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Finish the work quickly.

Everyone will be safe with god's blessing.

Thank you, brother.

If you are caught, don't reveal that the sickle is made in our workshop.

- Okay brother. - We will lose our lives too.

Snake that wraps us around will not go without hurting.

This happened to my grandmother.

Don't cry mother.

Things will be different from today.

And I thought it would stop

in my daughter's period...

Hey son! They forged it!

Karuppa, where are you going at this hour?

Tell us where!

What took you this long Kuttiyappa?

It took time to sharpen the sickle.

A sharp edge will let the sickle pierce through the bones and kill.

Dad, where are you going? - Hey!

Why are you standing in the rain? Everyone get back to home.

Don't ask where I'm going.

- Take me with you - Karuppa!

What is it Kuttiyappa?

If we hack that guy today,

his son will come tomorrow.

He is an inhuman person.

He will not let anyone in the village alive, son.

That scares me.

I understand Kuttiyappa.

You have your wife...

and the children.

- You stay back. We will take care. - Hey children...

...don't get soaked up in the rain. Get inside the home.

Look here, Kuttiyappa...

Young fellows are going alone in the rain.

Are you going to sit and hatch eggs here?

- Man up and go with them. - Hey!

Hey wait, I will come with you.

Kuttiyappa...

Why are the school lights lit at this time?

Looks like union members, village heads and the elders

are in a meet together.

Yes,

Mentor would've brought the union members to...

talk with the village elders.

(V/O) Every journey begins at a simple point.

Many a times...

The journey begins from a far different space from where it is to end.

Mentor Perumal’s journey too...

started from one such point, mother.

Hey Karuppa...

Where are you going at this hour?

It's nothing, Mentor.

Kuttiyappa had a sacrificial goat.

(V/O) That sickle made in the workshop that night,

and what Karuppan did with it, is the beginning of the events,

where today, authorities,

with thousands of police like me,

searched for him as a terrorist and arrested him.

Be in alert until Chief Secretary and Collector leave.

- Here. - Sir.

Everything is under control, sir.

Our team will take him till the Railway station.

- RPF will take over from there. - Subbiah? Are you leaving?

Yes, sir.

- DSP is on the line to pass an important... - It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow.

information to the SP. - If I start now, I can reach home by morning.

How old is she now?

She is turning fifteen sir.

- Then has she finished Prathmik or Madhyama? - Sir, DSP is on line.

- Sir, we don't have... - Yes, coming.

- people who can teach Hindi in our village. - Disperse.

I am to take further steps.

We should set an example to others here, by making our children learn Hindi.

Yes, Sunil.

Sir, today evening, with a constable's tip off,

we went on a raid to Kelamparai village.

We have arrested Perumal.

Sunil is on mic sir.

He says they have arrested Perumal.

- Hey. - Sir?

Call up CM sir's house.

So finally,

the ghost is no longer a ghost.

But just an old man...

who is called Perumal.

I was never a ghost.

I am the people.

We are always standing in front of you.

But you refuse to see us.

You've made me sit in a dark room to scare me off.

But I see fear only in your eyes, Sunil.

Our class liberation movement of Annihilation

did not bring out this fear in your system.

Because it had no impact on your caste structure.

To destruct your caste structure,

when we started to bring people together through land, race and language...

and if the people accepted us and followed us,

after that,

you could not gain political advantage...

with caste, religion, class differences.

That's when it started... this fear.

It is in that fear you propagate us as divisive elements.

Who is divisive element? Is it you who segregate...

people by birth into upper, lower and even as bottom of the strata?

Or is it us who fight for equality, unity...

and deny this division of upper and lower?

You bloody!

Squad!

Attention.

Hey!

Why did the police enter the village and opened fire?

Sorry sir. Sunil had sent teams randomly without expectations.

There was no plan for such a big arrest.

Why did you do something like this without planning?

Sir when a team was sent on an ordinary PC's words..

Hey!

Why wasn't I informed about the firing?

- Sir he didn't inform even us. - Sir.

Anger is not going to change anything.

In such scenarios, things are bound to happen like this.

You please just leave it sir.

You guys will say "just leave it" and get away with..

an enquiry, a temporary suspension and transfer.

I am the one who has to show up at the village for anything tomorrow.

Sir, nothing has happened here for you to get this tensed.

Let's deal with it.

How will you deal it man?

A child and a woman is dead, a man is wounded.

What big deal you think you can muster?

- Look at the way he is sitting. - Sir,

We are educated to handle such situations.

So, are you implying that I am an uneducated brute?

Hey!

Sir..

- Did you just call me an illiterate brute? - Sir!

Where did he say such a thing sir?

Then what's the meaning of what he said sir?

Sir... if you assume something that he hasn't said, then what can we do?

So all you educated guys are ganging up to insult me?

That's not true sir.

