A novel. Plot outline. Unknown young man rises to fame and fortune in the world of showbiz. Strikes up with bright sassy beautiful girl who, like him is famous. His family objects. Log kya kahenge? you see. He comes more and more to depend upon her faith in and love for him. 
Everything is going swimmingly for them, fame, photo-ops, glamour, glitz, money, parties, and yes drugs. But who isn't into drugs.
Then, tragedy, he has a latent psychiatric illness, depressive disorder? biploar? who knows. She tries desperately to help as best she knows.
Then, tragedy, he has a latent psychiatric illness, depressive disorder? biploar? who knows. She tries desperately to help as best she knows.
Both are sinking into a vortex of mental health problems. His family is in denial, Mental illness? In our family? No way! we are above all that; that is not us! And who the hell is this seductress who calls herself his girlfriend? Girlfriend? what does that even mean?
Is she living with him? are they sleeping together? That cannot be right! we're from Bihar! She has to be an evil seductress who has led him astray.
Then
Tragedy strikes. He is found dead, suicide in all probability. NO NO. But this is India only poor farmers kill themselves.
Then
Tragedy strikes. He is found dead, suicide in all probability. NO NO. But this is India only poor farmers kill themselves.
It can't be suicide, his family decide, that'll reflect on the family! people will talk. There has to be foul play involved, we need a scapegoat, we need someone to burn at the stake - a modern-day #sati. They complain, an investigation starts and snowballs
It grows into an open-ended witch-hunt. "There must be something we can pin on this witch". In the background, there is politics, an election looming, social media keyboard warriors engaging in a battle between his home state, her home state, and the state they're both in.
This is the new competitive federalism that the Prime Minister spoke about, Three police forces, multiple agencies, another aspiring female actor pissed off that attention has shifted from her, news anchors fighting for their bit of flesh.
But there is no happy resolution no redemption for anyone. Both the families are doomed, it is, after all, a tragedy unfolding, forces spiralling out of control, no time for apologies no heart to listen, too much hate, all-consuming bitterness.
The script has two endings that viewers can choose from:
A) reconciliation, he cannot be brought back to life but his memory can be preserved and his lover can help heal the wounds
B) no redemption except in the after-life: a tragic denouement
A) reconciliation, he cannot be brought back to life but his memory can be preserved and his lover can help heal the wounds
B) no redemption except in the after-life: a tragic denouement
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