An archive of my writings and a place for my writing experiments and projects.
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Khed
Sunday, 8 November 2026
Flop Show Season X
Vishkanya
Chooser
Ever since he had that spat with the producer of the movie, he had been feeling like the beggar he was playing in the story. The producer had fired him and taken another actor for the movie. It was a rags-to-riches story with a romantic angle. He was a method actor, and after signing the movie, he had lived with beggars on the streets of Mumbai for six months, though the producer's vision for his character differed, and that became the reason for the spat and his firing from the job.
He was in his apartment, feeling like the beggar he would have played in the movie if he hadn’t been fired. He was unable to shake off the character. In fact, he actually felt like a real beggar. He couldn’t go back to his real self. It had been six months since his firing, and he still felt like a beggar, thought like a beggar. He had been to therapy, too, telling the therapist that he couldn’t shake off the character, and the therapist had told him to give it time.
He had stopped going to parties and stopped calling his parents. He had been researching heavily on the internet. His approach to method acting was proving to be very costly. He was finding it difficult to be himself, to bring out his real personality. He was getting choked by the same character he was playing, the character that would have brought him fame.
Sheena was one of the producer’s assistants and used to remain on the set, briefing the producer about what happened on the set every day. She liked him from day one, and today she had come to meet him, finding him miserable. She was sitting on the sofa in the living room of his apartment.
“You must apologise to him,” she said.
“Why should I?” he said.
“He will destroy you,” Sheena said, with pathos on her face.
“What does this mean?”
“You should understand by now; it’s not called the film industry without any reason.”
Something within him fell into place. Sheena stayed for an hour, drank coffee, and left.
The producer had employed underworld saboteurs against him. The technology of consciousness manipulation through satellite control was being used with impunity by corporations, and the producer had given the underworld a job to destroy him. He was locked in the state of consciousness that he had inhabited during his method acting. His consciousness was locked, leaving him feeling terrible, and the goal was possibly to make him commit suicide.
He didn’t know the details, but he understood that he was going to be a beggar for the rest of his life. He wouldn’t get any more jobs, and even if he did, he wouldn’t be able to act. He looked out of the window. It was cold in Bombay today. He went to his bedroom, opened the cupboard, pulled out his blanket, and covered himself with it. He got out of his apartment and locked it. Half an hour later, he was found wearing his blanket, smoking chillam with beggars on a footpath in Mumbai.
Friday, 6 November 2026
भगवान
अभिलाषा
सूनापन
ढूंढ
दृष्टिहीनता
The Claw Machine | Chapter 1, Scene 2
The Claw Machine | Chapter 1, Scene 1
The Claw Machine | Prologue
Thursday, 5 November 2026
Platonic
Monday, 2 November 2026
Swarg
Sunday, 1 November 2026
Write Concepts: Dispatch From Gutter
Khed
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