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Photoreal cinematic still, 16:9, 1970s Hindi-film photochemical grade, fine grain, no text. REFERENCE LOCK Image 1 = JAI only. Long angular face, deep-set eyes, black hair, grey prisoner cap with black band and small white button, faded blue-grey jail kurta with “15” on the chest pocket, matching shorts, bare feet. Keep this exact face and costume. Image 2 = VEERU only. Warmer face, thick brows, dark wavy hair, grey prisoner cap with black band, faded blue-grey jail kurta with “20” on the chest pocket, matching shorts, bare feet. Keep this exact face and costume. Image 3 = CELL. Black iron-bar door, padlock hasp, damp blue-grey plaster walls, red brick pillars, two wooden slat cots, tin mug and bucket on the concrete floor. Use this room. Image 4 = RESTRAINT. Heavy antique rusted iron shackles: two thick D-shaped cuffs joined by a short dark chain. Not modern police handcuffs. SHOT Medium shot from just outside the cell, looking in through the open face of the black bars. Camera is in the corridor. The two men stand inside the cell, pressed to the gate, each holding a vertical bar with their free outer hand. BLOCKING Jai camera-left. Veeru camera-right. Shoulder to shoulder behind the bars. Jai’s LEFT wrist is locked to Veeru’s RIGHT wrist. The short iron chain hangs between those inner wrists, resting against a bar. Jai’s RIGHT hand grips a bar on the left side of frame. Veeru’s LEFT hand grips a bar on the right side of frame. Both men look FORWARD, past camera, out into the corridor — not at the lens, not at each other. Eyes slightly off-axis, as if watching the guard walk away. Jai: reserved, dry, almost still, jaw set. Veeru: a faint private almost-smile, the joke already forming, but mouth closed. BACKGROUND Inside the cell behind them: the two wooden cots, stained plaster, bucket on the floor, courtyard light cutting through the bars and laying stripes across their kurtas. Numbers 15 and 20 must stay readable. LIGHT Hard courtyard shaft through the bars, dust in the beam, deep shadow in the cell, rust and skin pores sharp, faded Eastmancolor. NEGATIVE Do not look into the camera. Do not swap the men. Jai = 15, left. Veeru = 20, right. Do not cuff the outer wrists. No modern chrome cuffs, no extra prisoners, no logos, no labels, no watermark, no subtitles.

Photoreal cinematic still, 16:9, 1970s Hindi-film photochemical grade, fine grain, no text. REFERENCE LOCK Image 1 = JAI only. Long angular face, deep-set eyes, black hair, grey prisoner cap with black band and small white button, faded blue-grey jail kurta with “15” on the chest pocket, matching shorts, bare feet. Keep this exact face and costume. Image 2 = VEERU only. Warmer face, thick brows, dark wavy hair, grey prisoner cap with black band, faded blue-grey jail kurta with “20” on the chest pocket, matching shorts, bare feet. Keep this exact face and costume. Image 3 = CELL. Black iron-bar door, padlock hasp, damp blue-grey plaster walls, red brick pillars, two wooden slat cots, tin mug and bucket on the concrete floor. Use this room. Image 4 = RESTRAINT. Heavy antique rusted iron shackles: two thick D-shaped cuffs joined by a short dark chain. Not modern police handcuffs. SHOT Medium shot from just outside the cell, looking in through the open face of the black bars. Camera is in the corridor. The two men stand inside the cell, pressed to the gate, each holding a vertical bar with their free outer hand. BLOCKING Jai camera-left. Veeru camera-right. Shoulder to shoulder behind the bars. Jai’s LEFT wrist is locked to Veeru’s RIGHT wrist. The short iron chain hangs between those inner wrists, resting against a bar. Jai’s RIGHT hand grips a bar on the left side of frame. Veeru’s LEFT hand grips a bar on the right side of frame. Both men look FORWARD, past camera, out into the corridor — not at the lens, not at each other. Eyes slightly off-axis, as if watching the guard walk away. Jai: reserved, dry, almost still, jaw set. Veeru: a faint private almost-smile, the joke already forming, but mouth closed. BACKGROUND Inside the cell behind them: the two wooden cots, stained plaster, bucket on the floor, courtyard light cutting through the bars and laying stripes across their kurtas. Numbers 15 and 20 must stay readable. LIGHT Hard courtyard shaft through the bars, dust in the beam, deep shadow in the cell, rust and skin pores sharp, faded Eastmancolor. NEGATIVE Do not look into the camera. Do not swap the men. Jai = 15, left. Veeru = 20, right. Do not cuff the outer wrists. No modern chrome cuffs, no extra prisoners, no logos, no labels, no watermark, no subtitles.