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.
- 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.
Sir.
Don't do it sir.
Leave me sir.
Tomorrow morning I will let you know what needs to be done.
Sir.
Let's not keep him here tonight.
- There's that border checkpost right? - Yes, Sir.
Take him there.
Sir, we don't have a driver to go by the mountains path.
Why? Isn't Kumaresan here?
He is under suspension,sir. His behaviour is bad.
Hey! Is this the time for your ego?
Bring him in.
Hey!
Kumaresa...
Stand at ease.
(V/O) Had I left five minutes earlier from the camp that night,
there would have been no necessity to write this letter to you, mother.
Sir?
Come.. Come.
DSP sir has called you.
Go put your uniform and come quick.
Sir I have been suspended.
That's all gone.
DSP himself has said.
Sir, let me go up the village...
take Tamizharasi and go back...
- to my village sir. - Finish your work here.
And then marry her as you wish.
Cuff him. Hand cuff him. Go.
What is the plan of action, sir?
Velmurugan and team will take him to the forest.
And he'll wait there for further instructions.
This is my operation, sir.
'Company' has been through a lot all these days.
If anything happens it will become his case.
He will get the reward too.
What's in it for me sir?
Sir, I will take charge sir.
Mm.
Okay, go.
Let's talk the rest later.
You get the jeep. Take him.
- Okay sir. - Sir?
Someone from the village might see.
Sir, we can go through the back side way sir.
That's a pathless forest. How will the jeep go through it?
I will manage it sir.
Kumaresan!
So, it's you again.
(V/O) When we arrested him, I had many questions in my mind like,
why are the people going to such troubles to protect him,
what has he done to them, mother.
The first answer to all of it is in the pain and grief of Karuppan
who was running with the sickle, mother.
They will not take any decision against the Landlord, Kuttiyappa.
When he sent me away with a cow for breeding...
and made his men take Maari away, they didn't do anything.
Had I been present at that time, none of them would have left alive.
(V/O) That Karuppan was the beginning of Mentor Perumal.
Guys...
His men are inside with weapons.
Two men come with me.
Rest of you go to the front gate and divert them.
Hey!
Who is there?
Careful son. They might hear us and come.
Their attention will be on the front gate Kuttiyappa.
I said who's there?
Will it be the girl's relatives or village men?
They are not that brave.
Hey! I asked who's there! Stop banging the gates.
Who is that?
Hey son!
You check upstairs. We will search down here.
Hey!
Stop disturbing me and go back home.
This not something new.
It's been happening for generations.
From your mother to your foremothers,
every one of their family life started like this only.
If you leave this place now without letting anyone know...
she will return by dawn.
You can live with her happily.
If not, I will shoot her to death now.
Why are you trying to change this age old practice?
Who gave you the courage to do this?
Go to hell!
Does the women of our family seem low to you?
You think you can say anything?
Try talking now.
This will end with us.
Anyone who thinks to repeat this,
will fear for their life.
(V/O) In a way,
the murder committed by Karuppan...
was the reason, which made Mentor sit in our vehicle as a prisoner, mother.
What Kuttiyappa feared might happen...
if Karuppan murdered the landlord, did happened, mother.
(V/O) Except for Karuppan and Maari...
all the others
were caught by the landlord’s son’s goons, mother.
I want to know where my Dad's murderer is hiding.
Tell me...
Tell me where he is hiding man!
Please leave my brother sir.
Tell me!
Oh no!
Please don't hit him. Let him go sir.
Hey!
Bring some water to wash my hands.
Please sir...
I will do anything to right the wrong my son did sir.
- You don't have to do anything. - Please let my daughter go sir.
But we will take your daughter.
- Don't do that sir. - Is that wrong?
Then do one thing.
Your daughter...
Now in this place...
Do this right now and...
save his life.
Everyone!
Am I not fair enough?
(V/O) Because the mentor did not...
dare to stop the landlord’s son
from torturing the village people
he had brought the police, mother.
Sir, stop it. Don't beat him to death.
He said, his first mentor was Karuppan,
who taught him to question
even the routine practices that we
- casually accept as a normal thing. - Mentor sir?
Come 'Fourther'.
How many times have I asked you to not call me as 'Fourther'?
Because I'm the fourth child of my mother doesn't mean my name is 'Fourther'.
I was born after my mother's prayers to the god Karuppan.
So my name is Karuppan.
Okay, come and learn to write your name Karuppan.
No sir. I have loads of work.
I am going to the town to buy a black shirt for my marriage.
Maari wants me to wear a black shirt for the marriage.
I came here to invite you to my marriage next week.
Put aside inviting me to the marriage.
Come inside and learn.
Age is not a barrier to read and write.
We will come.
But will you teach by letting everyone sit equally?
You can't right?
Will send my child to the school very soon.
Before that change this practice and...
make everyone sit together to study.
From the new born calves to
the new bride of their house,
everything belongs to us.
So?
Does my father rape all their brides like the other landlords?
How dare they kill him...
because he desired one girl?
We have the right over these women's bodies.
- Let's see who can stop me. - Sir listen to me.
Sir, nothing is going to come out of his death.
A case will be filed on you.
You will be imprisoned.
I will get capital punishment for the guy who killed the landlord.
It's my responsibility.
I am not an outcast to go to courts
to take revenge on my father's murderer.
Sir!
Brother!
Don't you want us to find the guy?
Uh?
Look.
You can't do anything if he surrenders in the court.
Don't you trust that I will bring him to you?
- Give it to me sir. Leave now. - Why did you guys do this?
Just leave sir.
Get up son.
Everyone listen to me.
Until we catch the guy who murdered my father,
these scums will remain at my gates.
Hey!
Bring them all.
Did you think you can...
save them by bringing the police?
- Until the Fourther is found... - Hey!
none of them will find peace.
Lift them up.
They can't hide for long in his village.
All these seven and half villages belong to him.
Don't think the Kisan Sabha...
...or Farmers Labour Union guys will come to rescue.
They won't do anything without benefit.
Do you understand?
Hey!
I know one of you here is hiding Fourther.
It’s good for neither of you.
Thickhead...
I am saying this for your son's good.
Bring him to the police station.
I will file a case on him...
and send him to the Tanjore court.
He will be punished according to the law,
and sent to Trichy or Salem prison.
Just the punishment for the murder he committed.
His life will not be put in danger...
by the young landlord.
I assure you.
I would've handed him over at the police station sir.
But I feared that the landlord's men might...
hurt him if they see him coming here sir.
If you could send a couple of policemen...
I will safely hand them over to you sir.
Where do you have them?
Karuppa...
I have brought the police for protection.
There's no problem anymore.
Come out.
Careful, it'll slip.
Move slowly.
I have made arrangements with the Inspector.
Let’s go to the police station without anyone's attention.
We will keep Maari in a safe place and...
tomorrow morning, they will take you to Tanjore court and...
Didn't I ask you to not to believe them...
...and let us go somewhere else?
It's nothing.
Nothing will happen. I'll talk to them.
I'll talk to them, you don't be scared.
Sir...
You've protected the man who killed the landlord that fed the village.
What your father did to his wife... It's wrong sir.
It's not fair.
You should be killed first.
Sir, sir?
You can do anything with the girl and the boy.
But hurting a government employee will have dire consequences sir.
Hey Police, runaway if you are scared.
I know how to manage any consequence.
This scum protected my dad's murderer.
Do you want me to...
let him live?
My dear!
Look at him fight back.
He is a great hero.
Children born in our houses today couldn't muster this courage.
Oh no!
Like any other girl, all I wanted was a respectful life.
My dear!
Why should my man bleed for that?
Maari!
Hey!
Maari!
Hey!
Sir?
Sir... Sir...
- No sir, please listen. - Leave me.
- For what he has done... - Let go of my hand.
- ...we will take him to police, - Hey! Stab him!
Hey!
I will punish the guy who killed my dad.
Who gave you the right to punish him sir?
Sir!
Don't do it sir. Please listen...
Hey Fourther!
No! Don't do it man.
- Fourther! - My name is not Fourther, you scum.
My name is Karuppan.
Karuppan.
What you call is not my name.
What I say is my name!
Hey!
This courage is the suppressed rage...
of my forefathers to eradicate you guys' arrogance.
You can't find this bravery in your household.
Sir, looks like he stabbed you right on the ballocks.
Idiot. Lift me up.
Hey...
Chop him into parts and throw it in the middle of the village.
After seeing his state,
no one should even think against any of the landlords.
Sir, what do we do with the Mentor?
The police asked us not to hurt him.
Is he alive?
Not for long sir.
Leave him there.
If he survives, let him escape.
Come and check in the morning.
If you find him dead, burn him.
(V/O) Because Karuppan and Maari opposed the caste dominance...
and arrogance of wealth, which dictated that bonded labourers...
who get married must...
let their bride bed with the landlord first,
they were killed...
and their future of a happier life with grand kids...
was stolen from them, mother.
If someone had punished those murderers that day...
maybe he would've carried on as a school teacher, mother.
Please request the press owner's association...
to not carry out this news until we confirm it.
No, we cannot afford to let...
this Perumal's arrest news get out.
Sir,
how much ever we might try,
we cannot hide such a huge criminal's arrest from the people.
It's better we call the press...
and tell them the truth sir.
We can, but there's a problem.
- Assuming we will get funds from the centre, - Okay sir.
we have used total state infrastructure funds on this operation.
Okay.
They have told us it will be released in three days.
Hmm.
If his arrest news gets leaked out now,
they will hold that fund totally.
- I understand sir. - But what I say...
The problem is...
If we say it's a rehabilitation promotion,
and submit a proposal and write a budget for that,
and after all this it will take two more years for them to approve it.
Total development funds of our government will be put on hold.
So, until we get funds from the centre,
his arrest news should not be leaked out.
Hello, sir?
This is Pothanur Pavel speaking sir.
Sir...
...when will you close down the headlines sir?
Sir, they have arrested People's Army leader Perumal and
retained him at the Arumapuri E-Company base camp sir.
Besides that,
I have taken photos of the police brutality
happening in the camp in the name of interrogation sir.
Sir, if I start now, I will reach our head office in 5 hours sir.
Sir... please do take this risk for me sir.
It will definitely not go waste sir.
If we publish all these photos...
then tomorrow everyone will be reading our 'Tamil Seithi' only sir.
Brother, if they had killed him along with Karuppan and Maari that day...
wouldn't we have Raghu alive with us today?
Every death is an irreplaceable loss.
But, even if I had died that day,
- you couldn't have stopped Raghu's death - Bala...
- The reason for that is... - Shut up man.
Ragavendar...
I forgot that you are here.
So, there is one more matter to be settled in this journey.
(V/O) At that moment, we didn’t realise what he meant by saying
- “he had matters to settle with the OC,” was about the truth
that all the police in the E-Company should know, mother.
I believe this journey will show you the truth.
I found the truth about life...
during my journey with our mentor...
comrade KK.
Comrade?
(V/O) Comrade KK saved me and admitted me in a hospital...
on the day I should've died with Karuppan.
Lie down. Don't get up.
Thank you very much sir.
Call me Comrade.
Sir, what happened to our Karuppan was...
First, you get well.
We can't bring any change in this society by being a dutiful person.
We need theory and organisation for that.
(V/O) After Karuppan's murder,
when Comrade KK saved me...
I too had two paths in front of me.
To forever carry the guilt of not saving Karuppan and
end up working as a teacher
in some school in some village and die.
First, you get well.
Later, if you have time and interest...
attend our political classes.
The other path
- was to join Comrade KK's political class. - This is something known to many of you.
