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Happily Married

Jivat Neet 2017A7PS0050P, Aditya Ramachandran 2017A3PS0339P, Shubham Saxena

2017A7PS0302P, Siddhant Khandelwal 2017A7PS0127P and Jai Vashishtha 2017B5AB0664

CHARACTERS
Anish: 25 years old, a techie at an IT firm.

Sejal: is a happy-go-lucky person, with a beautiful smile, 5’10”, energetic and cherubic.

Registrar: a charismatic man, in his mid-50s, physically fit and a brainy chap.

Registrar's wife: 53, has a wrinkly face and a lean body.
Poppy: A peppy young lady, 25, Anish's friend. She works at an investment banking firm.

SETTING

At the Registrar’s office. Small desk at which the registrar is sitting. His wife standing beside
him, giving him his lunch box. Enter Anish and Sejal from the right, wearing plain clothes
and panting.

BEGIN.

Registrar: What do we have here?

The Registrar's Wife scans them top to bottom, inquisitively.

Anish: Hi, are you the registrar?

Registrar: Yes…

Anish: We need to get married, right now!

Registrar: Why yes, I can arrange that. But why the hurry? And where are the witnesses?

Sejal: What witnesses?

Registrar: To get married, you need the presence of at least 2 witnesses.

Anish: Oh Christ. I’ll call Piya and Poppy, they live close by only.

Anish steps aside to make the call.

Registrar's Wife: How did you guys meet?

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