"I have a request. " I asked the producer of the film. I had already sold them my copyright so I held no power in this regard but maybe he can respect my talent?
"What type of request? "
"I want to give my brother a role in the film. He is talented." I tried to request him to accept my brother who was handsome, but maybe I am jealous.
"I will leave that to the director. But since you are the screenwriter, I will try to persuade him to give and audition to your brother. " The producer said. We discussed the script and then I left the building.
At home:
"Oh hey big bro, you are back. " Akash greeted me as I entered our apartment. He was busy enjoying noodles while I was negotiating with a producer to give him a role.
Things you have to do as a big brother.
"Did your script get selected? " He asked, with hope in his eyes. He seemed more hopeful than me. "They will consider it. It's most probably a yes. I spoke a few words about you and asked them to cast you as one of the main leads. "
He jumped in joy. And in doing so spilled all the noodles. An awkward silence followed. "I will clean this up. You can go and get some rest. You must be pretty tired from all the producer finding process. I will make you some chai(tea) when you wake up. " He said with some nervousness in his voice.
I sighed and just headed straight towards the bed.
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I woke up feeling a headache. The world was spinning and there were those yellow rings everywhere. I tried to get up but ended up falling back on the bed. I didn't get up after that. It was the laziness getting to me after nights of staying awake, typing and finalising a script. Damn, have to pay respect to those screewriters. It's so taxing.
I managed to get a hold of my Nokia 5800 Xpress and when I opened it, there were a ton of notifications. Missed calls and unread messages.
Most of them were from Suman and Akash. There were two additional calls. From my father. He finally remembered us after all those years. He didn't call us when we ran from home to pursue our dreams.
I ignored his messages and looked at the ones from my producer.
Turns out, my script got selected. But they have to finetune it more but they will still include my name in the credits.
Atleast that's a way to start. The cast has not been decided but it is expected to begin after a month. Suman would put in a good word for my brother so hopefully he gets the role.
From pre-production to post production to release, it will take atleast five- six months(unless you are Akshay Kumar). Until then, I had to think of a way to make some money and some fame. I can't afford to wait for five months.
But the question is, how to do that?
I don't want to sit and make a script again until someone tells me to. Don't want to take part time jobs. I do have some money which I will get from selling my script. Maybe a short film? And then post it on a social media application to gain some followers and ad-money?
That sounds like a plan.
With that motivation, I forced myself to get up and go to the kitchen to make some chai before sitting in front of my computer to do some work.