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A dedication to my grandfather Mayavaram Venkataramani, a freedom fighter.
Kaveri... What's that sound?
Nothing, Father. I-I dropped a plate.
Girls these days...
Who are you?
Rama-(coughs) Ramani
Where are you coming from?
Save me... please save me.They're hunting me.
What do I do?
How do I save you?
Sudhandhira Porattam - A Freedom Struggle
May 2007, Chennai, India
Phew.. do you know how hot it is outside? It's scorching heat.
Kaveri, can I get a glass of buttermilk?
Kaveri: Tsk...Where did I leave off?
This annoying phone!
(poetically) Anger is your birthright! But, greater is a woman's patience!
Hmph, show off!
Pardon me, dear wife! I won't utter another word!
(Smirking) Who knows when I will get my freedom of speech!
(Knock on door)
Hold on! I'm coming!
Bah! No patience at all-
Who's inside?
Who are you sir? Wh-What can I do for you?
Sundaram! Sundaram!
Yes sir!
Translate! Who's inside?
Who lives inside?
Only.. my daughter and I.
(pointing to the British officer) Why has he come?
Ask him if he's hiding someone!
Sir wants to know if you're harboring a fugitive inside.
Hiding a fugitive? Who?
I don't believe him!
Leave this to me sir! Let me check.
Priest! Move out of the way
You dogs will never learn!
You want freedom? What will you do with it?
If Ramani is in there, I will kill him and y-
(Sundaram interrupts) He is not inside sir.
Fool! Did you search properly?
Yes sir... There is... no one inside sir.
If you don't find him today-
Priest... lock your doors and stay safe.
(singing) Kaveri! Anger doesn't suit you at all!
If you'd asked me, I would've lifted my feet!
(to himself) Even after 60 years, your anger and beauty have not decreased!
What have you done! That British officer threatened his own constable! Imagine what he could do to us!
(reciting a poem) Fear not, Fear not. The word fear shall not exist!
Even when the sky falls upon us
Fear not, Fear not. The word fear shall not exist!
Father, can we implicate a man fighting for our nation's freedom?
Kaveri dear, do we dare stand up against THEM?
Then... all that you've taught me about freedom... Were they just mere words?
(sighs) What do you want me to do now?
We need to shelter him. There's no other way.
If we give him away now, we will have blood on our hands.
My own daughter has no time to talk to me!
Goodness knows what they do all day!
She does not pick up my calls! Nor calls me back.
(reading the news) Due to heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu,
the Mettur dam has been opened.
Looks like our Kaveri (river) has flooded her banks
(romantic song plays)
She is a new age woman! Her words and actions are new to this world of lies, and yet
she embodies the values written in our scriptures thus becoming the reincarnation of an ideal woman
Are you that ideal woman Bharathiyar envisioned?
(radio) At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom!
(phone rings)
Hello?
(child's voice) Hello grandma!
Darling, tell me.
I won the first prize reciting Bharathiyar's poems!
Really? That's wonderful darling!
(to herself) what a strong voice you have - just like your grandfather!
Hello? Ma?
Kasturi! Tell me
Ma, why do you suffer alone all the way over there?
Why don't you come live with us?
How am I alone?
I have your father's memories to keep me company here.
Don't worry about me.