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.