But we will start again for the new comrades who has...
joined us today.
During the French Revolution,
in the National Assembly,
those who denied the monarchy,
wanted to give authority to the people,
and demanded to have a democratic governance,
sat on the left side of the state.
The Left Wingers.
Until the people remain politically illiterate
they cannot take authority.
It is our duty to politicise them.
Long live the red flag!
(V/O) In many of the villages in that area,
under the leadership of Comrade KK,
party started to built the Union.
If you all could organise together as one,
they will become worthless.
Respect not,
those who disrespect you.
Remember I told you?
This is Comrade Perumal.
- Hello. - Yes.
The Tamil teacher who was beaten by the landlord?
Yes.
That's my son.
He looks just like you comrade.
What is he doing?
Two years back when they grabbed lands for a cement factory,
we made the people protest and demand the right compensation...
for the lands.
They charged us with incitement and...
took action to arrest us all.
We went underground.
But...
they had come home to arrest me.
She was not at home too.
He was alone at home.
They took him.
Till today we don’t know where they came from
or to which station...
they took him.
It has been two years.
After you started working with the party,
I saw him get back to his old self.
Thank you brother.
Mother...
He didn't just save me.
He is the world to me.
She will get emotional.
Don't take it seriously.
Take this. Give it a read.
You will see pencil notes.
That's my son's.
Look at the stuff he has noted.
(V/O) I became a party full timer.
Within few years since...
I went to learn from him,
Comrade KK made me grow in to a Mentor who teaches politics.
You can't come in here.
Get out.
You can't keep coming in groups.
- Don't you want the patient to rest? (V/O) Because of Comrade KK's efforts,
that district became one of the places with far less exploitation of the capitalists.
But the cost of it was...
Comrade...
You should be more careful, comrade.
More than the fear of death...
to die is even simple.
You've said that a thousand times.
But you can't be irresponsible, comrade.
We need you comrade.
The important reason I called for you is...
Mahalakshmi Sugar Factory...
(V/O) Because of the disappearance of comrade Rangasamy, who
tried to start the union at the Lakshmi sugar factory...
Comrade KK went to the field to build the union.
That's when unidentified men tried to kill him.
understand the ground reality and...
- build the Union. - Ok comrade.
Whom should I be of help comrade?
No one else.
We are doing it under your leadership.
The weapon given by the party for your safety.
I will take this as the belief the party has on me...
and the respect it has given me comrade.
Comrade!
Comrade, come here.
Comrade KK said, people have come from
Lakshmi Sugar Factory to talk about unionising.
Yes, this is the person comrade.
- They are waiting to take you along. - I will take him.
You can't be seen with a guy in red shirt...
- and end up in a problem. - Okay.
Shall we go man?
Yeah, let's go.
How did you come?
I came walking. Shall we take the bus?
I came in the cycle. I'll take you.
(V/O) Comrade Mahalakshmi, whom I met...
three years after Karuppan's death, was the one
who made me realize
the courage we must have
to live the change,
we wish to see
in the society.
...he went missing.
If you go straight ahead, you will find the workers' quarters at the end.
Meet Brother Umapathy, I’ve let him know.
Okay, Comrade.
(V/O) I got a job in that sugar factory with the help of the comrades...
- who wanted us to build the union. - Raja.
Because comrade KK asked to hide my identity...
- Without reason... - What's your name?
the first name that came to me was...
Karuppan.
Give this token inside. They will give you uniform, change into it.
On my first day of work,
Police came to investigate the
- disappearance of Rangasamy. - Yes sir, he came to work on Friday.
I said "You are drunk, don't touch the machine."
But his wife says he is a teetotaler?
What you want man?
- Need to clean bagasse sir. - Okay, go upstairs.
You can enquire with anyone in the factory.
I don't have any problem with it.
But that's his routine sir.
Doesn't seem like that on enquiry.
He owes money.
(V/O) More than the shock I had in seeing...
how courageous, outspoken and modern Mahalakshmi was,
- during our first meet, - Who is that?
- I was even more surprised... - She is the owner.
when I saw her the second time.
Take them to the station and enquire.
How can you team up with the owner's daughter...
and unionise the factory too?
It's not like what you think.
- See you later brother. - See you man.
If it isn't for that girl in this factory...
instead of sugarcane, both father and son
would've thrown us in the machine...
and crushed us to blood and flesh.
Even today,
because they wouldn't take complaint
from the workers in the station...
she straightaway went to the SP office and...
made the police come to the factory.
Our workers would tell us how she is treated at home by her...
brother and sister-in-law when they visit the place to see the owner.
- Hey... Have I not warned you enough, - Pitiful.
to not roam around in a man's attire?
She dresses up like those labourers,
gangs up and roam around with them...
- ...to bring disgrace to - Hey... stop it.
It's all because of you uncle.
Instead of locking her up, you let this lunatic out.
Now my children are demanding to cut their...
hair short and dress up like their aunt.
I repeat again, no one here has the right to talk about my daughter.
Hey... Come here and eat.
Why?
Has you daughter-in-law poisoned my food?
If I wanted, I would've done that long back.
I had a good beef meal in the house of the people...
who care for me and love me.
Oh! God forbid!
No matter what you do,
you won’t be able to stop the workers from starting a union in the factory.
What happened to the two comrades who fought for our rights?
One of them was beaten to death in this same factory.
And we don't even know what happened to Comrade Rangasamy.
Lets say, the raw materials to produce one kilo of sugar in your factory...
sugarcane,
electricity,
machine,
and other materials,
all put together...
comes around 90 paise.
Let's say, the wages of your labour which...
produces it is 10 paise.
Comes up to 1 rupee.
But in a shop...
the cost of 1 Kg sugar is...
1 rupee and 25 paise.
Our situation demands that we all join together as one today.
We should safeguard those families that are helpless.
We should fight with this owner and get the necessary support to the family.
We can't take this as fate and quietly accept everything that the owner does.
What converts a 90 paise worth raw material...
in to a 1 rupee 25 paise worth...
market material?
Its your labour-power.
Fate is something...
discovered by someone to stop our growth.
We are a thousand labourers here.
If we all come together,
start a union,
and fight against them,
we can rewrite any kind of fate.
So, the real value of your...
labour-power,
as they have made you believe till date,
is not just 10 paise.
But 35 paise.
Because comrade Rangasamy demanded profit share
for your labour-power,
they made him disappear.
We can save him only if you all unite together.
If we come out to fight for that family on your word,
Tomorrow, they will beat us to death too.
Then who will come to save our family?
What you say is true.
If we remain scattered,
they will beat us to death.
Make our bodies disappear.
Will file false cases with the help of the police.
Comrades,
Time has provided us with two choices.
One is...
to agree that everything will happen according to fate
and accept this life and...
work forever for this owner and die.
The second option is...
that we all come together,
start a union,
fight for our rights and...
- and win them over. - Sir, it looks like,
he will make the labourers...
go on strike until they get to know...
what happened to Rangasamy.
Isn't he just a CL?
Why don't you fire him?
We can't do that sir.
He has brainwashed all the workers with his speeches.
Sir, it seems, day after tomorrow, all the workers are going to...
rally to meet the SP and complain that it's the management which...
killed Rangasamy and drowned him in the river.
There should be another accident in the second shift tomorrow.
In the current situation,
anything we plan to do inside will go wrong.
Dad don't seem to understand this.
They are coming.
I will identify the guys.
- Finish off outside. - I'll do it.
Boopathi sir,
your sister has filed a complaint at the SP office with evidence,
accusing you for the abduction of Rangasamy who works in your factory.
Sir, she has lost her mind,
- and keeps blabbering. - Hey! Move on.
You can't be serious about it.
Get in the vehicle on your own.
If not, I will have to drag you out.
- Comrade! - Please come.
You are the head chef today?
Yes of course.
Come in.
Did you hear about the arrest of the...
sugar factory owner's son on the...
disappearance of brother Rangasamy?
Please forgive me for having second thoughts about you.
When even the comrades working in the factory...
and comrade Rangasamy's family hesitated to file a complaint,
the owner's daughter herself...
coming forward to complain against her brother,
is quite courageous.
It was unbearable to see his children cry.
That's why I complained at the SP's office.
They will bribe their way out.
But let them be in for couple of days.
They will murder you even if you are family.
They won't let you live.
Can't say they don't wish that.
But the sugar factory owner is superstitious.
They've kept me alive because they believe I'm their lucky charm.
And why are you alone in the cooking space without any women?
Why? Can't men do this?
Isn't cooking a women's chore?
Is it?
Isn't that the custom?
Oh!
Get that cloth.
When you cook for a big crowd,
love is not enough,
you need a bit of a strength too.
So,
So, it is men's job to cook for big crowds.
If you want to participate in this,
sit there and cut those vegetables.
Let’s make the curry together.
Why did you not ask me?
Ask what?
Ask me...
if I've shaved my hair in devotion,
or is it because I've got nits and dandruff problem?
or because I am sick.
This the first question people ask when they see me.
But you didn't. That's why asked.
It's your hair,
you decided to cut.
How do I have any say in that comrade?
They got me married when I was very young.
Mm...
We found nothing in common between us.
We were fighting over everything.
He hit me couple of times.
At one time,
when he tried to hit me,
I hit him back.
He grabbed my hair.
For a moment I couldn't move.
I felt very vulnerable.
After that I...
grabbed him where he was vulnerable and brought him down.
That's when I decided to never give a man such authority over my body.
I left him that day.
And cut my hair.
After this extraordinary event,
you expect me to ask you about your hair?
That's even more astounding comrade.
No, nothing like that.
I felt like sharing this with you.
Brother...
look after this. I'll be back.
At last, you both realise...
that am here as well. Be happy.
Don't tease brother.
My name is not Karuppan.
It's Perumal.
I just felt like sharing this with you.
They will be very careful...
in not letting the labourers unite.
To stop that,
we should organise a secret meeting...
with the factory labourers.
We can do that comrade.
I'm not confused about that.
What are you confused about then?
- I mean... - What?
- This... - Which one?
I don't know how to talk about it.
Did you fall in love?
No, can't say that.
I kind of like her.
But deep inside I feel that it's a mistake too.
What kind of mistake is that?
We spend every single day in all sorts of protests.
Why take a girl along with me and trouble her?
Put that thought back and bury it deep.
I don't understand.
People like us who lead struggles,
should fall in love, get married...
and lead a happier family life.
What do people ask us when we call them for a struggle?
"Do you have family?"
"You can do any kind of struggle."
"But are we like that?"
Now,
If we have a partner or kids,
they will look at us...
as one of them.
(V/O) More than a mentor who taught about political ideologies,
Comrade KK, was also like a father
who effortlessly taught me to...
- understand the problems in an individual's life. - The work we do,
...will make others be affectionate towards us.
It could be a mother's affection for her son.
Or a daughter's for her father.
Or a brotherly one.
Or may be a lover's affection.
Desire,
is a natural instinct.
Only if you
marry a girl with unconditional love,
can you manage those confusions.
Get married.
Everyone who has come to this secret meeting
has a responsibility.
We all should unite as working class.
Development in technology...
enables the labour-power
to do more productivity every day.
- Sorry... - Please come comrade.
So a it undermines its value...
and increases the profit of a owner.
You Continue.
- Do you want water brother? - No, it's okay sister.
Why are you standing here?
Are you waiting for anyone?
No nothing like that.
I don't feel comfortable here.
I mean,
Tell me if it's no problem.
No, nothing. Am alright.
You carry on.
Mm...
Okay.
Comrade!
Mm...
Comrade..
