Alang - An Earth-Shattering Journey

Alang AN EAR T H - S HATT E R I N G J O U R N EY. . .

A F I L M B Y : MA Y U R K A C H H A D I Y A

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GRINFILM PRODUCTION & VAK RAT U N D E N T E R TAI N M E N T

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INTRODUCTION

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FILM TITLE | ALANG - an earth-shattering journey FILM TYPE | Horror & Thriller DIRECTOR | Mayur Kachhadiya PRODUCTION | Grinfilm Production & Vakratund Entertainment WRITER | Kamal Krishan LANGUAGE | Hindi DURATION | 1:45 Hours FILMING DAYS | 30 Days

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WISH CAST

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*CAST Girish Kumar (Taurani) Prachi Desai Mungunzul Amgalanbaatar Leena Jumani Manoj Joshi

* This is our wish list of cast, We will add more cast in this list and it may also change as per the project requirement.

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GIRISH TAURANI

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GIRISH KUMAR (actor) Rising Star of Bollywood Previous Movie | Ramaiya vastavaiya (As a Lead Actor)

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PRACHI DESAI

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PRACHI DESAI (actress) Wellknown Bollywood Beauty Previous Movie | Ek Villain (Item Song Awari)

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MUNGUNZUL AMGALANBAATAR

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MUNGUNZUL AMGALANBAATAR (actress & Producer) Best Actress of Mongolian Film Industries 2013-14 Award winner actress

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LEENA JUMANI

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LEENA JUMANI (actress) Rising Bollywood Actress Previous Movie | Himmatwala (As a Second Lead Actress)

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MANOJ JOSHI

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MANOJ JOSHI (actor) Wellknown Bollywood Actor

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SYNOPSIS

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This is the ship breaking yard of Alang. The setting is almost otherworldly, like some scene from an apocalyptic movie or even reality. Scores of ships, small, big and bigger line up on the beach.

Towering multi story hulls of the ships, fattest wires and chains that you have ever seen. In the background, the sea is dotted with anchored ship awaiting their turn to be disemboweled and consumed. There is this sense of an organized chaos all around, like an ant swarm feeding on a much larger kill. As the camera shoots all these scenes the lady news reporter VARSHA fills in the blanks, tells us all about ship breaking as a reporter would see it, in a nutshell.  A police officer talks on camera: The situation is like this: This Cruise Liner, Alang is anchored just off the beach but for an unknown reason, one member of the crew, Japanese, has apparently locked up the rest of the crew in a hold while he has barricaded himself. This man does not respond to English. The ground crews have helpfully tried to engage him in Hindi and even Gujrati but no dice. The Police team of three is here to accompany the supervisor to the ship.  How come you Patrakar people came here so fast? The cameraman, SANDY starts to brag but then the producer informs that they were here for some other story. A Sting Operation on the police, Sandy reveals. He is a regular joker, VARSHA quickly interjects. Tum apna dhakkan band nahin rakh sakte?  The TV crew is flatly refused permission to accompany the ship but the intrepid reporter is not to be stopped. She claims she can interpret for the police and the ground crew provided she and her crew is taken to the ship and allowed to film. Where is this supervisor?  In an outdoor office shack, a couple of kids, SONU and PARI, a small boy and a bigger girl play Boss Boss as the girl pretends to be their father. You notice the girl’s prized possession: A latest smart phone. The staff is amused. Soon the real boss, NAREN arrives and we all see that the kids were SPOT ON. They had the mannerism of their “tough, no nonsense looking father” down pat.

NAREN is the supervisor entrusted to break Alang. He is anxious to end this drama, as he puts it. Soon as the police took away those seamen for his men to get on with their work. It is he who has called the police and we hear a bit more of the situation from him.

The camera is able to catch Naren’s tiff with his children who want to visit the ship as promised.

Naren tries to get them to understand that because of the SITUATION, if will not be advisable for them to be on the ship. When the kids do not relent, he puts his foot down which wins him a pair of pouts. Regardless Naren orders them taken home.  He talks a little of the kids in their absence.  Varsha asks him about his career and if he has come across a similar situation. To which he replies that Seamen are a different kind of breed and it is not unheard of seamen flipping their lid now and then. They are a superstitious bunch. Being a seaman is a tough job. Not the first time anybody had had a problem like this. One time the crew cut up their captain in little pieces and fed them to the fishes. Or this other time when…

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They have been waiting for a medical team and additional police to arrive. The medical Team of two finally arrives. There is no sign of the police. It is decided not to wait any more for them as it is already evening and it had better if they took care of this business before high tide. They have enough of the ship breakers to take care of the crew if they acted smart.  We approach the ship in a boat. The Ship is HUGE. A couple of demolition workers are already on the deck. One of them hollers at Naren to tell him that it is not their fault that they have not begun work. And is there is going to be any work today? Not likely. NO! But we have to beach the ship at least. But tomorrow you are all going to cover up for all you would have done today.

Groans! The group from the boat enters through a passenger entrance  Where are the others? Checking the ship. Damn! Indians! Chorri se jayein par herapheri se na jayein. Naren explains that the first thing that the workers do once they get to a new ship is to look for things they can pilfer for themselves. You know? Like, computers, cutlery, DARU, especially Daru, hell even sanitary fittings. It’s like a free for all, whoever gets to it, keeps it. And since it’s a cruise ship, today is their big day. Naren takes a moment to video call his daughter: her mug fills the screen. She is already at home. Make Sonu do his home work. And yours too.

Isn’t their mother with them? She is gone. I am their mother and father.  Naren, Medical Team, Police and his Crew all get below decks to the SCENE. The loony Japanese crewman can be seen through a window: Welding an exit. The fucker is entombing his mates. He stops it when he hears his mother tongue from Varsha. The Japanese is the cook and does not know how to steer the ship so would she kindly ask someone to steer the ship the deepest sea so that it can be sunk along with the crew he has just entombed? The police officer’s tactic to threaten the Japanese does not have any desired effect. Someone bangs the door from the other side of the welded door and the Japanese jumps in fright and shouts something which the reporter declines to translate. His chant to take this ship deep into the sea is so insistent that one can memorize, if not all, the word “Jonbi” surely. He is chanting it.  The camera gets closer and now we see there is another person, in a bloodied condition, bound tight and sprawled on the floor by the Japanese. Oh my God! When asked, the Japanese dives into another of his long desperate harangue. I had to kill him. I had no option but to kill him.

