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Life Up
Synopsis:

A middle aged guy with a wife and child works in the city with an MNC and handsome salary. His home - A flat in the Suburbs middle modern decorated and clean from the dedicated wife and mother. What's looks like a dream life out of an 8 year old marriage, is actually at the edge of the thread ready to break off out of numerous differences and a great wall of ego between the couple. A few days later the husband decides to let go of his job, passionate about cinematography and movies which the wife disagrees. This causes more pressure on the loosely held thread in their relationship. Breaking it off the husband packs his luggage and camera gear and leaves the house leaving only a wardrode full of doubts for the wife with no future assurance and hope of his return. While his journey up north he grows more and more dipressed unable to focus on his talent and gets rejected everywhere he gives a try. He starts remembering how he fell in love with his wife the first time he met her and they gel along as friends. spend secret night out with lots of fun and teasing going around with late night snacks. This special friendship turns into love, when one day she agrees to accompany him for an exam to the nearby town and these two fall for wach other during the journey. A few days later they kiss, withou the need to propose and the night which were once fun, turn romantic. By this time, the boys already hates living with his father and tells the girls how he wanted to run way from home and become a cinematographer. The girl backs him up with concern and guidance to reach out to their friend in the city and not get trapped and cheated by any other locals. But, things Don't work out as planned, the boy gets a job from a telecom firm with prjects in Malaysia and decides to go without informing his father. As the girl has also come of age, her parents keep forcing her to get married with a groom of thier choices which spoils up the situation even more. With some courage and few close friends ther two decide to gets married at a local registrar's office and stay apart for an year till he earns name, game and money to return and ask her parents her hand formally. After a secret marriage, they spend their final romantic night out like a newly married couple and few days later, the boy runs away from home with his luggage and a bike to the city. A couple of days later, the girl's parents get to know of her affair and house arrest her to get her married to another guy secretly. But, knowing what the outcome would be, the same friends help the girl to get on to the bus for the city with whatever little luggage she has and cries her night through the journey to meet the boy. A week later, the couple let's go of their courage and calls both their parents to the city, where amongst the embarrassment and shame, the in-laws accept the boy and makes him promise he'd never leave the city and the country at least for the next 5 years till they agree that the couple is now a settled family. The boy leaves all hopes of going abroad and joins this MNC job pushing all his dreams and cinematography tools into a old and dustly store rack. The monotonous work life and demanding marriage life turn the boy into a money making Machine and even after they have a son, true happiness nevers seems to shine through his life. The burden of all the comparomises he had done in his career, passion, goals, happiness together sugar coated with his ego turn into the mess his is now into and bring his this far into lonliness. Coming back to his present journey a few days later, this man a meets and old aged person who he recognises lightly. Guessing him right after a few introductory dialigoues, he once knew this man as the father of the girl he loved and dumped during college. With great courage, he speaks to him to find out about her and notices there's a lot of trouble in the girls life. This causes a detour in his plan, he follows this man to meet the girl and face hre after a ten year pile up of grudge and guilt. Meeting her turns out to be a lot different that he expects where she become fully emotional and tired from waiting for someone who cared for year after all these years. Knowing what she was gowing through from a tough and demanding marriage life with a rich fianancial analyst, he realises what it's to be on the other side of the marriage. During their college days, this boy, who already didn't have a mother and hated living with his father loved being in college amongst friends. Although he was a popular figure with lots of scope for happiness and no regret and fears, this girl saw through him and gave him the warmth of a true compassionate friend and helped him accross the pain he was having with his family. Eventually he finds love in his compassion and the story now begins to go deeper into both his love life and family agressions against the differences with his father. He also has a brother, stress free chill out elder brother who was away for his education, but never filled the gaps .
When this story reaches its conclusion, where the boy pushes this girl away in greed for the beauty he once had a crush upon, who had turned into a close friend and another emotional partner. The girl who was always a bit possessive out of her loneliness and lack of friends became heavier to bear with all the sparks in the new live life with his first crush and so they to go into a hard and violent break-up and the boys elopes with this new girl . This new girl is his wife in the present life where things aren't working out either. So the story now, entirely converts into something personal and relationship based rather that the career bases which it started out as. Coming back to the present this Man now asks his past Lover, how she came along after he left and how she managed to stay with him out of all these complications in those days. Describing his vaguely about the hell she went through she turns back the story onto what exactly this fellow always did wrong which ruined all his relationships. She reminds him of a beat friend from his boarding school, with whom he wasn't intentionally talkiing since they had a big quarrel over a simple roomie game- kind of a dumb charade.
