NOTICE: Did you guys remember Ishan, Celins's boyfriend. I changed his name to Ashiq as there is a chance of doubt between Ishan and Ivan.
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It has been seven days since Aiden woke up. He was in his hospital room with a laptop, looking at the differences between his Earth and the Earth of his past life. For the past seven days he was busy with treatment and people coming to visit, so he couldn't find an opportunity to look into this. He noticed that some countries in his current world have the same name of countries from his past life. But their shape and positions were different. Koling city was located in a country named Shillong, it was a medium sized country located on the upper hemisphere. It was a coastal country connected to the sea at its south and Southwest, Mountains at the northeast. When it came to languages, Some were the same as his past life but some were new and Shillong uses one such new language.
He was browsing about all those things when he heard a knock and the door.
"Come in."
The door opened and Ashiq's face appeared. When Celina visited Aiden earlier, Ashiq was not able to join her as he was out of the country for shooting.
"It's good to see you moving by yourself," he said.
"That makes two of us."
"Ha..Ha..Ha.." both of them laughed and continued talking.
"How's your work?"
"It's good, a lot better than 3 years ago."
"When are you going to direct your next movie?" Aiden asked after some time.
" I don't know. It's not easy for a new director to get a good script. If we want a good script we have to write on our own. 'Underdogs' was the best script I could come up with. I thought I would be able to fill its deficiencies in shooting but I was wrong. It might take some time for me to do another one but when I do, it's going to be a blockbuster. "
Aiden thought about the movie directed by Ishan 'Underdogs'. It was a gangster movie which was not able to break even at the box office. The movie did have good action scenes and a smooth flow but the script and characters were not well written and were unable to connect with the audience, along with the reason that the plot was dark, which led to the movie's fall.
"A new director's Movies failing at the box office means the same in all worlds" Aiden thought.
"Wait, aren't there some languages that are absent in this world? Maybe movies in that language might also be absent. If yes then I can write its story and give them to Ishan. If I invest in them, then I can also make a profit."
He opened his lap and searched some things. After two minutes he looked up and noticed that Ishan had moved closer to him and was looking at the laptop.
"What are you searching for?" Ashiq asked.
"Nothing. I have a story in mind, I can provide a detailed draft to you and if you like it, make a script out of it and direct it?"
"I could do that, but you have to know I am very careful about my next movie. If you have already written it then I can provide some pointers to you." Ishan said with great enthusiasm.
"No, it's still up here." Aiden said, pointing to his head. " Writing it down will take some time."
"Writing a story for a movie is not an easy task, especially a good one. There are many things that you need to keep in mind." Then he spent the next 1 hour explaining those things and when he finally left the time was past one. Aiden didn't invite him for lunch as he had already made plans with someone else.
When it was about two O clock, the door to Aiden's room opened and Athena appeared with two lunches.
"Sorry for making you wait."
"Don't be, Anyway, I wasn't feeling hungry."
"You are not hungry. Then do I have to eat alone?" she asked in a playful tone.
"Aah, I don't know why, but suddenly I feel so hungry that I could eat an elephant."
"Ha..ha.". Ariana laughed and handed the lunch to Aiden.
"How is the food?" She asked while eating.
"It's good. I feel that my taste buds have evolved after eating Lady Ariana's cooking. Nothing comes close to the food you cook."
" Really."
"Mm."
" Is it better than Aunt Maya's cooking?"
"Of course it is."
Ariana looked surprised by the sudden reply.
"Should you be saying that? Are you not afraid that I might say this to Aunt Maya?"
"Why should I be afraid to say the truth?"
While hiding the happiness brought by Aiden's words she said,
"Look at the sweet talker. You must have used this skill to rope in many girls."
" I wish I had. But no other girl had cooked for me."
"Stop it, if you talk anymore I am gonna punch you." She said even though she wanted to hear more.
Aiden saw her ears turning red.
"Look, your ear has become red. Are you feeling shy?"
Ariana punched him on his legs and said.
"Why should I be shy? My ears would become red for no special reason, I was born like that."
"Ha..ha .ha" seeing her reaction Aiden started to laugh.
"Why are you laughing, you idiot?" She said and started to punch Aiden.
"Hai, I have been meaning to ask you this for some time. Have you ever thought about converting your drawings into coloring books and selling them online?"
Ariana shook her head and said. "Is that possible?"
Aiden smiled, knowing that the lady in front has no idea about online publishing. He spent the next 10 minutes teaching her how to convert her drawings to digital art and how to publish them.
"Wow, there are actually things like that. I will tell Fidha to bring all my drawings here, you can do anything with it."
"Deal."
"Ok, now I have to leave for my part time job. See you tomorrow."
After Ariana left Aiden decided to purchase a new phone as his current phone was very old.
He called a nearby electronic store and ordered for a black Samsung galaxy S22 to be delivered. Shortly both the phone and the drawing books arrived. He took photos of all the related drawings by phone, transferred them to his laptop and classified them into different categories. He selected a category for the first book and started editing them.
By the time of dinner he edited pictures necessary for a single book. After dinner his thoughts changed to the movie. The main reason Aiden wanted to do this was not to help Ishan, it was for publicity and for funds. Even though he has a considerable amount of money in his account, he knew that it would not be enough to start a business. Before the incident his plan was to get a high paying job but after getting his past life's memories he found a good business idea to work on.
The first step while writing the movie was to find a language of his old world which is absent in his current world because he noticed that the shared language between both worlds had the same or similar movies.
His first option was Korean but he had no clear memory of the Korean movies he had seen. His other options were Malayalam and Tamil. He had seen a large number of movies in both these languages and also had a good memory of them. After considering various factors like market and budget he decided to go with a famous psychological horror-thriller