[Bharathiraja over voice] My dear Tamils!
Your affectionate Bharathiraja,
has come again in a new dimension,
inviting you to visit this black land!
Even at the beginning of 21st century,
due to economical constraints,
for denying a life to them,
women of our villages,
how they fight for their life,
'Karuthamma' is film about their struggles.
Right...right...
[BUS ARRIVING]
[BUS PULLS OVER]
[MOANING]
Hello...brother...
Keep it like this and enter.
Is there a way like this? You're very smart, sir.
What's your name? - Vavval.
Your father is more intelligent than me to name you perfectly, go.
[BUS DRIVES AWAY]
[BIRD CHIRPING]
[OVER VOICE]
Hey teacher! You failed an MLA's son though you know who he is!
Watch out! I'll transfer you to some God forsaken place.
Jesus!
It was MLA's son, it brought me here.
Had it been a Minister's son?
It would've been a desert.
Susai! Walk on!
[MUSIC PLAYING WITH HUM]
[METAL CREAKING]
[WATER GUSHING]
[MUSIC PLAYING WITH HUM]
Come on, drink to your heart.
Only I've a well with sweet water in this region.
Water will taste sweet like sugar cane.
Do you've a beedi? - I don't smoke.
Thrifty man!
Looks like very smart.
Are you a teacher? - How did you find it?
I can judge dogs looking at their faces.
It's okay for dogs, how did you judge I'm a teacher?
A suitcase, a torn umbrella, newspaper under the arms.
A face that seems to be lost.
Moreover spectacles too.
Aren't these enough to identify you as a teacher?
Teachers have become so cheap to you.
Oh no, not like that.
Why I said like that because it's a profession without side income.
You're a man with clear idea.
What did you study?
No... - Fifth?
I'm uneducated.
What's the use of studying?
Why do you say like that?
You can find a job, right? - What would I do there?
You can earn very well. - What would I do earning well?
You can buy house and land, right?
After buying house and land?
Buy farms also.
What to do buying all these? - You can live happily, right?
Am I begging now?
I'm happy now with whatever I have.
[PANCHAYAT UNION PRIMARY SCHOOL] [POTTALPATTI]
Agreed studies is waste. - You're right.
How is the school in this village?
[GIGGLE]
Okay, no problem...tell me.
[GIGGLE]
I can't tell, go and see it yourself.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGING] [GOATS BLEATING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Did Megala lay egg?
It has started laying eggs just now.
First egg is for you only.
Feed them!
How can I share on egg for so many?
You work hard in farm, you're man of the house,
you've to look after 3 people, you have it.
Take it.
Why are you serving me yolk?
All energy is in that only. - Then, you eat it.
Why? - Not for you, silly woman.
For my son whom you're carrying now.
A foreteller predicted my fifth child will be a son.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INFANT CRYING]
Hey, look after the child.
Periyakanni, mother is shouting, right? - Don't hit me, father.
Don't you've sense? - Don't hit me, father.
Why don't you look after the crying baby?
Why are you hitting the girl? Your daughter, right?
Yes. Eldest donkey. Her name is Periyakanni.
Jenny!
The moment she was born, a cyclone washed away my two bulls.
She's the misfortune I got as eldest child in the family.
Baby in swing?
That's Karuthamma! Another jenny!
That's a big story.
She's also not an ordinary child.
When she was born, draught hit us,
my lone cow died falling into a dry well.
Epitome of misfortune!
Hey beau! Water stopped!
Has it dried here? Take a break.
My wife.
I was wearing full dhoti before marrying her.
After marriage it got reduced to just a loincloth.
Now waiting for arrival of fifth child. - Fifth?
2 are here, where are the other two?
Both were again girls.
We killed it by feeding poisonous extract of cactus plant.
We feed the babies with it, it died.
What's this? You're telling it so casually.
If not say it casually, do you expect me to cry and tell it?
It's enough if I raise these two daughters and get them married.
I don't have more than that capacity.
You say no capacity, right? Why then go for fifth child?
That is...foreteller made a prediction.
He said my fifth child will be a son.
That's why I allowed it.
Whatever may be your reason, this is murder, right?
Do you know what did Jesus say?
Forget that. What did Gandhi say? Gandhi?
What did Gandhi say about this?
He suggested killing struggling goat kid, right?
Is he a killer?
I...I...
What? - You're an educated man.
You go to doctor in town,
you see whether the forthcoming child is boy or girl on screen,
and abort it secretly,
isn't that a murder?
You're educated and from city, if you do it, it is right.
We're villagers and uneducated, is it wrong if we do it?
See the injustice right now here. - What?
I'm sitting here tired after working hard in sun.
You're just listening to my story but holding an umbrella.
I've downed it. - That's it!
How can a temple cow know the pain of a cow working in field?
Yesterday you called me a dog, today you called me a cow.
Don't know when will you accept me as a man?
[HEAVY MUSIC]
[MOANING]
Hey, Mooli!
Mokkatha is having labour pain, you're needed there urgently.
Oh my God!
Teacher, I'll wash the vessels by morning.
I'm going to Mokkatha's house.
If you're going out, leave the keys in my home.
[LIGHTNING]
[LIGHTNING AND THUNDER]
O Goddess Pechiyatha!
Hey Vellayamma, get some castor oil.
[MOANING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Rasu, the cow is struggling to deliver. Get Mokkayan before it delivers.
[MOANING] [RAINING]
Mokka, my father wants you there, cow is struggling to deliver.
[MOANING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
Did you inform him? - He said he's coming.
Come, Mokka. I think the calf is turned up.
I too feel same seeing it struggle.
Uncle, throw that rope.
Rasu, take the rope.
I don't mine if calf dies, but please save the cow.
That's the only property I have.
[INFANT CRIES]
Don't know where's God?
It's a boy, right Mooli?
I think foreteller was drunk while predicting.
Poor woman gave birth to a baby girl again.
[BANG MUSIC]
God cheated me!
Give me only daughters, my life will become hell.
Brother, feed extract of cactus to the infant and dispose silently.
I'll not even see it's face.
At least I'll go home in time.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Mokka, it's a male calf, why don't you sell it?
I can sell the cow but how can I sell my wife?
What to do now, Mokka?
Take Rs.50 I got from selling calf.
Finish the new life with it.
Why not see the infant's face for one last time?
I saw and felt pity, now I'm burdened with two daughters.
They're more than enough for me. Mind your work.
[LIGHTNING] THUNDER]
What can I do, Mokkatha?
[CRIES]
[MUSIC]
[HUMMING LULLABY]
You're not fortunate to listen to lullaby, O dear...
I ruined the paddy seeds... Fate took over you...
You're not fated to drink mother's milk, O dear...
Drink milk extract of cactus and go to sleep, my dear...
If you've next birth and come into the world as a boy...
You'll have a place in this earth, farewell, my little parrot...
Farewell, my little parrot...
As a girl you grow into a woman, become wife of a man,
instead of dying slowly with tears and cries over years,
Drink milk of cactus, and sleep peacefully in my cacti garden, dear.
Maid!
O my God!
Who is it?
Teacher?
You feed the children of village.
How could you feed a child with cactus milk?
Child's father Mokkayyan asked me to kill it.
I'm destined to live this horrible life, how can I be pitiful or worry about sins?
Even if parents order it, how can you do it?
Am I committing this sin wantonly?
It's my damn fate.
I fed so many children of this village with cactus milk.
Singing lullaby to them, giving them a bath in my tears,
tying a swing in cacti garden,
I've put them to eternal sleep.
This is my garden.
My children are sleeping here.
With compassion on them, I'm committing this sin.
My husband left m mid-way.
My son dumped me for his wife.
hen I was born as a girl child, if someone had killed me like this,
why would I live this dreadful life?
God gives many children to the poor and tests him,
for the rich, he tests them without giving any.
Who do I've to claim as my own?
The child who is a burden to you.
If you give me as alms, I'll consider it as a gift from God.
I'll raise her as my daughter.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
Gruel...corn gruel...
With just onions...
Come Tamil month Thai, it's rice food...
Our lands are dependent on rains...
Our Gods have fallen asleep...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
When it turns dusk, count the heads...
Along with cow and goats, we're 7 members in the family...
River...where's the river?
It flows when it rains... Next day vehicles move on sand...
Apple of my eyes... my children are same...
Our lands will feed us...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
There's shade of Prosopis trees for crows...
Is there a mango tree shade for my children to rest?
There's fish in to satiate hunger of cranes...
