Lenin Pandiyan (2026) Movie Script

1
'Mercenary gang wasn't involved.'
'What is that boy's name?'
'His name is Rajesh.'
'He is in grade 11.'
On his way back from school
7 of Qutab sir's men
have stabbed and killed him.
'Yov! What the hell is
happening in Vaniyankudi?'
Those villagers are a nasty lot.
That's a village with maximum crime rate
in the town station limit.
A constable was thrashed last week.
- Isn't it that village?
- Yes, sir.
The constable who got beaten
is from your station, right?
- Yes, sir.
- 'B.S!'
Aren't you ashamed?
'Is this the way to
maintain the station?'
- No, sir-
- 'You seem to be unfit.'
Going with strong back up?
'Full strength, sir
I'll handle it.'
- What, all of you are ready?
- Ready, sir.
All of you, listen to me.
Don't spare anyone at the spot.
Even if referred by a relative,
sub inspector or any crap.
If I get to know about it.
No one can work
peacefully at the station.
- Understand?
- Yes, sir.
Hey! What are you doing here?
You there, Charity Case.
Come out.
Come out of the line.
Why are you standing here?
- I'll also come, sir.
- For what?
'Protection?'
If you come with us
as protection squad.
I have to assign a cop to protect you!
[sniggering]
Remove it.
Remove your helmet.
'You heard me?'
'Take that from him.'
Did you behave like a policeman?
Unable to handle a handful
of thugs, got beaten in mid road.
Fell into a gutter
and disgraced us.
'Stop here.'
Halt.
- You can't go that side.
- Why shouldn't we go?
Pongal festival is being celebrated.
We know what you'll do
in the drunken stupor you are in.
- What nonsense!
- You go.
I just told you not to go.
- Why did you take my key?
- You are defying me and driving drunk.
Eff you, da.
How dare you raise
your hand on a policeman!
[overlap of angry voices]
Insult to the station because
of you, SP is pulling me up.
You stick to station duty.
- No, sir.
- What?
Seeing them with arms and guns
you wanted to play action hero too?
You need strength to carry a gun
and tackle your assailants.
- We lack that, no?
- No, sir.
Your assumption is wrong, sir.
Are you trying to argue with me?
'Come here.'
COME HERE, MAN.
Salute.
Your hand has to die only by saluting.
I will never allow you to touch a gun.
'Bear that in mind.'
'Tomorrow is worship
of weapons and tools.'
I want you to bring workers
to clean the entire station spic and span.
But don't clean any gun.
'We have separate cops
assigned for it.'
'Update me if you get any call
from our higher authorities.'
Clear out!
'All of you, leave.'
'Get into the jeep.'
'Speed up
Get into the jeep.'
'Some of you, come to this van.'
'Get in, quick.'
'Move it.'
'Sivagangai
City Police Station.'
[police siren wailing]
'Disgrace.'
'It is like a twin born with me.'
'Not just today or yesterday.'
'From the day
I could walk and talk.'
'It is my constant companion
clasping my hand.'
'Sir, let me also participate
in the kabbadi competition.'
'Hey! You are such a Lilliput.'
'You want to be beaten to death
in kabbadi competition.'
'CC...Charity Case.'
'CC...Charity Case
CC...Charity Case.'
'Egg plant...brinjal.'
'Shortest of them all.'
'CC...Charity Case.'
'Why say no to a job in your hand?'
'What is your problem, da?'
Because my father passed away.
I don't want a job based on
compassionate grounds as a bonus.
Listen to me.
I know your father for 30 years.
Even his last moment before dying
he would've thought only of you.
My sensible advice
like a father to you.
Accept this job.
Didn't this same uniform
take him away from us?
That's why I don't want this job, sir.
You are wrong in thinking so.
Like uncle Joseph said.
I am not asking you to go
as body guard wearing this uniform.
In this situation, this uniform
is your protection.
'When we fell in love and got married
my family thought you are a nobody.'
That's why they are
on a rampage to kill you.
'Try becoming a police officer.'
Let's see who will try
to accost you then.
'Why is your name
so short as Lenin?'
My name may have fewer letters.
But the namesake did justice to greatness.
Our names may be different.
But the cause they strived for is the same.
'Opposed slavery and dictatorship.'
'Now tell me your name.'
'Maaravarman Sundarapandian.'
'Lenin Pandiyan.'
Hey!
I believe you told uncle Joseph
you intend quitting your job?
Pccht! I am asking you.
Yes, I am quitting.
And then what?
Study for UPSC.
Hey! Didn't we already
decide about this?
You can attempt IAS exam
while still keeping your police job.
Station duty?
What do you think my job entails?
I thought you liked your job?
I was trying my best
not to tell you.
That uniform you mentioned
didn't provide protection for me.
Branded me with disgrace!
You know what I am expected to do
in the name of 'station duty'?
'Daily stand in front of the station
and salute more than 100 times.'
Will you face DSP's anger?
- Sorry, sir.
- Such a pain!
There is a shack of a loo.
'Who has to clean that loo?'
Why are you simply watching?
Poke and clean it up.
'I have to clean all that crap.'
I have to go and buy 'biriyani', bun, tea
to all those accused, criminals, rowdies.
Is this a policeman's duty?
Not even one day have they taken me
for interrogation or protection.
They treat me like a bonded laborer.
'All of them mock at me.'
My life is crappy, eh?
I said this then
I'm repeating it now.
I don't want this job
on compassionate grounds.
I'll go in search of a job
befitting my skill.
Hey! You want to get scared
of this lot and escape?
Should I be a slave
till my last breath?
Should I always be a constable?
I never said that.
All I am asking you is
to be a bit patient.
Aren't they humiliating you daily
by asking you to salute constantly?
They insult you by making you
run all kinds of errands, no?
Till the day all of them
have no other go but to salute you.
I'm asking you to be patient.
Anyone who has achieved a lot in life
has never been respected by them at first.
They only know to humiliate and insult.
That's exactly what they are doing to you.
Very soon they will respect you too.
Until that day dawns
please be a bit patient.
Your time to shine will happen.
- 'Tell me, cough up the truth.
- Aiyo...God help me!'
'Bloody! Tell me
He's so tight lipped.'
Why is he whacking them so ruthlessly?
We are looking for
a lawyer by name Pandidurai.
Till he is caught
they will be beaten black and blue.
What is the problem, bro?
Lawyer Pandidurai
took the help of a few youngsters.
Ravi is part of a sand mafia.
This lawyer records his sand theft
and uploads on Facebook.
Petitioning in the court
On top of it anonymous petitions too.
We picked 2 of them from that gang.
'If you don't spit it out
your funeral.'
'You will land up in the graveyard.'
Stop it
You think tears will save you.
Yov! Give me the lathi.
Not to me
Give it to him.
'Hey! Take it.'
Take it.
TAKE IT.
Till you tell me that lawyer's whereabouts.
Your son will keep hitting you.
Hit him.
Hit him, I say.
Yov! Bring that iron rod.
Break his father's ankle.
I will hit him.
'Oh God! That hurts.'
[mobile ringing]
- Hello?
- 'Murder in front of Sivagangai court.'
'Only a head has been placed
in front of the court steps.'
'It has been identified as
lawyer Pandidurai's head, sir.'
- 'They are looking for his body.'
- Is it the same-
I mentioned lawyer Pandidurai
They have killed him.
I anticipated it tomorrow morning.
Sooner than I thought.
Anyway the body will be
brought to our Govt Hospital.
I'll handle the post postmortem.
Tell your brother not to worry.
You killed a lawyer unfairly
claiming you will prevent sand theft.
Wretched rogues!
Ravi & co are truly quick on their toes.
Who is that Ravi?
Darkie Ravi.
'Guardian deity Karuppu.'
'You are omnipotent.'
'I have reached this level
with great difficulty.'
'I have many more wishes
to be fulfilled.'
'Whoever comes in between as an obstacle
I don't know any option other than this.'
'Do not direct your anger
at me at any time, Lord.'
For now, accept this.
You've heard of quarry mafia
blasting mountains.
This one is sand mafia!
'Ravi & Co Ledger
Date, Lorry #, Driver.'
Haven't I told you not to drive
through Vaniyankudi village?
As if the police will catch you
if you go via Sivagangai by-pass?
'Manamadurai Police.'
'As on this day and date, Ravi rules
the entire Vaigai river and its bed.'
Hey! #1848.
You haven't signed in the ledger.
Come and sign.
- Better learn to drive the given route.
- Okay, anna.
'Ravi isn't into sand theft
for his personal gain.'
For his brother Rathinam.
'Permanent Chairman of Sivagangai.'
'Rajarathinam.'
'C.M.Rajarathinam.'
'Sivagangai's unopposed chairman.'
'They get bribe money worth 3 billion
per annum thanks to the sand mafia!'
Ravi greases palms here smoothly.
That's why I asked you
to get transferred here.
'Not just our station, bro.'
'SP office
RTO office.'
'DSP office.'
I've brought what you asked, anna.
Rathinam, you beat
God of wealth, Kuberan hollow.
MP seat is all yours this time.
- Confirmed.
- I am honored, anna.
'They have bought it all
with clout and cash.'
They seem to be a ruthless lot.
How much longer will they loot our soil?
This sand theft will go on
till they keep stuffing their pockets.
"A billion souls, united and free
Living in the light of liberty."
"To see our nation like a shrine
We need a freedom pure and divine."
"Without fear, to sing and play
Let freedom lead our joyous way."
"Wherever hearts in bondage suffer in vain
freedom needed to erase their pain."
"One sky above, one earth for you and me."
"Let's unite to sing one song of liberty."
[song from 'Aayirathil Oruvan']
[appreciative applause]
You sing so brilliantly.
With such a good voice, looks like
we can join you in 'Super Singer' program.
Don't make fun.
I am singing to take
my mind off the boredom and labor.
What brings you here
so early in the morning?
Coming Friday is auspicious.
Just nod your head.
We can register your land.
You sound like a broken record!
Lady Luck is smiling on you
your farm land is near the river bed.
Listen, ask what you want
Our anna will give you gladly.
Don't dilly dally, we need to
proceed with our Aqua plan.
Listen, my dear chap,
after my relatives deceived me.
This land is my only asset.
See those twin palm trees.
My father is buried there.
Under that tamarind tree
we buried my grandfather.
Tomorrow, when I breathe my last.
'I have to rest in peace
only in my land here.'
What will I do if I sell this?
Sir is asking you to sell.
With such a small piece of land
as if it yields grains in tonnes.
You are acting pricey.
Don't act over smart
Just agree and sell, man.
Pcccht! I don't change my mind
What I say holds good for all time.
- I won't sell my land.
- Yov! What is in your mind?
You discuss amongst yourselves
I have work to do.