Another unsuccessful attempt is made to get to the Japanese through the door.  Is there another way to get to the cabin he just welded shut? There should be. Naren calls and asks his foreman who takes out a printed layout of the ship. YES! There are other ways. Here is one. We go to the lowest deck then come up to an entrance just behind it. Go! A policeman and 4 workers are sent along.  The accompanying doctor contributes his two paisa to Varsha on camera: The Japanese seems to be displaying acute signs of post traumatic stress disorder. Something very shocking must have happened. Like what? Some sort of extreme stress or event involving death, serious injury or such threat to the self or others in a situation in which he must have felt intense fear, horror, or powerlessness. In this case the patient become hyper responsive to real or imagined threats and can also lose touch with reality and can harm others and himself. We must get him to calm down. Show him that we are not a danger to him and get him psychiatric care as soon as possible.

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There must be at least ten of the crew. Where is this ship coming from?” How the hell should we know? It was registered as Kandla cause it earlier Registration had expired, so that we could bring it here. I do not what it was called earlier. Nor do I care? We are kabadiyas, we dismantle these ships for their steel and other valuables. Why should be care where it has been before? At this, Varsha, ever the reporter, quips, “Well someone should; the rich countries send their contaminated KACHRA in these ships. Asbestos and what not, you know. You know how much sickness this stuff must be causing to your workers and YOU too.” Naren begins up a strong rebuttal from the point of view of the workers needing to fill their bellies and that his YARD takes all the care for the safety and health of the workers…  There is a shout. The reporter asks the camera man to go with Naren. On the upper deck we see a now dark brown blood puddle and a splatter pattern in a wall. As we follow the trail of smears.

There is another shout: more blood splatter! Naren spots something, someone, who hides.

Naren ever so cautious approaches and challenges the hiding person and gets a shock of his own. It is his SON. Now terrified. What are you? How did you get here? “By boat, Pari asked me to come. Who brought you here? She told Azim uncle that you had asked him to take us to the ship. We were just taking photos to show it to our school friends.” Where is Pari? “I don’t know.

She went with Raj uncle to look for toys for me.” Why can’t you two for once do what I say you to do? The boy doesn’t look used to this kind of treatment. Naren changes tack in a hurry. All right. It’s OK. I know wouldn’t have had any say in coming here. Where is she? “I don’t know, but she has the mobile.”  Naren makes the call. She answers after five rings. Where are you? “Daddy, I am sorry. I am in the ship actually. There is something in here. Chasing after me” All Naren’s windup to a dressing down is forgotten. She speed mouths what has happened, how there was a fight between Raj uncle and this other person. And she ran away and now someone is chasing him. Why didn’t you call? I thought you would become angry. Where are you? I am lost. Do you see the numbers written on the doors or on the walls? “Yes I do. Ah….but they are in some sort of weird English.”

She tries to read…Turn on your 3g camera. “One minute…” And then the girl screams! Pari..you all right? “The lights just went out. I can’t see anything.” Don’t worry. I will get you. Just stay where you are OK. I will get the lights on. Stay on the phone. Don’t cut OK? As he passes another blood puddle. He calls out to then men on the bridge and is informed that the power is down there as well. Try the auxiliary. It was already on auxiliary. Tell Narain to get the boat ready. But the boat isn’t there. What the fuck? CALL THEM BACK! The boat has gone to drop the workers. Mujhe pata hai saalo kya unload karne gayi hai boat.  Naren connects to the man at the bridge. Avtar! Send someone to wing up anchor now. Start the engines. You know Sahab, we can’t do that from here, not now. Somebody will have to go to the engine room and do it manually. Somewhere in the ship his daughter hears all this. Daddy, I have switched on the video. We see the images of her somewhere in the ship. In the light of the phone flash, she shows us her surrounding and then herself. She looks calm enough. Naren asks her the find and bang a steel wall. SHE DOES. But the sound does not travel to Naren. “Daddy!”

Beta, you switched off the flash! “Daddy I think there is someone close by. Jaldi aa ke mujhe le jao” Don’t you worry. I will come and get you. Say can you see a place where you can hide? We again see the images as the girl moves and find a space she can hunker in. OK sit tight. Won’t be long. “Daddy!” Yes, you are not angry with me, are you? No beta. Just sit tight. You are my brave girl. Shut off the flash but keep the phone on. I am coming to get you.

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The sound of the anchor retracting and its reverberation. We can show it get secured in it position.  Varsha and the producer are excited. She talks to her office on the phone and is ecstatic at this story having fallen into her lap. Let us have the footage first, and then only break the story.

Sandy keep both your cameras on! Yeah I have got it  “Azim Yaar, jab tujhe pata tha ki maine unhein yahaan lane ke liye mana kiya hai to kyon laaye?

Azim bows his head. Azim puts a helmet with light on his head. Half a dozen other are donned likewise. We are going to fan out and look for her. Naren nods. Dhiru, Nitesh, you go to the engine room and start the engine, will you be able to do that? Check air bottles first. We are going in as well, Varsha states. She has another of her camera, a handy, out. The cameraman and producer and other searchers fan out while Varsha stays at the deck as the police officer wants to talk to the Japanese about the blood. Varsha admit that it is only so much that she will be able to translate as some of Japanese is way over her head. Both of them give up. Police officer starts to call for backup but is ordered to get off the ship now. So he tells Varsha. I am going to go check inside, You coming? Inspector nods. Varsha leads. Jai Bharat Sir! He is ramrod straight while talking to some big shot. We over hear the officer speak. He stops. Naren does not stop. After a beat. No Come back. He calls after them. IG sahab are asking us to clear this ship.  On the other hand we have a bit of a scare as the girl Pari is in some jeopardy. Somebody stalks her as Naren over hears. It is almost dark. Now even the light from the screen poses danger of being found out. And found out she gets. But the girl is feisty, once she knows that she has been found out she switches on the flash and runs, Naren makes a beeline for below decks, followed