Is there at least rotten paddy to satiate the hunger of my children?
Cattle is strong which will run a long way...
But life is life, it'll take years to complete...
Like a local sparrow's tail moves inside...
Tears drop within heart...
Heart will get excited without information...
Like a garden lizard looking at dead tree...
Looking at the land we live...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
Gruel...corn gruel...
With just onions...
Come Tamil month Thai, it's rice food...
Our lands are dependent on rains...
Our Gods have fallen asleep...
Farm...barren farm...
Where wind blows hot...
Hut...little hut...
It's a lifelong struggle under it...
[SILENCE]
[BUS ENGINE SOUND]
Hey mister! Don't you know smoking is banned in bus?
Nonsense! - Nonsense?
Hello...Rs.4.50, I've paid Rs.4.50 to sit here.
I'll smoke, drink whisky or brandy. Who the hell are you to ask me?
You're reading a book, did I stop you?
Why are you blowing smoke on me?
I'm blowing it differently.
You too smoke and blow it differently.
Who hasn't bought ticket? - You!
Have you all bought tickets on top?
We have, how many times we've to buy?
You must buy luggage ticket also.
He may ask ticket for wind also. - Driver, pull over the bus.
Keep your tickets in hand.
Brother...
Hey elderly man!
Bought ticket?
Did you buy ticket?
I bought yesterday itself. - What? Yesterday?
Yesterday's ticket is not valid for today.
What's this injustice?
Yesterday I went by this bus to my daughter's house,
today I'm returning in the same bus.
It seems this ticket is invalid.
Conductor, trying to cheat illiterates.
Oh no, useless buggers!
That's why Govt. is not ready to lay roads for you.
I'll buy tickets, you build roads for us?
Get lost, man. - Take out money.
Hello bespectacled man! You look educated.
Tell me if this ticket is valid or not.
Elderly man, this ticket is not valid.
Yesterday's ticket is not valid today.
Uneducated guys like me can understand only if educated like you tell it.
You can't understand if I say in Tamil, can you understand if he tells in Hindi?
Hey mad fellow! That's Telugu, man!
My damn fate! That's why no rains in this region.
Look, don't get into unnecessary problems.
Road, language, caste and rains.
Don't talk about it and lose your head.
Issuing tickets is your job, do that.
Mad man!
Right...right...
[BLEATING] [ENGINE REVVING]
[THUD] [THUDS]
What's this, mister?
If you keep suitcase on the way, won't it create traffic jam?
I paid Rs.4.50 to travel, can I walk on your head?
Mister! - Don't talk.
If you're so careful with bags, carry it on your head.
Come!
[THUD]
Bloody buffalo! - Why are you hitting me, bro?
Beasts!
They're like that only, useless buggers. Come.
You rocked it, bro. - Then what? Why should we fear anyone?
You haven't yet told me, who you are?
My name is Stephen, I'm new doctor to veterinary hospital.
You carry on, I'll take a leak and come.
Oh no...
Sir! Doctor sir, please forgive me. - Why are you falling at my feet?
Leave it, who are you guys?
We went to railway station for you, sir.
Without knowing you're the doctor, we behaved nastily with you, sir.
I knew the moment I saw your innocent face, sir.
That you'll be the veterinary doctor. - Yes.
You're the doctor and I'm compounder.
I got cheated with this cleaner's talk.
Got cheated, sir. - Brother!
Please forgive me, sir. Forgive me, sir.
[SLAP] [BIRD CRY]
[SHRIEK][SLAP] [BIRD CRY]
[DOOR OPENING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Veterinary Hospital, Pottalpatti
Brother, number 10.
Take Rs.5, brother.
Are you number 10?
Why are you paying Rs.5 only?
Normally you take Rs.5 only, right?
Ask me like that.
Now, you're born to a question.
Earlier doctor was very good man, little educated, so little bribes.
New doctor is well educated, young man, so big fat bribes.
.Want to earn big?
Who is he? Young and well educated?
Ask him to come out, let me see him.
If he comes, he'll ask for Rs.25.
Hello Palani sister...brother Kalimuthu...
It seems young and well educated doctor has come to steal us.
Please call him out, we'll look at him. - Who is it?
Nothing!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It'll deliver calf in a day or two. - Very lucky hands, please clean it.
Take care of it well. - We do look after it well.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Doctor, you inserted hand to check, is it male or female calf?
Can't find it like that!
Male or female is known only after delivery.
We too know it after delivery.
Even blind can tell after touching it.
Why are you taking Rs.10 as tax for this? - Rs.10? Whom did you pay?
Wait...wait...
Who asked you to tell about buying cattle feed to him?
Cattle feed? - Stupid!
Why did you take money from her?
Sir, earlier doctors took Rs.5 as fee.
Smartly, I collected Rs.10. If you don't like, I'll ask Rs.15...
Stop it. Stop taking bribes.
Return her Rs.10. - Okay, sir.
Take it without fail while leaving. - Give her right now.
Take it.
Look, this is govt. hospital. It means your hospital.
Govt. pays salary to us.
No need to pay any bribe here in the name of tax.
We're here to serve you. Got it?
[GIGGLING]
Brother...Pechi...
New doctor doesn't know to treat cattle or take money to live happily.
Stupid doctor!
[COW MOOING]
Karuthamma, stop it.
But you're very smart.
I've seen many families getting ruined for drinks.
But you're the only one who lives well off using water.
Just half litre is enough for me. - Why? You asked for a liter, right?
I'll fill other half from pump.
Brother, please don't tell doctor.
Would I tell this to doctor? We both share the booty equally, right?
You said about that stupid doctor, should I buy at least 6 cows using him?
God must ensure he mustn't get transferred from here.
Please move little away.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GOAT BLEATING]
Yuck!
Why did you sneeze now, sir?
Did I ask for hot water? I asked you for milk, right?
Sir, don't make fun of me.
Will you drink without seeing what it is?
Look at the colour, it is milk, sir.
Whatever you give me hereafter, please tell me what that is.
I'll think it is and drink it.
Change the milk girl.
Oh no!
You change that milk lady.
Sir, I'm very sorry.
You see...
Sir, no objection, don't control.
If we stop her, it'll affect many lives.
No milk, you in Pottalpatti, my family and you family, all family,
including water will...
Yes, sir.
Sir!
Karuthamma is supplyi water to entire village with just 2 cows.
Have you decided to ruin her livelihood?
Sir, that is...
Sir, people are mixing milk in water.
What was the crime of that girl, sir?
It's not a crime to mix water in milk.
If we build a house in govt. land.
Did anyone in this country think about what decides the price of milk?
That is mortal...discrimination, article...
[SLAP]
Oh God...oh no...
[METAL CLANKING]
[CROWS CAWING]
[WATER SPLASHING]
Oh no, stupid...
Finish it...finish it.
Stupid doctor who can't take bribes.
Sir, please take this.
To wipe.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thanks for giving a cloth to wipe.
Take it, keep it safely.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What's it, boys? Go away.
Get lost, you thieves.
Trying to cheat by taking my note.
Sir!
What? Local boys are looking at my face strangely.
You too are looking like them. What's on face anyway?
Nothing written on it but smeared, sir.
See in mirror, sir.
See in mirror!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thanks for giving a cloth to wipe.
Take it, keep it safely.
[MOOING]
[CYCLE BELL RINGING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi, can you see my love in these eyes?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sister!
Karuthamma!
Sister!
Karuthamma, my life has gone to dogs.
Why did you come alone leaving brother-in-law?
That sinner thrashed and sent me away.
Don't know what's her demand now!
Coming January,
my mother-in-law wants to conduct ear piercing function for younger one.
I managed to postpone it by a year with some reason.
But my mother-in-law asks about it every day.
He tells every now and then about your promise of gold ring 5 years ago.
I can't live there anymore.
My life would've been better had I married a eunuch.
I'm married to my aunt's son.
I'm struggling for daily necessities.
You eat well and be happy.
There's shade of Prosopis trees for crows...
Had my mother been alive, she would've found a way for me.
She's no more.
Who is there to share my grief?
You silly woman!
If mother is not here, I'm there for you, right?
Do you've to talk about this when father is eating?
Is there a mango tree shade for my children to rest?
Like I got a useless husband, you got a dumb wife.
I got you married to her for my brother's property.
She came here to live without anything,
I'll be happy only if I rip her into two, son.
You got me married to your brother's daughter fearing division of property.