Comrade...
I am not sure if I can talk about this here.
Not talking about it feels like a burden.
Comrade KK asked me to speak out.
Can we be more than comrades?
Can we be partners?
No...
I am asking because I felt that way.
If you are not interested, we can forget it.
If I can understand what you are saying,
I can tell you whether I am interested or not.
The two of us...
in one...
in one place...
sharing everything...
together...
inside the same house...
in the same house...
Shall we get married?
Comrade?
♫ In my thoughts,in my thoughts ♫
Give me sometime!
♫ Something feels a little new ♫
♫ In my heart, in my heart ♫
♫ Something feels a little strange ♫
♫ In my thoughts, in my thoughts ♫
♫ Something feels a little new ♫
♫ Should I walk in my path? ♫
♫ Or step aside and make way? ♫
♫ Should I search for a companion for my solitude? ♫
♫ Or should I just go with the flow? ♫
♫ In my heart, in my heart ♫
♫ Something feels a little strange ♫
♫ In my thoughts, in my thoughts ♫
♫ Something feels a little new ♫
Can I have some more meat?
You ask for meat and time too.
You can ask for more meat.
I'll give it.
But there's very less time.
And I keep watching it.
Please consider.
Whatever you give me will not go vain.
Trust me.
I, Mahalakshmi
Take you Perumal
I, Karuppan alias Perumal
Take you Mahalakshmi
as my partner.
From today onwards, I vow to share equally...
the joys and sorrows
victories and defeats of life
to live with you as...
an equal partner
a steadfast companion
and true comrade...
of yours.
Whatever rights I expect from you
you have the complete right to...
expect, receive,
and enjoy the same from me.
I pledge to always stand by
your side as your...
unwavering partner.
We pledge to...
understand our
social,
political,
and economic stature
and participate
in the struggles
to eliminate inequalities.
There are many challenges in...
two people coming to live together.
Partners should talk out of their hearts.
Exchange everything.
When a partner critiques you,
accept it.
When its conflicting, try to explain it.
Nothing is more precious than a friendship where you can talk your heart out.
Partners should be such friends.
When you are wrong...
Apologise.
Whenever possible...
Express gratitude.
Make the right opportunities...
and express love.
♫ In my heart, in my heart ♫
♫ Something feels a little strange ♫
♫ In my thoughts, in my thoughts ♫
♫ Something feels a little new ♫
So in the disguise of unionising,
you went looking out for a girl to marry and settle.
How do you call this Revolution?
Why? Can't we fall in love or
get married?
Why didn't you fall in love with a poor girl?
How come you fall only for a rich girl?
Isn't it too easy for you to critique our honest life?
We will talk about it.
Attention!
1...2...3...
1!
Salute!
You went to start a union and got married.
Did you build a union in Lakshmi Sugar Factory or not?
Hey!
Come quietly.
You want to hear a story in the forest?
Sir, it’s scary to walk silent in the dark.
That's why striking a conversation.
We are walking against the wind in the forest path, Ragavendar.
If we walk in silence...
there are chances we might end up in front of a bunch of elephants or gaurs.
You are a superior, you won't talk.
They question me.
I'll come narrating my life events as a story.
There are chances the wild animals might move away hearing our voices.
My story will tell you who I am.
Your questions will determine who you are going to be.
Now, should I talk or not?
Do I have a choice?
Muthu, as you said I did not...
go looking out for a girl.
After we started the union...
You went looking for a girl?
People won't participate in protests for common issues.
The right condition should evolve to rouse them.
If we could aptly recognise that moment...
and organise them,
no matter how mighty our opposition is,
they will come out to struggle without fear or hesitation.
And that requires a moment of trigger.
And as we feared...
our trigger moment...
to build the union at...
Lakshmi Sugar Factory was...
the murder of Comrade Rangasamy...
by the owner and his son.
♫ In the dark forest, ♫
♫ My little black firefly, ♫
♫ I have a story to tell, ♫
♫ Listen, my dear. ♫
♫ In this life of silence, ♫
♫There’s nothing left to say,♫
My dear why did you leave me! ♫ My dear, what do I say? ♫
♫ Even tears bring no relief. ♫
♫ Our time will come, ♫
I don't know what I will do anymore with my children.
Scoundrel! How dare you kill him and come here?
(V/O) The courage and...
motivation of the labourers to oppose the management was driven by the
death of Comrade Rangasamy...
and the lament of his family.
We will start the union and hoist the flag in the factory.
What are you looking at man?
That's too much talking.
Mind your work, scum.
V/O The cost Comrade Umapathy paid for hitting the manager...
and challenged him to start the Union was...
Comrade... Somebody pushed Comrade Umapathy in the machine.
Someone please help!
- Comrade... - If we stop now, it will take 2 hours to...
- Umapathy Comrade. - restart the machine that was running for 24 hours.
- It'll be a huge loss for the factory. Can't stop it. - Comrade Umapathy!
- Can you hear me? - Sir, Labour union guys are present here.
If we don't stop the machine now, it will become a problem sir. Listen to me.
I can't take any decision without asking the owner.
He is coming wait.
If you don't stop the machine in another two minutes,
all the workers will break the factory.
Shall we break it? We'll break it.
Go! Stop the machine!
After the life loss of few comrades,
- and injury of many, - More than an employee's life...
- to demand the basic rights of the labourers, - production matters most to you?
we built the union at...
- Lakshmi Sugar Factory. - Profit greed.
And hoisted the red flag.
Long live worker's unity!
Had you not hit him...
in front of me...
I wouldn't have suspected you.
You are caught by
your performance.
Sir.
Comrades Chandran and Anthony was...
caught by the DSP.
The ghost is roaming around the border checkpost.
I can't can pass information from...
the base camp for the next few days.
They are moving Comrade Perumal to border checkpost.
If they are taking him there, it means his life is in danger.
We should pass information to Comrade TA.
Some of our comrades are working in the estate
near the shelter where comrade TA is staying.
We could call them and inform him, Comrade.
Yes tell me?
Earlier they said the Ghost is in the forest.
Yes.
Now they are saying the Ghost is in the forest border.
If you miss to catch the ghost,
it will be a huge loss.
How far is the border checkpost from here comrade?
Eight Kilometers comrade.
We will split into two groups.
Okay comrade.
You go to the border checkpost via Thenmalai road.
We will come from the eastern side of the forest.
They are a small team.
If we surround them from both the sides,
they can't cross us and take Comrade Perumal into the forest.
- Hey Velmurugan... - Sir?
There's a fallen tree across our path.
Is this their doing?
I don't think so sir.
Hey!
Sir?
Go and check.
Kumaresan,
- Brother? - Careful,
they could have planted some landmines there.
Sir...
Nothing looks wrong here. We can go...
Hey... hey
Come out guys!
There is nothing to be scared of.
An elephant has crossed.
If it was my men, would I have not left already?
Come without fear.
Dung is hot.
It must've crossed the path few moments back.
We should be careful.
Hey...
Is there any other path...
to go to the border checkpost?
Sir.
There is a path on this side sir.
Since it is a roundabout, no one uses it sir.
If you ask me, it is safe to take this path.
Hey!
Did anyone ask you?
You are going to kill me anyways...
It is for your safety.
Here, take it.
Bala Hit him!
Mic 19 to...
- E-Company OC. - I will kill you.
E-company OC receiving loud and clear sir.
Ragavendar, if you have people around you, step away and talk.
- For how long do you know driver Raghu? - Sir, you know...
talking about Raghu makes them angry.
- There is a reason Velmurugan. - Yes Sir..
Our security has been breached.
They have an informant in your company.
Who is it, sir?
Head Constable Chandran.
He was with me all along sir.
Ragavendar.
Perumal...
...should not escape.
- Careful. - Mentor will escape anyway.
One of the cops who went with OC is our guy.
Fucking! No one else can come out alive.
Ragavendar.
Chandran says one of the men with you is their guy.
We don't have the time to find out if he is saying the truth.
Trust no one there.
Don't accept anything they say.
You make all the decisions.
Yes sir.
Sir...
As he suggests,
let's go on this same path sir.
Hey,
get up.
Lead.
Mm.
Go.
One's end is in the path one decides to take, Ragavendar.
We make important decisions at the cinema halls.
Ask comrades to be careful.
It is not necessary to give our lives to the police now.
If our comrades are caught, lets make it a news.
Ask our comrades to live among the people.
I will go to the Kelamparai shelter.
Okay Comrade.
Mm-mm...
Oh come one!
How was the snack?
Uh?
It was good.
Yes, it was good.
Be careful.
Okay.
When we mention the names of cinema hall and the film
and laud it as good, then it means Mentor wants that plan to be executed.
If it's not good, then it means the plan is to be aborted.
Both you fuckers shared information right under my nose!
Huh?
My Beloved Mythili!
Hmm!
What is it, man?
Sir...
Sir, there are two paths here.
I am not sure which one to take.
Take that one.
Okay sir.
(V/0) Like you guys who has lost the path today...
I too was stranded that day and
which showed me the path was...
- Comrade KK's political class. - Our baby had cried for milk in the field.
The overseer has hit my wife saying,
"you know how to demand wages,
...now finish the work and go."
Our baby was starved...
cried and... (V/O) - When Mentor told us about
the kind of subjugation undergone by the bonded labourers and
the farm workers from the landlords during those period, it was unbelievable
- even to me, who grew up in poverty - If they hit you.
- and hardships mother. - Hit them back.
How dare you all sit!
(V/O) What was given to them by Comrades...
like comrade KK of the Communist party and...
the comrades of the Dravidian movement was not just belief but self respect.
The men will begin their work
only after the sunrise.
The women will leave their homes only after the dawn.
After sunset...
the men will not work in the landlord's house.
Their wages should be given on the same day.
Henceforth, breast feeding mothers will not feed their babies in the field.
They will cross over the ridges to feed.
Elderly women who can't work in the field,
should be employed on half wages to care for those babies.
Hereafter our wages will be measured in the
government sealed measuring tool that we give you.
We will harvest only if your landlord come here and agree to these terms.
Did you guys thought...
I will negotiate with this scum to harvest one paddy field?
Hey!
Since the arrival of these red and black shirt men,
our relationships are tattered.
Before that we all lived together as a family.
You guys have created such a mess.
We will solve our problems later.
First let us solve the problems of the daily wage labourers
who work in your farm.
Come here!
Hey!
You all are going to die out of starvation...
for trusting this guy against me.
Die!
Sir, the landlord is very angry.
What do we do now?
Is it he who toiled in the mud from dawn to dusk?
Was it his household women who couldn't breast feed...
their hungry babies during the farm work,
and pressed out the clogged breast milk in the fields...
and got back to work again?
Or was it he who cared for the crops...
like a parent do during each season?
Let him say whatever.
It doesn't matter to us.
The labour is yours.
So is the production.
No one can take it from you people...
under some false pretense.
Let us harvest.
Let's see who stops us.
The landlord will try to bring his community people...
from the outside to harvest.
When they come here,
he will try to divert the labour issue...
into a caste problem.
We should stop them on their way and send them back.
- You will do that. - Yes Comrade.
(V/O) Comrade KK realised the path I was leaning towards...
and even without my knowledge...
- he trained me slowly to it. - What can I talk there comrade?
Just show up there.
And then you will know what to talk.
Sir, greetings to you all.
The landlord who called you for the harvest work is the one,
who in response to all these hardworking labourers' demand to...
change the paddy measuring tool for wages,
stopped a mother from feeding her crying child...
and made her work throughout the day in the mud...
and killed the child by letting it starve to death.
