[Adite Banerjie]

Adite’s Phone Pitch

What I learned: you have to give the producer more than one reason to be excited about your project and/or working with you.

Write out your phone pitch along with answers to the questions.

1. Tell us which of the four strategies you are going to use to open your pitch:
• Lead with credibility. I’m Adite and I am a produced screenwriter.
• Lead with a great title. I have a supernatural thriller titled Yogini.
• Lead with a strong business hook. I’m Adite and my supernatural thriller concept Yogini would appeal to audiences who loved Kantara.
• Lead with a High Concept. Hi, I’m Adite and my script is about a young mother who is faced with a deadly dilemma: can she take the risk of killing her child in order to save him from a vengeful Yogini.

2. Give us your script for phone call pitches, like I did above.

Hi, I’m Adite and I’m a produced screenwriter. I have a supernatural thriller titled Yogini.

Imagine a forest ranger’s wife caught in a life-or-death struggle: to save her child from a vengeful Yogini, she must perform dangerous Tantrik rituals that could either save or doom her child. Will she risk everything for a chance at life?

3. Give us a one or two sentence answer to the questions a producer may ask:

• What’s the budget range? 15-20 million
• Who do you see in the main roles? I can see how Radhika Apte or Bhumi Pednekar would be ideal for the protagonist’s role.
• How many pages is the script? 100 pages
• Who else has seen this? I’m in the process of pitching it to production companies.
• Why do you think this fits our company? I loved the movie xxx that you made in this genre which had a wonderful balance of vfx and powerful story telling. My script has the unique combination of thrilling action scenes, powerful emotions and a rarely seen exploration of the Tantric practices of Yogini worship.

• How does the movie end? On the new moon night, the Yogini’s appearance coincides with a deadly poacher attack during which the ranger and his team are overpowered. The ranger’s wife must battle both the armed poachers and the Yogini’s wrath to save her child.

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Adite’s Pitch Fest Pitch

What I learned: Pitching a story is all about establishing your credibility and engaging the listener with a pithy version of your story.

1. Tell us your credibility.

I’m an author of six books and a produced screenwriter.

2. Tell us your genre and title.
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Title: Yogini

3. What is your one or two sentence hook?

As deadly armed poachers run amuck, a forest ranger’s wife confronts a vengeful Yogini. Can the Tantric rituals that killed her mother protect her baby?

4. Please give your one or two sentence answer to each of these questions:

• What is the budget range? 20 million

• What actors do you like for the lead roles? (Xyz, Indian actors)

• Give me the acts of the story.

Act 1: Devyani, a young mother, who is suffering from post-partum depression moves into an eerie decrepit house with her forest ranger husband Jeet and their baby in a remote forest. She is warned by a local villager that she should clear out before the new moon night or face the wrath of the Yogini on whose sacred grounds the house is built. Carcasses of dead animals, blood smeared Tantric symbols and weird goings-on cause Devyani immense trauma and she very nearly throttles her own child.

Act 2: Jeet is having a tough time hunting down poachers. His informer is killed and the villagers refuse to help him, as they believe that the Yogini is behind the informer’s death. Devyani is forced to tap into her own long forgotten Tantric skills even though she fears that her own life and that of her child is at extreme risk and they might end up dead like her mother who was a Tantric priestess.

• How does it end? (setup / payoff)

On the rainy new moon night Jeet has to leave them unprotected to fetch the doctor for their sick child. The poachers close in and the Yogini shows makes her fearsome appearance. Jeet is hurt in the showdown with the poachers and Devyani uses her Tantric skills to appease the Yogini who in turn becomes a saviour of her child and turns her wrath on the poachers.

• Credibility questions What have you done?

I recently sold the rights to one of my books to a production company.

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Adite’s Query Letter

What I learned: A query letter should have only the broad strokes of the story. The purpose is to hook them into reading the script.

Can a mother risk killing her child in order to save him?

Devyani, battling post-partum depression, moves into an eerie decrepit old house with her forest ranger husband Jeet in the forests of Simlipur. Even before they can settle in, she is warned by a local villager to clear out before the night of the new moon or face the wrath of the Yogini on whose sacred grounds the house is built.

The signs escalate. Carcasses of dead animals, blood smeared Tantrik symbols and a shape-shifting old woman cause even more trauma for Devyani and she nearly throttles her own baby.

Meanwhile, Jeet hunts down deadly poachers with his ragtag team of forest officers. When one of his tribal informers is found pinned to a tree with his own arrows, the villagers fear the Yogini’s wrath and refuse to help him.

On the rainy new moon night, when Jeet races to fetch a doctor for their sick child, the Yogini makes her appearance. Devyani taps into her long forgotten Tantric skills. As the poachers close in, she faces a life-and-death choice. The Tantric rituals had killed her mother but what if it’s the only way to save her baby? There is only one to know for sure – by doing them herself.

This is a supernatural thriller like (comp movie name) filled with high-stakes action, and the unique synergy of mysticism and motherhood.

If you would like to read the script, please contact Adite at:

BIO: Adite is a novelist and produced screenwriter. She recently sold the rights to her thriller (title) to a Mumbai based production company.

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Adite's High Concept/Elevator Pitch

What I learned: By using hooks I refined my original pitch. And I could rework the AI options and pare down my pitch to about 25 words.

1. To find your main hook, give us what is most unique about your lead character’s journey from a big picture perspective.

A forest ranger’s wife has to rely on her forgotten Tantric skills to save her child from a wrathful supernatural being even while battling gun-wielding poachers.

2. How can you tell it in the most interesting way possible?
• Dilemma – Tantric rituals killed her mother. But what if it’s the only thing that can save her child from a wrathful Yogini.
• Main Conflict – Trapped in a house built on sacred grounds, a mother has to save her child from gun wielding poachers outside and a vengeful Yogini who wants her family out.
• What’s at stake? – A mother has to rely on her long forgotten Tantric skills to save her baby from a shape-shifting Yogini even while battling gun-wielding poachers.
• Goal/Unique Opposition – How do you save your baby from the wrath of a vengeful Yogini while battling gun-wielding poachers?

3. Using the 10 Components of Marketability, what is your Elevator Pitch?

A forest ranger’s wife must save her child from a wrathful Yogini even as she is trapped in a house with gun wielding poachers outside.

4. After you answer questions 1 – 3, use AI to brainstorm other possible ways to generate a High Concept for your project.

I reworked some of the AI options and arrived at this:

As deadly armed poachers run amuck, a forest ranger’s wife confronts a vengeful Yogini. Can the Tantric rituals that killed her mother protect her baby?

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Adite's Synopsis Hooks

What I learned: Stick to the hooks to write the synopsis of your story.

Synopsis:

Sleep deprived Devyani is going through post-partum depression and desperately needs a break. She seems to catch it when her fresh-off-training forest ranger husband Jeet is posted to picture-perfect Simlipur.

But they are in for a shock. The house that has been allotted to them is old and decrepit. Even before they can settle in, a creepy old woman warns her to clear out before the night of the new moon or face the wrath of the Yogini on whose sacred grounds the house is built.

Carcasses of dead animals, blood smeared Tantrik symbols in the sink hole and an old woman who shape shifts into a boar cause even more mental stress for Devyani. In the throes of a nightmare she almost throttles her own baby who is saved by Jeet.

Is this another manifestation of the Yogini’s wrath? Or can she tap into her long forgotten Tantric skills which she learned from her Tantric priestess mother who was falsely accused of having sacrificed and drunk the blood of a human child for one of her rituals.
Meanwhile, Jeet is thrown into the deep end when he finds that his ragtag team of forest officers has neither the skills nor the weapons needed to deal with poachers who are causing mayhem. When one of his tribal informers is found pinned to a tree with his own arrows, the villagers fear the Yogini’s wrath and refuse to help Jeet track down the poachers.

On the rainy night of the New Moon, Jeet faces a dilemma – fetch a doctor for their sick child and leave Devyani and the child unprotected from poachers?

As she prepares for the Yogini to show up, Devyani is caught between two powerful antagonistic forces. On one side are gun-wielding poachers who will kill her baby and on the other, there is a wrathful Yogini who will destroy her and her child. Tantric rituals killed her mother. But what if it’s the only thing that can save her child? There is only one to know for sure – by doing them herself.

This is a supernatural thriller like (comp movie name) filled with high-stakes action, and the unique synergy of mysticism and motherhood.

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Adite's 10 Most Interesting Things

What I learned: by pulling out the most interesting bits, I could actually see how they can be further improved.

A. What is most unique about your villain and hero?

Protagonist – A young mother suffering from post-partum depression who had as a child learnt the dark arts from her Tantric mother.

Villain 1 – Yogini (a supernatural being) A shape shifter who can adopt the form of any living/dead being. Reversal – she is a protector and guardian rather than a predator.

