WEBVTT 03:37.503 --> 03:39.837 "'Would anyone give their life for a language', you ask?" 03:40.587 --> 03:43.003 "Languages aren't just sounds and alphabets." 03:43.128 --> 03:44.628 "It is the breath of a race." 03:45.212 --> 03:46.212 "It is an identity." 03:46.712 --> 03:51.128 "England obliterated the Gaelic language when they occupied and enslaved Scotland." 03:51.253 --> 03:54.878 "The day Mikhail Gorbachev decreed Russian to be the sole language for all..." 03:55.003 --> 03:57.837 "...there was heavy resistance in the Soviet Union." 03:57.962 --> 04:03.045 "The day Jinnah imposed Urdu as the sole language in East and West Pakistan..." 04:03.170 --> 04:05.753 "...people began demanding their rights." 04:06.462 --> 04:10.378 "This brand of fanaticism took root in India for the first time in 1918." 04:11.170 --> 04:13.462 "By claiming English to be an oppressor's language..." 04:13.587 --> 04:17.628 "...the Indian leaders up north decided everyone must speak Hindi." 04:17.753 --> 04:22.378 "They proceeded to covertly and overtly implement this imposition." 04:23.087 --> 04:25.378 "Those who resisted this change were arrested en masse." 04:25.503 --> 04:28.087 "They were assaulted and tortured." 04:28.503 --> 04:30.462 "When fear arose about the Hindi imposition..." 04:30.587 --> 04:33.753 "...leaving the studies, jobs, and lives of many in dire straits..." 04:33.878 --> 04:36.837 "When it was believed there were none left to rally against this..." 04:36.962 --> 04:39.545 "...an army rose up to protect their mother tongue." 04:39.670 --> 04:41.920 "A army of students that knew no fear." 04:42.545 --> 04:43.920 "The Puranaanooru Squad." 05:19.628 --> 05:23.878 He was part of the very first batch trained in espionage by Russia's KGB, sir. 05:24.003 --> 05:26.295 One of the finest and sharpest officers we have. 05:26.837 --> 05:28.545 Officer Thiru. Thirunadan. 05:30.003 --> 05:31.045 KGB, huh? 05:31.170 --> 05:32.253 You must be brilliant. 05:33.295 --> 05:35.003 I am what I am. 05:37.920 --> 05:39.545 Who is that arrogant prick? 05:39.962 --> 05:42.003 Sir! Ibrahim Kamal, IPS. 05:42.128 --> 05:43.295 Madras Liaison Officer. 05:43.420 --> 05:44.503 At your service, sir. 05:44.628 --> 05:45.878 Just got on at the last station. 06:00.545 --> 06:01.545 Sir? 06:17.295 --> 06:19.170 Don't, Chezhiya! Fall back! 06:19.295 --> 06:20.795 Should we die for a language? 06:20.920 --> 06:23.045 Then what? Should we keep bowing to them for life? 06:23.170 --> 06:25.003 We must strike back! We must create history! 06:25.628 --> 06:28.295 We're fighting for your language too, Govind! 06:28.420 --> 06:30.378 Join us if you want! If you're scared, run away! 06:30.503 --> 06:32.087 You'll die! Please listen to me! 06:32.212 --> 06:33.378 Back away! - Chezhiya! 06:33.503 --> 06:35.795 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 06:35.920 --> 06:38.878 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 06:39.003 --> 06:40.462 'Ours is a great army' 06:41.462 --> 06:43.670 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 06:43.795 --> 06:45.253 Ibrahim! - Yes, sir? 06:45.378 --> 06:47.462 Make sure all three VIP coaches are protected! 06:47.920 --> 06:50.837 'Bring your hands together and bolster the army' 06:50.962 --> 06:53.795 'Fall as a seed and make the world bloom' 06:53.920 --> 06:56.378 'Ours is a great army' 06:56.503 --> 06:58.170 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 07:01.920 --> 07:03.003 There are too many of them. 07:03.670 --> 07:04.920 Never mind the protestors. 07:05.712 --> 07:06.878 Protect the ministers. 07:07.003 --> 07:08.253 Okay, sir. Come on! 07:11.670 --> 07:14.545 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 07:14.670 --> 07:17.753 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 07:17.878 --> 07:19.295 'Ours is a great army' 07:19.795 --> 07:21.212 Come on! - 'Ours is a great army' 07:21.337 --> 07:22.378 Hurry! 07:22.503 --> 07:23.712 Make it fast! 07:28.670 --> 07:29.670 (Let justice prevail) 07:33.253 --> 07:34.878 Get everyone out, Major! 07:35.003 --> 07:37.837 Nobody must remain in the compartment! This is Major's order! 07:37.962 --> 07:40.212 (Telugu) "Major"? He didn't clear the last selection! 07:40.337 --> 07:42.878 (Telugu) Just a "Minor!" - You'll salute this Major one day! 07:43.003 --> 07:44.337 Nobody panic! Leave calmly! 07:44.462 --> 07:45.503 (Malayalam) Go quickly! 07:46.253 --> 07:47.378 (Bengali) Careful! 07:47.837 --> 07:48.837 Get going! 07:49.503 --> 07:50.753 Come along, I say! 07:50.878 --> 07:52.295 Come on! - (Hindi) Let go of my hand! 07:52.420 --> 07:54.253 Hold on! - (Hindi) Don't be scared! 07:54.378 --> 07:55.545 You needn't be afraid! 07:55.670 --> 07:57.253 You needn't be afraid, ma'am! We're... 07:58.253 --> 08:00.087 We're only fighting the imposition of Hindi! 08:00.212 --> 08:02.003 We're not against Hindi or its speakers! 08:04.170 --> 08:05.587 Please don't cry. Don't be afraid. 08:07.628 --> 08:08.712 Tell me what I need to do. 08:10.003 --> 08:12.545 Get them out of here safely, Govind. 08:17.837 --> 08:20.587 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 08:22.128 --> 08:23.795 Go to Madurai and lay low at home, Govind. 08:23.920 --> 08:25.337 I'll send word! Come later! - Okay! 08:25.462 --> 08:28.045 Ensure he leaves safe! I'll check if there's anyone left behind! 08:30.337 --> 08:31.337 Sir! 08:32.837 --> 08:35.503 'Bring your hands together and bolster the army' 08:36.295 --> 08:37.295 (Let justice prevail) 08:37.420 --> 08:39.045 'Fall as a seed and make the world bloom' 08:39.170 --> 08:40.587 'Ours is a great army' 08:41.087 --> 08:42.712 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 08:42.837 --> 08:44.795 Govind's left, hasn't he? - He left with Aavudai! 08:44.920 --> 08:47.003 Hurry! No one should get caught by the police! 09:40.128 --> 09:43.628 Long Live the Prime Minister! 09:43.753 --> 09:46.462 I proudly welcome the citizens of Madurai who are here today... 09:46.587 --> 09:48.587 ...for the inauguration of the Gandhi Memorial! 09:48.712 --> 09:51.795 Our beloved Prime Minister has arrived! 09:51.920 --> 09:53.045 Welcome, sir. Make way! 09:56.795 --> 09:57.795 (Hindi) Who did this? 09:58.962 --> 10:01.378 Hooligans from the opposition. We'll get them. 10:01.503 --> 10:03.128 No one to beat them, sir! Top class work! 10:03.837 --> 10:06.628 The fire was made by people who know chemistry. It spreads fast! 10:07.128 --> 10:09.878 They've planned their next moves thoroughly. 10:11.003 --> 10:13.962 They stopped the train between two stations so they'd have an easy escape. 10:14.087 --> 10:16.295 They wrapped it up in just six minutes and took off. 10:17.295 --> 10:18.295 Tamil fanatics, huh? 10:18.420 --> 10:19.503 Not exactly. 10:19.628 --> 10:22.712 Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi speaking students! 10:22.837 --> 10:23.878 About twenty in all! 10:25.170 --> 10:26.670 I think it's a student movement, sir. 10:27.503 --> 10:28.628 Spread across the country. 10:29.170 --> 10:32.670 Mr. Prime Minister, this act seems to be for political gain. 10:33.712 --> 10:34.795 Wait outside, Thiru. 10:35.795 --> 10:36.795 Thiru? 10:40.253 --> 10:41.295 Sir... 10:41.420 --> 10:44.170 There were railway job openings listed in Hindi newspapers. 10:44.295 --> 10:45.670 But not in the Tamil ones. 10:45.795 --> 10:47.253 This is what provoked the students. 10:47.378 --> 10:48.628 So, they burned the train. 10:48.753 --> 10:50.087 This is purely reactionary. 10:51.128 --> 10:52.128 But, sir... 10:53.295 --> 10:54.545 We must hunt them down! 10:55.128 --> 10:56.378 They should be eradicated. 10:57.045 --> 10:58.045 No. 10:58.170 --> 11:00.587 This issue can't be solved with violence. 11:01.462 --> 11:03.337 It shouldn't give rise to more dissenters. 11:04.212 --> 11:07.962 I want this incident to be depicted as nothing but a fire accident. 11:08.087 --> 11:09.087 Understood? 11:12.378 --> 11:13.378 Thiru! 11:16.628 --> 11:18.253 (Sanskrit) "Alertness Every Moment". 11:18.753 --> 11:19.753 Always alert. 11:20.753 --> 11:22.045 That's the IB's motto, right? 11:24.045 --> 11:27.753 Did someone steal your revolver, or did you give it away to your comrades? 11:28.920 --> 11:29.920 (Hindi) Hold up! 11:30.628 --> 11:31.795 How can you fire it... 11:32.462 --> 11:35.337 ...when the Tamil blood of your father runs in your veins? 11:35.753 --> 11:37.337 You're not just any misbegot. 11:37.462 --> 11:38.962 You are a Madrasi misbegot. 11:43.503 --> 11:45.628 You have an accurate summary of my blood report. 11:46.712 --> 11:48.712 Had you been as thorough with the ground report... 11:48.837 --> 11:51.337 ...we could've avoided all this, Chief of Intelligence. 11:51.920 --> 11:54.003 You're the one who gave the false report, wasn't it? 11:54.420 --> 11:55.420 This isn't over! 11:55.545 --> 11:57.753 You'll face an enquiry for this! You will pay for this! 12:01.337 --> 12:02.628 "It has come to my attention..." 12:02.753 --> 12:05.253 ...that my brethren from the Southern states... 12:06.128 --> 12:09.545 "...are troubled by the Official Languages Act." 12:09.962 --> 12:11.920 "Should they be forced to only speak in Hindi..." 12:12.045 --> 12:14.753 "...in official correspondence with the government..." 12:15.170 --> 12:17.878 ...I understand the fear of those in non-Hindi speaking regions... 12:18.003 --> 12:21.962 "...of being denied access to welfare schemes..." 12:22.087 --> 12:24.045 ...and opportunities they rightfully deserve. 12:24.962 --> 12:28.753 "I truly comprehend and sympathize with your emotions." 12:28.878 --> 12:31.087 "Until all non-Hindi speaking states..." 12:31.212 --> 12:35.253 "...give their unanimous consent to accept Hindi as the official language..." 12:35.378 --> 12:40.253 "...I pledge that English shall continue to be an official language until 1965." 12:40.378 --> 12:41.378 "And will remain so..." 12:41.503 --> 12:43.712 ...even beyond that. You have my word. 12:46.253 --> 12:47.462 Tamilarasan! - Present, sir! 12:47.587 --> 12:49.378 'She, who is as sweet as Tamil...' - Muthiah! 12:49.503 --> 12:51.503 You heard the song! A fight fete is about to start! 12:51.628 --> 12:53.462 'She, who is like a flowering vine...' 12:53.587 --> 12:56.628 'She, who is like a flowering vine that smiles like the moon' 12:59.170 --> 13:01.920 'With her honey lips, she will endow the essence of life' 13:02.045 --> 13:04.337 'As you savor it drop by drop, she will bend her head shyly' 13:07.087 --> 13:09.503 'She, who is as sweet as Tamil...' 13:09.628 --> 13:12.712 'She, who is like a flowering vine that smiles like the moon' 13:12.837 --> 13:16.753 'She, who is like a flowering vine that smiles like the moon' 13:18.795 --> 13:20.503 Freedom! Isn't that what we want? 13:20.628 --> 13:21.628 Yes! 13:22.420 --> 13:23.712 One can have love for a language! 13:23.837 --> 13:26.045 But what you are possessed by is language fanaticism! 13:26.462 --> 13:28.753 We see Tamil only as a language, sir! 13:28.878 --> 13:30.628 They're the ones turning it to fanaticism. 13:30.753 --> 13:34.670 Think we'll let trains enter our town when railway jobs aren't listed in Tamil papers? 13:34.795 --> 13:36.962 When none of us can get those jobs, how can we permit it? 13:37.087 --> 13:38.087 How can we? 13:38.212 --> 13:39.212 We won't! 13:39.337 --> 13:41.128 Never mind! Such ads used to come in English! 13:41.253 --> 13:42.920 We only asked why they were discontinued! 13:43.045 --> 13:45.462 English is an alien language. 13:45.587 --> 13:47.753 To us, everything but Tamil is an alien language! 13:48.462 --> 13:50.670 Isn't Hindi an alien language in many states? 13:50.795 --> 13:53.462 With English, you can talk to anyone in the world, Mr. Principal! 13:55.045 --> 13:57.670 Why are you getting mixed up with these kids, Mr. Tamil Professor? 13:57.795 --> 14:01.378 Wouldn't it be helpful to the government, if we all speak the same language? 14:01.503 --> 14:03.003 For national unity, right? 14:04.253 --> 14:05.253 Mr. Principal! 14:05.837 --> 14:08.003 We were united when we sent the British packing! 14:08.128 --> 14:09.920 Were we all speaking the same language then? 14:10.045 --> 14:11.087 No! 14:11.212 --> 14:12.628 Answer Chezhiyan, sir! 14:12.753 --> 14:15.045 No matter how he protests, he's still the college topper! 14:15.170 --> 14:17.253 These guys are Delhi politicians! 14:17.378 --> 14:19.753 That's their vow for now. Don't trust them. 14:19.878 --> 14:22.670 If they break their vow, their domain will be torched next! 14:23.462 --> 14:24.962 The vow of the students! 14:25.087 --> 14:27.045 We always walk the talk! 14:27.170 --> 14:28.753 Yes, we will! - Good grief... 14:28.878 --> 14:30.212 Yes, we will! 14:30.337 --> 14:31.837 Can I carry that for you, sir? 14:33.712 --> 14:34.712 Move aside! 14:34.837 --> 14:37.962 Mr. Principal doesn't need English, but only needs English cars! 14:46.587 --> 14:47.878 'The time is ours...' 14:49.378 --> 14:50.753 'With the speed of fire' 14:52.503 --> 14:55.295 'Unhating courage... Worthy sacrifice...' 14:55.420 --> 14:56.837 'Let's stand for our language' 15:00.045 --> 15:01.920 'Strap on those wings and step up' 15:02.962 --> 15:04.753 'Hit that beat and sing your heart away' 15:06.003 --> 15:08.087 'Directions eight will join hands, because of you' 15:11.920 --> 15:13.837 'Our blood is on fire' 15:15.045 --> 15:16.878 'The crowds roar when your name is heard' 15:17.920 --> 15:20.003 'Our nation shall triumph, because of us' 15:32.920 --> 15:34.253 (Long Live Tamil) 15:44.545 --> 15:46.545 'Every town is our own' 15:47.337 --> 15:49.378 'Tomorrow is ours for the taking' 15:50.462 --> 15:52.920 'When hands join together as one...' 15:53.462 --> 15:55.212 '...anything is possible now on' 15:56.628 --> 15:59.253 'If we all just tend to our homes, who will tend to our nation?' 15:59.378 --> 16:01.420 'Charge in with all your might' 16:02.587 --> 16:05.420 'No town an alien land... No person a stranger...' 16:05.545 --> 16:07.295 'Come on, comrade... Let's begin' 16:08.587 --> 16:11.337 'Celebrate like never before, for that is our culture' 16:11.462 --> 16:14.462 'Should anyone come to divide us, step up and question them' 16:14.587 --> 16:17.212 'Keep moving forward... As our ancestors taught us' 16:17.337 --> 16:18.753 'Their good words guide us onward' 16:20.212 --> 16:21.920 'The time is ours...' 16:23.337 --> 16:24.962 'With the speed of fire' 16:26.253 --> 16:29.212 'Unhating courage... Worthy sacrifice...' 16:29.337 --> 16:30.795 'Let's stand for our language' 16:33.962 --> 16:35.753 'Strap on those wings and step up' 16:36.920 --> 16:38.670 'Hit that beat and sing your heart away' 16:39.962 --> 16:42.087 'Directions eight will join hands, because of you' 16:45.795 --> 16:47.545 'Our blood is on fire' 16:48.878 --> 16:50.753 'The crowds roar when your name is heard' 16:51.878 --> 16:53.712 'Our nation shall triumph, because of us' 17:15.128 --> 17:17.128 You relay messages on money orders, Chezhiya. 17:17.795 --> 17:20.503 After which members of your Puranaanooru Squad come over... 17:20.628 --> 17:22.545 ...to burn down trains and conduct protests. 17:22.670 --> 17:24.337 You guys are a force to be reckoned with! 17:24.462 --> 17:25.837 But you're all done, right? 17:26.503 --> 17:27.920 Why send another money order? 17:28.045 --> 17:29.628 What if we need it for the next protest? 17:29.753 --> 17:30.753 Be careful, son. 17:31.378 --> 17:32.628 The police are on the prowl. 17:33.087 --> 17:36.712 If caught, they'll trump up the charges and bury you sixty feet down! 17:36.837 --> 17:38.295 Like we'll let it happen! 17:38.420 --> 17:41.837 The Young Lawyers Association will fight for justice of students for no fee! 17:41.962 --> 17:43.003 That's my lawyer for you! 17:43.128 --> 17:44.462 How's our legal counsel, sir? 17:44.587 --> 17:46.212 Is that why you studied 'Brahmi' with me? 17:46.337 --> 17:47.337 Hey Aavudai! 17:48.087 --> 17:49.253 Where's Govind? 17:53.920 --> 17:54.920 Chezhiya... 17:56.003 --> 17:59.420 "The train transporting central ministers to Madurai met with a fire accident." 17:59.545 --> 18:02.087 "A student passenger burned to death." 18:08.045 --> 18:09.712 With your name constantly on his lips... 18:09.837 --> 18:12.212 ...he'd always be right by your side! 18:12.628 --> 18:15.920 And yet, you stand here without him! 18:17.378 --> 18:18.712 What are you saying, mom? 18:18.837 --> 18:21.462 You think Chezhiya would've let this happen to Govind? 18:23.170 --> 18:24.795 Chezhiya is one of us, mom! 18:24.920 --> 18:26.087 (Saurashtra) He's family! 18:26.628 --> 18:28.378 Come in, Chezhiya! 18:29.378 --> 18:31.212 No, Chezhiya! We'll slip and fall! - Hurry! 18:35.545 --> 18:37.795 I'll bring him back safely every vacation, auntie! 18:37.920 --> 18:39.253 (Saurashtra) Travel safe, dear! 18:39.378 --> 18:40.878 Come! - (Saurashtra) Bye, grandma! 18:41.003 --> 18:42.628 (Saurashtra) Take care! - Be safe, dear! 18:44.670 --> 18:46.462 You'd never have come if I hadn't called! 19:07.878 --> 19:08.878 Hello? 19:09.337 --> 19:10.337 Brother Thambi? 19:13.753 --> 19:14.753 Chezhiya? 19:14.878 --> 19:18.128 Michael Reddy, Shariffa, Chacko and Bindhya... 19:18.253 --> 19:20.170 They're safe at Thambiraja's mill in Pollachi. 19:20.295 --> 19:21.545 They asked if they have to come. 19:21.962 --> 19:23.003 What do I tell them? 19:24.128 --> 19:25.295 (Hindi) Clench your fists. 19:25.962 --> 19:27.045 Your pulses are very weak. 19:27.170 --> 19:29.920 Your nerves have been damaged. You will need an amputation. 19:31.420 --> 19:32.420 No! 19:32.545 --> 19:33.545 Stitch it up! 19:33.670 --> 19:34.962 What are you doing, Thiru? 19:35.087 --> 19:36.087 What's your problem? 19:37.087 --> 19:39.628 You slept with a Tamilian and gave birth to me! 19:41.545 --> 19:43.212 Once he was satisfied, he abandoned you! 19:43.670 --> 19:45.420 Thanks to another Tamilian, I lost an arm! 19:47.087 --> 19:48.212 How will I fire now? 19:49.170 --> 19:50.837 It's our Puranaanooru Squad. 19:51.253 --> 19:52.920 Shall I ask them to come, Chezhiya? 19:55.837 --> 19:57.128 No one needs to come anymore. 