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Video starts exactly on <Image 1>: Jai (left, tall) and Veeru (right) in khaki guard tunics and side caps in the moonlit prison yard, torches on the walls behind, breath fogging, Veeru's left hand holding a small nickel whistle at the bottom right of frame. Jai's face 100% match <Image 2>, Veeru's face 100% match <Image 3>, no drift. One continuous 8s shot, no cuts, real-time, no slow motion. Camera on a steadicam at chest height retreating ahead of them at exactly their walking pace, 3.5 km/h, with a real 2-3mm operator sway. 0-8s: they walk toward camera. Not a march, not a strut — two men trying to walk like guards while chained at the wrist and terrified of being noticed. Their inside arms, Veeru's right and Jai's left, hang stiff and locked together, swinging as one dead unit; their outside arms swing normally, which makes the walk subtly wrong. Every third step they drift out of sync by a few centimetres and the chain catches — both men check, correct, and fall back into step without looking at each other. Weight shifts hip to hip, boots scuff on packed earth, tunics crease, caps sit slightly off. Jai: eyes front, jaw tight, breathing slow and controlled through the nose, one hard swallow at 2s, a bead of sweat at the temple despite the cold, his eyes flick once toward the guard line far off-screen right at 5s and snap back. Veeru: breathing faster, chest rising visibly, lips pressed, eyes moving — left, right, ahead — a man counting steps, his free left hand tightening on the whistle, at 6s he glances at Jai for half a second and Jai does not glance back. Behind them the yard: torches guttering in the wind, breath fog drifting, dust lifting at their boots, moon shadows walking ahead of them across the earth. Real human gait under stress — small errors, corrections, uneven breath, no gliding, no posing, no swagger. Pore-level skin, catch-lights alive in all four eyes, sweat, breath vapour, khaki weave creasing with every step, brass buttons catching torch light irregularly. Audio diegetic only: four boots on packed earth slightly out of sync then correcting, one muffled chain clink at 3s and again at 6s, fabric rustle, two men breathing at different rates, wind across the yard, torches crackling, distant crickets, a far-off horse snort, low vintage tape hiss. Authentic 1970s Hindi cinema restored film print matching <Image 1>: khaki muted olive under moonlight, night blues cool and desaturated, torch orange warm, green-tinted stone and red brick muted, warm tan skin, lifted blacks, soft halation on torch flames and cap edges, fine constant grain, no modern grade. 16:9. LOCKS: starts on <Image 1> exact. Faces match sheets 100%, no swap. Inside arms locked as one, outside arms free. Whistle stays in Veeru's left hand, never blown in this shot. Camera retreats at their pace, never cuts. Ends on the same two-shot, still walking, closer to camera.