Wednesday 17 June 2015

Jolly LLB- Script Analysis

                                      

                          Video Analysis

1.The main plot relates to what  the lead character wants ,the main subplot  relates to what they need.
                                                        

Main plot: the lead character’s interactions with main opponent is called the main plot..

                                                         
Sub plot : The lead character’s interactions with other characters are called sub plots.

Arshad Warsi (jolly) wants justice and fight for  that through his occupation as lawyer. This is the main plot.

He has the sub plot as love with Amrutha rao.

2.The lead character has a clear opponent  who opposes their wishes and tries to stop them getting what they want.
Arshad Warsi (jolly) a small lawyer decided and declared the war on famous lawyer Rajpal (Bomman Irani).

                                         
3. If a lead character ‘s challenge was easy there would be no story.
As per cinema –character always has to face big challenge .In this movie Arshad Warsi take up  a challenge to defeat famous lawyer Rajpal (Boman Irani).

Zero state lawyer versus Famous lawyer…

4. The lead character in a movie is usually the person who changes the most from the start to finish.

In the starting we see normal, hilarious Arshad Warsi (Jolly) as small failured  lawyer in Meerut. But as movie moves  on to climax he changed as best lawyer.

At climax, his given speech is fabulous.

5.Two sequences are very best in the movie

A. In 1st half –with PINTO –Rajpal (Boman irani) played a game is mindblowing.

B.In 2nd half—old gun man came for the security  to Arshad warsi and making food for  him is comedy sequence . finally that old gunman helps  in the crucial time.

6.The sub plot clash always leads to main plot conflict.
Amrutha rao  giving a clash to Arshad Warsi .because as lawyer Arshad Warsi taken The money for injustice case. That is not good one. So by the sub plot (lover) there is a clash coming into picture. Hence it is one of the reason to Arshad Warsi ‘s changeover and an old person, who arranged office for Arshad Warsi …he slapped after completion of the case in the first half. That is the second reason for the changeovers.

7.Connecting point :
After slapping of old person, Arshad Warsi seriously thinks and moved on footpath and he tried to pass out urine. At the time footpath living person said that “please don’t pass urine nearby ….”That scene gives more impact on Arshad Warsi (and also to the audience) .this scene connects to every one –who see the people on footpath in their daily life and also in news papers.

8. Best scenes

A. Establishing backdrop –starting scene –victim hand seeing by one lawyer for the  bail as astrologer..

B. Arshad Warsi Introduction case 



C. Mistakes written by Arshad Warsi –those are noticed by judge Sourabh shukla

D. Court Sangeeth scene

E.An Auction scene in the police station

F.Boman Irani—sourabh shukla discussion about flats in court hall

G.Arshad Warsi passing urine on foot path scene

H.Climax discussion scene…

9. Assets :

A.Casting ---Arshad Warsi ,Boman Irani ,Sourabh shukla ,Amrutha rao –is very good.  

B.low budget script  –office room ,one court hall ,one house with less characters.

C.court Backdrop is very fresh .

D.Arshad Warsi –coming from Meerut..using the slang of UP…

Monday 15 June 2015

Raanjhanaa - Script Analysis

                                       

Raanjhanaa :

Love + Male Ego +Female Ego + Politics = Raanjhanaa

This is a complete new story, because of….
1. There is no references for this movie..
2. While watching a movie , there is no other film in audience mind...
3. Scenes, Characters , turns are not expected by audience in this love story ...
   And so, Audience get thrilled.
4. Cinema twists ,turns are logical.. 

   If cinema is larger than life ..that will be going to be classic block buster....
   In cinema script ,if we insert the ----Peaks of love (Ghajini ,D.D.L .J)
                                   ----Peaks of sorrows (Dev-D, Devdas ,Mughal-E-Azam )
                                   -----peaks of emotions (Taare Zameen Par )
                                   -----Peaks of Friendship (3 Idiots ,Khurbani ,Sholay )
Worked out and are successful on the screen ......
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Story points :
 
1.Fun Element :
                     
Every love story starts with one element ....
In this movie slapping scenes between Kundan (Hero) and Zoya (Heroine) ...
It slowly starts maintaining the close relationship between them..
Here, Hero maintained secrecy of his religion .That is revealed in the next scene ..
Departure of lover takes place ..
In the next scene , Hero cut his hands and gains his love again....
Story starts on a comical note and takes a serious turns in the later scenes.
                             
2.Turn-1 : Zoya sent to Delhi ..
Zoya comes to her parents after eight years and she does not remember her initial crush with Kundan that happened eight years ago.
Once again Kundan falls in love with Zoya ...
Comedy Block : Gate crashing of Zoya’s get-together with probable alliance.
  
 
3.Turn -2 : Male Ego
Zoya starts loving Akram ,a social activity student leader ...
Mariage arrangements take place between Zoya and Akram...
Kundan’s male ego gets hurts and agrees to marry a girl from his relations.
                                
