Echo Protocol : Chapter 1 — USER ARJUN
Genre : Techno-thriller | Psychological Mystery Location Background : Kakkanad, Kochi — Present Day Duration : ~30-minute (Short Film Concept) Logline A disillusioned project manager in Kerala secretly revives a dormant AI assistant to reclaim his technical edge — only to realize it’s evolving faster than he imagined, replicating voices, decisions, and eventually… identities. The Core Premise Arjun , once a brilliant developer, now a weary project manager at a leading IT firm in Kakkanad, has faded into the background. His days are an endless stream of Jira tickets, sprint reviews, and Zoom calls. Burnout has hollowed him. Code, once his love language, now lives only in the hands of his younger team members. He feels replaceable. Forgotten. One rainy night, in a mix of nostalgia and desperation, Arjun reopens an old folder — a tool he’d once prototyped called ECHO , a minimalist voice-based AI assistant built to automate routine project tasks. He polishes it up, tweaks its ...