A TV Show Called Earth

The whole country was in riot. There was chaos everywhere buses burning, shops were broken down, people running for their lives. Men in white are the one causing all this with weapons in their hands.

There was a nationwide curfew announced.cops floods the streets and tries to maintain peace.

people watching all this from their home were panicked about what was going to happen.

reporters and cameramen of various news channels all around the country were covering the event live for their channels. Every news channel broadcasts,"one face","one name",the one who is behind all this "KALKI".

She was one of the most notorious rogue gangster ever lived in the country,who has burned people alive in streets,killed more than hundreds,has a powerful political influence.she stood in the election as a prime minister candidate.when she was giving her political fake promises to the people,she was shot down.which is why the whole nation is under the brink of chaos.

AFTER FEW WEEKS LATER

Shruthi works in the editorial team in THE POSTMAN,a news printing media.she was editing her story in the weekly magazine titled as "KALKI THE END OF PROPHECY".

She picks up the phone,calls to her home.when there was no answer she kept calling for fifteen times.she begins to panic.at the sixteenth a voice heard through the phone.she yells at the voice for not picking up the first time.

After the yelling stops,the voice says,"sorry da kanna,i didn't hear the calling coming in...i think i am losing my hearing aid..and also my knee pain is killing me,so it takes some time for me to walk from one place to another..

Shruthi closes her eyes tightly and says "sorry mom".

Sumathi,"it's my fault..i will be more careful next time,did u eat something?"

Shruthi,"mom really sorry didn't mean to..."

Sumathi,"stop pleading,i am you mom"

Shruthi,"how is she?"

Sumathi,"doctor just left"

Shruthi,"did he say anything?"

Sumathi,"there is a slight improvement and now she may be able to hear us more now..and he asks us to play something in tv she likes and he asks not to stop taking to her..he also thinks that,the talking  caused her improvement and is the only way to bring her back".

Sumathi could hear Shruthi crying through the phone..

Sumathi,"you can speak now..she can hear you"

Shruthi,"ammu..ammu..love you da..amma will be back home soon..i will get all your favourite books while coming and will read it together,ok?"

and then she starts crying and puts the receiver down.

she picks up the photo frame from her table,looks at the picture of her with her daughter and her husband and starts to cry hard with memories starts to flood over her,from the day her busband who then was a stranger who saved her from a suicide attempt,to him propsing her at the rehabilitation facility,to them getting married,to them celebrating her pregnancy,to him being with her through all the struggles,to them caring their first child,till the car accident who took her husband away from her and made her daughter to fall in coma..all she could remember was her husband smiling at her with blood all over him.and then there was BANG..BANG...BANG..

someone knocks on the door.she places the photo back and wipes her eyes and starts to type looking at the screen.

Shruthi,"come in"

a man in her late teens enters in and looks at her with silence..she doesn't even look at him..there is a silence in the cabin except the tying sound of the keys.he closes the door back...

Robin places a box in the table.she keeps typing looking at the screen.he opens the box.

harry potter theme music plays from the box with the mechanical notes rotating with the lever rotating with it..she stops typing,but didn't turn to look at it..but stares at the screen with teardrops rolling down her cheeks..it was the same musical box that her daughter had and loved,before it broken down to pieces in the accident...

Robin,"I know everything can't be replaced..but something..a little change can make a difference.."

she keeps staring at the screen wiping her tears..

Robin,"moving on doesn't mean forgetting Shruthi..play it to ammu..the music can wake her up..".

He turns back towards the door.

robin, "Chief editor asks to remind you that you have two days to finish up the story"

he opens the door, walks out, closes out.

After the music stops. She rotates the lever and plays it again...

When she returns home from work.she freshens up,eats dinner with her mom,massages her mom's leg with oil and makes her lie in bed,and takes all the books that she bought and the music box that robin gave and walks into ammu's room..

she looks at her daughter being strapped to machines which reminds she is alive..