19:59.753 --> 20:01.420 I'm not ready to lose anyone else. 20:03.712 --> 20:07.253 As of now, I'm nothing but a Tamil-speaking cripple! 20:07.753 --> 20:09.003 A Madrasi traitor! 20:10.128 --> 20:11.420 If that's what you believe... 20:12.712 --> 20:15.795 ...the world will continue to belittle you and mock at you! 20:19.003 --> 20:20.712 The Puranaanooru Squad is no more! 20:20.837 --> 20:21.920 Understood? - Chezhiya! 20:22.045 --> 20:24.378 No more money orders, protests... No nothing! 20:26.003 --> 20:27.337 The Puranaanooru Squad is dead! 20:29.962 --> 20:30.962 Mom? 20:33.003 --> 20:34.670 I accept it. I am a Madrasi bastard. 20:39.670 --> 20:42.170 I don't want anyone else to die because of me! 20:50.295 --> 20:54.753 I don't want anyone else to die because of me... 20:58.170 --> 21:00.003 "The Supreme Power." 21:27.212 --> 21:29.087 Brother! Turn off that valve! 21:29.212 --> 21:31.087 If the pressure rises, it'll explode! 21:31.212 --> 21:33.420 (Hindi) What? Everything's fine! What are you saying? 21:35.253 --> 21:36.587 (Broken Hindi) "What happened?" 21:37.378 --> 21:39.087 Had it blown up, you'd be in pieces! 21:39.212 --> 21:40.628 You'd have killed 250 people too! 21:41.712 --> 21:44.003 "Engine blowback"! Didn't they teach you that? 21:45.003 --> 21:46.753 You'd have been toasted! - (Hindi) What? 21:46.878 --> 21:48.337 (Hindi) Speak in Hindi, Madrasi! 21:48.462 --> 21:50.503 (Hindi) From January 26th, you'll have no choice! 21:50.628 --> 21:53.920 (Broken Tamil) You must speak it then! For now, just do your job, fireman! 21:54.045 --> 21:55.045 (Hindi) Got it? 21:55.837 --> 21:57.212 Nothing's going to change! 21:58.378 --> 21:59.462 Just watch! 22:00.503 --> 22:02.962 The PM maybe no more, but his vow to the Parliament still is! 22:03.087 --> 22:04.087 (Hindi) What? 22:04.212 --> 22:05.628 Back to Hindi, eh? 22:06.503 --> 22:09.837 (Broken Hindi) Lal! When a Madrasi goes to Delhi, he'll talk in Hindi! 22:10.253 --> 22:13.087 (Broken Hindi) When a Hindi guy comes to Madurai, he must talk in Tamil! 22:13.212 --> 22:14.295 (Broken Hindi) Got it? 22:14.420 --> 22:16.962 (Hindi) Madurai... Madrasi... What? 22:18.128 --> 22:19.128 Chow down! 22:21.670 --> 22:23.253 (Hindi) This fritter is delicious! 22:23.378 --> 22:24.378 How's that? 22:25.253 --> 22:27.545 You don't want Tamil, but you want our fritters, eh? 22:28.170 --> 22:29.253 Your whack is waiting! 22:31.045 --> 22:32.462 (Hindi) Come again, Madrasi? 22:41.253 --> 22:42.795 Two one pennies! 22:42.920 --> 22:43.920 Goddamn it! 22:44.462 --> 22:46.920 Don't say it like that, you dumbos! - How else then? 22:47.045 --> 22:49.628 "One penny plus one penny equal two pennies." 22:49.753 --> 22:51.503 One penny plus one penny equal two pennies! 22:51.628 --> 22:52.837 Don't shout, sillies! 22:52.962 --> 22:55.003 "Due to the death of the Indian Prime Minister..." 22:55.128 --> 22:58.295 "...the last twelve days were declared to be a period of mourning nationwide." 22:58.420 --> 22:59.712 "It comes to an end today." 23:01.295 --> 23:02.545 What a good man! 23:03.087 --> 23:04.753 Without warning, he left us all! 23:05.628 --> 23:07.795 You thought he'd die after a heart-to-heart with you? 23:09.212 --> 23:11.295 The Telugu girl from next door has arrived! 23:11.420 --> 23:14.087 Her eyes and ears are always here! 23:15.212 --> 23:18.587 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 23:19.337 --> 23:22.045 What are you staring at there? - (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 23:24.503 --> 23:25.920 Good grief! She's at it again! 23:27.253 --> 23:28.962 Kid! 23:29.087 --> 23:30.378 Chezhiyan will be here soon! 23:30.503 --> 23:31.628 Why try to fix it yourself? 23:32.253 --> 23:33.712 You don't need him for this! 23:33.837 --> 23:34.962 (Telugu) I got it! 23:36.128 --> 23:37.628 Careful, Ratna! 23:37.753 --> 23:40.378 Easy does it! - Just take this wire... 23:40.503 --> 23:41.795 ...and stick it in like this. 23:42.712 --> 23:43.712 All done! 23:44.420 --> 23:45.420 All done, indeed! 23:46.420 --> 23:47.628 Why's the power out, grandma? 23:47.753 --> 23:50.587 Only one bulb was flickering. 23:50.712 --> 23:53.670 She just had to mess with it! 23:53.795 --> 23:55.545 The entire house went dark! - She's had it! 23:55.670 --> 23:57.212 She truly has the magic touch! 23:57.920 --> 24:00.337 Didn't I tell you not to let her in here, grandma? 24:00.962 --> 24:01.962 Like I let her in! 24:02.795 --> 24:04.462 Want to pull wires? Do it at your house! 24:04.587 --> 24:06.337 I will if you get out of my way, tosser! 24:06.462 --> 24:07.753 Who are you calling 'tosser'? 24:07.878 --> 24:09.378 You toss coal, right? 24:09.503 --> 24:10.503 Coal tosser! 24:11.878 --> 24:13.878 Why do I even talk to this creature? 24:15.087 --> 24:17.087 Dinner ready, grandma? 24:17.212 --> 24:19.295 It's been ready for a while! The same tamarind stew! 24:20.295 --> 24:21.295 It's back! 24:21.420 --> 24:23.462 There's a letter for you, Chezhiya! 24:23.587 --> 24:24.587 A letter? 24:24.712 --> 24:25.712 Where is it? 24:26.378 --> 24:27.378 Here! - Let me see! 24:36.128 --> 24:37.587 Who is it from? 24:43.878 --> 24:46.170 Your grandson's going to become a ticket examiner! 24:46.295 --> 24:47.753 He's being called for an interview! 24:48.295 --> 24:49.587 Posting's in Delhi! - Really? 24:50.670 --> 24:54.295 If anyone calls me a coal tosser again, tell them I'll rip their tongue out! 24:55.795 --> 24:56.962 You just have to learn Hindi! 24:57.587 --> 24:58.795 Hindi, huh? 24:58.920 --> 25:01.462 That's a hopeless cause for our entire clan! 25:01.587 --> 25:04.337 I sent you to three teachers when you were a kid. 25:04.462 --> 25:07.045 You couldn't even get three words right! 25:07.170 --> 25:08.837 I couldn't because I didn't need it then! 25:08.962 --> 25:11.420 Wherever you go to work, you must learn the local language! 25:11.837 --> 25:14.503 Then how am I any different from that Hindi speaking loco pilot? 25:15.128 --> 25:17.545 Don't you know Hindi well, Telugu girl? 25:17.670 --> 25:18.878 Why don't you teach him? 25:19.003 --> 25:20.253 Who? Her? 25:20.878 --> 25:23.587 I'd rather shovel coal for life than learn Hindi from her! 25:23.712 --> 25:25.295 There's the Hindi Federation, right? 25:26.003 --> 25:28.337 I'm your only option in this entire locality! 25:28.962 --> 25:30.253 But I can't teach you! 25:30.378 --> 25:31.503 Pay for a course and learn! 25:32.003 --> 25:34.795 It's late. I have an important news recording in the morning. 25:36.128 --> 25:38.045 Trains will run without him. 25:38.170 --> 25:40.378 Even the government will run without my father! 25:40.503 --> 25:44.795 But without Ratnamala, the National Radio will be at a standstill! 25:45.420 --> 25:47.212 Understand that! Move, tosser! 25:47.337 --> 25:48.337 Ratna! 25:48.962 --> 25:51.087 I've never once heard your voice on the radio! 25:51.878 --> 25:53.837 What station should I connect to? - What, indeed? 25:54.837 --> 25:56.753 First, disconnect that deaf ear of yours! 25:57.170 --> 25:58.170 The mouth on this girl! 25:58.295 --> 25:59.670 What did she say? 26:00.712 --> 26:02.003 Come feed me dinner! 26:02.670 --> 26:04.212 They've closed down colleges. 26:04.337 --> 26:05.462 Durai's not home yet? 26:05.587 --> 26:08.253 Like he ever tells me when he comes and goes! 26:09.128 --> 26:11.337 He roams around town like a jackass! 26:11.462 --> 26:14.837 You slog in that oven all day for him and come here dark as the night! 26:16.087 --> 26:19.045 After raking coal all day, you expect me to shine like the moon? 26:20.087 --> 26:21.837 He's at the top of his class. 26:21.962 --> 26:23.003 Don't scold him. 26:25.503 --> 26:27.462 I can understand sending it to Govind's family. 26:27.587 --> 26:30.462 But why send money to your brother when he's not even asking for it? 26:31.587 --> 26:33.628 You took loans all over town to make him study! 26:34.170 --> 26:35.545 Does he ever think about that? 26:36.712 --> 26:37.962 Will you serve dinner or not? 26:38.087 --> 26:39.462 He needn't think about anything! 26:39.587 --> 26:42.253 It's good enough if he becomes an engineer and works a cushy job! 26:42.378 --> 26:43.545 As long as he does that, good. 26:43.670 --> 26:44.670 Serve dinner! 26:46.378 --> 26:47.962 National Radio! 26:49.087 --> 26:50.420 Greetings! - Greetings, dear! 26:51.045 --> 26:55.045 (Telugu) 'The man's world quakes' 26:55.170 --> 26:57.837 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 26:57.962 --> 26:58.962 Please move, ma'am. 26:59.378 --> 27:00.712 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk...' 27:00.837 --> 27:02.420 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 27:02.545 --> 27:03.545 Your tea, sir. 27:04.545 --> 27:05.545 Greetings, ma'am. 27:05.670 --> 27:06.878 Good Morning, ma'am! 27:07.295 --> 27:08.337 Greetings, ma'am! 27:08.462 --> 27:09.670 Good Morning, ma'am! 27:10.878 --> 27:13.920 (Telugu) 'The man's world quakes' 27:14.420 --> 27:17.128 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 27:17.962 --> 27:19.878 (Telugu) 'The man's world quakes' 27:27.503 --> 27:30.212 Who told you to clean the windows, miss? 27:31.087 --> 27:34.212 Your father will sack me if he learns you're not doing the announcer job! 27:34.337 --> 27:35.920 Just once come to the studio! Read this! 27:36.045 --> 27:37.587 Me? - Yes! Look! 27:37.712 --> 27:39.337 Just seeing a mic paralyzes me! 27:39.462 --> 27:40.628 You can do it! - I'll stammer! 27:40.753 --> 27:42.712 Just read this once! - You already know that! 27:42.837 --> 27:44.087 You can do it! Just try! - Sir! 27:50.670 --> 27:52.920 Goo... Good Morning. Here's the morning news. 27:53.920 --> 27:55.003 Excellent! 27:56.212 --> 28:00.587 The central government's key obj... objective... 28:03.462 --> 28:06.045 ...is progress through peace. 28:06.712 --> 28:07.712 Lovely! 28:08.712 --> 28:09.962 A new... 28:10.587 --> 28:12.795 ...sch... scheme... 28:16.212 --> 28:18.212 She thinks she can go on the air with that stutter! 28:18.337 --> 28:21.462 ...has been implem... implemented... 28:21.587 --> 28:22.753 Miss? - ...and... 28:22.878 --> 28:25.503 She has come here using influence and is torturing us. So useless! 28:28.212 --> 28:29.837 Didn't I tell you, sir? - Tell me what? 28:29.962 --> 28:32.128 Rest assured, I won't tell my father about this! 29:05.337 --> 29:06.712 Hold on! 29:06.837 --> 29:10.628 Fill mine in first, sister. I'll have to send money to my grandson at college. 29:10.753 --> 29:12.087 Such a stubborn one! 29:12.212 --> 29:14.545 He'd rather starve to death than ask for money! 29:14.670 --> 29:15.670 Fill mine! - Wait! 29:15.795 --> 29:18.295 My son's hands are sore from working at the tannery! 29:18.420 --> 29:20.087 I need to send money so he can buy medicine. 29:20.212 --> 29:21.587 Look what these morons have done! 29:24.087 --> 29:25.128 What is this? 29:25.545 --> 29:27.295 Move. - Ask them yourself! 29:27.420 --> 29:28.587 What language is this? 29:28.712 --> 29:30.878 You've given the wrong form. I need the Tamil one! 29:31.003 --> 29:34.378 This is how it is now, ma'am. By order of the central government. 29:34.795 --> 29:36.087 What language is this? 29:36.545 --> 29:38.837 The letters are hanging like clothes on a drying line! 29:38.962 --> 29:40.212 It's Hindi, ma'am. 29:40.337 --> 29:42.628 The central government has made these forms mandatory. 29:43.628 --> 29:46.420 I'm the one sending money. My grandson's the one receiving it. 29:47.045 --> 29:49.212 Neither of us know this language, dear fellow! 29:49.837 --> 29:51.045 Fill it out yourself! 29:51.170 --> 29:55.545 Wouldn't we have become ministers in Delhi if we knew Hindi, ma'am? 29:56.087 --> 29:57.962 You useless nincompoops! 29:58.628 --> 30:01.753 So we'll have to personally go to Delhi to send money orders? 30:03.003 --> 30:04.003 Come along! 30:04.128 --> 30:05.545 Nothing to discuss here! Let's go! 30:05.670 --> 30:07.420 Come along! Hurry! - Way to give us trouble! 30:07.545 --> 30:10.253 What will my grandson do for sustenance? - Go tend to your errands! 30:12.003 --> 30:14.087 We got him on the line! Come, Muthammal! 30:15.087 --> 30:17.503 PP holding trunk call from Annamalai University. 30:17.628 --> 30:18.795 "Annamalai?" 30:18.920 --> 30:21.295 (Telugu) Is this an MP's residence or a post office, mom? 30:22.462 --> 30:24.753 He and Ratna are childhood friends, right? 30:24.878 --> 30:25.920 Go answer it, Muthammal. 30:31.545 --> 30:33.378 Hello? - What is it, grandma? 30:33.503 --> 30:35.045 Little one? - I hear you! Go on! 30:35.170 --> 30:38.295 We can't send money this month to you. - What happened? 30:38.420 --> 30:41.003 At the post office, every damn thing is in Hindi! 30:41.128 --> 30:42.128 "Hindi?" 30:42.253 --> 30:46.628 In just one day, these chumps rendered me, an eighth grade graduate, illiterate! 30:47.878 --> 30:51.170 I'll have your brother send money to you by train. 30:51.295 --> 30:52.670 What about the other students? 31:01.545 --> 31:03.128 Shammi Kapoor is in a league of his own! 31:06.878 --> 31:08.462 Who the hell stopped the screening? 31:19.920 --> 31:22.337 The kid from the engineering department changed the reel! 31:22.462 --> 31:23.628 Thinks he's a big shot! 31:23.753 --> 31:25.878 Will you play a Hindi film or do I smash your head? 31:26.003 --> 31:27.003 Hey, monkey! 31:27.128 --> 31:28.587 Hindi films for three weeks in a row? 31:28.712 --> 31:30.462 Sit quietly in a corner and watch our film! 31:30.587 --> 31:32.128 Crackling dialogues right here! 31:32.628 --> 31:33.628 Thrash him! 31:35.795 --> 31:36.795 Careful, Durai! 31:49.212 --> 31:51.003 Why are you beating up kids? 31:51.128 --> 31:52.545 We've got bigger fish to fry! Come! 31:53.753 --> 31:54.753 Come along! 31:56.670 --> 32:00.337 The central minister has decreed the Hindi Federation as a national institution! 32:00.462 --> 32:02.712 It'll be announced on the radio at 7 AM tomorrow! 32:03.128 --> 32:04.712 Got it, Chinnadurai? - Hold on! 32:04.837 --> 32:08.712 This is the first step they're taking to make Hindi our sole official language! 32:11.503 --> 32:13.378 Then, we students have to land the first blow! 32:13.503 --> 32:17.170 You brought quite a scoop in your first week on the job, Ratna! 32:17.753 --> 32:18.795 We'll torch it! 32:18.920 --> 32:21.670 'In street after street...' - Get the stuff! Get all the petrol cans! 32:21.795 --> 32:23.670 Don't forget the bottles! - I have them, buddy! 32:23.795 --> 32:25.128 Buddy! - Come on! 32:25.253 --> 32:26.878 We'll crank it up... - Come on! 32:27.003 --> 32:28.295 ...and stomp it out! - You got it! 32:28.420 --> 32:30.837 'Gums that flap needlessly, will have no teeth for company' 32:30.962 --> 32:33.003 Why'd you come all this way, Ratna? 32:33.128 --> 32:34.753 One trunk call and we'd have come over! 32:34.878 --> 32:36.045 Good thing I showed up! 32:36.170 --> 32:39.003 If I hadn't, that politician’s son would've rearranged your face! 32:39.128 --> 32:41.337 'I'll be by your side, for sure' 32:41.462 --> 32:45.003 'You may dispatch an army after us, we'll soldier on with all smiles' 32:50.587 --> 32:52.628 Quick! Muthammal will scold us! - We're coming! 32:52.753 --> 32:55.045 We're heading to tuition class, Chezhiya! - Right! 32:55.170 --> 32:56.170 See you! Study well! 32:56.837 --> 32:57.837 Mr. Teacher! 32:58.337 --> 33:00.462 You said you'd teach me Hindi. Where are you off to? 33:00.587 --> 33:02.212 The Himalayas! Want to join me? 33:02.337 --> 33:04.295 Forget Hindi! You keep driving! 33:04.420 --> 33:06.795 Haven't even started teaching, and you ask me to forget it? 33:06.920 --> 33:08.087 Not a man of your word, eh? 33:11.128 --> 33:12.503 What about the two rupees I gave? 33:12.628 --> 33:14.962 Reclaim it from the Hindi Federation if you can! 33:15.503 --> 33:16.920 Take it and put it on your forehead! 33:17.378 --> 33:19.462 Keep driving! Go! 33:41.003 --> 33:42.212 Stand back! 33:42.337 --> 33:43.628 Back off, I say! 33:47.378 --> 33:48.712 (Let justice prevail) 34:30.337 --> 34:31.337 Hello, sir. 34:33.253 --> 34:34.253 Welcome back, sir. 34:36.587 --> 34:38.128 Ensure the reports are sent to the CM. 34:39.545 --> 34:41.045 The brilliant KGB trainee! 34:41.587 --> 34:44.712 You couldn't stop them from burning down the train, nor could you catch them! 34:44.837 --> 34:46.378 And yet, they assigned you to this? 34:49.378 --> 34:50.378 Arsonism. 34:50.503 --> 34:53.587 The same method of operation as the train incident of 1959. 34:53.712 --> 34:55.170 Could it be the same perpetrator? 35:01.545 --> 35:03.128 She is the intelligence assistant. 35:03.253 --> 35:04.253 Gauri. - Sir. 35:05.712 --> 35:07.212 Deputed from the postal service? 35:07.753 --> 35:08.878 Yes, sir. 35:09.003 --> 35:10.837 What's my role at the Intelligence Bureau? 35:12.087 --> 35:16.003 It's to not ask such questions and do what I say. That's all. 35:21.712 --> 35:26.003 For doing a day of work, your husband earns a wage of five 'annas'. 35:26.503 --> 35:28.795 Don't get me started! 35:28.920 --> 35:30.670 Since when has he gone to work? 35:31.170 --> 35:32.753 Useless fellow! 35:34.878 --> 35:36.212 What Math geniuses! 35:36.337 --> 35:37.837 School's out! Get going, oldies! 35:38.753 --> 35:41.337 They gave you leave on the day the PM died. Why didn't you come? 35:42.753 --> 35:43.962 I would've come had you died. 35:44.087 --> 35:45.545 The elder grandson's here, right? 35:45.670 --> 35:48.587 He earns well by being a slave to the Hindi imposing central government! 35:48.712 --> 35:50.295 Wash your hands and feet! 35:50.420 --> 35:51.712 Sure, talk all high and mighty! 35:51.837 --> 35:54.420 Your father died in the line of duty, leaving a mountain of debt! 35:54.545 --> 35:57.503 Your brother left his studies to go shovel coal! 35:58.420 --> 36:01.087 Have you ever seen his coal-stained hands? 36:02.087 --> 36:03.795 He is our savior, man! 36:03.920 --> 36:06.420 Despite knowing that, you roam around like a hooligan! 36:06.545 --> 36:08.878 Fine. Our savior's there and so, we can sustain ourselves. 36:09.545 --> 36:12.212 You're there to cook tasty food. Don't you need someone to eat? 36:12.795 --> 36:15.253 Come, grandma! Feed me! I'm hungry! 