You said he was an ignorant fool.
But he seems to be well-informed.
Sir, he is an ignorant imbecile.
Not a single soul
in our village respects him.
Only now.
Only now he has become henpecked.
Oh! He has a wife and children?
No children, sir.
Just his wife.
That too, till the age of 45
he was roaming around as a bachelor.
All of a sudden, he got
married to a 20-year-old female.
- Oh!
- Don't even ask.
He thinks he's Sivaji
'in 'Mudhal Mariyadhai.'
And his wife is heroine Radha.
We can't bear to watch their love-antics.
I was wondering why I could smell
dry fish curry in the morning.
Couldn't you wait till I get home?
I went to the field in the morning.
When I got back home
you were missing.
The marinated dried fish caught my eye.
I made dry fish gravy.
By the way, where did you go?
Mesquite flowers are
all over your hair.
We have a pet at home
that's becoming a pest.
At the crack of dawn, it went
running behind that black bull.
I had a terrible time
tracking her down.
She pushed me into thorny bushes.
Look at this.
My hands and legs are full of thorns
I struggled and brought her home.
How could she push you like this?
Yes, I was able to remove
the thorns on my hands.
But the thorns in my feet
have pierced way too deep.
Pierced thorns shouldn't be left untreated.
Go inside
I'll come.
Okay.
Where? Show me your foot.
Good lord!
Gone real deep.
Looks like it is embedded in your sole.
My God! It's really big.
'Gently, dear.'
Gen-
Look at the size of this thorn.
Real rough and tough one.
Rest assured this won't
cause any swelling or infection.
Tell me something.
Did you eat anything
in the morning?
How could I? I told you
I went behind her at dawn.
Wait here.
Hold this.
Finger-licking good aroma, no?
Eat.
Oh! Aiyo!
Wait...wait.
How can you eat?
Let me feed you.
Eat, dear.
How is the taste?
Akka!
- 'Sandhanam akka!'
- I'm coming.
Why are you going
half way through your meal?
What happened to him?
Why is his hair smeared
fully with sacred ash?
Shouldn't he behave like a good boy, akka?
He has a pet dog
called 'Tiger Puli.'
He went to look for his lost dog.
Can he go near Pandi temple
after sunset, akka?
He saw something there
and got the scare of his life.
So I took him to the priest in Pandi temple
who smeared sacred ash to protect my boy.
What did he say?
- Apparently, Pandi deity scared him.
- Good lord!
During the next new moon.
If we sacrifice a pregnant goat.
He said everything will be alright.
That's why I came to see you.
How can I be of any help?
Don't you have a pregnant goat
tethered in your shed.
Hey!
Are you mad or what?
How can you ask me
to part with my kid?
Clear out now.
If he overhears this
he will throw a fit.
'Listen.'
Don't get mad at me for asking you this.
You have a daughter, right?
If I asked you
to give her likewise.
How will you feel?
What logic is this?
Am I asking for myself?
This is an offering to Lord Pandi.
Clear out right away.
Don't talk nonsense.
Do you know how upset she will be
if she overhears?
- Go home.
- Just leave.
- Let's go.
- Okay.
- You were interrupted while eating.
- Yes.
- Go and eat.
- You come in too.
Meenatchi?
Meenatchi.
'Meenatchi.'
- 'Hey, Meenatchi.'
- Obsessed with Meenatchi.
Where do you disappear?
How long do I search for you?
Hey!
Hey! Here you are.
She is a foolish lady.
She will blabber some nonsense.
Don't get upset, okay?
Will I give away my beautiful kid?
Will I give away the apple of my eye?
My darling daughter!
Will I give away my precious princess?
Okay...okay.
Don't be mad.
Why is your stomach sucked in?
Huh?
Your umbilical cord is here!
Did you deliver your kid?
Where is your baby?
You are bleeding.
Wh...where?
Here you are?
Sandhanam, come
and look at this miracle.
Hurry up.
What is this, dear?
She delivered her kid
without a bleat.
My smart daughter.
You didn't want to interrupt our mealtime.
You delivered so quietly, huh ?
Such a gem!
- Healthy buckling.
- Yes, dear.
- It is fair too.
- Yes, just like me.
He has good features.
I'll name him right away.
Velu.
How does it sound?
Unsuitable, dear
Look at his dear face.
He's such a baby.
Then true to his name
'Kuzhandhaivel.'
Meenatchi.
Your kid's name is 'Kuzhandhaivel.'
Our grandson's name is also 'Kuzhandhaivel.'
Do you approve?
Listen, my dear nephew!
'Did they push your son-in-law into
the gutter?' is what people ask me.
No relative of mine can go
near Sivagangai station.
They ask if my son-in-law
is cleaning the toilet over there.
Honestly, I feel humiliated.
Before this, he eloped with
my daughter and insulted me.
Now claiming he is a policeman.
He is behaving like a clown.
Listen to me.
Let us forget the past.
Tell him to leave this police job.
Ask him to stay at home
and handle our granite company.
If he insists on being a joker.
Ask him how much he wants.
I'll pay him.
Ask him to set my daughter free.
My daughter is still young.
My nephew here is eligible.
I'll get my daughter married to him.
I need to know your decision today.
He's asking you, right?
Tell him your decision.
Are you ashamed?
If you feel that way
don't call and talk to me.
If you call me again.
I will humiliate you even more.
Understand?
What temerity!
- Let's finish fast.
- Give me that.
Weigh that.
[overlap of vendor voices]
Give us 1 kilo, anna.
Hey CC, charity case.
What are you doing here?
Not gone to the station?
I'll go now, sir.
Past 2 days I've been telling you
jeep needs to be checked.
Can't you bring a mechanic?
'How many times should I tell you?'
If the jeep stops in the middle of the road
you want me to carry it on my head?
I am giving you only small errands to run.
Does it pain to
do a good job of it?
Tell him you can't do, da.
Sir, my wife.
Listen, this is work related.
Don't poke your nose in this.
What is work related, sir?
Giving him menial jobs?
Disrespecting him all the time?
Will you please be quiet?
- Wait.
- I'll talk to him.
Just give him a policeman's duty, sir.
I know who is fit
to do which job.
You don't preach to me.
'You are capable of only menial job'
What if your higher-ups told you this?
- Be quiet, di.
- Let me finish.
Listen, madam.
Don't interfere unnecessarily.
This is not just for your ears.
This is meant for
everyone in your station.
- Don't address him 'da' disrespectfully.
- Be quiet.
Stop your nicknames
like 'Charity Case.'
Listen to me, be quiet.
If you treat him disrespectfully hereafter
you will get the same treatment from him.
I'm keeping quiet because
you are a policeman's wife.
If it had been anyone else
I would have put her behind bars.
Let me see how
you can do that, sir.
- Stop it, dear.
- Hands off.
Why argue with that motor-mouth?
He was beaten up and
pushed into a roadside gutter.
My boss pulled me up for it.
What, da? Are you making your wife
speak your mind out to me?
Let me make it clear, your husband
is only capable of menial jobs always.
'He will never hold a gun in his hand.'
Come to the station
I will deal with you there.
- Sir...sir.
- Let me also wait and watch!
I bear the brunt of his stupidity
with my boss daily.
- So will you fight here?
- Why are you buying trouble for me?
I don't know how he will
take his revenge on me now.
Don't think about it hereafter.
Don't go to the station anymore
Quit your job this month.
And then what?
I'll get a job.
I've applied for 2-3 jobs.
Just focus on your studies.
When you harped
about job hassle.
I didn't know it was
such a major issue.
Why should you get insulted
by an ass like him!
Cha! Even I feel humiliated.
What? You feel ashamed?
Why is your whole family
parroting the same dialog?
Did all of you decide
I am good-for-nothing?
-I didn't mean like that.
- Listen.
I cannot quit my job
to lessen your shame, okay?
No need for me to live on
your money or your family's donation.
I prefer being his slave.
That at least gives me
the identity of a police officer.
If you bring up the topic
of getting a job-
- I said it for your good, da.
- Try your luck!
My dear.
Let's eat.
Wait for a while
Let Meenatchi come back.
She will find her way home
You come, let's eat.
I've got 'agathi' greens for her.
- Is Kuzhandhaivel back?
- Yes, safe and sound.
If the kid is back
why hasn't Meenatchi come?
Wait, I'll go and check.
It's a new moon pitch dark night.
Be careful.
Meenatchi?
Meenatchi.
My precious pet.
Meenatchi.
Meenatchi?
Hey! Turn off all the lights.
Turn it off.
Meenatchi.
[Meenatchi bleating]
[Kuzhandhaivel bleating]
What the hell did we hit, da?
I don't know, anna
Wait, let me check.
Meenatchi.
Meenatchi.
Meenatchi?
Meenatchi.
MEENATCHI.
My darling Meenatchi.
Oh! MEENATCHI.
It's a goat, brother.
After all a goat, no?
Okay, let's be on our way.
Wretched bloody sinners!
You ran over my goat
with your damn lorry.
Dai! That old man broke our mirror.
What happened, anna?
He broke our mirror.
Why did you throw a stone
and break the side view mirror?
Kick you senseless!
You killed my child
and now hitting me?
'Why have all the trucks halted?'
This old man broke the rear view mirror
because his goat was run over.
Old man, after all
it is just a goat that died.
I'll send money through my men
Collect it in the morning.
Move it, da.
You killed my child
and offering me money.
If I kill your kid and offer to pay
will you accept it calmly?
What? How dare you
threaten to kill my child!
Useless old fellow!
Felt sorry for you, I offered money
but you retort rudely?
I'll run over you and whizz past
like I ran over your goat.
Move your truck.
Aiyo! What will I do?
Oh my dear!
I was waiting for you
knowing you will come back home.
But you left me like this.
You abandoned me.
Meenatchi darling.
'D.1 Police station
Manamadurai.'
- You will talk only to extort money.
- Listen, madam.
I can't waste time talking to you.
The old complaint he gave is still valid.
Do you understand?
I will add your name
to the FIR and lock you up.
First clear out.
Leave.
- Nagging me to death!
- Scant respect for age!
They shoo us as if we are dogs.
- Sir.
- What, sir?
I want to register a case.
What is the complaint?
A murder case, sir.
They killed Meenatchi.
Killed?
Is Meenatchi your wife?
Your daughter?
What are you saying?
Sit down, man.
First take a seat.
Who is the culprit?
Where did it happen?
Give me more details.
She went to graze
as usual in the open fields.
The sand mafia goons over there
ran over her and killed her.
What? Went to graze?
Yes, sir.
Old man.
- Is Meenatchi your goat?
- Yes, sir.
Sir, did you listen to his story?
- What is it?
- Someone hit and killed his goat.
He wants us to register a murder case.
- Killing a goat is murder?