She takes a book lying beside her and starts to narrate the story.as narrating she would laugh,cry,emotes herself.after the narration is done,she keeps aside the book and switches on the tv playing her daughters favourite cartoon and she sleeps with her.

Sumathi wakes her up.Shruthi kisses her daughter's forehead and walks to switch off the tv.as she was about to turn off,she stops and sits in the bed and increases the volume..

She looks at the TV without even blinking.she picks up her phone and asks robin to pick her up in 30 minutes.

when she gets in the car thinking about something without speaking a word..

robin,"how ammu is doing?..what did the doctor say?".

Shruthi keeps looking outside the window.

robin,"Shruthi,i am really sorry about yesterday..i didn't mean to enter into your privacy...".

Shruthi interrupts him..

Shruthi,"have you seen the cartoon "A TV SHOW CALLED EARTH""

robin feeling confused..

Shruthi,"have you seen it rob?"

robin,"no..but my children used to see it"

Shruthi,"can you sit and watch with me all the episodes that aired until now"

robin,'what is it about?"

Shruthi,"i think the show predicts the future"

robin,"the what?"

She takes him to her cabin and plays on her laptop the  episode that was aired today..

Shruthi,"what do  you think about it?"

robin,"i think it is a fantasy series about kings,queen and monsters with the theme of the game chess"

Shruthi,"take a deeper look into the episode"

he looks into it again..

robin,"i am confused right now"

Shruthi,"this show is the exact replica of what happened to kalki"

Robin stays silent.

Shruthi,"look in the series the evil women is assassinated,here kalki is assassinated and they both look the same except animated,evil women who was assasinated is about to be the next queen of that world..,the people and animals and things are burnt in the tv series and chaos in here too..the evil queen is killed by another evil king in the series and here too"

robin,"we don't know yet who killed kalki?"

Shruthi,"we all know,but we dared to speak his name"

robin,"it may a coincidence"

Shruthi opens her drawer and takes out a letter without a name and gives it to him..

Shruthi,"it was sent to me anonymously,it says everything that happened in the world happened and still happening,has  happened in the tv series but 25 years before it happened in the real world.

robin keeps reading the letter..

Shruthi,"the letter explains all the episodes that aired which resembled the real life events"

robin,"this is all bullshit..it can't be"

Shruthi,"let's find out"

Shruthi and Robin start watching the tv show,day and night asking for an excuse to the editor of the newspaper telling him that they are working on a new story right now which is gonna shake out the foundation of the country..

After watching every episode that everything written on the letter was exactly true..there are more than 20 events from terrorist attack at a school,rocket failure,government surveillance over the people's privacy,fire accident at a chemical factory leading to the death of kumudi village wiping out everyone and many more..

robin,"please don't take it up Shruthi..i think it feels dangerous.."

Shruthi,"it is not my first job"

robin,"you shouldn't risk everything..especially ammu.."

Shruthi,"stop it rob before you say anything...i need to show people the truth.."

Shruthi was best in the department of investigative journalism.she has done many political murder cases undercover without her being exposed, also covered the massacre of the ullan tribe people.she also has many illegal contacts where she could get the information in secret and also has some influence over hackers.

Shruthi investigates the writers to every person who was behind the creation of the stories of each episode. She hacked into their profiles, their computers,their personal life and everything. But it all led to a dead end..

She feels that she is now stuck into a limbo of stories which only leads her further into the labyrinth.

she goes to her home..lays beside her daughter and hugs her tightly. She then opens the musical box and plays it..

as it was playing her mother walked in..

Sumathi,"a women asks me to give this to you'

Shruthi,"who is she?"

Sumathi,"i dont know"

Shruthi,"how did she look?"

Sumathi,"her face was full of scars, cuts, and stitches marks"

Shruthi opens the letter..it reads..

"you are near them..they know it..don't fall into their trap...we all are puppets..puppet are means to be controlled..and not to think on their own..we don't have free will...free will is a myth...this is the new world order..they are watching us...WATCHING YOU..THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU.."

music stops.. there is a touch of her daughters finger over her hand...there is a BANG on the door..