If not for my beauty and status,
girls from big families would've formed a line for me.
Hey, forget it, son.
Your third is coming soon.
Why do you complain about wife and kids listening to mother?
What did you say now?
Nothing...you both go ahead, I'll follow you.
What a father I have!
Don't mistake me for saying this, Mokka.
The loan taken for your wife's funeral and daughter's marriage is still unpaid.
You're asking for more loan now.
What's there for me to extend loan?
I'll sell my lands to settle your loan, sir.
Sir, I'll never go back on my promise or word.
Where's your father?
I felt pity to fix my son's marriage with brother's daughter.
Now, I'm getting insulted.
He got her married to my son with just one ear ring and nose pin.
He left us unattended, useless man.
Why are you abusing my father, aunt?
He went to market, he'll come any moment now.
You're giving loan trusting that useless barren land, sir.
How will he repay, sir?
Am I giving loan for that barren land?
That Karuthamma...
Why do we feed goat and bulls with grass and herbs?
We'll know that on pongal day, right?
Come, Kaliamma. When did you come?
There are ear rings, chains in this.
Skirt and blouse for kids are in this.
Conduct ear piercing function for both kids.
I bought a sari for you too. Take it.
Son-in-law, take dhoti and shirt.
I went to market. - Why do I need this, father-in-law?
Already I've plenty of clothes.
Use this also along with what you have.
Sister, sari for you.
Why did you buy sari for me, brother?
Rs.150! Bought in Chettiar's shop.
See the price on yellow sticker.
Come in, father-in-law. - Sit down, dear.
I said children are growing up, very difficult to pierce ears.
My daughter-in-law came running to you in tears.
I came now to take her home.
Are we going to live here for centuries to enjoy everything?
Brother-in-law, dhoti and shirt for you.
Brother-in-law, last time you gave me this dhoti and shirt.
She lets me wear it only if we go out.
All other times just a loincloth?
You got it right!
[LAUGHING]
Where were for a month, Thavasi?
People from Marigoondu dismantled our party flag, right?
Then? - I was very patient for some time.
Just one shot, I cut his hand. - You're the real party worker.
Only you praise me, but new Inspector is after me.
Call and tell him.
Every evening he comes here, I'll tell him.
How is your sister-in-law Karuthamma?
Though dark, she's beautiful, right?
Indeed she 's beautiful ever since she had come of age.
What's your idea about Karuthamma?
Are you going to marry her or take her as concubine?
Feeling shy, bloody dog.
I've physical strength to marry but economically weak.
We're together in it, can't we share it?
You go ahead, what for I'm here then?
You're going to home, why keep frowning face?
Keep this money for expenses. - Why do I need money?
You'd have worked hard to save money to buy jewels.
You said in one word who is there to look after me!
I'm heart broken.
May be mother is not here but I'm there for you, right?
If you've a son, I'll buy silver chain and silver loin thread.
Take it as gift from mother.
O my God! Karuthamma!
O my mother!
My mother is not dead.
She's alive.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRYING]
You silly girls! Why are you crying now?
That's why I say no one must have daughters.
Even if you've sons, same thing, brother-in-law.
Look, he's showing his true colour.
You'll not understand the meaning these cries.
As if we're taking away your father's royal property.
They've tanks of tears in head.
I've heard about mixing water in milk.
Strange! In your place you mix milk in water.
Because water is very scarce in this village, doctor.
How can we mix milk in water?
Tell him like that.
Tell him, how water is scarce in our village.
They'll offer milk for free, would anyone offer free water?
Looks like you'll ask money to use water for bath also.
Then, what? Would they let you take bath for free?
There's no water in and around villages here.
Only my well has water. That too spring water!
If you bath in it, you won't fall sick and your life span will increase.
Yes sir, this is herbal water.
If you drink, it is sweet, if you bath it'll spread fragrance.
If you wash clothes in it, it'll shine bright, sir.
I washed this loincloth in this water, sir.
Four months and still it is bright, sir.
Water is very scarce here, for you Re.1 for a pot of water.
Take as much money as want, please give me water to bath.
Draw water from well.
Brother, keep the count of pots.
One stone for one pot.
I don't know all that, I'll keep approximately.
Let's rock it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Bath well.
Hey, gathered many stones.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Doctor, there's soap on ears, clean it well.
Doctor, today is leave, right? Take a good bath.
If I bath for some more time, I've to sell my dad's property too.
You'd be in a dhoti and I'll be in a loincloth.
Karuthamma will build a house. How is it?
Oh no!
Well has gone dry!
Mokka is a dullard.
He has such an intelligent daughter, can't he dig the well deeper?
Okay, you may fall sick, dry your hair quickly.
1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 32, 36, 37, 41, 48, 51, 54, 57, 60, 71, 85, 86, 87.
Totally 88, sir! Don't say keep in account.
Smart Karuthamma, take Rs.100.
Give me the change.
Oh...doctor...
Rs.100!?
I don't have change for balance Rs.13.
Do you've it with you?
What do I've with me? Just loincloth!
No problem.
For balance change, there's a flower in your hair, right?
Give me that. That'll settle my account.
Rs.13 for this flower?
Yes, we don't get this flower so easily. Very rare flower.
Karuthamma, this is red oleander.
If you find a green oleander flower, I'll pay Rs.20 also.
What? Rs.20?
I've seen many fools in this world, but never seen more foolish than him.
He's the first man to take bath by paying Rs.100.
Yes, green oleander!
You found it!
Then, what? I went around forest, hills and valleys to find it.
You took a lot of trouble.
I'll pay you whatever you ask.
You asked a flower to keep on ear, right?
Now take two from it and keep on both ears.
Rare item, that's why I said it. What do you say, Karuthamma?
Where did you get these flowers from?
Is it like the hand pump?
Green flowers are from Pachchamalai.
Will you go to Neelamalai for blue flowers?
Have you decided to force doctor to leave in a week?
Let's share 50-50 whatever he pays.
Then, okay...okay.
[GIGGLE]
[BIRD CRY]
Karuthamma's colour is fading!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
O God! Foretell my future.
Astrologer!
Will your parrot tell if I would've son or daughter?
Why did you ask me like that?
Even actors seek assistance of my parrot to act in films.
Pay Rs.2 and ask.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh no!
Sister!
Hey, don't bite off the glass.
Sister! - Hey Karuthamma!
I was thinking about you today morning.
You're as if I called you.
Are you fine? How is father?
We're fine, you're in late pregnancy, did you come alone?
What are you doing?
Just asking the parrot if I'll have a son or daughter.
Hey astrologer, check properly and tell.
Kannamma, select a good chit.
It's Goddess Lakshmi.
You'll give birth to Goddess Lakshmi.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Why are you dejected?
What's wrong if you've a daughter?
If I give birth to a girl third time, mother-in-law will kill me and my child.
Just thinking about it gives me shivers.
Would they kill you so easily?
If you've a baby girl, give her to me.
I'll raise her as my daughter, I'll give a broom to her,
I'll ask her to thrash your mother-in-law.
[BLEATING]
Oh no!
Oh my God!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh no, holding the hand of a girl in day time!
If people see us, who will lose honour?
If you steal and run away, if not your hand what else can I hold?
Stole you? - Yes.
Mixed water in milk, used green ink for white flowers,
you took money by cheating me, that also!
Come out like that!
You say you're educated, but not world wise.
There's heavy rain here for a week.
Cows were down with cold.
That's why milk was little watery.
Cold for cows?
Very goo...very good.
Not only that flower colour faded little in rain.
How can you accuse me for it?
You buy a shirt bit in town.
If colour fades, would the shop keeper buy it back?
Likewise we too won't take back faded flowers.
So, you'll do anything for money.
What are you looking at?
Money is not a big thing for rich like you.
Only poor who don't have know it's value.
You know many girls remain unmarried for not having a ear ring or nose pin?
I sell milk and curd, work in fields,
I saved money to conduct my sister's marriage.
Now, my sister is pregnant.
I've to buy jewels for her child.
That's why I'm saving money.
A tiller is left with tiredness.
A drawer is left with sweat!
My father didn't have that also.
Sorry, Karuthamma. I said that for fun.
Men like you seek dowry to marry girls,
that's why we girls are treated worse than dogs...
All men are not same.
If a man proposes to marry you without asking any dowry.
Will you agree to marry him?
Where can we find such a stupid...
Complete it.
I'm that stupid.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
There goes Ponnuthai taking away my heart...
Feeling shy and hiding face...