- Yes, sir.
So should we arrest
all the butchers then?
We are struggling to close
a long list of pending cases.
Here you are when the sun is scorching.
Serve him tea or coffee
and send him away.
Old man, you heard him, right?
Can you come here to complain
about a mere goat, huh?
Just a goat, sir.
But she is my daughter.
My dear child.
From last night.
My house is like a funeral place.
My dear old man,
I understand your grief.
When your pet goat dies
to feel deep pain is natural.
But this is an accident.
We can't file a murder case, no?
It is an accident
if she was hit unknowingly.
But he ran over her deliberately.
To steal the sand over there stealthily.
He turned off the lights and ran over her.
This is murder, sir.
You file a murder case.
File a murder case against Ravi and Co.
- File a case, sir.
- We can't do that, sir.
Calm down, if you want,
I'll get you compensation.
Good morning, sir.
- What is the problem?
- Sir.
His goat was killed by a lorry driver.
Ravi and Co lorry.
He wants to file a murder complaint.
Please persuade him to
file my complaint, sir.
He wants you to file it
Then why not register the case?
Sir?
Just file the complaint.
- Narmada, come up.
- Sir.
God bless him
He said so himself.
- File a case, sir.
- Give me the details.
- Narmada
- Sir?
Someone is commenting
on all your posts in Facebook.
- Who is he?
- Sir.
Facebook friends are dangerous, dear.
- Okay, sir.
- Come on.
Sir, leave now.
I will investigate and call you, okay?
Sir, you should bring justice to Meenatchi.
- I'll look into it.
- I'll take leave, sir.
- Rest assured I'll take care.
- Bless you, sir.
Son of a gun!
Silly complaints about
goat and cow dying.
This old man gave me hell.
- What? Did you file the complaint?
- Yes, sir.
- Then do this.
- Sir?
File an FIR against Ravi & Co.
Take Karmegam, arrest Ravi
and bring him here.
- Sir...!
- Don't 'sir' me!
Who ever made you a police officer?
He looks like a lunatic.
If he comes to file a case
will you note down diligently?
You can pretend to write
and send him on his way.
'Wrong, sir.'
This is a crime, sir.
We come here trusting you.
How can you do this, sir?
Were you standing there eavesdropping?
Till you find the criminals
who killed my goat and file a case.
I won't leave this station.
Don't talk like an imbecile.
As if you're breeding
the world's best angora goat!
If a goat dies, marinate the meat
and enjoy a delicious feast.
Instead you are barging in here.
How can you talk to me
in this disgraceful disrespectful way?
Apologize for what you just said.
Apology?
Get out of here, da!
How will you feel
if I said the same to you?
If I swear at you
will you repeat it to me?
Answer me.
- 'Aiyo!
- Tell me.'
Answer me now.
Who do you think you are talking to?
Hey! Tell me now.
ANSWER ME.
Listen, complain wherever
and to whomever you want.
If you come to this station again.
I will beat you to a pulp.
- How dare you!
- Aiyaiyo!
- Yov, Karmegam.
- Sir.
If he steps in here again
break his limbs and lock him up.
Okay, sir.
[sobbing uncontrollably]
How can he be so ruthless
giving scant respect to this man's age.
May you suffer from dysentery.
Aiya, please get up.
Gently...slow and easy.
Watch your step.
Don't cry, sir.
Please don't cry.
Wretched sinners!
Are you human at all?
Such heartless people exist in this world.
Nothing harmful happens to them!
How could he beat you like this?
Sir, drink some water.
Sir?
Aiya, where are you going?
Aiya?
[inconsolable sobs]
God help me!
Standing in front of my lorry!
Move out of my way, man.
'Sand-theft information
in and around Karisalkulam area.'
'Call #s below
VAO Podhum Ponnu.'
- Madam?
- 'Hello?'
I am Durairasu calling
from Karisalkulam.
'Tell me, sir.'
They have brought lorries to
steal sand from our river bed, madam.
- 'Are they doing it now?'
- Yes, madam.
They are gathering sand and
heaping into the lorries.
- 'I'll deal with it, you leave the place'
- Okay, madam.
'I am Podhum Ponnu
Village Admin Officer, Manamadurai.'
I was informed of sand theft
near Karisalkulam.
I have come to request the police force
in Manamadurai to take action.
I am recording the activity unfolding
in front of me as a documenting procedure.
What, sir?
Shall we go?
Listen! He may be your husband today.
But I am your husband for a lifetime, di.
'...call later.'
Don't know whom he's flirting with.
'Hey! It's getting messy
All of you, clear out of there.'
'You are the only one I love, dear.'
'You misunderstood me.'
'You won't realize how much I love you.'
- 'Love you soooo muc-'
- Hang up, you witch!
Sir...sir, don't spare anyone.
He's escaping, nab him.
- Constable, get him.
- I came to pee, sir.
- Let me go, sir.
- Catch that fellow.
'Let go!'
Sir, I didn't know
I am just a cleaner.
Get in.
- Madam, I feel-
- Sir, 1 minute.
I am allergic to cigarette smoke.
Can you move back and talk to me?
I have heard about your station.
If you think you can cover up this case
like you handle all other cases.
My visit here.
What transpired her.
Everything
See for yourself.
Being recorded as proof.
If you intend defying and doing something
you know the repercussions you will face.
Listen.
You don't order me around, huh?
You are a Govt servant
and so am I.
Understand that?
You can be a 'servant' if you like.
I am a Govt 'employee'!
Sub inspector sir.
Take those lorries.
How dare you!
Will you seize my vehicle?
Bro...brother.
Did you already digest
all the cash you took from me?
All because of that VAO Ponnu.
You know how many times
I called Nagar.
He didn't pick up
Check how many times I've called you.
Hey listen!
Don't spin all these yarns.
I want all my confiscated lorries
to be released by sunrise, otherwise-
One sweep of my JCB
your entire station will be rubble.
That VAO is an over enthusiastic specimen.
She has recorded everything
and is pressing me to file an FIR.
I haven't done so till now.
I suggest you go and grease her palms
and solve this problem once and for all.
Hey listen!
Don't give me all this crap.
I can't bend over backwards and meet her.
I know how to retrieve my vehicles.
Before that if you try your tricks
and create a scene.
Not one policeman
will be alive in your station.
[mobile ringing]
- Tell me, madam.
- Sir.
I have seen to it the sand thieves were
taken into custody and lorries confiscated.
You don't worry about it, sir.
This case will be heard in court tomorrow.
I will come to your village before sunrise
and take you to court for the hearing.
Will the murdered who killed Meenatchi
get the punishment they deserve?
First you appear as a witness, sir.
We will ensure all of them
are punished, okay?
Okay, madam.
[rooster crowing]
Madam, a small favor.
You need some money, sir?
No, I don't want money.
Just see this address
and tell me where to go.
Address?
- Sir?
- What, madam?
Address is Tuticorin, sir.
What?
Tuticorin?
Not this village at all.
Please drop me in your 2-wheeler?
Drop you?
It is at least 300 km from here.
Tomorrow morning you can board
the bus from Manamadurai and go.
I'll be grateful if you can drop me.
Why can't you understand, sir?
How can I drop you?
It's 300 km from here
You can easily take the bus.
I AM TELLING YOU TO DROP ME, RIGHT?
HEY! COME, DA.
Sir...sir, don't go that side.
They are stabbing a girl over there.
Aiyaiyo!
They killed my child Meenatchi.
No one in this village came to my defense.
Only that VAO girl came to my aid.
She must be as young as our child, di.
Right in front of my eyes.
With her body writhing in pain
they hacked her to pieces.
Is there no one to ask for justice?
Guardian deity Pandi.
Won't you listen to my plea?
Why are you crying now?
They are calling all the shots
because no one has the guts to oppose them.
We will ensure
the right questions are asked.
You don't cry.
Here, wipe your tears.
How dare you make my husband weep.
Wait and watch
I'll get even with you.
'Madras High Court, Madurai Bench.'
Sir, as per his statement.
He is a prime eye witness of VAO's murder.
And sand mafia behind this.
This is not mentioned anywhere in the FIR.
No, lord.
That VAO girl was in love
with 2 youngsters at the same time.
She deceived them by taking money
and jewelry promising to marry both of them.
Both the youngsters found out
the truth at one point in time.
They killed her with vengeance as motive.
They surrendered in Sivagangai court.
'We have taken them under custody, my lord.'
His allegations against Ravi
are completely false, my lord.
He was already had a vendetta against Ravi
That is why he has filed these allegations.
Why should he have any dispute?
Ravi & Co's lorry collided against his goat
which died on the spot, my lord.
He came to the station to complain about it.
We accepted his complaint, my lord.
We went and interrogated the drivers
based on his complaint, sir.
They had been stealing sand without even
the knowledge of Ravi & Co, my lord.
'We have remanded them
under our custody now, my lord.'
This is in no way connected to
the murder case of the VAO, my lord.
He is raising allegations
without any justification.
Lies, my lord
Brazen lies.
Whatever he said now is a brazen lie.
That sand mafia killed
my goat and VAO madam.
They are the murderers.
When I went to the station to register
a complaint, they refused to accept it.
He humiliated me with insults.
With scant respect for my age.
Shoved me hard to the ground.
Hit me repeatedly with his lathi.
My 'veshti' slipped off my body.
After treating me so ruthlessly.
In front of you he is acting
like he is an honest police officer.
He also told me
'Complain to whomever you want.'
'No one can come to
your rescue', he said, my lord.
After treating me so cruelly
without an iota of compassion.
He is pretending to be
a good human in front of you.
It is all an act.
He is not human at all
Not at all a human.
How dare you let your tongue run wild!
[cuss-word]
Hello, police.
Come forward
Approach the bench.
Your honor.
Forgive me, your honor.
What was the word you used?
- In a spurt of anger.
- Anger...?!
What gall! In High court
that too in front of the judge.
Offending him.
How can you behave like this?
Sorry, my lord
Very sorry.
If you can lose control here like this.
I can imagine how you must have
seethed with rage in the station.
'First of all, who gave
such authority to the police?'
This won't work.
First apologize to him.
- My lord.
- APOLOGIZE!
Sir, please step forward.
Ask forgiveness now.
Your Honor.
Will you apologize now or
shall I recommend your dismissal.
'Go on, I'm waiting.'
Sir.
Forgive me.
I am sorry, sir.
My lord, he is not replying.
Only if he accepts your apology
this session will continue.
Sir, please say you have forgiven me.
Please accept my apology.
I cannot forgive him, my lord.
What he's saying seems right to me.
If you rob a man of his self respect.
How can a mere apology set it right?
Okay, I have a solution.
There are too many disputes in this case.
You are not fit to inquire into this case.
So I am transferring this case to CB-CID.
My lord.