I might not be as educated as you guys are.

But I have studied life from people.

I've have competed in five terms...

and won three times.

Because an illiterate man like me put his head on a railway track...

people like you got the right to educate.

Just because you've changed your food and the language you speak,

doesn't mean you'll become part of "them".

This is their problem sir.

Oh!

Whose problems?

- Problem of the illiterate? - Sir, what is this sir?

- What man? - Sir.

- You.. - Sir...

- Problem of the illiterate! - Sir.

Sir don't forget the problem we are dealing with right now

and get diverted into petty issues like this.

What do you mean by petty issue, sir?

You've shot dead a kid.

Whole place is raging.

Is this a petty issue for you?

Let us sit and talk it out sir.

I will not talk to you sir. I will talk with the Boss.

Okay then talk to him!

You don't tell me that sir.

Go talk to him sir.

You don't tell me that sir. I'll deal it.

Okay. Go!

Hey, where is the driver?

Chief Secretary, SP, Collector will all show their arrogance of education to us.

All sitting without respect when a Minister is standing.

Hey! Where is the driver? Start the car.

Start the car.

- Sir? - What?

You've told the Chief Secretary is very close to our Boss.

What if we leave now and he twists it up with the leader?

I know that.

You don't fucking tell me what I should do.

Sit, sit.

I know very well how much a Minister is to be respected.

Our current situation is an

absolutely pressurised one sir.

What situation?

We have arrested Perumal.

That's the reason of the firing,

boy's death and everything.

Are you saying that we can start the mining work without any problems?

I think so.

Why are you upset over a happy news?

Who arrested him?

For disobeying the superior's orders,

for not replying to the memo,

Suspension order.

Hey!

I will make sure your name is not included in Perumal's arrest too.

Go away.

Now, we'll talk?

It takes four men to hit me and strip me naked

to make you feel like my equal?

Let's talk.

The unbelievable has happened at last.

Yes sir.

He did good, like in the film 'Leaping Tiger'.

The train you bombed and derailed,

...the 25 dead in it are not the people you talk about?

Those peeping through the window, come here!

Fall in!

We both know what happened.

The system you represent has no sentiments.

For you it is a mere strategy.

For us it is pain.

Bring that dress.

Hey!

Give it to me. I'll take it.

Give it to him.

What's your name man?

What are you going to do with knowing my name?

You should have retired...

and be resting at home.

Do they give you any day off?

Do you get to take your wife and kids out to fairs or movies?

They must be working you to death.

But ask them about it...

They would spend every weekend,

taking their families out.

You should do that too.

For that matter...

aren't you all searching for me?

Even I go to theatre often to watch movies.

There is a Rajendar movie running

now in our Ganesh cinema hall.

'My beloved Mythili...'

I have watched it.

Good film.

Hey Sunil... the movie you last watched...

Hey!

Sir, he is being disrespectful and dancing in front of you.

Go.

- Ezhumalai! - Sir?

Didn't you apply for leave?

How is your father's health?

They said his days are numbered sir.

Hey!

Who are you guys?

They said they've came to sell sarees in the village, sir.

- Hey!

Weren't you the one selling sarees outside Ganesh cinema hall..

..when the film 'My Beloved Mythili' was running?

Yes sir.

You cannot be here. Leave.

Okay. Okay, sir.

Ezhumalai, did you watch that film?

No, sir.

It was very nice.

You keep waiting at the back side of the camp.

Once he knows where they are taking Comrade Perumal,

constable sir will inform you.

Okay comrade.

I will convey the message that the film 'My Beloved Mythili' is said to be good.

Hello.

Nagaraj here.

I watched "My Beloved Mythili" at Ganesh cinema hall.

- It was good. - Is that so?

The elders who watched along with me, said the same.

I will handle it.

What decision was made while watching,

"My Beloved Mythili" movie at Ganesh cinema hall?

It was to make news of the arrest of the main leaders,

when they pass that information from the inside.

You send this information through telegram to the High Court and all the press.

I'll do that comrade.

Inform our comrade Pavel,

and ask him to go to the base camp...

where Comrade Perumal is detained.

Hello?

Yes sir.

Okay.

Sir, it's a call from the IG office, Intelligence.

Seems they have sent telegrams to the high court judge and all the press...

saying we have arrested Perumal and detained him illegally sir.

Our people are not politically literate.

But if they realise that their language and tradition are threatened,

then they will fight against it on their own.

Even before the inequalities of caste, religion,

class that we are fighting against existed,

it was their language and tradition that made them live together in their land.

When you try to grab it from them... - Sir.

- SP sir is on the mic. - they fight against it.

Sunil, how did the news of the big parcel in the camp leak out?

I don't know sir.

But I am suspicious of a head constable in this company.

Don't keep the parcel in the camp.

Move it to a safe place.

Let it be there until you get further information.