There goes Ponnuthai losing her heart in dusty land...
Bounding herself in local traditions...
You're the grassland... I'm a goat...
Quit your shyness, dear...
Traditional Karuthamma will not let you into the grassland...
There goes Ponnuthai taking away my heart...
Feeling shy and hiding face...
There goes Ponnuthai losing her heart in dusty land...
Bounding herself in local traditions...
Uneducated girl with a heart of gold...
There's no falsehood in her word, action or deed...
I'm mad on you in my heart...
There's no messenger to carry my message to you...
River Vaigai isn't fortunate to reach the sea...
That's okay, Thursday is not far away from Friday...
There goes Ponnuthai taking away my heart...
Feeling shy and hiding face...
The girl you see is not lotus but cactus...
It has thorns all over it's body...
Hey, don't worry, girl... You're my lotus...
You're Kannagi is cotton sari...
You're taking away my life in sari pleats...
You're getting trouble with a girl...
There goes Ponnuthai losing her heart in dusty land...
Bounding herself in local traditions...
There goes Ponnuthai losing her heart in dusty land...
Bounding herself in local traditions...
You're the grassland... I'm a goat...
Quit your shyness, dear...
Traditional Karuthamma will not let you into the grassland...
There goes Ponnuthai taking away my heat...
Feeling shy and hiding face...
There goes Ponnuthai losing her heart in dusty land...
Bounding herself in local traditions...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Can you understand my lips saying about my love?
[COW MOOING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You're almost nearing delivery time, how can you work so hard?
Wash your hands and come, dear.
I say come here.
Tell me, what father has brought for you?
Wow... - Sssh!
What else?
As usual my favourite savoury, right?
No.
This time it is chicken biryani from Bhai's shop.
The child will be fine if mother is happy eating well, right?
Take it.
How did you get money to buy it, father-in-law?
Why do you ask about that, dear?
That stingy lady sent me to market to sell two goat kids.
I took two chicken and sold it to Bhai's shop.
This is for that.
O my God!
Come out like that!
went all over the place searching for my chicken.
Has my chicken come here as biryani?
Hey you bloody woman! Was it your plan?
Do you've to enjoy biryani like this?
Bloody beggar's daughter.
Why are you shouting at a pregnant woman?
You too have a son, right?
Are you coming in support of daughter-in-law?
Hey, useless man!
When I was pregnant,
did you or your mother ever offer me gruel properly?
Are you bringing stolen biryani for daughter-in-law?
Am I your wife or is she your wife?
Tell me!
Is she my daughter-in-law?
My daughter!
Daughter!
May your tongue get ruined!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHRIEK]
[INFANT CRIES]
[BLEATING]
Instead of this business,
if I had brewed local liquor I'd have made money.
Are you coming from market?
Your daughter-in-law gave birth to a girl again.
Save money all your life selling vegetables.
Don't know where you got this daughter-in-law?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Kali, your daughter-in-law cheated you again.
Go and see. - Okay, go.
Pounu is crying, please swing it.
The truth is out!
Life is on street.
Bloody woman! If it was a girl again, why didn't you kill immediately?
Were you waiting for our arrival?
Useless woman!
No, don't kill my child, please mother-in-law.
I'll raise my child at least by working as coolie.
Is it okay if you raise her?
Where can you find a fool like my son to get her married?
As if you gave birth to a rare thing!
Take it as good riddance and take bath.
I'll draw water from well.
[SOBBING]
Are you the woman who gave birth to a baby girl?
Why are you feeding milk to a baby girl who is about to die?
No, please...I beg you.
Please don't harm my child.
Please leave my child.
Your father is sending gifts!
I am...
Give the child to me, bloody woman.
No!
Bloody eunuch! You can't raise your child!
You should've thought about it before sleeping with me.
If you dare touch my child, I don't care even if you're husband.
How dare! Are you threatening husband?
First I'll kill you and then go after her.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Where are you running with child?
Hey, you...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Come on...come on, man!
Useless man...useless woman!
If you dare touch my child, I'll kill you both.
You cheap woman! Will you kill me?
Come on, kill me. Kill me!
[SHRIEK]- Mother! - O my God!
Get her, she may gather a crowd.
Grandpa...grandpa...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SHRIEK]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Get up, grandpa! Grandpa!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[HUFFING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INFANT CRIES]
Sister!
[MOANING]
What happened, Karuthamma? Why did you shout now?
Nothing, father.
I feel indifferent.
Okay...go to sleep.
[INFANT CRIES]
You silly woman! Get up!
O my God!
She's not responding, Thavasi.
I think she's dead.
Grandpa...grandpa...
Shut the door...shut the door.
Get few paddy grains, let's finish this first.
[INFANT CRIES]
[ROOSTER CROWING]
[WATER SPILLING SOUND]
[THUD]
She hanged herself for giving birth to a girl child again.
How can I bear this?
I accepted my brother's daughter as daughter-in-law to avoid diving property.
I looked after you like my daughter. How could you die like this?
My wife died and left me unjustly.
Lift him up, he's crying falling on ground.
Hey Thavasi, get up!
I've been orphaned!
For your age, you can have 8 wives!
I'm there for you, be brave.
Lift him, please...lift him.
Sister, left us so early...
[CONCH BLOWING]
[CRYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh my sister!
[MUSIC PLAYING] [CRYING]
Sister!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sister!
[MUSIC PLAYING] [CRYING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
If I've a baby girl again, mother-in-law will kill me and my daughter.
That thought give me shivers.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [CRYING]
No!
My sister kill herself, these sinners beat her to death.
You silly woman! She killed herself.
You bitch! Both mother and son joined to kill my sister!
Are you playing a drama now?
Hey bitch! I'll not go without killing you.
Hey Karuthamma! Have you gone mad?
Leave me!
Will you hang my sister's body and play a drama now?
If I don't call police and send mother and son to gallows,
I'm not my father's daughter.
Hey you, dirty girl!
Bloody orphan girl!
I accepted your sister as my daughter-in-law.
For that you'll say anything.
She's making wild accusations.
Why all men are watching fun? Ask her!
Sir, she's going to police making wild accusations.
You must save me, sir.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [CRYING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
They thrashed my sister to death, sir.
Send them to gallows, sir, Those killers.
Is it so easy to hang them? Please sit there, go.
My sister's husband Thavasi and his mother killed my sister.
Did you see them hitting her?
No, sir.
What can I do without seeing... go, sit there.
Sir!
Please save me. - Who are you? Come on, get up.
Constable! What's the case?
Sir, case involves Chellampatti Chairman.
He sent man to take it easy on this case.
We'll not allow to cremate the body.
Who the hell are you to interfere in my family matter?
Bloody dogs! - Hey, move...move...
Calm...calm down...go away...
Hey!
Bloody drunkards!
Keeping body in home on Friday!
Are you creating a scene here?
That girl made wild accusations for the love of her sister.
Will you make trouble here for that?
Tell me, what happened there?
Sir, they thrashed my elder sister Periyakanni to death.
I found wounds on her body, sir.
I suspect it, sir. - What? Suspicious?
Can't file case on suspicion? We need witness for the case.
Case will not stand in court without witness.
Go, mind your work.
That's better for you and we too.
Why are you dismissing it so easily?
Please come and see it once, sir.
I came here trusting you, sir.
Please show us a way, sir.
If not I'll not move from here.
[CRIES] - How could you leave me alone?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You're troublesome!
Give in writing what had happened! I'll take action.
Sir, I don't know to read or write.
We can't file case on oral statement, we want written statement.
Go and get a written statement from some educated person.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sir... - No money, please go.
Sir...sir... - Please balance change.
Sir, they killed my sister.
I don't know to read or write, please come to station...
Please ask some literate person, I'm also illiterate.
What can I write?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sir, they killed my sister,
police want a written statement, I don't know to read or write.
Please go away.
If I write for you, I've to come to court, they'll make me a witness.
I'll be in big trouble, please leave me alone.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES]
Is there any new rule not to accept complaints from illiterates and women?
By the way, who are you, mister?
I'm Govt. Veterinary Doctor. My name is Stephen.
Please take your seat, sir. Please sit down.
Sir, she's making suicide as murder.
That is... - Do you know it is suicide?
How can we take a village girl... - Look Inspector.
She's lodging a complaint because she suspects the death.
Your duty is to file case only.
There's court to decide whether it is suicide or murder.
You first do your duty. Do your duty first!
If not I've to complain to your higher officer.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Bloody rascals! I'll not allow you take the body!