Murder case of VAO Podhum Ponnu.
And his goat.
Does your goat have a name?
Yes, my lord.
Meenatchi.
And murder of Meenatchi.
I hereby order CB-CID
to re-investigate both cases.
For treating Mr Durairasu with disrespect
and harsh behavior in the station.
And for verbally abusing him in court.
I suspend Inspector Udhay Kumar.
This court orders the police department
to enforce strict disciplinary action.
My lord?
And then, when police officials
and ministers visit.
Don't you salute as a mark of respect
along with the entire department?
Guard of honor.
Repeat it?
Guard of honor, my lord.
Guard of honor.
You pushed the old man to the ground.
He has to stand in the same spot
Your entire police force should salute him.
I order you to perform
the Guard of Honor!
Our dignity torn to tatters!
If we deprive a person of due respect.
You can make amends only by giving him
excess respect he richly deserves.
Next hearing is on-
My lord.
- What, sir?
- A small request, sir.
Ask me.
Don't go and stand there
nodding your head to all they say.
Only we have to ask what we need.
Whether God is there to protect us or not.
For now we can depend
only on this law to help us.
Sir, you have been a witness here.
Even a Govt officer despite being a VAO
was unable to protect her life.
Where do I stand in this? Just a nobody.
When I step out of this court
there's no guarantee for my life.
Kindly assign protection for me, my lord.
- Protect me.
- Okay, sir.
I will ask a constable to be assigned
from the local police station.
Please don't send anyone
from that station alone, sir.
Appoint from anywhere else.
Okay, sir
I know what to do.
- I will tell you after lunch.
- Okay, my lord.
This session will continue after the lunch.
How can a man go in here?
Stinks to high heaven! Yuck!
Yov! Why are you cribbing
like a pregnant female?
I can't enter the toilet, sir.
It's leaking and filled
with filthy sewage water.
Can't step in, sir.
I've been lamenting for the past 2-3 days
No one is willing to listen.
Why don't you ask
'Charity Case' to clean it?
Don't say 'Charity Case', sir.
You utter that nickname
he stares daggers at us.
'Assign it to someone else
Don't pile it on my head' he said.
Oh!
Has 'sir' become such a big shot now?
I'll call him 'Charity Case' now.
Let me watch his reaction.
Hey you there!
Sir.
I am appointing a police constable
for your protection as per your request.
He will be with you 24x7 with a gun
to give you full protection.
Sivagangai Town Police Station.
Batch # 1350.
Dai!
Hey! Char-
Hello?
Sir...?
Yes, sir.
I am in the station.
He is here, sir.
I'll call him right away.
Maaravarman.
Maaravaraman Sundarapandian
This constable will be your body guard.
'Arms & Documents Section'
'You have to only salute
till your last breath.'
'I will never allow you to touch a gun.'
- Are you Maaravarman?
- Yes, sir.
Sit down.
- It's alright, sir.
- No formality, sit.
No need to stand.
Don't allow anyone in for 2 minutes.
Jose is a good friend of mine.
- Sir.
- You know.
Your retired DSP Joseph.
Usually I ask him to refer
a good policeman for many of my cases.
'Don't put me in a tight spot, da
Half of them are thieves.'
'Don't ask me, da' will be his reply.
But for the first time
he has referred you.
His word is good enough for me.
You will be ideal for this assignment.
This case is way too sensitive.
That poor old man Durairasu looks helpless.
Till this case is closed.
- Lend him your support.
- Okay, my lord.
Whatever problem you may face.
Just like you report
to your higher officials.
- You can do the same to the court too.
- Okay.
Be on your toes.
- Sir, judgment copy.
- Okay, thanks.
What are you looking at?
No, my lord, this seems to be a major case.
People involved are also big shots.
You have assigned him as bodyguard.
- What's wrong with him?
- You noticed his stature?
How will he be apt?
They will just blow him
into thin air with one puff, sir.
Me without this judge's coat.
And you minus this 'davali' uniform.
If we step outside this court.
As if you are a rich zamindar.
And I am your domestic servant, that's how
people of this town will tend to judge us!
Am I not right?
Come.
'I don't mean it that way.'
Sssshhh!
Silence!
Judge is coming.
Am I not right, man?
Won't the world think like that?
But is that the truth?
Don't judge a man by his appearance.
Evaluate him by his professional skill.
Please sit down.
'So much has happened
You never told me.'
What can I do?
It was a sudden order.
I've come to Madurai.
Why couldn't you come home
and tell me before leaving?
Hey! Try to understand my situation.
'I am happy you were chosen
Will you buy that sari for me?'
I can't, dear.
'Hello? You went silent on me
the moment I asked you for a sari?'
Are you Durairasu aiya?
- 'Hello?'
- 1 minute, sir.
- I'll finish this call.
- 'Asking you.'
Not that, don't escort me
back to my village immediately.
We have come up to Madurai
I want to buy a sari for my wife.
- Sari?
- Yes, I want to buy one.
'Super, da
Buy a sari there.'
We can buy, sir.
"Hey Durairasa."
"You are my protection-raja."
"I am just a policeman on duty."
"You are Durairasu, my responsibility."
"Durairasa
Chaperon-raja."
"Rasa...Rasa, my custodian
Bravest of the brave, champion."
Why is this conductor holding a gun?
'Sandhanam.'
How is this?
Don't feel awkward
staying here with us.
This is your home
away from your home.
- Okay, ma.
- This is for you.
I bought a sari for you from Madurai.
- Wear it on an auspicious day.
- Okay.
"Even the government has made its decree."
"I am for you and you are for me."
"Even the government
has made its statement."
"I am for here for you
And you are there for me true."
"I am Durairasa."
"You are my sentry-raja."
"I am just a policeman on duty."
"You are Durairasa, my responsibility."
"Durairasa
Police-raja."
"Rasa...Rasa, my sentinel
Responsible guardian angel."
"Even the law royally
has made its decree."
"I am for here for you
And you are there for me true."
"Even the government has made its decree."
"I am for you and you are for me."
I've never tasted such a delicious
fish gravy in my life, ma.
For your sake he made weir
to catch best the fish in the stream.
Fresh fish and tasty
Enjoy it with rice.
- Tell me.
- What are you doing?
I'm eating the best meal ever
in my life only today.
Why are you looking here?
Read your lesson.
SIIIIIR.
I have come again to ask
respected sir to sell his land to me.
Who is this lad?
Random strangers are
hassling me to sell my land.
So Court has given me
this police protection.
I thought he was some scarecrow
you had bought to scare the birds away.
"Independence once set our nation free
Now the court has fixed my destiny."
"Yesterday I was resigned and depressed."
"Now I walk with puffed up chest
Head held high above the rest."
"They tried to snatch my land on the sly
Now they face a tug-o-war, do or die."
Get up, run
The police is here.
Why are you running away
scared of me?
Fat hopes! Who on earth
will be scared of you?
You have a policeman with you.
He has been appointed
only to protect me.
You'll face the music now.
"Your celebration has gone for a toss."
"Your over-smart swagger now at a loss."
"Your gang of bullies 5 or 6
with their bravado & dirty tricks."
Good lord!
So much of information in a mere gun, eh?
Look there.
"Like drifting dust upon the air
look past me as if I'm not there."
Oye Rasa!
Where are you off to
in this scorching sun?
I'm going to chop dried palm leaf
for our cattle shed.
- Come home soon
- Heard the news, anna?
That useless old man
opposed our Ravi anna.
Got police protection
from Madurai High court.
He can behave however he wants with you.
You know me well, right?
Anna, he is coming.
Hey imbecile...hey!
Sir...sir...sir
Don't get angry.
Don't get mad at them.
You shot that fellow
who ridiculed you right into his mouth.
'Don't be so short-fused, sir.'
They are known to me, sir.
What did you say?
- Asked if you want tea?
- Hahn?
Would you like to drink tea with us?
We drink only Bournvita at home.
"Enough of the slimy games you played."
"I feel safe; law on my side displayed."
"Even the government
has made its statement."
"I am for here for you
And you are there for me too."
"Even the government has made its decree."
"I am here for you and you are for me."
I'm Ambrose
CB-CID.
Your hands are soiled.
If I shake hands
I'll get dirty too.
What is it, Ravi?
Besides stealing sand.
Murder and kangaroo court.
Villagers here have a host
of complaints against you.
All that's exaggerated, sir.
Spoken out of spite and sheer envy.
Jealousy runs in their blood
and money is all they worship.
You mean including you?
Go slightly to the center and hold.
They have dug 7 feet deep
from the river bed, sir.
You claimed you sold the lorries
when I listed out their numbers.
Whom did you sell them to?
Hey! Can't you hear him?
Why are you blinking blankly?
If you have evidence, move it, sir.
I'll deal with it.
Evidence will fall into my hand.
But I won't be sitting here
and talking to you.
Here's your fare
Paying you I'll become bankrupt.
Guard of honor.
Attention!
Guard of honor!
'Throw arms.'
Guard of honor.
'Center salute.'
'Present arms.'
Guard of honor, salute.
Old man is stalling for time.
Acknowledge and salute back, man.
Salute, you miser of an old man.
Salute back.
In all these years
I've never been so humiliated.
My higher-ups will be scared of me.
But that Superintendent of Police
tore me to tatters yesterday, anna.
That old man made me salute him
in front of everyone.
And downright disgraced me.
'My humiliation is secondary.'
Ambrose has been assigned from CB-CID team.
He is a crackpot with a conscience, anna.
Yes, anna, we haven't been able to
get to the river bed for past 1 week.
Security has been tightened way too much.
'If we don't bump off that old man.'
That Ambrose will close our chapter.
- Call 'Aapa' Shankar.
- 'Okay, anna.'
- Please take care of him, ma
- Don't worry your pretty head, dear.
I'll take good care of him.
Did you have lunch?
- No
- Wait, let me serve you.
Let's keep all this inside, ma.
Okay.
- I'll do it.
- 'Something smells good.'
- Maybe pickle?
- What is this, dear?
Looks like 'kolam powder.'
That's oats, ma.
Hen crap!
Hey Kadiresa!
Hey?
Long-lost friend.
Looking like Power Ranger
with a gun in your hand!
- Become like a plump pumpkin.
- Thank God, I rubbed the hen poop on him.
Madam didn't even hint
one word of her visit?!
What would 'sir' have done
if he had known?
First read all my messages
sent to your WhatsApp.
Where is he, Pandi?
He is cutting leaves
to feed the goat, he'll be here soon.
'I need to talk to you privately.'
Amma, give me 2 minutes.
- I'll be back.
- Okay.
Why isn't there even
one drop of water in the river?
How else to steal all the sand?
Oho! 1 minute, wait.
- What?
- Look at me.
- What is this?
- Just take a look.