Villain 2 – Dr. Rana – who hides behind the façade of a healer but is the real predator who has links with poachers.

Major hook of opening scene:

A child watches her mother perform a Tantric ritual.

Turning points:

Arrival at the decrepit house set in a beautiful location. Only to discover that the house is set on a Yogini’s grounds. The Old woman’s warning before she turns into a boar. Bloody chicken heads on the veranda, tantric symbols in the sink hole.

Devyani’s nightmare causes her to nearly throttle her own baby.

Shambhu’s death (pinned to a tree by his own arrows) causes the villagers to stop supporting Jeet’s anti-poacher campaign.

On new moon’s night Yogini reveals herself in her full shapeshifting goddess/boar form. This leads Devyani to figure out what the Yogini wants.

Emotional dilemma?
For Devyani – Tantric rituals killed her mother and it could now kill her child. But what if it’s the only thing that can save her child?

Major Twists

The Yogini turns into a protector.

Character betrayals

Dr. Rana is the one who has been helping the poachers.

Any big surprises?

Yogini shape-shifts into Devyani’s deceased mother and helps Devyani to find closure.

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Adite Producer/Manager

What I learned: Producers need to be hooked with why investing in this project would make business sense to them. Managers have to be presented with reasons why they should invest in me as a writer.

1. How will you present yourself and your project to the producer?

Yogini is a supernatural thriller that is not simply an action film with supernatural elements but packs a powerful emotional punch. It’s about a mother who fights an internal and external battle to save her infant child. It would appeal to audiences who are looking for (comparable movie)-like stories. An A-list actor like XYZ would love to play a protagonist who revives her inner Tantric priestess and fights off predatory poachers to save her child. I have presented some intriguing aspects of the extremely secretive world of Tantrics in a visually exciting way in this script. VFX and never-seen-before locations in north-east India would add to the overall visual appeal, while keeping the budget to about roughly Rs xx million.

2. How will you present yourself to a manager

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I am comfortable with words and visuals. For this script I have done extensive research on the cult of Yoginis and have presented some never seen before aspects of this extremely secretive world in a visually exciting way. The mix of an environmental theme, thrilling action scenes and powerful emotions would appeal to the modern audience even while exploring supernatural beings such as Yoginis. I am happy to make necessary changes to make the script stronger. Apart from this script I also have two others – a mature rom-com and a Bollywood musical romantic drama.

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Adite’s Marketable Components

What I learned: Instead of focusing on too many components, one should pick a couple that are likely to make the story attractive to producers and show how your story can fulfill them.

Pick one or two components and tell us how your script already fulfills them AND how you might highlight these two in order to elevate the pitch.

1. Tell us your current logline.
When a forest ranger moves into a decrepit old house that is set on sacred grounds, his wife is forced to harness her long forgotten Tantric skills to confront the wrath of a powerful supernatural being (Yogini) even as their child is targeted by ruthless poachers.

2. Look through the 10 Components of Marketability and pick one or two that have the most potential for selling this script.
• A. Unique
• B. Great Title
• C. True.
• D. Timely — connected to some major trend or event. –
• E. It’s a first. – about Tantric practices
• F. Ultimate – Saving her child not just from poachers but from a supernatural being.
• G. Wide audience appeal. – there is a great deal of interest in supernatural stories and traditional folklore following the success of movies like Kantara.
• H. Adapted from a popular book.
• I. Similarity to a box-office success. – It is similar to a huge hit in a similar genre.
• J. A great role for a bankable actor. – the lead role would appeal to several lead actresses.

2. Do a quick brainstorm session about ways to elevate those two components for this script and tell us how you might pitch the script through the two components.

Have decided to focus on 2 components – F and I

A mother with an infant child is trapped in a house that is built on sacred grounds. She is caught between two powerful antagonistic forces. On one side are gun-wielding poachers who will kill her baby and on the other there is a wrathful supernatural being who will destroy her and her child unless they move out of the being’s sacred grounds.
The mother’s arc is that she goes from one who disowns her Tantric powers to one who learns how to use them to protect her baby.
The story is a supernatural thriller like Kantara and is filled with high-stakes action, and the unique synergy of mysticism and motherhood.

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Adite’s Project and Market

“What I learned today is… The key is to make your story attractive to the producer. So the pitch has to be tailored to meet his/her needs.

1. Give us your Genre, Title, and Concept.

Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Title: Yogini
Concept: When a forest ranger moves into a decrepit old house that is set on sacred grounds, his wife is forced to harness her long forgotten Tantric skills to confront the wrath of a powerful supernatural being (Yogini) even as their child is targeted by ruthless poachers.

2. In one or two sentences, tell us what you think is most attractive about your story.

The story is relevant to our age – that we all have inner strengths that we can harness to bring about a balance in the world. It blends together high stakes action, appealing locations, emotional power and the unique synergy of mysticism and motherhood.

3. Tell us which you will target FIRST — managers, producers, or actor’s production company — and why you picked that target.

Female actors who own production companies (in India) as Indian actresses are starved for meaty roles.

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[Adite Banerjie]

I, Adite Banerjie, agree to the terms of this Release Form:

As a member of this group, I agree to the following:
1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.
2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.
I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.
3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.
4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.
5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.
6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.
This completes the Group Release Form for the class.

[Adite Banerjie]

Hi Everyone. Happy to be doing yet another SU class. Yay. I'm Adite Banerjie from India. I have written multiple scripts, 3 romance novels which were traditionally published, 3 more that were self-published. One of my books recently got optioned by a production house in Mumbai. Many of my scripts need a thorough rewrite but usually I end up working on new projects. However I am taking this class so that I can polish at least 3-4 scripts and make them pitch-worthy. I'm hoping to make new connections with these pitches. My mantra is going to be: there is no such thing as rejection! 😁

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Hi Tita! Love your concept. There is a lot going on in it which adds to the love story. A suggestion: for the climax you could have something that really happened when a lot of Afghans were left behind on the tarmac and the flight takes off as the Taliban starts firing at them. You could have the lovers trying to scramble on to the plane even as the Taliban is randomly firing and it seems like Zari might get left behind but ultimately she manages to get on with the Taliban raining bullets on the aircraft.

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Hi Everyone.
I’m Adite Banerjie, screenwriter and author from New Delhi/Mumbai. Yeah, in case that sounds strange, it’s coz I have started dividing my time between the two cities. Last year, I decided that I need to be “seen” in the city where movies are made. And guess what, it’s already giving my screenwriting a whole new focus. Networking is a two way thing and it always helps to make connections, right? So, I’m walking the talk, so to speak. I have written a handful of scripts. One of my first scripts even made it as a semi-finalist in the Nicholl’s. I have also written several books (mostly in the romance space). The rights to my rom-thriller have been bought by a Mumbai based prodco and will (hopefully soon) be broadcast on an OTT channel as a TV series. I’m looking forward to sharpening my rom-com skills in this class and creating some awesome feel good scripts along with you all. Cheers.

[Adite Banerjie]

Name: ADITE BANERJIE
I agree to the terms of this release form.

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Adite’s 5 Seasons

What I learned: It’s all about taking the stair-steps and amping up the mystery, conflict, opponent, revelations, arena to create a big series arc and individual season arcs.

5 SEASON SUMMARY

Season 1: Prelude to a Storm

A. High Concept: Simone Mehta, a banker, investigates a tech-savvy kidnapping ring after her daughter is targeted.
B. Big Picture: Simone unravels layers of the criminal operation, facing conflicts with both criminals and her professional obligations.
C. Main Conflict: Simone and Jai’s pursuit of justice puts them at odds with the criminal underworld and the police.
D. Main Mystery: the links between the kidnappings and one particular organization.
E. Cliffhanger: Ria, Simone’s daughter, is kidnapped.

Season 2: Hidden Agendas
A. High Concept: Simone and Jai uncover Maddy’s criminal cryptocurrency empire, endangering Ria.
B. Big Picture: Maddy’s vengeful game escalates, triggering the collapse of Simone’s bank and his demands for Ria’s release.
C. Main Conflict: The kidnapping of Simone’s client’s child puts her and Ria in greater jeopardy.
D. Main Mystery: Bella, Simone’s friend, is working for Maddy, and Jai discovers a connection to his missing brother.
E. Cliffhanger: The kidnapped child is killed by the kidnappers.

Season 3: Past and Present Collide
A. High Concept: Simone and Jai’s alliance is strained as Maddy’s plans threaten Simone’s career and Ria’s safety.
B. Big Picture: Simone discovers her ex-husband’s involvement in Maddy’s criminal network, leading to her exposure.
C. Main Conflict: Simone faces arrest as Bella reveals Simone’s unethical transactions.
D. Main Mystery: Simone’s ex-husband’s connection to Maddy’s organization and Kunal’s disappearance.
E. Cliffhanger: Simone is going to be arrested.