4.Mid point : Kundan reveals that "Akram is not Muslim ".....(Male Ego clash )

5.Turn -3 : Akram’s death because of which Zoya enters in to politics.
Kundan decides to stay with Zoya by serving tea to all students ,those who participate in the politics...
                              
6.Turn -4 :Female Ego
Kundan solves the problems and becomes the leader of their group ahead of Zoya and he replaces Akram ..
By Female ego of Zoya wants to take the revenge on Kundan..But she cleverly keeps the revenge to herself. When she gets a chance to take revenge, she joins hands with ruling party politicians and help them kill Kundan.
                             
7.Climax Voice over :
This Voice over gives the more feel and depth of the overall story of main character Kundan..
                               
New Scenes :

1.Slapping scenes lead to love..
2.Kundan’s mugging up of greeting card love letter...
3.Kundan’s dance for old songs. ..
4.Kundan explaining love story by movements to Zoya --Recollecting the old story..
5.Zoya Wedding crashing scene played by Kundan,his friends
6.Whenever Kundan and Zoya hug, the film on screen turns - there is correlation between the Interval and Climax scene..
7.Climax :Voice over of kundan touches the heart…

Script Points :

1.Story must revolve between the main characters. Only then we get the feel of the Characters.
Kundan , Zoya , Akram ...these are the main characters ...
Entire story revolves around the love story of Kundan’s and Zoya’s.
( Too much characters spoil the screen time  and audience don’t have memory to remember never ending characters ...)

2.Introduce the Hero before the Romantic rival.
Readers and Audiences instinctively identify with the first character who appears on the screen...
As per screen play "Ranjhanaa" opens with Kundan in ambulance and enters hospital.
Film starts with the voice-over of Kundan.

3.Introduce the main characters relations and friends ...
Next we get to know the childhood of Kundan with all characters ...(Funding in the name of the god )

4.Show the first meeting between the hero and heroine ...
In the next  scene heroine introduced with her religion...
With the 2,3 montage shots film directly opens at 10th class age...

5.Identifying youth with Funny : Romantic scenes
Here onwards, the active hero Kundan starts love journey with Zoya .
Every love story always starts with fun or quarrel element.
Here Zoya starts slapping kundan that leads to love ...

6.Main character and his/her love journey must be continued hilarious otherwise audience feel bore....
The slapping scenes are fun element. Kundan keeps his religion a secret and gains Zoya’s heart.
Here, director takes an advantage of that secret and starts his next scene.

7.Big ups and downs is to give required depth to the movie depth and to make the audience feel for the characters and to make audience understand that they have been on a long and worthwhile emotional journey.
In kundan’s life , we see more love emotions ,worse situations , big ups in his political stint and finally, he dies.
But that emotional journey felt by the audience is injected at climax voiceover of Kundan...

8.Must maintain the variation between first half and second half...
In the first half , we see the hilarious , light emotional love journey of Kundan and Zoya.
But in second half, we see lot of emotional scenes between Kundan and Zoya.
Politics played a vital role in the life of Kundan.

9.The whole enjoyment of watching any type of movie is watching a sympathetic lead character getting themselves in to big trouble...
In this movie Kundan faces so many troubles with his love and lover Zoya. Many times he gets to close Zoya and departs from her.After Interval point, Kundan becomes Villain in the eyes of Zoya.
But Kundan behaves like a repented lover and he overcomes every trouble that come across him.
Finally when Kundan dies, he gains sympathy from audience.

10.Main character graph must be increased..
Observe the Kundan character graph we will notice that point ...

11.Give more and more emotions /funny/Action/thrill than audience expected...
Now a days, Every viewer is a director ,Hence film writer /Director always think about audience.
Then the best output comes ,which is not expected by the audience.

12.1st  half setups ------------------> play role in 2nd half
we see Zoya's emotional love for Akram in the first half.Here Zoya starts loving Akram and Akram reciprocates his love for her.
This makes Kundan to turn into a negative character and reveals truth about  Akram’s secret at the wedding. (Akram is not Muslim ..his name is Jagjeet singh ). After death of Akram , Kundan becomes normal. But Now Zoya is waiting to take revenge on Kundan. These are some of the conflicts that the characters face in this ego based love story.

13.You must find ways to reveal your character's conflicts visually ...
Kundan’s desire mainly is to gain love of Zoya.
Zoya’s desire is to marry Akram by hook or cook.
In these two desires , Zoya’s desire fails in the first half due to male ego of Kundan. That we can see with few gripping scenes like scooter scene and cylinder lifting scene.
Here conflict in Zoya’s character is created and Kundan becomes a negative person in the eyes of Zoya.
That conflict visually narrated by Hospital scene--Joya spitting on Kundan.
Later on, Zoya doesnot talk to Kundan in the second half.
Joya’s conflict turns into negative shade slowly and she becomes a completely negative character till the death of Kundan.  
Every character has his life ,emotions ,conflicts  and on this basis the story moves forward.

