Scene 1
Ext/Road/Day time
09:15 AM
Characters: The
child aged 10-11 years and a few other random children.
The kid aged
around 10-11 years is running parallel to a wall.
The sound of
footsteps running and the breathing of a kid can be heard.
He then peeks
from that wall- his eyes are shown (a macro shot of his eyes only). He keeps
looking at other children coming out of a school.
Fade out.
Title appears ‘In Pursuit Of Success’
Scene 2
Ext/House/Day
time/07:00 AM
Characters: Ali,
Ali’s mother, Mr.Mahmood
Ali is washing
his rickshaw when his mother calls him inside the house.
Mother:Aliii
He stops and goes
inside. When he comes out again, he’s bathed, neat and tidy.
Ali: Good bye mother
Mother: Good bye.
Ali goes toward
the door to step outside, the scene Dissolve and the Location changes and a
Mr. Mahmood can
be seen coming out of his house and driving away in his car.
Scene 3
Ext/Rickshaw
stop/Around mid-day 02:45 PM
Characters: Ali,
a woman
A montage of
different rickshaw drivers on different roads at different time’s of the day.
Ali is sitting at
a rickshaw stop, reading a book, when a
woman approaches him
Woman: Are you free?
Ali: Yes.
Woman: Take me to market please.
Woman gets in the rickshaw and looks at in fascination-
Woman: (Looking at the book placed beside Ali) What were you reading?
Ali: I was studying my text book madam, I’m a matric Student
Woman: (astonished) Really? That’s very surprising, and odd, in a good way I mean, of-course. But wait,
why arent you in school then?
Ali: (with a sad smile on his face)I cant afford to go to school maam
because I have to earn to make a living and support my old mother.
Woman: oh!so you study and work?! How tough. I hope you are lucky enough to
survive this tough world..
Ali, with a small
smile on his face, looks at the woman from the rear view mirror. She sees his
wise twikling eyes..
Fades out
Scene 4
Int/Office/Mid-day
03:10 PM
Fade in
Mr. Mahmood is
sitting in his office.
Door opens, his
colleague enters and places another document on Mr.Mahmood’s desk.
Colleague: Come on man, you’ve been working since morning. Take a break, let’s go out.
Mr. Mahmood: No, man. Thanks, but I’d rather stay back and complete these documents.
Colleague
observes him for a few minutes and then speaks again.
Colleague: Seriously, I think you’ve got like the best luck in the world. Do you know how many times I
applied for this job? Three. Three times! Ha. And you? Look at you, you applied
and got it the first time. How do you do it? Amazing luck you have, I must say.
Mr. Mahmood: (Looks up wisely and smiles). You know, I still remember the days when
I used to stay up till late at nights and study under the faint light of
lanterns or street lamp when electricity would be cut off. So, don t say ‘I have the best luck in the world’, bur rather
ask ‘how I made my luck?’
Mr. Mahmood smiles
and looks back at his documents.
With this scene we can also see that as Mr. Mahmood is
flipping through the pages, scene transforms and adult hands are replaced by a
child’s hands flipping the pages. These are the younger Ali’s hands.
The location
changes, Ali is in an examination room.
The scribbling of
pens on a pages can be heard and the ticking of the clock aswell.A final tick
of the clock.
Ali flips to the
very first page of the booklet and under the heading of Matric Board
Examination writes his name....
‘ Ali HamzaMahmood’
Just as this scene finishes we come to the present Mr.Mahnmmod as he closes the
booklet. He closes the file and on the first
page he signs his name...
Seen
Ali Hamza Mahmood
Puts down the pen and the scene cross dissolve slowly.
He closes the
file and puts down his pen.
Fade out
Scene 5
Ext/Road/in between 6.00-7.00PM.
Characters: Ali,
Ali’s mother. The woman
Ali is in his
car, driving. He looks in the rear view mirror and thinks and recalls the
conversation he had with that woman.
Ali goes into a
flashback.
The conversation
he had with a women once, who questioned him about his studies.
Dissolve
Ali: Ma’am I would make my own luck one day and I will stand on my own feet. I
will work hard day and night and will hopefully become strong enough that I will be able to overcome any obstacle. That
one day is not so far away. I will run after excellence until success chase me
all the way till the end. After all, life is nothing but a struggle itself.’
Flashback end and
scene cuts at Ali’s eyes again( a macro shot).
Scene 6
Ext/road/7:00 pm
The car stops in
front of Ali’s new house. He looks at his house. Gets out of thje car. A macro shot of his feet walking towards the
house.
Scene cuts to a
small kids dirty slippered running feet.
Scene cuts to Ali’s
feet stopping at the gate of the house.
Scene cuts of the
small kids feet stoping against the wall.
From the
prespective of Ali’s.
He push opens the
door and see his mother sitting in the garden.
Scene cut to the
small kid peeking from behind the wall. A macro shot of his eyes that are
filled with sadness and longing.
Scene cuts to the
adult Ali’s eyes. A macro shot that show happiness and satisfaction in his
eyes.