by Varsha. Whosoever follows Pari is quick if not so bright. At the end of this chase, only Pari’s small size saves her as she squeezes herself into a Dumbwaiter. Now her fortitude is broken, she begs her father to come rescue her.  Naren and Varsha rush through the lower decks. His girl is screaming. Her pursuer is relentless in his pounding from outside..  Naren meets two of his crew and is told that there are dead men in the engine room. You go get the police. You go check. Varsha starts to follow the other party to the engine room. Tell Avtar to pilot it to the beach as soon as the engine starts, Naren keeps her daughter engaged as one of remaining man follows him.  It takes a moment to open the door to the engine room. Who the hell pulled down all three bolts. Torches peer inside and find: Two dead guys, foreign looking but not Japanese. They are horribly mauled. The other men enter the engine room only after Varsha checks up on the prone bodies and pronounces them dead.. Come on guys Do what your supervisor asked; Start the engines. Do you have anything to cover them up?  The camera man is at the other side of the TOMB with half a dozen others. There are people inside. There start banging and calling out to them inside and are answered but only via banging.

This side too is welded but at least they can get at it. One of them starts chipping away the welded area. Fucking crazy foreigners.

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Pari takes heart from watching her father on her mobile. As does her father at her. She is still in the well. Naren can now see her daughter down into the dumbwaiter well. We only see images from their respective phones and the rest of the story is cobbled up with sounds. Someone jumps on the guy with Naren. The sounds that this attacker makes are horrible. Naren hesitates for a beat but his man and daughter’s screaming makes the decision for the wrench in his hand to swings good and true. There is a bit of wrangle between Naren and his attacker. Once more Pari hears it more that she sees as Naren’s phone falls. And the lights come back on. What the heck. Naren takes a picture of his attacker. SCARY BUGGER! His daughter crawls out of the well to jump and cling at her father. She promises to now never disregard her father. Don’t look there! You are just saying this at the spur of the moment (perhaps something good might come out of her ordeal after all). NO! I mean it this time. Don’t worry about it. Let’s get out of here.

Come Shafi. The mother fucker bit me. There are doctors upside. Let’s go.  The engine hums. OK guys. Would you mind standing by the dead bodies? Please! You’ll be on the news. As she films she spots that one of the two dead is not at his designated place. There he is. Right behind one of the crewman! He is alive. This guy bares his Fangs and takes a bite out of the cheek of the crewman as he turns to look behind.. Though we only have a split second to notice that the man opens his jaws wider than possible for a normal person. As Varsha mouths her horror and backtracks along with the others she captures two others try to save him, only to get himself attached by the other risen man. But they manage to slip out.  They both run. Bloody fucking shit, we have got to get out of here. They meet Naren and his daughter coming up. The crewman frantically relates his ordeal. OKOKOK. Take Shafi to the doctors. I am bitten too, says one from the engine room. What the fuck is this. They are attacking like mad dogs.  The job of freeing the people welded inside: The welding joint is gone. The door is opened, nothing unusual at first. They do not see anything. Then a banging sound comes from another connecting door. Not welded. OK let’s open that. As soon as the door is opened the shouting Japanese guy appears and tries to prevent them from doing just that. A bit of scuffle and the other get a peek at what is inside. Now they all want to keep whatever is it that they see, inside but some of the arms are wedged. One of ours gets bitten. The dam bursts. Japanese flees. So do the others. The foreman among them. The exit to the passenger entrance. Through the Port hole: The doctor already on the boat on the other side starts to open the door but then he is shouted from doing it by the police officer.. There is no more time to listen to the good doctor or see if the police officer would change his mind. They try to make themselves scarce, yet one of them is caught up by the half a dozen of these zombies like things. They are fast, in a sort of peculiar way. The policeman uses his Sten Gun they scatter but come back again. But at least the attacked person manages to get away. There is that vacant look in there and off course those abnormally opening jaws with teeth bared. The rest of them run down some flights decks and meet Naren and co. A couple of them run away on their own, too terrified to listen to anything. The rest move to a section where they can close a door on the incoming. The door gets beaten savagely and then a hole is smashed in the upper section. The infected fight among themselves to get in through that narrow hole. None of them seems to have the brains left to open the latch by putting an arm in. Despite the twisted, ferociously hungry snarl on their faces and the snapping of his teeth, their eyes are totally empty. No flicker of awareness, no trace of self-knowledge. Someone beats at the heads and arms to no effect. The people inside recognize some of the infected and call out to no avail. Get away or I will shoot. No effect. Another burst of sten gun proves futile, they move out of view only to come back again. I have got no extra magazine. I dropped the other one outside. Best course is to move.

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Where is Sonu, my son. What the hell is going on? What are these..things? Naren talks to the bridge and is informed that he has been told to and that he does not know where Naren’s son might be. What am I to do? I do not know how to swim. Some of the men have jumped into the water.  Naren makes a call to his boss. It is news to his boss. What the fuck. Saala 22 crore ka ship hai.

You stop this ship Naren. Let me call and see what is happening. Shouts, questions all around, as people try to understand what the hell is happening. The Japanese draws their attention to the man who was bitten. Shafi! What? I am all right. Oh my god! Look at his pupils. His pupils are dilated. And then Shafi he vomits blood and starts whimpering and shaking. The Japanese holler for Shafi to be killed or at least bound. Pari gets distressed at all this commotion. One other guy who tries his best to hide it is found out to be bitten too. He is also asked to sit tight at gun point and is trussed up. Somebody shouts at the cameraman to stop recording. Japanese keeps on screaming: he will want to take a bite out of us! He will want to take a bite out of us! One of the bitten guy’s confused and distressed mate manhandles the camera and the recording eventually stops.  Here we will have to fill in the gaps with footage from the TV news reports of the incident where the government spokesman is evasive and there is no mention of the virus. And also some amateur footage from somewhere HAZMAT suited men can be seen boarding a helicopter.  The camera comes back on. Of the two trussed up men, one shows no symptoms of infection.  The owner of the ship calls back. He is deflated now. Someone will be calling you in couple.  Another call comes. Mr Naren? A sick patient was taken from the ship. That patient had attacked and bitten a doctor in hospital. Tests have shown that the patient has a highly contagious virus which is previously unknown. So everybody must get away of the ship now. On being told by Naren of the situation, that they are stuck, Naren is asked to stand by.  There is every chance that these people are infected. You are damn right they are. Send some artillery. Mr Naren, this virus makes people aggressive and blood thirsty. So in order to prevent the chance of an outbreak, even in the hospital, the patient, the doctor, everybody who has come in contact with that patient is being isolated until more is known about the virus. Same goes for this ship. There is a specialized team on the way but it would take time. In the mean time you all are advised to keep away from these infected people. Assemble on the upper deck.

