Logline
The Recusal
Espionage · Ghost
Style
Gritty Handheld
1987 Kolkata · monsoon
Format
Vertical · 9:16
5 × 2m · 60fps
Now configuring
Cast
6 roles · 3 leads · 3 supporting
Step 01 · Cast roster
The Recusal · 6 characters extracted.
Step 02 · Lead deep-dive
Vikram Bose · lead 01
Casting references
Bio
Retired RAW field agent, 58, Bengali. Forty years in the trade left him with a way of entering rooms without quite arriving. He drinks tea cold. Sleeps in the chair. Once a week he walks the bridge where Mira died. He does not call it walking.
Voice profile
Gravelly
Smoke-cured
Measured
Low-register
Language · accent
Bengali-inflected English · Kolkata cadence · drops articles when tired.
Wardrobe
- Off-white kurta · sleeves rolled to elbow
- Wool waistcoat — too heavy for the season
- Old leather sandals, never new shoes
- Cracked Bulova on the left wrist · still runs
Movement signature
Enters rooms shoulder-first. Stands too long after sitting. Looks at the floor when telling the truth.
Screen time
78%
Present in all 5 episodes
Locked from Vikram's first appearance · Episode 01, Scene 02
Step 03 · Relationship map
Who owes whom?
DENSITY
7 / 15
CONFLICT EDGES
3
UNREQUITED
1
ISOLATED
0
Cast snapshot
Cast size
6 roles
3 lead · 3 supporting
Gender mix
3 F · 3 M
Lead split 2F · 1M
Age range
29–67
Median 47 · skews older
Locked
1 / 6
5 still pending lock
Cast generation budget
6 characters · 3 refs each · voice profiles · wardrobe
38 credits
~ $3.80 · already drafted
Cast feeds the World, Visual, and Storyboard stages
Once you lock the 6 roles, World adapts environments to who walks through them, Visual binds wardrobe + skin tone to the color palette, and Storyboard places these characters in every shot.
6 stages downstream