Hello!
What?
Kalsi ma'am has taken a decision.
What decision, sir?
To fall sick on the day of cultural day performance.
Her fever is at 104, sir.
Nothing that a pill can't cure.
Well, can't expect everyone to be dedicated like me, right?
But we can try, hmm.
-Isn't that so? -Yes.
So, in one hour...
I'd like the auditorium decor for the cultural festival ready within an hour.
Just the way Kalsi ma'am suggested.
I'm so stressed.
Sir!
If cast is spelt the other way round...
it's dessert...
and the best dessert is...
cake.
Getting this decor done is cakewalk, sir.
Is that so? Who will make this a cakewalk, you?
Yes, sir, Anirban is very good with art and craft.
You remember black board red paint art?
Do whatever you want to do.
I want everything ready just in one hour.
-Okay? -Yes, sir.
At first chance.
Has Kalsi ma'am's fever afflicted you too?
How can I do this decor?
Anirban, what do you see here?
-Me. -You? Show me.
No, I can see an artist here.
One who is extremely talented.
He can do origami, make sketches, and murals on black boards too.
But do you know what he does best?
-What? -Self-doubt.
Anirban, let go of your self-doubt, come with me, there's loads to do.
-But Stuti... -We have to do everything in one hour.
Come on.
All of you thorough with your assignments?
Yes, champion.
Save KLPD movement starts now.
Doomed.
-Anything more left for doomsday? -But what happened?
Just half of the P from KLPD is done, and the whole of D is left.
So go get the black chart paper from the art room.
I was just there.
There's no black chart paper there.
Kalsi ma'am wants the KLPD only in black.
Neither is Kalsi ma'am here
nor black chart paper.
Nor do we have the time.
Waste is not a waste until we waste it.
Remember?
So let's make do with whatever we have, come on, guys.
Done.
We feel so.
What's pending now?
Chole's approval.
I had asked you to copy paste, right?
Hmm?
Why did you use your brains?
And why is this KLPD logo so colourful?
Sir, KLPD isn't just about black.
KLPD has some toppers, and some are average.
Some tall, and some short.
Sir, at KLPD some are good at sports, and some at creativity.
So, sir...
KLPD can't be represented by just one colour, right?
That's the reason.
This answer worth two marks is fine.
Now tell me the actual reason.
Sir, the black chart paper was over.
Sorry.
I'm surprised that this word is uttered by me...
but, well done.
Well done, Anirban.
Good job.
Bro, today you proved
that the blood in your veins is that of my friendship.
Sure, go ahead and take credit for that too now.
Remove 'team' from team work...
and what's left is just 'work'.
And I'd surely not be able to do that work all by myself.
Thank you so much to all of you.
And a bigger thanks to you, Stuti.
If you had not shown me that selfie on your camera...
I'd never been able to flip the camera, and make this decor.
I know that you never work alone, hence I added that 'team'.
Hey, ACIS is here.
Guys.
Apologies for the inconvenience...
but ACIS is already here, at KLPD.
Come on, let's go.
One performance.
We just have one performance.
Probably the best performance of our entire life.
This performance today...
may save 11th and 12th standards...
or it may not...
but this performance today will go beyond our lives...
because...
this performance today...
is based on false facts.
Today...
we have to portray such an image of our school, to ACIS...
an image that we too haven't yet seen.
An image of a good school.
And so...
I will not be telling you how you have to perform.
Nobody's asking you, bro.
Hey, ssshh.
All I will say is, come on...
and give off your best at this performance, dance, sing, and act...
because after this performance, for the rest of your life...
11th and 12th standards may stay, or may not...
we get A++, or we don't...
our friendship is maintained...
or not...
but nobody can ever steal the joys of this performance from you.
Not you yourself too.
Yeah!
So come, let's do 'yeah' together.
Come.
Yeah.
Afraid, is it?
Yes, gave the speech, but quite scared too.
Well, bro...
Talk to your mom once, please.
-With mom? -Please.
All the best, bro.
Seriously, Raman? Such a nice speech, and then you go ahead and ruin it.
Okay guys, final rehearsal.
Come on, come.
Miss Madhurima...
our students have slogged a lot for today's performance.
And why would they not? 11th and 12th standard would be shut...
if ACIS doesn't give them A++.
Some lies, and achieved the marks.
For these students, friendship is just like currency, Mrs Sahu.
Well, I lied to them that 11th and 12th would shut
and our students got 95%, even Mukund passed.