36:17.753 --> 36:18.753 Come on. 36:21.212 --> 36:22.587 We can barely afford good food. 36:23.378 --> 36:25.212 And you intend to reform the country, Durai? 36:26.170 --> 36:27.170 Tamarind stew today too? 36:27.295 --> 36:29.378 Even the great Anna eats tamarind stew! - Brother! 36:30.045 --> 36:31.045 Hello, brother. 36:31.878 --> 36:33.295 Why'd you burn down the building? 36:33.420 --> 36:35.503 Burned it? Who? Me? 36:35.628 --> 36:37.378 Which building? - Drop the act! 36:37.503 --> 36:38.837 My hand! It hurts! 36:38.962 --> 36:40.170 Let him go! 36:41.170 --> 36:42.503 I've come straight from college! 36:44.087 --> 36:46.378 Definitely her handiwork! - "Her"? 36:46.503 --> 36:47.503 Who? 36:48.003 --> 36:49.003 Kannagi, grandma! 36:52.378 --> 36:55.587 Her anger won't subside unless she burns something in Madurai once a year! 36:55.712 --> 36:57.128 She definitely did it! 36:57.587 --> 36:58.795 Trying to be funny? 36:58.920 --> 37:01.545 Be it in blood or in water, I can recognize your handwriting! 37:02.295 --> 37:03.378 (Let justice prevail) 37:11.795 --> 37:12.795 Stop! 37:14.295 --> 37:17.837 I've been soft with you as you're orphans, but you're always at each other’s throats! 37:18.962 --> 37:20.003 Stop! 37:20.587 --> 37:21.962 Don't! 37:22.087 --> 37:23.295 Careful, O elder one! 37:23.420 --> 37:25.962 'In street after street, we'll strike back in kind' 37:26.087 --> 37:29.795 'If they try beating us down, we'll finish it, no sweat' 37:30.587 --> 37:35.045 'Gums that flap needlessly, will no longer have teeth for company' 37:35.170 --> 37:39.253 'This khadi-clad army will twist the system around' 37:39.378 --> 37:40.503 Chinna! 37:46.128 --> 37:49.503 You two have nothing better to do than fighting? 37:49.628 --> 37:51.503 We're trying to work over here! 37:51.628 --> 37:53.712 Get going, you! This is always a habit with them! 37:53.837 --> 37:55.628 Why'd you burn that building, you rascal? 37:55.753 --> 37:57.462 Get out of here! There are people around! 37:57.587 --> 37:59.462 They changed everything to Hindi overnight! 38:01.462 --> 38:03.170 Students didn't get their money orders! 38:03.295 --> 38:06.170 If we don't pay up, they won't feed us at the mess or let us write exams! 38:06.628 --> 38:08.212 You need to think it through! 38:09.920 --> 38:11.462 The minute they imposed a language... 38:11.878 --> 38:13.670 ...notice how we begin struggling for food? 38:15.087 --> 38:16.337 If we don't question this... 38:16.462 --> 38:19.295 ...they won't even spare the underwear of the downtrodden! 38:19.962 --> 38:22.462 There are folks in the legislative assembly to question that! 38:27.170 --> 38:28.170 Not a brick! 38:30.128 --> 38:32.003 Think acts of arson can fix everything? 38:32.420 --> 38:34.670 The public will never endorse the use of violence! 38:34.795 --> 38:37.253 Your only job is to study! Just focus on that! 38:37.795 --> 38:41.003 They won't endorse violence, but they'll show up to watch it, right? 38:41.462 --> 38:42.503 That's good enough! 38:42.628 --> 38:43.712 Tamil will prevail! 38:45.420 --> 38:46.420 Durai! 38:48.295 --> 38:50.253 You wretches! Always a habit with you! - Stop! 38:50.378 --> 38:51.670 Stop it! Why are you doing this? 38:51.795 --> 38:53.253 Stop! - Listen to me, Durai! 38:57.587 --> 38:59.253 At this age, you won't see my point. 38:59.753 --> 39:01.253 You accomplished your goal, right? 39:01.378 --> 39:03.420 Promise you won't burn or destroy anything again. 39:03.545 --> 39:05.212 If you're caught, they won't spare you! 39:08.587 --> 39:10.337 Have I ever asked you for anything before? 39:12.962 --> 39:13.962 Alright, brother. 39:14.378 --> 39:15.753 I won't burn anything anymore. 39:22.545 --> 39:24.628 'Even if the town entire stands opposite...' 39:24.753 --> 39:27.503 '...I'll be by your side, for sure' 39:27.628 --> 39:31.087 'You may dispatch an army after us, we'll soldier on with all smiles' 39:31.503 --> 39:33.628 'Even the skies will shake with thunder' 39:33.753 --> 39:35.128 'So high is our aim' 39:35.253 --> 39:37.545 What the hell? You gave your word in a heartbeat! 39:38.087 --> 39:39.920 His beatings scared you? 39:40.045 --> 39:41.378 Like that'd scare me! 39:42.212 --> 39:44.878 For the first time in my life, my brother hugged me. 39:46.045 --> 39:47.462 My precious! 39:47.587 --> 39:48.878 You softie! 39:49.003 --> 39:51.128 That Telugu girl next door is corrupting you! 39:51.545 --> 39:52.545 Let's go. 39:55.962 --> 39:57.753 What, brother? - Squat, brother! 39:57.878 --> 39:59.420 Come home once a week, without fail! 40:00.170 --> 40:02.462 For what? To eat Grandma's tamarind stew? 40:02.587 --> 40:03.587 Buzz off! 40:04.087 --> 40:06.712 Lay off the troublemaking! Listen to this 'anna' (brother), too! 40:07.462 --> 40:10.295 Come on! I swore to you, didn't I? Then what? 40:10.837 --> 40:11.837 Get on! 40:12.253 --> 40:14.337 Get on, I say! - Always nitpicking! 40:14.462 --> 40:15.628 Take these inside! 40:17.545 --> 40:18.545 Come here! 40:19.545 --> 40:20.545 Go on! 40:26.503 --> 40:30.087 'I shall walk with pride, knowing my brother is by my side' 40:30.712 --> 40:34.378 'Standing upon your shoulders, I shall snatch the stars' 40:35.087 --> 40:39.087 'The world's in the palm of your hand... Spin it with style' 40:39.503 --> 40:42.628 'Even when everything rises in opposition, let your spirit never fade' 40:42.753 --> 40:44.003 Brother... 40:44.128 --> 40:46.462 'We may be poles apart, but our pride's one' 40:46.587 --> 40:48.462 'Let's see this through, come what may' 40:56.670 --> 40:58.628 (Hindi) The train's moving! Get in! - Okay, sir! 41:10.920 --> 41:12.628 The Chief Minister will see you now, sir. 41:20.670 --> 41:21.670 Good Morning. 41:24.212 --> 41:27.837 Since the year 1939... 41:29.295 --> 41:32.337 ...protests against Hindi imposition have taken place here. 41:32.962 --> 41:36.503 They'll protest for a while before moving on to other business. 41:37.170 --> 41:40.295 I've seen the same damn schtick for the last twenty five years! 41:41.170 --> 41:43.837 Now, a bunch of hooligans... 41:44.462 --> 41:46.462 ...burned down a building. 41:47.420 --> 41:49.003 Is it really that big an issue? 41:49.128 --> 41:51.503 And you came all the way from Delhi to investigate it? 41:52.003 --> 41:56.003 You're yet to witness January 26th, 1965, if I'm right. 41:56.628 --> 41:57.628 That's why I'm here. 42:00.378 --> 42:01.753 "Special Powers Act." 42:04.878 --> 42:08.212 That means you have the right to do anything you wish? 42:09.587 --> 42:12.920 You have an all-encompassing authority granted by the Prime Minister, am I right? 42:13.045 --> 42:15.712 Then what are the cops and ministers here for? 42:16.920 --> 42:18.337 They have an important job, sir. 42:19.837 --> 42:23.045 To sign every file we send over. 42:27.503 --> 42:29.628 (Telugu) 'O little lassie...' 42:37.212 --> 42:38.337 "Ratnamala." 42:39.045 --> 42:40.545 "Apprentice"? 42:44.045 --> 42:46.962 "Trains will run without you. Even the govt. will run without my father." 42:47.087 --> 42:50.420 "Without Ratnamala, the National Radio will be at a standstill! Understand that!" 42:50.962 --> 42:51.962 Yes, I have. 42:53.128 --> 42:56.462 "The High and Noble MP's daughter reaches high to clean windows!" 42:56.587 --> 42:58.087 Great headline, isn't it? 42:59.962 --> 43:01.003 How much do you want? 43:02.920 --> 43:06.337 Keep it. You'll need it to buy cleaning fluids and wash cloths! 43:08.295 --> 43:09.295 Teach me Hindi! 43:09.712 --> 43:11.170 The Hindi Federation can do that! 43:11.753 --> 43:12.962 You burned it down, right? 43:17.128 --> 43:18.670 How can I teach you? I can't do it! 43:18.795 --> 43:19.795 Why not? 43:20.378 --> 43:23.795 I'm the secretary of the All India Anti-Hindi Students Council! 43:24.878 --> 43:26.837 Does your daddy know about that, Ms. Secretary? 43:28.753 --> 43:30.670 (Telugu) 'O little lassie...' 43:38.837 --> 43:39.920 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk' 43:40.628 --> 43:43.712 (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen' 43:45.253 --> 43:46.253 Hey! 43:47.920 --> 43:48.920 (Telugu) What? 43:49.045 --> 43:50.503 5 AM tomorrow! 43:51.170 --> 43:53.712 Not just my father. Nobody should know about this! 43:57.545 --> 43:59.587 But no fee! Make note of that as well! 44:00.420 --> 44:01.503 (Telugu) Stingy fellow! 44:03.545 --> 44:04.670 What'd you just say? 44:05.462 --> 44:08.170 Make sure you come by 5:10. Now go! 44:13.920 --> 44:16.712 (Hindi) A for apple! 44:17.462 --> 44:19.878 (Hindi) B for ball! 44:20.878 --> 44:23.753 (Hindi) A for apple! - (Hindi) A for apple! 44:24.170 --> 44:25.753 (Hindi) A for... 44:26.128 --> 44:27.170 (Hindi) Apple! 44:29.628 --> 44:30.878 (Hindi) A for... - Poovai! 44:31.003 --> 44:32.753 Work properly or I'll whack you! - Got it! 44:32.878 --> 44:33.878 Pay attention! 44:35.003 --> 44:36.462 (Hindi) A for... 44:36.587 --> 44:38.545 (Hindi) A for? - (Hindi) A for... 44:38.670 --> 44:40.587 (Hindi) Apple! Apple! Apple! - Brother! 44:40.712 --> 44:43.295 She's saying 'A for Apple'! - I'll rip your tongue out! 44:44.045 --> 44:45.462 Spare me this crap! - Wait! 44:46.170 --> 44:48.795 If you learn Hindi, you can sell soda up north! Business will boom! 44:48.920 --> 44:50.962 I don't care if it booms or bombs! 44:51.087 --> 44:52.670 I own this factory! 44:52.795 --> 44:55.670 If anyone sees me getting whacked by her, I'll even lose local business! 44:55.795 --> 44:56.795 Leave me be! 44:57.670 --> 44:59.378 She'll teach us for no charge! 44:59.503 --> 45:00.962 No one else does that! - (Hindi) Sit! 45:03.378 --> 45:05.587 You received awards from greats like Anna and Periyar! 45:05.712 --> 45:08.295 Should you learn Hindi from this sadist to make a living? 45:08.420 --> 45:09.545 Come on! 45:10.212 --> 45:12.337 Don't you know even Anna learned Hindi, Vaigarai? 45:12.462 --> 45:13.962 We ought to know what's in it, right? 45:14.087 --> 45:16.253 He probably learned from a good teacher! Buzz off! 45:16.378 --> 45:17.712 A for Apple, eh? You've had it! 45:17.837 --> 45:20.128 Why are you taking it out on me if you don't get Hindi? 45:20.253 --> 45:21.253 You run along too! 45:21.378 --> 45:23.545 I won't! I'm here to learn! Continue! 45:24.462 --> 45:27.920 (Broken Hindi) A for Apple! B for ball! 45:28.045 --> 45:29.670 You may be dumb, but you have passion. 45:31.045 --> 45:32.628 Good. I like it. 45:32.753 --> 45:34.087 (Broken Hindi) B for ball. 45:39.795 --> 45:41.837 That's... from the engine... 45:43.670 --> 45:46.003 If you come to class like a pile of dirty laundry... 45:47.045 --> 45:48.545 ...how can you learn properly? 45:49.087 --> 45:50.087 Come neat and clean! 45:50.503 --> 45:51.503 Then, we'll continue. 45:53.378 --> 45:55.087 Run along! 45:56.962 --> 45:58.878 That's all? Only two words? - (Hindi) Go! 45:59.003 --> 46:02.212 At this rate, when will I finish learning Hindi? 46:07.420 --> 46:09.545 How'd we get these donation boxes? 46:10.253 --> 46:13.712 To get donations for the Hindi resistance, I had them placed all over Madras State! 46:15.045 --> 46:18.170 We even sent receipts after learning where the money was sent from. 46:18.295 --> 46:21.962 Most donations came from Madras, Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy and Cuddalore! 46:22.628 --> 46:25.503 Not just students. Even citizens donated wholeheartedly! 46:25.628 --> 46:26.962 Pollachi went a step further. 46:27.753 --> 46:29.128 Even cops donated! 46:29.253 --> 46:31.212 Kid! Mr. New Officer! 46:31.337 --> 46:35.128 Where did those protestors buy petrol to burn the Hindi Federation building? 46:35.712 --> 46:37.545 Instead of investigating that... 46:37.670 --> 46:39.378 ...you're securing more funds for them? 46:40.003 --> 46:41.378 Please do your job, sir! 46:46.378 --> 46:48.128 Know where these were found, sir? 46:50.670 --> 46:54.878 I went to a petrol bunk to get some, saying I need it for an Anti-Hindi protest. 46:55.003 --> 46:57.087 I said I was going to burn down your party's office. 46:57.212 --> 46:58.378 No one asked for money. 46:58.503 --> 47:01.462 They gave it for free, and told me to burn down a few buses and trains too! 47:01.878 --> 47:02.878 Mr. Chief Minister! 47:03.295 --> 47:05.295 Your own people are at war with you. 47:06.628 --> 47:07.837 If you don't pick up arms... 47:09.295 --> 47:10.337 ...they'll finish you. 47:10.462 --> 47:11.462 We need to fight back! 47:11.962 --> 47:14.878 Monitor all phone calls, telegrams and letters. 47:15.878 --> 47:20.212 Heads of postal, telegraph and telephone departments of the state are here. 47:20.337 --> 47:23.003 Flag any communication which seems suspicious! 47:23.128 --> 47:27.212 We need to keep a close eye on anyone who are with the Tamil protestors, yes? 47:27.795 --> 47:28.795 No, no. 47:28.920 --> 47:29.962 Everyone! 47:30.087 --> 47:32.962 Our ministers, government officials, civil servants... 47:33.087 --> 47:35.587 Monitor everyone who has a telephone. 47:36.087 --> 47:37.795 Then what about the Chief Minister? 47:39.295 --> 47:40.753 Even my residence, kid? 47:42.587 --> 47:44.462 Your residence alone has five telephones. 47:46.212 --> 47:47.628 That's where I intend to start! 47:49.420 --> 47:50.420 Sir? 47:50.878 --> 47:51.878 This is war! 47:57.503 --> 47:59.920 A call from Chidambaram on the PP call line. Proceed. 48:00.045 --> 48:01.128 Hello? - Hello? 48:01.253 --> 48:03.253 Hello? I hear you, Ratna. Go ahead. 48:05.378 --> 48:07.003 They've begun searching relentlessly. 48:08.503 --> 48:10.003 Didn't think it'd happen so quickly. 48:10.128 --> 48:11.253 Who? The Madras Police? 48:11.670 --> 48:15.295 No. Some officer who came over from Delhi to investigate this! 48:15.920 --> 48:17.212 He threatened all of us! 48:18.003 --> 48:21.962 He correctly deduced this news was leaked by the National Radio! 48:22.087 --> 48:23.295 You be on your guard, Ratna. 48:23.712 --> 48:26.462 Let me know if you hear anything else. Got it? 48:37.170 --> 48:38.503 He's cleaned up nicely! 48:40.045 --> 48:41.045 Who was on the phone? 48:42.712 --> 48:43.962 I'm the teacher. 48:44.087 --> 48:45.420 I ask the questions here. 48:45.837 --> 48:46.837 Head up. 49:36.545 --> 49:37.795 'O precious pearl...' 49:38.587 --> 49:39.837 'O precious pearl...' 49:40.837 --> 49:44.253 'My heart's all a flutter' 49:44.837 --> 49:48.295 'The ailment of love is at my door' 49:49.587 --> 49:50.837 Broke into my house, have you? 49:51.420 --> 49:52.920 Had he seen you... 49:53.045 --> 49:55.003 You old crone! Today is Ugadi! 49:56.087 --> 49:57.378 I've brought sweet custard! 49:57.837 --> 49:59.878 I painstakingly made it myself! 50:01.337 --> 50:03.003 Try it and let me know how it is! 50:04.045 --> 50:05.045 Hey! 50:05.170 --> 50:06.545 Careful with my pail! 50:06.670 --> 50:07.920 Little one! 50:08.045 --> 50:09.920 Why is the custard coming all the way to the bed? 50:10.045 --> 50:12.712 True, grandma! I've never heard her talk like this. 50:13.295 --> 50:14.337 Something's not right. 50:15.128 --> 50:16.212 Get that custard! 50:31.045 --> 50:32.045 He drank it all! 50:34.753 --> 50:37.212 Grandma! The cow gave birth yesterday, right? 50:37.337 --> 50:38.878 Yes! What about it? 50:39.628 --> 50:41.003 Pour the colostrum in that pail! 50:41.670 --> 50:44.878 They'll think ill of us if we return an empty vessel! 50:45.503 --> 50:48.045 What do we care if they think ill of us? 50:48.170 --> 50:49.295 Come here, you old crone! 50:49.962 --> 50:50.962 What? 50:51.378 --> 50:53.545 You'll have to go there someday to discuss marriage! 50:54.545 --> 50:55.545 Come! 50:57.462 --> 50:59.295 Oh my goodness! 51:00.837 --> 51:02.503 Fine, I'll make some! Go give it to them! 51:02.628 --> 51:04.170 Why must I give it? 51:04.295 --> 51:06.045 Tell the one who drank the custard to do it! 51:06.170 --> 51:07.170 Can't you do any chore? 51:07.295 --> 51:08.420 Don't scold him, grandma! 51:09.878 --> 51:10.878 He's an engineer. 51:11.628 --> 51:12.712 I'll go give it. 51:31.253 --> 51:32.587 How'd you figure it out? 51:33.253 --> 51:34.587 Like it's rocket science! 51:35.045 --> 51:36.628 She says it's Ugadi in the wrong month! 51:36.753 --> 51:38.712 He drinks up custard without brushing his teeth! 51:38.837 --> 51:40.503 Just to go next door, he takes a bath! 51:40.628 --> 51:42.087 Hurry! - (Hindi) Is it "She came"? 51:42.212 --> 51:43.337 (Hindi) Or "He came"? 51:43.837 --> 51:45.503 (Hindi) Can a chair mend himself? 51:46.003 --> 51:47.462 Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! 51:48.462 --> 51:49.587 How many times do I tell you? 51:50.003 --> 51:52.753 Chair is of feminine gender. Bed is masculine gender! 51:53.545 --> 51:56.420 Are the chair and bed looking to have babies together? 51:57.003 --> 51:58.337 Why look at gender there? 51:59.170 --> 52:00.753 Just follow my instructions! 52:03.295 --> 52:04.378 Next one! Quickly! 52:05.420 --> 52:06.503 I need to leave soon. 52:08.753 --> 52:09.753 For what? 52:11.045 --> 52:13.295 A woman has a thousand errands at any moment! 52:13.420 --> 52:15.087 Should I check with you before doing them? 52:19.087 --> 52:20.128 Understood. 52:20.253 --> 52:22.337 You got some protesting to do with that damn Durai! 52:23.170 --> 52:24.462 Don't talk about your brother! 52:25.045 --> 52:26.670 He's out there fighting valiantly! 52:28.087 --> 52:30.295 And look at you! Moron of the highest order! 52:31.503 --> 52:32.503 (Telugu) Knucklehead! 52:32.920 --> 52:33.920 (Hindi) Scaredy cat! 52:36.712 --> 52:38.170 (Hindi) Scaredy cat, eh? 52:38.295 --> 52:39.462 That means coward, right? 52:39.962 --> 52:40.962 Jeez... - Right? 52:41.920 --> 52:42.920 (Telugu) O dear God... 52:43.545 --> 52:45.545 (Hindi) Greetings, sir! Have a good day! 52:46.420 --> 52:47.837 (Hindi) What brings you here? 52:47.962 --> 52:48.962 You said that perfectly! 52:49.087 --> 52:50.628 You really are in a royal mess! 52:51.545 --> 52:54.878 Like Rajaji went to learn Hindi from Mahatma Gandhi's son... 52:55.003 --> 52:57.753 ...this Member of Parliament's daughter is the best you could find? 53:00.003 --> 53:01.212 Sure, let's go with that! 53:03.212 --> 53:04.587 Something funny? 53:04.712 --> 53:08.045 Rajaji ended up not learning even a single word of Hindi! 