I got a job offer letter
to join a company.
As assistant professor
in Madurai American College.
Hefty salary, da.
Hey! You'll never reform, no?
Is this why you wanted to
talk to me alone?
- Dai!
- You know my stand on this.
And still you applied for a job, right?
My uncle knows the dean here
He told me to apply for this job.
Hey! What are you planning
behind my back with your family?
Your father humiliates and
insults me wherever he sees me.
Your uncle is telling you to work.
What is your plan, di?
You don't seem to understand, da.
At least my family understands.
What I need.
Oh! I get it now
I get it only too well.
Your parents wanted you to
marry your uncle's son, right?
You are dragging unwanted topic now.
I can't din any sense into your head.
Always like this, I'll say something
You'll read rubbish between the lines.
It's all my blessed fate.
Oh! Is that how you feel about us?
Then let me suggest this.
Knowing I am here, you knew to
attend the interview behind my back?
I have to be here for some more time
Go back to your mother's brother's house.
- This is the limit, or else-
- Or else, what, di?
Otherwise what?
Bitter truth hurts, eh?
It isn't too late even now.
If you are so fond of your uncle.
You go ahead and marry
your beloved uncle's son.
I'll think you eloped with him.
- Hey! Stop, da.
- Let go of me, di.
You smile so beautifully.
- What's up?
- Who asked you to bring her here?
You'd better take her back now.
- What happened, da?
- Why, son?
You went with a smile.
Take her home now, da.
You heard what I said.
What crime did I commit now
you're throwing a tantrum?
Don't ever see me again
I am repulsed by you, go.
Aiyo! How can you drive away
a girl who came in as our guest?
Ma, you don't know
Please don't intervene.
Dai! Take her away.
- You're getting angry without reason.
- Let's go.
You know his temper
is always on a hair trigger!
Listen, what happened now
for you to shoo away your wife?
'My child, why do you pay heed
to his impulsive words?'
Stay, dear.
Your wife is going away, son.
That girl-
Where are you off to now?
I'm going to aiya, ma.
What is wrong with all of them?
Want to watch
Dhoni's helicopter shot?
Shut up and play, da.
Hey! Eyes on the ball
Catch it, da.
Hey! Stop.
I splashed mud by mistake
on that policeman, run...run.
[overlap of anxious voices]
- You threw the bat down.
- Run...run.
'When we sit and booze.'
We don't need any side dish
other than spicy goat-spleen fry.
Likewise salted mutton fry, anna.
Bose, finished cooking?
It will be done in 1 hour, anna.
Finish that and serve
salted mutton fry for anna.
Okay, anna.
Vanakkam, anna.
Hey! What brings you here?
An old relative of ours died, anna
We are going to the graveyard.
Our relatives are following us.
- 'See you, anna.'
- Okay, go.
'A Saturday corpse needs a companion'
That's no idle saying.
Yesterday an old man died.
Another one is queuing up to the graveyard.
You are running happily
not looking at the highs and hollows.
Whose responsibility if you fall?
Is your mother around?
Only I have to take care.
Go and play, run...run.
- Check where he is.
- Okay.
Stand still in one spot.
What is this?
Boys playing cricket
splashed mud on my uniform.
They are an irresponsible playful lot.
That policeman is in the fields, anna.
He already got it good
from us in Vaniyangudi.
Yes, anna.
Take water from the tank
over there and freshen up.
- Okay.
- Go.
Anna.
That old man is here.
Where is the kid?
Kuzhandhaivelu
Where did he disappear?
Darling goatee.
Anna, 'Aapa' Shankar is
in that old man's area.
Turn on the speaker.
- Shankar.
- Anna?
Like chopping this goat's rib.
Hack them to bits and pieces and come.
Okay, anna.
I'll call after the job is done.
Where has he gone?
He was right here
Now he's missing.
Che! Come.
Hey Kuzhandhaivelu.
Little minx of a donkey!
Hey!
Where is that old man?
Hey!
Who are you?
You answer my question.
I am asking who you are!
Hit you!
I am asking you where the old man is.
Hey bro
Take him.
Better come without making a fuss.
Come...drag him.
- Lift his legs off the ground.
- Will you tell me or not?
I won't tell you, da.
Hit him.
Hey! Where is he, da?
You have no idea
who you are messing with.
- Move, da.
- You are manhandling a cop.
As if police means
goddamn cat's whiskers!
Lift him.
Drag him by his neck.
Tell us the truth
He was here a short while ago.
Where did you hide him
in that short span?
I won't tell you, da.
He won't dance to our tune
Show him our power.
Get up, da.
Chop his head off.
'Aapa' Shankar is calling.
Matter over?
- No, anna.
- Hey...hey.
Will you finish him off
while calling me?
Finish the job and then call.
Matters took a different turn, anna.
Chop his head off.
HEY!
Hey! That old man is here.
Let go of him.
First finish him off.
What do you think you are carrying?
Look at his antics
with one foot in the grave?
Hey! Target his face.
Hey! What are you doing?
Pandi deity has taken possession my dog
and not letting him go.
- 'So...?'
- I want to ring that bell.
Don't ring the bell
Our guardian deity will wake up.
I don't care
Let him wake up.
Dai...dai, don't ring the bell.
"Will you grant with a ready heart
whatever Pandimuni asks you to part?"
"Whatever our guardian deity offers you
will you accept it with grace anew?"
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"You must come and rescue always
Protect the have-nots in all ways."
"Erase their woes; ease their pain
Save the poor from misery's chain."
Dai!
Instead of a gun in the hands of
a man who knows to shoot.
If held by a man like me
who doesn't know to shoot.
It is dangerous.
Hey buddy.
What is that sound on top?
"Will you grant with a ready heart
whatever Pandimuni asks you to part?"
"Whatever our guardian deity offers you
will you accept it with grace anew?"
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"You must come to the rescue
of the have-nots who depend on You."
"Erase their woes; ease their pain
Save the poor from misery's chain."
Sir, what year is this?
Lord?
I'm asking which year we are in.
2025, lord.
How many years has it been since 1947?
Nearly 80 years, Lord.
80 years.
We proudly claim it is 80 years
since we got our Independence.
But a farmer here is unable
to move around freely.
We assign a constable for his protection.
This by itself is a disgrace
to our Law and Order.
Today even that constable is unprotected.
They want to kill him too.
Which level is your Law and Order in?
No, lord, we have already assigned 2 teams.
To investigate who attacked Durairasu.
We suspect a gang of mercenaries
are involved to do the job.
We will arrest them at the earliest.
You keep searching.
I will give my judgement
in the next hearing.
He was bringing the roof down
in court the other day.
Where is that rude inspector?
He is under suspension, lord.
Tax paid by the general public
gives you this power in your hands.
You turn that same power against them.
If someone offers more money!
Nice ideology, sir.
- Nice idea indeed.
- Sorry to interrupt, my lord.
Our district police force and
higher officials oppose only the crimes.
Not against the people.
I am here to interpret, Mr...Mahatma?
Don't repeat the word
'higher officials' often to me.
Learn to say 'officer.'
You are just an officer.
Not a supreme power.
Mr Ambrose, now which level
is your investigation in, sir?
This case doesn't stop with the murder
of VAO Podhum Ponnu, lord.
Past 10 years countless murders have been
executed by the sand mafia in that area.
All cases are lack of evidence, lord.
The police department has
crossed their limit in many cases.
They have favored
certain people in some situations.
We have narrowed down
the evidences, lord.
With some time allowance
we can file the charge sheet.
We don't have time, sir.
You have to file the charge sheet
before the next hearing.
Okay, lord
But.
This sand case doesn't end
with Ravi & Co, lord.
Chairman Rajarathinam.
That District Minister, Periya Kannappan.
Powerful police officials.
Revenue officers.
There is interference from
many centers of authority, my lord.
That is why-
Why are you reluctant, sir?
Send summons to everyone
Don't spare a single individual.
Everyone should come to court.
No matter how big a power center
they should stand in front of me.
- Speed it up, sir.
- Okay, my lord.
I'll do my best.
Maaravarman.
You were given a gun to fire.
So do your duty without fear.
Sir, are you okay with this constable
or should I add one more?
I don't want anyone else, sir.
I'm fine with this young boy
He is part of our family now.
Okay.
The next hearing of this case.
Will be on August 14th.
Sir?
Ear-piercing ceremony for my children
You must attend the function.
Feels like you just got married.
- It's time for ear piercing function?
- Yes, sir.
Sir, Ravi and Co are ruthless people.
Of course you know all the facts.
You will be retiring in 2 weeks.
Is it necessary to lock horns
with them at this point, sir?
- Are they so heartless?
- Yes, sir.
You know that Durairasu.
Does he have any family
or financial background?
Nothing of that sort, sir.
He is an ordinary man.
Of course he's an ordinary man.
My father was also an ordinary man.
Vaniyankudi, the venue of
the ear piercing ceremony.
If he has to step into that village.
My father has to remove his shoes
and only then enter that village.
There is a function in that village now.
Who is presiding that function?
'R. Bhima Rao Konnamuthu
High court judge.'
Education and Law
gave me this position.
Education and law.
Should be utilized by
ordinary people like Durairasu.
If any ruthless gang tries to interfere
we are fully capable of handling it.
'Goats are used
as sacrificial offerings.'
'Not lions.'
'Be like lions.'
'Sir, Sand Mafia sent
a mercenary gang to kill you.'
'It has been reported you retaliated
by shooting them with a police gun.'
Akka, he keeps bragging he is a big shot.
He is powerful enough
to be shot by an old man!
[sniggering]
'Hey!'
Just because they steal on a large scale
you are elevating them with a new title.
Turn off the damn TV.
If you want, we will
change the channel.
'Isn't this sand mafia
posing a threat to you?'
'Of course it is a huge threat to us.'
'We are very simple ordinary people.'
'But they are sending
so many thugs to kill us.'
'Imagine the huge threat
we are to them!'
'Being a threat to
people causing injustice.'
'That gives us happiness.'
I said, turn it off.
Why is this bothering you?
I'm telling you to turn it off.
'We are not scared.'
Oh God! Don't.
Does this seem funny to you, di?
Grinning from ear to ear
listening to the News.
Do you eat rice?
Remember the sand provides you
that rice on your plate!
'Ravi.'
The only worthwhile thing
in this house was the TV.
Now that's broken too?
It's been the same torture
from the day we got married.
- Directing your anger here.
- Shhh!
What happened?
Is this a house?
Or a jungle?
That useless old man's case got blown
out of proportion right up to court.
Blinded by a wild fury
brother reacte-
This is what happens
if you act in haste unnecessarily.
Tell me.
Did you have to go and kill
that female VAO in person?
Why didn't you stay at home
and send our men as usual?