I'll not let you go till police comes here.
Hey, keep the body here.
Boys, thrash and throw away that drunkard!
Bloody wife killer! Will you ever come good in life?
You'll get ruined! - Leave me...
Bloody chairman! I'll kill you.
Leave me I say!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[JEEP ENGINE PURRING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Inspector, he's the man.
What's this, Sankar? Why are you creating trouble in village?
Sir, he's educated man. Moreover intelligent too.
[SOBBING] - Please don't cry, Karuthamma.
He's talking about law with me, just think over it.
I'll arrest him now, we can discuss about it later.
Okay, go ahead.
Constable!
Are you sending me to jail, Karuthamma?
If I don't come out of jail and kill you both,
henceforth my name shall not be Thavasi.
You'll get ruined.
Brother!
Doctor!
You brought police to a village which they never entered.
This is just the beginning, don't know what disasters are in store!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[METAL DOOR CREAKING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING] [LAUGHING]
Why are you laughing, grandpa?
Both mother and son went overboard eating mutton and rice in home.
What a fate!
Now, count bars eating jail food!
[METAL CLANKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh my God!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Uncle!
Selvi!
[SOBBING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[BELL RING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Stephen, I'm coming there with warmth of your love.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[ROOSTER CROWING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[ROOSTER CROWING]
A village where parrots sing... Look at the cotton bed like greenery...
A village where rivers flows...
Herds of goats with goat kids... Roosters shaking their combs...
Look at relatives... near and ear ones...
A song for cows... It's a game for goats...
A village where parrots sing... Look at the cotton bed like greenery...
A village where rivers flows...
Herds of goats with goat kids... Roosters shaking their combs...
Look at relatives... near and ear ones...
Like women carrying pots... River too flows gossiping like them...
Parrots start the theme of song... Cuckoo will join singing the stanza...
It's festivities forever here for gentle breeze...
Cities don't have this comfort...
I'll sit like beetle in that celestial garden of flowers...
A village where parrots sing... Look at the cotton bed like greenery...
A village where rivers flows...
Herds of goats with goat kids... Roosters shaking their combs...
Look at relatives... near and ear ones...
A song for cows... It's a game for goats...
The pond built for us...
May I take bath before union...
Where will this walking path take me...
May I walk the distance alone?
It's music to hear the cries of birds and animals...
I'm happy to enjoy and admire it...
There's always fragrance of flowers near my window...
That happiness is bliss...
A village where parrots sing... Look at the cotton bed like greenery...
A village where rivers flows...
Herds of goats with goat kids... Roosters shaking their combs...
Look at relatives... near and ear ones...
A song for cows... It's a game for goats...
[CHICKEN CROWING]
[ENGINE SOUND]
[BUS REVVING]
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
[BIRD CRY]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GOAT BLEATS]
[THUD] [GOAT BLEATS]
Stephen!
Where's Pottalpatti?
This side, let's go.
How dare!
How can a girl dare to come alone here?
If you had patiently waited under a tree.
It would've been easy for us to finish the job, right?
Brother, I've never seen such a girl in my life.
Why are you just watching? Lift it!
[SLAPS]
Rascals! Will you do anything if you see a girl alone?
Oh no! Madam!
I'm compounder working for doctor.
I told him to lift the suitcase, you misunderstood and slapped me.
[SLAP]
Do you all doctors slap people like this only?
[SLAP]
[THUD] - Stephen!
What do you think of me, yeah?
Hi Rosy!
[THUD] - Hey!
Am I nothing to you? Do you think of yourself so great?
Please listen to me.
You know I'm coming here, right?
I wrote 100 letters and 10 telegrams.
Will you lose anything if you come to pick me up?
Rosy, please try to understand me.
There's sudden inspection today. I'm a govt. doctor.
What doctor? Great doctor? Veterinary doctor!
You're a doctor for animals and I'm doctor for humans.
That's why I've basic ethics.
For you inspection of goats, cattle and chicken is important.
Okay, you didn't answer my letters.
Couldn't have greeted me on completion of my MBBS?
Look Stephen, I'm not your uncle's daughter.
Take it as some other girl.
New place, I'm alone, don't you've basic courtesy to receive?
What's this, sir? - Are you still here? Get out.
Look Rosy, if you keep on shouting like this,
I'll fall unconscious. Unconscious?
What charmed you in this village?
A junk box called as bus.
What's here?
4 bald heads, 6 hutments, 6 men in loincloth.
This place is called as Pottalpatti and I've come here with 8 bags.
To come here...I've brought shuttle cock too to this Pottalpatti.
I must curse myself.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Stephen!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Stephen!
Hey, Stephen!
[MUSIC PLAYING] [GIGGLING]
Here this strange thing... Come and see this wonder...
Shuttle is flying...come and see... - Stephen, 1-0!
Watch free TV without paying...
Come and see the fair complexion...
Here this strange thing... Come and see this wonder...
Shuttle is flying... come and see...
Watch free TV without paying...
Come and see the fair complexion...
Stephen, you're losing!
You know what you should on losing, right?
You can't escape from me. I won't leave you.
People say they're made for each other couple...
Evil eyes have been cast... Ward it off please...
People say they're made for each other couple...
Evil eyes have been cast... Ward it off please...
Wow! I got it!
[GIGGLING]
Hey, Stephen!
I won!
You lost! - Leave my neck.
You must go around the ground thrice carrying me.
Poor man!
Do it. - Listen to me, Rosy.
Did you see how he got caught?
Is it?
[GIGGLING]
Karuthamma! Did you see that perfect pair?
That fair girl with doctor.
It seems she's doctor's uncle's daughter.
It seems doctor will marry her.
She has a great piggy back ride on doctor.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What's your name?
This what it!
What's your name?
Did you ask my name? - Yes.
Sevala, madam...Sevalakalai.
Mr.Sevala, I heard villages are very beautiful.
But I don't see anything here.
Is it Andipatti or Usilampatti to be beautiful?
3 lanes, 36 houses, 14 goats, 10 cattle, 20 pigs, 4 donkeys.
Including him 7 or 8 rabid dogs.
But number of rabid dogs may vary, madam.
But dogs like him visit other villages too.
It doesn't get counted...
Did I say anything wrong, madam?
You talk too much!
Thank you very much.
You talk too much. - Did you say this in English?
What are you looking at? - Cockroach, brother.
Hey, useless man! Come here.
You wanted to see village building artistes, right?
Art...construction artistes.
He worked as mason for building Taj Mahal, madam.- Is it?
He was mason while building Madurai Meenakshi temple.
Is it?
He's a different kind of worker.
Unable to bear it, he's into classical dance now.
All have got transferred to Pottalpatti.
All are important artistes of India.
I got my ears pierced by my family.
Didn't they do it in temple?
Sudalai, give me some water.
Hey, water.
Take it. - Come on.
Brother...brother...
Take it, brother.
Madam...madam...
You carry on, I'll pluck him out and join you.
You go ahead.
You get into mess every time. - Brother....brother...
[GIGGLING]
[CLICK]
Why are you they sleeping here, Sudalai?
Brother, she's asking about them.
Madam! They're Indian citizens.
Unnecessarily I asked him. - I mean Indians.
How to develop India into a great country in 2000 AD,
they're thinking very deeply. Okay?
Why are you sitting? Please lie down.
As soon as we got independence in 1947, they went to sleep.
They haven't yet got up!
With this you can judge how patriotic they're on country!
Brother-in-law!
Your heart would've got hurt with cries!
Drink this, everything will be fine.
Forget it, brother-in-law! Let those crooks go to hell.
Are we going to live for thousands of years or take crores with us?
Nothing!
To get our daughter married and raise the other girls, we need strength.
How did I manage your sister for 20 long years?
Drinking this! Drink it like medicine.
Watch, I'll drink it.
Close your eyes and gulp it like medicine.
Drink it, brother-in-law.
That's all! Initially it'll be bitter.
Everything will be fine later.
Drink...drink...drink...
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Watch out and walk carefully....
Walking properly...
Walking intoxicated...
Come on, Mokkayya!
Hey Mokkayya!
Brother-in-law!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUD]
Brother-in-law!
[GASPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
O Goddess Pudavaiamma!
O Goddess Angalaparameswari!
Goddess Kali...Goddess Mundakanni...
Lord Muniyan!
Goddess Pechiyamma... Goddess Bhadrakali...
Goddess Muniyamma...