53:09.420 --> 53:12.837 Then what was Gandhi's son doing instead of teaching him Hindi? 53:12.962 --> 53:14.587 Hindi, Schmindi! 53:15.045 --> 53:17.503 He wooed Rajaji's daughter and married her! 53:18.170 --> 53:19.295 I see... - Chezhiya! 53:19.420 --> 53:20.962 Heard you're getting married too! 53:21.462 --> 53:24.462 Your grandmother seems to be scouring the town for a Hindi speaking girl... 53:24.587 --> 53:27.003 ...as you're about to land a job in Delhi! 53:27.128 --> 53:28.503 She asked me about it too. 53:29.920 --> 53:30.920 Sir! 53:31.045 --> 53:32.545 Let me know if you know any good girls! 53:37.378 --> 53:39.920 Can't say one word in Hindi, and she wants a Hindi girl for him? 53:40.045 --> 53:42.128 Ratnamala! - That old crone wants the moon! 53:43.087 --> 53:45.378 Stop, big shot! - (Telugu) At this rate... 53:45.503 --> 53:47.503 Stop, I say! - At this rate, they'll sell us all out! 53:48.128 --> 53:49.128 Hey, apprentice! 53:49.920 --> 53:50.920 Please hear me out! 53:54.212 --> 53:55.587 Way to light the fuse! 53:56.128 --> 53:57.337 This will do for now. 53:57.837 --> 53:59.795 I'll be back for my next vacation. Be ready. 53:59.920 --> 54:01.878 Will contact you if I need more help, okay? 54:03.920 --> 54:04.920 Ratnamala! 54:07.628 --> 54:08.670 (Hindi) Get in the car. 54:09.170 --> 54:10.337 (Hindi) I want to go home. 54:10.462 --> 54:11.462 By bus. 54:12.378 --> 54:13.670 That's where I'm headed too! 54:20.837 --> 54:23.087 Good freaking grief! 54:30.795 --> 54:33.253 Hey lady... It doesn't look like you're going home. 54:33.378 --> 54:34.378 (Hindi) I want to go home! 54:34.920 --> 54:36.920 You'd dare marry another girl and bring her here? 54:38.462 --> 54:39.628 I'll kill you! 54:51.212 --> 54:52.628 Couldn't you have said so earlier? 54:52.753 --> 54:53.753 (Telugu) Right... 54:54.295 --> 54:55.295 Yeah, right! 54:55.920 --> 54:56.962 How was I to know? 54:57.753 --> 54:59.795 That you'd think of another girl other than me! 55:00.670 --> 55:04.128 (Telugu) How could you even think of marrying another girl, tosser? 55:16.670 --> 55:17.753 I'll learn Telugu as well! 55:40.253 --> 55:43.587 'You caress my heart and depart' 55:44.003 --> 55:45.795 'O tidal wave' 55:45.920 --> 55:48.420 'You steal gazes before taking to the skies' 55:50.503 --> 55:55.878 'You confine this peacock within a cage' 55:56.003 --> 55:58.670 'You set me ablaze and watch it sizzle' 56:00.545 --> 56:03.295 'You appeared before me like a radiant orchid' 56:03.420 --> 56:05.587 'It's moonlight that your eyes shower' 56:05.712 --> 56:07.920 'Like a flower in the wild...' 56:08.420 --> 56:10.420 '...I shall thrive by your side' 56:11.295 --> 56:14.337 'You caress my heart and depart' 56:14.462 --> 56:16.253 'O tidal wave' 56:16.378 --> 56:18.753 'You steal gazes before taking to the skies' 56:59.337 --> 57:00.462 'Day after day...' 57:02.170 --> 57:04.045 'You toot like a train' 57:04.503 --> 57:06.128 'You twirl like a peacock' 57:07.628 --> 57:09.795 'Spare me your tall tales' 57:09.920 --> 57:12.045 'Do away with all these lies' 57:12.795 --> 57:14.878 'A girl's heart, can bear it not' 57:15.003 --> 57:17.003 'Do not bury it all in a bed of flowers' 57:17.128 --> 57:21.420 'You devoured me entire, O deer' 57:22.878 --> 57:25.170 'You caress my heart and depart' 57:26.087 --> 57:27.920 'O tidal wave' 57:28.045 --> 57:30.503 'You steal gazes before taking to the skies' 57:32.420 --> 57:34.420 'Like a flower in the wild...' 57:35.295 --> 57:37.212 '...I shall thrive by your side' 57:38.420 --> 57:42.670 'You confine this peacock within a cage' 57:43.337 --> 57:45.962 'You set me ablaze and watch it sizzle' 58:00.545 --> 58:01.753 'Upon your spine...' 58:03.420 --> 58:05.128 '...shall I flow like a river?' 58:05.545 --> 58:08.087 'Shall I weave together blooms with the caress of my fingers?' 58:08.878 --> 58:13.712 'Even when you play a game of cards, only I shall be the Queen of Hearts' 58:13.837 --> 58:18.253 'A comrade, you may be... But I shan't spare your life' 58:18.378 --> 58:20.545 'I shall forever be...' 58:21.378 --> 58:22.962 '...an earring, hanging on your word' 58:24.045 --> 58:28.503 'You confine this peacock within a cage' 58:29.170 --> 58:31.670 'You set me ablaze and watch it sizzle' 58:33.753 --> 58:36.378 'You appeared before me like a radiant orchid' 58:36.503 --> 58:38.628 'It's moonlight that your eyes shower' 58:38.753 --> 58:41.503 'Like a flower in the wild...' 58:41.628 --> 58:43.878 '...I shall thrive by your side' 58:44.628 --> 58:49.545 'You confine this peacock within a cage' 58:49.670 --> 58:52.253 'You set me ablaze and watch it sizzle' 59:07.337 --> 59:09.170 He waited all day at the assembly for you, sir. 59:09.295 --> 59:10.962 He came home first thing in the morning! 59:11.545 --> 59:15.462 Per the intel I received, black flags will fly here on January 26th. 59:16.003 --> 59:18.003 I need your signature to ensure it doesn't happen. 59:18.462 --> 59:20.670 You're going to Madurai to inaugurate Hindi Week, yes? 59:22.003 --> 59:23.462 There'll surely be resistance. 59:23.587 --> 59:25.712 I'll take care of that, dear boy. 59:25.837 --> 59:27.212 You take care of things in Madras. 59:29.878 --> 59:32.795 What's going on in this country, brother? 59:33.295 --> 59:36.087 Tamilians are dying in a famine like no other! 59:36.212 --> 59:38.128 If we ask for grains to eat... 59:38.253 --> 59:40.545 ...the central government stuffs Hindi down our throats! 59:40.670 --> 59:41.837 Down with that! 59:41.962 --> 59:42.962 At ease! 59:50.503 --> 59:52.962 What is tomorrow's headlines, Mr. Karuna? 59:55.795 --> 59:56.837 Rise up, brother! 59:57.295 --> 59:59.420 It's time to go to war! 01:00:03.253 --> 01:00:04.253 Ten paise. 01:00:05.253 --> 01:00:08.545 Pick up tomorrow's edition of 'Sudar' at the stand and read it yourself! 01:00:10.545 --> 01:00:11.587 Keep the change. 01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:21.628 You dare try to burn down the constitution? 01:00:22.045 --> 01:00:23.670 Call it baptism by fire! 01:00:23.795 --> 01:00:27.712 As January 26th marks Republic Day... 01:00:28.545 --> 01:00:31.170 If the police don't permit us to raise black flags that day... 01:00:32.462 --> 01:00:34.837 ...I suggest we raise black flags in our own homes! 01:00:35.295 --> 01:00:36.837 Comrades! - You're under arrest, sir! 01:00:36.962 --> 01:00:38.503 I urge you all to do so! - For treason! 01:00:38.628 --> 01:00:40.462 You can shut down this press. 01:00:40.962 --> 01:00:43.462 The same story is being printed in thirteen presses! 01:00:43.878 --> 01:00:46.253 How will you shut that down, son? 01:00:47.378 --> 01:00:49.837 When the sun rises, the drums will roar, for sure! 01:00:52.753 --> 01:00:53.753 Now! 01:00:59.295 --> 01:01:00.545 It's okay! I'll handle this. 01:01:00.670 --> 01:01:02.920 I'll handle it! Travel safe! - Come peacefully, sir! 01:01:03.045 --> 01:01:04.045 Shall we go? 01:01:04.587 --> 01:01:06.628 This arrest shouldn't be on any official record. 01:01:06.753 --> 01:01:09.087 Yes, sir. - Keep moving him. 01:01:09.212 --> 01:01:12.170 Four days later, throw him into the Palayamkottai Jail. 01:01:13.628 --> 01:01:16.587 You're going for your interview after paying Chinna's college fees? 01:01:17.420 --> 01:01:18.628 Make sure you pray. 01:01:19.878 --> 01:01:23.128 O dear Gods, please band together and be by my grandson's side. 01:01:23.253 --> 01:01:24.587 Take good care of him! 01:01:25.753 --> 01:01:27.795 When you come back, it will be with a job! 01:01:28.545 --> 01:01:29.753 You think so? 01:01:29.878 --> 01:01:32.795 If they could arrest our leader overnight, think what they'll do to us! 01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:34.503 So what if we have no leader? 01:01:34.628 --> 01:01:35.628 We'll do it ourselves! 01:01:35.753 --> 01:01:38.087 At the party office entrance in Maasi Street, Madurai! 01:01:38.212 --> 01:01:41.712 No matter who gets in the way, we burn their party flag right there! 01:01:42.337 --> 01:01:44.878 Who will burn it? We asked across the entire district! 01:01:45.003 --> 01:01:46.003 No one wants to do it! 01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:47.420 I'll burn it. 01:01:48.128 --> 01:01:49.837 They'll arrest you for treason! 01:01:49.962 --> 01:01:51.587 They'll target and destroy your family! 01:01:52.003 --> 01:01:54.003 A few years ago, the Puranaanooru Squad... 01:01:54.128 --> 01:01:56.545 ...burned down a train and rolled back Hindi imposition! 01:01:56.670 --> 01:01:57.753 We're just like them! 01:01:58.170 --> 01:01:59.170 I say we proceed! 01:01:59.295 --> 01:02:00.753 Even if I die, I die a warrior! 01:02:00.878 --> 01:02:02.378 All hail Warrior Chinnadurai! 01:02:02.503 --> 01:02:04.753 All hail Warrior Chinnadurai! - Hey! 01:02:04.878 --> 01:02:06.837 Who are you guys? What's happening here? 01:02:06.962 --> 01:02:09.587 "Who are we"? Members of Madurai's Anti-Hindi imposition squad! 01:02:09.712 --> 01:02:10.878 Who the hell are you? 01:02:11.962 --> 01:02:15.337 Your precious comrade who's all 'consequences be damned' over there? 01:02:16.212 --> 01:02:17.503 His big brother! 01:02:17.628 --> 01:02:19.503 Please understand what we're fighting for... 01:02:19.628 --> 01:02:21.503 Don't get in the middle of our family issue. Go! 01:02:22.337 --> 01:02:23.670 Fine, beat yourselves to death! 01:02:24.795 --> 01:02:25.920 What's with you, sir? 01:02:26.045 --> 01:02:29.670 You have a home, get meals on time, good clothes and money whenever you want! 01:02:29.795 --> 01:02:31.712 So, you feel privileged enough to protest! 01:02:32.587 --> 01:02:35.212 Know how much these kids' parents struggle to educate them? 01:02:35.337 --> 01:02:36.420 Considered their future? 01:02:38.337 --> 01:02:41.753 Expect us to learn Hindi and become bootlickers like you? 01:02:43.128 --> 01:02:44.753 I'll bootlick and make a living. 01:02:45.128 --> 01:02:46.337 You just focus on studying! 01:02:48.587 --> 01:02:50.462 No one here can get a job! 01:02:50.587 --> 01:02:52.503 Then why the hell do we need to pay college fees? 01:02:56.587 --> 01:02:57.920 Why'd you rip the demand draft? 01:02:58.420 --> 01:03:00.462 Stop it, brother! - Why'd you rip it? 01:03:00.587 --> 01:03:02.128 Don't you know the value of education? 01:03:02.253 --> 01:03:03.378 Brother! 01:03:03.962 --> 01:03:04.962 Durai! 01:03:07.045 --> 01:03:09.128 No, brother! Don't do it! 01:03:10.420 --> 01:03:11.420 Durai! - Don't! 01:03:12.003 --> 01:03:13.003 Don't fight! 01:03:14.628 --> 01:03:16.045 You call yourself a leader? 01:03:17.212 --> 01:03:18.962 Did you bloody think about your followers? 01:03:19.087 --> 01:03:20.087 No, brother! 01:03:20.212 --> 01:03:22.337 Let's see how you protest! - Don't do it, brother! 01:03:23.795 --> 01:03:26.170 I'd rather see you be crippled than lie dead in the street! 01:03:27.170 --> 01:03:28.170 Durai! 01:03:30.212 --> 01:03:31.545 Your leader's leg is broken! 01:03:31.670 --> 01:03:34.045 He must be bedridden for 45 days! All protests cancelled! 01:03:35.753 --> 01:03:38.045 I'll head straight to Maasi Street after my interview! 01:03:38.170 --> 01:03:39.587 If I see any of you there... 01:03:40.420 --> 01:03:42.253 ...I'll bury you all where you stand! 01:03:42.795 --> 01:03:44.670 Just eat and only focus on studying! 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:46.920 Eat! 01:03:49.045 --> 01:03:50.712 Give me a hand! - Get him to the hospital! 01:03:50.837 --> 01:03:53.795 Let's get him to the hospital! - Go easy on his leg! 01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:55.920 Hurry! Come on! - Lift him up! 01:04:04.628 --> 01:04:05.878 Can't you watch your step? 01:04:06.628 --> 01:04:08.670 Hey! Don't fall on the tracks! - My pen, brother! 01:04:08.795 --> 01:04:10.128 Buy another one! 01:04:10.587 --> 01:04:11.712 I don't have money for that. 01:04:11.837 --> 01:04:14.045 I only have enough for a return ticket after my exam! 01:04:21.128 --> 01:04:22.337 What exam, Ayyakannu? 01:04:23.670 --> 01:04:25.420 The Union Public Service Commission exam. 01:04:25.545 --> 01:04:26.878 This is my first trip to Madras! 01:04:27.753 --> 01:04:29.378 Didn't know the route, and got lost! 01:04:29.795 --> 01:04:31.962 I'm running late! This is my last shot! 01:04:33.003 --> 01:04:35.295 The stress makes me feel I forgot everything I studied! 01:04:38.045 --> 01:04:39.128 Here! 01:04:39.253 --> 01:04:40.628 This is a very lucky pen! 01:04:40.753 --> 01:04:42.045 The great Anna gifted it to me! 01:04:42.170 --> 01:04:43.378 Do well! 01:04:46.503 --> 01:04:47.795 Brother! 01:04:48.212 --> 01:04:49.670 Brother! 01:04:51.253 --> 01:04:53.545 Thanks! I'll return it in the evening! - You better! 01:04:53.670 --> 01:04:56.087 Don't drop it on the tracks! - I'll definitely return it! 01:04:56.212 --> 01:04:58.337 I'll be the first collector from my town! Just watch! 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:01.920 When do you head back? 01:05:02.045 --> 01:05:04.087 I take the evening Boat Mail Express once I'm done. 01:05:04.212 --> 01:05:05.378 Very well. 01:05:05.503 --> 01:05:06.545 What about your pen? 01:05:07.378 --> 01:05:08.878 I'll leave it at this counter at 4 PM! 01:05:09.503 --> 01:05:11.253 You better keep it, okay? - I will, brother! 01:05:11.878 --> 01:05:13.795 Come! Get on this bus and get off at Panagal Park! 01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:15.420 Your exam center will be close by! 01:05:15.545 --> 01:05:17.170 Hurry! - Thank you very much, brother! 01:05:21.878 --> 01:05:24.420 Those who are elder must be addressed as 'aap' (you honorific). 01:05:25.295 --> 01:05:27.420 And those younger must be addressed as 'tum' (you). 01:05:28.545 --> 01:05:30.170 And it's 'ithar aoongi' (I'll be there). 01:05:31.295 --> 01:05:33.087 No, you're mistaken. 01:05:33.212 --> 01:05:34.920 As you're a male, it should be... 01:05:35.045 --> 01:05:37.628 ...it should be 'aoonga'. My mistake, sir. 01:05:37.753 --> 01:05:38.753 I'll correct it, sir. 01:05:39.962 --> 01:05:41.378 Sorry. You are not eligible. 01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:43.920 Sir... 01:05:44.462 --> 01:05:45.670 Why, sir? 01:05:45.795 --> 01:05:48.295 Didn't I answer correctly in the job-related questions? 01:05:48.962 --> 01:05:50.420 Your Hindi is very weak. 01:05:51.003 --> 01:05:54.337 Nikhil Sharma, Amit Kumar, Keshav Gupta... 01:05:54.462 --> 01:05:57.837 They've scored very well in the written and oral Hindi tests. 01:05:57.962 --> 01:05:59.087 You are unemployable. 01:05:59.212 --> 01:06:00.712 Mr. Che... Chezeeyan. 01:06:01.170 --> 01:06:02.212 Better luck next time. 01:06:03.503 --> 01:06:04.503 Sir... 01:06:05.545 --> 01:06:06.545 Sir... 01:06:06.670 --> 01:06:07.878 I swear I don't get it. 01:06:08.878 --> 01:06:11.128 You said knowing Hindi was good enough to land this job. 01:06:11.253 --> 01:06:13.253 But now, you expect me to speak fluently like them? 01:06:13.378 --> 01:06:14.378 How is this fair? 01:06:15.128 --> 01:06:16.670 They've been speaking it since birth. 01:06:16.795 --> 01:06:18.545 I've only been learning for a little while. 01:06:18.670 --> 01:06:20.212 There's bound to be a difference, yes? 01:06:22.420 --> 01:06:24.545 Even you couldn't pronounce my name properly. 01:06:24.670 --> 01:06:26.670 Does it mean you're unemployable? No, right? 01:06:27.170 --> 01:06:29.712 I put in a lot of effort for six months to learn this language. 01:06:30.337 --> 01:06:31.712 I'll pick it up on the job, sir. 01:06:32.128 --> 01:06:34.087 I speak English well, sir. 01:06:34.212 --> 01:06:35.212 So what? 01:06:35.337 --> 01:06:37.628 We've even asked the English-speaking President... 01:06:37.753 --> 01:06:39.420 ...to address the Parliament in Hindi. 01:06:39.545 --> 01:06:40.670 You should change too! 01:06:40.795 --> 01:06:44.753 Mister! Per the Official Languages Act, it's compulsory to learn Hindi fluently! 01:06:44.878 --> 01:06:48.712 From the Supreme Court to Civil Service exams, everything will be in Hindi. 01:06:49.128 --> 01:06:50.253 Within one year... 01:06:50.378 --> 01:06:54.003 ...the nameboards of every bus stand, railway station in South India... 01:06:54.128 --> 01:06:55.545 ...will be written in Hindi. 01:06:55.670 --> 01:06:57.962 Instead of giving excuses... 01:06:58.087 --> 01:07:00.212 ...learn Hindi fluently and try again. We'll see. 01:07:00.337 --> 01:07:01.920 Mr. Chay-Zhee-An. 01:07:02.962 --> 01:07:03.962 Next! - Sir... 01:07:04.378 --> 01:07:06.420 No, sir... I can do it better. 01:07:06.545 --> 01:07:08.545 Give me just one chance. I'll learn it, sir. 01:07:08.670 --> 01:07:10.003 Next! - One chance... 01:07:33.462 --> 01:07:37.837 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:07:37.962 --> 01:07:42.253 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:07:42.378 --> 01:07:45.378 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:07:45.503 --> 01:07:49.587 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:07:49.712 --> 01:07:51.087 Sir! - Hold it right there! 01:07:51.212 --> 01:07:52.920 Sir! - Stop him! 01:07:53.045 --> 01:07:54.045 Sir! 01:07:54.170 --> 01:07:55.253 Hey! Get up! - Sir! 01:07:55.378 --> 01:07:56.587 Sir! - Get up! 01:07:56.712 --> 01:07:58.420 I came to take my last crack at the IAS exam. 01:07:58.545 --> 01:08:00.795 They had postponed it by two months, sent us all home... 01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:02.920 ...and said the exam would be conducted in Hindi! 01:08:03.045 --> 01:08:04.087 Son... 01:08:04.212 --> 01:08:08.337 The National Language Committee is yet to decide if English can be added... 01:08:08.462 --> 01:08:10.920 ...along with Hindi as the medium for IAS exams. 01:08:11.837 --> 01:08:14.628 Please wait until it is publicly announced, son. 01:08:14.753 --> 01:08:15.962 Don't be hasty. 01:08:16.087 --> 01:08:18.795 What if the committee says the exam will only be in Hindi? 01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:22.045 So what? You can still write the exam in English! 01:08:22.170 --> 01:08:24.253 Or learn Hindi and write the exam! 01:08:24.378 --> 01:08:28.753 They've announced that learning Hindi can get you a job in the quota system. 