A Combined Artists & Badams Productions Project
Documentary film proposal:
SCARS: An illness
that can hunt someone you love
Written & Directed by:
Abhishak Bhardwaj
Abhishak Bhardwaj (Director)
Badams Productions
124-Ground Floor, PKT-9
Sector-24, Rohini
Delhi 110085
Email: abhishakbhardwaj1@gmail.com
I. Overview
‘The Scars’ is
a stylized, social behavior based one hour to feature length ( 60 to 90 Minute)
documentary film. The film studies the
mindset and behavior of people while they are driving a vehicle on the
road.
The impatient
nature of people while they are driving is apparent now, and it is not a
surprise that our Newspapers and TV news Channels are filled with growing cases
of Road Rage in the city of Delhi.
In Delhi when
you are driving a car you become your car and you are no longer a human being.
You become the SUV, hatchback, or sedan that you drive. A car displays a social symbol rather than a
medium of transport. And than price, power, of your car runs in your nerves
instead of blood and rules your mind.
Very few
people are aware of the term road rage they think they drive smart but in
reality they are almost on a mark where they can take a life. Few cases have
been recorded where people have been murdered, just because someone didn’t let
them overtake!!!
Road rage is a
psychological problem that can be treated with the help of a psychiatrist. This
is an illness that can hunt someone you love. We feel pain and anger due to the
violent activity of terrorists; we all have come out on streets to protest
against criminals who attempt to take away the dignity of a woman. But when will we take a stand against those
who breaks the traffic rules. Someone’s fun on the road can push other families
lives in darkness they can suffer a loss which is irrevocable.
The people who
mix drinking and drive, speed and adventure, power and disrespectfulness
towards life are serious threat for human life. They must be contained and
treated seriously to avoid and minimize the human life loss.
‘Scars’
documentary is a mission to exhibit a problem, which is thriving in our minds,
and to be worst it is not just among us, it is spreading in our future
generations as well. The documentary will raise questions, study behaviors of
different class of drivers from car owners to bus drivers, from cab drivers to
autorikshaw drivers and shall put audience through a journey where they can
feel, realize and awake themselves and start following the terrific rules by
heart and not by commandment.
II. OUTLINE
The film opens
with time-laps scene of Delhi roads. The title sequence begins along with the
shots establishing insane driving of Delhi people. As audience watches in amazement and we will
establish by showing how motorcyclist, car owners, cab driver’s risks there and
others lives on the road.
ACT 01
ACCIDENTS ARE GREAT HUMAN TRAGEDY
ACT one starts
with images and visuals of 77 Year old standing on the road. We will show how
Mukul Chandra Joshi a resident of sector 21 Noida is educating people on roads
about traffic rules and regulations and also cajoling them to follow these.
The film
follows the Story of Mukul Chandra Joshi’s inspiration of leading from the
front. The persisting problem of Delhi
& NCR’s drivers mind set while driving an automobile will be introduced
through Mukal Chandra Johsi.
Further film
will visually interpret the current situation of road driving by showing visual
evidence of insane driving. The film will also establish how few people feel very
unsafe while they drive the car. The bytes from different section people like
Executives, Business Owners and Students regarding their experience while they
are driving on Delhi roads will be shown to establish that problem of road rage
in the city.
ACT-
02. Why we have become danger to each other
on the road
Additional
Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau while giving her verdict regarding a road rage
case said, "It is time that we in India recognize this aggressive
behavioral rage as a mental issue which is a result of intermittent explosive
disorder. Keeping in view a recent rise in road rage cases, not only imposition
of heinous sections but also a stricter punishment to those who take laws into
their hands, is a need of hour.”
This part of documentary tries to find if our society needs to recognize road rage as a disease. The road time laps from the different roads of Delhi fades away we will focus on a person standing in between the road time laps scene. He is a psychologist who will help viewer to understand regarding the road rage, plus he will also review the recorded behavior of volunteer participants.
This part of documentary tries to find if our society needs to recognize road rage as a disease. The road time laps from the different roads of Delhi fades away we will focus on a person standing in between the road time laps scene. He is a psychologist who will help viewer to understand regarding the road rage, plus he will also review the recorded behavior of volunteer participants.
The documentary film takes viewers on the road
by studying driving behavior of different people. These people will belong to
different section of society. The documentary film will show their behavior
while they are driving their vehicles. We’ll cover following people. A student,
Blogger, Executive, Auto driver, a female, and a Goods transport driver. The
psychologist will help viewers and participants to understand if they are too a
victim of road rage disease.