Brother-in-law, you were fine, suddenly got affected like paralysis.
Let's give this iron rod in his hand.
You fool, this is not epilepsy, looks like pneumonia.
Cut a hen and make him drink fresh blood, he'll be fine.
It won't calm down for it!
Priest!
Please save my brother-in-law at any cost, priest.
Goddess!
Goddess Kali... O Goddess Angalaparameswari!
Goddess Kali... - What's this?
What's all this?
What's this? What are you doing?
Mokkayyan got possessed by Muni.
So, we're trying to ward of the evil.
What? Possessed by Muni?
What's this injustice?
Even if animals get sick, you take it to hospital.
A man is sick here, you're hitting him with neem leaves.
Please move, I'll check him.
Girl, you look new to the place.
Don't tell anything as you feel.
Hey old woman! Who do you think she is?
Relative of veterinary doctor, she's a doctor for humans.
Don't talk nonsense.
If anything goes wrong, it'll be sin against the God.
May lose limbs for life.
[ULULATION]
[ZIPPER SOUND]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh God! Don't know who her father is!
She’s wiping his mouth without feeling dirty.
Like his own daughter.
[PUMPING]
[BIRD CHIRPING]
Every one is asking whose daughter she is...
Isn't your heart saying she's your daughter?
Your mother circumambulated Holy Fig tree for a son...
I said no to a baby girl... I circumambulated the earth...
You were born as girl in a hut...
My mother too didn't serve me like you...
If I had a son, my life would've been to dogs long back...
O my dear daughter...
Because I gave birth to a daughter... My dead life got a new lease of life...
Boys, go away!
My dear daughter... I got a new lease of life...
What happened now? Why are you crying now?
What's there for you? You're a stone hearted man.
You sold a calf for Rs.60.
Can that money be useful to you?
I raised it with love, how hurting it is for me?
You're a silly girl!
Male calf is useless.
You sell your own child also for money. Will you spare a calf?
I consider raising her is useless, she's worried about a calf.
At least got sold for Rs.100.
You're not worth a penny also! Damn woman!
If I had a son, my life would've been to dogs long back...
O my dear daughter...
[GIGGLING] - Naked man!
Because I gave birth to a daughter... My dead life got a new lease of life...
My dear daughter...
I got a new lease of life... My dear daughter...
[CLICK]
Madam! Have you seen this?
Honouring for my brave service in veterinary hospital,
people of Pottalpatti joined together to keep this statue of cloth for me.
I said no saying it is wrong to have statue of living person.
But they insisted and kept it here, madam.
Moreover they wanted to install in the middle of the village,
but I insisted on outside the village for answering nature calls.
What's it, madam?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Madam, please give me.
I'll hit it once, madam.
Statue for you! - Oh no!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[BELL CHIMES]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Wow! Lovely!
What's this new thing, Sevala?
You mean his loincloth?
Wait, I'll also... - What are you doing?
I'll also be handsome in loincloth.
I said about the cart. - Cart?
This is bullock cart...village mini cart.
Wow! So cute! Can I ride it? - Aaah!
What?
You?
No, madam...don't invite trouble.
This is for males only.
What?
What males only? Won't it go if females ride it?
Women are piloting planes too. You know that?
How many cattle are tied to drive plane?
17 bullocks. Keep quiet, you fool.
Madam! - What?
Flying a plane is not big deal.
No ups and downs, no animals cross the path.
This is cart.
Even if there's a small stone, it'll turn topsy-turvy. You'll fall down.
I can't tell where and how you'd get hurt!
I can tell, right?
Close your mouth. Cart may get into it.
Forget about them, you sit here, I'll teach you to drive.
Keep this. - madam...madam...
You're my true disciple.
That's it.
Madam, please listen to me. Don't trust him.
Madam...madam...
don't trust him and go.
Madam, don't trust him and go.
Why are you dancing? Get lost, man.
King is looking at Queen...
[SHRIEK]
You fool! - Don't hit me.
I'll kill you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You're going too fast!
Don't go that side, very dangerous place.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh no...Sevala!
[SHRIEK]
[MOANING]
What happened to you, Rosy?
Why are you sleeping like a calm cat?
Did you see around Pottalpatti?
Red Fort...War Memorial... Mughal Garden...seen it all?
4 bald heads, 8 hutments, 6 men in loincloth.
I'm in trouble for one loincloth.
If I had seen 6...no way!
Don't know where I would've fallen?
Why are you silent, Rosy?
Look, don't ask my anything, then I'll blabber.
Blabber?
Rosy, look at me.
Why are you blushing like a hen thief?
What did you do? - I didn't do anything.
That cart... - Cart?
Don't they have brakes for carts here?
Brake? For bullock carts?
Local old men are researching on it.
In near future, they'll find it.
That's okay, why are you talking about cart?
Nothing, I went in bullock cart.
I just touched it's tail casually.
Wow! How fast it ran!
Jet speed! Like in Ben-Hur film!
[MOANING]
Why are you moaning?
Nothing, the bullocks were little immature.
Cart turned upside down.
So, I got hurt here and there. - Hurt? Where?
No...will you see it?
No! No Stephen...no... Listen to me. Yes.
Hey mad girl! Don't know how you studied medicine?
Where did you get hurt?
What will you do if I refuse to show?
What will I do if you refuse?
I've to tie limbs and check like cattle.
Oh no! Do you check like that?
My God!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Rosy! Hurt all over body!
[MOAN]
Oh no, I'm unable to bear this pain.
[MOANING]
Here too?
Stephen, please don't see here.
Hey, keep quiet.
[GASPING]
I knew you'd do this.
What nonsense! You got hurt so severely!
Why didn't you clean and apply medicine?
I've to go to town for injections and ointment.
My kit bag has only tincture.
Applying it will give burning feeling, right?
I got afraid and avoided it. Hit the bed.
Crazy girl.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Stay calm, Rosy.
[GROANING]
Quiet, don't shout.
I'm going to apply tincture, endure it.
Close your eyes.
Please don't apply it, Stephen. Please...I can't bear it.
It'll burn!
I'll tell you a way to avoid burning sensation.
Think of anything you love and close your eyes.
It'll not burn.
[MOANING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[TICKING]
[DRIBBLING]
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The gentle rain is showering singing cool lilting folk song...
Making the wild cacti to spawn a bud suddenly...
Making the wild orchids to bloom...
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The gentle rain is showering singing cool lilting folk song...
Making the wild cacti to spawn a bud suddenly...
Making the wild orchids to bloom...
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The colours that are not present in sky or on earth...
I see myriad of hues in the eyes of a lass...
The lovely rhythm I miss in a lullaby...
I heard it in your song of praise...
What great penance did the rain drop do to play on your bosom?
I'm in bliss thinking about you caressing the places rain touched me...
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The gentle rain is showering singing cool lilting folk song...
Making the wild cacti to spawn a bud suddenly...
Making the wild orchids to bloom...
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The gentle rain is showering singing cool lilting folk song...
You and me merged into one as we...
Man and woman merged into one as a person...
What's the magic of this love? Stones and thorns turned into flowers...
A part of rainbow fell on earth secretly turning into a maiden...
When South west monsoon arrives in Theni region...
It's drizzle of bliss...
The gentle rain is showering singing cool lilting folk song...
Making the wild cacti to spawn a bud suddenly...
Making the wild orchids to bloom...
[BIRD CRY]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey!
Please listen to me. - Why are you spoiling our work?
Hey, take her away. - Please don't cut it.
Stop it! Why are you troubling her?
Not troubling her, madam.
Tree in govt. land, bought it in auction for Rs.300.
I'm cutting it for firewood.
She's stopping us from cutting it.
I'll not allow you to cut it.
I'll not let you cut even if I've to lose my life.
First cut me, then you can cut the tree.
What's the cost of this tree?
Rs.300, madam. - I'll pay Rs.500, spare it.
Happy to hear it, madam.
Nephew, tree is sold before cutting it.
Wages for cutting is saved. Come, let's go.
Good. - Collect money from her.
Okay, brother.
You came like God to save it.
I'll not forget this for my life.
I'll save money and repay the loan.
You don't have to repay me.
Why did you fight so much for this tree?
This is not tree but my mother.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We buried my mother here.
Whenever I see this tree, I remember about my mother.
Every day I keep a lamp here.
It's like a temple for us.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[HUMMING LULLABY]
You're not fortunate to listen to lullaby, O dear...
I ruined the paddy seeds... Fate took over you...
You're not fated to drink mother's milk, O dear...