01:08:29.212 --> 01:08:31.045 We studied in the Tamil medium, sir. 01:08:31.170 --> 01:08:33.212 It took us 200 years to learn English! 01:08:33.337 --> 01:08:36.378 Who knows how long it will take to learn yet another language? 01:08:36.503 --> 01:08:38.253 We think in Tamil and write in English. 01:08:38.378 --> 01:08:40.545 We have to check for spelling mistakes ten times over! 01:08:40.670 --> 01:08:43.420 But Hindi speakers? It's easy, as it's their mother tongue. 01:08:43.545 --> 01:08:45.337 They're rigging everything in their favor! 01:08:45.462 --> 01:08:47.670 Shouldn't you speak for us as our representative, sir? 01:08:47.795 --> 01:08:50.628 I beg of you, sir. Do not forsake us! 01:08:50.753 --> 01:08:52.795 Toss this lunatic out! - Do not forsake us, sir! 01:08:53.212 --> 01:08:55.420 Get up! Let's get going! - Sir! 01:08:55.545 --> 01:08:56.545 Sir! 01:08:56.670 --> 01:08:58.712 Come on! - I'm not a lunatic, sir! 01:08:59.545 --> 01:09:01.295 Please hear me out, sir! 01:09:08.587 --> 01:09:10.503 Poor lad! 01:09:50.878 --> 01:09:53.545 "Hindi imposition burnt down the only dream I had." 01:09:53.670 --> 01:09:57.003 "Your language politics burnt down my future." 01:09:57.128 --> 01:09:59.712 "Your arrogant power burnt down my life." 01:09:59.837 --> 01:10:03.212 "The useless shell that's left behind? I shall burn it myself!" 01:10:04.337 --> 01:10:06.837 "Yours truly, R. Ayyakannu." 01:10:27.712 --> 01:10:29.962 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:10:30.087 --> 01:10:31.837 Move aside! - Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:10:31.962 --> 01:10:33.170 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:10:33.628 --> 01:10:34.628 Where is your chief? 01:10:35.712 --> 01:10:38.670 The Chief Minister said Madras must remain quiet. 01:10:39.253 --> 01:10:41.503 Our chief is on his way after enforcing that. 01:10:42.212 --> 01:10:43.378 (Madurai - 7 Kilometres) 01:10:44.837 --> 01:10:45.837 Step on it! 01:10:47.545 --> 01:10:49.462 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:10:49.587 --> 01:10:51.878 (Telugu) Please turn that frown upside down, dear. 01:10:52.003 --> 01:10:55.878 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:10:56.003 --> 01:10:59.378 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:11:00.253 --> 01:11:02.295 It's just students who are protesting, right? 01:11:02.795 --> 01:11:04.837 Why not let them, sir? Aren't you a Tamilian, too? 01:11:05.253 --> 01:11:06.253 Pull over. 01:11:06.878 --> 01:11:07.878 Sir? 01:11:09.295 --> 01:11:10.503 I said so in Tamil, didn't I? 01:11:11.087 --> 01:11:12.253 Pull over. - Sir... 01:11:13.462 --> 01:11:14.462 Yes, sir. 01:11:21.045 --> 01:11:23.253 Sir? Sir! No, sir! 01:11:23.378 --> 01:11:24.712 Sir! 01:11:28.087 --> 01:11:31.628 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:11:31.753 --> 01:11:36.712 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:11:36.837 --> 01:11:41.003 They've shut factories for ink and dyeing as well as textile mills in Madurai, buddy! 01:11:41.128 --> 01:11:42.712 We don't have black cloth, paper or ink! 01:11:42.837 --> 01:11:43.920 How do we protest now? 01:11:44.045 --> 01:11:46.545 We're surrounded by cops! Let's leave! 01:11:46.670 --> 01:11:47.670 Come here, child. 01:11:51.212 --> 01:11:52.212 Black... 01:11:53.878 --> 01:11:54.878 Get lost! 01:11:56.420 --> 01:12:00.003 Everyone will take notice of the black flags that fly in the sky today. 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:02.628 At ease! 01:12:02.753 --> 01:12:07.087 Do you know why I came to Madurai to inaugurate Hindi Week? 01:12:07.795 --> 01:12:11.295 I believe the very Madurai where the Sangam movement propagated Tamil... 01:12:11.420 --> 01:12:15.753 ...will also propagate Hindi which will unite our country! 01:12:16.628 --> 01:12:18.003 At ease! 01:12:21.628 --> 01:12:25.462 From now, the official language of India is no longer English! 01:12:26.087 --> 01:12:30.753 To enforce that, I rechristen the Indian Gazette to 'Bharat Rajpatra'. 01:12:30.878 --> 01:12:33.920 Under that name, I release its inaugural Hindi edition! 01:12:34.962 --> 01:12:35.962 Praise be to India! 01:12:37.170 --> 01:12:38.545 (Hindi) The Hindi Week begins! 01:12:38.670 --> 01:12:41.587 (Hindi) The Hindi Week begins! 01:12:41.712 --> 01:12:43.295 (Hindi) The Hindi Week begins! 01:12:43.420 --> 01:12:46.087 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:12:46.878 --> 01:12:49.420 I saw a gang of students break into the bank, sir! 01:12:50.587 --> 01:12:51.920 Let them be trapped in there. 01:12:52.045 --> 01:12:53.878 Do nothing as long as the CM is here. Got it? 01:12:54.503 --> 01:12:56.087 Do what you want to them once he leaves. 01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:03.503 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:13:03.628 --> 01:13:08.587 Long Live the Chief Minister! 01:13:08.795 --> 01:13:10.795 Long Live Tamil! - Long Live Tamil! 01:13:10.920 --> 01:13:15.170 Long Live Tamil! - Long Live Tamil! 01:13:15.587 --> 01:13:16.795 Carbon paper? 01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:18.212 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:18.712 --> 01:13:19.837 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:20.795 --> 01:13:22.087 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:22.962 --> 01:13:23.962 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:24.087 --> 01:13:25.295 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:25.420 --> 01:13:26.712 Long Live Tamil! 01:13:31.128 --> 01:13:32.920 Move aside! - Come quickly! 01:13:33.045 --> 01:13:34.045 Move! - Hold it! 01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:45.920 Hold him tight! 01:13:48.503 --> 01:13:49.503 Hold him tight! 01:14:03.087 --> 01:14:06.003 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 01:14:06.128 --> 01:14:08.878 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 01:14:09.003 --> 01:14:10.420 'Ours is a great army' 01:14:11.587 --> 01:14:13.712 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 01:14:28.712 --> 01:14:29.712 Get him! 01:14:32.087 --> 01:14:34.545 So you'd arrest us if we raise black flags? 01:14:35.712 --> 01:14:37.128 Our hair is black, too! 01:14:37.545 --> 01:14:39.003 Arrest us if you dare! 01:14:40.170 --> 01:14:42.170 Can your prison even contain so many of us, Mr. CM? 01:14:49.462 --> 01:14:52.378 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 01:14:52.503 --> 01:14:55.378 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 01:14:55.503 --> 01:14:57.295 'Ours is a great army' 01:14:57.962 --> 01:14:59.712 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 01:15:19.837 --> 01:15:22.503 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 01:15:22.628 --> 01:15:25.670 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 01:15:25.795 --> 01:15:27.212 'Ours is a great army' 01:15:28.212 --> 01:15:30.087 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 01:15:32.628 --> 01:15:33.628 Light it up, brother! 01:15:34.087 --> 01:15:35.087 We'll show them! 01:15:57.962 --> 01:15:59.587 This revolution will spread! 01:15:59.712 --> 01:16:00.712 It will rage! 01:16:00.837 --> 01:16:02.628 It will rage on! - It will rage on! 01:16:05.378 --> 01:16:06.378 Long Live Tamil! 01:16:06.503 --> 01:16:07.503 Long Live Tamil! 01:16:33.545 --> 01:16:35.170 Don't go in there, sir! 01:16:35.295 --> 01:16:36.378 Let go of me! 01:16:36.503 --> 01:16:37.962 Come on! This way! 01:16:39.128 --> 01:16:40.503 Hurry! - Come on! 01:16:51.587 --> 01:16:52.587 Come on! 01:17:03.962 --> 01:17:06.212 You had 'Puranaanooru' tattooed on your chest! 01:17:06.712 --> 01:17:08.087 You're the leader of that squad! 01:17:09.087 --> 01:17:10.962 Get going! Take cover in Chidambaram! 01:17:11.087 --> 01:17:12.087 Get in quickly, Durai! 01:17:12.212 --> 01:17:13.212 Be safe, Poovai! 01:17:13.337 --> 01:17:15.253 Get going! Step on it and head to Chidambaram! 01:17:28.462 --> 01:17:29.628 What you said the other day? 01:17:30.378 --> 01:17:32.212 The same MO as the 1959 incident. 01:17:32.795 --> 01:17:33.795 Diethyl. 01:17:34.212 --> 01:17:35.253 Arsonism. 01:17:35.962 --> 01:17:36.962 The same man. 01:17:37.087 --> 01:17:38.545 (Let justice prevail) 01:17:39.753 --> 01:17:40.753 He's back. 01:17:41.795 --> 01:17:44.628 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 01:17:44.753 --> 01:17:47.587 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 01:17:47.712 --> 01:17:49.670 'Ours is a great army' 01:17:50.295 --> 01:17:52.670 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 01:18:02.253 --> 01:18:03.337 Why are you mad at me? 01:18:03.462 --> 01:18:04.670 Like you don't know! 01:18:05.587 --> 01:18:06.962 Why did you keep this from me? 01:18:08.087 --> 01:18:09.587 I didn't tell anyone. 01:18:10.337 --> 01:18:12.253 I'm not just 'anyone'. I'm Ratnamala! 01:18:16.378 --> 01:18:17.378 Ratnamala! 01:18:18.295 --> 01:18:19.295 Ratnamala! 01:18:20.795 --> 01:18:21.837 Ratnamala! 01:18:21.962 --> 01:18:24.878 Is she your dear brother Chinnadurai to forgive you so easily? 01:18:25.003 --> 01:18:26.128 You and your lies! 01:18:26.253 --> 01:18:27.295 Way to screw up, Chief! 01:18:36.420 --> 01:18:37.420 Talk to her in Telugu. 01:18:40.503 --> 01:18:41.587 Are you really that naive? 01:18:42.170 --> 01:18:43.587 You should learn all this, Chief! 01:18:52.253 --> 01:18:53.545 'Ratnamala...' 01:18:54.587 --> 01:18:55.587 'Ratnamala...' 01:18:56.837 --> 01:19:00.545 (Telugu) 'Part not from me' 01:19:01.170 --> 01:19:02.295 'Ratnamala...' 01:19:03.295 --> 01:19:04.503 'Ratnamala...' 01:19:05.545 --> 01:19:09.087 (Telugu) 'The moon parts not from the sky' 01:19:10.045 --> 01:19:11.420 (Telugu) Picked up Telugu, eh? 01:19:12.587 --> 01:19:14.337 (Telugu) How can I not? For you, Ratnamala! 01:19:14.837 --> 01:19:18.087 'Why does the world spin round and round?' 01:19:19.087 --> 01:19:22.295 'Why does it crumble apart?' 01:19:23.128 --> 01:19:26.420 'Like a note scribbled in a book...' 01:19:27.087 --> 01:19:30.212 '...I too am lost' 01:19:32.128 --> 01:19:33.337 'Ratnamala...' 01:19:34.378 --> 01:19:35.545 'Ratnamala...' 01:19:36.420 --> 01:19:40.087 'Part not from me' 01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:43.003 'O young princess' 01:19:43.128 --> 01:19:45.003 'Just for you, a yearning knight awaits' 01:19:45.128 --> 01:19:47.420 'With the orchard blooms as your witness...' 01:19:47.545 --> 01:19:49.628 '...relay your response on a scroll' 01:19:49.753 --> 01:19:51.670 'Is your heart made of stone?' 01:19:51.795 --> 01:19:53.670 'Will the bed become one of thorns?' 01:19:53.795 --> 01:19:55.878 'Will this lass torment me endlessly?' 01:19:56.003 --> 01:19:58.253 'My welfare lies in your path' 01:20:21.795 --> 01:20:25.128 'Are you well, my belle?' 01:20:26.253 --> 01:20:29.878 'Can a letter tell...' 01:20:30.712 --> 01:20:35.587 '...how I have fused my kisses in the pen's ink?' 01:20:39.587 --> 01:20:44.545 'How I have run out of words to paint my love?' 01:20:48.087 --> 01:20:51.087 'With you apart, this copy aches' 01:20:52.378 --> 01:20:55.545 'My passion climbs onto this letter' 01:20:56.920 --> 01:20:59.587 'Your image is my only shade' 01:21:00.378 --> 01:21:03.920 'Turn real and be one with me, O love' 01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:07.962 'O young princess' 01:21:08.087 --> 01:21:10.087 'Just for you, a yearning knight awaits' 01:21:10.212 --> 01:21:12.212 'With the orchard blooms as your witness...' 01:21:12.337 --> 01:21:14.503 '...relay your response on a scroll' 01:21:14.628 --> 01:21:16.587 'Is your heart made of stone?' 01:21:16.712 --> 01:21:19.003 'Will the bed become one of thorns?' 01:21:19.128 --> 01:21:21.045 'Will this lass torment me endlessly?' 01:21:21.170 --> 01:21:23.170 'My welfare lies in your path' 01:21:27.253 --> 01:21:30.628 'Ratnamala...' 01:21:31.670 --> 01:21:35.337 'Eyelashes part not from the eyes' 01:21:57.295 --> 01:21:59.337 'O beauty...' 01:21:59.462 --> 01:22:00.878 'In the corner of your lips...' 01:22:01.628 --> 01:22:05.212 '...seeps in a soft smile' 01:22:06.045 --> 01:22:12.337 'Like lightning that streaks across a cluster of dark clouds' 01:22:14.753 --> 01:22:20.170 'Like a song that extends from a semicolon' 01:22:23.420 --> 01:22:26.962 'A pen twirls in between my fingers...' 01:22:27.837 --> 01:22:30.920 'Why don't you exchange places?' 01:22:32.462 --> 01:22:39.503 'Till the moment I caress you, I'm nothing but this letter's paper' 01:22:54.420 --> 01:22:55.878 The telegram just arrived, right? 01:22:56.003 --> 01:22:57.128 We'll handle it! Go! 01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:00.712 A telegram from A. Ramasamy, the head of Madurai University. 01:23:01.128 --> 01:23:02.670 At the attack in Maasi street... 01:23:03.462 --> 01:23:05.295 ...two student comrades passed away. 01:23:05.712 --> 01:23:08.003 The ruling party goons brutally attacked students! 01:23:08.128 --> 01:23:10.128 The cops stood back and watched! 01:23:10.628 --> 01:23:13.587 We're doing a citywide procession against police brutality tomorrow! 01:23:13.712 --> 01:23:15.962 We got authorization! We're going! 01:23:16.087 --> 01:23:17.087 We're going! - Durai! 01:23:17.212 --> 01:23:19.003 How'd they give permission on Republic Day? 01:23:20.462 --> 01:23:23.753 The law gives carte blanche to the cops for any riots on Republic Day. 01:23:23.878 --> 01:23:25.545 That's why they signed off in a jiffy! 01:23:25.670 --> 01:23:26.962 They're luring us into a trap! 01:23:27.462 --> 01:23:29.962 I don't care! They attacked students! 01:23:30.503 --> 01:23:32.295 I'm going. - We'll go on a procession. 01:23:32.420 --> 01:23:33.587 But on January 27th! 01:23:34.087 --> 01:23:37.420 What's deemed illegal on Republic Day is a democratic right on the next day! 01:23:37.545 --> 01:23:39.712 But neither you nor the Maasi Street crew need to come. 01:23:39.837 --> 01:23:41.587 They're hunting you even as we speak. 01:23:41.712 --> 01:23:42.795 I'll go get permission. 01:23:42.920 --> 01:23:44.462 Forget what happened at Maasi Street! 01:23:44.587 --> 01:23:46.087 Only peaceful protests from now! 01:23:48.045 --> 01:23:49.378 That won't cut it, brother. 01:23:50.295 --> 01:23:51.753 Violence is all they understand. 01:23:52.753 --> 01:23:55.045 I lost a friend because I was more violent than you! 01:23:55.170 --> 01:23:57.420 This is war! There will be casualties! 01:23:57.545 --> 01:24:00.628 Not just Netaji! Didn't proponents of Gandhiji's non-violence also die? 01:24:00.753 --> 01:24:02.045 Fear won't accomplish crap! 01:24:03.045 --> 01:24:05.545 Durai... Don't mistake caution with fear. 01:24:05.670 --> 01:24:06.712 It's wisdom. 01:24:06.837 --> 01:24:08.587 You've used every weapon you have. 01:24:09.628 --> 01:24:10.878 Leave this to me. 01:24:11.003 --> 01:24:15.045 All our squads will hold processions in every district on the 27th at 9 AM! 01:24:15.170 --> 01:24:17.170 I'll handle it. Please don't step out! 01:24:23.087 --> 01:24:24.087 Alright. 01:24:26.087 --> 01:24:28.003 As my brother, I don't have to listen to you. 01:24:28.795 --> 01:24:30.503 But as my leader, I have no choice. 01:24:37.087 --> 01:24:39.420 Call immediately if anything comes up on National Radio. 01:24:39.545 --> 01:24:41.670 One of us will always be by the phone. - Okay. 01:24:42.462 --> 01:24:43.545 Start the van, Soda! 01:24:57.253 --> 01:25:00.545 I told you to give authorization to those students. Why'd you cancel it? 01:25:00.670 --> 01:25:02.462 We didn't cancel it. They did. 01:25:02.587 --> 01:25:05.295 The students postponed their mourning procession to the 27th. 01:25:06.003 --> 01:25:07.545 We can do nothing to them that day. 01:25:07.670 --> 01:25:10.128 We have shooting orders for tomorrow as it's Republic Day. 01:25:10.253 --> 01:25:13.045 But to get it for the day after tomorrow, we need to invoke Section 144. 01:25:13.170 --> 01:25:15.170 We need the Chief Minister to sign off on it. 01:25:16.462 --> 01:25:17.753 He picked up the scent! 01:25:20.295 --> 01:25:21.587 Smart bugger! 01:25:27.878 --> 01:25:29.753 Did the CM answer our call? - No. 01:25:30.295 --> 01:25:33.753 We're making sketches of the Maasi Street perpetrators. We're searching intensely. 01:25:34.337 --> 01:25:35.545 I'll get the shooting order. 01:25:40.337 --> 01:25:43.753 Rubber bullets, blank rounds, tear gas... They're all ready, right? 01:25:44.253 --> 01:25:45.253 Yes, sir. 01:25:49.087 --> 01:25:52.337 The CM isn't taking my calls ever since the Maasi Street Incident. 01:25:52.462 --> 01:25:54.087 He wouldn't give me an appointment too. 01:25:54.212 --> 01:25:55.420 Will he give a firing order? 01:26:02.295 --> 01:26:04.253 You did this knowing Ratna is my daughter? 01:26:08.712 --> 01:26:10.837 We've recorded several phone calls... 01:26:10.962 --> 01:26:13.503 ...from your house to Annamalai University in Chidambaram. 01:26:14.712 --> 01:26:15.920 Treason. 01:26:16.045 --> 01:26:18.087 Sedition. Life time imprisonment. 01:26:20.587 --> 01:26:24.212 As it's your daughter, I came personally, instead of sending a police force. 01:26:25.337 --> 01:26:28.795 Press, First Information Reports, this and that... it'll be embarrassing. 01:26:48.503 --> 01:26:50.837 Hello? - It's Baskar Rao, chief. 01:26:50.962 --> 01:26:52.003 Baskar Rao... 01:26:52.878 --> 01:26:56.045 Let's invoke Section 144 at Chidambaram, chief. 01:26:58.420 --> 01:26:59.920 Why do that now? 01:27:01.170 --> 01:27:04.712 Those students are just conducting a mourning procession. 01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:06.920 That's why. 01:27:07.462 --> 01:27:09.878 Much like the how they burned down the Hindi Federation... 01:27:10.378 --> 01:27:12.545 ...we have reliable intel that they intend to burn... 01:27:12.670 --> 01:27:15.545 ...the post office, the telephone exchange and the railway station. 01:27:15.670 --> 01:27:17.170 All central government facilities! 01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:20.212 Who's the source? 01:27:20.712 --> 01:27:22.878 Our youth wing students at that college. 01:27:26.587 --> 01:27:28.295 Inform the district magistrate... 