Chapter 1 :- THE DECCAN VALLEY HOME FOR THE LOVELIES
EXT. DECCAN VALLEY HOME FOR THE LOVELIES - MORNING
With the song 'Venkateshwara Suprabhatam ' playing on speaker, the oldies of Deccan valley woke up and marched towards the huge green lawn. Rukmini, Mary, Mumtaz and Janaki lead the group to the lawn. They stood in front of Dr. Simran, the 30 year old Homeopathic doctor and part time physician.
Dr. Simran greets the senior citizens crowd with a cute smile.
Dr. Simran
"Rukmini aunty! How are you ?"
Rukmini
"Good morning Simi!"
Dr. Simran orders the crowd to form four lines. Each line had Rukmini, Mary, Mumtaz and Janaki standing on the front respectively. The sit down on the green grass and meditate for few minutes with the music.
Dr. Simran gets up on her feet and asks others to get up. They start exercising with a little stretching followed by a brisk walk around the lawn.
After 30 minutes of exercise, at sharp 7am the milkman enters the old-age home premises by pushing the gate. He pushed his cycle toward the entrance. He rang the bell. Janaki, stopped running and walked towards the Milkman.
The milkman gave 3 litres of milk and a half little milk packet with something stuffed in it.
Janaki
"Address?"
The milkman
"Sabu's garage."
Janaki nods.
Janaki enters the home.
INT. DECCAN VALLEY HOME FOR THE LOVELIES - MORNING
Janaki walks into the kitchen. She opens the refrigerator and places the milk packets in the freezer. She then opens the vegetables box and keeps the half litre packet in it and hides it by placing onions over it.
Janaki walks back to the lawn.
EXT. DECCAN VALLEY HOME FOR THE LOVELIES - MORNING
Janaki joins the group for excercise.
Mary
"Psst.."
Janaki looks at her.
Mary (in a low voice)
"Package?"
Janaki nods.
Janaki
"Half kg."
Mumtaz from Janaki's left taps on her shoulder. Janaki turns to her.
Mumtaz (in a low voice)
"Where's the delivery?"
Janaki
"Sa..."
Dr. Simran see Janaki, Mumtaz and Mary talking.
Dr. Simran
"Janaki Aunty! What are you doing?"
Janaki (stammers)
"Act... actually....Mumtaz was asking the meaning of music."
Dr. Simran
"Mumtaz aunty...focus. Please."
Mumtaz nods.
They continue their excercise.
INT. DECCAN VALLEY HOME FOR THE LOVELIES
After their morning excercise, the oldies of Deccan valley sat around the long table for their morning breakfast.
Chef Ambooty, the 50 year old Chef who claims to have worked in Taj comes out of the kitchen carrying two huge tumbler. He is wearing a red sleeveless tshirt and green shorts that barely reached his knees.
Chef Ambooty keeps the tumbler on the table and goes back to bring bowls.
Rukmini leaps forward and check the tumbler.
Rukmini
"Rava."
Janaki (disgusted)
"Again?"
Rukmini nods.
Mary
"Wait. Let him come."
Chef Ambooty comes with the bowls. He is whistling a song.
Mary (pointing at the tumbler)
"What is it ?"
Chef Ambooty
"Tumbler. Don't you know what is it called? Aren't you a retired head mistress?"
Mary
"I asked...what is in it?"
Chef Ambooty
"Rava."
Mary
"What did we ate yesterday for breakfast?"
Chef Ambooty
"Rava idli."
Mary
"Dinner ?"
Chef Ambooty
"Rava dosa."
Mary
"And what is it now?"
Chef Ambooty
"Rava soup."
Mary grabs the tumbler and throws the soup on Ambooty's face.
Mary
"We want good food. And if you can't cook, get out of here."
Ambooty wipes the rava soup off his face using his tshirt.
Ambooty
"How dare you pour this soup on my face ! I'll complain about it to the management."
Mumtaz
"Hey Ambooty, if you complain about it to the management, I'll complain about harrasment to the police."