Don't be a control freak all the time.
Even if you resort to murder
do so in a hush hush manner.
Or else we have to face the music.
What are they saying?
Court is supporting them 100%, anna.
The CB-CID officer is
a thorn in our flesh too.
'We don't know what to do, anna.'
- Ravi.
- Anna.
Shut your gob until
they announce your MP seat.
- Hereafter obey me, that will do.
- 'Okay, anna.'
Don't go around inviting trouble
and force me to stick posters again!
- What, Manickam?
- What you say goes, anna.
[mobile ringing]
- Hello?
- Hey!
Why are you calling me?
- Whose number is this?
- Dai.
How many times should I call you?
You've blocked me on WhatsApp,
your mobile and everywhere.
What big crime did I commit?
Don't be a drama queen, di.
Talk to whoever understands you.
Hang up now.
Pccht!
[mobile ringing]
- I told you not to call, hang up.
- Give me the phone.
My dear, this is Durairasu speaking.
- Sir.
- Come home tomorrow.
My wife is yearning to
serve you a wedding feast.
What?
Come tomorrow.
- I refuse to take no for an answer, okay?
- Okay, aiya.
I'll be there for sure.
"Why is my moon so angry tonight?"
[song from 'Policekaran Magal']
"It burns above with a fiery light."
"Why is this flower angry?"
"Turned into a thorn to prick me."
"If you glare daggers at me
or throw a tantrum stubbornly."
"Just wait and watch, I bet
you'll get a beating you'll never forget."
Did a ship capsize or what?
Sitting in stony silence?
I've laid the banana leaf
Come and eat.
Cold food won't taste good, my dear.
Sit down.
My dear boy, do you need
a separate invitation?
Come and eat.
No, ma, he is doing some work there.
I'll eat later.
Ask him what his problem is.
Hey!
Don't move one step closer to me.
Stay right there.
Don't I know to do my work?
Go and sit.
- Come and sit.
- Sit, I said.
Don't make me get mad at you.
You both are making
a big deal out of nothing.
Eat properly, son.
Both of you enjoy the meal.
Why is she eating hardly a handful?
Your leaf looks untouched.
- Eat.
- Do justice to my cooking.
Sandhanam.
Whatever it is.
The button mushroom masala curry you make.
Nothing compares to it.
'Muttai kaalan' curry?
What's that?
Nothing complicated.
When there is a thunderstorm
with heavy rain and lightning.
In our dry farm land.
Button mushrooms will sprout
from under the earth in clusters.
She will pluck those mushrooms.
Dice them into halves.
Grind turmeric and aniseed.
She will grind a few capsicums
and black pepper along with it.
She will make a gravy and serve it
to me on a bed of hot rice.
Just to taste that delicious curry.
The dead will come alive
from their grave to taste it.
In your dreams!
Such a tasty recipe, son.
She doesn't make it anymore.
Yes.
When do we get to
see a thunderstorm?
For me to make button mushroom masala.
He has an one track mind
on that 'muttai kaalan' gravy.
Son.
Is that how you bite and spit out a crab?
You should break and eat it.
Okay, I forgot to bring 'rasam'
I'll go and get it.
Wait, I'll go and bring it.
By the time you get up, totter inside
and bring it in your own sweet time.
Aiya.
I've been wanting to tell you
from when I came here.
You are truly blessed.
You found the best home-maker as wife.
That's why it is said.
Marry the girl your family arranges.
Family decides, eh?
She came searching for me.
What are you saying?
Simpleton.
Foolish fellow.
From my childhood, these are the nicknames
this village piled on my head.
My father named me Durairasu.
I used to live up to the nicknames
the villagers called me by.
I didn't know the difference between
25 paise and 50 paise coin.
I used to believe what anyone said
and got deceived by them.
At one point
even my father passed away.
Because of my naivety.
These villagers deceived me
and stole all the land I owned.
My mother will assign me
only one simple chore.
In the shandy on Tuesdays
in Manamadhurai.
She will send me to buy
pressed oil cake for cattle feed.
I'll hand over to the vendor
the money she gives me.
He will give me the oil cake.
I'll bring it home happily.
'One day, I went to buy oil cake
as my routine errand.'
'Don't buy it.'
'The vendor is deceiving you.'
I heard someone shout.
I turned to see the face
behind that voice.
A really smart beautiful girl
is standing in front of me.
'I've been observing you for past 2 weeks.'
'He's charging you the wrong price.'
'This shopkeeper is deceiving you.'
'You are also coolly
buying at that price.'
'Don't buy from him anymore.'
She told me vehemently.
That shopkeeper got annoyed.
'Hey, don't buy from me anymore.'
He shooed me away.
The next week at the shandy.
I didn't know where to buy the oil cakes.
That wonder-woman came.
Bought this worthless man
oil cakes worth the wait!
Not just that week.
Every week only she will buy for me.
One day, while buying those oil cakes.
She stopped me.
'Why are you like this?'
'How long will I keep buying for you?'
'You are too naive
for your own good', she said.
'What can I do?'
'I've grown up like this', I replied.
To that, she asked me.
'Will you do something?'
'Why don't you...will you.'
'Will you marry me?' she asked.
'You are in a different league altogether.'
'I am in a totally different level.'
'What is your age?
You know how old I am?'
'How can you ask me to marry you?'
'How is this acceptable?' I asked.
'If you are left like this.'
'I'm scared you will be
deceived all through your life.'
'So please marry me.'
'I will take good care of you', she said.
She said that.
As she said that
she gave me a block of jaggery.
That is Sandhanam for you.
She walked into my life
with the sweetness of jaggery.
She was 100% right.
If she hadn't come into my life.
I would have continued to
be a naive and easily duped fellow.
Both of you continue eating
I'll be right back.
What is it?
I heard him tell a long tale of
how he would have been duped.
Has he told you that story?
In this village.
If a wife doesn't deliver a child.
They get rid of the wife.
And marry another bride.
But even after knowing
I can never have a child.
This man, in all these years.
He has never even glanced
at another woman.
Without him.
I would've been
the one to get deceived.
Oh dear!
Who told you to wash all these clothes?
From the morning
you do so many chores.
Won't your sari smell musty
if you dry it folded like this?
True to the name of sandal.
Will you wear a saree
that has a musty smell?
See this hand of yours.
Look how callous it has become.
Look how your palm is hardened.
Dear, if my palm is calloused.
Should you apply only oil?
What else you expect me to do?
Just one...a single.
A single kiss will make it heal faster.
"Only your presence so sweet
makes my life complete."
"If you reject me
my life will be empty."
"You fill my heart and mind too
Every beat belongs to you."
"I have come trusting you."
"So what do you plan to do?"
"Share your life with me, if love is true."
"Or say it is over and we are through."
"You fill my heart and mind too
Every beat belongs to you."
"If you reject me
my life will be empty."
"My heart and mind too
filled only by you."
"I will call you my h(e)aven, if you do."
"You know I've come trusting you."
"So what do you plan to do?"
"You and me as 'we'
Looking back on our journey."
"All that we did, as a shared destiny."
"If you walk down memory lane."
"Will you want my presence to wane?"
"Do you know a mother's love always true?"
"I showered that unconditional love on you."
"Forget not forever."
"Always remember."
"Retrace your steps to me
Reciprocate my love eternally."
"Hold me tight
My Mr Right."
- 'What, man? District Secretary has come?
- No, sir.'
The court has summoned you
in the sand mafia case, sir.
It seems you are have to
appear in person at court.
Summon.
If you don't show up
they will issue an arrest warrant.
You got only a summon.
But Ambrose is filing an FIR against Ravi.
If he succeeds and
goes to the next hearing.
We will be in trouble
with a capital T.
The judge is eagerly waiting for this.
You mean everyone will
make me count bars!
I didn't say that.
Wait a bit.
[mobile ringing]
Tell me, anna.
Rathinam.
I've spoken to the leader.
Get the amount ready by next week.
- We'll lock the seat, okay?
- Okay.
I am so happy, anna.
I also saw they have sent a summon.
That old man went hither
and thither and targeted me now.
If this continues
we'll be in trouble, Rathinam.
Election time too.
I've gone through a lot
of trouble to get you a seat.
What is the name of that judge?
His name is Bhi...Bhi.
Bhima Rao, anna.
Bhima Rao is retiring this week it seems.
Our man Mohan Das
is occupying that seat.
Just make sure that old man doesn't
land up in to court for the next hearing.
After that we can nullify the case.
- Understand what exactly I meant?
- Yes, anna.
I will handle it, anna.
That old fellow should not come to court.
That was exactly my thought too.
Ambrose didn't find
any major evidence against us.
If we get rid of that old fellow.
Ambrose can't wave his wand with that FIR.
Anna.
I will bring in a strong team
from Avarankadu, anna.
Why?
To transfer this case to the Supreme court?
You will bring in your goons.
He will shoot them again.
This case will get magnified.
Look at them.
- Dai.
- Anna.
There is a policeman
hanging around with that old man.
Convince him.
Show him money
he has never seen in his lifetime.
'Brother.'
Come over here for a minute.
Don't be scared
Come here.
Nagar, give me that bag.
Hold this.
Go on, hold
It is only for you.
Pcccht! Okay, here.
Anna is on the phone
Talk to him.
Just talk to him.
'Brother.'
Our boys would've given you a bag.
Take that and keep it.
Open later and see.
'You don't have to work
as a police officer any longer.'
'With that money
you can be well settled for life.'
All you have to do
is a simple job for me.
1 minute.
'You gave me an item.'
I'll bring one item.
What?
I left my gun back there.
I think only if I get my gun
it will be even-steven.
Hey listen.
It is such a big deal we are coming
in search of a pipsqueak like you.
Will you bring your gun, eh?
Don't get on your high horse
because you got the upper hand.
When fortune flips
you will have to bow down.
Will you make a decent exit
without a ruckus?
Or shall I get my gun?
I think it's time for you to rot in hell.
Watch out.
He will get his gun it seems!
Let me see how long
you hold that gun!
Who were those men?
They lost their way
looking for the graveyard.
I was giving them directions.
- I wanted to share something with you.
- Tell me.
That girl came to eat yesterday.
Did you speak atleast one word to her?
You seem to be a tough nut to crack.
Listen, son.
Don't give her the silent treatment.
'My mother passed away
when I was young.'
'I don't know a mother's love', you said.
That's wrong.
You mother didn't pass away.
She has come along with that girl.
Do you know how lovingly
that girl looks at you?
Did you buy half the grocery store, dear?
You've brought a small shop with you.
He has a huge appetite.
I love cooking his favorite dishes.
But I'm learning only now.
He told me you are a brilliant cook.
Will you do me a favor?
What is it, dear?
As long as he is here
whatever he likes.
- Cook for him, ma.