01:27:29.170 --> 01:27:31.587 ...and have them telex the order copy to me. 01:27:32.128 --> 01:27:33.128 Yes, chief. 01:27:45.628 --> 01:27:47.712 Had the CM picked up when I called... 01:27:48.420 --> 01:27:50.170 ...I wouldn't have bothered you, sir. 01:27:56.003 --> 01:27:57.003 What is this? 01:27:57.587 --> 01:27:58.587 (Telugu) What the hell? 01:28:01.337 --> 01:28:02.795 (Telugu) What the... - Stop, miss! 01:28:02.920 --> 01:28:04.545 (Telugu) Even after everything? 01:28:04.670 --> 01:28:06.878 (Telugu) Just one call, dad! - Please listen! 01:28:07.420 --> 01:28:09.337 This is for the students' future, dad! 01:28:09.462 --> 01:28:11.212 You matter more to me than anything else. 01:28:11.337 --> 01:28:12.337 (Telugu) Dad... - Come. 01:28:12.462 --> 01:28:14.045 (Telugu) Please, dad. 01:28:14.170 --> 01:28:15.920 (Telugu) Go to bed. - (Telugu) Please, dad! 01:28:17.545 --> 01:28:19.253 (Telugu) Dad! 01:28:19.378 --> 01:28:20.837 (Telugu) Keep her in there! 01:28:20.962 --> 01:28:23.420 For your bet... betrayal of Tamil... 01:28:23.545 --> 01:28:26.462 ...your party will never come back to power, dad! 01:28:44.503 --> 01:28:45.545 Tie it tightly. 01:28:47.628 --> 01:28:48.628 This too. 01:28:50.878 --> 01:28:52.128 Even higher if you can! 01:28:56.503 --> 01:28:57.503 Brother... 01:29:11.753 --> 01:29:13.003 Chezhiyan isn't here yet. 01:29:13.128 --> 01:29:14.587 We don't have authorization. 01:29:15.128 --> 01:29:20.170 Whether we have it or not, our squads will take to the streets everywhere at 9 AM! 01:29:21.837 --> 01:29:23.212 There are millions of students! 01:29:25.128 --> 01:29:26.587 How many people can they kill? 01:29:28.212 --> 01:29:30.378 I'm going. Let's see what they can do! 01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:32.420 Your brother told us not to go! 01:29:33.212 --> 01:29:34.795 He said he'd get authorization too! 01:29:34.920 --> 01:29:35.920 Did he succeed? 01:29:37.045 --> 01:29:38.420 We'll join you! - Hey, dummy! 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:40.420 Want all of us to get caught? 01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:45.503 We have a lot more to accomplish! 01:29:46.712 --> 01:29:47.753 Stay here. 01:29:48.878 --> 01:29:50.087 I'll go finish this. 01:29:50.212 --> 01:29:51.795 We'll accomplish the rest together. 01:29:55.920 --> 01:29:58.378 It's 8:55, sir! We only have five minutes! 01:29:58.503 --> 01:30:00.420 The Collector agreed to authorize this. 01:30:00.545 --> 01:30:02.503 Five minutes left, yes? Wait. 01:30:07.462 --> 01:30:09.420 (Telugu) Come on! Come on! Come on! 01:30:09.545 --> 01:30:11.878 The arrogance of Hindi oppressors is alive and kicking! 01:30:12.003 --> 01:30:13.837 It is alive and kicking! 01:30:13.962 --> 01:30:16.295 Law must prevail and curb their arrogance! 01:30:16.420 --> 01:30:18.628 Law must prevail and curb their arrogance! 01:30:18.753 --> 01:30:19.837 Long Live Tamil! 01:30:19.962 --> 01:30:22.087 Long Live Tamil! - Victory to Tamilians! 01:30:22.212 --> 01:30:24.462 These people permitted a mourning procession. 01:30:24.587 --> 01:30:26.170 But they also invoked Section 144. 01:30:26.295 --> 01:30:29.170 Who's insane? Them or those of us who work for them? I have no idea! 01:30:32.795 --> 01:30:34.628 "But they also invoked Section 144." 01:30:40.253 --> 01:30:42.212 Everyone leave! Students are going to riot! 01:30:42.337 --> 01:30:45.253 Close the shops! Everyone leave! 01:30:55.837 --> 01:30:58.378 Long Live Tamil! 01:30:59.628 --> 01:31:02.503 If your issue is with the government, go to Delhi and protest! 01:31:02.628 --> 01:31:04.795 Did Gandhi do the Salt Satyagraha Movement in London? 01:31:05.212 --> 01:31:06.587 Is Delhi the only part of India? 01:31:06.712 --> 01:31:08.170 Is Chidambaram in China? 01:31:10.253 --> 01:31:12.753 Long Live The Republic! Long Live India! 01:31:12.878 --> 01:31:14.087 Long Live India! 01:31:14.212 --> 01:31:15.712 Long Live Tamil! - Palaniappan? 01:31:15.837 --> 01:31:16.837 Sir? 01:31:16.962 --> 01:31:18.295 Long Live Tamil! - Let them pass. 01:31:18.420 --> 01:31:19.420 Sir? 01:31:19.545 --> 01:31:20.712 Let them pass, I say. 01:31:20.837 --> 01:31:22.503 Long Live The Republic! - Yes, sir. 01:31:22.628 --> 01:31:23.753 Open it up! Let them pass! 01:31:24.670 --> 01:31:25.878 Long Live Tamil! 01:31:44.545 --> 01:31:45.587 Brother! - Brother! 01:31:45.712 --> 01:31:46.795 They already left! 01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:48.045 Durai left with them! 01:31:48.170 --> 01:31:49.920 We tried to stop him, but he didn't listen! 01:31:53.587 --> 01:31:55.003 Brother! 01:31:55.128 --> 01:31:56.295 None of you come along! 01:31:56.420 --> 01:31:58.462 Stay here! - Listen, brother! 01:31:58.587 --> 01:32:01.753 Do not impose! Do not impose Hindi! 01:32:01.878 --> 01:32:04.670 Do not snatch away the rights of Tamilians! 01:32:04.795 --> 01:32:06.253 We will keep fighting! 01:32:06.378 --> 01:32:08.378 We will keep fighting for Tamil! - Hurry! 01:32:08.503 --> 01:32:09.587 Lock the gate! 01:32:09.712 --> 01:32:12.503 Do not snatch away the rights of Tamilians! 01:32:12.628 --> 01:32:13.753 Close it quickly! 01:32:13.878 --> 01:32:15.420 We will keep fighting! - Hold them off! 01:32:21.045 --> 01:32:22.962 The procession is going along peacefully, sir. 01:32:23.087 --> 01:32:24.378 He's coming peacefully, too. 01:32:24.795 --> 01:32:26.170 Are you sure he's our target? 01:32:26.753 --> 01:32:28.295 He most definitely is not. 01:32:29.295 --> 01:32:30.378 Load this. 01:32:30.503 --> 01:32:31.503 Shoot him in the chest. 01:32:31.962 --> 01:32:32.962 Sir... 01:32:33.087 --> 01:32:34.503 This isn't a rubber bullet. 01:32:34.628 --> 01:32:36.420 It's .303 caliber high velocity bullets! 01:32:36.545 --> 01:32:37.545 It'll kill him! 01:32:38.337 --> 01:32:40.087 We're not sure that he's our target, right? 01:32:41.712 --> 01:32:43.837 You let the one we're after slip away at Maasi Street. 01:32:44.837 --> 01:32:46.503 If we nab and question him, he'll talk! 01:32:46.628 --> 01:32:48.253 Shooting him might cause a huge riot! 01:32:49.170 --> 01:32:50.962 Not at all. He'll never talk. 01:32:51.670 --> 01:32:54.503 Even the last remaining student here won't rat that man out. 01:32:57.337 --> 01:32:58.420 Mr. Superintendent! 01:32:58.545 --> 01:33:04.003 Know how 150,000 Britishers ruled over millions of Indians for 200 years? 01:33:05.795 --> 01:33:07.087 They'd only shoot once. 01:33:07.962 --> 01:33:10.920 But the sound of that bullet would be heard by ten million people! 01:33:12.003 --> 01:33:13.003 This is just like that. 01:33:13.670 --> 01:33:16.045 One outcome? Another person like him won't rise up. 01:33:16.837 --> 01:33:19.628 The other? The sound will draw him out! 01:33:24.170 --> 01:33:25.295 We'll keep fighting! 01:33:25.420 --> 01:33:27.878 We'll keep fighting for Tamil! 01:33:28.003 --> 01:33:29.003 Durai! 01:33:29.128 --> 01:33:30.503 There are snipers in position! 01:33:32.253 --> 01:33:33.628 Just rubber bullets! 01:33:33.753 --> 01:33:35.045 They can't fire actual bullets! 01:33:37.420 --> 01:33:38.670 Deploy tear gas. 01:33:41.753 --> 01:33:42.795 Fire. 01:33:42.920 --> 01:33:44.337 Fire! - We will keep fighting! 01:35:00.628 --> 01:35:01.795 Leave! 01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:03.045 Trying to spook us? 01:35:04.462 --> 01:35:05.462 Long Live Tamil! 01:35:33.878 --> 01:35:34.878 Don't fire! 01:35:38.962 --> 01:35:39.962 Fire! 01:35:40.087 --> 01:35:41.503 Long Live Tamil! - Don't fire! 01:35:41.628 --> 01:35:42.628 Victory to Tam... 01:35:56.837 --> 01:36:03.337 'As the fragrance in the wind, I'll stand strong' 01:36:07.670 --> 01:36:13.837 'As the fire in my brother's words, I'll be reborn' 01:36:14.670 --> 01:36:15.670 Don't fire! 01:36:17.170 --> 01:36:18.170 Don't fire! 01:36:20.712 --> 01:36:21.962 Chinna! 01:36:22.087 --> 01:36:24.753 'I'll brave everything...' 01:36:24.878 --> 01:36:28.628 '...for my brother's beside me' 01:36:28.753 --> 01:36:32.212 Chinna? - 'Let the breeze in my breath...' 01:36:32.337 --> 01:36:36.045 '...speak my brother's name' 01:36:36.878 --> 01:36:42.753 'I shall walk with pride, knowing my brother is by my side' 01:36:46.628 --> 01:36:47.795 You'll be okay! 01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:50.503 'Standing upon his shoulders...' 01:36:50.628 --> 01:36:53.628 Let's go! - '...I shall snatch the stars' 01:37:02.670 --> 01:37:03.670 Move! 01:37:03.795 --> 01:37:04.920 Don't panic, brother. 01:37:05.045 --> 01:37:07.503 Such a puny bullet can't hurt me! 01:37:07.628 --> 01:37:09.087 Don't say anything! 01:37:20.212 --> 01:37:21.212 Chinna? 01:37:21.795 --> 01:37:23.253 Chinna! 01:37:24.837 --> 01:37:28.628 Chinna... - 'You showed me the world' 01:37:28.753 --> 01:37:32.212 'I was born to be your shadow' 01:37:33.545 --> 01:37:36.253 Chinna? Look at me! 01:37:36.378 --> 01:37:39.753 'Let's get the fireworks going' 01:37:39.878 --> 01:37:41.545 'Let's twirl our moustaches' 01:37:41.670 --> 01:37:42.753 Don't give up, brother. 01:37:45.212 --> 01:37:46.212 You'll be okay! 01:37:46.337 --> 01:37:47.337 Get up! 01:37:47.462 --> 01:37:49.753 'You are...' 01:37:49.878 --> 01:37:54.128 Stop! - 'You are, you are God's witness' 01:38:04.045 --> 01:38:05.045 Sir? 01:38:05.170 --> 01:38:06.337 Puranaanooru! 01:38:07.378 --> 01:38:09.212 My younger brother, sir! 01:38:10.253 --> 01:38:11.253 Sir... 01:38:11.378 --> 01:38:13.087 Let go of me! 01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:15.295 Let go of me, I say! 01:38:15.420 --> 01:38:16.420 Sir! 01:38:16.545 --> 01:38:18.087 I'm coming, Chinna! 01:38:18.212 --> 01:38:20.462 He's innocent, sir! Please spare him! Chinna! 01:38:20.587 --> 01:38:22.045 Don't be scared! I'm coming! 01:38:22.170 --> 01:38:24.587 He's innocent, sir! Please spare him! 01:38:24.712 --> 01:38:26.753 I'm coming, Chinna! 01:38:28.545 --> 01:38:29.545 He's still alive, sir! 01:38:29.670 --> 01:38:31.378 If we get him to a hospital, we can save him! 01:38:32.170 --> 01:38:33.337 Get him inside! 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:35.962 'I'll brave everything' 01:38:36.087 --> 01:38:37.962 By saving him... - 'For my brother's beside me' 01:38:38.087 --> 01:38:39.878 ...you expect to win an award for Best Nurse? 01:38:41.670 --> 01:38:44.378 Let him go! - 'Let the breeze in my breath...' 01:38:44.503 --> 01:38:47.920 He's innocent! - '...speak my brother's name' 01:38:49.503 --> 01:38:55.003 'I shall walk with pride, knowing my brother is by my side' 01:38:57.337 --> 01:38:58.837 Let him go straight to the morgue! 01:39:00.503 --> 01:39:06.045 'Standing upon his shoulders, I shall snatch the stars' 01:39:15.795 --> 01:39:17.128 Chinna... 01:39:18.878 --> 01:39:20.087 A college student... 01:39:20.212 --> 01:39:22.212 ...was shot to death by his own government! 01:39:22.337 --> 01:39:24.128 This is a black day for our democracy! 01:39:24.253 --> 01:39:26.003 Yes, it is! - At ease! 01:39:26.128 --> 01:39:27.170 At ease! 01:39:27.295 --> 01:39:29.670 The deceased isn't a student! He was a hooligan! 01:39:30.087 --> 01:39:32.545 Despite knowing Section 144 was in effect in Chidambaram... 01:39:32.670 --> 01:39:34.628 ...he instigated students to go on a procession! 01:39:34.753 --> 01:39:36.920 He violently attacked police officers! 01:39:37.045 --> 01:39:39.545 Do you expect us to put a medal on him? 01:39:39.670 --> 01:39:44.087 I can firmly say you didn't publicly declare Section 144 was in effect! 01:39:44.212 --> 01:39:46.045 Those are tall tales, honorable member! 01:39:46.587 --> 01:39:50.003 The student was fully aware Section 144 was in effect, when he gathered the crowd! 01:39:50.128 --> 01:39:51.128 That's the truth! 01:39:51.253 --> 01:39:54.545 You can spin it any way you like, as that student isn't alive to deny that! 01:39:54.670 --> 01:39:57.420 Blaming them for your mistakes is old politics! 01:39:57.545 --> 01:39:59.337 Yes, indeed! - Honorable Member! 01:40:01.128 --> 01:40:04.128 There is nothing old or new in politics! 01:40:04.753 --> 01:40:07.295 After taking these recent incidents into account... 01:40:07.878 --> 01:40:11.462 To ensure the order of peace is in effect in our state... 01:40:11.587 --> 01:40:13.545 ...and to protect our people... 01:40:14.212 --> 01:40:20.670 ...I announce the strict enforcement of the DIR (Defence of India Rules) Law! 01:40:20.795 --> 01:40:22.087 What? - Mr. Chief Minister! 01:40:22.212 --> 01:40:26.045 The British put the DIR law in place to suppress freedom fighters! 01:40:26.170 --> 01:40:28.628 But now, as soon as the authority reached your grasp... 01:40:28.753 --> 01:40:31.295 ...you've become the very thing you swore to destroy! 01:40:31.420 --> 01:40:32.420 Speak up, everyone! 01:40:32.545 --> 01:40:34.253 We severely condemn the DIR law! - At ease! 01:40:34.378 --> 01:40:35.712 Who will answer for this death? 01:40:35.837 --> 01:40:39.253 (The Hindi song 'Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam' plays on the radio) 01:41:26.295 --> 01:41:27.295 "Greetings." 01:41:27.420 --> 01:41:30.170 "Regional News. Professor's Radio." 01:41:31.295 --> 01:41:32.753 "As teachers..." 01:41:32.878 --> 01:41:34.962 ...we are quitting from the language protests. 01:41:35.087 --> 01:41:39.295 "We regret having stood hand in hand with students until now." 01:41:39.420 --> 01:41:40.712 The student Chinnadurai... 01:41:42.670 --> 01:41:44.170 Under the guise of a language war... 01:41:44.587 --> 01:41:48.253 "...he assembled a group to enforce and execute his own wishes." 01:41:49.045 --> 01:41:50.128 "We condemn that." 01:41:54.212 --> 01:41:55.212 Tamil Professor. 01:41:58.420 --> 01:42:00.712 You forced me to talk like this, you wretches! 01:42:01.420 --> 01:42:03.962 When our people catch a glimpse of biriyani... 01:42:05.045 --> 01:42:06.503 ...they'll let go of their dignity. 01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:13.003 You've had to eat a lot of biriyani, I see. 01:42:15.878 --> 01:42:18.712 In the name of punishment posting, I was relegated to a sewer! 01:42:19.628 --> 01:42:20.628 For six years! 01:42:21.295 --> 01:42:23.712 For six years, I sought perilous missions... 01:42:23.837 --> 01:42:26.337 ...and earned my way back to the top like a dog! 01:42:27.128 --> 01:42:28.337 Did I eat biriyani? 01:42:29.337 --> 01:42:30.628 Or did you let me eat it? 01:42:33.170 --> 01:42:35.587 You? A criminal who burned down a train? Seen as a hero! 01:42:36.378 --> 01:42:38.087 I, who saved lives that day? 01:42:39.087 --> 01:42:40.295 I got punished! 01:42:41.878 --> 01:42:45.045 But now? Both brothers are criminals! 01:42:46.962 --> 01:42:48.420 You broke my trigger finger. 01:42:49.212 --> 01:42:50.420 They said my career was over. 01:42:51.128 --> 01:42:52.128 Did I give up? 01:42:53.378 --> 01:42:55.837 Didn't I learn to do everything with my left hand? 01:42:58.503 --> 01:43:00.337 In the same way, we ask you to learn Hindi. 01:43:02.253 --> 01:43:06.795 But the two of you brothers want to make students lazy... 01:43:07.587 --> 01:43:09.837 ...and intend to hamper the nation's progress! 01:43:10.545 --> 01:43:12.587 A gang that's against its own country! 01:43:16.087 --> 01:43:18.295 Anti-national scum! 01:43:22.753 --> 01:43:23.878 The Sepoy Mut... 01:43:29.087 --> 01:43:31.837 A hundred years before the Sepoy Mutiny... 01:43:32.587 --> 01:43:35.378 ...it was Tamilians who first opposed the British. 01:43:37.670 --> 01:43:40.420 We don't need anyone to lecture us about patriotism! 01:43:44.295 --> 01:43:45.962 You're propagating national progress? 01:43:47.087 --> 01:43:48.087 How is that? 01:43:49.170 --> 01:43:51.253 After burying our fundamental rights? 01:43:52.462 --> 01:43:53.503 On top of that grave? 01:44:00.753 --> 01:44:03.087 Your brother lies exactly where he belongs. 01:44:04.837 --> 01:44:07.253 We burned a corpse that reeked of sewer stench! 01:44:22.587 --> 01:44:24.337 I want all their names. 01:44:25.753 --> 01:44:28.378 Give a statement confessing you burned down that train. 01:44:30.212 --> 01:44:31.753 You only killed one brother of mine. 01:44:36.295 --> 01:44:38.212 There is an army. 01:44:40.045 --> 01:44:42.128 There is a great army. 01:44:44.128 --> 01:44:46.462 To protect my mother tongue... 01:44:46.587 --> 01:44:48.670 ...there is a great army! 01:45:04.212 --> 01:45:05.962 I learned something from the KGB. 01:45:07.878 --> 01:45:11.253 You can't get the truth out of anyone by relentlessly torturing them. 01:45:12.087 --> 01:45:14.837 Because beyond a point... 01:45:16.295 --> 01:45:17.837 ...the brain shuts down... 01:45:17.962 --> 01:45:19.837 ...and they'll have no idea what to do. 01:45:20.837 --> 01:45:22.003 They'll lose their senses! 01:45:32.503 --> 01:45:34.837 But I know you have no such limits. 01:45:37.628 --> 01:45:40.045 No breaking point. 01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:43.795 So, I can do this as long as I want! 01:45:49.878 --> 01:45:51.920 Kill me. 01:45:54.503 --> 01:45:57.420 You went through hell for six years for letting me slip away once! 01:45:58.420 --> 01:46:01.253 Let me slip away again, your entire life will be a living hell! 01:46:36.670 --> 01:46:37.670 Here. 01:46:37.795 --> 01:46:40.337 Stab me with it and escape. 01:46:51.587 --> 01:46:52.587 Will you leave... 01:46:53.212 --> 01:46:56.253 ...or will you die at Thiru's hands like your friend Govind did? 01:47:10.003 --> 01:47:11.253 Who are you people? Tell me! 01:47:11.378 --> 01:47:12.587 (Hindi) Don't hit me! 01:47:12.712 --> 01:47:15.128 Tell me the name of the man who hit me! I'll let you go! 01:47:15.545 --> 01:47:16.837 (Hindi) Please don't hit me! 01:47:19.420 --> 01:47:20.712 (Hindi) Please don't kill me... 01:47:25.628 --> 01:47:26.670 (Hindi) Listen, kid. 01:47:28.045 --> 01:47:29.378 (Hindi) This isn't your fight. 01:47:31.462 --> 01:47:32.545 (Hindi) The names. 01:47:32.670 --> 01:47:33.962 (Hindi) Please don't kill me! 01:47:34.087 --> 01:47:35.753 (Hindi) The names of your allies! 01:47:37.753 --> 01:47:39.753 (Hindi) Just give me the names of your allies! 