Season 4: Blood Ties
A. High Concept: Simone is on the run from the cops even as she has faces opposition from Maddy and is being manipulated by her ruthless ex.
B. Big Picture: Ishan Rai becomes a formidable opponent, complicating Simone’s quest to rescue Ria.
C. Main Conflict: Ishan Rai gains control, setting the stage for Simone’s capture and Ria’s rescue.
D. Main Mystery: The truth of Ria-Simone-Ishan connection and Jai’s brother Kunal’s involvement in Maddy’s organization.
E. Cliffhanger: Kunal takes the fall and commits suicide.

Season 5: Endgame
A. High Concept: Simone faces personal and professional ruin as Ishan Rai uses his immense clout, and there is chaos in Maddy’s empire.
B. Big Picture: Simone, Bella, Sameer, Jai join forces to counter a mysterious mastermind who is threatening the banking system.
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D. Main Mystery: Encrypted messages reveal Maddy had an unknown partner (mastermind) in crime.
E. Cliffhanger: Simone faces the ultimate sacrifice to save the banking system.

5 Season Summary

Season 1: Prelude to a Storm Tainted banker Simone Mehta tries to clear her name while exposing a tech-savvy kidnapping ring, only to find her world shattered when her daughter Ria is snatched away.

Season 2: Hidden Agendas In the treacherous world of criminal empires and cryptocurrency schemes, Simone teams up with her investigator, Jai, to infiltrate the ring and rescue Ria but the betrayal by Simone’s friend Bella, puts Ria at even more risk.

Season 3: On a Collision Course Simone’s past and present collide when she discovers her ex’s connection with criminal cryto-preneur Maddy. With arrest looming for a past unethical transaction, Simone is forced to the edge of the abyss even as Jai finds clues about his missing brother Kunal.

Season 4: Blood Ties Fleeing from the law, Simone struggles to expose the criminals even as family ties unravel. Ria is rescued but the blame for the kidnappings is pinned on Kunal who commits suicide, letting Maddy off the hook.

Season 5: Endgame As personal and professional ruin looms, Simone confronts the darkest truth about her family. But redemption is what she seeks and it will only come if she can save the banking system from the machinations of Maddy’s hidden partner-in-crime.

[Adite Banerjie]

Adite’s Character Descriptions

What I learned: I can quickly create interesting character descriptions by focusing on key traits and elements from the BW Framework profile and combining some of the most intriguing parts.

Characters

Simone Mehta, a brilliant banker and fiercely protective single mom, faces a chilling conundrum as a routine fund transfer gets entangled with the abduction of her 10 year old daughter. She is thrust into the perilous realm of tech-savvy kidnappers linked to cryptocurrency. As financial investigators close in, Simone initiates her own covert inquiry into the world of cyber mercenaries, forging unexpected alliances, in a relentless pursuit to rescue her daughter. Her perilous journey not only unravels a dark conspiracy that threatens to destroy the banking system, but also exposes shocking secrets about her own family’s involvement. Her quest could turn out to be a huge gamble leading to both her imprisonment and the endangerment of her child.

Jai Arora, an uncompromising police officer, has been sidelined in his career due to his unyielding commitment to truth. Haunted by a profound sense of failure, he carries the weight of an unfulfilled promise to his father—that he would protect his younger brother, Kunal. When tasked with investigating the enigmatic banker Simone, he discovers a personal connection to the case—Kunal’s unresolved disappearance. As he secretly assists Simone in her illegal operations to rescue her daughter, his internal struggle intensifies. Torn between loyalty to the truth, his job and his growing attraction for Simone, he risks exposure to his superiors who may hold the key to his brother’s disappearance.

Maddy, a genius cryptocurrency entrepreneur with a twisted sense of justice, hides behind a philanthropic facade to orchestrate a criminal network of tech-savvy kidnappers. Betrayed and sent to prison by a former partner, Maddy seeks revenge on society by exploiting bright students as cyber mercenaries. Unknown to Simone, her father was one of those who had betrayed Maddy and she is unwittingly entangled in Maddy’s vengeful game. As Maddy’s genius unfolds in a relentless pursuit of payback, the cracks in his malevolent empire threaten not only the kidnapped victims but also the very foundation of the banking system he aims to destroy.

Bella, a scorned financial expert, is haunted by a traumatic exit from the bank she once worked in with Simone, her competitive rival and former friend. Bella, an orphan who seeks respect, allies with Maddy, a genius in cryptocurrency with questionable morals. Entangled in Maddy’s unholy activities and driven by a misguided belief that Simone orchestrated her downfall, Bella’s quest for revenge unveils a web of dark secrets and moral dilemmas that threaten not only Simone’s ruin but force Bella to confront the deadly consequences of her own actions.

[Adite Banerjie]

Adite’s Intriguing Concept and World

What I learned: Breaking down the components of my story clarifies and strengthens the main conflict and helps me fine tune the intriguing elements.

1. Present your Concept.

· A. A meticulous banker and devoted single mom

· B. …when her daughter is abducted and her professional credibility is ruined

· C. …allies with hackers and corrupt businessmen

· D. …to infiltrate the dangerous world of criminal hacktivists who are bent on destroying the banking system.

Hook 1: What if a bank executive’s fund transfer to a criminal group is not an error but a cyber attack?

Hook 2: The fund transfer and the abduction of the bank executive’s daughter are synchronized. Can the executive save the banking system and rescue her kid?

2. Tell us the World of this show.

· Unique Sub-World: Cryptocurrency/cyber hacking

· Previously unexplored: the secretive world of high-finance deals

· The unknown: how cyber-mercenaries operate

· The unseen: the modus operandi of tech-savvy kidnappers; infiltrating their camp.

· Unheard of Dangers: endangering the lives of the kidnapped; imprisoned for illegal transactions

· Reason to explore it: save a loved one and save the banking system.

[Adite Banerjie]

Adite is ready for Feedback!
What I learned: The Framework needs to be highly engaging (still a work in progress), precise, and easily accessible when writing.
Breakthroughs: The major breakthroughs I have had through this module: a) AI is a useful tool, and needs to be used to clarify thoughts, “after” I have done my own brainstorming b) going through the BW Framework a few times has helped me fine-tune my story further.
Note: Looking forward to feedback and I’m happy to return the favor – please email me at adite.screenwriter@gmail.com. Thanks.

[Adite Banerjie]

Adite’s Creating Irony!

What I learned: By creating irony, you can add depth to situations and more meaning to characters’ actions.

Assignment 1

The Handmaid’s Tale:
Situation Irony.

1. In order for the nation to survive the leaders need babies. But by snatching away the babies of handmaids, they are laying the ground for rebellion and their own demise.

2. The leaders who rail against promiscuity and urge people to follow Biblical practices have created their own secret den of iniquity.

3. When June came into the Waterford house, she had lost all hope, all she wanted was to survive. At the end when she leaves, she is not sure whether she will live but is full of hope.

Character Irony.

4. Moira is the one who encourages June to fight but she herself loses the will to fight until she meets up with June again.

5. Serena is a founder of this new system and has to give up her independence.

Assignment 2

Situation Irony

Simone, a banker known for financial acumen, finds herself forced into criminal financial transactions to save her daughter.
Simone who had taken away her daughter without informing her husband Ishan years ago is now faced with a situation where her daughter has been taken away from her.

Jai, a skilled detective with a strong sense of justice, is forced to break the law in collaboration with Simone to bring criminals to justice.

Dramatic Irony:

The audience knows about Jai’s growing feelings for Simone, but Simone remains unaware, adding tension to their interactions.

Viewers are aware of Bella’s dual allegiance and deceptive intentions, while Simone remains oblivious, creating suspense.

Verbal Irony:

Maddy, the mastermind villain, uses a philanthropic front, creating verbal irony between his public image and criminal activities.

Irony of Fate:

Simone, who tries to control her life meticulously, is thrown into a chaotic situation where she loses control.

Jai, who is determined to bring criminals to justice, finds himself compromising his principles to achieve his goal.

Irony in Relationships:

The alliance between Simone and Jai, based on mutual necessity, develops into a deeper connection, contrasting with their initial professional relationship.

Bella’s friendship with Simone turns out to be a deceptive ploy, leading to betrayal and conflict and later again a reversal where Bella helps in saving Ria.

Irony in Actions:

Simone, who enters the criminal world to save her daughter, inadvertently contributes to the destruction of the banking system.

Jai’s impulsive actions, intended to solve his brother’s case, jeopardizes his own career.

Irony in Cover-ups:

Maddy, a criminal mastermind, hides behind a philanthropic facade, deceiving society and maintaining an unexpected public image.

Bella, seeking revenge through deception, uses Simone’s friendliness against her, concealing her true intentions.

Irony in Layers:

Simone’s unethical transactions, done to save her daughter, contribute to her fear of a ruined career if exposed.