But please let no one try to leave the ship and approach the beach. As soon as the special team arrives you will be taken off the ship. And by that time we could be infected ourselves. That is what I am saying Mr Naren. We cannot let anyone off the ship until things are in place. Until we ourselves know what is happening. Who are you? Let me talk to your superior. Mr Naren, I understand your situation but this is the protocol. It’s coming from the very top. DO NOT TRY TO GET OFF THE SHIP. The man on the other side finally ends the disagreement by snapping the call. Fuck! Naren dials the number of his man at the bridge. It goes unanswered. What? PANIC ALL AROUND ! Didn’t I tell you fuckers not to open that section! It is not dying I am afraid of, it is being eaten alive: Varsha interprets the Japanese.  The TV producer thinks he can wiggle his way out by dropping names. We are the media damnit!

You can’t quarantine the media!! Naren and Varsha seem to be the most level headed or rather less freaked out than the others.

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Shafi’s infection has spread and really wants to take a bite out of the others. Good thing that he is bound. Azim tries to reason and nearly gets bitten. The other guy still shows no symptoms and pleads all and sundry to free him. Shafi tries to spit at them. The other infected break a door and come to the last door between them. We see at least a couple familiar faces among them. They are called out futilely again. Naren moots that if they went on like this they’d get trapped. We are at the AFT of the ship, the backside. We must move to the front, to the passenger area.  They are at the lowest level right now , they must find a way to reach the top deck or maybe they can escape by breaking through portholes. They are balconies at some of the upper rooms.

But the way up is through the infected!  May be someone needs to engage them, take them away so that the others can escape. No one speaks. A couple of dissenting voices which Naren angrily shoots down. The Japanese get the drift. Watashi wa sore o okonaimasu. He says. I will do it. And he states it politely as if he is asking for a favor. Only then the others start to summon their Cojones. The Japanese again states, again politely that since he knows the infected a little bit better, So he should lure the infected away. Where did he say he was from, again? Someone asks, now with genuine interest.

What’s his name? SATO. I will go with him. Varsha comes forward. There is a heated argument between her and cameraman and Varsha at this. They appear to be a couple.  Naren dials the number of his man at the bridge. It goes unanswered. Others are making use of their phones then they go down. The plan is for Sato to attract the infected and the rest to slip away. .  We are always aware of the Ship’s various motions.  Sato enters an Airduct, Varsha follows. Sato does his best to attract the infected. Finally he succeeds. The infected stray from the barred door. Sato is a bit more adventurous than Varsha would like. The bitten but unaffected man keeps beseeching anyone who pays attention to free him.  On the other side, the rest slip away one by one. Naren is the last to go after the cameraman, but before that he releases that yet unaffected bitten man but warns him not to follow them.

He is on his own. But it takes too much of his time and closes his window to flee.  Now Sato has Varsha and himself trapped. Varsha calls for help. Naren is spotted by an infected foreigner who comes in between him and his daughter and the rest. Please take care of my daughter! Naren begs the cameraman. Please take care of Versha! The reporters demands in return and before Pari can protest, Naren picks up the magazine, goes back in the room they came out from. The infected bloke right on his heels.

Sato and Varsha are almost done for. Naren arrives just in time with a Sten Gun ready. Click Click! Nothing. Naren fumbles with the Gun and this time it fires. There is no way they can now follow the others. Naren tells the screaming Pari to go with others and promises to meet them later. Naren again demands from the cameraman to protect his daughter.

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But Sato has been hit. By a Sten gun round. Fuck! This is the first time I ever fired a weapon. The infected are even more frenzied than before. The door they are now behind will not be able to hold them long. They are back into the engine room area spot the infected spotting them.

Backing away, they get into what must be a huge air-conditioning plant. With catwalks and most importantly a way out at the top. It is difficult dragging Sato. He is almost a dead weight and has gone silent. Varsha gets to the escape hatch and urges Naren to hurry and records Naren struggle with Sato, shoot one with the remaining burst, kick the two others from the catwalk and before they came back again they manage to escape. Here there are over the water line and can see the light on the shore a way away. They open another door but Varsha has to quickly put on the breaks. An infected standing right in front of her moves with his jaw OPEN, but is only a fraction late as the door shuts down on IT. Now Naren lets out his frustration. They are in some sort of room full of switches.  The other group moves. Cameraman tries to keep Pari close.But Par prefers Azim. Many of the passages are barred. Some of them do not have a thoroughfare. At each obstruction the panic of the mass rises. They reach the backstage of some sort of a theatre. Azim stops. Pushes Pari away. The camera spots and focuses on him. You go. He shows signs of infection. Saale Shafi ka thook mere munh mein ghus gaya tha. Saala main bhi rakshah ban ne wala hoon. GO! The other move through the isle between the seats. But now it does not look like anybody is that keen on looking after Pari. And she knows it. At the door, the cameraman stops, checks if the door is sturdy and then stops to SEE Azim. It takes a minute or so but he transforms. The camera man beats it, after locking the door. The others are already gone. That is scary for him.  But scarier for Pari. We see her trying to talk to her father as if her mere recording it would somehow make her father see it. But she is soon found by the camera man. My father left me.