01:47:40.878 --> 01:47:41.878 (Hindi) Tell me! 01:47:46.670 --> 01:47:48.378 (Hindi) Please don't kill me! 01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:56.670 You were my only bloody clue! 01:48:06.462 --> 01:48:08.795 Your friend didn't reveal your name till the end. 01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:11.003 Thiru won't follow protocol. He'll just kill you. 01:48:13.545 --> 01:48:14.670 Come on. 01:48:14.795 --> 01:48:16.253 Go into hiding in Andhra Pradesh. 01:48:17.253 --> 01:48:18.253 Trust me. 01:48:18.962 --> 01:48:20.128 I'm a Tamilian too! 01:48:24.420 --> 01:48:26.587 Will you tell us where Chezhiyan is or not? 01:48:26.712 --> 01:48:28.587 Tell me where he is! - Answer me! 01:48:28.712 --> 01:48:30.045 Where have you hidden him? 01:48:30.170 --> 01:48:31.712 Tell me! Will you tell me or not? 01:48:31.837 --> 01:48:34.170 If I arrest you all, you'll be in jail for life! 01:48:34.295 --> 01:48:37.170 Don't let anyone go until they tell us where Chezhiyan is! 01:48:37.295 --> 01:48:38.753 Get in the van! - Answer me! 01:48:38.878 --> 01:48:40.253 Where is Chezhiyan? 01:48:40.378 --> 01:48:41.753 Tell the truth! 01:48:41.878 --> 01:48:43.753 Where is he? - The great Anna studied here! 01:48:43.878 --> 01:48:45.378 Know what'll happen if he finds out? 01:48:45.503 --> 01:48:47.295 Your precious Anna is also in jail! Move! 01:48:51.003 --> 01:48:52.003 Sir... 01:48:52.795 --> 01:48:55.253 I tried my hardest to stop him. 01:49:09.253 --> 01:49:10.628 Who the hell are you to strike me? 01:49:11.087 --> 01:49:12.378 I'm an IB officer like you too! 01:49:28.212 --> 01:49:29.503 Are you and I the same? 01:49:30.503 --> 01:49:31.795 Traitor! 01:49:34.503 --> 01:49:35.920 You hiding your grandson in here? 01:49:36.045 --> 01:49:38.212 Where are you going? Don't go in there! 01:49:38.795 --> 01:49:40.003 Get up! Let's go! 01:49:40.128 --> 01:49:41.420 Where's your leader? 01:49:41.545 --> 01:49:43.628 Where is Chezhiyan? - Tell me where he is! 01:49:43.753 --> 01:49:44.878 Don't hit them! - Get going! 01:49:46.878 --> 01:49:47.962 Whack him! 01:49:48.087 --> 01:49:49.962 I can't see! 01:49:50.837 --> 01:49:51.837 Move! 01:50:05.170 --> 01:50:06.920 Hey! Get up! 01:50:07.337 --> 01:50:08.378 Sir? 01:50:15.087 --> 01:50:16.128 Thank you. 01:50:16.253 --> 01:50:17.628 (Hindi) I don't need your thanks. 01:50:18.503 --> 01:50:20.628 (Hindi) Your grandmother's cooking will suffice. 01:50:22.920 --> 01:50:24.170 (Hindi) Be safe, brother. 01:50:33.878 --> 01:50:34.878 No one here, ma'am! 01:50:35.003 --> 01:50:37.045 No one in this compartment, sir. - Keep searching! 01:50:37.170 --> 01:50:39.003 Check the next compartment, constable! 01:50:39.128 --> 01:50:41.170 Check the engine, too! - Yes, sir! 01:50:42.212 --> 01:50:43.337 Go there! - Okay, sir. 01:51:24.045 --> 01:51:25.170 Chezhiya! - Chezhiya! 01:51:25.712 --> 01:51:27.170 (Hindi) What the hell happened? 01:51:28.378 --> 01:51:29.378 The money order arrived. 01:51:30.045 --> 01:51:31.045 What's the plan, Che? 01:51:32.337 --> 01:51:34.920 Many Delhi University students are with us. 01:51:35.462 --> 01:51:37.212 South Indians, North Indians... 01:51:37.337 --> 01:51:39.045 Even Fine Arts students! 01:51:39.587 --> 01:51:40.795 What's our plan? 01:51:42.170 --> 01:51:43.170 It's dangerous. 01:51:43.837 --> 01:51:45.795 Tell us something we don't know! 01:51:46.337 --> 01:51:47.337 Let's go! 01:51:48.670 --> 01:51:50.170 The target is the All Party Meeting. 01:51:50.295 --> 01:51:52.878 Just set up the stuff. I'll handle the rest myself. 01:51:53.003 --> 01:51:54.712 You don't need this hassle! - Nonsense! 01:51:54.837 --> 01:51:56.295 This is a fight against oppression! 01:51:56.420 --> 01:51:58.878 If we let it lie, they'll keep escalating matters! 01:51:59.003 --> 01:52:00.337 (Bengali) One by one... 01:52:00.462 --> 01:52:02.337 They'll break our backbone! 01:52:02.462 --> 01:52:05.003 But the Prime Minister is at the China border, Chezhiya. 01:52:05.128 --> 01:52:07.670 He won't be present at tomorrow's All Party Meeting. 01:52:07.795 --> 01:52:08.878 Let him stay there! 01:52:09.003 --> 01:52:10.295 I'm here to meet someone else! 01:52:10.420 --> 01:52:11.420 Whom? 01:52:12.503 --> 01:52:14.545 You think it's so easy to meet her, Chezhiya? 01:52:34.170 --> 01:52:35.503 (Hindi) Tear it apart! 01:52:45.378 --> 01:52:47.795 All the bus boards have been changed overnight, ma'am! 01:52:54.087 --> 01:52:56.170 What exactly have you written in Tamil? 01:52:56.295 --> 01:52:57.462 They're fuming! 01:52:57.587 --> 01:52:58.628 "Long Live Hindi." 01:53:18.837 --> 01:53:19.837 I'm Chezhiyan! 01:53:19.962 --> 01:53:21.045 From Madras, ma'am. 01:53:23.712 --> 01:53:26.212 For just one day, we imposed a language you don't understand. 01:53:26.337 --> 01:53:27.337 Much like you did! 01:53:28.087 --> 01:53:29.212 How does it taste? 01:53:29.337 --> 01:53:30.378 Hey, Madrasi! 01:53:30.503 --> 01:53:31.670 (Hindi) Get down from there! 01:53:31.795 --> 01:53:33.462 These fellows don't know Hindi! 01:53:34.128 --> 01:53:35.587 Brains are filled with sand! 01:53:35.712 --> 01:53:37.587 Duffers, ma'am! You should arrest them! 01:53:40.420 --> 01:53:42.420 (Hindi) This was our only way to meet you, ma'am. 01:53:43.962 --> 01:53:46.587 (Hindi) I learned Hindi for six months. 01:53:46.712 --> 01:53:48.003 (Hindi) But I stopped. 01:53:48.462 --> 01:53:49.962 I stopped learning it, ma'am! 01:53:50.503 --> 01:53:52.087 Not because I couldn't learn Hindi. 01:53:52.670 --> 01:53:55.670 But because nobody has the right to shove a language down my throat! 01:53:58.003 --> 01:54:00.462 You first told us, "Just learn a few words and that's enough". 01:54:01.212 --> 01:54:04.503 Now you say we have to speak it as well as those who've done so all their lives! 01:54:05.545 --> 01:54:07.212 They're already at the finish line... 01:54:07.337 --> 01:54:10.378 ...while we start from the beginning and we kill ourselves to run this race! 01:54:10.837 --> 01:54:13.087 If we don't do that, we are unemployable. 01:54:13.628 --> 01:54:14.628 You won't hire us! 01:54:14.753 --> 01:54:16.628 Are we not the citizens of this country, ma'am? 01:54:16.753 --> 01:54:17.753 We are! - We are! 01:54:17.878 --> 01:54:19.587 Ma'am! He's a fugitive! 01:54:20.212 --> 01:54:21.337 He has escaped from jail! 01:54:22.128 --> 01:54:23.128 Really? 01:54:24.212 --> 01:54:25.753 Got any record of that? 01:54:26.420 --> 01:54:28.045 Do you have any records of my arrest? 01:54:28.170 --> 01:54:29.170 An FIR copy? 01:54:30.670 --> 01:54:32.587 All we wrote is "Long Live Hindi"! 01:54:33.462 --> 01:54:34.795 And it must thrive in this city! 01:54:36.003 --> 01:54:37.837 We only ask to let Tamil thrive in our soil! 01:54:42.503 --> 01:54:44.337 (Hindi) Your father gave us his word, ma'am. 01:54:45.253 --> 01:54:46.545 It's your father's vow. 01:54:47.587 --> 01:54:48.962 You need to uphold it, ma'am. 01:54:59.087 --> 01:55:01.378 We want justice! 01:55:01.503 --> 01:55:03.212 We want justice! 01:55:03.337 --> 01:55:05.753 We want justice! 01:55:05.878 --> 01:55:07.920 We want justice! 01:55:08.045 --> 01:55:09.670 We want justice! 01:55:16.087 --> 01:55:18.670 But you don't seem to care about the unity of this country. 01:55:18.795 --> 01:55:20.295 In fact just the opposite, ma'am. 01:55:21.545 --> 01:55:23.503 Unity in diversity is the strength of our nation. 01:55:24.878 --> 01:55:25.920 We want unity. 01:55:26.045 --> 01:55:27.337 You want uniformity. 01:55:27.462 --> 01:55:28.628 That's the difference. 01:55:31.170 --> 01:55:32.170 Ma'am... 01:55:32.295 --> 01:55:35.628 I ask for a referendum. Let people vote for their future. 01:55:37.670 --> 01:55:39.753 But referendums are not constitutional. 01:55:39.878 --> 01:55:41.712 Then I ask for a signature campaign! 01:55:41.837 --> 01:55:43.045 We'll seek endorsements. 01:55:43.170 --> 01:55:44.920 Please hear the voice of the public. 01:55:45.045 --> 01:55:47.212 As their representative, take it to the Parliament. 01:55:48.878 --> 01:55:50.045 Isn't that constitutional? 01:55:53.253 --> 01:55:54.878 And you said he's an illiterate goon? 01:55:55.003 --> 01:55:56.003 But ma'am... 01:55:59.295 --> 01:56:00.795 So what is it you want? 01:56:01.462 --> 01:56:02.587 Firstly, ma'am... 01:56:02.712 --> 01:56:04.962 We want English to continue as the official language. 01:56:06.003 --> 01:56:07.295 But I can't decide that. 01:56:08.295 --> 01:56:10.420 You don't have the support in the Parliament. 01:56:10.878 --> 01:56:14.420 And you definitely don't have the 75% majority vote... 01:56:14.545 --> 01:56:16.295 ...from non-Hindi speaking states. 01:56:17.128 --> 01:56:21.878 What if we prove that we have 75% support from the students of all non-Hindi states? 01:56:24.087 --> 01:56:25.795 They're the ones who will vote for you. 01:56:28.670 --> 01:56:29.962 And how will you prove that? 01:56:31.420 --> 01:56:33.753 The state government says there's no dissent down south. 01:56:34.795 --> 01:56:37.587 But I will prove that we're opposing this imposition, ma'am. 01:56:40.337 --> 01:56:43.462 But I'm assuming that the Tamil people are not against Hindi. 01:56:43.587 --> 01:56:45.420 Absolutely correct, ma'am! 100%! 01:56:45.545 --> 01:56:47.670 We are not against Hindi and we will never be. 01:56:48.753 --> 01:56:51.378 We will oppose it only when you impose it on us, ma'am. 01:56:53.503 --> 01:56:54.503 Okay. 01:56:55.587 --> 01:56:58.545 Show me the support when I come to Coimbatore on February 12th. 01:56:59.587 --> 01:57:00.878 You have seven days. 01:57:01.003 --> 01:57:04.795 How do we show numbers when the state govt. has imposed Section 144 on us? 01:57:04.920 --> 01:57:05.962 Fair enough! 01:57:06.712 --> 01:57:08.378 Section 144 will be revoked. 01:57:08.503 --> 01:57:09.503 Ma'am... 01:57:13.045 --> 01:57:14.712 But here's the thing, Mr. Chezhiyan. 01:57:15.962 --> 01:57:18.587 While I understand your reasons for today's protest... 01:57:19.545 --> 01:57:21.212 ...I do not appreciate your methods. 01:57:21.837 --> 01:57:22.837 It was wrong. 01:57:24.003 --> 01:57:25.753 You should not have disturbed the public. 01:57:28.753 --> 01:57:29.753 Sorry, ma'am. 01:57:30.462 --> 01:57:33.128 We have decided to indulge only in peaceful protests now on. 01:57:34.128 --> 01:57:35.878 Please uphold our trust, ma'am. 01:57:36.628 --> 01:57:37.712 We believe in you, ma'am. 01:57:43.003 --> 01:57:46.712 So according to you, he's not going to be able to demonstrate the right support, yes? 01:57:46.837 --> 01:57:48.545 Not even one percent, ma'am! 01:57:48.962 --> 01:57:50.837 Everyone's starving down there! 01:57:50.962 --> 01:57:55.795 Will those people tend to their hunger, or focus on this silly protest? 01:57:56.378 --> 01:57:58.712 Then why must you worry? You shouldn't. - Yes, ma'am. 01:57:59.795 --> 01:58:00.920 You must understand. 01:58:01.628 --> 01:58:05.128 The only way to end this, is to allow him to do this. 01:58:06.295 --> 01:58:09.337 To lose in the eyes of the public once and for all. 01:58:10.712 --> 01:58:11.712 And if he wins? 01:58:12.628 --> 01:58:16.378 We're not bound to accept that decision. - Yes. 01:58:19.128 --> 01:58:21.503 "A Tamil protest that brought Delhi to a standstill!" 01:58:22.378 --> 01:58:26.087 So far, the voice of protestors would only echo through Madras State! 01:58:26.837 --> 01:58:29.295 It has even reached Delhi now! - Indeed, sir! 01:58:29.420 --> 01:58:31.420 Are you behind this, Mr. Anna? 01:58:31.878 --> 01:58:33.253 No, sir. We are not behind this. 01:58:34.337 --> 01:58:36.712 But whoever did this is a brother of mine! 01:58:37.295 --> 01:58:39.212 But whoever has done this is my brother! 01:58:39.337 --> 01:58:42.670 'She, who is like a flowering vine that smiles like the moon' 01:58:42.795 --> 01:58:45.670 'She, who is like a flowering vine that smiles like the moon' 01:58:48.962 --> 01:58:51.962 'With her honey lips, she will endow the essence of life' 01:58:52.087 --> 01:58:54.462 'As you savor it drop by drop, she will bend her head shyly' 01:58:56.753 --> 01:59:00.170 They think we're just young punks who can't achieve anything! 01:59:01.337 --> 01:59:02.378 Let them! 01:59:04.753 --> 01:59:06.087 An army is needed! 01:59:06.212 --> 01:59:07.545 An army is needed! 01:59:07.670 --> 01:59:09.378 A great army is needed! 01:59:09.503 --> 01:59:10.920 A great army is needed! 01:59:11.045 --> 01:59:13.920 A great army is needed to safeguard Tamil! 01:59:14.045 --> 01:59:16.587 'O army of comrades' 01:59:16.795 --> 01:59:19.045 'Let's go to war' 01:59:19.170 --> 01:59:21.503 'Be it life or death...' - Ensure no one finds out. 01:59:21.628 --> 01:59:23.837 '...we shall face it together' 01:59:23.962 --> 01:59:28.712 'With courage, we will seek answers' 01:59:28.837 --> 01:59:32.837 'As a roaring wildfire, we will reclaim justice' 01:59:33.628 --> 01:59:38.253 'Without seeing the light of change, these eyes shall sleep not' 01:59:38.378 --> 01:59:42.212 'Even if bullets pierce our chests, our quest for truth will cease not' 01:59:42.337 --> 01:59:45.545 What crap! What good will come of them? Look at the trash he's reading! 01:59:45.670 --> 01:59:47.920 'We will guard our motherland now and forever' 01:59:48.045 --> 01:59:50.253 'We took to arms that day' 01:59:50.378 --> 01:59:52.670 'Even a calf will pounce in an attack' 01:59:52.795 --> 01:59:55.170 'A needless, needless law...' 01:59:55.295 --> 01:59:57.503 'Won't the arrogance of those in power fall?' 01:59:57.628 --> 01:59:59.712 'Our blood boils to stir us on' 01:59:59.837 --> 02:00:01.920 'A war of blazing passion' 02:00:03.670 --> 02:00:04.670 (Telugu) Dear... 02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:11.670 Will you kill this old crone, dear? 02:00:11.795 --> 02:00:14.128 Without Chinna or Chezhiya, I don't care who lives or dies! 02:00:14.545 --> 02:00:15.545 (Telugu) Dear... 02:00:15.962 --> 02:00:17.212 That soda guy is here. 02:00:18.170 --> 02:00:19.628 Go. - A money order from Chezhiyan. 02:00:19.753 --> 02:00:21.962 'Vanquishing oppressors does not count as sins' 02:00:22.087 --> 02:00:23.337 'Set off like a storm' 02:00:24.378 --> 02:00:25.628 'Set off like a storm' 02:00:26.920 --> 02:00:29.378 'When your wings are torn apart, stand not with patience' 02:00:29.503 --> 02:00:31.628 'If you rise with fury, the oppression cannot go on' 02:00:31.753 --> 02:00:33.337 'Be the action' 02:00:34.170 --> 02:00:35.712 'Be the action' 02:00:36.670 --> 02:00:38.962 'If there's evil afoot...' 02:00:39.087 --> 02:00:41.253 '...mustn't it be quelled?' 02:00:41.378 --> 02:00:43.503 'Cowards, we shall never be' 02:00:43.628 --> 02:00:44.962 Chinna was right. 02:00:45.087 --> 02:00:47.628 Comrades of both Gandhiji and Netaji laid down their lives. 02:00:47.753 --> 02:00:50.962 Another war of independence! - 'A day has a dawn and a dusk' 02:00:51.087 --> 02:00:53.378 'Waging war is the way to victory' 02:00:53.503 --> 02:00:55.753 'Let's get this done, one way or the other' 02:00:56.212 --> 02:00:58.337 "Mere spectators, this puppet government!" 02:00:59.045 --> 02:01:00.420 "A spineless government." 02:01:01.003 --> 02:01:04.587 "A disgraceful, shameless, unjust government." 02:01:04.712 --> 02:01:08.712 The opposition is ripping you apart at the assembly with these words! 02:01:19.837 --> 02:01:22.128 'Our war is for the liberation of Tamil' 02:01:22.253 --> 02:01:24.462 'Shatter the obstacles and leave our foes to dust' 02:01:24.587 --> 02:01:25.878 'As mountains, we shall rise' 02:01:26.753 --> 02:01:28.295 'Reclaim our birthright, we shall' 02:01:29.503 --> 02:01:31.670 'Let the feeling that Tamil is our life soar' 02:01:31.795 --> 02:01:33.962 'Even if the end approaches...' 02:01:34.087 --> 02:01:36.170 '...let's fight injustice' 02:01:36.295 --> 02:01:38.962 'As a fire, let's blaze... We shall never hesitate to rage' 02:01:39.087 --> 02:01:43.837 'The culture that taught justice to the custodians of justice...' 02:01:43.962 --> 02:01:47.337 'How can we accept the orders of the oppressors?' 02:01:48.587 --> 02:01:53.295 'The culture known for its compassion even to a jasmine vine...' 02:01:53.420 --> 02:01:56.337 'How can we accept trouble and be ruined?' 02:01:56.462 --> 02:01:58.170 'Let's get this done, one way or the other' 02:01:58.295 --> 02:02:00.503 'O army of comrades' 02:02:00.628 --> 02:02:02.503 'Let's go to war' 02:02:03.045 --> 02:02:05.337 'Be it life or death...' 02:02:05.462 --> 02:02:07.170 '...we shall face it together' 02:02:07.837 --> 02:02:11.878 'With courage, we will seek answers' 02:02:12.670 --> 02:02:16.878 'As a roaring wildfire, we will reclaim justice' 02:02:20.253 --> 02:02:21.253 May I sit, sir? 02:02:22.003 --> 02:02:23.003 Sit the hell down! 02:02:23.545 --> 02:02:24.753 As if you have manners! 02:02:25.170 --> 02:02:27.962 I had flagged all post offices in Delhi. 02:02:28.087 --> 02:02:29.337 After the protest... 02:02:29.462 --> 02:02:31.878 ...22 money orders were sent, all for the same amount! 02:02:33.378 --> 02:02:34.378 So? 02:02:34.503 --> 02:02:35.503 12.02 rupees. 02:02:36.212 --> 02:02:38.670 Twelfth day, second month. February 12. 02:02:40.587 --> 02:02:41.670 What? 02:02:41.795 --> 02:02:44.962 All along, they've used a sum to represent the day of their operation. 02:02:45.087 --> 02:02:46.378 The day of their operation. 02:02:46.795 --> 02:02:48.087 Turn it around and take a look. 02:02:51.878 --> 02:02:55.295 "We'll meet in Pollachi. Through Aaliyar forest from Valparai." 02:02:56.670 --> 02:02:57.670 "Gandhi." 02:03:00.212 --> 02:03:01.462 What language script is this? 02:03:01.587 --> 02:03:03.837 Brahmi. 2,000 years old. 02:03:05.295 --> 02:03:06.295 How do you know? 02:03:06.420 --> 02:03:09.420 In the last six years, I learned every iteration of the Tamil script. 02:03:11.003 --> 02:03:13.253 I let these money orders go through. 02:03:14.212 --> 02:03:16.003 Shall I say why, Mr. Chief Minister? 02:03:16.503 --> 02:03:17.628 It says 'Gandhi'. 02:03:17.753 --> 02:03:19.962 It definitely must be the Gandhi Memorial in Madurai. 02:03:20.087 --> 02:03:22.670 You know what happened there and who showed up. 02:03:23.253 --> 02:03:27.253 The entire Puranaanooru gang who burned down a train are coming to Pollachi. 02:03:29.295 --> 02:03:32.170 Just one of them brought Delhi to its knees! 