Jai’s pursuit of justice for his brother is in vain as his brother has all along betrayed him.

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Adite’s Plot and Character Layers

Assignment 1

The Handmaid’s Tale

Surface Plot: June is captured by the Guardians; her husband is shot dead and her child taken away. She becomes a ‘handmaid’ to Commander Waterfront and tries her best to survive and hopefully find out what happened to her daughter.

Plot layers:

Major Scheme Revealed – the handmaids are being used to procreate for the leaders whose wives are barren. And they are to be used as a commodity for trading.
Mystery revealed – Moira was not sent to the Colonies, instead she was sent to Jezebels;
Luke is alive.

Character Layers:

Secret identity: Nick is an Eye who is looking out for June/Offred
Hidden relationships/conspiracies : Ofglen is part of the resistance.
Character intrigue: Moira abandons June/Offred but later shifts her loyalties back to June.

What I learned: Digging deeper into the plot and the characters creates linkages that support each other and makes for a more powerful story.

Plot Surface: A huge amount is transferred to a client which is supposedly pre-approved by Simone. It seems to be a technical glitch and as Simone and her colleagues try to figure out how it happened, Simone’s daughter Ria is kidnapped.

Layer 1: Simone receives video clip of Ria’s kidnapping.

Layer 2: Series of encrypted messages reveals the fund transfer was part of a meticulously executed plan which ends with Ria’s kidnapping.

Layer 3: Jai’s investigation reveals similar attacks on high-profile targets.

Layer 4: Simone (with Sameer’s help) uncovers a hidden pattern in the messages that leads to clues about Maddy’s involvement.

Layer 5: Simone’s past history with Ishan (and Maddy) is uncovered by Fareed.

Character Surface: Maddy is an entrepreneur and philantropist

Layer 1: Maddy hides behind his philanthropic facade to get brilliant students to do unethica work for him.

Layer 2: He aims at bringing down the banking system and reshape financial world according to his vision.

Layer 3: He has created a billionaire’s club and is pitting one billionaire against another as part of his scheme.

Layer 4: Some of these billionaires have been handpicked because they are direct competitors of Ishan. Maddy’s links to Ishan go back a long way and by targeting Simone and Ria he is getting his revenge against him for the wrongs done to him.

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Adite’s Big Picture Open Loops

Assignment 1

Big Picture Open Loops in the Handmaid’s Tale

1. Can June/Offred survive in this world?/Will she be able to get out?

2. What happened to her husband Luke and child? Where are they?

3. Can June trust Nick?

4. What is behind this whole Handmaid business?

Small Picture Open Loops:

1. Ofglen – what is her story?

2. What happened to her best friend, Moira?

Assignment 2

What I learned: Big picture open loops create intrigue. Withholding information and revealing it at the right time is critical to keep viewers engaged.

Big Picture Open Loops

Goals/Solving Problems

· Goals related to the big picture?

Simone: Can Simone find out how the money was transferred and to whom? Can she save her daughter?

Crushed goals? Her boss/colleagues doesn’t trust her anymore. It’s more difficult to maintain her position.

Competition / conflict around goals? Conflict with Jai who is investigating her. Can she find a way to make him an ally?

Jai: Is there a link between Simone’s case and the disappearance of his brother Kunal?

Consequences

Are they going to get caught? – Will Simone be able to prove her innocence?

Problems created from past actions – Her financial dealing with Viren…how will it affect her case? The dubious crypto deal that she made in order to raise funding for her dad’s medical treatment. Will her ex-husband find out about Ria and how will this impact her daughter’s safety? Fareed’s expose about her deal with Viren leads to complications with the cops and further scrutiny of her actions.

Good plans gone wrong – The lead that Bella had given her in order to discover the identity of the criminal network lands her into more trouble.

Relationships:

Simone’s relationship with Ishan. Why has she hidden the truth about her daughter’s paternity?

Simone and Ria – a fraught relationship.
Jai and his brother Kunal – what happened to his brother?
Simone and Jai – can they trust each other?
Simone and Bella – Simone doesn’t know about Bella’s real intentions.
Simone and Fareed
Maddy and Kunal
Jai and his colleagues
Jai and Sameer (Kunal’s friend)
Kunal and Sameer

DANGER / SURVIVAL / RISKS:

Can they survive? – Ria, Simone, Kunal, Sameer…

Putting themselves in danger / making dangerous decisions – Simone’s dangerous decisions include infiltrating Sameer into Maddy’s organization, could jeopardize Ria.
Kunal and his links with the organization,

Internal dangers (drug addiction, need for medicine, inner demons)? – Bella’s inner demons.

ChatGPT Outcomes:

1. New Goals:

Simone discovers a hidden agenda within the criminal organization. What is the true purpose behind the kidnappings, and how does it relate to her past actions?

Jai uncovers a larger conspiracy that involves influential figures in the city (one of them could be Ishan).

2. Goals Related to the Big Picture:

Maddy initiates a grand plan to bring down the banking system and Simone is just a pawn in his game. What will Simone and Jai do to thwart his plans?

3. Crushed Goals:

Simone attempts to negotiate with the kidnappers for her daughter’s release, only to face unexpected betrayal. How does she counter this setback?

Jai’s initial plan to rescue his brother Kunal hits a major obstacle, leaving him questioning his own instincts and alliances.

4. Competition/Conflict Around Goals:

Simone and Jai clash about the decisions being taken which proves to be a setback for the rescue operation.

5. Are They Going to Be Caught?:

Simone’s past unethical actions come dangerously close to being exposed. How does she manage to keep her secrets hidden, and what sacrifices is she willing to make to protect herself and her daughter?

Jai faces scrutiny that jeopardizes his career. Will he be able to clear his name and continue the investigation?

6. Problems Created from Past Actions:

Bella’s association with Maddy surfaces, putting her in a perilous situation. How does she navigate this revelation while trying to maintain her cover?

7. Good Plans Gone Wrong:

An elaborate plan to expose Maddy’s criminal network takes an unexpected turn, endangering Simone, Jai, and Sameer. How do they adapt to salvage the situation, and what new challenges arise?

8. Major Problem for the Character:

Simone discovers a hidden connection between Maddy and Ishan, her estranged husband. How does this revelation complicate her quest to save her daughter and expose the criminal organization?

9. Relationships Changing:

Jai’s alliance with Simone evolves into a complex partnership that goes beyond their professional connection. How does this change impact their dynamics, especially considering Jai’s personal stakes in the investigation?

Ishan learns about Ria and becomes entangled in the dangerous situation. How does this revelation affect their past relationship, and what role does he play in the unfolding drama?

10. Can They Survive X?:

Ria tries to escape but fails. Can she survive?

Sameer’s infiltration into Maddy’s network becomes increasingly risky. Will he be able to maintain his cover without compromising his safety?

11. Internal Dangers:

Simone’s past involvement in unethical banking practices.

Simone’s knowledge about Ishan’s shady business practices.

Jai’s internal struggles over Kunal’s involvement with the criminal organization.

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Adite’s Show Mysteries

Assignment 1

The Handmaid’s Tale

Mysteries that were created:

Shocking Event – June is captured to serve as a sex slave to the Commander.

Over time –

1. What happened to Luke?

2. What happened to Moira?

3. Who is Nick and is he a friend or a foe?

4. The Handmaids and their purpose.

Assignment 2

What I learned: You need two or more mysteries going on to keep your audience engaged. Besides generating intrigue, it provides rich material for character complications to play with.
I also had a major breakthrough in terms of using ChatGPT to figure out details of Mystery 1 of my story. Yay! Needs more fine tuning but this is a great start.

Mystery 1:

A. Shocking Event: Simone receives an anonymous message with a video clip of her daughter Ria being held hostage. The kidnappers demand an exorbitant ransom, revealing that the fund transfer she thought was an error was, in fact, a meticulously planned move by the criminal network to entangle her in their activities.

B. Secret: Simone’s past unethical financial decisions.

C. Investigation: As Simone grapples with the situation, Jai is reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Together, they must uncover the identity of the network, the intricacies of their operation, decipher the motives behind targeting Simone, and ultimately trace the connection between the financial transactions and Ria’s kidnapping.

Who: Simone is under attack at work and in her personal life.
What: Simone’s financial transaction and daughter’s kidnapping.

When: Current but with a connection to the past.
As the story develops we will find out…
How: The modus operandi of the criminal network headed by Maddy.
Who: Maddy, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who hides behind the facade of philanthropist.
Why: Maddy wants to bring down the banking system for wrongs done to him.

Mystery 2

A. Cover up: Simone’s dark secret from her past is exposed when Fareed, the unethical journalist, stumbles upon evidence of her involvement in financial misconduct years ago. Desperate to protect her reputation and prevent the information from jeopardizing the search for her daughter, Simone must navigate a dangerous game of deception.