Yes child but he only left so that he could scare those things away so that they may not come after you. You really think so? On the other hand he really liked those guys and wanted to make friends with them. NOOOO! He wants to protect you kiddo. That is what fathers are for. Do you have a ..Are you some kid’s father too? No But I will be. You know Varsha, the reporter? She is going to be their mother, you like her? But isn’t she your boss? Only in the office, At home, I am the boss. Come on. This is not the time to be sentimental. Is it? No. They move on. Where are the rest of them? They went that way. They follow. They turn a corner and find themselves in a long gallery with stairs at the end of it. And the cameraman spots his producer at the bottom of the stairs, going up. Wait up Sir. The producer stops and walks towards them. They are already half way before they realize that it might not be very healthy if the allowed the producer to get to them. The reporter freezes. Pari pulls him into the nearest door, just in time. We hear that dreadful howl again. They are in a room. And they may have cornered themselves. May be not.

There is that connecting door to another room? But locked. The producer isn’t going to be long in coming. The light goes out just as soon as the doors go. Both. Both the cameraman and Pari go hyper decibel.

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The camera light is switched on and we see the cameraman straining to hold the door against the onslaught of his producer. The lights come back on. Now they really have put themselves into a corner. It’s a bathroom. Stand over here. Pari stands by the door. Another push is repulsed. The cameraman steps aside the door and the door bursts open with the producer flying into the room with the momentum. Both of them are out in a flash into the corridor and to the stairs. The snarling producer is not too far behind. Go Go Go. Half way up the stairs the cameraman delivers a kick at the producers’ face Go Go Go. I really wanted to do that once in my life but was afraid that he’d kill me. (In case we there is some cinematic trick, we can also have the ship gradually lean over its side and get the interior geometry all wrong for the fleeing men woman and child)  They are in a passenger area. Azim emits a dreadful howl behind them. Pari shoots ahead of the Cameraman then slides to a desperate halt and falls. We do not see it first. There are a couple of Indian infected up ahead. Rathod Uncle! Jai Uncle! But Rathod and Jai uncle have those predatory looks on their faces. She shouts again. There! May be a spot of confusion on them, but only for a second. The Cameraman hides her behind him and hollers at Azim and two uncles closing in on them. It might have spooked a wild animal but not these. There is a SOUND! Of the elevator they are standing with their back on opens and they fall inside the lift. The door takes eons to close but no one appears. What just happened!  Sato lies panting. Naren is by the door listening. Varsha fiddles with the switches. One of the row of buttons say: Elevator L1A, L1B and so on. Hope it has activated the lifts. That energizes Naren. He gets at the buttons. There is a small lift. That I had seen, the kind that carries goods instead of people! Dumbwaiter? Yeah . There a button marked DW 1,2,3,4 etc. Naren’s hand reaches for them. Lights go off. I didn’t do anything. In the darkness we hear the spluttering of the engines before they die down.  Saala ab kya ho gaya. Mr. Bhagwan, Aisa mat na karo. Cameraman laments.  Emergency lights come up. Bach Gaye! Varsha says. Its only emergency light. Batteries would not have charged much in this time. Won’t be long before they get emptied out again,  In the lift: the emergency light blinks. But the lift does not work. You are a very brave girl. You know that? Mujhe bada darr lag raha hai, Pari answers.  He is saying that if those things came nearhim or if we wanted to leave him, he wants us to promise him that we’d kill him first. Naren starts to mouth something but Sato snaps at him and repeats his demand. Naren finally nods. Sato bows his head in gratitude. Varsha hands him a pen and he takes out his picture with his wife and kid and scrawls something in Japanese and a number at the back and hands it to Naren. A tear drops from his eye. He is overcome by emotion and he says something in distress and is annoyed with himself immediately after.

Naren guesses that the workers who had gone into the ship to pilfer may have been infected.

And are likely to be all over the ship. He is worried about his daughter. He asks Varsha what kind of man the reporter guy is? Well he is OK. He asked me to look after you. I can take care of myself. Will he look after my daughter….he will.

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Phones start to ring. Both Naren and Varsha’s. Naren: Pari?, Varsha: Sandy? In answer both of them hear a lot of voices. And then ONE COLD AUTHORITARIAN VOICE Shouts until all the other voices die down. It is some government guy named PATWARDHAN.  Pari chimes in for his father” I am in the lift! It just stopped. ANOTHER VOICE: I am alive. I am the one who was bitten. I am still alive. What is your name? Rajkumar! Rajkumar!! Rajkumar, Are you in a position to come to the deck or jump into the sea. I suppose so. Do that. That is all I can do.  Listen carefully: I am Patwardhan. This transmission is going to all the phones in this ship. We have connected to seven phones. As per our estimate there were 54 people on the ship including the crew of the ship. That means there may be 47 infected people on the ship. Varsha interjects to tell P that there are at least 9 people who are not infected considering Sato and Sandy do not have a phone. OK 9 people, 45 infected. 5 people on the bridge and deck have been rescued including a child. Now tell us your positions. Varsha deducts from Patwardhan’s talk that they may be planning to scuttle the ship. Patwardhan does not admit it in so many words but it appears to be so as he states that the only team capable of handling such a situation is having its hands full tackling the situation at the Hospital. So the people still uninfected on the ship are on their own. More or less. The problem which is forcing their hand, P states is that due to lack of steering, the ship is in danger of crashing and infected people cannot be allowed to get off the ship on land. Naren and Varsha convince Patwardhan to wait for them to try to restart the engines and make in on the deck. Patwardhan’s non negotiable condition is that they must steer the ship from the engine room and gives them the heading they should steer the ship to, away from the coast. The ship, under no circumstance can be allowed near the coast.. They can now talk to each other on a sort of open system on their phones. Naren talks to the 5 phones and gets their positions and plots them on the layout that is pasted on the wall: Sandy and Pari are stuck in a lift. Rajkumar is in an Airduct. The rest, except the medical attendant are all known to Naren. Naren the rest to stay where they are until the power is restored but engages Rajkumar who is nearest to them to work with him.  NOTE: Even at full service power are all switches on. There is only intermittent lighting in the ship. May be due to the fixtures not working. That is why there are places that are brightly lit and many which are completely dark.  Rajkumar is a fearful type . He wants to stay put where he is. No amount of coaxing on Naren’s part is able to budge him from there. I heard what sahib said. You save me. The others listening in give him some tongue lashing. But he is too afraid. Sandy wants to talk to Varsha. Varsha, if we got out of here alive..will you marry me? Sandy, this is not the time and place to ask that.