Drink milk extract of cactus and go to sleep, my dear...
If you've next birth and come into the world as a boy...
You'll have a place in this earth, farewell, my little parrot...
Farewell, my little parrot...
Parents must raise you with love and affection.
But when parents want me to kill you with cactus milk.
How can this old woman's tears save you, dear?
Drink it and go away safely, my dear.
Granny! What are you doing?
How did you get a heart to kill an infant?
You gave your child for killing it, how could you do it?
Are you really a mother?
Would any mother have a heart to kill the child?
It was all because of that man.
You need a woman as mother to give birth to a man like you.
You need a woman as wife to sleep with.
But you don't want a woman as your daughter, right?
You'll kill if it is a baby girl.
Mother too must accept it, right?
Can a daughter carry on my clan?
Women are ruling this country, why are you committing such sins?
Parents are not the only reason for this, Rosy.
The day dowry vanishes from society, this problem will end automatically.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thavasi, kill your sister-in-law at sight!
You must break that doctor's leg.
That bulb eyed old man! Your father! I want you to make him mince meat.
You keep quiet, mother. We must do this secretly.
Who cares if he's father after this?
Shall we go to market after taking bath?
Can't you tell the herbal doctor to reduce the smell of this medicine?
I'm unable to eat properly for 2 days now.
This is 'Devangu Concoction', it smells horrible.
Why do you say that name and make me think about my she-devil wife?
Shameless man!
I will...
Sending us to jail, are you massaging him for free food?
No...no, Kali.
If you hit husband with broom, God will not forgive you.
I'll get angry then.
Are you a woman?
If I was fine, I would've killed you.
Shut up, useless man.
When you fell at my feet for your daughter's marriage,
where was you honour and respect then?
If she commit suicide, how can we be responsible?
If you can't marry of your daughter, become her pimp.
Bloody bitch! - O my God!
Oh no...father!
Hey, are you so great?
Hey!
Run away, man! Bloody lame! Will you hit me?
Sister...brother Veeran... look at this injustice.
Looks like that devil will kill my uncle. Please save him.
Hey, come out, man.
[INDISTINCT VOICES]
Who are you to take care of my children?
Don't take them.
Hey, leave her hand.
[INDISTINCT VOICES]
Go away!
Arrogance of a jail bird!
If you're so arrogant for being in sub jail.
I lived in Central Jail for 27 years.
How arrogant I should be then?
If you carry on like this, you'll end up as unclaimed bdoy.
Hey, you rascal. Are you threatening me?
Hey, leave him.
What do you think of yourself? Are you a goon?
Isn't there anyone to stop you? What's this, man?
Come, my cousin...come.
Are you the man of this house now?
Are you getting angry for abusing him?
What did you say now?
Hey man! I was waiting to see you.
Who are you? Who are you to send us to jail?
I'll kill you.
Are you a woman? - Come here, mother.
I'll take care of him.
I'll kill you.
Hey Thavasi! Bloody dog!
Who is he?
He's a doctor working hard for us. Can you hit him?
If you kill him for personal revenge,
won't everyone accuse me of inciting you to kill him?
Did I get you out on bail for this? Go away.
[GROANING]
It's paining, right?
Why did you get into unnecessary fight?
She's just a milk seller.
Do you've to break your leg for her?
I don't understand.
They're hitting Karuthamma right before my eyes.
Do you want me to watch it silently?
Poor girl! Who is there to support her other than us?
So, there's no one else here other than you.
You're everything here.
Good...very good.
I'm asking you to know,
are you here as veterinary doctor or settle fights here?
Today it was a fight in Karuthamma's place, you broke your leg.
Tomorrow there'll be stabbing in Veeramma's house.
You go and hack them.
Rosy, don't be silly.
What's this mad argument?
So, I'm mad. I'm mad.
Yes, I'm mad, why wouldn't you say that?
Why did you stop me, boss?
If you hadn't stopped,
I would've killed Karuthamma and her doctor paramour,
and kiss gallows happily.
Thavasi, you misunderstood me.
Who charged murder case on you?
Your dead wife's own sister.
Who is the witness? Your own father!
Who is supporting them? That educated Govt. Veterinary doctor.
Inspector says case is very strong against you.
But inspite of this, why did I bail you out?
To break this case.
What if accuser Karuthamma becomes your wife?
Boss!
You're eternal, Thavasi.
Good to hear but my lame brother must agree, right?
He must agree or we must force him to agree.
Chellampatti Chellamuthu is here to do it.
I accept whatever village elders and Chairman sir decide.
But one thing, I want my children.
How ever we may consider, who is Thavasi?
Your sister's son.
If elder sister dies, it's not new to marry her younger sister.
[SILENCE]
Sir...doctor, sir.
[MOANING]
Karuthamma!
[SILENCE]
You got insulted and hurt for coming in support of me, right?
I couldn't stay in home, so I brought this.
What?
Turmeric paste for your wounds. Take it.
Please come in, Karuthamma.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Please don't stay here anymore.
Please go away from here.
That's good for you.
Did you come all the way to tell me this?
Tell me.
You got wounded for trying to defend me.
Can you tell me the reason for it?
I can't express in words, Karuthamma.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Just like that I too can't express in words.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Touch my heart and listen, it chants your name only.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Karuthamma will never go away from my heart.
[METAL CLANKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
Stop it, bloody killers!
Mother and son joined to kill my daughter-in-law.
Who are you trying to cheat?
This marriage will not happen till I'm alive.
I'll not let it happen.
[GIGGLING]
Look, he's creating trouble here getting drunk.
Hey Thavasi! Did you see your father?
Hey, chase out that dog.
Bloody henchmen!
I'll kill you!
You black monkey!
Hey you wild pig!
You chairman dog!
I'll kill you, man.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[LIGHTNING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Why are you silent, Mokka?
Father is asking for his children, he's justified in asking.
You and Karuthamma don't want to give the children.
You call it as affection.
Your action is also justified.
There's only one way for it,
give your daughter Karuthamma as second wife to Thavasi.
He promises to look after you and your family as son-in-law.
Moreover for the loan you've taken,
you may have to vacate the place immediately.
He promises to be guarantor for the loan.
I feel this is the best solution.
Don't think too much, accept the proposal.
Karuthamma is like my daughter.
Accept the proposal.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I consider my second daughter is also dead and accept this proposal.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You agreed for this proposal, did you ask me my opinion?
Entire village joined to stand by him,
what can I do knowing your opinion?
He's asking for his kids or my daughter.
Would I worry about you or those kids?
That's why I accepted his proposal.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Father, if you had killed me when I was born,
I would've died peacefully.
Girls will grow into women and get ruined like this.
That's why I asked your mother to kill you as an infant.
Saying you resembled me, she refused to kill you.
She left her burden on my shoulders and slept peacefully.
I'm unable to carry that burden.
I'm unable to throw it away also.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHICKS PEEPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Your uncle refused to accept the proposal easily.
He agreed only after I used my trump card.
Thavasi! Karuthamma was present there when he accepted the proposal, right?
I didn't see her, boss.
Silence.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[WIND BLOWING]
Where all I've to search for you, Rosy?
Standing here at this time!
What are you thinking about?
[WIND BLOWING]
Rosy!
[WIND BLOWING]
Rosy!
[WIND BLOWING]
Rosy...what happened to you?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I was thinking about my decision.
I was thinking about my miscalculations.
Was I wrong in loving you, Stephen?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Or was it your mistake to forget me?
Which is wrong, Stephen?
Tell me.
Which is wrong?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I can understand your heart.
I like you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I love Karuthamma.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You misunderstood me.
What did you say? Did I misunderstand you?
Stephen, please don't belittle my love.
I love you so much.
You're my birth right, Stephen.
You didn't understand me.
My love for you is not inferior to anyone else's affection, Stephen.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Stephen, tell me now.
Look at my face and tell me.
In what way I'm inferior to Karuthamma.
Am I not beautiful?
Am I not educated?
Don't I have status?
Tell me, Stephen...tell me.
Tell me, Stephen... Come on, tell me.
Rejecting me, that lowly...
I was born for you. I grew up for you only.
Why did you do like this, Stephen?
Rosy, love is not wild stream to run into any valley.
It is gentle breeze.
[HUMMING]
It has no directions.
[HUMMING]
No caste or religious differences.
[HUMMING]
It's a wild flower.
[HUMMING]
It'll not wait for water... or land...or time...
It won't bloom!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Father, uncle and kids are missing.
