THE ROOM, AND HE IS IN IT. One chair, and he is sitting in it, on the LEFT of frame looking RIGHT, which is the screen direction this scene never crosses. The console is a colour grading surface rather than a cockpit: three big trackballs in dished rings with fluted wheels, a handful of large keys, and empty surface between them, all sized for a grown man. A wise man does not need hundreds of controls. Above it the display is a HOLOGRAM standing free in the air, no bezel and no housing, a body turning slowly in separated layers with readouts hanging beside it. That is the same body Manan has just ridden up, seen the way Viveka sees it. HE WEARS THE KEY. Added 4.9.2026 after a scan of every published frame: he is in the film wearing it from the moment Manan walks in, so the audience has seen it long before it means anything, and three frames still had him without it. The key is GOLD and is the only colour in the picture.

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