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Please come.

There isn't much day light because of the buildings around.

You may need to have the lights on during the day too.

The church is nearby. Within walking distance.

The place is small.

But it's sufficient for one.

It will be comfortable.

If you wish, I can get it painted.

Ma'am...

Do you really like the house?

How does it matter if I like it or not?

No, ma'am.

It was absolutely dingy.

The rooms are like matchboxes!

Why are you subleasing the mansion?

I'll handle everything.

Can't you stay back here?

I don't know what to do.

I have lost interest, Jones.

Without Velonie...

I'm finding it very hard!

I don't understand what is the purpose for me.

Why is the lady crying, kid?

It's nothing, brother.

Please don't cry.

RUMOR: THE FABLE OF VELONIE

You have resumed duty.

But you've made me take leave!

Try not to get me suspended!

Mr. Ramar...

it's my duty to ensure that you face no problems.

You keep saying that!

I feel what I've looked for all this time, is finally within my reach.

If I let it go now, I feel I'll never be able to find it again.

You know the case history well.

If you stay with me until Valan is found, that would be very helpful.

Alright.

But you said the three brothers claimed

that Valan killed another girl, and not Velonie.

Then what makes you think Valan is the killer?

What's the link between the two?

If there's no link, how did Velonie's cloth get to Ottapparai?

It has to be Valan, Mr. Ramar.

There has to be a link, sir.

There definitely is.

The car can't go any further. You'll have to proceed on foot.

Mr. Jayaraj!

Come here!

I closed the deal for the judge's SUV.

But that wretch cheated me out of my commission!

Was it Valan?

No! It was Paul Singam!

But didn't Valan have the car?

Who is Valan?

I sold the car to Paul Singam!

He tried to attack me when I asked for my commission!

I went straight to the Valliyur Police Station.

The Valliyur Superintendent is a friend of mine.

I told him that I was being cheated out of my commission.

I sold him the judge's car.

Before that, I had sold him two private taxis.

I sold him another small vehicle as well.

"How does a head constable make so much money?"

I asked him, "What do you have to say?"

The bastard stood staring at me!

The superintendent thrashed him!

"Jayaraj is such a respected man. You dare try to attack him?"

He thrashed that guy right there.

How did Valan get the car you sold to Paul Singam?

You need to ask that to Paul Singam!

How would I know?

Where is Paul Singam?

At Palayamkottai.

He is in jail as he didn't pay the commission.

Next stop: Palayamkottai?

Paul Singam!

Paul Singam?

Do you know Valan?

"Valan"? I don't know anybody by that name.

The SUV of the Thakkalai magistrate!

Plate number 9291!

Jayaraj sold it to you. Valan was driving it.

Now do you know who?

I know no one like that.

-Alright. -Alright.

Well... what are you in for?

Don't you know? Like you'd show up without inquiring!

Charges of bribery.

Four years for taking a bribe?

Really!

Very well. In that case...

you have only six months left to serve?

You know why we're looking for Valan?

If we report you are in it with Valan...

would he get another six years?

Maybe even ten!

You won't be released even if this prison collapses.

What do you say, Paul Singam?

I'll tell you what I have heard about Valan.

But I don't know how much of it is true.

He's a hired gun.

He'd face even a wild boar and beat it to pulp!

Would he spare people?

No matter the target, he'd single-handedly kill them.

His name would never get out.

But one time...

he got caught in two rape cases.

He raped a girl in Pattarai.

He raped another girl in Vadivuchoor.

After that, they opened a crime history sheet on him.

The DSP called me and asked me to make his history sheet vanish.

He said Valan would reward me well.

That was why he bought me that vehicle.

Who was the DSP?

Dhanasekaran.

He got shot while working on a case.

He deserved to die.

But...

Why was Valan driving the car that was bought for you?

He asked to borrow it for a couple of days.

I never got it back.

-Didn't you ask him for it? -He's a brute.

He kills without a thought. How could I ask him?

Paul Singam...

I need to catch him.

His hometown, residence, address, anything...

It was all on record, but now it's gone.

He told me there were two more rape cases against him in Kanyakumari.

But I don't know which station they were filed at.

What if he already wiped out both the case records?

His accomplice would still be at the station!

We'll question him.

There are thirty stations in Kanyakumari.

1,800 police personnel in all, including you and me.

One needle in such a haystack! Not easy!

Isn't that our job, sir?

Every piece of information gets us closer to Valan!

-Right? -If you say so!

I'm Vivek, the Sub-Inspector of Sucheendram.