Naren breaks in to ask her to say yes. Don’t lower the guy’s spirits. My daughter is with him. Lie if you have to. If we got out of here alive. Yes I will marry you.

How can you be so calm? Me calm? You know I fell into a when I was a kid, That was the most terrified I have been. It is way way more terrifying than that. But I have to be strong. My daughter is in danger. I cannot afford to be afraid.

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Varsha soundlessly opens the aft side door, while Naren is poised to shut it. They have also made a jugad of a blocker which may stop the door from opening too far wide. The emergency lights have started flickering. There is nothing outside in the air-conditioning plant. Door blocker is removed and Naren steps outside. Varsha watches him tip toe, get down the metal stairs.

There is a SOUND and Naren rushes to reach the comparative safety of the switch room. But then stops and looks sheepishly at Varsha and the Japanese behind her. The sound must have been something else. There is still nothing. He goes back and is at the engine room.  Varsha closes the door. We show all nine of the people at their places. Rajkumar is in an air Duct. Pari and Sandy are in a lift. Hiren Bhai is in some sort of storage area, empty. Khwaja and Avi have barricaded themselves. Parmar , the tenth man is mobile. He doesn’t look a worker. He is a Customs man. He stops to listen and then speaks in Gujrati. Koi Hai? Hello?? A beat and there is the sound of footsteps. Then a number of infected arrive in there at scary speed, There is a frantic chase for a minute or so between Parmar and his fan following. In the end Parmar manages to come out of it unscathed but totally terrified. Now Parmar watches them from the crawlspace over their heads in the corridor. Some other sound attracts them and they vanish.

The ship starts to hum with the vibrations of engine.  In the engine room, blood is everywhere. Naren follows the exact procedure to start the engine less than perfectly but manages to start it eventually. It is the engine noise that had attracted the things away from Parmar. Naren has to keep his cool as they try to hurl themselves through the glass in the door in order to steer the ship. He does a bit of experiment. As soon as he is out of sight, their fury subsides. He shows himself again and there they go again. They are attracted by sight…and by sound I think. Do you have anything there which can make sounds elsewhere so that they get away from here?  Let me see. Varsha tries a few buttons. Nothing happens. Not even the buttons she had tried before. You must be doing something wrong. She does the same thing again. Still nothing. Naren in his stressed out state lashes out at her. “Tum orton mein buddhi hoti bhi hai ki nahin” and loses her by his remark. Varsha is no less stressed out herself and she lashes back. The others listening in have a ringside hear of their to and fro. Sandy also jumps into the fray. Takes Varsha’s side but has to contend with Pari. But soon everyone realizes that it is not the time and place. Naren apologises. Hiren Bhai suggests that she reset the master power switch, as once power goes down, the power feed must has switched automatically to minimal power, in order to bring it back to full service mode. Naren lets Hiren to guide Varsha and we are back to full power.  The ship has been brought to the ordered coordinates. Patwardhan seeks out Naren and asks him about the person who did not show any infection after being bitten. Are you sure about that? Rajkumar vouches for himself. Someone comes in and asks some pointed questions about his state and position (he does not where he is). Naren and Varsha are quick to cotton on. What about us? There is a little kid in here. Is this the right thing? Patwardhan erupts under all this and more. Do you know what I am going through? You think I like this. Do you know that from this ship, a single infected person was taken to the hospital? And within hours. All of them have become infected. Old Young, doctors, nurses. And all the armed police that was sent. Them too.

All the specialists we have are trying to contain the situation at the hospital. There are Special Forces coming from Mumbai but that will take 2 hours and going by what we have seen at the hospital, you cannot last two hours. We are holed up right now. We can stay where we are. You tell them!

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You are all scattered. Patwardhan asks the other scientist sounding person. Who explains in a grave voice that the infected people do not live for long after being infected. But just before they are rendered inactive they get very dangerous. Just one infected person out in the open can infect a whole city. Imagine what a city can do. We have to take all the precautions as we can for the greater good. I am sure, if you are a responsible person. You would have done the same in our place. Why couldn’t have been people ready for these kind of emergencies. What good is government of they cannot protect the people? Mr Naren, this is not the place for a TV debate. Please tell us if you know the location of this Rajkumar. Cut the bullshit. What is to become of us? We are sending 4 commandos inside right now. Their only outlook is to recover Rajkumar. If any of you are able to get out from there and reach them. Patwardhan stops the scientist person’s protests midway. If you are able to join them, they will take you with them.

But they will not look for you. That is all that can be done.  At the uppermost deck, three Navy commandos look up just as a rope ladder is pulled up towards a helicopter thundering off screen. A fourth joins them. We can see a coast guard vessel on one side. They are all decked up in body armor and breathing apparatus over their balaclava covered faces. Only their mouths are uncovered. We are going in Captain. OK the target is in the plant area in the aft. Hiding in an air duct. Wait. We are patching you with him, Alt channel.  Naren talks to his daughter. Don’t worry my darling. I will be soon with you. OK. In the meanwhile do as…the call disconnects. Hello? He looks out through the glass and on cue, one of the crew smashes into it with such force that the reinforced glass cracks. Now he is terrified.

Versha, who, moment before was taking Naren on, is now all at sea. And then Naren remembers something. There should be a funnel entrance somewhere in the engine room.  Navy guys enter.  Varsha pushes a flip switch and it activates a siren within the ship.  Naren opens the funnel opening and we see various pipes going up. He gets on the ladder he goes one level up, opens a hatch and finds a safety door. He opens it cautiously. There is a banging sound somewhere.  MARCOS climbs down the deck. OK now do that again after two seconds. We are switching comm. Off for a sec. Bang Bang. Comm on. Yes we hear you. There is another bang. Then it does not stop. OK we hear you. It’s not me who is doing this. It is them fuckers. Are you safe? Can you stay there? No. We hear him scrambling and also the sounds the infected make. There is a quick looking at each other and they descend another level in formation, covering each other stopping every time to hear the sounds. There is a sound behind them. They are quick to react to it but not quick enough as one of the infected jumps on the MARCOS in the rear. The attack is vicious.