Karuthamma, uncle and kids have not gone abroad.
He came to my house with kids.
He's making arrangements for marriage.
Come.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHICKS PEEPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
She may be not as beautiful as you,
she may not have your status,
she may be uneducated,
but still I love Karuthamma.
I can't tell you the reason of why and how!
She's a part of me.
I can't think of her as separate identity.
I can't live away from her too.
She's my life.
She's my soul.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[HUMMING]
There goes Ponnuthai with tears running down...
Leaving the land that fed and raised her...
Leaving the cows that gave milk... leaving chicken in coop...
The lass is leaving the place...
Is Karuthamma Chrysanthemum or Datura flower?
Many are yearning for her within heart...
Going away in a bullock cart like sack with dot...
There goes Ponnuthai with tears running down...
Leaving the land that fed and raised her...
The love you showered... the affection you lavished...
It all ended up as a language of two hearing impaired...
The Eastern wind changes the direction to blow...
Clouds gathered to move away...
A lively sapling is withering...
What was dedicated to God got lost to caste...
There goes Ponnuthai with tears running down...
Leaving the land that fed and raised her...
Leaving the cows that gave milk... leaving chicken in coop...
The lass is leaving the place...
Heart has gone dry eons ago...
A life is struggling between life and death...
Money saved for years went worthless...
Unsaid words are great burden...
Going far away from food and relatives...
Be patient, future is always better for poor and plantain trees...
There goes Ponnuthai with tears running down...
Leaving the land that fed and raised her...
Leaving the cows that gave milk... leaving chicken in coop...
The lass is leaving the place...
[MARRIAGE BAND]
What's going on there?
Why are you still hesitating?
Enough of getting her ready, send the bride, getting late.
Aunty! Where are my uncle and kids?
Don't know where's that drunkard?
Who knows where those kids have run away?
Keep quiet and be ready to tie the knot with my son.
Protesting!
I'll not.
I'll not come.
I'll not marry till I see uncle and kids.
Hey, keep an eye on her, I'll come back in a minute.
Aunty...aunty... - Hey Thavasi!
She's adamant in not marrying till she sees uncle and kids.
Why are you worrying for this?
What can a goat do after reaching the butcher’s shop?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Doctor!
Karuthamma's father is dying after taking poison.
Please save him, madam.
His life is in your hands now.
My life is not in my hands.
How can I save another's life?
That orphan has no one other than you.
Think him like your father and save his life.
Sir, at least you...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sir...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sir, you're like God! You must always be fine.
Rosy, inspite of my request, you want to leave this place.
You didn't respect me or my word, at least honour your doctor degree.
Before you go away, please save a dying man.
[HUMMING LULLABY]
Madam...madam...
The dying man is none other than your father.
[BIRDS FLAPPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Mokka, open your eyes and see.
Mokkayya! - Mokkayya.
Mokkayya.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOBBING]
No!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh my God!
Father is dying after taking poison.
Kaliamma!
Where are you running away? You lousy girl!
My father is dying, aunt. I'll go and see my father.
Let that useless man die.
If you go out from here without tying the knot, I'll cut your legs.
Be careful! Come... - Madam...madam...
No, madam. - Get lost, man.
Come, you silly girl. Come.
[SHRIEK]
[MARRIAGE BAND]
[THUD]
[DOOR CREAKING]
Can you recognize her?
You gave your daughter to Mooli to kill her with cactus milk.
That daughter!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INFANT CRIES]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Take Rs.50 I got from selling calf.
Finish the new life with it.
Why not see the infant's face for one last time?
I saw and felt pity, now I'm burdened with two daughters.
They're more than enough fo me. Mind your work.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I don’t deserve to touch your feet also.
I'm a sinner who ordered your death without seeing your face also.
All my sins would get washed away if I die in your lap, my dear.
Kill me...please kill me...
I'll not let you die, father.
I ordered your death but you're saving my life.
But your elder sister Karuthamma, who looked after me all my life,
I killed her myself.
Karuthamma!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thavasi! What is the goat kid saying?
Come on, boss.
I can tame a raging bull with one hand.
A calf is taking on me.
Useless man's daughter.
Thavasi, if we tie a nose rope to it, it'll come under our control.
[GIGGLING] - Correct, sir.
Accountant.
Hey, you and our boys have drinks all the night.
Marriage is at dawn, come here then.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Come on, drink.
No problem...drink.
Hey drink, man. - No, boss.
Bloody dog, drink.
I'm telling you, right? Come on, drink.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES]
[THUD]
[CRIES]
Oh my God!
No problem, drink. - My God!
Take it. - My God!
Selvi...Pounu!
What happened? Who locked you in box?
Where's grandpa?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
Do it like that!
Very good family, Thavasi.
I struggled a lot to get you out.
But your father is trying send you easily to gallows.
If we leave him, he'll influence the kids.
He'll not sleep till he sends you to gallows.
My part is to warn you, rest is in your hands. Got it?
Where are you running, lame? Stop there.
I should've killed you the day you sent us to jail.
I spared you because you're my father.
Are you trying to use my children against to send me to gallows?
I'll hack you...
Bloody killers!
Hey stop! - Catch him.
[SHRIEK]
Thavasi!
I'll get peace only after killing you.
No, Thavasi.
If you kill your father, you'll pay dearly for that sin.
You've decided to send me to gallows.
We're no more father and son.
No, son.
[CRYING]
No, Thavasi...no...
[CRYING]
Seeking a son to cremate us, visited every temple for a son.
At least for that spare me.
Hey Thavasi! Throw away the billhook.
It's a grave sin to kill one's father.
Chairman, sir! You advice him.
Advice him.
What did your father ask from you?
Did you ever fulfill his wish?
He wishes you to lit pyre.
Lit pyre to him and add good deed to your account.
No, Thavasi. No...no...
No Thavasi...no son...no...
I raised you affectionately, son.
Thavasi, your father is falling at your feet to send you to gallows.
If you're smart, use the opportunity.
[SOBBING]
[SHRIEK]
Grandpa!
[SHRIEK]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Karuthamma!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Karuthamma!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Put it on shoulders.
You're groom at dawn.
Thavasi, I've an unsettled account with Karuthamma.
Thavasi, you're very loyal to me.
If I touch your wife, it's betrayal.
If you give me your wife for a night, it's betraying your wife.
So, before you marry her,
for tonight...I'll take Karuthamma as my concubine for a night.
What are you looking at?
Karuthamma is all yours from tomorrow.
Not only that 5 acres of land, my house, 5 cows, 2 bullocks,
and Karuthamma, all are yours, Thavasi.
[GIGGLE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Chellamuthu, my body, soul, my wife and kids are your property.
Keep it with you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hereafter you're everything to me.
[INDISTINCT VOICE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR CRACKING OPEN]
Karuthamma!
Where am I to search for you in dark?
Are you sleeping here switching off the lights?
O, jasmine!
[SNIFFING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHRIEK]
Who is shouting there?
Is it you Chellamuthu or Karuthamma?
[MUSIC PLAYING] [SPILLING OIL]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOBBLING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Chellamuthu!
I'll not see it... I'll not, it's wrong.
Wrong...wrong.
Hey, Chellamuthu!
Chellamuthu, what should be done silently, you did...
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Cousin!
He died long back, man.
[GASPING]
Hey Karuthamma!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[METAL CLANKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GLASS BREAKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHRIEK]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Other than marrying you, my sister didn't do anything wrong,
yet, you killed her brutally!
You...
[CRIES]
[INFANT CRIES]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Staking my unborn children.
No, Karuthamma...
You forcibly got engaged to me.
Shouldn't I close your account?
[BLOW] -[SHRIEK]
[INFANT CRIES]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
He was like my father...my uncle.
Your father...you burnt him alive.
No... - Who will close that account?
[BLOW]
Today you became a pimp for me.
No, Karuthamma...no...
In future, you will become pimp to your daughter too.
If I leave you alive, even God will not forgive me.
[SHRIEK]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOOD PLUNKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[HUMMING LULLABY]
You were born as my elder sister... I couldn't recognize you...
After recognizing... I know who you are...
You did your duty judiciously...
It's crime in law but justice for morally...
If truth and moral have eyes...
Barren lands will bloom... Farewell, my parrot...
Body differentiates man and woman,
throwing away the old tradition,
Karuthamma, who is going away,
she's a woman by body,
but has a soul of a man!
Karuthamma is the first seed to future women's emancipation.