I need to examine every FIR you filed for rape in the past five years.

Among the FIRs filed for rape in the past five years...

was any of the suspects named "Valan"?

Hello, sir. This is SI Ramar from Kanyakumari. Are you well?

I'm fine, sir.

I need to examine the rape cases you filed over the last five years, sir.

Please sit.

I'm Vivek, the SI of Sucheendram.

I had asked you, right?

The FIRs you filed for rape cases for the past five years.

Yes, sir.

Sir!

I need to examine the rape cases you filed over the last five years, sir.

Yes, sir. I'm Vivek, the SI of Sucheendram.

You had asked about a man named Valan, right?

Please go meet SSI Arul.

He might have information that could be useful to you.

Thank you, sir.

Was the man tall and dark?

Indeed, sir!

I'm not sure if it's the same guy. It must have been 2017.

He was arrested in some petty case.

The town's DSP asked me to take him to his house to see his ailing mother.

It was around the time of the floods.

He showed me the route and I drove him there.

Two months later, as the case was still open...

I went looking for him to his house.

And it was strange that I couldn't find his house.

Do you remember the route?

Vaguely...

Tell me whatever you remember!

Just a minute!

Boy!

This is Pechipaarai.

This is Kodayar river.

This is Muthukulivayal.

The house looked peculiar. Like a boat.

If you go from Pechipaarai, you need to cross the Kodayar Dam.

After driving for thirty minutes into town...

there was a scrub forest.

From that point on, I don't recollect the route.

I don't know which direction we took.

It seemed too long a journey.

But once I got out of the scrub forest, there was his house.

Sir!

Sir!

Sir!

Water!

Do you have a phone?

Mr. Ramar!

Sir!

Is this Valan's house?

Yes.

Who are you?

We are Valan's friends. Is he here?

Like he'd come by here!

Just me and his mother are here.

We're pretty much at death's door.

-Doesn't Valan visit? -No!

We are able to survive because of Dorai's help.

Else, we'd be in another hell!

Who is Dorai?

My younger son!

Who are these two?

Valan and Dorai.

-Really? -Yes!

Dorai chips in some money whenever he can.

That's what helps me to make some tea and cook our gruel.

Pushing things along.

When my wife was healthy, she used to cook good food.

With many trips to the movies, life was going smooth.

But now, it's all gone.

We're rotting.

Nobody understands our troubles.

They all think I'm well off being Valan's father.

But how do we tell them that he does not visit us?

Why doesn't Valan visit?

I don't even know if he is alive or dead.

If he was alive, he'd definitely visit me every month.

It's been two years since I saw him.

Get going!

Walk faster!

-Sir? -Valan.

-Where is Valan? -I don't know.

Where have you hidden him?

I swear I don't know.

You don't know?

I... I don't know, sir.

Sir!

Tell me!

What did you do to him?

Tell me!

Hey! What did you do?

-What did... -I'll tell you, sir!

I'll tell you!

Valan kept inviting trouble.

My mother thought that we will end up like him

and hence she kept insisting we kill him off.

But I swear on my mother that none of us killed Valan.

The venom from a snake bite had spread throughout his body.

He begged us to take him to a hospital.

But Sanjeev brought him here.

If...

Even if he'd been taken to the hospital...

he wouldn't have survived.

Sir!

You were so stubborn that Valan killed Velonie.

Valan isn't even alive anymore!

There's nothing more to do in this case, Mr. Vivek!

Forget it and move on!

Don't dwell on why he killed the girl.

That mystery got buried with him.

It can't be dug up.

Don't cheat yourself thinking you're doing this for Alex...

to ensure he didn't die for nothing.

It was his fate!

You couldn't have changed it.

Understand this clearly.

This case is over!

No, Sathya. Ask the SSI to handle it.

I'm on leave for two days.

You look broken.

I can't see you like this.

You've been working so hard.

You'll definitely solve it.

What's left to solve?

All the leads are exhausted.

The case is over.

Don't say that.

You'll definitely solve it.

I firmly believe that.

You are no longer angry with me?

Oh, I'm still angry.

But I can't see you like this.

Believe me when I say, you will solve this case.

Give me that thing. I need to wash it.

What's the matter?

What is it?

Sir!

-Where's the priest? -He's in the house in the back.

You can even go this way.

Thank you.

Hello?

This is SI Vivek from Kanyakumari.

I realize you're angry with me.

Yet...

I think you can help me out in Velonie's case.

Will you?

That day, at the book shop...

you said everything in my book was a lie.

Please look past that and help me...