If you go to work there because he called you,
- then these labourers who worked hard like you will... - Hey!
Will kill every one of you.
How dare you say all of us are equal?
You think working along with them in the fields
will make them equal to us?
Damn!
The landlord and us are rooted from the same seed.
We won't be mere onlookers...
when our brethren is threatened.
The landlord doesn't see you any different from the labourers.
You could boast that you are from the same seed,
will he marry his daughter to you?
How can he?
We are not rich enough for him.
That is exactly our point too comrade.
What unites you is not your caste,
but your labour.
(V/O) After listening to my speech,
those farm labourers,
left the place.
How was it possible now?
I didn't believe I could do it.
If you want to start something only if you know how it ends,
that won't let us do anything.
(V/O) Those who worked in that farm,
took 30% of the harvest and,
left the rest to the landlord.
Those in authority fear that even a small victory...
of the people will give them the courage to oppose them...
and they will all get together.
All those who use to respect us, has now started to talk back.
For the past three years, they come sauntering to work only at 6.
If I question,
he says "I can't do whatever you want."
"But only what the Union determines."
Instead of cultivating with these guys, for the
past three years I have left my land to fallow.
The common problem to our three districts and its businessmen,
landlords,
industrialists,
and company owners are...
the one who is called...
KK and his gang.
Seems six months back,
one of those guys,
- eloped with sir's daughter. - Hello!
- Why are you bringing that up now? - Hey!
Your anger is not going to bring back my reputation.
Yes.
My daughter eloped away with a red shirt guy.
His name is Karuppan.
I have killed ten such Karuppans.
We should kill them even when they think about fighting us.
And not brood over a meet like this.
Comrade Perumal,
brought down Comrade Santhal from Bengal,
who is leading the revolutionary movement
"Annihilation of Class Enemies"
and has organised...
few meetings with...
- the youngsters in a cashew farm... - In the agrarian...
- in this area. - society...
like India,
- Revolution cannot happen through proletariat minority. - Shall we go comrade?
The Revolution,
has to go from the village...
to the cities.
Peasants,
bonded farm labourers...
they are our accomplices.
In countries like India where agriculture is at the mainstay,
the Revolution,
should move from the village...
to the cities.
There is a CID report.
Looks like few people from here...
has brought down a Naxal leader from Bengal,
for a secret meeting,
and is radicalising the youngsters and...
students in the Arumapuri district area.
We sent you two letters demanding answers for it.
Till now you have not responded.
Annihilation...
is the only answer...
to cure all ailments.
Seems they have held meeting around our district...
to radicalise the...
students and youngsters here.
These people force...
the students and youths of this age group.
To do what?
Passing examinations?
This is modern slavery.
We must break these shackles.
Annihilate the oppressor.
Liberate the oppressed.
And create a new People's Republic.
What we are doing here is
organising the people together...
to build the Union.
This kind of activity will affect the party.
I don't deny it Comrade.
For a very long period we have been negotiating with the
owners and the landlords for the labour rights.
Didn't you teach me that negotiation is not going to bring revolution?
To achieve our rights and liberation...
he wants us to fight it and grab it from them.
And I feel that’s the right thing to do today.
For so long we have been fighting...
to take the funeral procession from the colony through the village route.
Were we able to find a solution for that problem?
Hey, Velayudham, Somu bring all the tools.
What is this new practice?
How dare they bring the body in to our street?
Hey!... Hey!... Hey!...
Stop it.
Stop the beats.
Hey! I said Stop it!
Its better you all go back the same route.
The river is flooded.
If we try to cross the river today, more people will die.
Hey...
We can't change our age old guarded practices for that.
Start the beat comrade.
We can't give up our customs, formalities, cultures and traditions.
Drown their words with the beat comrade.
Start the beat.
More than the life of a fellow man...
your formalities and culture seems bigger to you?
It is our duty to smash it.
- We should first smash you. - Because we took the weapon...
to counter their attack,
they allowed us inside the village.
They ganged up and
threatened us with weapons and took the funeral procession of an untouchable
through our roads.
And they murdered three of our guys...
who went to...
question them.
All of you here are affected by the people who started the Union.
To counter this we will all join together and start a
Manufacturers and
Investors
Protection Union.
The capitalists in the district...
are planning to start a union.
We should provide them with all kinds of support they ask.
Both officially...
and unofficially.
Brother, it will be a union for namesake.
But this is an organised syndicate.
Some of you who are here
are in the police...
and in the political power.
If they apply for weapons license,
grant it for all.
If the farmers or labourers come up to...
file complaint against them...
don't file the FIR immediately.
If you all co-operate with me fully...
in all these three districts
you will find...
no red flag
or black flag.
The party expects you to apologise.
The first person we have to kill is KK.
Listen,
it is not so easy...
to kill KK as they say.
He has got a big battalion of youngsters around him.
And there is this person with him all the time.
His name was...
something like Karuppan or Kaathavarayan.
With the pain of a son who lost his father,
I will quit from all the positions the party gave me.
Just like how Krishnan was the biggest strength of Arjunan,
this guy is always with KK.
Until he is there,
we cannot even touch KK.
Are you making an emotional decision?
No.
Your path will choose your destination.
Brother,
Looks like there is a conflict within KK's party.
He has taken disciplinary action on the youngsters in the party and removed them.
Comrades,
I see this...
moment as an...
important turning point...
in our people's political space.
We might me a small group today.
But the goal we are going to achieve...
is huge.
Lets keep that in mind and work together...
with that belief and the goal.
The party we have started today is one,
that embraces Marxism,
with a left ideology base,
and takes up National self-determination
emphasis fight.
It is the Tamil Socialist Party.
Without the eradication of caste,
no ethnic nationalism
can bring the people together.
Eradication of the caste
will be the primary task...
of our party.
Another objective
of our party is...
to ensure the right
to our nation's resources
first and foremost to the...
working class and the peasants.
To execute this,
our party has created an Arms Wing.
Tamil People's Army.
All those who fought for the oppressed...
are our ancestors.
All those who stand with the oppressed...
are our comrades.
Red Salute! Red Salute!
KK will be alone now.
Make use of this opportunity and finish him off.
I will take care of the rest.
May be we could've apologised.
We have not done anything wrong to apologise comrade.
I think senior comrades have moved far away from the ground realities.
That is true comrade.
Our men are constantly monitoring KK.
Once he is alone,
they will take him.
They have no stand point against the...
persecution of culture, language and land of ethnic nationalities.
Comrade, how can class liberation...
be a one stop solution for all problems?
Without class liberation we cannot bring any change to the society.
But we differ with them in the approach to achieve it.
The rights of every ethnic nationality is...
Mother... come in. Come in.
Why at this hour?
Come inside mother, please come.
- What happened? - Come in. Come.
He left in the morning for a meet...
and said that he will return by sun down.
But he is not back yet.
Since the loss of our son,
he always gets back home at the said time.
If he was delayed, he would always...
pass that information.
Am very scared son.
He will be alright, mother.
Someone would've called him for help.
He would've gone there.
Isn't that their routine?
No dear.
He will always come back on said time.
- Its alright. I will look for him and... - I asked a comrade to enquire...
- and bring him back. - at comrade Dhayalan's house,
- Mahalakshmi, take care. - who went to the meet with him.
Comrade, lets split into groups.
Whoever gets the information...
come to the place we meet.
Brother... brother...
Did you see any elderly person with a red shawl pass this side?
No I didn't see.
Comrade,
I enquired at the Bazaar road too.
No one has seen him.
I enquired at Comrade Moorthy's house too.
Seems, they have no idea.
Comrade,
I will enquire at Comrade Kandan's house.
Okay comrade.
We have been checking with all the comrades who attended the meeting.
No one seems to know.
We came to check if you knew something.
No comrade. I didn't go.
We couldn't get any information here too comrade.
I have made a mistake comrade.
I shouldn't have left him alone.
Comrade,
please be brave.
He will be alright.
Let's lookout at other places.
Comrade!
A woman has seen some old man getting beat up and...
taken by some of the rice mill men.
How long back?
Just some time back comrade.
Come comrade, let’s check.
Let’s go comrade.
Ask all the comrades to come to the Rice Mill and ask them to bring all the weapons.
Hey!
Bring him up.
Are you scared you are going to die?
I am someone...
who was waiting 35 years for this day.
You cannot scare me with death.
Let me tell you a secret.
To die is more simpler...
than the fear of death.
Keep him buried in the paddy.
He will suffocate and die soon.
Okay sir.
Burn him alive.
No one should even get hold of his body.
Comrade... blood!
Somebody lift him up.
Comrade!..
Slow down, the body is crushed. Don't pull.
Comrade... hold here.
How many of them?
Why...?
How many more lives?
Comrade!
You said you will be careful!
What is this?
Are you taking revenge?
Are you taking revenge,
because I left you?
From now on where will I go if I need anything?
You left me here alone!
Why?
♫ Many men may rule the land ♫
♫ But who will guard us, my dear? ♫
♫ Except for the sky and earth ♫
♫ There are no kin left near ♫
♫ My girl... ♫
♫ Oh my girl… ♫
♫ If you are well-read ♫
♫ Good things will come dear ♫
♫ Your writing should ♫
♫ Relieve us of our worries, dear ♫
♫My girl…♫
Didn't you promise...
to bring him back?
Didn't you promise?
I waited trusting you.
Why did you lose him?
Where will I go now?
♫ The strength to rise ♫
♫ Will come in time ♫
♫ Echoes our villages ♫
From Karuppan to Comrade KK,
we have lost too many lives.
They have no fear in killing the comrades...
who fight for the people.
Because,
they have the support of both state and authority.
They are doing this because they think that
killing our comrades will solve their problems.
They should fear that we will kill ten of their men...
if they touch even one of our comrades.
The first job of People's Army is to annihilate the entire power structure...
that was behind Comrade KK's murder.
Finish the work quick.
Minister is to visit in a day.
Dad...
What happened?
- Shoot him Comrade. - Hey who are you guys?
Dad...
Get inside.
Take the gun.
Dad!
Dad...
Dad!
Dad get up!
If you kill the owner of Sugar Factory, his son won't be quiet.
He will come back as a
stronger enemy than his father.
If you have decided to annihilate,
then finish both of them.
Dad!
Comrade, move... move.
♫ Enough of Tolerance ♫
♫ Rise up now! ♫
Karuppan will live forever!
♫ History will change ♫
♫ Unite together! ♫
♫ Break the shackles, cast them aside ♫
♫ Come forth to break all barriers ♫
♫ Liberation is our goal ♫
♫ Come end our foes ♫
♫ Come rise the flags of victory ♫
♫ In all directions ♫
♫ To trample and destroy the evil down ♫
♫ Enough of Tolerance ♫
♫ Rise up now! ♫
Comrade!
♫ While we have all the fertile lands ♫
♫ What brought the droughts that spanned? ♫
♫ Whilst we dwell on beds of thorns ♫
♫ How many are those flourished farms? ♫
♫ A caste in forward another backward ♫
♫ Who's law was it? ♫
♫ Love is the light lost in plight ♫
♫ Awaited by the humanity ♫
♫ People's army knows no fear ♫
♫ We’ll fight the Red Battle ♫
♫ Victory is the only goal ♫
♫ That forwards our march ♫
♫ May the ideology that destroys evil win over! ♫
♫ Enough of Tolerance ♫
(V/O) At the time, they did not realise,
that murdering the people
who killed KK sir was not a solution
but a dangerous start, mother.
After we started the Annihilation movement,
our party was announced as a banned organisation.
We had to live underground.
