The Medium (Part-1)

Genre:             Thriller (Supernatural-History blend)

Logline:          Attila, a child born at midnight on Indian Independence becomes a Medium and calls the “dead” to reveal the blood soaked power play and terror that ruined the unity of a nation.

Synopsis

“The Medium” is woven on a lucid concept that people born at midnight on Indian Independence had supernatural powers.  It depicts a cross section of India’s pre-independence era and analyses the events of the day when India became free.  And scaling the past 67 years of Free India it develops through political, cultural and socioeconomic scenario, the offspring of the Great Partition that took thousands in its death toll.

Attila (justice) is a girl born out of a down caste Hindu-Muslim wedlock, in a Mumbai suburban slum at the midnight on August 14, 1947.  When the clock strikes 12, amidst the rampant violence, her parents are butchered by the leaving government machinery, and she is ‘forced out of her dead mother’, marking the cry of Free India.  While the babe cries aloud into the ‘void’, struggling in the shivering outstretched hands that took her from ‘the dead, but warm womb’, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister hoists the tri-colour flag at Red Fort declaring India’s Independence. 

Attila grows up under the care of ill nourished, submissive slum dwellers consisting of scavengers and other underdogs.  She gets “contaminated” at the age of 13 and becomes a medium to bring forth the apparitions of the "dead".  Late rulers, social reformers, god men, etc., appear before her in real forms to reveal the other side of their eventful life…. For, the living tells lies, but the dead does not!

While the rituals continue blending Arabic, pagan and indigenous forms, she has a feeling that these will not last and that the good shall perish soon.  When people assemble around her with esteem piety, to their astonishment, she pronounces the spell, and ‘the actors’ of the 14^th August drama appears before her as apparitions.  Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and his wife are all crowding to make known ‘their other side’ to the mass. What the dead tells now creates panic among the people.  They become confused and factions originate. Some go against her, while others support.  The enemies are strong and outrageous.  Attila resists, but they twist the situations in their favor. 

And with the help of Shiva, the god man, the rivals start to make her surrender. In spite of all precautions, Shiva's telepathic impulses penetrate all resistance and reach her.  Unable to withstand the onslaught and fury, Attila succumbs and her whole physical form blazes off in the engulfing fire, and her soul gets liberated.  Before leaving the burnt body, her soul takes a vow that it would come back one day to avenge them.

Medium (Part-2)

Logline:       The soul of Attila revisits the world and induces ESP in a youth to avenge the antagonists for their atrocities on her in the past life.

Shiva, with his magical power wants to eliminate Attila forever.  So, he waits for her return by rejuvenating his body and power throughout the eventful years of free India.  During these years new boundaries and political equations come into being.  The international scenarios change and new allies take form.  Terrorism and anarchy become the flagship of social life.  The intra-socio-economic balance shatters.  The country is in the grip of stale brokers, gamblers and bootleggers.  Political black sheep whistle the tunes and the Indian society is metamorphosing.

And in a modern township away from the city, Nathan, a 25 year old handsome youth is in fits. The mental aberration and nightmares take the brain out of him. He has visions. Attila, the dead, appears in his dreams and induces telepathic marvels.  As if a clairvoyant Nathan interacts with the ghostly form and becomes possessed.  Gradually he gains a psychic power equivalent to that of Attila and declares himself her reincarnation.  Now the disciples throng to be blessed and his words acquire the magnetic beam which is potent to change even the rulers of the country.  The apparitions he brings forward uncover truths and it quakes the nation. Idols and images collapse. Controversies follow. Violence erupts. 

And Liza, a young journalist thinks that Nathan is a swindler.  But later she finds that Nathan has real sixth sense and becomes his follower.  Meantime, some of his disciples want to overpower him to amass wealth and fame.  The murder of two of his disciples creates problems and the police raid his camps.  There are attempts to kill him.  Liza saves him.  She develops a soft corner towards him and tells of her love.  But Nathan cannot accept it.  To her bewilderment he declares, “I am not a man at all….!”  The secret, thus revealed, and Shiva joins his allies to plot against Nathan.  The frequent nearness to Liza causes physical and mental changes in him.  To his bewilderment when the first menstrual vibrations hit ‘him’, ‘he’ collapses under its weight.  The very moment ‘his’ supernatural power fails ‘him’.  Underworld Dons and political mafia attack ‘him’ and ‘he’ is exhausted.  But Liza inspires ‘him’ to regain the lost power by practicing Egyptian black magic or Atharva.    So, in the silence of the night, Nathan, along with Liza and a few disciples, disappears into the dark, unnoticed.

They reach a remote and dense forest.  The forest people provide shelter to them.  With their patronage Nathan and Liza start practicing severe occults.  After a great ordeal they acquire the power they craved for.  But this time the power they attained is negative.  Nevertheless, they with the prowess and fury of Mahakaali and Rudra, wait for the right moment to unleash their revenge…. And the ‘fusion of woman and man in one’ becomes the fire to win… and to win means destroy… For, destruction is the only truth in Nature...!  Destroying to create…

(c) Punalur Chandrasekharan

THE DETECTIVE THIEVES

Genre: Suspense/horror/thriller 

PREMISE:

         Two thieves, accused of murder, when makes a prison break, fall back into their former lives as detectives, and walking through the past to present and future, they strive to prove their innocence by unveiling the mystery behind the alleged murder.

LOGLINE:

Two clever thieves accused of murder, travel through the past, present and future as detectives to prove their innocence.

