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2016 · Telugu Feature Film · SWA Registered

The Great Farewell

Written by Pavan Arla

One farewell party. One night. One failed student against a corrupt DSP, a vengeful MLA, and every rival faction on campus — all converging before sunrise.

92Scenes
1 NightTimeline
2016Set in
ArjunHero
~120Min runtime
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Story overview

One banned night that changes everything

The World
Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh — 2016. KRM Engineering College. Functions have been banned in this college for 10 years. Arjun steps up where the system failed.
The Trigger
From the last 10 years, all functions are banned in that college. Now Arjun takes the lead and conducts a farewell party at the outskirts — without any official consent.
The Heart
Arjun and Priya. He failed. She can't say she loves him publicly. One night forces every feeling and every faction into the open simultaneously.
The Message
Between 17 and 23, a man is free. The fights students have only exist because older men pull invisible strings behind them — and use them as pawns.
No Viral Escape
Nobody can film it and make it trend. Students can't crowdsource help. 2016 — contained, physical, primal. Exactly what this story needs.
Pre-Demonetisation
Cash economy. Political power more direct. DSP's ten-crore deal with the MLA — no digital trail, no accountability. The corruption is clean.
10-Year Ban
No freshers, no farewell, no celebration — in a decade. What Arjun organises isn't just a party. It's an act of defiance against a system that erased its students.
One-Night Structure
Everything happens between dark and dawn. No second chances. No retreat. Every decision is permanent by the time the sun rises.
Scene 52 · Interval
"Vaallu andaru students Mathramee —
kani ee raathri ki —
vaalu oka desham"
Arjun at the function hall gate · Post-battle · CSE CULT ENGINEERS
Colour tone & mood

Four films. One palette.

Void
Soot
Char
Ember
Blood
Brass
Haze
Ash
Tamil · 2019 Kaithi
Zero hero introduction. No songs. No romance. Pure night. Single-source torchlight logic, deep blacks, no fill. Everything earned through action, not status.
Night-only paletteNo songsTorchlight contrastEarned tension
Brazil · 2002 City of God
Rust and corrugated iron colour. Handheld urgency. Multiple POV shifts — audience always inside the chaos, never watching safely from outside.
Handheld chaosRust tonesMulti-factionNo moral centre
France · 2021 Athena
One continuous escalation. Space becomes a war zone. How a contained location — function hall, then campus — transforms into a battlefield scene by scene.
Location as war zoneSiege grammarYouth vs stateLong takes
Malayalam · 2021 Ajagajantharam
Absurdist escalation from a small trigger. Tonal swing — laughing one scene, genuinely threatened the next. The function hall section especially mirrors this DNA.
Tonal swingsComedy → dangerEnsemble chaosLocal texture
First Half
Ajagajantharam energy — funny warnings, hostel drinking, girls dressing up. Kaithi colour. Light and anticipation building slowly.
Post Interval
Athena mode. Function hall becomes a siege. Every gate, every room has tactical meaning. City of God handheld grammar throughout.
Dawn Climax
Kaithi exhaustion. Pre-dawn blue light. Arjun walks through his own campus like a ruin — and the film ends in silence, not violence.
The Real Poster
Priya walking down the steps. Clothes torn. Barefoot. No expression. Morning light behind her. No BGM. That image is the film.
Energy references
Scene 75 — The Highway
Students vs police · Rain · Dawn · Open road
Vikram 2022
Angamaly Diaries
Kaithi
Nagaram 2017
Film energy

Four references. The exact right ones.

