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DURATION: 10 seconds. ONE CONTINUOUS SHOT. No cuts. REFERENCE MAP <IMAGE 1> is the FIRST FRAME. Open on this exact extreme close-up: two blue-grey jail kurtas, iron cuffs mid-lock, guard hands on the right. Left chest is 15. Right chest is 20. Do not restage this opening. <IMAGE 2> is JAI identity only. Face, hair, cap with white button, kurta number 15. He is the man on the LEFT of @Image1. <IMAGE 3> is VEERU identity only. Face, hair, cap, kurta number 20. He is the man on the RIGHT of @Image1. <IMAGE 4> is the GUARD identity and khaki colonial uniform only. <IMAGE 5> is the cell at eye level: black iron-bar door, padlock, plaster walls, brick pillar, two wooden cots, bucket. Use this for the pull-back. <IMAGE 6> is the cell plan only. Gate on one side, cots on the side walls. Use for geography. Do not cut to a top shot. <IMAGE 7> is the restraint only. Heavy antique rusted D-cuffs, short dark chain. Not modern chrome cuffs. CONTINUITY Faces from the sheets. Opening composition from @Image1. Room from @Image5. Cuffs from @Image7. Jai = 15, camera-left. Veeru = 20, camera-right. Do not swap them. All three start INSIDE the cell. Guard is on the gate side of the cluster. CHARACTER Jai: reserved, dry, still, the watcher. He barely moves. Veeru: warm, impulsive, the one who turns the cuff into a joke. The line is his. CAMERA One move only. Starts locked on the @Image1 ECU. Then a slow pull-back and slight tilt-up that lands outside the cell, looking IN through the closed black bars, on a medium two-shot of Jai and Veeru. No handheld. No cut. No orbit. No aerial. TIMELINE 0.0–2.0s Hold @Image1. Guard’s hands finish the lock on the center wrists. Sharp iron SNAP. Chain drops between Jai’s wrist and Veeru’s wrist. No faces yet. 2.0–4.5s Camera begins the slow pull-back. Guard releases the cuff, turns toward the gate, steps out of the cell. He swings the black iron door shut. Padlock CLACK. Jai and Veeru are now seen from the chest up, still inside, standing just behind the bars. Guard’s back is to camera as he moves. 4.5–6.5s Guard walks off-screen to camera-right. Boots on concrete, fading. Camera finishes the pull-back and holds the two-shot through the closed bars. Jai left, Veeru right, chain visible between them. Both looking out, not at lens. 6.5–8.0s Guard is gone. Half-beat of silence. Veeru looks DOWN at the cuffs and the short chain. Tiny tug. Then he turns his head to Jai. 8.0–10.0s Veeru looking at Jai, not at camera, sarcastic, dry, almost smiling: "Romantic." Jai’s eyes cut to him, still dry, mouth closed, the smallest flicker. Hold that look through the bars to the last frame. AUDIO 0–2s: iron SNAP, close. 2–6.5s: chain rattle, iron gate, padlock click, boots walking off right. 6.5–8s: quiet stone-cell room tone. 8–10s: Veeru only, low, sarcastic — "Romantic." No music. No crowd. No other line. No voiceover. NEGATIVE Do not use original film actors’ faces. Do not leave the guard in frame after 6.5s. Do not let Veeru speak before he has looked at the cuffs. Do not give Jai the line. No modern cuffs, no extra prisoners, no logos, no subtitles, no aerial cut.