Story
This story is about a woman whose husband has gone for a Navy mission. The woman belongs to middle upper class and lives alone in a metropolitan city apartment. While the husband is away on the mission she waits, staring from the window at the hustle bustle of the city.
Meera is 29 and she has many yearnings like any other woman of her age. But now since her husband is not around she has given up all hopes for living. The wait becomes too long for her to handle. There is social pressure on her to start a new life which she is not ready for. She goes through mental conflicts and finally becomes so feeble that her decision making changes her course of life.
The story revolves around three phone calls, one from her husband saying he is leaving for the mission, other from the navy HQ saying his ship is missing and the search is going on and the last one from her mother who brutally tells her that there is no hope for her and she should start a new life looking ahead of him.
Also she dreams of going to her husband which gets completed with an abrupt end. This conflict is in her head, whether he will come back or not. What she feels is the reality was actually not there. She says she strongly believes that her husband will return but somewhere at the back of her head she knows that he won’t.
Cinematically the film runs in loops, a shot of her dancing under the fan repeats and the twist is revealed at the end when she is hanging from the same fan. Metaphorically the fan represents her life revolving at the same place at different paces.
After the call from her mother, Meera feels very scrawny and on receiving the letter from the Navy HQ, she decides not to open it. She senses it will be a bad news, so she gives up her life before knowing what’s in the letter.






Screenplay

We hear someone switch on the fan; black screen slowly fades out from the centre of the fan and the title of the film appears.
Cut to the digital clock showing date and time going very slow.
Cut to - A woman is standing at the window looking at the hustle bustle of the street which is losing color slowly and fading off.
Suddenly she gets a call, it’s her husband on the other side of the phone who tells her that he has been promoted as the chief of the naval operations and he is to leave for a mission to rescue the mother ship that has been hijacked by the pirates.
Cut to a top shot of the woman dancing under the fan and smiling at the camera. Camera zooms in the centre of the fan and flashbacks of her dancing merrily with her husband at the same place come into view.
Cut to the digital clock moving fast, the dates also change rapidly and the fan sound becomes louder.
The fan is suddenly switched off as the phone rings again. She hurriedly picks up the receiver. The call is from the Navy HQ, Mumbai who inform her that the ship that her husband was on, has been missing. The search orders are given and they are sending their men at the sea now. They appease her by saying there is nothing to worry and they will keep informing her as soon as they get any news.
Cut to the Top shot of the woman going round and round looking up at the camera. Slowly increasing her pace.
Dream-The woman is running on the surface of the sea towards a ship. Her husband is waving at her from the ship.
Suddenly she wakes up only to realize her husband is not beside her. She spreads her hands around on the other side of the bed and breaths harder. Slowly tears flow from her eyes.
The clock is beside her.(time lapse as the camera focuses on the clock). Then the camera zooms out to bring in frame the same scene. The woman is just staring at the fan, lying on the bed.
Cut to flash backs of their marriage and good times.
It fades back from the fan as she sits up and feels restless. She breaths hard and sobs and throws the pillow to the camera.
The woman is sitting on the sofa holding her head. She is sweating and is breathless. She gets up and her hand reaches the switch as puts it on and then she moves the regulator to increase the speed. Cut to the fan going faster. She feels little better as sits down again.
Cut to the phone ringing. This time it’s her mother on the other side who tells her that she should come back to her since she is all alone which makes the woman angry and yell at her. Her mom starts crying. The woman is silent then, just listening to her mother who tells her bluntly that until the government certifies that he is dead you will not understand and that there is no hope left for her. Suddenly the bell rings.
Cut to her feet walking towards the door.
Cut to the door. The door opens and she stretches out her hand to receive an envelope.
The camera focuses on the envelope which says it’s from the Navy department. It zooms out a bit and then cut to a still shot of the woman’s hands holding the letter and shivering.
Cut to a mid shot of her holding it and just blankly staring at it, eyes blood shot red.
Fade from the eyes to the black screen. We hear the fan sound going louder.
The scene opens up with the woman’s reflection on the glass window. The fan sound goes softer and we hear footsteps, and then door opens and the room light is switched on.
We see the woman hanging from the fan. She is dead. The room is silent. Everything is still, only the woman is rotating from the fan.
Slowly fades to the dream-The woman is running on the surface of the sea towards a ship. Her husband is waving at her from the ship. As she is nearing the ship she realizes he is saying no, don’t come here. She stops and the ship vanishes.
Black screen
The scene opens up with a long shot of the room and zooms in to the unopened letter lying on the floor beneath her.