THE STORY. Review on 3 Deewarein

THE FIRST LINE: 3 Deewarein (3 Walls)

THE BEGINNING:

On the bed, a man holds his wife in his arms, and tries to tell her how much he loved her????. His hands are blood-stained and so is the corpse in his arms??..

At the bus-stop, a man listens to his wife scolding him, as his patience tends to escape from him????. The next moment he finds her hit by a speeding vehicle and the blood-stained corpse lies on the road??..

Near the teller, a man is at the verge of finishing the bank-robbery act, when the revolver in his hand triggers???.. The blood-stained corpse of a young pregnant lady slides down the wall to the floor??..

THE CLOSED WALLS OF THE JAIL: The jail is just another world; here the criminals are restricted from their dangerous instincts. Almost all the criminals hope of getting released at some point in time; except for three men.......... who are sentenced to death.

Jaggu awaits death. Nagya hopes justice. And Ehsaan plans an escape.

THE RAY OF HOPE:Jaggu has a lot of poetry in him. He likes storms; because they bring messages. That night it stormed, and he felt it brought a message??the Promise of a bright morning?.a ray of hope.

The next morning, as the sun light peeps through the open door, Chandrika enters their life. An unhappy house wife, Chandrika, decides to make a documentary film on the prisoners in jail.

THE 3 WALLS: As Chandrika focuses her camera on each of them, their respective pasts unfurl???

Jaggu was a successful advocate. But he failed?? He failed in marriage. He failed to make his wife love him. It is a failure because he loved her madly. He loved her to the deepest point within himself. And so deep was the pain he felt when his wife planned to elope away with her lover. He could not bear it anymore. One evening, when he returned home, he found her deep in sleep. ?She was beautiful?. He felt it difficult to raise the dagger. But the pain dominated. He doesn?t remember how he killed her, but guesses that he stabbed her. As the law hardly consider emotions, he was sentenced to death. And now, he awaits death.

Nagya was a middle class accountant. He believed: ?Satyameva Jayate?. But the belief did not help him from getting disliked by his wife. His belief did not help him from her scolding. His belief did not stop him from getting angry on that day when, at the bus-stop, his wife lowered him and his parents?.. he doesn?t know who pushed her on to the road. He was arrested for killing her (pushing her); he was under third degree until he accepted (a lie) to have killed her; he was sentenced to death. But his belief did nothing to save him. His belief did nothing; except???? his belief made him hope that justice will come on his side. He tried different lawyers to re-open his case, and kept his hope live. And even now, he hopes justice and believes: ?Satyameva Jayate?.

Ehsaan was cool; because he had nothing to lose. He lived a free life. He wished to be the same all his life. That day, in the bank, he was standing before the teller booth with his revolver pointing the lady inside. After he was done with packing his bag full of cash, the lady tried to act smart. He heard the alarm ring. His anger made him raise the revolver at her; but her protruded womb pulled him back. He backed?? and stumbled over something and accidentally the revolver triggered. He saw the scare, the pain??? the death, in the eyes of the pregnant lady. The law and the people got fully against him for killing a pregnant lady who was carrying twins. He remembers to have seen Chandrika in the court. (?) He was sentenced to death. He remained cool. And now, he plans an escape.

THE UNREVEALED (?): Ehsaan plans an escape. He has many plans. But one plan comes his way: Chandrika. He escapes out of jail with Chandrika?s help. He visits Chandrika to thank her and finds himself before the revolver pointing at him. He sees anger and vengeance in Chandrika?s eyes. She reveals: The pregnant lady carrying twins, is her beloved sister. And just when she is about to trigger the revolver, he brings out the Truth that reverses the story.

THE TRUTH: On that day, all the people in the bank submitted (lied down), as Ehsaan was finishing the robbery, with the revolver in his hand. Then the pregnant lady died??? He actually pacified his anger when he found her pregnant. But, then he stumbled over Chandrika and accidentally the revolver triggered; the pregnant lady died. He didn?t see anything or anyone, until he found himself running away.

He ran so quickly that, he accidentally pushed a lady at the bus-stop. The lady fell before a speeding vehicle and died. He saw her husband: Nagya. Ehsaan ran from there.

He knocked at the door of a beautiful married woman. She was his beloved. In the house, as an argument broke between them, he accidentally pushed her. She tumbled down the stairs and died. Then, he heard her husband?s car. He dragged the corpse onto the bed. He oversaw (through the curtains) Jaggu come to his wife, sit beside her on the bed, and stab her.

Ehsaan ran away from the Truth, and lived freely. But the Truth caught him back, and he ended up with Jaggu and Nagya in jail.

THE CLIMAX: A man, who wanted freedom, planned for it and had a chance to go for it, submits to the jail. And he has two reasons for doing that: one???. to save himself (from a vengeful revolver) and two??.. to free the other two men (from death sentence).

THE LAST LINE: A Film by Nagesh Kukunoor