- Okay...okay.
He doesn't eat in the morning at all.
Somehow make him eat
3 square meals a day.
At night, he will put on his headset
listen to music and fall asleep.
Please remove it for my sake.
Imagine the damage to his ears?
He is so short fused.
But that short fuse will have only anger.
Nothing malicious.
Don't think he's a full grown adult
because of his police uniform.
True he's wearing an uniform.
But that's equal to a school uniform.
He's a kid in a school uniform.
For his entire stay here.
Please take good care of him.
I'll look after him
You don't have to worry.
She doesn't see you as her husband.
She sees you as her child.
She's like this brooding hen.
She has you embedded in her heart.
She'll take care of you
like a mother hen.
But if you are in any kind of trouble.
She will oppose anyone
to watch your back.
Don't ever break her heart, dear.
Go, go and call her.
'She doesn't see you as her husband.'
'She sees you as her child.'
[mobile ringing]
[knock on door]
It is open.
I'm telling you
the door is open.
[louder knock on door]
[mobile ringing]
Hello...?
Tell me.
What are you saying?!
- Madam.
- Yes, sir.
Did a patient by name Priya
get admitted from Sivagangai?
Wait, sir
Let me check.
You are Maaravarman, right?
- Priya's husband?
- Yes.
- Come with me.
- What happened?
Sir will tell you, come in.
Doctor.
Patient Priya's family is here, doctor.
Oh!
Come in.
When I saw a policeman with a gun
I imagined the worst case scenario.
Sir, I came from my duty.
Okay.
They are...?
Sir, they are my family.
Your wife slipped
and fell down in her house.
When she fell, the edge of the table
hit her in the head and she lost blood.
- Sir.
- Normal injury.
So I've stitched her gash.
And I've asked for an MRI
to check for internal bleeding.
There is no internal bleeding.
But she has another problem.
In the past.
Did she complain of
prolonged headache?
And memory loss?
Any such health issues?
No, sir
Nothing like that.
This is called Meningioma tumor.
It is a tumor near the brain.
It is non-cancerous.
But the tumor's growth is very aggressive.
- Sir.
- Don't panic.
It will be a problem
only if it reaches grade 3.
Luckily we found out well in advance.
In a way, it is good
she slipped and fell.
Otherwise, we would have
found out only in the worst case.
The only option we have
is immediate operation.
'Even if we delay slightly
the tumor will grow.'
Internal bleeding and memory loss.
Such complications will increase.
Surgery has to be performed within 3 days.
That is the best option we have now.
Okay, sir.
Sir, she's normal, right?
- Can I see her?
- Yeah...yeah.
She's normal
Don't worry.
You are a policeman
I don't have to tell you.
I've briefed her in detail.
You can go and see her.
Okay, sir.
What is this, dear?
Shouldn't you be careful
while cleaning the house?
Why are you doing this?
What is this, akka?
How did it happen?
I was banging the door from outside.
She didn't even open.
When I went in to see what happened
she was lying on the floor.
the whole place was bloody.
I didn't know what to do.
So I picked her up and ran.
Won't you watch your step
while mopping the floor?
My dear child.
Nothing bad will happen to you.
We met the doctor just now.
He said you'll be fine in 4 days.
Nothing to be scared of, okay?
You'll live long, dear.
Guardian deity Pandi
will take care of our family.
Don't worry.
I brought vermillion
from our temple.
Apply on her forehead, quick.
Guardian deity Pandi, protect her.
Everything will be fine.
- Keep talking, I will buy juice
- Okay.
Son.
We will wait outside.
'You talk to her.'
Hey.
You are fine.
It is a minor issue.
You will recover soon.
The doctor told me everything, da.
Nothing to worry, Priya.
It is just a small procedure.
You will recover.
You will be back
hale and healthy.
Only then can you go
to work like you always wanted.
My wish.
Was it my wish?
You think I wanted to work
to tick my wish list?
Royal Enfield Meteor.
Own house in a village
that doesn't respect us.
In front of everyone who said
I won't prosper if I marry you.
You should rise and shine
and prove them wrong.
So many such wishes
you have hidden in your heart.
Who is there to fulfill all this?
Only me, right?
Don't I need money to achieve all this?
My eyes have been watering
ever since I fell down.
No problem, I'll feel better
after a hot fomentation.
Sorry, da.
I shouldn't have hit you that day.
Don't take it to heart.
Hey!
Why are you crying?
If I see you cry, I'll end up
falling deeper in love with you.
Then only I will find it tough, no?
Sorry, di.
I went overboard, no?
No, you didn't.
I'll stay with you.
I want to stay with you now.
I'll take leave from work.
Don't do all that.
You have a hearing
the day after tomorrow.
It's enough if you come
on the operation day.
No, I'll stay with you.
Please.
Chitra akka is here
to take care of me.
It is more important to protect our aiya.
I'll quit my job after this, huh?
You go to work
and take care of me.
All I want is peace of mind.
That's enough.
WHAAT?
9,50,000?
Hey! Where will you go
for that huge an amount?
It is an advanced laser surgery it seems.
It is expensive.
I gave everything I had.
Hey!
After I spent on my visa
I have only Rs 40,000 to spare.
No bank will sanction a loan
of this amount immediately.
'Okay, I'll see what I can do
and call you back.'
Try your best, da, please.
- 'Okay, bro.'
- Okay.
- Listen.
- Akka?
Shall I give you an idea for the money?
Why don't we ask Priya's father?
She is my wife.
I know how to arrange the money.
Not like that, da
I need it urgently.
Yov, I have only 2000.
Please try to understand.
I don't have that much money.
I spent all my savings
on my brother's wedding.
'Try asking someone else.'
Pandi?
What are you doing here?
Come, let's eat.
No, ma
I'm not hungry.
You haven't eaten anything
from the morning.
Come and eat.
You go, ma
I'll join you.
Come soon.
- Tell me.
- Bro.
Whomever I ask is showing
an empty hand plus a sob story.
I don't know what to do.
I'll try till morning.
If I get anything
I'll call you, bro.
Okay, da.
[mobile ringing]
Akka.
Somehow arrange
the money by tomorrow.
'The hospital is asking us to pay up.'
Okay, akka.
Akka, what happened?
Throughout last night
she vomited twice or thrice.
In the morning, she is behaving
as if she doesn't know me.
I don't know what to do.
She is yelling and shooing
everyone out of the room.
- The doctor is checking now.
- Let me go, I said.
- Let go of me.
- Sister, did you sedate her or not?
- Priya, look at me.
- Priya?
Priya, calm down
It's bleeding.
I said, let me go.
Please, let go.
- PLEEEEEASE!
- Listen to us.
- Calm down
- Let me go.
I am telling you.
Maaravarman.
She's totally out of control
We can't do anything.
[mobile ringing]
- Hello?
- 'Hello.'
'Sir, we are calling from KMC.'
- Hello?
- 'Maaravarman, right?'
- Hello, I can't hear you.
- 'Sir, can you hear me?'
- 'Hello, Maaravarman?'
- Maaravarman speaking.
- 'Calling from KMC hospital.'
- I can't hear you.
'Priya is your wife?'
Yes.
How is she?
'Sir, she is-.'
Tell me, madam
How is she?
Is she alright?
Sir, she's fine.
We have scheduled her surgery
the day after tomorrow at 7:00 a.m.
'I called to inform you, sir.'
Madam, regarding-
Can I pay the operation expense
the day after tomorrow?
Sir, full amount has been paid
That is why we scheduled the surgery.
Madam, can you re-check?
'Sir, 1 minute
Be on the line.'
Sir, patient's name is Priya, right?
Yes.
'Sir, hospital expenses
have been fully settled.'
'We will inform other details.'
Ravi and Co made the payment.
[car honking]
Why should you give me money?
Are you trying to buy me
like everybody else?
Your wish won't come true.
Listen.
That old man will die
of natural cause in a year or two.
You have a full life ahead of you
You have a wife to take care of.
You need to live a long
and happy life, no?
Why are you hanging on to a dying man?
No one will give you
this kind of amount.
If you want more
ask and take it.
But move away.
I can't do that.
I will repay your money somehow.
The money I gave you
was just an option.
Even if you deny the money.
I will kill him.
When the deed is done.
I can even change this case
to frame you for his death.
Do you need all this?
Take the money quietly
and get out of the scene.
Hear me out.
You went to bathe
the day my men came to kill, no?
Same way, leave that old man
and go somewhere.
Am I asking you to kill him?
I'm just asking you
to get out of the way.
Clear out.
Are you threatening me?
HEY!
Are you such a big shot
for me to threaten you?
I have fixed that old man's death day.
Tomorrow at 6:00 p.m.
You had better leave that old man at
Pandimuni temple and go somewhere.
But if you refuse and
stick to him like glue.
You will regret it till the day you die.
Go.
Get out.
[mobile ringing]
- Hello?
- Yes.
- DSP speaking.
- Sir.
I am sure the right men
would have come to see you.
Do as they say, boy.
Sir...sir, they are rowdies stooping so low.
Why are you also on their side, sir?
- Don't you have a conscience?
- Hey!
I didn't ask if you can do it.
I'm ordering you to do so.
No, sir
I can't do it, sir.
Don't you understand my order?
The entire department
is involved in this case.
If you refuse to do it
do you think they will spare you?
Your father also opposed the department.
In the end, he died
in the hands of the department.
'Do you want the same fate?'
Sir?
What? Joseph who told you everything
didn't tell you who killed your father?
'I will not turn a blind eye
This is a phony encounter.'
'I will go to court'
Your father said.
In the end.
The department got rid of him.
You are sailing in the same boat now.
Don't preach about justice and fairness
like your father and end up a corpse, da.
What? Are you over confident
because that judge supports you?
He won't attend this Hearing.
We have covered everything.
'All the authorities are in a frenzy.'
If you get caught, not just you.
It will make mince meat
out of everyone involved.
You...you are making a mistake, sir.
I'm predicting what will happen, son.
If you try showing off your bloody heroism.
Ravi paid for your wife's treatment, no?
I'll tell him to release that
with evidence tomorrow.
Want to see your situation
and your wife's plight then?
'Vigilance will come.'
You will hit the headlines in the papers
Do you want to die of shame?
Don't make us resort to that extreme.
Just do as you are told.
Sir...sir...SIR!
Sir, I think he will come around.
We can't afford to wait.
You have only 1 day grace time.
Not 'he will come around.'
He has to.
He has no other choice.
Attend to it.
Anna, their bad time
is heading towards them.
They are unaware.
I've made all arrangements.
This issue will end by tomorrow.
I'll handle it
Okay, anna.
Okay, anna.
Anna, I've spoken to that fellow.
I don't think he'll come around.
- Let's not wait, anna.
- Pccht! Dai.