B. Secret: Simone has hidden the truth about her daughter’s paternity from her ex-husband, Ishan. The consequences of this revelation could alter the dynamics of the search for Simone’s daughter.

Reveals: Fareed, driven by his desire for a sensational scoop, publishes an exposé revealing Jai’s brother’s undercover involvement. This not only compromises the ongoing operation but also puts the lives of other undercover agents at risk.

Simone’s daughter becomes a more valuable pawn in the antagonist Maddy’s game, and the risks of harm to her increase. This puts Simone under immense pressure and further complicates the already challenging task of rescuing her daughter.

Who: Multiple characters – Jai, Jai’s brother, Fareed, Ishan, Bella.

What: Jai’s brother’s undercover involvement.

What/Why: Simone’s complicated relationship with Ishan and in her quest to keep Ria safe, Simone ends up jeopardizing her daughter’s life.

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Assignment 1

Example Show – The Handmaid’s Tale

Empathy/Distress –

1. June is captured by the Guardians. Her husband is shot and her daughter is missing. (Undeserved Misfortune)

2. Her best friend Moira is taken away/killed (intentional external conflict)

3. She has sex with the Commander (forced decision she’d never make)

4. The Commander’s Wife attacks June/Offred and locks her in a room when she doesn’t conceive (intentional external conflict)

5. She is forced to have sex with Nick but she enjoys it (both intentional and unintentional external conflict)

6. Later she has to kiss the Commander as if she enjoys sex with him. (forced decision she would never make)

7. The Commander introduces her to the trade delegation and she is forced to lie about her situation (moral dilemma)

8. After Luke is rescued he can’t go back to Boston to find June (plot intruding on life)

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Assignment 2

What I learned: Focusing on characters’ distress/empathy gives me an opportunity of looking at my characters not just through the lens of want/need but also making them more relatable to the viewer. It also helps me to think of the plot in a manner that will bring out each characters’ internal/external struggles and make the story more layered. On using the AI prompt, it gave me broad directions and for now those are in line with the ideas that I had brainstormed on my own. However, going further I may revisit it for more details.

Concept = When a banker unwittingly makes a large fund transfer to an account being operated by a shadowy group, and it coincides with the kidnapping of her daughter, she comes up against a criminal network of kidnappers, bankers and tech savvy students.

Simone Mehta

Distress:
A. Undeserved misfortune – Simone becomes the target of a criminal group that has kidnapped her daughter and is using her to transfer funds.

B. External Character conflicts

Intentional – Maddy deliberately targets Simone, kidnaps her daughter turning her life upside down.

Intentional – she decides to conduct her own investigation into Maddy’s background and expose him.
Intentional – Jai investigates Simone putting her career at risk.

Unintentional – Her attraction for Jai.

Unintentional – her competitive nature puts her in conflict with Bella, Jai.

C. Plot intruding on life – the kidnapping incident, a wrong financial transaction

D. Moral dilemma – she is forced to do an unethical transaction in order to raise funds for her father’s treatment; be upfront with the police and risk exposing dark secrets of her personal life?

E. Forced to make a decision she’d never make – make alliances in the shady criminal world in order to save her daughter; unethical transactions in order to pay her father’s medical bills.

Empathy:
A. distress: the kidnapping of her daughter

B. Relatable: mother’s love and willingness to do anything to save her child; her conflicted past and the reasons why she chose to take certain actions; her vulnerability in the face of odds.
C. Universal experiences: fear of parents about losing their children; dealing with financial trouble.

Jai Arora
A. Undeserved misfortune – disappearance of a younger brother whom he raised as his own child.

B. External Character conflicts –

Intentional – Simone wants to control the investigation.

Intentional – his conflicts with his colleagues while he pursues justice for his brother.
Unintentional – his attraction for Simone; his temperament.

C. Plot intruding on life – he gets some info about his brother’s disappearance.

D. Moral dilemma – not being totally upfront with his seniors about the case.
E. Forced to make a decision he’d never make – put a young person’s life at risk; using underhand methods to pursue his goal of exposing the criminals.

Empathy
A. Distress – his obsession with his brother’s case is not helping him in his career.

B. Relatable – his guilt over his often impulsive actions.

C. Universal experience – the need for closure at an emotional level.

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Adite’s Show Relationship Map

What I learned: Understanding how the characters interact with each other helps to uncover multiple layers in the story. Fine tuning the map with AI is too much work! It’s easier to use my own instincts and go with the flow.

Assignment 1.

The Handmaid’s Tale
Offred’s Relationship Map:
With the Commander
Surface – Servant/Employer
Common ground – they both need each other: she to survive in this world; he to fulfil his desire for a child.
Relationship Conflict – different world views. He believes that he is helping her fulfill her biological destiny of bearing children; she believes that the most important thing in life is love.
Subtext – If she can bear a child, the Commander will trade her along with other “fertile” handmaids to another country.
Relationship arc – being civil with each other to being raped to trying to establish a connection, to being treated as a commodity.

Assignment 2.

Concept: When a banker unwittingly makes a large fund transfer to an account being operated by a shadowy group, and it coincides with the kidnapping of her daughter, she comes up against a criminal network of kidnappers, bankers and tech savvy students.

Simone: Protagonist (single mom, banker)
Relationship with: Amish
Surface – Investigator turned ally
Common ground – Both pursuing the same goal: rescuing Simone’s daughter Ria/exposing the criminal organization.
Conflict – she wants to control the investigation process. He has his own process to follow and has to answer to his superior.
History – they meet when he is assigned to the case and they agree to help each other after initial suspicions. The keep secrets from each other thus threatening the whole operation.
Subtext: Simone hides the fact that Ria is the daughter of Ishan, a well known industrialist. Amish is secretly investigating the disappearance of his brother.
Relationship Arc: From strangers to allies to lovers to suspecting each other of betrayal.

Relationship Map with Maddy (Antagonist)
Surface – Adversarial
Common Ground – understanding of the financial world and how it operates.
Conflict – Simone wants to save her daughter Ria. Maddy’s plans hinge on how he can manipulate Simone by holding Ria hostage.
History – he knows all about her unethical dealings, and uses this to manipulate her.
Subtext – Maddy wants revenge for the injustice done to him and he is using Simone as a tool.
Relationship arc – from strangers to kidnapping her daughter to her most formidable enemy.

Relationship Map with Bella (former colleague and friend who is collaborating with Maddy)
Surface – friends and colleagues
Common ground – share a lot of experiences as they worked together and bonded as friends
Conflict – competition in the workplace spills into their personal lives
History- They first meet as trainees, become friends, rivals, Bella feels betrayed by Simone and wants to bring her down.
Subtext – Simone hides the fact that she was the one who destroyed Bella’s career. Bella hides the fact that she is now collaborating with Maddy.
Relationship Arc – friends to enemies.

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Could someone please post Lesson #6 here. Can’t access it. Thanks.

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Adite’s Character Emotions

What I learned: The internal struggles of the characters make for engaging characters. Using ChatGPT to brainstorm the internal struggles is a cool way to figure out if one is on the right track and amp up the emotions.

Offred/June (The Handmaid’s Tale)

Hope: that she will survive this ordeal / Fear: she will be sent to the Colonies.

Want: to do whatever it takes to survive (including bearing a child for the Waterfords) / Need: to love and be loved.

Base Negative Emotion: feeling helpless/Public mask: she pretends to be fine.

Weakness: is swayed by small gestures

Trigger: when she is made to feel worthless.

Coping mechanism: she questions everything that’s going on.

Assignment 2

Simone Mehta

Hope: she can get her daughter back . Fear: her career and credibility will be ruined if the truth about her unethical financial dealings come out.

Want: have things under control and get back her life. Need: trust others to help her.

Mask: Base Negative Emotion: shame and guilt about her unethical transactions. Public mask: confidence and professionalism to maintain her image.
Weaknesses: her competitiveness blinds her to potential allies and hinders her decision making.

Triggers: when she learns about the dangers to her daughter’s life; realizes that her secrets may be exposed; any mention of her ex-husband.

Coping mechanism: shuts out everyone else and tries to micro-manage every situation.

Amish Arora

Hope: to find the truth about his brother’s disappearance. Fear: he may have to betray Simone to save his brother.

Want: to solve his brother’s case. Need: get over his guilt for having failed his brother.

Mask: Base Negative Emotion: feeling of failure and guilt. Public mask: tough officer.
Weaknesses: Acts first, thinks later.

Triggers: discovering info about his brother’s case; being lied to.
Coping mechanism: fights back.

Maddy

Hope: he is finally on track to get what is due to him. Fear: his plans will be thwarted and he will get caught.

Want: to destroy the banking system. Need: justice for the wrongs done to him.
Mask: Base negative emotion: Anger and desire for revenge. Public mask: Zen.

