SCREENPLAY
The Blue Silk Scarf
SHORT FILM SCRIPT · PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
A YOUNG WOMAN (28) sits alone on a bar stool, her back to the camera. Still. Silent. Almost blending into the gloom of the cafe.
A long counter lined with barstools. The place is slightly unkempt. Chairs are stacked upside down on tables. Only a couple of dim lights remain on. A grimy coffee machine sits abandoned behind the counter. A tall, rough-looking man cleans the bar table. Large glass windows, streaked and stained, catch fragments of the outside light.
It drizzles outside. A neon red light flickers from the hoarding outside the bar cafe.
CLOSE SHOT: A brown bag thrown on the bar table. A beautiful, shiny blue silk scarf with the pointed part of a blood-stained knife sticking out.
The woman smoothly covers the knife with the scarf as the man comes nearer to serve hot coffee from the other side of the bar table.
The young woman extends her right hand to take the cup. Her back slumps and neck bends down.
The wind chimes hanging on the door tinkles as a man walks in.
The young woman jerks straight, lifts her head and turns slightly towards the sound.
It is too dark to see even that slight profile of her face.
MADHAVI (30) walks into the apartment with the wind chimes tinkling as she opens the door. Pretty with short neck length hair and light brown eyes.
ANITA (28), a slim pretty lady with long waist length hair, pushes up her reading glasses and jumps up from her round dinner table. Walks to Madhavi with a smile and hugs her. Almost pulls her inside, in haste.
Madhavi shrugs and sits down.
