Nikhil & Jay

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[Upbeat introduction music]

DESCRIPTION: Two brothers open the front door of their home. The older brother, Nikhil, has brown hair and wears a red hooded sweater with a dinosaur emblem. The younger brother, Jay, has brown hair and wears a blue-and-green sweater.

NIKHIL: Hi, I'm Nikhil.

JAY: And I'm Jay!

NIKHIL: Here's a little story about where our family's from.

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil pulls down a map. Illustrations of their mother, Amma, and their father, Appa, appear. Amma has brown hair and wears orange glasses. Appa has brown hair and a brown beard.

[singing]

BROTHERS: It starts in South India with Amma, our mom. She caught a plane to England and met our dad, Appa!

DESCRIPTION: Appa and Amma dance side by side while Appa holds a cup of tea. Amma wears a blue top with orange pants. Appa wears a red quarter-zip sweater and blue pants.

[singing]

BROTHERS: She loves to dance, and he makes the best cuppa!

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil and Jay dance together and with their parents.

[singing]

BROTHERS: Oh! And then we came along. Oh! And this is our song. Oh-oh, Nikhil and Jay! Oh-oh Nikhil and Jay!

JAY: Nikhil likes… Missions!

NIKHIL: Jay likes… Being loud!

BROTHERS: We both love to dream!

DESCRIPTION: Miniature versions of Nikhil and Jay play on a carrom board. The brothers fly through the sky in a rocket ship.

[singing]

BROTHERS: We can shoot a carrom pocket! Yeah, or blast off in a rocket! We make the greatest team.

NIKHIL: Wait.

JAY: What!?

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil and Jay hold up a tablet, displaying a video call with their grandparents, Ammamma and Thatha. Ammamma is wearing an orange-and-blue sari, and Thatha is wearing a beige shirt, with glasses hanging around his neck. Behind Nikhil and Jay are their other set of grandparents, Jim and Nana. Jim has gray hair and wears a green shirt. He is holding a plate of food. Nana has gray hair and wears a yellow high-visibility jacket. She is holding a crossing guard sign.

[singing]

BROTHERS: There's Ammamma and Thatha! And Jim and Nana! And don't forget Max the cat!

DESCRIPTION: An orange cat licks his paw. The whole family dances together.

[Max meowing]

[singing]

FAMILY: Oh-oh, Nikhil and Jay! Oh-oh, Nikhil and Jay, Oh-oh, Nikhil and Jay, Oh-oh, Nikhil and Jay!

[Upbeat music ends]

[Opening credits] “BBC”.

[Title] “Nikhil & Jay.”

[Credits continue] “Based on the books by Chitra Soundar.”

DESCRIPTION: Jay narrates the episode title. “Nikhil & Jay and the Never–Done–It–Day.”

[Credits continue] “Series Director: Jamie Teehan. Director: Nandita Jain. Written by: Jen Wakefield.”

DESCRIPTION: Amma, Appa, Nikhil, Jay, Grandpa Jim, and Nana play carrom together. Amma is on one team, and everyone else is on another. Amma glares at the carrom board, and everyone else looks at the board nervously. Jay has a bright smile.

[Amma growling]

AMMA: Hm...

[Murmuring]

[Amma grunting]

DESCRIPTION: Amma flicks her fingers and sends her piece down the board. She perfectly splits two pieces and sinks them into the pockets.

[Clacking]

[Gasping]

AMMA: Yes!

APPA: How does she do it?!

ALL: Wow...

[Amma humming to herself]

DESCRIPTION: Amma blows on her fingers, smirks, and walks back towards the kitchen.

[Blowing]

AMMA: Hm.

NANA: Oh!

DESCRIPTION: A wave of food smells wafts from the kitchen and into the living room.

[Nana sniffing]

DESCRIPTION: The smell lifts Nana onto her toes, and she walks into the kitchen. She stands by the stove with Amma.

NANA: Oh! What is that smell?! It's gorgeous!

[Amma chuckling]

AMMA: This is sambar.

NANA: Oh!

AMMA: And this is coconut chutney.

NANA: Oh!

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil and Jay enter the kitchen and wave their hands.

BROTHERS: For the dosa-dosa-dosas!

NANA: Oh... Dosas. Do you know, I've never tried a dosa before.

