Sam Pinto, age 24, lean, hard, very welcoming to his close friends and colleagues. Enjoys laughing & going to the movies with them. He loves cigarettes, music and humor, especially while boozing. He dresses up as per his frame of mind, sometimes very gently and sometimes off-the-cuff.
A joker in his family, loves & respects them eternally. Shares a very special bonding (unusual amongst his friends & the people he knows) with his mother & elder brother (he often cites him as ‘DON CORLEONE’ – out of his obsession with the movie THE GOFATHER and its strongest character, portrayed by Al Pacino). He’s very much interested in Movies, and gets so infatuated while & after watching a particular film, that he keep impersonating his favorite character, for days or months, either peeving or appealing some.
He enjoys a lot spending time with his friends, they respect & care for him to some extend and feel that he’s enough talented to get recognized, so they keep him encouraging.
Since childhood Sam was smitten by girls elder than him. His romantic fascination was always driven by them. He finds them more considerate & striking. He was sympathetically rejected by two beautiful women, only reason being ‘THE AGE DIFFERENCE’, but he feels very delighted of the fact, that it was only the matter of ‘Age’, nevertheless they loved him.
On the other hand Sam is a consummate loner at office (his workplace). He appears cold & often ungenerous; but he has a quiet steady look and a disarming smile which flashes from nowhere, lighting up his whole face. In the office, to his fellow employees & supervisors, he seems to have wandered in from a land where the inhabitants seldom speak. The head moves, the expression changes, but the eyes remain ever-fixed, unblinking, piercing empty space.
He’s always haunted by the memories of, his earlier immoral acts on personal & professional grounds.
Sam is now working in a 24/7 service call center, in a city miles away from his town, where he has to travel by train everyday (mostly nights). It’s the ninth company he’s working for (though with same profile of customer service & sales executive) in his career of five years till date.
He’s not completely a social inept, but pretends, such as being one.
Noticed or not, it doesn’t bother him, because he feels that the fellow people he works with are ‘A BUNCH OF JERKS’, the main cause of his social isolation.
Sam is one with his own surroundings. As the earth moves toward the sun, Sam moves toward violence.
*This is a depiction of the character ‘Sam Pinto‘ from my script ‘A Night Worker’.
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