The story now goes back to his school days where it was a dungoen full of kids who were left in the hands of strict and unmotherly teachers.
He studied ten years in this school where this young friend of his was the one to spark the Art inside him and narrate him movies that he never got to watch due to his strict army father. These two friends were the one the school spoke about as one of the longest together and strongest bonded. His friend always called him along when their parnets cam to see him who stayed in a nearby town as compared to this boy's. So there was nothing that could seperate the two as kids. But, when they grew older ready to pass into their early puberty, differences began creeping in when this friend of his became more talented and popular out his stylish cricketing and gymnastics. Just a tad better than him though, these led to a pile up of ego and finally, one day a room gathering where all other boys were chulli g a having fun, this friend pulls a joke out of the guy, shuttering the pile of ego open and turnign into a huge quarrel. With bloody noses and bruised cheeks both of them get a week's punishment form the monterous warden and the 7 year old friendship breaks apart in 7 days.
That's where the story comes back to the present and this old lover makes the Man realise that, whenever his relationships were put to the test, he always let's his ego come in between of him being more talented and popular than the opposite half and tearing it apart.
Like you just found out that life isn't always as you leave it where it was, things change and you've got to face it and see it through rather than show a finger and turn away. See how good our meeting was she tells him and bids farewell after a long warm hug for all the Motherhood and love she gave him during college. He then knows where he has to go. He gets the number of his childhood bestie and travels there to meet him. A load of memories keep him glee and his cinematography comes alive through the nature and people he sees along his journey. Once he reaches the city he checks into a hotel nearby the location of his old friend adn calls him. They immediately get along over the phoen and decide to meet over drinks later that day. Speaking of all the fun mischief they had during the wonderful.and unforgettable childhood, he brings out the topic of his Marriage, his father, his brother and all the burdens he had.. and the reason he started this journey. In the flow, he apologizes to his friends and cries over his shoulder after being drunk an lot about, how sorry we was, showing how much he missed him all these days and the number of times he tried to contact him.
The friend then tells him about his life after the two got oit of college.
He was from a lower middle class family with an over expecting sister, but was very poor at studies. After struggling a lot to get through his college and bachelor's degree, he decided to shut himself out from the world and went on to take coaching on Java after being continuously rejected from interviews. The whole society went on to humiliate him putiing even more pressure on his father. He remembered this friend of his who helped him a lot during his schooling to get better grades teaching him the tough mathematics and physics equations which he struggled to pass. During his solo career building life, he faced lot of hardships with no food sometimes for the whole day to save money for his petrol to reach the coaching institute every day. He stayed over even after the institute timings and practiced and practiced. Six months year later, he had java within his control and was confident to get a job. The same interviewers than rejected him about an year ago, now recruited him and his career got a kick start.
Fr his life, he learnt a very big lesson, that everything you want to do, doesn't always come into happenning. You need to stick on to the choices you've made and give everything towards it. you have only one Life, don't just throw it away for you Mom, Dad, wife, kid.. and other relational traps. No one is permanent in this world other that you Will. If you want something to happen with all your will. First get the done with. Persevere through the odds and reach attainment. once you get there, you'll have nothing poking you deep within stopping you from loving your near and dear. Automatically everything will fall into place and everyone will be happy.
Realising once again how silly this main guy was behaving, complicating and complaining about his bad relationships, he promises never to let go of his friend how ever hard it becomes, he again feels a high gush of hope and motivation and comes back to the first city from where he started. since he'd already come out of his home to accomplish what he wanted to become, he moves into a friend's room and decides to get a contract within a month. He compiles all the collection he made during the jousrney and shooets some more bits between his friends and thier families and makes a simple but immersively creative short film to present to the same directors and producers who rejected him a month ago. With a little bit of doubt and restrain, they love his work and with lot of emotions and confidence award him with a contract.
To go with a trial, they as k him to first shoot and cut a trailer for their ongoing project.
A week later, he goes back home with the contract in his hand and the tickets to the trailer launch a week after, but finds the door locked and a letter from the bank on the door for not paying the EMIs for the past 3 months. Immediately, he goes to bank, clears the EMI along with the penalties and comes back home and breaks open the lock.
He finds a letter stuck to the TV and pulls it out to read it.
"Dear Hubby,