Even though we were hunted...
the people supported us.
[RADIO] People’s Army has been banned.
The police force is intensified to capture the culprits,
TA, Moorthy, and Charles, who are absconding.
It was a good meal.
Thank you.
Sir...
(V/O) Whatever less they had,
they shared it with us.
They guarded us and protected us.
Name my child brother.
Viduthalai Selvi!
It's malnutrition.
Eating healthy food will make it alright.
Three days back they took my brother-in-law for enquiry and...
(V/O) They brought to us...
problems that...
they could not solve on their own.
Where are you holding Muthuvel?
- I don't know. - Check inside.
- Comrade, check if they are inside. - Where are the keys?
- I don't have the keys. - Where is it?
Hey Bala, do you remember the route?
Yes sir, but... the path is hidden under the new shrubs.
Brother?
Didn't we pass this route just now?
It can't be.
Bala brother is going ahead..
He knows the path. You come quietly.
But there are shoe prints.
I said come quietly.
Brother! Didn't we already pass this stream?
I said come quietly.
Sir,
there is no path here.
Let's go this way. Go.
Sir,
it is risky to take an unknown path.
Then tell me the known path.
We will go in that.
You don't know right?
Follow.
- Sir he can help us... - Hey come.
Hey! Move it.
Follow everyone who claims to know the path.
Sir,
the couple you saved from the police station
was Tamizharasi's...
Yes, indeed.
They were your Tamizharasi's mother and father.
Even though the Annihilation movement lead us to small victories like this,
it became challenging for us
in engaging as a people's movement.
We had to live underground for many years.
How did your family take it all sir?
All our comrades' families
and friends...
struggled because of this.
Since marriage,
both Mahalakshmi and I...
lived separately most part of our life to work for the movement.
Few days after my marriage, Comrade KK...
- sent me to lead a... - I met Comrade Mahalakshmi in the village.
- land recovery protest. - She has sent you a letter.
To my beloved comrade,
Both me and our child believe that you will win this fight.
Worrying about us
might weaken you.
So need not worry about us.
The doctor has fixed...
14th as the delivery date.
Sir, these are the people who are instigating innocent people to build huts.
Listen,
you are illegally occupying his land.
If you...
don't vacate this place now,
we will have to arrest you all.
This land was given by the government to this people.
He grabbed the lands, using their ignorance.
Sir,
they sold it to us during my grandfather's period.
How can we give it back now?
They've got the mother document.
We will settle it in the court.
We will see you in the court.
Thrash them out of this place sir.
Everyone just sit down.
Please sit down. This is your place.
Sir, this is how they will behave.
You’ve got the police force with you, kick them out of here sir.
Do you think that government is your stooge?
Sir, it's not like that.
You face it legally.
Sir, Sir!
Sir, do something and chase these guys out, please.
Sir!
I will be thinking of you during the delivery.
♫ Each day, your thoughts take hold, ♫
♫ Binding me close, with a grip so bold. ♫
I want you to think of me on 14th.
Yours, Darling.
She has written that delivery is on 14th.
Comrade!
Please go and take care of her comrade.
We will be fine here.
No, I'll be here comrade.
♫ Each day, your thoughts take hold, ♫
♫ Binding me close, with a grip so bold. ♫
♫ Each moment, I am engulfed, ♫
♫ In this snare of memories. ♫
♫ No path leads out, ♫
♫ And within my heartbeat races. ♫
♫ No path leads out, ♫
♫ And within my heartbeat races. ♫
♫ Each day, your thoughts take hold, ♫
♫ Binding me close, with a grip so bold. ♫
The donation, our district committee has received this month is...
Rupees 176 and 38 paise.
Yes.
Party fund to our comrades Mahalakshmi and Perumal
to take care of the baby.
Me and comrade KK...
will not take allowance this month.
- Comrade. - Please sign here comrade.
I don't want it comrade.
It's wages for your labour.
Why are you denying it?
Take it when the party gives you.
(V/O) Because we engaged in the Annihilation movement
after Comrade KK's death, we faced a lot of difficulties
There is an order to arrest all our comrades.
- in our family life. - please leave from here immediately.
Head to Sengulam. I've spoken to one of our comrade.
Are you worried?
Not at all.
I would've worried, if such events had not happened in our life.
♫ From the first time I saw your face, ♫
♫ A song called out, in a haunting trace. ♫
♫ Something unseen drew me near, ♫
Drink this.
Thank you.
- Darling? - Hmm...
Why don't you continue work in the morning?
Just one chapter left, and then I'm off to sleep.
♫ Each sound I heard turned into music clear .♫
♫ My heart was caught in an invisible snare, ♫
♫ Spiraling down, lost in despair. ♫
This is not possible without my partner.
I express my heartfelt thanks to him.
♫ You are singing my song to me. ♫
♫ You are giving my words to me. ♫
Liberation of a generation is adjudged by the...
achievement of women emancipation in that generation.
♫ As the Sparrows of love ♫
♫ Circle over one another, ♫
♫ The sky drizzles down♫
♫ To comfort. ♫
♫ Each day, your thoughts take hold, ♫
♫ Binding me close, with a grip so bold. ♫
♫ Each day, your thoughts take hold, ♫
Why don't you cut your hair short?
I am finding it difficult to comb your long hair.
Oh!
Sweety, have you heard of the story of those who was
adamant to not have long hair, but now made to grow theirs?
Didn't you say "It's your hair. I don't have a say in it."?
Yes, I repeat again.
You decide how you want you hair to be.
I started growing back my hair when I felt...
stronger around you.
But if you ever make me feel weak...
Oh dear comrade...
Why would I ever make you feel weak comrade?
Don't I know the consequences of making you feel weak?
♫ I’ll wait, watching the path you tread, ♫
♫ This breeze makes my heart flutter restless. ♫
Hey!
It's your dad.
♫ This breeze makes my heart flutter restless ♫
♫ Like a flower placed on the doorway, ♫
♫ I long for you and ache for you. ♫
Give it to them.
♫ I am lonely, my heart in shatters, ♫
♫ But your warmth keeps them scatheless. ♫
♫ Does the world spin for us? ♫
♫ Does the day give way to night for us? ♫
♫ As the stars wink, ♫
♫ I ache to nestle close, ♫
♫ And rest with love. ♫
All the other tenants have agreed to the rent hike.
He has asked us to vacate the house if we can't pay the hiked rent.
Do you realise the reality of life?
Let us shift to a small place,
near our children's school.
That will be comfortable for them too.
Thank goodness.
The children are not here to watch their father lie to cope.
Hey!
Come here.
Wait.
What?
The children are not here.
Why are you bathing with your clothes on?
Why?
What if the police comes suddenly?
You want them to arrest me naked?
You are a great leader of the people.
But the way these people are treating you is...
This isn't something new to people like us.
- But why should it be like this? - - All the comrades...
How many people in today's life know...
that from their right to wear sandals,
to put a shawl over their shoulders,
the Sunday holidays,
the festival bonuses...
were made possible by a number of comrades like you
who fought, got beat up,
imprisoned, and even murdered...
by the enemies and those in authority?
Those who are fighting for the people,
are in the hands of the people.
They will never let us down.
Your belief astounds me.
And intrigues me too.
Won't you shut the fuck up?
We are lost and roaming in the forest for the past three hours.
Do we have to put up with your love story too?
Shut it man.
If you talk again,
I'll shoot you at your mouth.
Okay.
The officer has ordered.
I will oblige.
Will not utter a word.
Come.
Hey!
Move it man.
Hey!
Sir...
You are the only one who knows the path of the forest.
Only if you lead us, can we reach the checkpost by night.
How about we all stay here for the night,
and leave at dawn?
Sir...
It would be scary to stay here throughout the night sir.
We can go.
But one of the men here has lied.
- If he tells the truth... - Aren’t you all ashamed?
Begging a criminal to save you?
Where is your police pride now?
Instead of surviving with his help,
I would rather die searching for the path.
Everyone stay here.
One of you come with me.
Till your boss is back..
shall we all sit here?
Being cuffed for so long...
gives me back pain.
- Can you uncuff me for a bit? - No sir.
- You won't? - No.
Hello...
Yes.
Sir!
Press Owner's Association secretary is on the line.
Hello?
Sir, what is this sir?
All of us who did not carry out the news on your word
have now suffered a huge loss, sir.
What has happened?
What happened?
Tamil Seithi is going to carry out Perumal's arrest news with photo sir.
More than that, they are going to release photos of
men and women being tortured naked in the police camp.
It will hit the stands within two hours sir.
None of our paper is going to be sold today.
You've caused us a huge loss sir.
What happened sir?
In Tamil Seithi..
..the news of Perumal's arrest is out.
Moreover,
photos of torture in your camp were also out.
Then, the funds from centre will be...
Who is there?
Sir?
Get Tamizh Seithi as soon as newspapers are out in the morning.
- Driver brother with Vallalar photo! - Sir?
I will ask you a question.
Any one of you can answer.
- You are driving your jeep fast. - Okay sir.
Suddenly the steering gets locked.
Brake and horns doesn't work.
Okay sir.
5 people are working in 100 metres ahead of you.
When you thought there is no way but you are going to crash on the people,
Steering turns slightly left.
- A road goes that way. - Okay sir.
When you are relieved that you can drive that side and save the 5 people,
you notice that one man is working there.
Vehicle is running fast. There is no brake.
On one side, there are 5 people working and on the other, one man.
You can't stop the vehicle.
What will you do?
Hey!
What sort of a question is this?
You just turn left, crash into that one person and keep going.
Why?
What do you mean why?
If it's a matter of saving one person or 5 people, then saving 5 lives is important.
Yes, sir.
What else can be done in that situation?
It is not wrong to let go of one life,
to save five of them.
So...
one person can be sacrificed for the benefit of a home,
one home for the benefit of a street,
one street for the benefit of a village,
one village for the benefit of a country
and you all believe that it is right to think like this?
Yes.
What if that one person was your mother?
If your own child was living in that house?
Or if the person you loved most was living in the street?
Mm?
Isn't it a huge crime to uproot one's life, demolish their livelihood,
their home for the development of the majority of people?
Isn't it?
I don't understand sir.
You are here.
Is it right for someone to determine
where you live, what you eat, what you wear,
who you worship, what language you speak?
It is wrong sir.
Because I say it needs to be changed,
I am here under your protection.
Squad.
Attention.
They have clicked these pictures at a close range.
Couldn't you see it?
Were you sleeping then?
Huh?
Quickly take a good decision.
If we have nothing to say to the leader tomorrow, I will be stripped of my post.
Sir, you don't worry go inside and sit.
I will deal with it.
Sir, I will ensure nothing further happens.
Stop!
You did all this...
and you talk as if you can remedy what has gone wrong?
Do you know what will happen if the boss comes to know
that the funds from the centre are put on hold?
Cool sir.
Don't get worked up.
That is easier said for you.
What is it to you?
The moment he wakes up in the morning...
who will he call after reading the newspaper?
Me!
What do I answer him?
In your democracy of majoritarian electoral politics
many minorities could not get their representation.
If they do not get representation while the laws are passed,
a true balanced development cannot be achieved.
I can understand in parts sir.
You all say one street is expendable for the sake of a village.
Even if it's right, for the sake of the discussion,
we say that that decision should be made by the victim.
Only he could decide if he wants to leave that place or stay.
He could've been living there for 100 years or 200 years why even a 1000 years.
But if he does not want to leave the place,
then no one here has the right to drive him out.
Now I get it sir.
A few years back officials came to our village
and asked everyone there to give their lands for coal mining.
Alright.