Weakness: his inability to get over the past which often clouds his judgement and make him vulnerable.

Triggers: anything related to his past betrayal and the technology that was stolen from him.

Coping mechanism: he gets a thrill from making his victims suffer.

Bella

Hope: to see Simone’s downfall. Fear: she will be exposed

Want: revenge. Need: find a way to bury the hatchet and make peace with Simone.
Mask: Base negative emotion: jealousy. Public mask: loyal friend

Weakness: desire for revenge blinds her to the potential consequences of her actions.
Triggers: anything related to Simone’s past secrets.

Coping mechanism: using her knowledge to make Simone suffer.

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Adite’s Intriguing Characters

What I learned: Creating intriguing characters is at the heart of
creating a bingeworthy show. The deeper I dug into the characters’
motivations, secrets, etc., the more ideas I got for
scenes/conflicts/situations/character relationships, etc. The AI prompts
throw up a variety of options, which I can further improve and then do
some mixing and matching in order to create complex characters. This is
a fun way to develop characters.

Assignment 1

Offred (The Handmaid’s Tale)

Role: Protagonist. She is a Handmaid who is assigned to the Waterfords and is determined to survive the ordeal.

Hidden agenda: she is looking for a way out.
Conspiracy: With her friend Moira, to escape. But while Moira manages to board the train, she doesn’t.
Secrets: She finds a closet with a message in Latin. It was written by the earlier handmaid who lived there and acts as a motivating message to June (don’t let them grind you down).

Deception: She is deceiving the Waterfords by pretending to be meek and obedient. She even deceives the Commander who tells her about the earlier Handmaid and that she’d killed herself.

Wound: Her husband was killed and her daughter was captured.

Assignment 2

Inner Circle of Characters – Ransom Code

Simone Mehta

Role: Protagonist. Simone is a banker who finds out that a fund transfer that was approved by her has gone into the account of a shadowy group. She is now under police investigation even as her daughter is kidnapped.

Hidden Agendas: Wants to get back her daughter and restore her own credibility without police involvement. She hid crucial info from Bella (when they were colleagues) which made their supervisor think Bella was not serious about her work.
Competition: Simone is competitive by nature. With Bella (who is, unknown to Simone, in the enemy’s camp). With Amish as she wants to be in charge of any new info that comes to light regarding the investigation.
Conspiracy: With Amish to investigate the kidnappers’ ring. With Fareed (the financial journalist) to make sure that the media is fed with the right information at the right time. With Sameer Bhatia, a young hacker, whom she plants in the criminal organization.
Secrets: Her father is suffering from a terminal illness which has put her under tremendous financial constraints, causing her to make some unethical financial transactions. Hiding from her ex husband Ishan the fact that she was pregnant when they got divorced. Simone needs to hide the truth about her daughter Ria from Ishan, Amish and Fareed. Because it would ruin Amish’s career and Fareed might be tempted to publish this ‘scoop’ (Simone had virtually kidnapped Ishan’s unborn daughter).
Deceptions: her financial transactions; her dealings with a billionaire client; hiding this from Amish with whom she is collaborating to uncover Maddy’s activities, misleads the police and sends them off on a wrong track.

Wound: Fear of losing her daughter.
Secret identity: she is ex-wife of Ishan Dev, one of the country’s top industrialists.

Amish Arora

Role: Investigating police officer turned ally of Simone

Hidden Agenda: He has unfinished business related to the closed investigation of his brother’s disappearance. He plans to settle that matter while dealing with the current crisis.

Competition: he has his own working style which puts him at loggerheads with other police officers and Simone

Conspiracy: With Simone in order to trap the kidnappers; with Sameer Bhatia, a young hacker, whom he helps plant in the criminal organization.

Secrets: He will betray Simone in order to save his brother.

SR Madhavan or Maddy
Role: Maddy specializes in orchestrating high-stakes kidnappings for ransom and these are routed through the cryptocurrency world.

Hidden Agenda: To destroy the banking system.

Conspiracy: With Bella; with Viren Shah, with university professors.

Secrets: He is a shadowy figure who operates with anonymity. Maddy’s understanding of cryptocurrency and encryption allows him to create a complex system that ensures Simone’s every move is tracked. He can keep tabs on her while keeping his own identity and operations hidden. Very few people have met him and he has a different ‘mask’ that he presents to each of them.

Deception: he portrays himself as a philanthropist-entrepreneur but runs his criminal network by recruiting brilliant students who are in need of money.
Maddy is highly skilled at erasing digital footprints and ensuring that his operations remain untraceable. This ability makes it difficult for law enforcement to gather evidence against him.

Wound: he was betrayed by his friend with whom he had developed a revolutionary algorithm in the field of cyber security. This friend sold the technology to a criminal network, made money off it and Maddy was sent to prison. Maddy is driven by a sense of revenge against society at large.

Secret identity: he hides behind his philanthropist facade.

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Assignment 2.

What I learned: To create intriguing characters one has to delve deep beneath the surface. AI is a useful tool that helps throw up multiple options which can further be tweaked to enhance the drama potential of my show.

Journey of my show: Simone goes from a straight and narrow banker to using unethical means to outsmart the criminal network and save her kidnapped daughter.

Main Characters:

1. Simone Mehta:

A. Role in the show: Protagonist. Simone is a banker who finds out that a fund transfer that was approved by her has gone into the account of a shadowy group. She is now under police investigation even as her daughter is kidnapped.
B. Unique Purpose / Expertise: Financial expertise. Purpose: to expose the criminal network’s modus operandi and rescue her daughter.

C. Intrigue: Secretly struggling with a personal financial crisis due to her ailing father’s medical bills.
D. Moral Issue: Crossing the line by delving into the world of cryptocurrency.
E. Unpredictable: Will use her financial expertise to navigate the criminal network and make morally ambiguous decisions.
F. Empathetic: Undeserved Misfortune. She’s a dedicated mother who will do anything to save her daughter, even if it means bending the rules.

2. Amish Arora:

A. Role in the show: Investigating officer turned ally of Simone
B. Unique Purpose / Expertise: Skilled detective with a strong sense of justice.
C. Intrigue: Amish’s brother has gone missing after being involved with the criminal organization.

D. Moral Issue: Wrestling with ethical dilemmas as he collaborates with Simone in breaking the law.
E. Unpredictable: Will switch allegiances as he uncovers hidden truths.
F. Empathetic: He’s determined to find his brother and bring the criminals to justice.

3. Mahadevan or Maddy:

A. Role in the show: Antagonist and criminal mastermind
B. Unique Purpose / Expertise: Brilliant cryptocurrency entrepreneur and leader of the criminal organization.
C. Intrigue: Hides his true identity and motives behind a facade of philanthropy.
D. Moral Issue: Crossing the line by orchestrating kidnappings and recruiting students to undertake financial crimes.
E. Unpredictable: Constantly changes tactics to stay one step ahead of the authorities.
F. Empathetic: We are intrigued by his intelligence but repelled by his immoral actions.

4. Bella:

A. Role in the show: Simone’s former colleague and friend turned antagonist.
B. Unique Purpose / Expertise: Financial wizard who collaborates with Maddy on the criminal activities.
C. Intrigue: Keeps her involvement in the criminal network hidden from Simone.

Bella was falsely accused of financial misdeeds by her boss which led her to quit banking. She has a grudge against Simone and that fuels her determination to undermine Simone’s mission.

D. Moral Issue: Betraying her friend and engaging in illegal financial activities.
E. Unpredictable: We are unsure if she will ultimately choose loyalty to Simone or her criminal partners.
F. Empathetic: We care because we want to know the reasons behind her betrayal and whether she can find redemption.

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Assignment 1.

1. Journey: Offred’s journey in The Handmaid’s Tale: From a woman who has a job and a loving family who takes her freedom for granted to someone who has to struggle simply to survive in a hostile world without friends and family.

2. Characters: Offred and Ofglen

3. A. Role in the Show:

Offred: a Handmaid who is assigned to the Waterford home to birth a child for them.

Ofglen: A gay woman and suspected member of the Resistance network whose partner is hanged to death.

B. Offred: Unique Purpose/Expertise

Expertise: ??

Unique Purpose: Having given birth to a child, she is considered to be the “miracle woman” who can birth a child for the Commander and his barren wife.

Ofglen:

Expertise: a lecturer in a specialized field.

Unique Purpose: Not sure yet…how her role will play out…perhaps as a resistance leader?

C. Intrigue: What is beneath the surface

Offred: she does not betray her friends even if it means putting herself in harm’s way; she is alert and aware of what’s going on around her; takes calculated risks.

Ofglen: she is part of the resistance

D. Moral issue

Offred: doing what she believes to be wrong to stay alive.

Ofglen: by trying to recruit Offred she exposed Offred to danger.