I have and will always be your first and last love, till the death, I know it's been a really painful life from the day you cried that night just before running away from home till this day. I've done my best to never let you shed a tear ever in you life like that day, but guess I failed. I'm sorry to have overburdened you with our familes responsibilities and expectations. It took me a while to understand what you're going through, but now I know what it means for you to be happy doing what you Love. Your son and I will be waiting with a thousand eyes of pride and love to see you come back successful and motivated. I wouldn't have left from here, but the bankers didn't leave me another choice. so, I'm writing this letter hoping you'd be back soon and waiting at Mom's house for you. Dont worry about us if you're still not ready to take our responsibility. be successful and be happy.

Love. wifey.."

With A face full of tears both of gulf and joy, he immediately takes his car and drives overnight to his In-laws home the next morning. hearing the roar of this car engine, His son runs out into the corridor screaming " Daddy's come.. Mommy.. Daddy's come.. I told you he'd come for my birthday."
Seeing his excited son with eyes migger than the sun, He jumps out of the car and runs and hugs his son climbing 3 Steps at once over the stairs.
kisses him a million times for aall that was due from the last three months and then goes and enters into is in-laws home ready to face his ferocious Father in law.
"I'll cut yout head off if you hurt her anymore." growls the old tiger in his father in law.
He hands over the letter his wife stuck on the TV to to father in law, Hugs him, Kisses him and says.. "You were born to give me the love of my life." The son gets off his shoulders and asks his grandpa to read out the letter to him.
The hubby goes into the bedroom where his wife is still sleeping after crying upto 3 am the laist night and wrapping a gift for their son alone.

He crawls into her blanket and with tears in his eyes lies over her and kisses her lips tightly not letting her scream. with shocked eyes and half breath the wife moans and wakes up to see her love, but he shuts her eyes back and reaches for her years.

suddenly, the scene goes back to their young time when they were in bed the day they got married. He whispers in her ears.
"You and I have become one today and no force on earth can separate us. However big the world becomes, This place inside our blanket, will always be only ours and ours forever. This world is the happiest that can ever be."
Tears fall through his fingers which covered his eyes and the same tears come again in the present.
He kisses of those tears and opens her eyes to see how much she cried the last three months. He apologises to her with all his heart and then they both sit up with the blanket still over them.
He reaches out into his jacket and pulls out the contract he earned and shows her. She starts reading it out and suddenly yells out loudlyof glee.
Now all the people in the house run inside the bedroom with terror think what he might've done to her and by the time the Yell turns into a sudden Mumm.
The son pulls out the blankets to check what happened only to find the couple in a tight deep lip to lip kiss with tears all over thier cheeks.
The son shuts his eyes and the father and mother see each other and nod like Adults.
After their lips release, the wife calls her dad back and reassures him, never to doubt her husband ever again and how much confidence she had on him.

The shocked hubby again hugs his wife and kid and says." I thought I'd be dead, today." and smiles.
The concerned wife asked where, how and what he had done the past three months and continuous to kiss him happy to have him back.

"Where were you".. She stressed as he didn't speak a word for all her questions till then.

"Inside." He said, pointing out to his heart and dropping another set of tears into hoer hands that held his collar.

He again reaches out to his other pocket in his jacket and giver her the tickets for the trailer lauch. She sees them and tells him,
"it's not me who you should be giving these to.".

Shocked the husband think. Them to whom
Next they reach his father's door and give the tickets to his father. First reluctant, but then he accepts that his son finally chose to do what he loves to and accepted to come to the event.
his whole family alone with his father attend the event and the trailer gets launched successfully. At the end of the event, upon the diarse, The Hero of the story says.

" The entire credit goes to my Wife, My best budddy from school and my long forgotten love, for inspiring me and showing me the right way. I promise never to let my ego come in our way, My wife."

Both his friend and his Ex lover watch home I've rTV and feel a lot of satisfaction that thier old companion and best friend is now a better person.

His wife then gets shocked and realises where he went the paast few months. She gives him a sharp look and warns him about the consequences he's about to face back at home.

He blows and cute kiss to his wife With the pleasure of both success and accomplishments in his Life.

Thank You.