They assured jobs to one in each family if they agreed to give the land.
A few agreed to give their lands.
But many disagreed and protested.
Those who protested were beaten and threatened
by the police and their lands were grabbed.
I was a part of that team sir.
In police brutality my father suffered leg disability.
That's when he said I should become a Police Officer and
make sure that no one else will go through what he suffered.
That's why I became a police.
They promised jobs to everyone but offered it only to a few.
Even that is not permanent.
That same day, it was decided by policy...
to not give job to anyone who participated in the protest.
It is this kind of oppression and injustice we are fighting against.
What fight?
Is it killing an innocent police officer?
I understand your anger, brother.
But the one you should be angry..
Kumaresa!
Sir is calling you.
Bring the sickle with you.
Sir, let's talk about how we can handle it.
Do you have any idea?
We can book a criminal case on Ragavendar and arrest him.
That E-company OC sir.
Oh, regarding the civilian firing death...
Yes sir.
Wasn't he the one who burnt the body?
Exactly.
Yes Sir.
Natraj, isn't he related to you?
Yes sir, even if we are related...
I have no objection in arresting him.
Ask them to bring Perumal to the base camp
without making Ragavendar doubt his arrest.
Yes sir. I will do that sir.
Arrest Ragavendar once they are back in the base camp.
I shall do that, sir.
Once boss is up, we will ask him...
and break Perumal's arrest as a big flash news.
You know these evening dailies?
In that...
before they pick the last news...
Put up Ragavendar's arrest news.
Make that into news too.
Okay sir.
Sir?
- Cut all of these down. - Okay sir.
Careful, its slippery in the mist.
This path will not lead you to your destination.
It is bound to end in danger.
Even now I am asking you of only one thing.
Get that liar to admit the truth. I will take you all safely.
You act like you're the judge.
SP Camp Office to E-Company OC sir.
Mic 19 to SP Camp Office.
Sir, you are ordered to bring the big parcel in your hand, back to the base camp.
I can't hear you. Camp Office?
- SP has informed that OC sir will be - Camp Office? I didn't hear what you said.
assigned to an important work on his return.
Hold on to something sir.
Hold on tight!
Here.. here..
Grab the chain.
Sir, grab the chain!
Grab it, grab it.
Sir, grab the chain!
Hey don't look down.
Don't look down you'll get scared.
Grab the chain.
Grab it! Grab the chain man!
Grab the chain, yes. Hold him, go.
Sir hold on to it tightly. Careful.
Grab it.
Sir!
Sir, don't let go!
Leave the grass and grab man!
Don't be scared. Grab it!
Yes, grab it! Grab it.
Sir, Careful.
Hold it tightly sir.
Sir!
It's okay. I've got him! Got him!
- Sir, careful sir. - sir.
Come! Come!
Hold on! Am pulling you up! Come!
Are you holding it tight? Sir, hold on carefully.
Don't let go.
Come up! Am pulling you!
Step on a stone and come up! Come!
Don't be scared. Come up!
I can't pull up on my own. Come up man!
Come up!
Step on a stone and come up man!
Pull!
Come up!
Come Up!
Sir Sir! Don't let go!
Hey!
Sir...
Hold tightly sir. Don't let go.
Careful sir!
Come.. come... You come up.
Sir careful.
Step on it and climb man! Sir, careful sir.
Come up.
Hold it. Move up and hold.
Grab and move up.
Come up!
Come up! Come up!
What did you do in training? Come up man!
Come up.
That's all. That's all.
Hey!
Hey Ragavendar!
Pull it out. Pull out your shirt man!
Go on guys. Why are you blocking the path?
Move up. He will come.
Now that he's come up,
There is no danger. Go on.
Come.
- Hey Kumaresa! - Brother.
He peed himself in fear.
Let it go brother.
They said he was the bravest of all in the company.
Would you uncuff me at least now?
One moment.
- Hey Bala? - Sir.
- Uncuff him. - Okay sir.
Brother, did they call Mentor as 'Parcel' on the mic?
Yes.
Why are they asking us take him back to the base camp?
I am guessing they are trying to finish him off within the camp.
Sir, we have received SP orders on the Mic.
Now, What do we do sir?
All of us reaching safely out of here is only up to you sir.
Please help us.
When you say help...
If you want, I can take you to the basecamp...
or even to the border checkpost.
All I need is just one thing.
Confession.
Whatever it is, say it directly sir.
I don't understand what you mean.
I will admit it.
I was the one who shot Driver Raghu.
Hands up!
Comrade.
Take them and go.
Everyone get down.
Move fast. Move.
Why did you not say it that day itself sir?
They were taking away our prisoners.
And fired from every direction.
(V/O) I didn't, because, If I had said it was a misfire,
we could've lost our motivation to capture them.
- I will take care of him. Go - Sir! Raghu sir...
At that moment I felt that..
the whole team's safety was most important than his one life.
We heard two gun shots.
You said the first shot was a misfire..
Then the second gun shot?
You don't even know how to shoot a gun..
but you call yourself a OC?
Wait till I tell everyone in the company about you and see what I…
What he said at that moment, hurt my ego.
What if I save him..
and he tell everyone about it?
I was terrified.
Bloody Fucker! I will kill you man!
Sir!
Leave me.
Let it go! Brother...
That day, Raghu tried to tell me something.
To stop that this guy has...
Please listen. Leave me.
He shot Raghu to ensure that he wouldn’t reveal anything to us.
Why?
Where has it gone now...
your...
philosophy of 5 lives is bigger than one?
Raghu was a good man sir.
All these days, I was waiting to kill the one who had murdered him.
Murder, if an individual does in the name of revenge,
or an establishment in the name of punishment
or even when movements like us do it for sake of revolution,
is an act of crime.
You killed ten people to take revenge on your Comrade KK's murder.
You are advising me?
(V/O) After we decided the course of Annihilation
as a solution to the people's problems,
even though it gave us few victories,
the loss we suffered was huge.
Against providing the rights to Private corporations to mine mineral resources,
our party decided to make an aggressive bomb blast attack.
Comrade Charles was given...
- the responsibility to make the bomb. - Comrade, did you hear the news?
Comrade!
Comrade please...
- Don't talk about it here unnecessarily. - Careful. Take it slow.
What can't be spoken here?
They have taken comrade Rajesh to look for a bride.
He saw the girl and told her that this is not going to work out for them.
Oh! Why comrade?
We are already engaged with protests, annihilation and underground life...
why bring a girl and trouble her?
Every generation has the same question and
the answer is same for all the questions.
I don't get it comrade.
To my knowledge, all those who asked this question...
are married and settled with children.
There comes my elder one.
Careful, comrade.
Just marry her comrade.
Okay comrade.
Wash your hands and come. Lets eat.
Comrade...
Oh no!
Comrade!
Comrade...
Comrade!
Thank goodness,
you went away when it blasted.
Let us not...
Let us not do this comrade.
We should not lose anyone else.
We should not lose anyone...
We were talking about marriage.
We were laughing just now.
Such mighty men!
With so many dreams!
Did we all worked hard for this?
Everything is lost!
No...
One of the three child lost...
should have been my own kid!
No...
I take responsibility for the accident,
and resign from my leadership position in the party.
Considering the accident that has happened to our comrades,
and the words of Comrade Charles,
let us give up the annihilation movement and...
progress in the alternative path to achieve our goal.
I propose Comrade TA to be the leader of the party.
I second that.
Even before we recovered from that loss,
many of our comrades were hunted down
by the authority for that blast.
Raghu was shot dead.
That's information.
Who shot him?
How did they shoot him?
Why and under what circumstances was he shot?
If you had asked these questions..
you would have realized the truth.
Truth is whole.
An information is merely a truth, twisted, as per one's convenience.
Your police is hunting us down because you've
got one version of the Railway Bridge Bombing.
Now I will give you another one.
(V/O) To counter the activities of the establishment in our country,
against us on our land,
in our right to...
water resources, and our language,
we decided to bomb an important rail route.
We had planted the bomb
just to show our opposition
not to blast it.
Comrade,
you stay here.
We will pass the information and leave.
Okay comrade.
Hello?
Shirt is put on, comrade.
Ah...
It's done.
- Comrade, you take care. - Okay comrade.
Inform the railway police, comrade.
After tipping the railway police about the bomb,
our comrades waited there for an hour.
It's half past an hour. And they aren't here yet.
We are scared, comrade.
You know the usual track checkers on trolleys?
Even they did not come that day.
It could have been a coincidence.
But when they did not come to check even after we tipped them,
we suspected..
that they are planning to allow the bomb to explode deliberately.
We tried to inform them.
When it was just half an hour for the train's arrival..
we realised that they have used our plan against us.
Then you could have defused it right away.
Where are the comrades who planted the bomb?
They've left that place comrade.
But they should be waiting there comrade!
I believed that within an hour officials would dispatch their men, comrade.
That's the mistake TA...
...the mistake we did.
Comrade Vijay, removing the shirt button is your job.
Us?
This is a shirt sewed on a basic fabric.
The thread used to stitch the button has three joints.
Shirt will not be torn, if you don't touch those joints.
See the thread stitched on both sides of the button?
Remove one of that.
That's enough.
Do it patiently.
Any one with calm composure can do this.
But Comrade TA warned them that the bomb will explode if
the wires at the joint are shaken during the process of removal.
They diffused the bomb, without any problem.
But both of them..
missed to notice the connection of the removed wires with the battery.
Bomb went off.
Comrade.. comrade..
ask them to report to the station master that
they heard sound of a bomb blast on the railway bridge.
Hello! Hello?
Yes, Comrade.
Tell me.
Go to the station master...
What happened comrade? What did they say?
They want us to report it to the station master.
Sir, I heard an explosion on the over bridge.
Someone must've fired crackers.
Don't mind it. Leave now.
Sir.
It sounded loud like a quarry explosion, sir.
Did you hear it on the bridge?
Yes sir.
Hello, sir.
This is Senthamangalam station master Mano here sir.
- How are you doing Mano? - Yes I am fine sir.
- Tell me? - A boy rushing from a nearby village has reported of
hearing an explosion by the river railway bridge.
That express will not stop in our station.
Inform the next station.
Hey Mano! Do you want me to lose my job?
Remember the problems I had to face last week for stopping a train on a call tip?
I can't involve.
Hello sir. This is..
Have you got an information about a bomb blast on the bridge?
No one is taking it seriously sir.
Just last week we received 13 similar calls.
Can we stop the train every time we receive such calls?
- Why? - Mano..
If we are going to delay the trains to check the track on the tips we receive,
then who is going to answer the high command?
Don't call up people unnecessarily and confuse them.
That station master, tried his best to prevent the danger.
Comrade!
At the place of accident, our comrades...
worked along with the people.
But they did not have any answer...
for the question if we are the only one who is responsible...
for the accident and life loss.
Is this the truth sir?
Don't you already have a version about the bomb blast?
Now I have given you one more.
You find out the truth from that.
He told me what I asked of him.
Now I have to do what you asked of me right?
Come. Let's go.
(V/O) I understood after listening to him that day,
in the society we live in,
what we should question,
what we should know,
who should we accept,
who should we oppose
is all decided by them.
When I realised, the man who fought and suffered for people like us
was standing there chained among our rifles because of me,
I felt guilty and thought I had done a huge mistake, mother.
Sir!
Forgive me sir.
You have not done any crime to be forgiven Kumaresan.
I didn't know sir.
It is their job to stop you guys from knowing about us.
I will know, only if you tell me what happened sir.
They made me confess that it was me who shot that driver.
Why sir?