Mumtaz cont'd
"Let's see who takes quicker action."
Ambooty
"Look at yourself in the mirror. Do you think anyone would dare to harrase you?"
Mumtaz
"Let the police decide it."
Rukmini
"Yeah. Let them decide."
Chef Ambooty
"I'll quit. I don't want to work here anymore."
Janaki
"Please do. Atleast we can find a better chef."
Chef Ambooty (mocks)
"Better chef!! I won't quit."
Chef Ambooty (pointing at himself)
"I won't let you be free from this suffering anytime soon."
Mary
"Enough with your chit chat. Go and make breakfast for us. Make something that is not made from Rava."
Chef Ambooty grabs the other tumbler.
Chef Ambooty
"Anyone's gonna eat it ?"
Janaki
"No."
Chef Ambooty
"Okay."
Chef Ambooty walks back into the kitchen with that tumbler.
After almost an hour, Chef Ambooty comes up with his most unique breakfast -Rava Vada. He just added some more Rava to the Rava soup to get the perfect consistency to make the Vada batter and used it.
With the realisation that Chef Ambooty is never gonna change, the oldies of Deccan valley ate their breakfast.
After the breakfast, Janaki goes to the kitchen and picks up the packet she hid under the onions. She take it upstairs to her room.
INT. JANAKI'S ROOM
Janaki's room has four beds. Janaki, Rukmini, Mary and Mumtaz sleep in the same room.
Janaki is sitting on the bed with the door locked. She has spread a newspaper on the bed and kept the package over it. There is a butte knife kept beside the package.
Door knocks.
Janaki
"Who is it?"
Rukmini
"It's us."
Janaki gets up and opens the door. Rukmini, Mary and Mumtaz enters the room. Mumtaz locks the door. They all gather around the package.
Mary
"Is it coke?"
Mumtaz
"I think it's heroine."
Rukmini
"Open it."
Janaki uses the butter knife to open the package. She puts the powder in the newspaper. Janaki takes a pinch and tastes it.
Janaki (spits it out)
"Heroine."
Rukmini nods.
Mary
"We'll be late. Let's deliver it now."
Mumtaz nods.
Rukmini and Janaki uses four zip lock bags and distributes the heroine into four bags. Each one of them carries one bag in their purse.
ROAD
Dressed like aunties going for a wedding, Janaki, Rukmini, Mary and Mumtaz walks out from their oldage home carrying their purse with the package in it.
They walk together, talking to eachother and laughing.
INT. SABU'S GARAGE
Rukmini enters the garage. There's a kid sitting at the billing counter.
Rukmini
"Hey kid!"
Rukmini pulls his cheek. The kid pushes her hand away.
Rukmini
"Where is Sabu uncle?"
Sabu (from under a car)
"Who's this? What do you want?"
Rukmi looks at the car. Sabu pulls himself out from under the car.
Sabu gets up on his feet and wipes the grease off his arms using a towel which has already turned black.
Sabu
"What do you want?"
Rukmi
"I have half litre milk."
Sabu nods.
Sabu
"Follow me."
Sabu walks ahead. Rukmini, Mary, Mumtaz and Janaki follow him. They follow him to the back of the garage. There is a small office-like structure set-up behind the garage. Sabu takes them there.
INT. OFFICE LIKE SET-UP
Door opens. A dark room with the walls painted black.
Sabu sits on the chair.
Sabu
"Give me the package."
Janaki, Rukmi,Mary and Mumtaz take out the packages and give it to Sabu. Sabu weighs the package using the digital weighing scale kept under the table.
The scale shows 497.97gm.
Sabu nods.
Sabu
"Make sure you people don't waste any more of this. It's expensive. "
Rukmini nods.
Sabu opens the top drawer and takes out a bundle of 100 rupee notes.
Sabu
"Here's your more. 5000rs."
Rukmini takes the cash.
Rukmini
"Thanks."
Rukmini, Mary, Mumtaz and Janaki leave the garage.
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