The breathing mask goes and the infected, a crewman, swamps it. The Commando leaves his Tavor and reaches for the side arm as his Commander shouts commands. Shots ring and just as the infected had appeared it vanishes. Shots are fired at it. It came so fast Sir. I couldn’t. Don’t worry about it are you hurt. No I don’t think so. But that thing will die. I put at least 2 in his gut.

The Commander relays the info to base that the things are fast. We put two rounds into one of them but there is only minute blood discharge. Acknowledged. Proceed with the mission.

Rajkumar? All they can hear is silence and some sounds of movement. Rajkumar? The base responds to tell that the connection with Rajkumar is down. The phone is switched off. We will get him back, if and when. Find him.

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Naren is out in a corridor when hears the banging and muffled shouts. He ducks into a state room. His feet are bare. It has an attached room with a separate exit. He picks up a heavy brass item in the room and throws it opposite to where he intends to go and gets back inside, closing the door silently. It is another matter that the door does not have a functioning lock. He holds his breath and hears the footsteps scramble away in the direction of the sound. He opens the door slowly and finds one infected right at it, facing away. Naren gets out of sight and freezes and waits for an assault. A faint scream. He recognizes the voice instantly and doesn’t move a hair. He looks out again. It is clear now. But now his direction is reversed.  Pari and Sandy are held up in the lift. Pari . No amount of button pushing activates it. Only the door works. As soon as the door opens. We hear the sounds of running feet coming. In the 7-8 seconds it takes to close the door, a couple of infected overshoot their target. Pari screams.

Only a fraction of second gap between them returning and attacking and the door closing saves them. Sandy kicks one of them away and loses a shoe in the process. The door closes. Pari hollers as the door gets dented.  Marcos hear the screams. We hear a girl screaming. Advise. Negative. You are to find that damn Rajkumar and get out. But it seems to be a little girl Sir. A kid!  We have to get out Pari. No I won’t go. I stay. I will stay here for Dad to come.  OK we have Raj Kumar back on. What happened? I was attacked. I had to shut the phone.

Where are you? I don’t know. Don’t ask me to make a bang again sahib. Did you hear a girl screaming? No but I heard something metal striking metal. That is where they have gone. OK. Marcos had heard it too. Lets go. What about the girl… Sorry Sir. They spot a spiral stair case.

The Three start getting down into the darkness. The man in the rear stay up which is spotted only when the rest are quite a way down. Thapa? THAPA?? Rawat! The commander motions the second last to go back up. We have already seen what changes come to the infected. Rawat sees them for the first time. Thapa? Comes closer. Before anything, Thapa attacks Rawat and both come down the stair case in a heap. Fuck! What the hell Rawat. Both stay where they fall.

Rawat’s neck seems to be broken. One Marcos starts to check Thapa but the Commander pulls him back. Thapa attacks them. There is a lot of commotion by the Commander manages to get him in a choke hold and has to work overtime to keep it as Thapa thrashes violently, even though the commander is much larger than Thapa. Open the door. Open that door. It is quite a production but both of them manage to throw Thapa into the room and close it after him. And no sooner three four infected appear on the other end of narrow corridor and make a dash for them. Both quickly switch to auto and let go with their assault rifles. Even then the momentum of one, takes it to strike the commander. The firing does not stop till the magazines go empty.

Thapa threatens to break the door down. As they move to go up. They spot another one on the top of stairs. It is only that the magazines are not in place that Naren escapes from being shot at.

I am Naren. I am Naren. Don’t shoot. Look behind you. One of the infected they had just shot is right behind them. A burst at him. UP! UP! UP! They get out and Naren closes the door behind them. They get into a room.

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We need backup. Thapa, Rawat are gone….Bullet are not effective on these fuckers. And I may be infected. We do not even know the position of our target. Out target does not know his position. Advise. Are you sure about your infection. No. You have nine lives Lieutenant. You infect others. A wry smile. Lieutenant it is of UTMOST importance that we recover the target.

You understand that? Yes I do. I can get you to Rajkumar. I know where he must be. Who is that? He is..Naren! A Civilian. I can get you to Rajkumar. But I need you to promise me that you’d help me get to my daughter. She is not far from here. You need to understand Mr Naren that what is at stake here may be much more important than the life of a single…Please. At least give me a gun. Commander talks in some strange language which one pays attention is just speaking every words backards. Meh ibh iksi pleh Sir. OK but first Rajkumar. Thanks. Now activate our phones……Wait a second.  Phones come back on. Khawaja? Khwaja? Khawaja?? Naren calls first. Pari. Papa. Varsha Sandy.

Get me out of here. I am in the store. I am Hiren Bhai. Please somebody get me out of here. I am not even married yet. Khawaja? Avtar? Not a kook. Beta I will be with you soon. I know where you are. Please come soon. You fucking left Varsha. Sandy He left me to start the engine. I am all right here. Things like that go on. Naren asks every body to get out from there hidey holes.

Remove the shoes. Not make any noise and not let them see you.  Naren takes the Marcos back to where he had heard the bangs. The crawl space above the corridor. He is in there. Please help me. Come down fast. But the Mesh separates them and it is screwed shut. Get back. We are going the blast it open. Wait. Commander goes to guard one end where the corridor turns. Now. Marcos plunges pencil detonators into the plastic explosives. He and Naren take cover. BANG. Push it down. It’s hot. Push it bastard. The infected appear on Commander’s end who aims at their heads. But it is less than perfect score. Hurry Hurry. The guy manages to jump down. Marco and the rescued guy run towards an exit. Spot two infected aiming at them at top speed. They change direction for another door. Marco pushes the rescued man through the door and follows. He manages to reach the outward opening door just before but the force of the rushing infected slams the door shuts on his finger as he dives. ,slicing them. He gives a roar of pain but then nothing, just a knotted face and clenched jaws. Outside, the infected take a moment to recover from the smashing they took when they had slammed themselves to the steel door.  Commander stops firing, drops a grenade and runs for it as he is almost overwhelmed. Bang! He pauses to see the damage but backs away when he sees that they are still coming after a pause.

