# DHUAAN (धुआँ — "Smoke") · Pitch Deck Outline
### The Unknown Gunwomen — OTT / Producer Pitch

> Slide-by-slide outline. Each slide: headline + beats + the DHUAAN asset to show.
> Tone: professional, confident, dignified. Enemy is **fictional and unnamed** throughout.

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### Slide 1 — Title
**DHUAAN (धुआँ — "Smoke") · The Unknown Gunwomen**
- A cinematic Hindi patriotic action-thriller — and a finished proof of concept.
- One line under the title: *"Seen for a heartbeat, then gone like smoke."*
- Tag: *Made solo, with AI, for about $100.*
- **Show:** `DHUAAN_thumbnail.jpg` (1280×720) full-bleed, or a held frame of drifting smoke + the title in Devanagari.

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### Slide 2 — Logline
**Three widows. A unit that doesn't exist. A war the country can't admit it's fighting.**
- Three war widows, recruited by a unit that doesn't exist, become the nation's unknown gunwomen.
- They don't seek revenge. They serve.
- They carry their dead husbands' honor forward into the dark — *seva*, not vengeance.
- **Show:** `DHUAAN_full_vertical.mp4` opening seconds, or the three character posters in a single row.

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### Slide 3 — The Hook
**The meta-story is the headline: a Bollywood-grade war anthem, made by one person, AI-native, for about $100.**
- A ~167-second cinematic film **already exists** — written, directed, shot, and cut solo.
- Work studios budget at **₹40+ lakh and a 40-person crew** — delivered in **days, for about $100**.
- A female inversion of the "unknown gunmen" mythology — fresh, ownable, and unmade elsewhere.
- **Show:** the finished film — `DHUAAN_full_1080p.mp4` (play 30–45s in the room). This is the moment that sells.

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### Slide 4 — The World
**A nation buries its soldiers in the light. DHUAAN fights in the dark.**
- DHUAAN is a deniable program: no roster, no medals, no record. If they're caught, the country has never heard of them.
- Husbands died **in the light** — honored, flags on their coffins. These women die **in the dark** — nameless, unthanked.
- *Smoke is the ghost the state can never admit it has.*
- **Show:** a ruined-border landscape frame with drifting smoke; the dawn memorial-parade still if available.

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### Slide 5 — The Three
**Three weapons, three temperaments, one instrument.**
- **MEERA "The Eye"** — sniper, the strategist; widow of an Army captain.
- **TARA "The Blade"** — close-quarters / knife, the fury; widow of a commando.
- **RANI "The Ghost"** — pistol / infiltration, walks out clean; widow of an intelligence officer.
- **Show:** `poster_MEERA.jpg`, `poster_TARA.jpg`, `poster_RANI.jpg` (the 4:5 character posters, side by side).

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### Slide 6 — The Engine: Honor, Not Grievance
**This is the lineage of Rani Lakshmibai — grief transmuted into duty.**
- Deeply patriotic women, rooted in Indian tradition — faith and custom carried into the dark, not abandoned.
- They take up the cause their husbands died for and finish it themselves. The highest form of tradition, not a rebellion against it.
- Patriotism as quiet sacrifice. The cost — what the work hollows out of them — is the soul of the show.
- **Show:** the Meera "diya + folded flag + mangalsutra" beat (the grief-to-honor turn) as a held still or short clip.

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### Slide 7 — A Day in the Unit
**"The Bridge at Zeher Nala" — what one operation looks like.**
- The brief, no comfort: take a fictional network's courier alive, the drive intact, no signatures left behind. No extraction if it goes wrong.
- The Eye takes the high ground; the Ghost walks in the front door; the count goes wrong; the Blade comes in past the wire.
- The smoke arrives — phosphor flare and river mist swallow the bridge; the enemy fires into nothing. They're already gone.
- The button: *"No one will ever know." — "He knows."*
- **Show:** the action / smoke-reveal sequence from `DHUAAN_full_1080p.mp4`.

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### Slide 8 — Why Now / The AI Advantage
**The economics of a studio pipeline, collapsed into a single operator.**
- AI-assisted direction, character consistency, and edit replace crew, locations, and units.
- A full **8–10 episode anthology season** — a studio crore-budget — becomes achievable solo, on a fraction of the time and cost.
- World, cast, and look are **already locked**; scaling to a season is execution, not invention.
- De-risked: the proof is finished and in the room, not a promise on a slide.
- **Show:** simple comparison table (₹40+ lakh / 40 crew / months  →  ~$100 / 1 / days), or a before/after pipeline graphic.

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### Slide 9 — Tone & Look
**Own the smoke. Own the grade.**
- Elevated patriotic action-thriller with a melancholy underbelly — *URI / Dhurandhar* energy.
- Visual signature: warm dust + glowing orange embers + teal shadows, ruined border-city landscapes, drifting smoke as a recurring motif.
- They appear from smoke and vanish into it — every time. The motif is the brand.
- **Show:** a 3–4 frame mood strip pulled from the film (ember warmth, teal shadow, smoke reveal).

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### Slide 10 — Season 1 Arc
**Origin → anthology of operations → the cost arc.**
- **Origin "Recruitment":** three widows found and forged into DHUAAN.
- **Ep 1 "The Bridge at Zeher Nala":** the first mission proves the unit.
- **"The Sieve" (Meera):** has duty got a floor? Her calm hands have started to frighten her.
- **"Open Hands" (Tara):** a captured boy soldier the age of the child she lost.
- **"The Reception" (Rani):** deep cover puts her back at the table where she once smiled beside her husband.
- **Show:** a season-map graphic; episode loglines laid over the three posters.

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### Slide 11 — Comparables
**Where it sits, and why it's open territory.**
- Tone & scale: *URI: The Surgical Strike*, *Dhurandhar* ("The Unknown Gunmen" strand) — patriotic action with weight.
- Ensemble & cost arc: a *seva*-driven, female-led inversion no one else is making.
- Format: anthology-of-operations structure travels — sellable, travelable, uncontroversial (fictional enemy by design).
- **Show:** a tasteful positioning quadrant (Patriotic ↔ Personal-cost; Male-led ↔ Female-led) with DHUAAN in the open quadrant.

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### Slide 12 — Fact vs. Fiction *(the responsible-handling slide)*
**Inspired by, never based on. Fictional enemy, always.**
- Echoes the real "unknown gunmen" phenomenon — reimagined as fiction, the unknown gun*women*.
- The enemy is a deliberately fictional, unnamed cross-border network. No real country, group, religion, or person named or depicted.
- Dignified and patriotic — never jingoistic or communal. Built to clear standards-and-practices cleanly.
- **Show:** clean text slide; a single smoke frame as background.

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### Slide 13 — The Ask
**A finished proof of concept, ready to scale into a season.**
- Looking for: a commissioning / development partner for **Season 1** (origin + anthology of operations).
- The creator delivers AI-native production at studio quality, solo — fast, repeatable, and de-risked by the finished pilot asset.
- Open to: full-season development, co-production, and AI-native film/advertising collaboration.
- **Show:** the three posters + the title lockup, with "Available now to develop" line.

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### Slide 14 — Contact
**Let's build the world of DHUAAN.**
- *[Creator name]* — solo AI filmmaker, documenting the build in public.
- *[Email] · [Phone] · [Handles / build-in-public links]*
- Assets available on request: full film (1080p), 72s vertical teaser, full vertical cut, character posters.
- **Show:** `DHUAAN_thumbnail.jpg` with contact details and the Devanagari title.