Vivek!

Hear me out first.

You said everything in my book was a lie.

It was not all a lie.

It had some truths too.

Besides...

there are some truths that I had deliberately omitted.

Tell me, sir!

So...

I don't know if anything I said would be useful to you.

I just...

thought I should tell you.

"Would it be useful?"

The case is pretty much solved, sir!

Maybe she was immoral?

Did you see her photo?

How beautiful she was!

Anytime I asked about him, she'd look terrified.

She was poetry.

She'd smile at everyone, sir!

I'm not lying, sir!

She may have run away!

She wasn't in love with him at all.

A truth doesn't spread as fast as a lie does.

This case is over!

What's wrong with you?

On Sunday morning, Velonie and I went to the church.

You fucking whore!

Tomorrow is March 20th. Sunday.

There won't be any mass

because of the special fasting prayer for Lent season.

When I stepped out of the church at 9:30...

I thought I saw her talk to someone.

When I asked her, she denied it.

On our way back from church, we went to the supermarket.

Gandhimadhi?

Yes, sir?

The DSP has given us only twelve hours.

That woman definitely did it.

But there's no evidence.

It's your scare tactics that can get the truth out of her.

-See to it. -Done, sir!

-Get her to confess. -Definitely, sir.

Sarasu...

shut the door.

Latch! Latch the door!

Wasn't she your daughter?

How could you do this to her?

What are you saying?

-I don't understand... -Hey!

We know it all. That's why you are here.

If you confess, it will do you good.

Don't make us interrogate you differently!

What are you saying?

I definitely do not understand!

Didn't you call me here to ask me a few details?

Hey!

Why did you kill your daughter?

Tell me the truth, woman!

I didn't do anything to my daughter!

I didn't kill my daughter!

Looks like you don't know about police torture.

-I didn't do it! -If we ask you in another way...

you wouldn't survive it!

I could care less you're a woman!

I'll beat the crap out of you!

Tell me!

Hey!

Turn on the fan, Sarasu!

Get some water!

She fainted, sir.

I splashed water and gave her some juice.

She is scared, sir.

But she hasn't confessed to anything yet, sir.

Listen up.

We've brought you in with proper evidence.

If you try to hide the truth...

the case will go against you.

It'll do you good if you confess.

I didn't do anything to her.

I didn't kill my daughter. I swear...

Hey!

What the hell did you tell us about what happened on March 20th?

Did you not lie about having gone to church?

Why?

What were you trying to hide?

Who asked Velonie to go to her aunt's house that day?

Velonie! It's past 10 o'clock!

No church means you'll sleep, is it?

When are you going to wake up?

You want to go to Auntie June's house today?

You'll let me go?

But first you have to wake up!

But how come?

Don't ask me all those questions.

You want to go or not?

Of course, yes!

Take Vignesh with you.

I can go by myself, Mom!

At least let him come and pick you up.

I don't want you coming back alone in the evening.

And fold your clothes.

Sorry!

Hello?

Velonie?

Hi!

You're lucky I picked up the call. I was just stepping out.

Are you going out?

Yes. Are you here?

No, I'm at Coimbatore.

The event I had planned to attend got canceled.

Oh!

It's okay. I'm not angry with you.

Really?

That's surprising! How come?

Because I'm in a good mood!

May I know why?

I'm going to my aunt's house, today.

My mother suddenly came and said I could go to my aunt's house!

Oh!

Your mother told you to go?

That's even more surprising!

Exactly!

Sometimes she does something like this...

which makes it difficult for me to complain about her.

-She has her own way of showing love. -Okay!

Have fun!

Thank you!

You sent her there yourself...

and lied to everyone that she had asked to go!

What was your plan after sending her there?

I didn't plan anything!

I didn't do anything!

Fine!

Why did you lie then?

What were you trying to hide?

You are keeping me here by force.

But I didn't do anything!

I want to see my lawyer...

Hey!

Until you confess...

I don't care who the hell shows up for you.

No one can get you out of here!

Do you know what this is?

One year back...

I ran away from home.

The anger I felt towards my mother...

I wrote it in a letter...

and ran away.

Two years ago...

This is the letter your daughter wrote about you before she ran away.

Do you know what she had written about you?

Shall I read it?

Hey!

No... don't...

Don't... don't read that letter!

Don't read that letter!

Don't read that letter! Don't read that letter!

Don't read that letter...

No!

No!

No... don't read that letter!

No... please don't read that letter!

-Don't... -"Dear mom..."

The blood stains on my uniform was because...

