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Build the city they walk through.

Six locations across monsoon Kolkata. Lock the time, weather, palette, and props per setting — Storyboard places your cast inside what you build here.

Logline
The Recusal
Espionage · Ghost
Era
1987 · Kolkata
Monsoon · Bengal
Cast
6 roles
3 lead · 3 supporting
Now configuring
World
6 locations · weather · palette
Step 01 · Location roster

Six places. One monsoon.

Step 02 · Location deep-dive

Vikram's apartment · primary 01

Visual references
Apartment primary reference REF 01 · LOCKED
Apartment window detail REF 02
Apartment desk close REF 03
Description

A second-floor walk-up off Hatibagan. One room and a kitchen behind a curtain. Peeling green plaster, a single bare bulb on a frayed cord, papers on every surface that hasn't been cleared in a decade. The window faces an alley narrow enough to argue across.

Time of day
Dawn Night Pre-dawn
Weather
Rain · heavy Humid Distant thunder
Light source
Single 40-watt tungsten bulb · directional from above-left · streetlamp bleed through slatted window.
Props checklist
  • 1987 case folder · cracked binder, edges curled
  • Steel tumbler · half-cold tea
  • Single-bulb pendant on frayed cord
  • Rotary phone · black, on the wall
  • Stack of newspapers · monsoon-curled
  • Photo frame · turned face down
Period accuracy

1987 Kolkata · no plastic, no flat-screens, no logos. Visible wear on every surface. Wall calendar reads July.

Scene presence
60%
Anchors EP01, EP02, EP05
Anchor location · Vikram opens here in Scene 01
Step 03 · Time + weather

The monsoon does the acting too.

Time-of-day distribution
Dawn · 2 scenes
Day · 3 scenes
Dusk · 1 scene
Night · 4 scenes
Weather rules
  • Rain in 7 of 10 scenes — from drizzle to sheets
  • Surfaces stay wet the entire run · reflections live everywhere
  • Sky is never blue — pearl, slate, or near-black
  • Steam, mist, and incense haze are welcomed as light particles
  • Wind exists only when it serves a beat · no random gusts
Step 04 · Palette · The colors of forty wet years
5 anchors
Verdigris
#2C4A4A · walls
Terracotta
#B3655B · brick · skin
Bone
#D4B78A · kurta · paper
Storm slate
#485F6E · sky · planks
Asphalt
#1A1614 · shadow
TEXTURES Peeling paint Wet brick Damp newsprint Hand-loomed cotton Rusted iron Cracked concrete Bare bulb glow Steam · incense · breath
World snapshot
Locations
6 places
3 interior · 3 exterior
Time period
1987
July · monsoon
Palette anchors
5 colors · low-sat
Locked
1 / 6
5 still pending lock
World-build budget
6 locations · 3 refs each · weather + palette · period dressing
62 credits
~ $6.20 · already drafted
Back to Cast Lock world · go to Stage 07 — Visual
World feeds Visual, Storyboard, and Render stages
Once locked, Visual binds palette + lighting recipes to each location, Storyboard places shots inside these rooms, and Render carries the dressing forward into every frame.
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