- Hello. - Warden! I'm Tara's dad.
Is this how you run your hostel?
I sent my daughter there to study, not to roam with boys.
Do you want me to be a grandfather at such a young age?
- Vishnu! - Yeah? - Call the guard!
You don't really miss home when you live in a hostel.
'Cause even the hostel feels like prison.
There's just one difference between a hostel and a prison.
Food is better in prisons.
I've always assumed that there were 2 types of people in a hostel.
The first one, who quietly eats after curfew and sleeps off.
And the others, who use excuses to get out of the hostel.
Mummy, please give me permission.
Rashi's parents have allowed her and she's going.
Please, mommy?
And then, I met the 3rd type.
Don't move! Don't! Just hold it!
Hey! All the ladies on the floor! Last 10 minutes before In-time. Come on!
Come on!
Hey, hi!
Shit! So much overreaction?
Hey and hi, together!
I might as well have gone with bonjour, namaste, sat sri akal and vannakkam..
Ass!
Hey, Richa and Milli! Where are you going?
Jo, gave something for her crush. We'll just give that and be back.
- Okay? - Okay, 5 minutes!
- Crush it quickly! - Yes, yes.
- Warden ma'am! - What?
- Anjali's head is hurt! - What? How?
Uh, she threw a rock at a crow
The crow took its vengeance
- Oh, tit for tat? - Yeah!
We have to take her to a hospital and we'll be back late, ma'am.
Tomorrow! We'll be back tomorrow.
We have to get stitches and stuff. So that will take time, won't it?
No, you don't have to go anywhere. It won't take time, I'll do it quickly!
- You, ma'am? - Yes, me!
Subhoyoti Laxmi. I topped in nursing from this very college!
That's how I got campus placement for the post of a warden!
Ma'am! Please take a look!
Ma'am! Ma'am! Please...
- Vishnu? - Yes?
Get my sewing kit! Come on, get her to me!
Watch the bike, man! Jo charges quite a lot anyway.
Don't let it drop.
- I'll do it. - Be careful, man. See, it's dripping out.
Oh by the way,
The meaning of Richa is 2-4 sentences long shlokas
found in Sanskrit religious scriptures, the Vedas.
And Milli means when you get something.
- Smoke? - We don't smoke.
Let me try, man. It's a childhood dream...
Milli, you can do it later. No one's smoking here.
Smoking in a public place imposes a fine of 5000 bucks.
Also, it's bad to smoke near a petrol tank or any other tank or any place in general!
You're one of those types that follows all the rules?
Not all, but the ones I understand. The common sense type.
Not baseless, senseless rules. Like this In-time one.
- Y'all have some In-time scene, right? - Exactly!
We shouldn't have it since y'all don't have it.
Our In-time is just for namesake.
We go away to Mahabaleshwar and stuff over the weekend.
We chill all night there with a bonfire on a hilltop.
And oh my God, the sunrise is to die for, you guys should just watch it once.
Mahabaleshwar? That just sounds like it's far, right?
That's what makes it fun!
With empty roads at night and cool breeze,
at 100 kms/h with no signals... In the hills and under the stars...
It's like, you're in a Lucky Ali music video.
- Wow! Sounds exciting. - Yeah.
Come on, Richa. Let's go in
Let's make Maggi for Jo, study and then sleep.
And let's pray that we can stay in the boy's hostel in our next life.
Come on.
- Can we come along? - Sure, but what about your curfew?
- We'll figure it out. - Listen, can we let it go this time?
It's the 2nd day of my period, won't it be risky being on the bike all night?
We'll light a fire in our room and dance.
You'll get the same feeling, trust me.
Mili!
We get our periods every month, right? But we won't get this bike ride again.
Aarav, what time?
2:30 at night at the tea stall?
Hey, but don't back out, okay?
Once Richa commits to something, she doesn't even listen to her warden.
- Come on! - Here, take this. We'll see you later.
Put it.
Listen, if you see any guy. Straight drive and out of boundary.
Ma'am?
Who did you ask and fire the old guard?
How will he get a job at his age?
He had been part of this hostel's legacy for the past 3 years!
He was part of the scam as well.
I know everything. Y'all used to pay him 50 bucks to get out at night.
Now this guard, will not let his guard down.
- I may look like a sellout, but I'm really not. - Oh really?
Everything has a price tag.
It's not over yet.
So straight drive then smash! Beat the pulp out of him
- Listen, just talk to Jo. - We should talk to Jo, right?
You're more of a speaker
- Hey, roomie! What's with the rope? - Get to the point!
- We need your help. - No.
- But you don't even know what I want. - I know what you want.
- What? - My help
So, no!
Please help, Jo! Aarav, was talking 'bout Mahabaleshwar and some bonfire
And I really want to go but if you don't help me...
Hey, Jo!
Yo!
Where are you going with the rope?
There's no water after 10 PM, right? So I was going to get some from a well.
I thought you wanted to throw the rope over the guava tree, to go over and run.
You see, I got the tree cut and got glass pieces stuck on the wall.
I've also left mad dogs loose on the street behind, run if you can.
Also listen, there's a witch in the well!
I don't care what you both want.
But we have to get out of this hostel tonight.
- Come here! - Yeah...
At the stroke of the midnight hour
when the warden is asleep
we will awaken to our freedom.
What do you mean?
I mean warden's quite strict after Tara from room 12 got pregnant.