There was no other way.
They saw me in a very embarrassing state.
After we reach the camp,
they'll tell everyone.
The company won't respect me anymore.
They are gonna laugh at me.
If all of them give witness against me in Raghu's death enquiry,
then they will arrest me.
(V/O) Everything he said was running on my mind.
Only if we have the jeep, we could get down from the forest.
Sir!
I decided that his life should not be put in danger again because of me, mother.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Kumaresa!
Look out man!
Kumaresa!
Hey Bala! Check on him!
Kumaresa!
Baskar bring some water.
Hey, cover up!
Hey!
Everyone cover OC!
Did you bring us here because your men will be around?
Hey cover up man!
They are firing from both the sides sir.
- Bala, come this side. - Okay sir. Sit.
You are surrounded by a 100 of our armed comrades.
We did not come here to kill you all.
If you send Comrade Perumal along with us...
we will let you all go without any damage.
Everybody take positions.
But!
Go!
If you attack us,
we won't hesitate to counter attack.
I repeat again,
Hundred of us have surrounded..
the ten of you.
We are prepared for everything.
TA! Sir.
Ah.
Fucker.
Hey!
Everyone cover sir.
Sir!
They are firing heavy. Why are you sitting here sir?
Sir,
They will talk ill about you, only if they go down.
Hmm..
Missed it sir.
I'm unable to cock the gun sir.
They have started firing from all the sides sir.
They might finish us off.
Give me your pistol sir.
Give it sir!
Everyone drop your guns and surrender!
Or..
I'll shoot him.
Comrades!
Don't surrender.
They need me alive.
They won't hurt me.
- If you think about shooting me, - Comrade,
- I was thinking... - I'll Shoot him Down.
how to attack without causing any harm to Comrade Perumal.
Now, he himself is calling us near.
Lets go near.
We'll attack at the right moment.
Comrade, ask all other comrades to assemble.
It does not matter to me if he is dead...
or alive.
If you want your Mentor to be alive,
then come out and surrender.
Ask them to put down the rifles.
Everyone bring your guns here.
Hey,
- Keep it here. - Put the rifle down.
Put your hands up and step back.
Go.
Stand in line.
He said hundred of them are here?
All those hiding step out.
Now...
I will give you two minutes.
If you don't come out by then...
I will shoot him.
Every second you delay will endanger his life.
Hey
I will shoot you.
Comrade...
Hands up!
And then, regarding the promotion order...
who is going to replace him?
Sir, Sub-Inspector Ramanujam...
He is a hardworking...
No no it won't workout.
When it comes to this project...
we need to choose someone from the people
for whom the People's Army claim to fight for
that is, the oppressed communities, the minorities.
We need to choose someone from them...
who has good service records...
and should be made to lead this operation.
Sir this Anwar who handled the Coimbatore gas cylinder blast case?
- Yea, he may work. - Sir?
- Not him sir. - I feel so sir.
Why?
He won't listen to anyone. He only does what he feels is right.
It will be difficult to deal with him, sir.
Who else then?
Sir!
May I?
Speak.
Amudan.
He is a Sub-Inspector in the same company.
The boys in the company respect him a lot.
You know his statement was against the OC.
So he was forcibly sent to arms training.
- The good thing is he is part of the same... - Yeah
I got it.
We can have him as OC...
it'll boost the boys' morale in a big way.
He talks about union and things...
but still he is a good cop.
First thing in the morning, call him.
Violence is not our language.
But we can speak that language too.
We can only answer in the language
you choose to speak with us.
We are sending you alive...
clearly knowing that if you go to the base, there will be a thousand men...
after us before dawn.
Our answer to the officials branding us as terrorists for fighting for the people...
...is in sending you all alive.
I spoke a lot during this journey.
I have raised a lot of questions to you.
Think about it.
Bala,
For your protection.
Comrade,
Take their walkie-talkies and transmitters.
Bala!
Give me the gun.
Why?
I said, give me the gun!
Listen to me! Don't! Sir no sir.
Comrade! Comrade!
Comrade! Hold him.
What do you think you are doing?
Let go of me.
All this trouble is because of handing them the gun.
We have got only one revolver.
Don't waste the rounds firing at the forest sir.
Are you out of your mind sir?
What if they come back and hurt us?
Do you wish for everyone to die?
We should not spare any of them.
Comrade...
We should not allow,
a misfired bullet...
to change the course of history.
Jungle Warfare!
The most important thing in this is...
your fitness.
Because,
one and a half kilometer in the forest...
within an hour,carrying a...
rifle,
and your backpack.
You have to build the fitness to mount with it.
If we are chasing or pursuing a terrorist at a plain land..
we will have an approximate visibility of seven hundred meter to one kilometer
When we fire more...
Once we run out of ammunition, refill can be taken only from the back of the vehicle.
In the forest surroundings, no one will bring ammunition to you.
The pistol in your hand is your only protection.
So, in such situations..
You have to aim to shoot. And shoot to kill.
The fight you put in the forest,
will give you a courage that no one is present to monitor you.
You will be the boss of that area.
But if you use that to..
engage in torturing or violating the human rights of the local people..
the government will keep watching you.
If you make a mistake, you will lose your life.
Always treat them with dignity. No human rights violation.
- Jai hind sir! - Jai Hind
SP sir is calling for Amudan sir.
Jai hind sir!
No sir. I have discussed with them already.
They will not stop the funds from the centre.
As agreed,
we will receive it in another 3 days.
I am guessing this is good for us sir.
And because we have made a public announcement of his arrest...
those in the opposition parties...
can never claim that...
we went out of law to make this arrest sir.
And that's a...
- very big plus point for us sir. - Natraj?
- Yes sir. - You look very tired.
- Go fresh up. - After all this sir.
It will be right if we release an official statement on...
Perumal's arrest sir.
[RADIO] The Chief Minister, in his official statement says...
that Perumal is placed under high security.
Perumal's arrest has led to celebrations not
just in Arumapuri but also across the state and
that felicitations are pouring down to
the Chief Minister and the Police force reports.
They've released this news without realising
that we've rescued you from their police.
It's going to cause huge embarrassment to the system.
This is going to turn into a problem for us comrade.
Because they will do everything in their power to make the published news true.
To try and stop us from leaving the forest,
they will gather a huge battalion in this mountain.
If we split in to smaller groups...
we might be able to escape.
Even if few of us are captured...
the rest will escape out of here,
continue our movement's work.
Sir, E-Company's OC is on the mic.
Tell me Ragavendar.
Sir...
Members of People's Army...
attacked our checkpost sir.
Is the parcel safe?
Parcel...
is missed sir.
What the fuck is happening, man?
What is going on here?
We've just told him about the arrest
and that everything is under control.
What do I tell him now?
When did this happen man?
About 3 hours back sir.
Why didn't you inform us right away?
We could've avoided this embarrassment if you had informed us earlier.
They took away all the arms and communication devices from there sir.
We walked down 3 hours to give you this information sir.
Now...
Are there any officers in your department who has the experience of
successfully handling a similar problem in this forest?
Sir, DSP Deenadayalan.
- Gudaloor. - Yes, sir.
It will take 24 hours for him to take charge.
- Until then this Amudan... Is he coming? - Yes sir.
Will he able to hold the fort until Deenadayalan comes and takes charge?
- He is quite capable sir. - You sure?
I'm sure sir.
Every single one of us here would've..
crossed hurdles to wear this khaki uniform.
From my personal experience,
I know that we've all crossed humiliations,
to stand up here as police men.
Your history and reports are impressive.
Thank you, sir.
Now, I am going to give you a greater responsibility.
Hmm?
Your faith will not go in vain sir.
From my experience of monitoring the forest...
and their activities in it, I guess...
that because of this fog,
they could climb down..
only through the Elephant ridge.
You are promoted as Officer-in-Charge of the E-Company.
Thank you, sir.
Arrest Ragavendar and take him under custody.
Didn't he send you to training for giving..
- a statement against him in my enquiry? - I will give that power to you now.
Deenadayalan DSP will take charge tomorrow.
You hold the fort until then.
Perumal and his men should not descend those mountains.
Remember one thing,
whatever happens to us on our attempt to stop them,
If we lose, it's life.
If we win, it's history.
Do a fine job with this. Alright?
I'll ensure you have a great career.
Will certainly do, sir.
It's a proud moment to all of us,
that you've come back as our company OC.
- Hey Kumaresa! - Brother?
I can hear the sound of boots.
Sir...
Why are you here?
Photos of your torture of the village people in the camp got released.
They have suspended you.
I am the OC of E-Company now.
- Kumaresa? - Sir.
Didn't you want a rifle for so long?
- Yes sir. - Take it.
Hey.
(V/O) While standing there with the rifle in my hand,
it felt like I was doing something wrong, mother.
But I won't arrest you in front of our boys.
You too have worked hard to capture Perumal.
First, let's get him. We'll figure the rest later.
We are making people understand ethnic consciousness..
and the need for Ethnic Nationalism.
That goes against their dream.
Even though we are a small group today..
they know very well..
of the greater impact our ideology will have tomorrow.
Comrade!
The villagers are signalling the police's arrival through smoke.
We'll block them, comrade.
You take Comrade Perumal and cross the state border via Kadamangalam.
No one should rise until I order.
Come up... Come up.
They are firing from both the sides sir.
No one should fire until I order.
Fog gives them huge advantage.
Don't rise until I say so.
No police life should be lost anymore.
Sir...
They are firing from behind the rock sir.
Yes.
You fire from here and divert them sir.
I will move this way towards the rock.
Okay, go.
Hey... Shoot!
Who do I shoot sir?
Why should I shoot?
Hey!
Baskar is moving forward, trusting we will back him up.
Fire now!
(V/O) Who gave us the rifles
to save who from whom was the question...
that was running on my mind at that time.
Comrade.
Henceforth, only well trained comrades will have the arms.
Take back arms from the rest.
Do you have warrant?
Sir will ask couple of questions. Just answer and go sir.
If you had questions, I am on my way to the court..
- You could've asked me there. - Don't you know?
These are just formalities sir.
- Why are you taking him? - As usual dear.
Stop.
Q-branch Rangan has arrested and taking me.
Give this information to the the bar council,
and inform the Magistrate too.
Sir...
We've arrested the advocate.
That reporter's bus, coming in from Madras, has been identified sir.
Everyone be quiet. Its police.
Pavel? Are you reporter Pavel from Tamil Seithi?
Yes. Who are you?
Come, we need to enquire.
Sir, I am from the Press.
I know. Come man. Say that to the officials.
Sir, I said I am from Press. Why are you taking me like an accused?
Come quietly.
- Sir, who are you? Take your hands off me. - Hey get on the vehicle.
Sir, talk to my advocate first.
I know where you are taking me and what you will enquire.
I am not public. I am a journalist.
You can't threaten me.
What I did was my job.
You can all hear what I say.
With a full battalion we've surrounded every one of your forest routes.
Everyone of your men are arrested.
You can't get any help...
in this forest anymore.
If you think of fighting with us..
not one of you will leave alive from this forest.
You cannot move even an inch down from this mountain.
You have no option...
other than surrender.
I repeat,
the only choice you have is to...
surrender with all your weapons.
- Government is ready to negotiate with you. - Comrade... Comrade...
Comrade...
Why did you come here?
necessary medical support to every single one of your..
- wounded men. - Please be safe until this attack ends comrade.
With the arms we have in hands now...
we can neither stop or win them, comrade.
We might not have as much arms as they have comrade.
But don't we have the advantage of this forest and fog?
