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Video starts exactly on <Image 1>: Jai (left, tall) and Veeru (right) in khaki guard tunics and side caps standing shoulder to shoulder at attention in the torch-lit gate passage, facing the heavy timber door as it begins to open, cool night light in the gap. Jai's face 100% match <Image 2>, Veeru's face 100% match <Image 3>, no drift. One continuous 8s shot, no cuts, real-time. Camera locked in this close two-shot framing, 1-2mm handheld breath tremor only, no reframe. 0-2s: both stand rigid, eyes front, faces flat, breath fogging. Off-screen the door hinge groans slowly, the moonlight in the gap widening a little across their far cheeks. They wait. Veeru's jaw works once. 2-4s: Veeru's eyes slide sideways to Jai without his head moving. A beat. Jai's eyes slide down and sideways to meet them. Neither face changes yet. 4-6.5s: the corner of Veeru's mouth breaks first — a small helpless grin he tries to swallow and cannot. Jai's mouth stays flat but his eyes crease, one eyebrow lifts a millimeter, and a short silent breath of a laugh leaves his nose. Veeru's shoulders shake once. The chained inside arms twitch together. They are two boys who have just gotten away with it. 6.5-8s: both snap their eyes back front at the same instant, faces wiped flat, chins up, at attention again, the grin still leaking at Veeru's mouth corner, Jai's eyes still bright. The door light widens across them. Hold to the last frame. Real human faces, muscle-level, the laugh held down and escaping in pieces, nothing broad. Pore-level skin, catch-lights alive in all four eyes, real breath vapour, khaki weave creasing with the shoulder shake. Audio diegetic only: the slow groan of the timber door hinge, torch crackle, cold breathing, Jai's short nasal exhale, Veeru's suppressed snort, fabric shifting, a faint chain clink at 5s, distant crickets, low vintage tape hiss. Authentic 1970s Hindi cinema restored film print matching <Image 1>: khaki muted olive-tan under torch, night blues cool and desaturated, torch orange warm on the near sides, moon cool on the far sides, warm tan skin, lifted blacks, soft halation, fine constant grain, no modern grade. 16:9. LOCKS: starts on <Image 1> exact, holds framing. Faces match sheets 100%, no swap. Eyes meet at 3s, the shared laugh 4-6.5s, back to attention at 6.5s. Inside arms move only together. No dialogue. No cuts.