Vikram (2022)
Multi-strand convergence
Three strands — students, police, MLA's rowdies — all moving toward the same point in the dark. BGM escalates across strands before colliding. Exactly our second half architecture.
Angamaly Diaries
Hyper-local youth ensemble
Real streets. Real slang. Real gang logic. No single hero until forced. Boys who are funny and violent in the same breath. Closest tonal match to our hostel world and faction structure.
Kaithi
One man, one night, no mercy
Zero sentiment. Zero flashback. A man who has to get somewhere and cannot stop. Arjun's second half — from the highway to the campus gate — runs on pure Kaithi logic.
Nagaram (2017)
City at night · Political underbelly
A city's invisible power structures becoming visible in one night. DSP Rajan's manipulation subplot — playing MLA, students, and SP simultaneously — is pure Nagaram DNA. The system as the real villain.
BGM Logic
Scene-by-scene breakdown
Hostel scenes: Angamaly percussion, rough and local. Bus ambush: CIA Malayalam — tactical. DSP scenes: low synth drone, cold. Campus battle: Vikram mass-action. Priya's speech: complete silence. No BGM. That is the loudest moment.
Principal characters

Who they are

AR
Arjun
Hero · CSE Senior (Failed) · 2016
Organised the farewell after 10 years of the college failing its students. Failed his exam — not his character. Does everything for Priya without asking her to acknowledge it. Calm until crossed. Then absolute.
Failed student → Campus protector
PR
Priya
Heroine · CSE Student · 2016
She is finally exposing her love very boldly to Arjun — no woman has expressed her love in this manner till now, and possibly never will again. Her courage in that final moment is the real climax of the entire film.
Silent endurance → Unprecedented courage
DA
Damu
MEC Senior · Rival faction leader
Not a villain. A leader with wounded pride. Arrives to destroy the function. Ends up fighting beside Arjun when Vimal's rowdies enter. His anger is completely understandable — the system failed him too, differently.
Enemy → Reluctant ally
DS
DSP Rajan
Police · The manipulator
Not corrupt in the usual sense — strategic. Builds a plan where every outcome benefits him. Tonight that plan collapses when the Collector arrives and Priya speaks one sentence in complete silence.
Controller → Exposed
ML
MLA Prabhakar
Politician · MIT College owner
Root cause of everything. His rivalry with Prashant Reddy is a political feud fought with student bodies. Never appears at the function — power entirely off-screen, which makes him more dangerous.
Invisible hand → Exposed
DH
Dhana
Internal betrayer · CSE Senior
The most dangerous character. Pretends loyalty while feeding information to Damu, releasing Satya's crew, and targeting Priya's mother. The wolf inside the house — wearing a friend's face.
False ally → Exposed traitor
Three-act structure

How the night unfolds

1
Set up — the night is just a party (Scenes 1–11)
Hostel drinking. Warning letters. The bus leaves. All factions set in motion.
S1Voice over — fear, desire, the 17–23 window of freedom. Theme lands before story begins.
S2–6Damu's faction activates. Warning letters pinned. All hostel branches unite against CSE.
S8DSP Rajan's real plan revealed — plays MLA and students simultaneously for personal gain.
S9Bus leaves the girls' hostel. Satya's SV College gang blocks it on the dark highway.
S11Function hall opens. Party begins. TITLE CARD drops over the hall in motion.
2
Escalation — everything that can go wrong does (Scenes 12–52)
Bus attack. Dhana's betrayal. Police arrive. Hall destroyed. INTERVAL.
S12Arjun's introduction — beats Satya's gang on the road. Tactical. Not glamorous.
S18–22Function entries. Arjun + Priya — relationship shown through action, not dialogue.
S27Dhana's true face — feeds Damu information, releases Satya's crew, calls Priya's mother.
S41Arjun discovers Dhana's call. Beats him publicly in front of the entire hall.
S47–50Police arrive. Power cuts. Damu's crew infiltrates in darkness. Hall completely destroyed.
S52DSP Rajan faces Arjun alone at the gate. INTERVAL — maximum tension, zero resolution.
3
Resolution — dawn breaks everything open (Scenes 53–92)
Vimal's attack. Campus siege. Collector arrives. Priya speaks. THE END.
S53–55Arjun negotiates DSP at the gate while all factions regroup inside.
S64–72Vimal's rowdies enter. All branches — rivals included — unite. Mass fight. Students win.
S73–76Bus charges the police line. Highway battle. Students scatter onto passing lorries.
S78–88Full police + army assault on KLM campus. Guns drawn. Students resist bare-handed.
S89–91Collector Bhanumathi arrives. Priya speaks. Silence. No BGM. DSP folds completely.
S92Dawn. Arjun + Priya walk together. Shiva-Parvati hoarding. THE END.
Script sample

