'A Child like Me'

Scene 1

A clock placed on a table beside the bed is shown on the screen. Camera also shows some of the other things present in the room that are quite artistic. There are a lot of paintings on the walls of the room. Almost all of them are landscape paintings. There are also some Assistive Devices (including costly Wheelchair, Crutch) present in the room. While the camera shows all of these, the clock strikes 4 (am/pm) with the minute hand of the clock at exact 12 (minute). 

Scene 2

Karan, 17, is sitting on a Joystick wheelchair near a bench in a garden. He is sketching the landscape view in front of him on a drawing sheet. He starts observing the frontal view of the garden and tries to portray it on a sketch pad.  Someone passes by him from behind with his gaze fixed at what Karan is doing and then takes a position standing behind Karan watching him paint. [This person is not shown on the camera. There is just the camera angle (a shot of this person capturing him/her watching Karan paint)]. While he is painting, he suddenly turns around/back reacting as if someone called him from behind. Shaking his head in response, he reaches for his bag kept on the bench near him. He keeps aside his drawing pad/book aside with a color pencil on it and starts packing all the colors in his bag. In the hurried moment he leaves his drawing pad/book on the bench itself by mistake and starts to leave. Going a little ahead, he is joined by a lady (Karan's sister) of around 24 age.

Scene 3

The following day, when Karan comes to the garden, he sees that the drawing pad/book with the color pencil kept over it is still there as it is (someone watches him from behind just like the previous day). As he takes the drawing pad and turns it over, he sees that the incomplete sketch of his landscape from the previous day has been completed by someone. Surprised, Karan looks around him but finds no one.  In a quick/sudden move, he takes out his painting kit and paints the landscape. But this time he sketches an outline of a small garden in the landscape and leaves it uncolored. He leaves his drawing/painting kit along with colors on the bench (this time consciously) and departs.  

Scene 4

A small passage of time.

A Baisakhi (crutch) is placed on one of the sides of the same bench. ‘Faraz’, of 15 years, sits on the bench, picks the drawing book and completes the sketch left by Karan, filing it with appropriate colors. [ Faraz is also watched by someone, from the same distance and position, from behind]. After a point, that person starts moving towards Faraz. On reaching a distance, the person looks at the drawing sheet and discovers a rough sketch of children playing in the park and a boy, sitting at a distance from those children, sketching them. Faraz looks here and there, something and in that moment, he turns around. When he turns around, his eyes meet someone and he becomes a little frightened. He suddenly stands up and prepares to leave. As he is about to leave, he is stopped by that person who turns out to be Karan. Coming nearer to him, Karan gestures to Faraaz to stay and tells him to sit without any fear. He asks for the drawing book. Faraaz gives it to him with a feeling mixed with fear and question. He again prepares to leave. Karan tells him not to be afraid of anything and requests him to sit along with him comfortably. He sees the rough sketch made by Faraz with great attention. He then takes out his pencil and refines the sketch. He looks at Faraz. Faraz is smiling and looking a bit comfortable now. Karan takes out a new sheet and hands it over to Faraz. This marks the beginning of a friendship between them. Karan asks him to sketch a bench just opposite to them.  Faraz directly begins to draw and when he does so Karan interrupts him to tech how to roughly measure or get an idea about the dimensions of an object with the help of the pencil before sketching. Both talk and share laughs together between them. Karan sits on the bench of garden and Faraz experiences here for the first time on a joystick wheelchair, very shockingly.

Scene 5

Camera shows the Clock behind the bed in the similar way as in Scene 1, shows the walls of the room but this time there are no paintings on them unlike Scene 1. The clock strikes at 4.

Scene 6 

A small stall set up jointly by Karan and Faraz. A lot of paintings, sketches are put on display on strings of thread. Sitting on a small table with the Baisakhi (crutch) on his side, Faraz is dedicatedly & confidently sketching a portrait of someone sitting in front of him.

The End

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Written by

ⒸShubham Shukla