E. Unpredictable

Offred: she is caught up in a situation where to survive she will have to take extreme steps.

Ofglen: still to discover.

F. Empathetic

Offred: undeserved misfortune. She has lost all her friends and family and is forced into procreating for the Waterfords.

Ofglen: undeserved misfortune: her partner is hanged and she is being targeted for being gay.

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Assignment 2: Adite’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned: Essentially, if you provide a concept, ChatGPT rephrases it in 5 different ways. 🙃However, it is most helpful when it comes to generating sub-worlds. Some of them were ones I would never have thought of.

Title: Ransom Code
Main Characters’ Circle:

Three Circles of Characters for “Ransom Code”

A. Main Characters:

Simone Mehta

Unique Role: Single mom Simone is the determined banker whose journey drives the story. She’s a brilliant private banker with a reputation for her meticulous work. When she transfers a huge sum of money to a shadowy client, and her daughter is kidnapped, she has to uncover and outsmart the criminal network and her financial expertise becomes a crucial weapon.

Secret or Intrigue: Simone might have had an accidental encounter with a member of the secret billionaires’ society, without fully comprehending the person’s identity or importance. This chance meeting could provide the kidnappers with the link they need to target her.

Amish Arora

Unique Role: Amish is a cop who crosses paths with Simone. He is investigating her and later joins forces with Simone to uncover the truth.

Secret or Intrigue: Amish hides his own agenda in the investigation and has personal reasons to see the criminals brought to justice.

Mahadevan or Maddy
Unique Role: The brilliant cryptocurrency entrepreneur is the mastermind of the criminal organization.

Intrigue: He hides behind his role as a philanthropist who sets up colleges for underprivileged students whom he then recruits in his criminal network.

Bella Correa

Unique Role: Bella is a financial wiz and Simone’s former colleague and friend.

Secret: she nurses a grudge against Simone as their boss had falsely accused Bella which forced her to leave her job. She is now collaborating with Maddy.

B. Connected Characters:

Viren Shah

Role: A wealthy, influential member of the secret billionaires’ society. He has his own reasons for assisting Simone in her quest, but his true motivations remain enigmatic.

Fareed Khan

Role: A journalist who becomes entangled in the investigation. He’s looking for his next big scoop and provides crucial information to Simone and Amish but he is an unpredictable ally.

Sameer Sirohi

Role: A brilliant, underprivileged student who’s a cryptocurrency prodigy. He inadvertently discovers connections to the criminal network and is reluctantly drawn into the investigation by Simone and Amish.

Ria Mehta: Simone’s 8 year old daughter.

C. Environment Characters (Background Characters):

Bank Executives

IT Support Team

Law Enforcement Officers

Cryptocurrency Traders

Private Banking Clients

University Professors

Hostage Negotiators

Wealthy Philanthropists

Students

Cryptocurrency Miners

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Assignment 1: Circle of Characters for The Handmaid’s Tale

A. Main Characters Circle:

Offred/June: She lost her husband and child and has been assigned to serve as a handmaid in the home of one of the leaders of the commune.

Commander: one of the top leaders of the commune whose wife has not been able to give him a child.

Serena Joy: Commander’s wife.

B. Connected Circle:

Janine: she paid the price for rebelling by losing an eye. Beaten into submission, she is now with child as a handmaid.

Nick: Commander’s driver who keeps watch on Offred but has a soft spot for her.

Luke: June’s husband who was shot by the guardians.

Hannah: June and Luke’s child who was captured by the guardians.

Aunt Lydia: The trainer who indocrinates the new Handmaids.

Moira: June’s friend who was sent away to the colonies.

Ofglen: Offred’s companion who is part of a secret resistance group.

C. Environment Circle:

The other handmaids, Martha, the guardians, the other wives, the men and women who are being picked up/killed the guardians, etc.

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The Handmaid’s Tale 5 Star Model

What I learned: Empathy for the characters is more important than likeability; every episode needs to have two or more layers that helps the audience to find out more about the world it is set in. This helps to set up challenges for the main characters and further enhance their uniqueness.

Big Picture Hooks:
In a future, dystopian, religion-based world, June aka Offred, is a Handmaid or a baby producing slave for one of the leaders of a commune and his barren wife. The commune’s guards captured her after killing her husband and taking away her child. Now she needs to find her child.

Intriguing Characters:

June/Offred has lost everything and is being forced into procreating a child for her employer. In a world where women like her have no voice she will do anything to get back her child.

Empathy/Distress

She has been captured, her husband has been killed, her child was taken away, she is forced into sex with her employer, she has no rights to speak of. Someone (she doesn’t know who) is spying on her. She is stuck in a hostile world and all her near and dear ones are dead or missing.

Layers/Open Loops

Layers:
Janine, a rebellious girl is punished for disobeying -her eye is plucked out and she is transformed completely into a submissive follower.
Her friend Moira who tells her to follow the rules or else she will be sent to the colonies / Moira herself was sent to the colonies (what did she do?)
The Commander’s Driver – is he Offred’s potential friend? Or a spy?

Ofgden who initially spies on her, later becomes an ally (she tells her there is a spy in the house)

The commune’s rules also provide insights into the unique world the story is set in – creating layers and causing more distress/challenges for the characters.

– what happens to those who don’t obey (set up by showing the wall of people who have been hanged)
– when a woman is raped, it is her fault, unless the rapist has raped a pregnant handmaid of one of the leaders

– the barren wife being forced to be present when her husband has sex with the handmaid.

Open Loops: Will she be able to find her child? How? Who is spying on her? Can she trust anyone? What will happen to her if the Commander finds out?

Inviting Obsession

How will Offred find her daughter? What will happen to her if the Commander finds out? Who is spying on her? Will she meet the same fate as Moira if they find out? What is the Driver’s intention – is he a friend or spy?

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Thanks, Sunil. Looking forward. 🙂

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Hey everyone *big wave* Nice to see some familiar names here. I am a ProSeries 18 alum (yeah, it seems like aeons ago) and have done a bunch of SU classes, including Thriller, Fresh and Edgy, Contained Scripts, and more. I have 5 novels, one award winning short film and a TV show on Indian culture and cuisine (it’s currently being shot) to my name. One of my books was recently optioned by a prod co in Mumbai and I’ve been signed up by them to adapt it into a TV series. So, I’m very excited to learn binge worthy techniques and apply some AI magic to them as well. Cheers, Adite

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Adite writes great hope/fear

What I learned: This is a great way to ramp up emotional engagement with the characters.

Act 1
Restricting: Unlivable conditions, spooky, isolated.
Hope: Forest officer tells his wife it’s just a temporary arrangement.
Helpless: No way to get help for her sick child.
Hope: she finds some herbs with which she makes a soothing concoction for the child.
Fear: Unknown to her, the Poacher escapes.

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Adite’s 4 act structure

What I learned: Keeping the focus on the key conflict (though there could be multiple minor conflicts going on in the story) helps build a solid structure.

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Adite’s Delivering Multiple Layers

What I learned: This is an amazing process that helps me build multiple layers on the plot, characters and location levels.

Layers I have chosen

Characters:
Surface Level: Protag (Wife) is an ordinary woman who is scared of supernatural elements.
Beneath that: She is the daughter of an ostracized Tantric priest and she knows the dark arts.
How Revealed: she knows the rituals and practices that need to be performed / uses her knowledge to trap and kill the Killer.

Location:
Surface Layer: the isolated house on the edge of the lake
Beneath that: It is built on the ruins of an ancient temple
How Revealed: During the new moon night Protag experiences a supernatural moment.

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Adite’s Character Journeys

What I learned: Working out the broad strokes of the characters’ journey makes it easier to figure out how the plot and characters’ actions will intersect to form a compelling storyline.

Here’s the basic journey for my Protagonist:
Forest Officer’s Wife
Beginning: She and her baby have just joined her husband at the remote location where he’s posted on a new work assignment. Discovers that their house is located on sacred land and according to local people whoever lives there, dies. Can’t leave the place as the husband is called away on urgent work and the incessant rain doesn’t help as she is virtually marooned.
Midpoint: A series of bizarre incidents happen making it obvious that there is a supernatural force at work.
Turning point 2: A Poacher is on the prowl. The Husband arrives at the house to rescue her but is shot at by the poacher who wants to kill him.
Dilemma: Can they escape before the Killer strikes again or will the supernatural force get to them first?
3rd Act Climax: A gun fight takes place, the husband is grievously injured and is bleeding out, the natural and supernatural elements overwhelm her but she finds the courage to go on or else her baby will die.
Ending: She survives the ordeal, kills the Poacher, the Curse of the Goddess is broken and her Husband survives.

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Adite’s Character Depth

What I learned: dig deep into your characters to uncover an intriguing storyline.