Key scenes

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Scene 1 — Black Screen — Voice Over
"Fights... Violence... ivanni puttadaaniki karanam manishi aasha, atyaasha."
"Oka yuddham lo rendu deshaalu goddapadi — ey desham gelichina — aa desham lo valaki prashaantata, gelupu kanna... bayam maatrame ekkuvagaa untundi."
VISUALS: Riots, train fires, mob violence across India.
"Manishi jeevitam lo inko manishiki bayapadakunda — taniki nachinatugaa batike ekai kaalam: 17 to 23 vayassu maatrame. Aa vayassulo srushtiñche aalochanale mana jeevaalaai."
Scene 2 — Boys Hostel Back Side — Night — 2016
Damu, Mano, Hari. Backs against the compound wall. Feature phone glow. Beer. Distant music from somewhere they weren't invited.
Mano
"Damu ra — andaru vallanee goppa anukovalani college tho sambandham ledakunda private farewell party pettukunnaru."
Damu
He says nothing. Long drag. That silence is the answer.
Mano
"Naa lover, nii lover, vaadi lover — andari lovers undedi CSE branch loney. Rendu nelallo college nundi potaamu — pogaaney evadito padite vallatho tiragataru."
Damu
"Pokuunda vaadini catch chesthe — cheppindi chestaru. Chesthe chaalu."
Scene 12 — Road — Night — Arjun's Introduction
The bus stops. Satya's gang surrounds it. Girls hide under seats. From the opposite direction — headlights.
Arjun and crew. White shirts. Tucked. Bikes stop calmly. Pick up sticks. No posing. Just moving.
BGM: CIA Malayalam style — tactical, building. Not a hero entry. A man solving a problem.
Priya looks through the window. Arjun's face moves from dark into light.
Satya
(blocking the bus door)
"Rey — bus venakki tipu."
Arjun launches into the bus. Grabs Satya by the throat. In front of everyone. Looks at Priya. She closes her eyes.
Scene 77 — EXT. Function Hall / MLA House — Simultaneous
DSP RAJAN is on the phone. MLA PRABHAKAR on the other end — somewhere in his house, furious.
DSP Rajan
"Sir — your men destroyed everything. Your campus students, these rowdies — all involved. My officers are beaten, humiliated. They ran away. And YOU told me to handle it."
MLA Prabhakar
(V.O., furious)
"Then shoot them! I'm watching!"
A beat. DSP RAJAN looks at the phone. Then cuts the call. Turns to his men.
DSP Rajan
(cutting call, cold fury)
"Everybody — KRM Campus. NOW. Nobody escapes tonight."
Pitch summary

Why this film

Target Audience
18–35 Telugu and South Indian youth. Engineering college graduates. Anyone who lived in a hostel in the 2010s. Mass + class crossover.
Scale
One location chain. One night. Real sets — hostel, function hall, highway, campus. No VFX dependency. Mid-budget with high return potential.
Differentiators
No ragging melodrama. No love triangle. The female lead drives the resolution. Priya speaks — not Arjun. SWA registered original by Pavan Arla.
Marketing Angle
"Based on a night that could have happened in any engineering college in Andhra between 2014–2018." Campus nostalgia + real danger — a combination that travels.
Tone Kaithi × City of God × Athena × Ajagajantharam
Energy Vikram × Angamaly Diaries × Kaithi × Nagaram
Period 2016 — pre-Jio era
Runtime ~120 min with interval

The Great Farewell

Written by Pavan Arla. SWA Registered.
One night in 2016 that no engineering college student will forget — a farewell party that became a siege, and a failed student who refused to surrender.

The film that Andhra's engineering college world has been waiting for.