The Detective Thieves-Treatment

Jacky and Rocky are pious; but clever thieves.  One day they break into a house where a lonely rich old woman lives.  They threaten her at gunpoint and are about to start their operation, when she requests them to pray before robbing her, for every act they do must be witnessed by God.  The two thieves weigh the situation and kneel beside her to pray.  Then they get out with the loot, leaving the woman tied to a table.

While moving away, they feel that someone is following them.  They think it is a warning sign from God, and repenting, they return to the house and place their booty on the doorsteps with a note: “WE ARE SORRY”.  They hear a shriek from inside and cast a look through the window.  The woman is now lying dead under the table; a trove of jewellery is strewn around her.

Terrified, they start running.  On the way they confront a huge and strange old man with a long beard.  They run back to the dead woman’s house.  The loot and the note they placed on the steps are no more, and the door of the house opens.  The woman’s corpse falls on them, with blood streaming down from its open mouth.  The plundered wealth comes swirling towards them along with a slip that reads: “WAIT TILL THE OMEN BEGINS”.  And, both of them faint.

When the two thieves wake up from that swoon, they realize that they are in a prison and that the year is now 2020.  The jail mates reveal that both are under trial for the last eight years, and that they will be hanged soon for robbing and killing an old woman. On hearing this, the two thieves swoon again. 

Soon they make a prison break; but fall back into the year 2012 to find they are near the old dead woman’s house.  Involuntarily they walk towards the house. There, on the door, they see a paper which read: “APOLOGY ACCEPTED. GO, FIND THE KILLER”.  They follow the arrow mark under it and enter a terrifying and wonderful magical world where they encounter the same strange old man with the long beard.  With a mesmerizing look he beckons them to his side, and they comprehend that he is Markandeya, the immortal, the being that lives and traverse through time and space unending. 

Markandeya reveals that he knows they are innocent of the accused murder of the old woman committed in 2012 and that the eight year long trial will culminate in their death row, which they can change if they wish.   After all, it is their destiny.

To their bewilderment, Markandeya takes them to a large transparent globe through which they see the time opaque, the evolution, the cycle of death and birth, and so on.  He shows them their destiny and their previous births, and vanishes abruptly into the void.  With that everything starts revolving and a feeling creeps into them that they are twirled across the space to fall back into the year 1982. 

They are now young, famous and dreaded private detectives working for the Globe Detective Agency and nobody can withstand their whim and wits.  They are contracted by a tycoon to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy middle aged lady soon after the murder of her husband who is the heir to a hidden massive treasure trove linked to the Viking and Ghenghis Khan. As the investigation progresses, it dawns upon them that they are being misled by the tycoon to lure them into a great trap as a part of a conspiracy.  And in an attempt to save the lady from the captivity of her husband’s murderers both the detectives get killed. 

The two thieves shake themselves out of this enlightening episode and decide to apply the very intelligence of the detectives to find the killer in spite of the fact that it is a formidable task.  Markandeya appears again and warns them of the wrong convictions, for any error in thought or deed will be fatal.  They promise him that they will be careful while traversing through time and life to grab the real murderer for proving their innocence.

Character Profile:

The Thieves: Protagonists. They are young men of 30 years and are clever, witty, smart and quick, but pious and considerate.  They have two lives: the first one as detectives in a previous birth and the second one as thieves in the current birth (born after the death of detectives).  Both of them think alike and do alike, but argue first and agree last, to follow one another. 

Old Woman: She appears in two styles.  The first one is a very beautiful and royal looking, wealthy middle aged woman who inherits a massive treasure after the demise of her husband at the hands of the tycoon.  She is bold, pensive, calm and well mannered.  The second one is an old woman in the seventies.  She is bold, proud, majestic, calm, considerate and God fearing.

Tycoon: Antagonist.  He also exhibits two outward forms and manners:

First one: Has a very greedy, cruel and wicked mind. Outwardly he seems soft but is cunning to the core.  He is tall and terrifying and possesses a vast business empire.  He terminates his opponents brutally.  He is in the forties.  Well dressed but more luxurious.

The second one is as an old man of the seventies. An old beast, but is eccentric and shaky with age.  The age makes him sadist and more cruel.  He wears a robe around him always.

Markandeya: A huge towering kind old man with mesmerizing eyes and long white beard that extends down the chest.  Has a long and curly white moustache and long white eyebrows.  He wears a long white robe. He is immortal and knows the past and future.  He is an angel guide who helps the protagonists to fight against the evil to attain their goal of changing their destiny. 

© Punalur Chandrasekharan

Reality Show

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Since the whole world is built upon families, any insights irrespective of controversies or quarrels or any other things in the institution of marriage will invoke innovative contributions to a nation as well, and earns more potential to reach one country to another as time goes by.  The policy makers can derive better rules and regulations accordingly, and seek remedial measures to streamline the living of the people in that society.

A wealthy man is in search of a lady who possesses the good qualities of all of the 12 signs of the Zodiac. He meets several women and families and interacts with them.  While doing so he develops a relationship with them and intervenes in their family problems.  Though he solves these hitches to their favour, his intuitions guide him to get aloof from them and to severe the relationship to continue his adventure to find the best he wants.  He becomes desperate on knowing that they lack the qualities in spite of their pretension of having the qualities of the zodiac signs.  And at last he meets an orphan and attaches himself deeply into her affairs.  As the relationship develops he is astonished to find that this orphan to whom no zodiac signs can be attributed, for she doesn’t know when and where she was born, has ultimately got the best qualities of the 12 zodiac signs….

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