I carried a bleeding pup to the vet while I was coming back from school.

After saving that puppy...

after dressing its wound...

after seeing it walk again...

I felt so happy!

But you...

you took that happiness away by thinking so cheap about me, Mom!

Is this what you've been up to?

Is this what you've been up to?

You bloody slut!

Couldn't keep your virginity?

Am I not your own daughter, Mom?

Then how could you think so cheap of me?

Or is it the same reason why you think of me like that?

"You think I'll give in to my physical desires like you have?

Yes, Mom.

I know all about it!

I'm not judging you!

But I know the secret that you've been

trying to hide from me all these years!

Yet, I never loved you less.

You could have married again, right?

So that you needn't have been scared that I might misjudge you!

But why didn't you?

Did you think the man who'd come in to your life...

would misbehave with me like Uncle Anton did?

Oh yeah!

I vaguely remember that too, Mom!

But you didn't protect me then!

Really!

You pushed me away from you more than before!

Do you know how much I suffered, mom?

I suffered a lot and I cried a lot!

Where were you all that time?

You were only bothered about me not losing my virginity, weren't you?

At least you showed that much interest.

But let me tell you...

I'm not like you, Mom!

I may be your daughter, but I'm my father's daughter too!

And I think I'm more like him than like you.

Is it my fault that others think I'm pretty, mom?

Is it my fault if guys come behind me?

Every time, you hurt me with your words and your suspicions...

I feel like doing something to myself!

I tried to tonsure my head so that you'll trust me.

I tried to damage my face so you won't suspect me.

But this is God given, mom.

I didn't ask for it.

I cannot go on any further, mom.

You pushed me to the edge.

I have decided to end my life.

You can put your suspicion to rest.

Goodbye, mom.

I love you still.

Mom...

Looking for this letter?

You've already seen it?

I'm sorry, mom!

I'm sorry I wrote that letter!

I'm sorry! I couldn't kill myself!

I didn't kill my daughter!

I love my daughter!

I swear I didn't kill my daughter!

I swear!

I swear... I swear...

I didn't kill her...

The voice and the eyes is all it takes for me to nail it.

To me...

you only pretend to be innocent.

But every word out of your mouth is a lie!

Let me tell you what happened.

You and Vignesh were having an affair.

You never stopped wanting him.

To continue that, you decided to force your daughter to marry him.

But what did he do?

He jumped from you to your daughter...

and truly fell in love with her.

So his lust for you faded.

He no longer wanted you and you couldn't take it!

"A pig that's tasted sweet tuber won't stop even if its ear is cut!"

All for a goddamn affair!

You killed your own daughter for your sensual pleasure, you wretch!

No, it's a lie!

I didn't kill my daughter!

Don't lie to me!

Didn't you get Valan to kill your own daughter?

No!

A fucking lie!

Gandhimadhi!

Yes, sir!

Sir!

Sir!

What did you do to her?

Sir...

Mr. Ramar, Gandhimadhi and myself were interrogating her.

When we lowered our guard, she grabbed a knife and slit her throat.

Will she survive?

I don't know, sir.

The doctors are attending to her.

She didn't confess, did she?

She was struggling to answer our questions...

all of a sudden, she did this, sir.

What kind of woman is she, sir?

She'd rather slit her throat than admit the truth.

I thought nabbing Valan would close the case.

But that was a dead end.

When I thought there was nothing more we could do...

this woman got busted.

When I thought this was finally over...

that ends in ambiguity, too.

Do you feel this woman might not have done it, Mr. Ramar?

Why do you think that?

Just that...

When I mentioned Valan...

she did not react at all.

If she had ordered the killing...

wouldn't she have tried to escape?

She wouldn't try to commit suicide.

Alright. If she had nothing to do with the murder, why did she lie?

Why must she lie?

I've administered seventeen stitches.

Thankfully, the windpipe and the cranial artery are intact.

Her speech will take a while to return. Three, four weeks... or even a month.

Well, she survived.

Thank you.

He asked if he can meet her, sir.

I told him I'll check with you first.

-Gandhimadhi? -Sir?

Prepare an FIR on the woman under Section 309, for attempted suicide...

-and send it to my desk. -Okay, sir.

I like you a lot, ma'am!

Didn't I tell you to not call me "ma'am" when you're alone with me?

I'm sorry!

I am used to addressing you in this manner and hence I said it.

-It just slipped out. -Idiot.

Shall we get married?

Why bother about others?

If it's fine with us, nothing else matters.

Quit talking crazy!

It's time for Velonie to get married.