BROTHERS: What?!

NIKHIL: It's like a pancake!

JAY: But yummier than a pancake.

[Laughing]

NANA: You're making me hungry.

[Amma gasping]

AMMA: You and Jim should stay for dinner!

JIM: Oh, that'd be smashing.

NANA: Oh-ho, yes, please.

NIKHIL: So today is your never-had-a-dosa day!

NANA: I guess it is!

[Laughing]

NANA: I do love doing things I've never done before.

[Jay gasping]

JAY: Ooh, I know! We should all have a never-done-it day. Today! Come on, let's go!

DESCRIPTION: Appa sits at the carrom board. Jim stands behind him.

[Appa sighing]

APPA: Come on. You've got this! Feel the carrom. Be the carrom! Win the carrom!

DESCRIPTION: Appa flicks the carrom piece. It spins across the board, hits the edge, flies into Appa’s nose, and lands back in its original place.

[Clacking]

[Clacking, sighing]

BROTHERS: Appa! Appa!

APPA: Eh?

JAY: Today is never-done-it day!

NIKHIL: Yeah!

APPA: Eh? I thought today was Wednesday.

[Laughing]

NIKHIL: Everyone is going to do something they've never done before!

JIM: Oh, sounds like fun. Hey, Jay. What do you want to do on your never-done-it day?

JAY: Uh…

DESCRIPTION: Jay daydreams of swimming with a dolphin.

[Laughing, dolphin clicking]

JAY: Ooh! A dolphin! A dosa dolphin!

[Clicking]

DESCRIPTION: Jay rides the dolphin and splashes through the waves.

JAY: Yeah!

[Laughing]

[Clicking]

JAY: Yeah!

[Dolphin clicking]

JAY: Whee! Yeah!

DESCRIPTION: In reality, Jay runs around the house.

JAY: Whoo-hoo! I want to swim with a dosa dolphin!

NIKHIL: Um, that might be a bit tricky.

JIM: Nah, we can totally make that happen.

DESCRIPTION: Later, Grandpa Jim wears a party hat, and Jay is sitting on his shoulders. Jim runs around with Jay while making dolphin noises.

JIM: Yee-ha!

[Laughing and dolphin clicking]

JIM: Hold on tight!

[Gasping and blubbering]

JAY: Faster, dosa dolphin, faster! Whee!

[Laughing and dolphin clicking]

NIKHIL: Appa, what about your never-done-it day?

APPA: Hm. Well, I've never… Oh! ...Beaten Amma at carrom. So that'd be quality!

DESCRIPTION: Amma leans over and flicks a carrom piece across the board. She sinks a piece in the pocket.

[Clacking and dinging]

AMMA: Ha! And you never will. Sorry!

[Amma laughing]

[Appa sighing]

APPA: I suppose I could play the mop guitar?

DESCRIPTION: Jim tosses Appa the mop. Appa pretends the mop is an electric guitar.

JAY: Whee!

[Laughing]

APPA: Ooh!

[Imitating guitar playing]

NIKHIL: Uh-uh! You played the mop guitar last week, Appa!

[Laughing]

APPA: Oh yeah...

JIM: Ah, but have you played the mop guitar…

DESCRIPTION: Jay puts a bundle of bananas on Appa’s head.

JIM: ...with bananas on your head?

[Appa laughing]

[Jay laughing]

APPA: Never! Let's hear if for some… banana rock!

[Imitating guitar playing]

[Family laughing and cheering]

JAY: Your turn, Amma, for never-done-it day!

AMMA: Well, I've never… Ooh! Rocked out with Max.

[Max meowing]

JAY: Nikhil, your turn!

NIKHIL: And I've never…

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil looks at his dinosaur toy.

NIKHIL: bounced with a rajasaurus!

JIM: Oh, we can make both of those happen!

DESCRIPTION: Later, Jim plays music on the radio. Appa plays the mop guitar, Amma head-bangs with Max, and Nikhil bounces around the room with his dinosaur toy.

[Amma and Appa Laughing]

[Loud music playing]

NIKHIL: Boing. Boing.

[Loud music playing]

NIKHIL: Rah! Boing. Boing. Rah!

[Loud music playing]

NIKHIL: Boing. Boing. Boing.