He backs away to the rest. We are surrounded. Back Back! Into the airduct. Naren steps on his up turned hands and pulls himself into the duct. Commander tries to take Naren’s hands but he is too late. His time seems to be up. But then there is firing from the other Marco. Commander ducks under one infected and manages to grab Naren’s hand and is pulled up. Still there is no respite. The infected enter the duct. Commander and Naren crawl away. The infected are clumsy in the duct. Commander pulls another grenade but then it slips out if his hands as he springs to throw it back but skitters ahead of them. FUCK! We are dead! Naren crawls towards the grenade and throws it ahead of them. One bounce. Two bounces and then it explodes.

There is a brief ball of fire and concussion and then the duct collapses. Naren and Commander slide down and are out. Right in front of the opening Marcos and the rescued went in. The infected are not too far away. Commander gets in. Naren: I have to get to the switch room. And moves away as Commander shouts for him to come back.

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Marcos quickly sprays the fingers or what is left of it. OK. We have got the target. Let’s see if we can get to your kid. And then we are out of here. We don’t have much time. The howls that the infected make are reverberating.  Commander talks to base. We have got the target. Rajkumar. Naren: Er there is one problem. it is not Rajkumar. Its Parmar. What do you mean we have got the wrong man? That fellow’s name is Parmar. He is from Customs. He wasn’t in contact with us. He must have been hiding there.

Commander keeps his face impassive and only shakes his head. We have got the wrong man.

They are now stuck in this area. Commander tells base that these things are over whelming. Not easy to kill. They are too fast. More force is required and there is only one and a half Marcos remaining. Any more information on what we are up against? All that I am told is that about six months back, a similar thing happened at Boston Airport in America, But all information was suppressed. Our top level people are asking their top level people to tell us what they had learned. Don’t know what that is going to be, if it is going to come. We need more force.

Lieutenant Listen carefully. Even though the Americans haven’t told us anything. But they have advised us to not at all take a chance and blow this ship out. Not just blow it. Blow it with enough firepower that generates enough heat to incinerate every living virus inside. It is not a question if but when. I leave it up to you what you want to do. But I can’t send in any help. We are stuck in here anyway. We might as well try one last time for Raj Kumar. How much of a warning can you give me on the Blowup? 10 minutes. Fifteen. They will ask us to move out of the danger zone. OK.  Naren evades the infected and gets into the funnel. He contacts Commander and wants to talk to someone he knows. Who has encyclopedic knowledge about ships electricals. Why is that?

There are lifts in this ship but they have been disabled. If there is any way they can be restarted.

May be there is hope for some of us. It will…I will also help you to get out Raj Kumar. Give me the number. Naren talks to Sandy. Sandy don’t go out of the lift. See if there is a safety exit at the top. There is a fan up there. I can’t not make noise of I try to break it open. I will take care of your daughter. But please get Varsha out. I promise I will get her out. I am going to her right now. Pari? I love you. Do what Sandy says OK. Promise me. I promise.  Commander calls him. Your call. Don’t tell him anything OK? Hello? Mota Bhai Pranam. Mota Bhai I am in this ship. You are in Kandla? What is happening there? There are hundreds of police here on the shore. Where are you? Please listen to me Mota Bhai. I do not have time. Its electrical and control systems are by Grummon. Lifts are by Globus. We have activated full service power. Still the lifts are not working. And I need to get them started. It’s a matter of…its very urgent. Is there any way that can be done? The lift doors open but the lift does not move The fuses. In the switch room. That may be the only reason. You see in a cruise there are many things that use power. So before starting they may have pulled out the fuses. OK. Bye. I am going to the switch room.

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OK Raj Kumar. If you want to live. You have to tell us where you are so that we can come and get you. If you don’t, We will have no option but to leave you where you are. I told you I am in this fucking duct. You have to make some noise. No I won’t. It attracts them. Listen. Make some noise and we will start making even more noise than you that will attract them to us not you.

You sure about that? There is only one way to know. Listen, I know you are afraid. And it’s all right to be afraid. But Not too afraid. You get too afraid and you die…OK I am going to make some noise. Bang Bang somewhere away is followed by A burst of fire from the automatic followed by more banging on the doors of the area Marcos are in. The force on the steel door is so much now that they shudder with every blow. The bang had come from the other side on the same level.  Naren gets down in the semi dark funnel and spot some one coming up. He points the gun at him and pulls the trigger and recognizes the party at the same time and swings his arm away. It is RAJKUMAR. Rajkumar loses his hold and plummets down but only to a wire mesh platform some feet below. You all right? Where did you come from? Rajkumar is totally disoriented. But still manages to scream. Naren looks up and finds one infected climbing down holding a FAT WIRE. FACE DOWN. Naren very quickly jumps down a hatch taking Rajkumar with him. They fall down one level. Into the engine room. He manages to close the entry before any damage befell them. There is no way out of the funnel. They are up there. They are everywhere. I fell out of the airduct. Naren threatens cajoles him to calm down. There is a very LOUD BANG. He talks to Varsha. Just then, the sound of heavy machine gun fire rakes the hull of the ship not far from where he is.  I have got Rajkumar. I hav…what the hell is this? (FIRING)  You got him. Gre…..what the….Just a minute. He switches channels. Commander talks to base.

The sound of heavy machine gun fire raking the hull of the ship below where they are. The situation? Base? What is the situation? Base what is the situation? More firing is heard. The situation base? Standby…Commander, we are seeing people escaping from the ship and swimming away. They are most likely to be infected as we are still in contact with the ones we know…what? Stand by……..Bala, We have just been asked to clear the area within 15 minutes.

You know what that means. My advice to you is to get out. NOW! We have got the target. We have got Rajkumar. Tell them to delay. Bala it is way over my head. It is way over the head of the Admiral even. GET OUT NOW FOR GOD”S SAKE!  The next 15 minutes charts a last ditch effort from the survivors to find the way to get out alive

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