Exercise: Whose story is it?
Cast of characters
Avinash: 30 yrs old, business executive, hardworking. Married, with a two-year-old son.
Tara: Avinash’s wife, 28; ex-journalist now a full time home maker and mother.
Roopak: 24-yr-old law college dropout, wannabe song writer.
Dhruv : Avinash and Tara’s son
Set up
Avinash and Tara’s marriage has been in trouble for a few months. He’s doing well, but working very hard and keeps late hours, returns home dead tired. She feels neglected and misses the closeness and romance of the first six months of their marriage ( before she became pregnant). She meets Roopak at the park where she takes her son every evening. They become friendly. He is adrift in life and is looking for someone to tell him what to do. She wants attention and praise. They fall in love. One weekend, Avinash returns unexpectedly from a business trip to find that his wife has gone away for two days with her boyfriend, leaving the child in the care of her aunt ( who doesn’t know what’s going on).
Choose any one of the three main characters and write a scene from that character’s POV. Use either first person or third person narration.
20 minutes.
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