SUSHI FROM SOUTHALL

"And we created you in pairs"

10 YEARS LATER
We travel through cut shots of 'PRESENT DAY' Southall. People are walking up the street, their heads engrossed in their phones. Branded shops are now everywhere. A group of boys are dressed in baggy clothes, sagging jeans and hoodies, smoking blunts outside a nearby convenience store. Ambulances and police cars race up the main road.

A NEW LOCATION.
ABUBAKAR's Car, University Car Park.

ABUBAKAR (24) is in the driver's seat. He has grown a
trimmed beard, has lost the braces and is well-groomed. ALI is sitting next to him: he is a formally dressed young man and wears circular glasses. There are three more young men in the back of the car: ABDI wears a bright red beanie, JATVINDER a lanky fellow dons a distinguishable TURBAN, and finally RAHUL who is sitting in-between the two is of athletic build.

The radio is blasting Grime/UK music. The boys throw their hands in the air, some bang on the seats.
HUSSAIN'S TURBAH is tied to ABUBAKAR's rear-view mirror.
RAHUL and JATVINDER are flicking through pictures displayed on a phone.

RAHUL
               You know she likes it hard fam.
               Next, next!

JATVINDER and RAHUL cheer.

RAHUL (cont'd)
         'Your ex wavy we tsunami, girl from
              India sweet as Nani.'

ALL
         'Head so good, now I speak
              Gujarati.'

ALI notices the TURBAH and reaches for it.

ALI
               Why do you have this?

ABUBAKAR nudges his hand away.

JATVINDER
               What you lot saying about Nando's?

        ALI
              I have plans. Abu you coming? Her
              mate's agreed to come along.

       ABUBAKAR
             This guy wants me to go with him to
             check these two random girls.

ALI
            Why would you choose to phrase it
            like that?

JATVINDER
      (to Ali)
              You some kind of perv, eh?

ALI
      (To JATVINDER)
               Bro it's consensual.

ABUBAKAR
               I'm not coming.

RAHUL
               Is she fit?

ALI
           Rahul, she's a hijabi. It is highly
           disrespectful in our religion to
           objectify women to such shallow
           superficial stereotypes.

        RAHUL
             That's a no then.

ALI
              Oh my god, here! This is what she
              looks like you miserable bunch of
              pervs.

ALI shows the profile photo from his phone. They all slowly lean in.

ALI (cont'd)
               I've been texting her all summer.
               She ticks all of the boxes. She's
               Shia, lives relatively close to me,
               did I mention that she's fluent in
                Urdu, Hindi and Swahili...