ACT-3 The Road Rage & its Terrible
Price
A visual
prologue showing collective efforts of improving traffic conditions of the city
followed by showing bytes of traffic police officers, trauma center doctors
regarding the road rage and insane driving cases that have to deal with on
daily basis. The documentary will
establish road rage cases and their impact on the lives of people. Documentary
will show bytes of people faced road rage.
Documentary
establishes the impatient behavior of people on road it will also show how a
scratch on someone’s car has become more important than a human life. With the help of local police officers byte
we would like to know if money power is also a reason to break the traffic
rules. Documentary will also take
viewers into a journey where they can feel how traffic police officers are
working day and night to ensure safety of the people. We will closely observe
traffic police actions against drunk and drive, overs-speeding and road
rage.
The- Finale
The fast paced
visual of traffic to establishes the busy life of Delhi city. Once again we
show the visuals of Traffic Baba (Mr. Mukul Chandra Joshi), running ambulances
on the road and posters of road accident victims. Our documentary will try to find solutions
through interviewing different people. The people consist from each society
will itself tell the solutions to stop the misbehavior on the road. Our volunteer’s participants who were ready
to test themselves for road rage test will also give byte about their efforts
they would like to bring to change their behavior while they are driving the
car. Through the society and NGO’s who
are working towards road safety we will try to find the solutions for a problem
that has been growing with rapid speed and people are need to be aware regarding
their rights and duties while they are driving the vehicle.
III. Main Characters
Mr. Mukul Chandra Joshi
Fondly called as Traffic
Baba/Suraksha Baba, this 77 plus man shames you with his sheer agility and
passion. Come evening and Joshi dons a white gown and a cap, gets hold of his
microphone and a flask of lemon juice or tea (depending upon the weather) and
heads for a busy road crossing. He spends the next one-hour politely guiding
people not to jump a red light, give way to pedestrians or waver out of their
lanes. The Five Volunteer Participants
The documentary will feature five volunteer who are brave enough to provide us an opportunity to look into their live while they drive a vehicle. Their behavior while they are driving will be important to establish the common problem a driver face in the city while he is driving the car. Plus it will also help participants to know if they are also becoming a victim of road rage disease.
The psychiatrist
Documentary plans to feature a psychiatrist to study the human behavior aspects while they are driving a car. Psychiatrist will also tell how anger while driving the car should be considered as a part road rage disease. The documentary will
Saksham Kakar
Saksham Kakar is an Internet blogger. His writings on his blog shows that he has closely observe driving behaviors of Delhi city. Saksham Kakar will help us to put his views on the road driving behaviors in front of audience.
IV. Filmmakers
Abhishek Bhardwaj (Director) & Producer
He
started his career as an assistant to director for various TV Serials and AD
Film Production houses such as Cinevista, BAG Films. He is an IMDB Listed filmmaker his profile can
be reach by clicking at the following link (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4585037/).
Over
the past few years he has worked with country’s most renowned production
houses. He has also provided his
services to the broadcasting solution provider companies like Movico
Technologies and was hired by Parsar Bharti as a production executive for
Common Wealth Games Delhi -2010. His production
and direction experience of film and television provided him an opportunity to
work in the area of branding solutions through- TV commercial, corporate films,
corporate videos, Radio Spot and jingles and up to now he has successfully
directed/ produced Infomercial videos for following brands - Ventana
technologies, Space World, Rainmakers, Artmis hospital IMS-Noida, MS. Mega Overseas, Arryis
InfoTech, Resell bazar.com,
Ashish Sharma (Co-Producer
& Cinematographer)
He
has worked with reputed organization through out the country. He has worked for
BBC World Services, Zee Network. Documentary films are his passion and he has
worked on very famous TV Shows such as Dare to Date for Channel V, Crime Petrol for Sony Entertainment,
Hindustan Hamara for ETV Urdu and Director of Photography in a south Indian
film Collector.
V. Distribution & Marketing
Film Festivals:
We wish to
submit our feature length film version to the major international film
festivals as well as to Indian Film Festivals. We are aiming to submit the film
to Sundance and Cannes and to Mumbai International Film Festival and as well as
to Goa international film festivals. We believe that film can get nominated in
the best film categories, as the subject is unique and innovating.
Internet distribution
We are also aiming to distribute CD/DVD’s through Internet with the help of
Amazon, and other online distribution platform. Apart from it few Internet segments will be cut
into smaller 2-minute videos to promote the documentary through YouTube
Television Show
We would not hesitate to knock the doors of TV Channels
(National and International) to help our documentary to get a wider platform.
If documentary does well in the film festivals we may expect that TV Channels
will show interest in our documentary.
