see Shaheen and
Usman singing and loving passionately. The images of the song are such,
creating a nostalgia in the audience…

Fade out
End Credits Roll with the Flashback Love Theme song in Picture in
Picture.

THE END.

A Film By Sanjay Khan