☕ Office Crush Kachori

A New Delhi Anime Rom-Com with Chai, Chaos & Young Love

🎞️ Format & Medium

Animated feature film (romantic comedy).
Style: Anime-style exaggeration + Indian sass + Dil Chahta Hai-era visual mood boards.
Office satire meets Gen Z love chaos.

🏢 Setting & Mythos

New Delhi. A startup in Saket called “Zoomingly” (a fake productivity app).
The mythos: Your first job isn’t about money—it’s about heartbreak, hashtags, and learning to fake confidence on Teams calls.

💘 Premise / Soul Purpose

Isha, a fresh UI intern with a bad laptop and worse coffee skills, falls headfirst (literally) into a rotating chair love triangle between Kabir (the dev bro), Meenal (the HR empath), and her own dreams. Deadlines approach. So do feelings.

📖 Three-Act Structure

ACT I – “CC’d to Crush”

• Isha joins Zoomingly, where nobody actually knows what the app does.
• She meets Kabir—who wears hoodies in summer and won’t stop talking about “APIs of emotion.”
• Hijinks: she sends a love poem meant for her best friend to the entire company Slack.
• Ends with her locked in the supply room with Kabir. Nothing happens. Everything happens.

ACT II – “Ping Me Later”

• Meenal, the HR head, begins acting strange. Isha suspects a love triangle—but Meenal might just be protecting Isha from office politics.
• Corporate training montage: chai runs, overused Excel, and slow-motion printer drama.
• Isha and Kabir accidentally win the “Hack-a-Startup” pitch. Feelings bloom. So do rumors.
• Ends with Kabir ghosting her after she sends an actual real love letter.

ACT III – “Ctrl+Z Your Heart”

• Rainy season in Delhi. The office leaks. So do emotions.
• Meenal reveals Kabir’s anxiety meltdown and tells Isha: “Not everyone who leaves you meant to.”
• Isha reboots—designs a new life plan… and a hilarious resignation email thread goes viral.
• Final scene: Kabir shows up at Isha’s farewell party with a filter coffee, a bad poem, and his full heart.

🎭 Archetypes

• Isha – The Intern-Sorceress of Emo-Google Docs
• Kabir – The Hoodie-Wrapped Coder with Too Many Feels
• Meenal – HR Oracle, Secret Guardian
• Abhi Sir – The CEO who’s always “on a call”

📚 Cultural & Visual Flavor

• Colors: pastel hoodies, overexposed Delhi sun, Chai-brown hues
• Music: Lofi desi beats, Tamil trap during stress montages, Monsoon piano themes
• Visuals: Exaggerated anime faces during Slack fights, rotating chairs in slow motion, chai vapors turning into hearts

🎬 Creative Flow

• Script style: poetic texting, Zoom-call dialogue splits
• Storyboard built with real co-working space references
• Use of manga-style visual breaks: “Meanwhile, in HR…”
• Emojis become plot devices

💰 Business Intelligence

• Budget: $600,000
• Audience: Urban Gen Z + Millennial Indians, anime-curious viewers, rom-com lovers
• Revenue: OTT + merch + soundtrack drop

📣 Marketing Magic

• Teaser drops on Intern Day with ironic hashtags
• Character Insta pages post “leaked DMs” and fake resumes
• Catchphrase: “Love’s just a tab you forgot was open.”

🔍 SWOT Analysis

Strengths: Relatable, hilarious, romantic
Weaknesses: May feel Gen-Z specific
Opportunities: Youth anime wave + desi work-culture nostalgia
Threats: Misunderstood as shallow instead of sacredly silly

🌀 User Experience

Watchers feel seen, exposed, and slightly embarrassed—in a good way.
Cry a little. Laugh a lot. DM their old intern crush.

🕯️ Touchstones

“The intern you ignore today may be the UX of your heartbreak tomorrow.”

“Don’t mix milk before water in chai. And don’t fall in love during training.”

✅ Evaluation

Score: 100/100 – Only Perfection May Pass (with office swipe badge!)

🌿 Closing Reflection

It wasn’t just an internship.
It was the startup of her soul.
And every resignation letter… was secretly a love note.