What would it be like if I got married now?

Besides, you are too young for me.

I don't care about age.

I love you.

What are you going to do after getting married?

Aren't we doing that already?

How many times have I told you to get that idea out of your mind?

If you bring it up again, let's stop this.

I'm sorry! I won't bring it up again.

Always quick with an apology!

Mad fellow!

Velonie!

You want to go to Aunt June's house today?

You'll let me go?

Get the gloves.

Why a D and C?

-Is it a miscarriage? -No, doctor. It's a TP.

Termination of pregnancy.

Okay.

Bend your knees.

Sign here, kid.

There's an FIR filed on this woman under section 309, for attempted suicide.

Come to the station tomorrow and pay a fine of 2,000 rupees.

Take her.

What have you done?

Had I been there...

I wouldn't have let them take you in for questioning.

What if you died?

I would've killed myself too.

Here's the copy of the 309 FIR, sir.

-Sir? -Yes?

-Sir? -What?

My phone, sir.

I need to call home urgently.

Thank you, sir.

You're still crying over Velonie.

All I feel towards her, is anger.

When she was alive, she only gave you trouble.

Even after she's dead, look how you're suffering!

Look what she reduced you to!

Let me go check who it is.

Sir!

Do you know why I hit you now?

No, sir...

No, sir...

Answer my questions truthfully.

Understand that?

Understood...

Valan...

There it is!

What's the link between you and Valan?

How are you two connected?

He's my elder brother, sir!

My elder brother.

Who are they?

Valan and Dorai.

Dorai...

Jones Dorai!

I know she just wants me for sex.

Yet I love her a lot.

Marriage!

I once asked her to marry me.

She flatly refused.

I thought I could change her mind eventually.

Now I no longer get the sex either!

Her daughter ran away a few months ago.

No trace of her for three days.

She was shattered.

Then, she came back!

I don't know what happened... She is like a different person now!

I was so pissed she came back.

Without being able to marry her or even going near her...

I am going insane!

What if I ensured that girl never returns?

Being my brother, don't give me that innocent look!

"Why ask for money to savor a delicacy?"

Just like you said, I get horny simply looking at the mother!

The girl's nothing but fair skin!

I didn't say that.

I said I loved her.

Whatever it is!

For being your brother...

I'll do it as just another job.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey...

Hey...

He's been bit by a snake, brother!

Oh no!

We were going to kill you, but a snake beat us to it!

Awesome!

"He, whose fate has ended, will be bit by a krait!"

Heard that saying?

Ungrateful bastards!

Take me to a hospital!

-Take me to a hospital! -Die!

You ungrateful bastards!

I'll kill you all!

Sure you will!

And then what?

He's dead meat!

What are you thinking?

I don't know what to do.

What else do you want to know?

You solved the case. Just file an FIR.

By filing an FIR...

we can put him in prison.

But wouldn't everyone gossip more about the mother than about him?

As it is, the press and the public had fun slinging mud on Velonie for two years!

Now, they'll do the same for her mother!

So you don't want to file an FIR?

That's not it, either.

But... Velonie...

What did she do wrong?

Why did she have to die?

She did not live a happy life.

She died for nothing too.

They killed her.

We file an FIR on her killer, put him in jail, squeeze every drop of blood...

What the hell, sir?

You are talking both ways.

He committed a crime.

You must file the FIR and that prick must go to jail!

That will be the right thing to do.

If that's going to impact the mother, that's her fate!

Who will it damage more?

The culprit or her?

Her affair with him was what got her daughter killed.

But she didn't know that would happen.

The society will judge her for doing wrong.

The law does not.

To be fair, it's her private life.

She already has suffered enough.

What would happen if we put him in jail?

While everyone sips their evening tea...

they'll gorge on Velonie and her mother along with their snacks!

Only then will their tummies feel full!

On whom do I file the FIR?

The one who was the reason for the murder?

Or on this society, which will cut open Velonie's mother day after day?

Is this why I worked so hard?

What are you getting at?

Do we let him go?

I don't know.

The person for whom I did all this...

She will fade and fall. It is but a lie!

She will crumple and cry. It is but a lie!

After two years, the investigation into Velonie's death has revealed...

it was a fallout of the illicit affair of her mother Ruby.

See that, Ramar?

Just like I said.

In trying to get justice for Velonie...

I have done injustice.

No, Mr. Vivek.

Don't blame yourself for it.

The public is doing it.

The society is doing it.

I want another child.

A baby girl.

In this same society...

we will protect her...

and help her live the life she wants, full of joy.

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