Process Of Doing A Perfect Scene In A play : Not A Horror Story

It was raining cats and dogs and lightning at full throttle. Transportation of all kind were stopped by the government for the next twelve hours. An actor after completing his late night rehearsals, around at 1:10 am ,was heading towards his home. While walking down the street with the pace less than the speed of mice which were jumping in actor’s stomach due to starving, he was furiously looking for a place to eat but unable to find any place open at that time of night , so took out his mobile to order his dinner.

After walking down two miles with Tom and Jerry (Sorry but every joke will not be spoon-feed to you in this one, for some intelligent jokes and some horror you need to be more attentive , please.) , so while fighting with the weather and hunger, the actor saw a street vendor, who was selling "paranthas and sabji" (north Indian food) on his bicycle .

As the actor was starving, he ate there. While eating , and thinking about the role and complicated emotions which needs to be emote by him, next day in his next play, he started talking with the vendor. After some initial formal talking, the vendor started telling him all his encounters in life with the ghosts which were basically the typical stereotypical stories of ghosts which the the actor has ever listened to since his childhood . For example, As once when he was crossing the bridge which was “haunted” and the ghost become most powerful on a new moon night(off-course that night was also new moon night for more effect) and that bridge was the same which the actor has to cross on his way home. And while crossing the bridge the vendor saw a lady asking for the lift and whose feet were in reverse form and after few minutes it was following him on a bicycle till his home , etcetera, etcetera, etc. Blah, blah, blah, blah…So, After paying for the food and some took some ideas for some C-Grade masala horror movies , gives a glance at the clock which was showing time 1:40AM .

So, while looking for any inspirations for his character to emote the emotions in a true manner ,was heading towards home.

While keeping all these things in his mind ,the actor reaches home at ten minutes past two. and because of the rehearsals of the play, was very tired , went straight directly to bed and start the last episode of the web-series which he wanted to finish for the last three weeks.

The web series had a tragic end, so with the wetness in the eyes, the actor switch off the lights ,of the room, and just after laying down on the bed , he remembered to set the alarm for the next day, so picked up the alarm clock, saw that the time was exactly 3AM, and because of his love for the movies , instantly remembered that it is the time of devil(as taught by Horror Hollywood movies), and instantly a smile came on his face on his own thought. BUT on that very particular moment somebody knocked on the door and suddenly after a second, started banging it very heavily with continuously screaming out loud the name of the actor and yelling "khoon pi jaunga" (I WILL DRINK YOUR BLOOD).

Now the feeling of sadness and the wetness in the eyes due to tragic end of the web series overcome by the feeling of horror and the eyes wide open .

He asked from the bed in a very trembling voice about who was there but no one replied. Out of Fear he remembered all the gods name and in full sweat and with that horror plus tragic feeling , slowly went to the door and opened the gate while revising all the names of God of every religion( There is hundred percent Secularism in the Feelings), opened the door but to his surprise no one was there.

In absolute fear and sweat, as he was about to close the door, suddenly a shadow comes near to him with a voice shouting "YOUR ORDER SIR" . He suddenly remembered about ordering of food from the mobile while coming to home.

After two minutes when his heart rate, breathing, senses came on the right track he took the order and asked the delivery person why hasn’t he replied when the actor asked from his room and why did not he call and why screamed "khoon pi jaunga" continuously ?.

The delivery person replied that he was saying " kheer(RICE PUDDING) and pizza" , which the actor had ordered and might be, which in the sound of raining and lightning might reach to you as "khoon pi jaunga" when asked from inside the house. The delivery man said might be due to the noise of raining and lightning , he could not hear anything when asked from his room and got a network issue when tried to call .The actor took the order and said thanks to delivery person and shut the door.

To divert his mind, actor texted his friend and told all about it. The friend called him and spoke with the actor and after some regular talk for few minutes, advised him to sleep.

In the morning when the friend met the actor, and asked about the late night incident and if he is OK, the actor replied with a big smile that the inspiration he was looking for his next character for the last one month, got it through last night incident as he has to emote four different and extreme emotions( happy plus tragic plus horror plus fear) i.e. ""hatrorrfe"" simultaneously in a particular scene in his next play and now as he has lived that emotion , can recreate those emotions in the role, which will help convincing the audience with it .

Moral: Always cook your own food. best for mind, heart and soul(from a mother’s diary).