[Loud music playing]

NIKHIL: Boing. Rah!

[Max meowing]

DESCRIPTION: Jay turns off the radio.

JIM: Oh!

[Appa singing to himself]

[Max meowing]

JAY: Jim-Jim! What about you?

JIM: Eh?

NIKHIL: Yeah! You've helped us try new things. Now it's your turn!

JAY: Yeah!

JIM: Hm... Let me think. Ah, got it. I've never played a five-hour drum solo before.

DESCRIPTION: The brothers run and get pots and wooden spoons.

BROTHERS: Okay, here you go!

[Banging]

JIM: Oh no, wait.

BROTHERS: Huh?

JIM: I've done that. Back when my hair was long.

BROTHERS: Oh.

[Sighing]

JIM: Got it! I've never… done a headstand with a mango on each foot.

JAY: Okay!

DESCRIPTION: The brothers leave, and each returns with a mango.

NIKHIL: Coming up!

JIM: Oh, wait. No. No, I've done that… last Tuesday.

[Sighing]

JIM: Actually...

[Gasping]

JIM: Actually...

NIKHIL: Ha!

JIM: Actually… Actually...I can't think of anything.

BROTHERS: What?! Nothing?!

JIM: Sorry, boys. Seems there's nothing on earth I haven't done.

JAY: Nikhil, we need to find a never-done-it for Jim!

DESCRIPTION: In Nikhil’s imagination, he is standing in space, on top of the earth.

NIKHIL: Hm… There's nothing on earth Jim hasn't done.

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil leaps on a spaceship and flies past stars, meteors, dinosaurs, and the moon.

NIKHIL: But what about space? Yeah! Ha-ha!

[Laughing]

NIKHIL: Yeah! Wahoo!

[Laughing]

DESCRIPTION: Back in reality.

NIKHIL: Actually, I've got it! Come on!

[Laughing]

NIKHIL: Jim, have you ever flown into space?

JIM: Uh... Yes.

NANA: Huh?!

JIM: July 1976.

NIKHIL: What?!

JIM: No, no. Only joking.

[Laughing]

NANA: Oh, Jim!

JIM: No, I've never been to space.

NIKHIL: Yay! Mission: Send Jim to Space is go, go, go!

DESCRIPTION: Later, Jim, Nikhil, and Jay are in the brothers’ bedroom. Nikhil and Jay stack pillows on the ground.

BROTHERS: Yeah! Whoo-hoo! Wheee!

DESCRIPTION: Jay hands Jim a metal colander.

JAY: And here's your space-hat thingy.

DESCRIPTION: Jim puts the colander on his head and steps onto the pillows.

JIM: Whoo-hoo!

[Laughing]

NIKHIL: Buckle up, Jim.

[Laughing]

JIM: Oh!

[Wobbling]

BROTHERS: Three. Two. One. Blast off!

JIM: Ah! One small step for man...

[Wobbling]

DESCRIPTION: Jim wobbles and falls to the ground.

JIM: Yeah-- oh! Ow! Ooh! Ow! Ooh. One bumpy landing for my bottom.

DESCRIPTION: Jim reaches under him, where he fell on a toy car.

[Honking]

[Laughing]

JAY: Eh...

NIKHIL: Um...

JAY: We need to try something else!

DESCRIPTION: Jay and Nikhil look out the window, where a bird lands on their windowsill.

[Chirping]

BROTHERS: Hm...

[Chirping]

[Gasping]

JAY: That's it!

DESCRIPTION: Jay, Nikhil, and Jim stand in the backyard. They look up at a tree where the bird has landed.

[Chirping]

NIKHIL: Little birdie, we need your help!

[Chirping]

JAY: Jim needs to get to space. Can you fly him... please?!

[Chirping]

DESCRIPTION: The bird walks towards them.

NIKHL: Yes! It's coming to help! Get ready, Jim!

[Chirping]

DESCRIPTION: The bird flies off the tree and over them. The bird flies over Jim, poops on his head, and Jim falls into a mud pile.

JIM: Oh... Ooh!

NIKHIL: Uh-oh.

JAY: Uh-oh.

JIM: That's what's known as a splat landing.

[Laughing]

JAY: Sending Jim to space is hard!