Because of their over confidence of having outnumbered arms...
police are falling into the trap our comrades have set up.
I repeat,
we have surrounded you,
with one full battalion.
Surrender now.
Hey give me a rifle! Give me a rifle!
For those who tried to propagate against us...
using the rail bridge bomb blast,
the release of the torture photos from their police camps..
and you rescuing me after their announcement of my arrest
has caused a major setback.
The press are questioning them.
To escape from those questions..
and to equate their mistake...
they are trying to find a scapegoat.
Take away Comrade Perumal from here.
Comrade Suresh you are hurt but you are talking about me?
It's safe to retreat.
- Comrade first check on him. - They will handle it comrade.
Police have breached Kadamangalam.
We'll climb the Northern side of the mountain,
through Selliyamman temple and cross the state border comrade.
Sir.
Our Baskar sir.
There is no face.
I could identify only with the number.
Hey!
Make them kneel down!
Kneel down!
Hey.
Kneel!
Did we build this movement to sacrifice all these youngsters?
This is wrong comrade!
Comrade...
This isn't the time to discuss it, Comrade.
We will talk about it later.
First, we should go to a safer place.
No, Comrade.
We should take a decision now!
If we are ready to give them the person they need...
We can't decide that now, comrade.
the people will be relieved from harassment for a while.
Using that situation...
we too can change our forms of resistance.
Sir!
Revolver will not have the range, sir.
Use 303 to fire sir.
Are you experienced enough to hit a superior?
Hey!
Kumaresa!
If you are a superior..
should we tolerate everything you do?
What are you doing?
Let him go!
Superior, man.
Hey!
Sir... sir...
Hey!
Hey Bala!
- Kumaresa! - Hold him back.
Hey... hey!
Let him go!
Why are you doing this?
- Let go! - Let go!
- You should be dead. - Let him go!
Sir...Sir
Sir... leave me sir.
Sir... he is a wrong man sir.
He should die sir.
Kumaresa! Kumaresa!
Stop it.
Sir...
Sir, he tried to kill Velmurugan sir with the rifle.
I said stop.
I keep repeating. Why are you doing like this?
Yesterday I saw Muthu's body sir.
He was shot with a revolver.
Now, Baskar sir.
Just last night he confessed to killing our driver Raghu sir.
Now he is trying to kill the rest of us all sir.
You can take that revolver and check it for yourself sir.
Yesterday it was Muthu sir.
After that a round in the forest sir.
And now it's Baskar sir.
Totally three rounds sir.
You check it yourself sir.
Check it sir.
Give me your revolver.
You suspect me on a PC's word?
I said give me your revolver.
I should've killed you yesterday.
It was a mistake letting you live.
Hey Bala! Bala!
If I had killed him..
They are compelled to produce me in their courts.
Because,
They have officially confirmed my arrest.
Let us allow them to arrest me.
Let them take me to the court.
We will talk our politics there.
We cannot accept this comrade.
We will save you even with our lives.
Comrade!
Did we...
Did we fight all these years for you all to die like this?
You should live comrade.
What can we do on our own without leaders to guide us comrade?
We have talked about this many times.
To lead ideology is more important than individuals.
If you have the right ideology..
A leader will come up from your own generation.
Leaders without ideology..
will only produce fans.
That will not pave way to progress.
We believe we have not done that mistake.
Will you kill everyone to hide your humiliation?
Hey...
Sir.
Right now, he is not our enemy.
He is up there.
Every second we waste here on this...
will kill one of our men out there.
Let's first finish him off...
and then come to this.
Handcuff him and get him in the jeep.
As governments across the world gets close to each other...
time and labour of the people are going to be...
commodified and exploited at unprecedented levels, without their knowledge.
In order to face that, our forms of struggle should change.
Henceforth, every movement we take forth for the people...
will have the people at the frontlines.
If we want to shatter their superstition that individuals...
will solve their problems,
then there should be no arms in our hands to fight for them.
The people should choose their weapons,
from their own struggles.
And that weapon could even be the vote they cast.
To train and politicise people towards that...
would be the only...
work of People's Army henceforth.
We have the greatest ideology...
and the biggest dream.
We all must march towards it.
We should never give that up for any individual.
Today,
Keeping in my mind the future of every single one of you here...
I have decided to surrender.
It will give enough time for our comrades to escape from here.
The end of a generation will be
the beginning of the next one.
Comrade!
Don't do this comrade.
Stop firing.
Bala...
See who that is.
It's Mentor sir.
Cease fire!
Until I give orders, no one should fire.
Did you hear me?
Not even a single bullet should be fired without my order!
OC sir's order! Everyone come back to the start point. OC sir's order!
Fire!
Kumaresa.. What are you watching?
Fire!
Bala...
Both of you should shoot him now!
Shoot him!
Will you do something for me?
What is it?
What if the police arrest me and kill me?
Don't talk like a fool.
Wait...
Listen to me.
Why did the authorities not take interest...
in finding my real identity for 25 years?
In that case, they would've arrested me, hanged me up.
They could've killed me under police custody.
Without identity I was able to be a Karuppan,
Vel Murugan, Nagaraj, Robert, Mentor...
and for the journalists as a Ghost.
But from recent activities...
it looks like they will be compelled to capture Mentor Perumal.
May be if I die...
and if you claim my body,
they will talk only about who is Perumal, who is his family,
how were they living and what will be their future
and my death will become a matter of one family's grief.
If you did not claim my body,
then the dialogue will revolve around who we fought against, who we fought for...
and my death will become a identity of an ideology.
Over the years, both of us...
for our ideology,
have given up many things that a normal family life demands.
I did all that whole heartedly.
But,
what you are asking now for the same ideology is...
Why should I be the one who is always giving everything up?
It hurts.
But,
I understand what you say is right.
With a profound pain and grief that you can't understand,
I accept this.
My sweet heart.
Hey!
Hey.. open the door.
Sir, please wait. Can't keep inside and close the door.
Will remove the door sir.
Remove it.
Quick!
Yes coming, sir.
Hey...Hey
Hold tight! Lift up!
Hey!
Can't you even hold a corpse?
Sorry sir. It got slippery.
E-Company OC to Mic 11 sir.
It's a success sir.
Mm...
What do you mean by success?
Sir, I have disposed of the parcel that went missing from us.
Who asked you to?
There's no other way, sir.
Will come on phone line sir.
- He messed up, sir. - Oh shit!
Now I have to tell a new story to the Super Boss.
He was a good man sir.
It doesn't matter to us if he is a good or bad man.
He is an anti-national who worked against the government.
A criminal by law.
I shot him and he died. That's all.
Don't fret over it. Let it go.
For all the hardship from childhood to up until now...
we've succeeded today, Bala.
If we don't shoot him, a Deenadayalan from somewhere
will come and take the credits for capturing him.
Those of us who risked so much at the job would be watching it.
Tomorrow, when history mentions the name Perumal...
it will include my name, Amudan, as the one who shot him.
From now on, no one can even think of dismissing me.
To come to power...
we need to do such things go climb up the ladder.
Even I've become an SI after going through shame and humiliation like you sir.
Don't generalise that oppressed people...
can come to power only by doing such works sir.
You say that because you lack morality.
You've shot a man who came to surrender at point-blank range.
How did you have the heart to do this sir?
If what they did is wrong and murder...
what about what this guy has done sir?
He has shot and killed our policemen who worked with us.
But this guy deserves to be arrested and investigated?
Are you guarding him because he belongs to a particular community?
Hey... Stop the jeep.
Stop the damn jeep!
They've shot the police men who were with you..
that didn't stir your conscience.
Their families are going to be on the roads..
even that didn't stir your conscience.
But it bothers you that I shot a man who came to surrender, at point-blank range?
Like he is some martyr...
shooting him makes you angry?
I give orders to fire and you both stand there and watch?
Who are you working for?
First an enquiry should be ordered on you both.
Get the damn down!
Thank you sir.
Fall in those guys,
check the right count and bring them back.
Let me see if you can do even that job right.
Give Fall in.
Fall in!
Sir, if we hide that we killed Perumal and say that he escaped,
even though it might be an embarrassment to our government for a short period,
in the long run,
it will be beneficial to us sir.
If another leader,
rise up somewhere,
we can...
say that Perumal is alive and...
stir up a rumour sir.
People will get confused in this.
And after six months,
we can say that Perumal had a family,
or that his son is alive,
why even his wife is alive and...
we can keep fabricating this news sir.
If we make the people believe that the Mentor
is going to come now or then and make them wait,
real leaders will not come for them sir.
I got him just on the first day of my arrival.
Time favours us.
The sufferings I've endured in the forest all these days..
has finally paid off.
Everyone who was a part of this operation will definitely get promotion.
It won't be surprising even if the government builds us houses.
I am extremely happy that this happened under my command.
♪ Singing a Tamil song ♪
Hey Hey Hey!!!
Hey!
Kumaresa!
Hey..
Take reverse man.
Hey!
It's going to drop down, Kumaresa.
Hey!
Is there any problem?
Are you angry at me?
Say something!
What are you looking at?
Hey!
With some grudge..
he keeps trying to get us all killed.
They said you are the bloody expert in driving over the mountains?!
Take the vehicle back dammit.
Move it.
Kumaresa..
what are you doing?
Hey..
Don't step out. Take the vehicle back.
- Where are you going? - Why did you turn off the jeep?
Kumaresa.. don't step out.
Don't step out..
Sir, sir!
Sit on that side of the jeep.
He is going to take us down. I am scared sir.
First you shift to this side sir.
Kumaresa.. Take the vehicle back some how man.
Hey...
Kumaresa.. I've suffered a lot..
Hey!!
to come here man.
Kumaresa.. Please get in the jeep.
Didn't I fight for you all in the Company?
If I come to power tomorrow, I will lend my support...
Hey Kumaresa! Come here! Where are you going?
Hey come and take the vehicle back.
Kumaresa, what happened?
- Watch it, you will never become a police. - Kumaresa!
What are you doing?
Kumaresa!
What has happened?
Hey start the vehicle! Superiors are here!
Start the vehicle.
- Where are you going? - Hey Kumaresa!
Bala, call him!
Hey Kumaresa! Where are you going? Hey!
- Kumaresa! - Hey!!!
Sit! Sit!
Hey Bala! Just sit!
Sit there! Sit there, Bala.
Don't step out because you can man!
Stay still.. Stay still. Vehicle will topple down.
Mic...
Check if the mic is working.
Hey! Where are you going leaving us like this?
Kumaresa!
Hey!
- Mic 3? - What did I do man?
Hey!
Amudan sir!
Don't move sir.
Kumaresa, I will strip you off your uniform when I come out.
Kumaresa!
Why are you leaving us like this?
If I come out, I will really rip you off your uniform.
Kumaresa! Come back and start the vehicle.
(V/O) He said it on that day itself mother.
Those in power,
will write his own story as history.
And our histories..
are not even written as stories.
Sit still.
Our boys will be here soon.
Will the jeep stay on till the boys get here?
(V/O) And like he said,
till today,
they did not make
any announcement regarding
Comrade Perumal's death.
One day authority will be in the hands of the people.
He said, until then,
we should tell our history as stories.
The stories we grew up with
builds every generation.
You tell all this as stories to my sister's kids
when you feed them, mother.
And they will pass it to others.
Until we write our history,
we should keep telling our stories, mother.
I have sent you a money order with all the money I had.
Take care of your health.
Eat on time.
If I don't come to see you after this...
if you didn't get any letter or hear from me again..
then know that your son lived a useful life..
serving people who suffered..
and died, mother.
Yours,
loving son, Kumaresan.