Final Script

This is the final script of the short film. We have decided that the name of the main character will be the real name of the actor who will act for us, but since we haven't finalized the actors, I have named the main actor Andrew. The film is about ragging in colleges:

Andrew is walking to school. It’s the first day of college, and also his first year. He is a normal boy, but a bit scared for his first day. He reaches school and as he enters the school gates, he gets a sense of fear. There are seniors everywhere and they all seem to be prepared for the ragging of the first years in college. In assembly, the principal announces that the first year students will be ragged today and it will be from 9 am to 11 am and after that the first years will go to their home rooms and will meet their home room teachers.He doesn’t like how the day seems to be going. He decides to go to the washroom; walking through the corridor towards the washroom, he sees a guy who is a senior carrying a spray can in his hand. He looks at Andrew and says, “Sup man?” smiling and in a sarcastic way.

Andrew ignores him and goes to the washroom. However, the washroom doesn’t appear to be a safe place. Andrew goes there just to check if he’s looking fine, but there are a group of people who appear to be seniors, but they are not. One of them, the main bully in the film asks him “Hey man. You new here?” Andrew thinks that they’re just asking so he says, “Yeah, I am”. The main bully says “that’s nice man,” but just when Andrew starts to leave, one of the guys blocks him at the washroom entrance. Then two of the guys grab him and pull him back. The main bully says, “Since your’e new you must know that your first day is the day you first years get ragged.” Andrew is a bit scared, because he is a wimpy kid. The bully asks him, “so are you ready?” Andrew now knows that whats about to happen is not good. The guys pull Andrew to a corner and Andrew is not seen but sounds are heard of Andrew trying to escape, and of the guys laughing.

The next shot shows Andrew standing in the washroom, wearing a pink skirt and with his face painted black, with red lipstick and his hair in ponies. Now the bully says, “Now, you can stay like this for the whole day, or we can let you go on one condition,” Andrew asks “Whats that?” He says, “You have to dance.” Andrew runs away, because he doesn’t want to do the dance. He runs till he finds a room where he thinks he is safe, but when he enters the room, he finds all the other first years who have been ragged and who are hiding. They throw him out of the room because they hear people coming after him. Andrew starts running again to find a place where he can stay safe and out of the sight of the people he thinks are second year seniors. After some time he notices that it is almost 11 am, so he goes to the washroom to wash up before class. When he enters class, he sees the bully and some of the guys who were with him, in the class. It turns out that the bully has been failing the first year since three years.

Now the home room teacher enters the class. He gives his introduction and as he is speaking one of the students who is with the bully puts a cigarette in his bag which is half open, and then tells the teacher “Excuse me sir, I think you should see this,” and points to Andrew’s bag. The teacher sees it and says “Cigarettes on your first day, hun? Come with me” and he takes him to the principals office. Andrew keeps on saying that he doesn’t smoke but the teacher doesn’t listen to him.

Principal decides to expel him saying “We have a strict policy son and we don’t care if it’s your first time or your last.” Andrew keeps on saying that he doesn’t smoke and that he didn’t know how the pack got in his bag. The principal is just about to sign the paper and expel Andrew, when suddenly his alarm rings and he wakes up.

Andrew is shocked and yet relieved to find himself in bed and realises that it was only a dream. He checks his calendar and finds that it is his first day of college. He gets ready for college and reaches there believing that he had just had a bad dream.

But when he reaches school he has the surprise of his life. While walking in the corridor and looking for his class, he hears a voice of a person that he thinks is familiar, and when he realises that it was the bully from his dream, he turns around to see if its him. To his relief he is not there. He finally gets to his class, but with the class he finds the people in his dream. As he enters the class, the bully who ragged him in his dream is at the door with the other bullies in the dream and he asks him “Hey man. You new here?” Andrew gets shocked, and he turns around to find the people who were also ragged in his dream as well. And when Andrew is just trying to pull himself together, the same teacher from the dream enters the class and gives the introduction. At this point, Andrew screams from frustration and the film ends.