Whether he likes it or not.
He desperately needs
the money we are offering.
That's enough.
I enquired about that policeman.
He's a spineless coward it seems.
Our DSP has warned him too.
He will come around and toe the line.
You go and attend to other tasks.
He hasn't eaten past 2 days.
He gets angry
if I ask him to eat.
Give him time, he will be fine tomorrow.
I don't know
Wonder how it will be fine.
AIYA!
- SIR.
- 'You left her and came today.'
- Keep an account in your book, akka.
- Okay, di.
Ma, where did he go?
I can't find him anywhere.
He went to his farm land
early in the morning.
I tried calling but unable to
reach him on the phone.
Don't you know where he is?
- No, ma.
- How can you say 'no'?
How can you be careless?
RASA.
RASA!
RASA?
Sandhanam, hearing you call me
I am hastening my steps.
Why get hyper
in the blink of an eye?
Where did you go?
Didn't tell either of us?
I went on an important mission.
You should take your Pandi-son
whatever your important mission is!
You can't take it easy.
I'm back now, right?
Pandi.
Past 2 days, you are
not your cheerful self at all.
You look so drained and depressed.
Let's go to Pandimuni temple.
Aiya.
Why go there?
Go with him, son.
You look scared and distraught.
Apply scared ash on him and come.
Let's go and worship our guardian deity.
'Don't hesitate
Go, my dear boy.'
I don't know where
this baby goat disappeared?
Let's return before sun set.
My dear, Kuzhandhaivel will be
roaming around there happily.
Bring him back with you.
Okay.
Aah! My dear, I saw late last night.
It seemed to drizzle.
Go and check in our farm land.
If button mushrooms have sprouted.
If you can gather some and cook-
Not a drop of drizzle from the sky.
You dream of button mushroom day and night.
Go and come back before it gets dark.
It has a special taste.
Hey! Boys, come on.
I had a wrong impression of you.
He seems to lose his temper
at the drop of a hat.
But you completely flip-flopped
the moment you saw your wife.
Only natural, no?
Isn't your wife the only priority?
When she was young.
Sandhanam had a tumor in her uterus.
'If uterus is removed
she cannot conceive.'
'A tumor can be fatal', said the doctor.
'Doctor, I don't need children.'
'You remove the tumor.'
'My husband is enough for me',
she said cheerfully.
Hmmm...whatever it is.
Only because she is by my side
I am leading a happy life in this village.
She means the world to me.
Hey! I can see a mango there.
Hey boy.
Is this the path to Pandi temple?
Go straight down this path.
Come on, da.
He is holding a knife, da.
It's quite cloudy today.
Likely to rain I think.
[mobile vibrating]
[mobile vibrating continues]
I know how heavy a burden
you're carrying in your heart.
Don't worry.
It's time for everything to be solved.
'Ravi paid for your wife's treatment, no?'
'I'll tell him to release that
with evidence tomorrow.'
'Want to see your situation
and your wife's plight then?'
'Vigilance will come.'
'You will hit the headlines in the papers
Do you want to die of shame?'
Sir...?
What is it?
- Can we stop for 5 minutes?
- Are your legs hurting?
Yes, sir.
Okay...okay.
Our mother is our world
till we become an adult.
After that, till our last breath
wife is with us every step of the way.
After our parents pass over.
She is the one who
nurtures and nourishes us.
Only your wife is important.
Wife is all-important.
[mobile vibrating]
[mobile continues to ring]
The trauma you are going through
to meet your wife's hospital expenses.
I can see it written all over your face.
Don't worry about all that.
I have made an arrangement for it.
Aaah?
She will be fine.
I'm not hearing a word from you.
Pandi.
Pandi?
Pandi?
PANDI.
PANDI?
PANDI.
Where have you disappeared
all of a sudden?
Hey!
No Pandi will come to your rescue.
In the end.
You have come for me!
Sandhanam.
You always say if I am left alone
I'll be deceived, right?
It has come true today.
'Pandi.'
'Where are you going?'
'You had better leave that old man at
Pandimuni temple and go somewhere.'
'But if you refuse and
stick to him like glue.'
'You will regret it till the day you die.'
'You should take your Pandi-son
whatever your important mission is!'
'Want to see your situation
and your wife's plight then?'
'Do you want to die of shame?'
'I am fine with this young boy
He is part of our family now.'
Look he is running over here.
Stop the car.
We have been looking for you
all over the place from this morning.
Both your phones are not reachable.
Hand over the bag to him.
Hold it, boy.
Take it.
All yours, I say.
Your old man visited me at home.
'I will sell my land to you.'
He wanted a sum of Rs 10 lakhs.
I was taken by surprise.
I agree, whatever you say is right.
It's true I said, 'when I breathe my last
I have to rest in peace in my land.'
If I had an heir that land
would have legally gone to him.
I think of that boy as my heir.
As my own son.
When my son is facing a crisis
how can I be without helping him?
- Sir.
- Hey...hey.
Why is he dashing off like a mad man?
Aiya...?
SIR.
AIYAA!
[Kuzhandaivel the goat bleating]
AIYA...!
AIYA...!
AIYAAAA!
OH GOD! SIR.
AIYA.
AIYAA.
AIYAA!
AIYA.
AIYA
AIYA!
AIYA.
Get up, aiya.
Aiya...sir.
Aiya, get up.
Your Pandi is here.
Please open your eyes.
Aiya.
AIYAIYO!
Oh my God!
AIYAAAA.
I'm a bloody sinner.
I'm a bloody sinner
Wretched sinner!
Oh my God!
I have killed my God!
He thought of me as his heir, I killed him.
Aiya...aiya.
Get up, aiya.
Get up, aiya.
Aiya.
AIYAAAAAAAAAAA!
"Why did God turn into
a cold, stone statue?"
"Cos the hearts of men turned into stone
Cold and unfeeling to the bone."
[song from film 'En Annan']
"Why did God turn into
a cold, stone statue?"
"Cos hearts of men turned into stone."
Hey! Where are you off to?
I'm just stepping out, anna.
Don't go have a ball outside
hitting on this female or that female.
Understand?
- No one can leave without asking me.
- Anguchamy anna has gone to get meat ball.
Are you playing the fool?
Ask him to stay put here.
- Yes, bro.
- Go.
Hahn.
No.
I've come to meet anna
in his brick chamber.
I'm telling you
minister has okayed it.
What's your doubt?
District Secretary has poked his nose
in the wrong place.
Wait and watch, you will be
seeing how fate treats him.
Alright.
Hahn.
Okay.
We'll deal with it.
'Whoever asks
stick to the same story.'
Will they switch off
their blessed music or not.
Giving me a nagging headache.
How can I eat in this din?
- You sit.
- They are holding their Party meeting.
From morning it's been like this.
Anna, that old man's chapter
has been closed.
Did you see a little girl
sitting on the bench outside?
Yes, anna
Who is she?
One chap went out now.
His daughter.
He's also from that old man's village.
He took his daughter this evening
to Manamadurai police station.
And filed a complaint this evening.
Do you know what?
That little girl was walking
near that old man's land.
That old fellow tried to
abuse this innocent child.
She told her father
who blasted the old man.
But the old man did not accept his crime.
So he went straight to the station.
He has filed a POCSO complaint
against the old man.
The police will go
in search of that old man now.
He will be hanging dead over there.
Unable to bear the disgrace and shame
he committed suicide by hanging.
FIR will be registered.
That is how I have ordered them to file.
Palms of all those villagers
have been greased well.
Those village folks will
nod their heads likewise.
I am sharing this with you
for you to be in the loop.
Relief at last!
Only now it feels like
the storm has crossed.
By the way, that policeman ran away, no?
I told you he's a scaredy cat.
But we shouldn't leave him as a loose end.
- 2 weeks later.
- Anna.
- I'll handle him.
- Pccht!
He shot himself dead
unable to cope with work pressure.
News will be reported.
They made our life miserable
using law as a weapon, no?
The same law that gave the judge a pen
and the police a gun.
They began with their pen.
We shall finish with a gun!
- What, Manickam?
- What you say goes, anna.
He's the policeman
protecting that old man.
Hey!
Come, boy.
We were just now
talking about you.
My boys were telling me
about a body guard.
Are you that policeman?
By the way, did you come alone?
'Can you come walking in the dark?'
'Why didn't you bring
someone along for safety?
What if you get scared of the dark?
Poor boy! He's panic-stricken.
What is the matter?
'Tell me.'
Need any help?
Don't hesitate, boy.
- Ask.
- Anna...anna!
- Someone has shot our Nagar.
- What are you saying?!
He's lying dead outside, anna.
Hey! Who shot him?
I don't know, anna
Someone shot him dead.
What do you mean 'someone'?
Why won't I shoot?
Hey...hey!
Dai...dai.
Manickam.
Hey Ravi.
"Will you grant with a ready heart
whatever Pandimuni asks you to part?"
"Whatever our guardian deity offers you
will you accept it with grace anew?"
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"You must come and rescue always
Protect the have-nots in all ways."
"Our warrior deity, fierce in glory
In You we seek our sanctuary."
"Erase their woes; ease their pain
Save the poor from misery's chain."
'Hey...spare him.'
Don't shoot.
"Will you grant with a ready heart
whatever Pandimuni asks you to part?"
"Whatever our guardian deity offers you
will you accept it with grace anew?"
"Praise be to Pandimuni
Our very own guardian deity."
"Erase their woes; ease their pain
Save the poor from misery's chain."
"Our warrior deity, fierce in glory
In You we seek our sanctuary."
"You must come to the rescue
of the have-nots who depend on You."
'When there is a thunderstorm
with heavy rain and lightning.'
In our land.
'Button mushrooms will sprout
from under the earth in clusters.'
'I think of that boy as my heir.'
'As my own son.'
'Don't leave him unprotected
at any point of time, son.'
[heaving grief-ridden sobs]
'Won't your sari smell musty
if you dry it folded like this?'
'True to the name of sandal.'
'Will you wear a saree
that has a musty smell?'
My beloved king Rasa.
Just as you desired.
I made your favorite
button mushroom masala gravy.
OYE RASA!
'Sandhanam...!'
'Many Maaravarmans and Durairasus are
still trapped in the cruel fangs of power.'
'And many Sandhanams in our society
keep waiting for them.'
subtitled by rekhs.
subtitled by rekhs
calibrated by pradeep.
'A Few Weeks Later.'
The trust Durairasu sir
and I placed in you.
That has been shattered
by this absolute abuse of power.
I could have opted for retirement.
But with your testimony
as prime witness.
The entire corrupt system
can be brought to justice.
And that is true justice
Sandhanam amma deserves.
After losing everything in her life.
That lady standing
all alone by herself.
'Her future life is
in your hands, my boy.'