Mr Bhola, I'm very happy for Mukund.
This lie was fraught with high risk, but it was all worth it.
Well, after today's performance there is no risk, all A.
Yes.
Mukund?
Mukund, listen.
All of us at KLPD welcome our beloved Mr Prabhakar, and his wife.
Till Principal Mr Ritam Bhola
and honourable head of ACIS, Mrs Madhurima Sahu get here,
I would request Mr Prabhakar to come and say a few words.
Hello, KLPD.
I heartily welcome ACIS.
You look fine, why tense up?
Usually, I'm not nervous, but...
Raman just gave that motivation speech, right?
Stand-up comedy cannot be called a motivation speech.
Guys, we go on stage in 10 minutes. You guys ready?
Nobody goes on stage.
-Why? -We were lied to.
Yes, I lied.
-For you guys, for the school. -Correction.
You lied for your own self.
If the grades weren't good at the academics...
ACIS would have degraded KLPD.
This performance wouldn't have been possible too.
But sir, humans should be truthful, don't you agree?
Quiet.
Sir, with all due respect, you've played with our emotions.
We did whatever you said.
You cancelled the picnic, and we were okay with that.
You asked for good marks, and we did it, but sir, this is not done.
Okay, okay.
We'll talk about this after the performance, okay?
Not okay, sir.
I'm sorry...
but we won't perform.
Stuti, you're the head girl, my child.
How can you?
I'm the head girl, that's the reason I tried to fix...
because what was shown to me was broken.
But now it's not possible.
Children...
you all are like my own kids.
-Students, please. -Mom, please.
This is my school, not our living room.
And anyway, students here are not used to such fights.
So please stay out of it.
Our decision is final.
We won't perform, sorry.
Okay.
I'll...
I'll cancel the program.
Okay, guys.
Are we in this together?
-In what? -We won't perform.
Stuti.
You're with us, right?
Hello!
Hello, everyone.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming...
But...
But due to some technical issue...
-we can't go on with today's performance. -Principal sir.
One minute, please.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Sir Bhola's acting is absolutely fake.
What is happening here?
Sir!
-A++. -Yeah!
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
But how did this last minute change of mind come about?
Stuti, are you telling us to accept the wrong they did?
No, no Dimple.
Raman, it was you who gave that motivational speech today, right?
You said, that after this performance...
irrespective of whether 11th and 12th standards survive...
whether our friendship survives, or not...
but today, nobody can deprive us the fun of this performance.
Nobody.
Anirban, it was you who told me...
that our future can be shaped at any school, right?
But it's only the memories at KLPD that'd survive.
So, not for somebody else,
just for those memories.
We have to go on with this performance.
And guys...
if we do go on with this performance,
we'll be the bigger people
with a bigger heart.
And after all, guys...
this is KLPD.
We can't betray it.
Thank you.
Shall we leave, Mr Ritam Bhola?
Yes, sir, I mean, dad.
Guys, out with your extraordinarily long hands.
What?
For the selfie.
-I'll get the phone. -You wait.
Let's use your phone, picture quality is good there.
Anirban, your phone is in my bag.
Go get it.
Anirban.
Anirban, I want to tell you something.
What do you want to tell?
That I'm not opinionated?
Obviously.
If I consider your opinions...
I'd not have my own opinions, right?
Nothing of that sort, Anirban.
That list is nothing.
What else is here?
Doesn't stand up for himself.
That means, the person who stands up for you,
he's not in a position to stand up for himself, right?
Right?
Wow, Stuti, the topper.
Your logics.
No, Anirban.
-That's not... -I am nervous, under confident.
You've written that as well, right?
Stuti, I was the one who painted the black board all red.
And I'm the one who's nervous?
I'm under confident?
Anirban.
Please listen to me.
-I can explain. -Why would you explain?
Why would you explain?
It also mentions here that I'm a slow learner.
So even if you were to explain, I'd not understand, right?
So, don't waste your time with me, Stuti.
Go, go revise your accounts, go.
Head girl.
Anirban, you're misunderstanding me.
You've opened up my eyes, Stuti Sharma.
Thank you so much for that.
But now...
this hurt...
is something that's beyond the hurt inflicted by anyone else.
So, please leave now.
No, Anirban, forget it.
Please listen to me for once.
Just talk to me for once, please.
I'll go.
Ani... Anirban.
Please, for once...
Ani...