DESCRIPTION: Later, Jim, Jay, and Nikhil walk into the living room. Jim cleans his head with a towel. Jay and Nikhil look at a shipping box on the kitchen counter.

[Gasping]

NIKHIL: I know! We can post Jim! Just like Ammamma and Thatha posted this!

JAY: So we could post Jim to space?

NIKHIL: Yes!

JAY: That's a brilliant idea, Nikhil!

DESCRIPTION: Later, Jim is standing in the postage box. Nikhil is writing on a piece of paper.

NIKHIL: Hm. Number 42, Outer Space. There, done!

DESCRIPTION: Jay takes the paper from Nikhil and tucks it behind Jim’s ear.

NIKHIL: And the most important bit…

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil sticks a stamp to Jim’s forehead.

NIKHIL: Done.

JIM: Ready, Jim?

JIM: Ready as I'll ever be, sir!

DESCRIPTION: Jim stands triumphantly in the box. Nikhil and Jay push as hard as they can on one side of the box, but it does not move.

NIKHIL [straining]: Just got to get you to the post box!

DESCRIPTION: Jim falls over.

JIM: Whoa! Oof! Oh… Aw...

JAY: Ugh, it's not working!

NIKHIL: Sorry, Jim. We haven't given you a never-done-it day. Hm.

JAY: Hm.

DESCRIPTION: Jay and Nikhil frown. Jim wraps his arms around the brothers.

JIM: You're right. You haven't given me one never-done-it day.

BROTHERS: Aw.

DESCRIPTION: Jim smiles brightly.

JIM: You've given me three never-done-it days in one!

JAY: Three? How?

JIM: Well, I've never landed bottom-first on a rickshaw...

[Laughing]

JIM: I've never had a splat landing in a pile of soil, while a bird pooped on me head.

[Laughing]

JIM: And I've certainly never ever been a giant parcel. So I'd say it's the first time that two of my favourite people have given me three great never-done-its. Come here!

DESCRIPTION: Jim gives Nikhil and Jay a big hug.

ALL: Aw...

JIM: My faves, you two.

[Amma calls out from the kitchen.]

AMMA: Dosas are ready!

[Gasping]

AMMA: Wash those hands!

JAY: Yes!

NIKHIL: Yes!

BOTH: Dosa, dosa, dosa!

DESCRIPTION: Nikhil and Jay run off. Jim smiles.

[Laughing]

DESCRIPTION: Later, the family sits at the dinner table. Everyone is eating together.

[Munching]

NANA: Mm! Oh, that dosa was absolutely smashing!

JAY: Yay!

NIKHIL: Yeah!

JAY: Nana's first dosa!

NIKHIL: Now we've all had a never-done-it day.

JIM: Oh, yeah, that was absolutely delicious! Hey, do you know, I've never had a dosa before either.

BROTHERS: What?!

[Gasping]

ALL: Jim!

[Everyone laughing]

DESCRIPTION: Later, Appa stares intently at the carrom board.

[Appa exhaling]

APPA: Come on.

[Inhaling and exhaling

DESCRIPTION: He flicks the carrom piece and sinks it. He waves his arms and celebrates.

[Clacking and dinging]

[Gasping]

APPA: Whoo-hoo-hoo! I did it! Oh, did anyone see that? Anyone?

DESCRIPTION: Appa is alone in the room.

[Sighing]

DESCRIPTION: Appa accidentally leans on the carrom board, and all the pieces go flying. Appa trips and lands on the ground.

[Grunting]

DESCRIPTION: Max lies down next to Appa.

[Meowing]

APPA: Aw...

[Purring]

[Upbeat music]

[End Credits] “Cast. Nikhil: Shiv Senthilkumar, Jay: Sai Ganesh Nadesan, Amma: Charithra Chandran, Appa: Ben Harris, Mr. Awan: Tez Ilyas, Max: Harriet Carmichael. Casting: Brilliant Casting. Additional Voice Direction: Jessica Hann. Composers: Sidh Solanki & Shridhar Solanki. Lead Storyboard Artist: Rosie Cash. Storyboard Artist: Sophie Osinski. Script Editor: Becky Overton. Produced with funding from the Northern Ireland Screen & Cake. King Banana, Paper Owl Films for BBC. An Albert Certified Production.”