Internal Character Depth:
1. Forest Officer:
Motivation: committed to his job as he dreads ending up like his father who could never hold a job.
Dilemma: Breaking the poachers ring vs protecting his family.
Hidden agenda: He’s not told his wife about the dangers involved in his new job.

2. Wife
Motivation: family is top priority
Wound: Her sister’s drowning accident.
Secret: She believes in and is terrified of ghosts.
Subtext: That she will have to pay a price for not saving her sister.

3. Criminal
Motivation: His relatives have been arrested for poaching. He’s fighting for his way of life
Conspiracy: Has a deal going with some corrupt forest officials who want the new Forest Officer out of the way.
Layers: the corrupt officials are using the criminal to meet their own ends.

Character to Character:
Conflict: between the Forest Officer and his Wife about the place where they are staying and his new job; between Criminal and forest Officer; between the Forest Officer and his bosses on tackling the poaching issue.
Intrigue: what’s going on with the supernatural/paranormal activity…the legend about the curse of the goddess…

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Adite’s Right Characters
What I learned doing this assignment: Starting with a hook first makes it easier to create the ‘right characters’ for the story.
1. Concept Hook and Contained Setting:
A forest officer’s wife is alone with her sick infant in an old haunted house that they have recently moved into. A criminal with revenge on his mind is on the prowl.
Contained setting: an isolated haunted house on the edge of a lake as it pours relentlessly, virtually cutting it off from help.
2. How the characters will uniquely fit with the hook:
a) Forest Officer is away on a job. His earlier actions have exposed his family to a dangerous criminal.
b) Wife is alone, scared, emotionally vulnerable, but will do anything to protect her baby.
c) A sick toddler
d) Criminal – a forest dweller whose poaching business has been wrecked by the forest officer and will not stop till he has abducted the child to demand a huge ransom.
e) Ghost – the ghost who haunts the house.
f) Rain – makes the situation worse and prevents the Forest officer from getting help for his family.

3. How does each character enhance/cause the conflict
a) Forest officer is called to deal with a work situation and leaves vulnerable wife alone with a sick baby. His assistant is supposed to be with her but he can’t make it because of the rain.

b) Her fear of ghosts and the surreal environment makes her even more anxious even as she is dealing with a sick child.

c) Criminal’s actions rattle her and she locks herself in the attic where she encounters the ghost.

d) Child’s crying alerts the criminal and in her anxiety she drops her phone in the water (and ruins it) which is beginning to seep inside the house, cutting herself off from help totally.
e) Wife’s past involving her sister’s death bring things to a head.

4. What makes these characters right for this story?

The combination of setting, hook and the paranormal angle enhances the characters’ fears and motivation and raises the stakes for all.

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Adite’s Great Hook!
This lesson has been quite challenging and I’m still brainstorming the hooks for my ideas. Doesn’t help that I have come down with ‘flu! 🙄 But these are great exercises and I shall come back to them after working on the next lesson (right characters) to see if that generates more interesting hooks. After all, a great hook and right characters are interlinked.

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Adite’s Assignment

What I learned doing this assignment: Irrespective of Covid, it’s always good to have a high concept script that can be developed with the contained model.
Assignment Part 1: After looking through the ideas I had listed, a couple of them definitely fit the “contained model” bill; can be pitched in a couple of sentences and have something unique about them.
Assignment Part 2:

Title: An American Pickle
How it was done:
A. People: Two main characters played by the same actor and a ton of secondary characters.
B. Stunts: Though not too many, these mostly involved the type where someone lands a punch on another or drops into a vat of brine, or cops chasing the guy, etc.
C. Extras: A huge number of extras, including people on the street, reporters, factory workers, hospital staff, audience at a press conference, etc.
D. Wardrobe: No special outfits, except for a couple of police uniforms
E. Hair and Makeup: Nothing special.
F. Kids and Animals: rats! (though I think these were CGI)
G. Quarantine: Shot pre-Covid

Covid Guidelines Version:
A. People: Casting the two lead characters to be played by the same actor (Seth Rogen) is in fact a very Covid-guideline-friendly move. The number of secondary characters can be drastically cut down. The introduction scene where Herschel and Sarah are introduced could be reworked. In fact the whole sequence could be done in animation or like a cartoon strip. If Ben were to be the narrator — since he is an app designer — this would work well with the storyline too. That would also cut out the whole additional cost of building the village where Herschel and Sarah used to live a 100 years ago.
B. Stunts: can be easily cut down.
C. Extras: can be minimised.
D. Kids and Extras: the rats are important! And CGI rats would work.
E. Hair and makeup: As is

F. Wardrobe: As is.
G. Quarantine: Could be easily achieved.

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Hello fellow writers. I’m excited to start on a new class 😀

1. Name: Adite Banerjie
2. How many scripts: Three completed features, several short scripts and many more concepts that need to be written.
3. What do I hope to get out of this class: Techniques for writing a GREAT and Marketable contained script.
4. Something strange about me: Procrastinating helps me come up with a bunch of new ideas and concepts! 😛

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3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.

5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.

6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

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Hey Susan. Would be great to exchange notes and feedback. My email id is: adite.screenwriter@gmail.com.
I think all the lessons have been uploaded – I’m happy with that as there is no pressure to finish “homework”. LOL.
Cheers,
Adite

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Hi Donna. No new posts or video after Lesson 6. Still waiting for the next lesson.

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Spilling coffee will scald her…that’s guaranteed to kill any attraction! 😁

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Hi Tita. I replied to your post and it disappeared. So posting again…
Love your concept and the bigger story in which the romance is set. Re: the climax, I have a suggestion which you may like to consider…You could have the two lovers trying to board the last flight out. The Taliban are trying to stop them and they are spraying bullets all around. Many of the Afghans who are trying to get on to the plane are shot dead. Seems like Zari is in grave danger. But at the last moment she gets on and the aircraft leaves. (an incident like this actually happened…you could do a google search).

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Hi Manu… let’s catch up sometime when you are in Delhi next. 🙂

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Absolutely right, Lynn. And it's getting even more vibrant with movies made in Hyderabad becoming huge international blockbusters – RRR is just one example. 🙂 I wrote a couple of Harlequin books too. You should try your hand at writing some scripts for the Indian market 🙂

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Love your spirit and how you refuse to be weighed down by your health issues. More power to you, Claudia. 🙂

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Adite’s Plot and Character Layers

Assignment 1

The Handmaid’s Tale

Surface Plot: June is captured by the Guardians; her husband is shot dead and her child taken away. She becomes a ‘handmaid’ to Commander Waterfront and tries her best to survive and hopefully find out what happened to her daughter.

Plot layers:

Major Scheme Revealed – the handmaids are being used to procreate for the leaders whose wives are barren. And they are to be used as a commodity for trading.
Mystery revealed – Moira was not sent to the Colonies, instead she was sent to Jezebels;
Luke is alive.

Character Layers:

Secret identity: Nick is an Eye who is looking out for June/Offred
Hidden relationships/conspiracies : Ofglen is part of the resistance.
Character intrigue: Moira abandons June/Offred but later shifts her loyalties back to June.

Assignment 2 (My story)

What I learned: Digging deeper between the plot and the characters creates linkages that support each other and makes for a more powerful story.

Plot Surface: A huge amount is transferred to a client which is supposedly pre-approved by Simone. It seems to be a technical glitch and as Simone and her colleagues try to figure out how it happened, Simone’s daughter Ria is kidnapped.

Layer 1: Simone receives video clip of Ria’s kidnapping.

Layer 2: Series of encrypted messages reveals the fund transfer was part of a meticulously executed plan which ends with Ria’s kidnapping.

Layer 3: Jai’s investigation reveals similar attacks on high-profile targets.

Layer 4: Simone (with Sameer’s help) uncovers a hidden pattern in the messages that leads to clues about Maddy’s involvement.

Layer 5: Simone’s past history with Ishan (and Maddy) is uncovered by Fareed.

Character Surface: Maddy is an entrepreneur and philanthropist

Layer 1: Maddy hides behind his philanthropic facade to get brilliant students to do unethical work for him.

Layer 2: He aims at bringing down the banking system and reshape financial world according to his vision.

Layer 3: He has created a billionaire’s club and is pitting one billionaire against another as part of his scheme.

Layer 4: Some of these billionaires have been handpicked because they are direct competitors of Ishan. Maddy’s links to Ishan go back a long way and by targeting Simone and Ria he is getting his revenge against him for the wrongs done to him.

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The lesson is now showing on my dashboard! Yay! 🙂

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@helen-roberts Hi Helen. The relationship map for the Billions example is not showing up. Could you please post the table. Thanks a bunch.

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Thanks, Helen. 🙂

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I think it may have some thing to do with the date that you signed up for the program.

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Hi Sunil. Great to see a fellow Indian screenwriter here. 🙂

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Hey Karen! *waves* 🙂