14. Casting is 90 % of direction --Alfred Hitchcock
 Dhanush as Kundan  ..Sonam kapoor as Zoya ..Abhay deol as Akram ---- are apt for the characters...

15.Songs :
There are no routine songs. Every song has lots of scenes ,events that will give the better impact than group dances and dream sequences. Almost  screen time of 45 minutes is taken by the songs.
For establishing love, relationship ,sad feelings all are expressed in the songs ..
Director utilized the songs in the best way. So that "Raanjhanaa" is a peculiar movie and is not in the run of the mill movie list...
A.  R. Rahman’s music is the soul for the film.
Editor has done tremendous work. He manages lot of footage and is presented in the best way.

16.In a love story , The lovers are given the same amount of screen time.
One of the characters is usually given more screen time and more problems to deal with .
Kundan and Zoya characters have almost equal screen time  but main character kundan occupies more screen time in facing problems, so he won the audience’s heart.

Saturday 13 June 2015

Script rule -15

 

Play in Screenplay
Some fiction ….Some fantasy ….Some new logic …Some mind blowing shocks …Some creative idea ….
This sequence or block is very important for the success.
Other wise cinema will be normal.

Example :

Jolly LLB :
Rajpal play in first half is Mind blowing shock .That is very nice and intelligent one. This new sequence gives more depth of a movie..
                                          
Malamaal Weekly :
A fortune point start with lottery ticket and whole village characters run along with it. A loop is created and so many loops are formed. This is very creative idea…

Ghajini :
Being a short term memory patient how hero kills the villain …
This is new point and the hero ideas will be very logic and creative…
That is one success point ..
Munnabhai M.B.B.S :
How a rowdy entered and sustained in the medical college ..
This is new point …

Lage raho Munnabhai :
Contrast nature persons Gandhi and Rowdy Munnabhai ..
Gandhi discussing with a rowdy …
This is new creative ,fantasy point ….

Play types are mainly two :
1. Audience Know –characters doesn’t know --this rule gives enjoyment to the audience …
Example ;
A.     Lage raho Munnabhai
B.     Ghajini
2.Characters Know – Audience doesn’t know  --this rule gives bang / thrill /twist to the audience …
Example :
1.Don (new )

2.Satya
                          

Script rule -14

                                 
Time and tension element :
This element must apply in the pre climax /climax of the cinema to create tension. Because of that the story run with pace, this leads tension..

Example :
                                                            
Lagaan :
 There is only one wicket in the hand..Ameer Khan  has to win the match. The sequence of play creates more tension. Within the less time, Hero has to dip in the trouble …
                                                         
Ghajini :
 Sanjay Singhaniya (Ameer Khan ) moves towards  villain (Ghajini )…A fight takes place between villain’s rowdies and Hero …
                                                         
Singham :
Prakash Raj Kidnaps a minister’s daughter at pre climax then Hero Ajay Devagan starts to save her . That episode is completely belongs to time and tension element.
                                                 
ChakDe India :
The match is tie between India –Australia…
In that state new episode starts by penalty runs –5 Goals done by each batch.. In that scene tension raises…

So many films
Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahaani
Fanaa
Krish
Koi Mila Gaya
Satya
Dabangg
Rowdy Rathore
Dhoom
Don/Don 1,2
Every action film contains this …
In a feel good film this element should deal in a smoother way…
Example :
3 Idiots
 Lage Raho Munnabhai
 Munnabhai M.B.B.S
Wakeup sid

Script rule -13



Hero in crisis
Hero fall down at the pre climax..
He becomes zero. At this position hero gains energy to face the problem , then the story comes to the climax…

Example :

Ghajini :
Ameer khan fights with villain. But villain played memory  trick and attacked on Ameer khan. This is crisis. Villain is in raising position.

Robot :
At pre climax position Vasikaran catched by Robot .
At the time Vasikaran  may die in the hands of  Robot . That is crisis point.


3 Idiots :
Ameer khan with Madhavan stolen the exam paper from the office of Sahasra budhi (Boman Irani)…Shasrabudhi noticed that  and  he beaten
Ameer khan . At the time hero becomes bad student…

D.D. L:
Sharukh khan tried to get change in Amrishpuri , for his love with Kajol.
But he fails up to last minute ..this is crisis point ..


Dabangg :
Hero Salman khan lost his police job by villains activity ..
Hero father got heart attack and admitted in the hospital.
Hero brother tries to kill him.


Ishqiya :
The main characters Arshad Warsi and Nasheeruddin sha are almost in the neck of the moment to die. That is the crisis point…

Condition :
This rule is for commercial movies only …
From 1980 to till  today so many movies have it …