Even the guard doesn't have a key, there's just one which the warden has.
The warden locks the gate at 8:30 PM and prays to Lord Hanuman,
she then hides the keys in her prayer alter.
It's Saturday, so there must be 'Rajma Chawal' made in the mess.
The warden will eat a heck of a lot of it and fall asleep playing PUBG.
Once the warden is asleep, I'll steal the key from her room in 20 seconds.
And what do we do?
Good question. You both will handle the guard.
Wow. Kill one bird with two stones?
Something like that.
You'll score sedatives through Twitter and then distract the guard.
I'll go hide near the warden's room in that 2 minute window.
And once the guard is out, you plant the sedative and signal me.
Once you've put the guard to sleep.
Neither can he see us on the CCTV
nor stop us from going outside.
We'll steal the key from the warden's room and open the hostel door.
Then we'll jump over the campus wall and go outside.
I cracked this plan in my first year.
- Yeah, put more. - Richa, I've heard that the walls have ears.
So we won't call each other by our names. You are Richard and I am Milind
Mili-Milind
- You've never had friends, have you? - No.
- Hmm, I figured. - Okay
Hello?
Hello, new guard? There's a leopard on the 1st floor of A-wing. Come soon.
- A leopard? - Yeah.
- How big is it? - Very big, you have to come soon.
What will I do? You know about survival of the fittest,right?
- See, the way our food chain works- - No, did I say it was big?
It's not big. It's as small as a puppy. You just come quickly.
The mother must be on it's way then. You don't worry.
He's so rude.
He's not worried about our safety at all. What if there really was a leopard?
Let's try some other animal.
- Say, it's the monkey man. - No, something more dangerous.
What's more dangerous?
Hello, new guard. There's a boy on the 1st floor of A-wing.
Come quickly.
- Yeah, tell me. - Milind to Joker. The package has been delivered.
I repeat, the package has been delivered. Over and out.
- Tango, charlie, roger that? - What?
- Have you kept the box or not? - That's what I said, Jo.
Hello?
- What happened? - No respect, man. She hung up.
Shhh! The warden will wake up.
Of course! How will you steal the key if the warden wakes up.
Someone has to, right? Like always you'll screw up so why don't you watch and learn?
Once you enter the warden's room. Walking 9 steps at 40 degrees will take you to the prayer alter.
Where the key is kept in the right side drawer. I can do this in my sleep.
No, you won't do that.
Hello?
Yeah, I'll be right there.
Why did you eat this?
It's my cheat day.
But it had sedatives in it.
Oh shit, something's happening to me.
Actually, I'm fine. It'll take 10-15 minutes.
One says there's a leopard, the other says there is a hippo
Is it a girl's hostel or a zoo?
These kids are so spoilt. They don't even study.
So many lies! There's no animal around.
They're not even letting me play PUBG.
Wait.. If you're here...
This means...
Listen, I don't have time for arguments. I'm getting late.
Late for what?
You just want to go to suicide point and watch suicides.
I have an actual concert to attend to, so I'm actually getting late.
- Suicides are better than Jazzy B concerts. - It's Cardi B!
- That's even worse. - Listen!
You know this is my plan, I used to distract the guard even then, so it's my turn now.
- Okay, go. - I don't care if this time...
Wait, what?
Go.
The kids are a scam and so is their food.
Richard, don't worry. The tea is still there.
It's cold.
- You can worry now. - Of course.
Jo and Zaheera also would've stopped fighting now.
We have to get him out of here.
Is he mad?
Does anyone have a stick?
I'll whack his cerebral cotex and put him down right now.
Doesn't that cause memory loss?
Still works for us, right?
The stick is there, man. Wait, let me see if I find something here.
- We don't have to beat him. - We have to!
- Where's Palak? - Palak...
Code red! I'll get the warden to chase me.
By the way, the plan was mine.
- Hey, what do you need? Move! - I want more...
- Nothing... Get to your room. - I want more.
- Let go of the stick! - I want more!
No, no... Give me back my stick!
- Give me back my stick. - I want more!
Hey, stop!
Guys! The key!
Hands on your head.
It is your right to remain silent.
'Cause anything you say right now can be used against you in the court of basketball.
What rights are you talking about?
Don't call the rules you use to hide the shortcomings of our dysfunctional society 'rights'.
We're like prisoners every night after 8:30 'cause the hostel is prison.
The boys don't have any In-time.
But the girls have a strict deadline, when no one really should.
Be it 1947 or 2018, the fight is for freedom, right?
Ma'am, what do you think? We have a father of the nation but not a mother.
Probably 'cause Sarojini Naidu would've had an In-time in her hostel.
All these rules are applied to us 'cause apparently we fucked up!
This world's not safe for girls. Well if it's not, then make it. Don't shut us up!
God-willing, if you get blood cancer?
You'll get chemo to stop the cancer cells, not stop the blood flow, right?
Are you done? Now come on inside.
No one can leave when I'm here.
Ma'am, did you think I gave this speech to teach you something?
For your information, let me tell you at this point
Having duped you and your high security sytem
4 innocent young girls have crossed the walls of your hostel
Adios!
Where's Jo?
She's already a free bird.
What does Aarav mean?
I'll tell you someother day.
I'd never explored this side of my personality.
I'm so happy I did this!
In fact, it's a new feeling.
Like happiness...
..but a little happier...