02:03:32.795 --> 02:03:34.087 Don't worry, sir. 02:03:34.212 --> 02:03:36.003 Not a single signature will reach Delhi. 02:03:36.128 --> 02:03:38.420 Because not a single one of them will reach Coimbatore. 02:03:39.462 --> 02:03:40.462 I need your orders. 02:03:41.462 --> 02:03:42.462 But... 02:03:43.503 --> 02:03:46.045 Isn't the state police entirely at your command? 02:03:47.212 --> 02:03:48.712 I don't need state police. 02:03:48.837 --> 02:03:49.837 Why? 02:03:49.962 --> 02:03:51.212 Look at their names! 02:03:51.337 --> 02:03:54.003 Tamilkumaran, Tamilarasan, Tamilvendan... Tamil everywhere! 02:03:54.128 --> 02:03:55.462 I can't do shit with them! 02:03:57.087 --> 02:03:58.795 I want a special task force. 02:04:01.295 --> 02:04:02.378 My requisition. 02:04:02.503 --> 02:04:06.795 Non-Tamil speaking police and personnel from other states. 02:04:06.920 --> 02:04:07.962 Immediately. 02:04:08.587 --> 02:04:09.628 There won't be any media. 02:04:11.212 --> 02:04:13.628 We'll wipe them out and bury them in Pollachi. 02:04:14.295 --> 02:04:15.503 The public will never know. 02:04:16.212 --> 02:04:17.920 Come! Park here! 02:04:18.587 --> 02:04:20.545 No problems on the way, Vaigarai? - No. 02:04:20.670 --> 02:04:22.712 Haven't seen you all in six years! - Brother! 02:04:22.837 --> 02:04:25.878 I've had our boys stashed away all across Pollachi! 02:04:26.003 --> 02:04:27.628 Don't worry. We'll take care of them. 02:04:27.753 --> 02:04:29.212 Signatures arrive safely? 02:04:30.503 --> 02:04:32.295 Where are the kids from the other states? 02:04:32.420 --> 02:04:33.795 Michael, Chacko and the rest? 02:04:34.795 --> 02:04:35.962 Just our state, huh? 02:04:37.170 --> 02:04:39.087 We need them to get the majority, right? 02:04:39.212 --> 02:04:41.753 We'll have to make do with those who are here by dawn. 02:04:43.462 --> 02:04:45.837 Been years since you all tasted this soda! Open one up! 02:04:47.003 --> 02:04:48.962 Park these vans in the grove, Palanisamy! 02:04:49.087 --> 02:04:50.087 Let's go! Come on! 02:04:50.212 --> 02:04:51.670 Not a single van should be seen here! 02:04:51.795 --> 02:04:53.045 Come along, Poovai! 02:04:53.170 --> 02:04:54.628 I'll go to my Grandma's tonight. 02:04:54.753 --> 02:04:56.503 I'll bring the guys over before dawn! 02:04:57.087 --> 02:04:58.337 Be safe. - Will do! 02:05:03.295 --> 02:05:04.295 Hold this! 02:05:11.045 --> 02:05:12.170 Sir! 02:05:12.295 --> 02:05:14.878 No chance a single student has crossed this check post. 02:05:23.420 --> 02:05:24.420 It's time, Chezhiya. 02:05:25.045 --> 02:05:27.003 I don't think those guys are coming. 02:05:27.753 --> 02:05:28.753 Chezhiya! 02:05:30.045 --> 02:05:31.128 I have an idea! 02:05:31.253 --> 02:05:33.878 There's something called pirate radio. We can talk on that! 02:05:34.003 --> 02:05:36.045 We can tell the world what's happening here. 02:05:36.170 --> 02:05:37.503 At Dhanushkodi last year... 02:05:37.628 --> 02:05:40.212 Enough! Stick to just screwing around electric wires! 02:05:40.337 --> 02:05:43.128 Like you're Sarojini Naidu who can sing like a bird on the mic! 02:05:43.253 --> 02:05:45.712 And she claims she can save Tamil! 02:05:45.837 --> 02:05:49.462 She fancies she can save it all with radio parts she stole! 02:05:50.087 --> 02:05:51.128 Listen! 02:05:51.253 --> 02:05:52.712 I was born and raised here! 02:05:53.337 --> 02:05:55.295 I'm just as much Tamil as you are! 02:05:56.128 --> 02:05:57.253 Understand this! 02:05:57.878 --> 02:06:01.878 If Telugu is named the national language, I will be the first to protest against it! 02:06:09.420 --> 02:06:10.837 "How can I talk in the radio?" 02:06:10.962 --> 02:06:13.253 "You already know the answer, Ratna." 02:06:13.378 --> 02:06:16.587 "This government has every radio station and newspaper in its pocket!" 02:06:16.712 --> 02:06:19.795 "They decide what news the public gets to hear and read!" 02:06:20.420 --> 02:06:21.503 "We need to shatter that." 02:06:22.420 --> 02:06:24.503 "Are radio waves their birthright?" 02:06:25.045 --> 02:06:27.170 "They can hear it even if we talk, right?" 02:06:27.295 --> 02:06:28.712 "Speak, Ratna!" 02:06:29.503 --> 02:06:30.795 "We'll see what they do!" 02:06:35.045 --> 02:06:38.670 From a certain height and a certain angle... 02:06:38.795 --> 02:06:40.628 ...we can broadcast across long distances. 02:06:41.878 --> 02:06:45.378 We can even hack into the frequency of National Radio! 02:06:47.087 --> 02:06:48.212 Signal intrusion. 02:06:49.670 --> 02:06:51.337 I learned it from the enemy, Mister. 02:06:52.587 --> 02:06:53.587 Highly risky. 02:06:54.462 --> 02:06:55.545 But it's doable! 02:06:56.212 --> 02:06:58.795 We should use it to tell the world what's happening here! 02:07:02.378 --> 02:07:04.420 (Telugu) Who the hell are you to question me? 02:07:04.545 --> 02:07:07.045 (Telugu) You can't speak two languages even to save your life! 02:07:07.170 --> 02:07:09.253 (Telugu) I'll rip your tongue out, jackass! 02:07:09.378 --> 02:07:11.212 (Telugu) Brainless oaf! 02:07:12.003 --> 02:07:14.170 (Telugu) Who the hell are you to question me? 02:07:15.962 --> 02:07:19.003 Hey... She's saying something in Telugu. 02:07:19.545 --> 02:07:20.545 I don't follow! 02:07:21.712 --> 02:07:23.545 She can cuss in all languages! 02:07:34.628 --> 02:07:35.628 Michael Reddy! 02:07:42.712 --> 02:07:43.712 Shariffa! 02:07:44.628 --> 02:07:45.628 Welcome! 02:07:46.295 --> 02:07:47.295 Chezhiya! 02:07:53.462 --> 02:07:54.920 When I saw the codeword 'Gandhi'... 02:07:55.837 --> 02:07:58.003 ...I knew I had to come here even if it costs me my life! 02:07:58.128 --> 02:08:00.503 The first money order in six years! How could I not come? 02:08:00.628 --> 02:08:02.628 How'd you get past the cops? 02:08:02.753 --> 02:08:05.295 We parked at Udumalaipettai and took the freight train! 02:08:05.420 --> 02:08:07.753 That's how we get the goods for our mill! 02:08:08.378 --> 02:08:10.837 Chacko couldn't make it, Che. 02:08:11.670 --> 02:08:14.337 He was summoned for a government operation. 02:08:14.462 --> 02:08:16.087 Only Kerala signatures aren't here yet? 02:08:16.212 --> 02:08:17.795 Come, let's go eat! - Brother! 02:08:19.003 --> 02:08:20.128 It's okay. We'll handle it. 02:08:20.587 --> 02:08:23.337 You guys have come from all over the nation to save a mother tongue! 02:08:23.462 --> 02:08:25.462 What kind of man would I be if I didn't feed our kin? 02:08:26.295 --> 02:08:28.795 Come along, everyone! 02:08:30.878 --> 02:08:32.378 Eat as much as you want! 02:08:33.295 --> 02:08:35.128 (Telugu) Eat well! 02:08:35.837 --> 02:08:38.087 Serve some to the Bengali girl! - (Kannada) Chow down! 02:08:38.753 --> 02:08:42.212 (Bengali) Eating on banana leaves seems to be a staple of Tamil culture. 02:08:42.337 --> 02:08:43.712 (Bengali) Great food, right? 02:08:44.503 --> 02:08:45.795 (Telugu) Damn! So spicy! 02:08:46.670 --> 02:08:49.003 Come to Madurai and we'll gorge down spiny loach soup! 02:08:50.128 --> 02:08:51.545 No food like Madurai food! 02:08:52.253 --> 02:08:55.128 (Kannada) Come over to my place! You won't see food like ours anywhere! 02:08:58.295 --> 02:08:59.628 This is our India right here! 02:08:59.753 --> 02:09:03.003 Banana leaves loaded with stew, vegetables, lentil curry, tamarind stew... 02:09:03.128 --> 02:09:04.462 Like a feast! 02:09:04.587 --> 02:09:06.420 But what does this damn government say? 02:09:06.545 --> 02:09:08.962 They're trying to turn India into a land of dry chapatis! 02:09:09.087 --> 02:09:10.087 The dumbos! 02:09:10.212 --> 02:09:12.212 (Telugu) Hit the nail in the head! - Spot on! 02:09:13.837 --> 02:09:14.837 Eat well! 02:09:16.587 --> 02:09:18.837 Relax. We'll mop the floor with them! 02:09:18.962 --> 02:09:20.295 (Kannada) Well said! 02:09:25.545 --> 02:09:26.712 Leave in half an hour. 02:09:37.253 --> 02:09:39.462 Attention, citizens! 02:09:40.337 --> 02:09:43.212 Turn in the students who are hiding in your town immediately! 02:09:44.045 --> 02:09:45.920 I have shooting orders! 02:09:47.628 --> 02:09:49.753 Why must you die for those miscreants? 02:09:51.003 --> 02:09:52.878 How did this mongrel pick up our scent? 02:09:54.795 --> 02:09:55.920 He read my tattoo. 02:09:58.045 --> 02:09:59.420 He saw the money orders. 02:10:00.670 --> 02:10:01.712 He understands Brahmi! 02:10:02.587 --> 02:10:03.753 How did this slip past me? 02:10:04.670 --> 02:10:05.670 But... 02:10:06.170 --> 02:10:09.003 But why did he let money orders through and get us here? 02:10:13.628 --> 02:10:14.837 Brother Thambi? 02:10:14.962 --> 02:10:17.045 Is there another way in to Coimbatore? 02:10:18.545 --> 02:10:19.545 No, there isn't. 02:10:20.087 --> 02:10:22.545 There is a way. But... 02:10:28.878 --> 02:10:29.878 Sir! 02:10:30.670 --> 02:10:31.670 Forces are here, sir. 02:10:31.795 --> 02:10:34.003 (Malayalam) It's all quiet. There's no issue here! 02:10:34.128 --> 02:10:35.212 Hey! 02:10:35.337 --> 02:10:37.087 We already told you there's nobody here! 02:10:37.212 --> 02:10:38.212 Leave! 02:10:40.670 --> 02:10:41.670 Get going! 02:10:42.670 --> 02:10:44.378 Please leave! 02:10:46.212 --> 02:10:47.795 (Malayalam) There seems to be no issue. 02:10:47.920 --> 02:10:49.253 Then create one! 02:10:54.670 --> 02:10:57.087 This is how the factory's sewage reaches the Aliyar river. 02:10:57.212 --> 02:10:59.420 You can use it to get to the outskirts of town! 02:10:59.545 --> 02:11:01.087 Easy to reach the main road from there! 02:11:02.712 --> 02:11:04.378 Sir... - (Malayalam) Search that side! 02:11:04.503 --> 02:11:05.712 What's going on, sir? 02:11:06.253 --> 02:11:07.920 (Malayalam) We got one! - Let go of me. 02:11:08.045 --> 02:11:09.420 (Malayalam) Come! - Let go of him! 02:11:09.545 --> 02:11:10.545 Let go! 02:11:10.670 --> 02:11:13.670 Please spare my grandson! - (Malayalam) Don't let him escape! 02:11:13.795 --> 02:11:14.962 Let go! 02:11:15.087 --> 02:11:16.628 Why are you arresting me? 02:11:16.753 --> 02:11:18.045 Let go of my hand! 02:11:18.170 --> 02:11:19.712 Let go! - (Malayalam) I'll whack you! 02:11:34.420 --> 02:11:36.378 This is the reason for the trouble, right? Watch! 02:11:38.962 --> 02:11:40.670 Careful! - Come quickly! 02:11:40.795 --> 02:11:42.837 One at a time! - Hurry! 02:11:42.962 --> 02:11:44.045 Watch your step, dear! 02:11:44.170 --> 02:11:45.587 (Hindi) Careful, Ratna! - Be safe! 02:11:46.003 --> 02:11:47.753 He smeared dung on the post office board. 02:11:48.628 --> 02:11:50.378 Is it still quiet, Commander? 02:11:54.378 --> 02:11:57.503 They killed him! Is there no one to question this injustice? 02:11:59.420 --> 02:12:00.837 My dear boy! 02:12:06.503 --> 02:12:08.587 Forces! Lathi charge! 02:12:08.712 --> 02:12:11.045 Come on! Charge! 02:12:27.212 --> 02:12:28.503 I'm not leaving you behind. 02:12:29.795 --> 02:12:32.503 If our last stand is deemed to be in Pollachi, so be it! 02:12:33.587 --> 02:12:35.545 What's the point if we all perish here? 02:12:36.170 --> 02:12:38.462 Our army and these signatures need to reach Coimbatore! 02:12:38.587 --> 02:12:40.753 Gather everyone and leave! I'll come with the van! 02:12:52.295 --> 02:12:53.295 Leave them alone! 02:12:53.420 --> 02:12:54.962 You killed my grandson! 02:12:58.545 --> 02:12:59.837 The mob is attacking us, sir! 02:12:59.962 --> 02:13:01.837 We're suffering casualties! We need backup! 02:13:02.753 --> 02:13:03.753 You may leave. 02:13:20.587 --> 02:13:22.670 I'll have the vans drop off the goods. 02:13:23.670 --> 02:13:24.837 Travel safe! 02:13:26.212 --> 02:13:27.587 Victory and courage to us all! 02:13:33.087 --> 02:13:35.087 (Hindi) Search every inch of this place! Hurry! 02:13:35.212 --> 02:13:36.212 Go! Go! Go! 02:13:36.337 --> 02:13:39.545 (Hindi) Search every single house! Hurry! 02:13:51.337 --> 02:13:53.545 (Hindi) Move in! Search the whole place! Go! 02:13:54.212 --> 02:13:55.212 Quick! 02:14:10.837 --> 02:14:11.837 Dubey! 02:14:11.962 --> 02:14:13.337 (Hindi) Nobody there! Let's go! 02:14:49.712 --> 02:14:52.462 (Hindi) They're making a run for it! - (Hindi) Catch them! 02:14:52.587 --> 02:14:53.670 (Hindi) No one escapes! 02:14:55.253 --> 02:14:56.503 Won't answer me, huh? 02:14:57.670 --> 02:14:59.670 Just turn in the students and the signatures. 02:15:04.295 --> 02:15:06.170 Rifle Company! Open fire! 02:15:10.587 --> 02:15:16.503 These mongrels have decided to turn Pollachi into a cemetery? 02:15:21.878 --> 02:15:23.378 Hey! Come on! 02:15:23.503 --> 02:15:24.545 Come along, Ratna! 02:15:24.670 --> 02:15:26.962 I have an important errand to run. Be right back. 02:15:27.087 --> 02:15:28.878 Go on. - Are you insane? 02:15:29.003 --> 02:15:30.962 They're shooting us down without any restraint! 02:15:31.087 --> 02:15:32.087 Come along, I say! 02:15:37.045 --> 02:15:38.045 Go on. 02:15:38.587 --> 02:15:39.587 Be safe. 02:15:41.212 --> 02:15:43.003 Let's go! Come on! 02:15:44.753 --> 02:15:46.920 (Hindi) Get down from there! 02:15:48.670 --> 02:15:49.962 (Hindi) Come along! 02:15:50.545 --> 02:15:51.670 (Hindi) Get out from there! 02:15:52.087 --> 02:15:53.295 (Hindi) Get out from there! 02:15:53.420 --> 02:15:54.753 I have a child, sir! 02:15:55.337 --> 02:15:57.503 Please tell them not to fire, sir! 02:16:16.920 --> 02:16:18.253 We caught the students, sir. 02:16:37.878 --> 02:16:40.128 Answer my question only with the truth. 02:16:41.295 --> 02:16:42.545 Where is Chezhiyan? 02:16:43.462 --> 02:16:44.462 Sir! 02:16:45.462 --> 02:16:47.712 Found the signed papers? - No, sir. 02:16:55.087 --> 02:16:56.712 One by one, all of you will die! 02:16:57.337 --> 02:16:59.462 Tell me! Where is Chezhiyan? 02:17:00.087 --> 02:17:01.087 I don't know, sir. 02:17:04.378 --> 02:17:07.087 If you couldn't find the papers, it doesn't mean they're not here! 02:17:07.837 --> 02:17:09.087 Go search! - Yes, sir! 02:17:09.587 --> 02:17:11.920 (Hindi) Search every inch of this town! 02:17:12.045 --> 02:17:13.878 Every single one of you are suspects! 02:17:14.462 --> 02:17:16.795 You! You! You! All of you are suspects! 02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:19.170 If I toss you in jail, you'll be there for life! 02:17:19.295 --> 02:17:21.170 Please, sir... Don't... - Where is Chezhiyan? 02:17:21.295 --> 02:17:22.462 Where the hell is he? 02:17:22.587 --> 02:17:24.253 I swear I don't know! 02:17:26.170 --> 02:17:27.212 Sir! 02:17:27.337 --> 02:17:28.670 Why are you doing this to us? 02:18:16.253 --> 02:18:17.253 You found your target. 02:18:18.587 --> 02:18:19.587 Let these people go. 02:18:21.045 --> 02:18:22.045 Sir! 02:18:22.170 --> 02:18:23.587 All the signatures are in there! 02:18:25.545 --> 02:18:26.670 Burn them. 02:18:26.795 --> 02:18:27.878 Burn them all. 02:18:55.628 --> 02:18:57.003 Where the hell are the papers? 02:18:57.128 --> 02:18:58.378 Tricking me with empty sheets? 02:19:09.962 --> 02:19:12.087 You took your own sweet time, Major! You're late! 02:19:12.962 --> 02:19:15.420 Shoot all of them and burn them all! 02:19:16.170 --> 02:19:18.253 There must be no evidence of this entire incident! 02:19:18.378 --> 02:19:19.962 History should have no record of this! 02:19:22.503 --> 02:19:23.670 Major! 02:19:24.212 --> 02:19:25.587 Don't shoot him! I need him! 02:19:31.712 --> 02:19:32.712 Brother Thambi! 02:19:33.420 --> 02:19:34.962 Do you know to drive this thing or not? 02:19:35.462 --> 02:19:36.795 My first time, buddy! 02:19:36.920 --> 02:19:38.295 The drivers usually handle this! 02:19:39.212 --> 02:19:40.337 Don't be scared! 02:19:40.462 --> 02:19:42.337 Just watch how we reach our destination! 02:19:42.462 --> 02:19:43.587 Where? - Where, brother? 02:19:44.337 --> 02:19:46.087 Where are we going? - "Where are we going"? 02:19:46.503 --> 02:19:48.420 Where else? Coimbatore! - Seems unlikely! 02:20:04.795 --> 02:20:05.795 Police! 02:20:06.462 --> 02:20:09.795 Come what may, that lady doesn't leave without seeing the signatures! 02:20:09.920 --> 02:20:11.128 I'll handle the cops. 02:20:11.253 --> 02:20:12.587 (Telugu) Get it done, Shariffa. 02:20:12.712 --> 02:20:14.337 (Telugu) See to it. - (Kannada) I will. 02:20:17.128 --> 02:20:18.378 Careful, Michael! 02:20:20.337 --> 02:20:21.837 (Kannada) Be alert, Michael Reddy! 02:20:26.670 --> 02:20:28.628 (Malayalam) One of them is getting away! Get him! 02:20:30.712 --> 02:20:33.587 (Hindi) Hurry! Keep going! - (Hindi) Back it up! Even more! 02:20:38.462 --> 02:20:39.462 (Malayalam) Stop! 02:20:40.545 --> 02:20:41.545 (Malayalam) Stop him! 02:20:42.337 --> 02:20:43.337 (Malayalam) Get him! 02:20:50.045 --> 02:20:52.712 (Kannada) Don't stop, brother! Keep going! 02:21:01.503 --> 02:21:02.503 Michael! 02:21:36.878 --> 02:21:37.878 Come in, Gauri! 02:21:40.545 --> 02:21:41.962 The minister's life is in danger! 02:21:42.587 --> 02:21:45.003 Get her out of the Coimbatore station immediately! 02:21:45.712 --> 02:21:46.712 I can't hear you, sir. 02:21:46.837 --> 02:21:47.837 Come in, Gauri! 02:21:48.962 --> 02:21:51.587 The minister's life is in jeopardy! Get her out of the station! 02:21:58.253 --> 02:21:59.837 Hoist it that side! Can't get a signal! 02:22:09.337 --> 02:22:10.420 Got it! - Got it? 02:22:10.545 --> 02:22:11.545 Yes! 02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:18.837 For a human to think... 02:22:19.420 --> 02:22:20.753 ...the most impor... 02:22:20.878 --> 02:22:24.003 ...important tool... 02:22:24.837 --> 02:22:26.878 ...is... is... 02:22:27.003 --> 02:22:28.003 ...language! 02:22:45.795 --> 02:22:48.337 Destroying a language is akin to destroying one's identity. 02:22:48.837 --> 02:22:51.753 An individual without an identity can easily be enslaved. 02:22:52.795 --> 02:22:54.337 Language politics in a nutshell! 02:22:56.003 --> 02:22:59.628 Destroying my mother tongue is akin to destroying my ability to think. 02:23:01.170 --> 02:23:04.087 If we are unable to think, how can we ever make progress? 02:23:06.295 --> 02:23:07.795 That's what they want. 02:23:09.795 --> 02:23:13.878 To show your support for Tamil, assemble at the Coimbatore Junction! 02:23:22.045 --> 02:23:24.003 Go for field radio officer, 13th Company, over! 02:23:24.795 --> 02:23:26.212 Special Officer Thiru here! Over! 02:23:26.337 --> 02:23:28.087 Reading loud and clear! I await your order! 02:23:28.212 --> 02:23:31.712 They've planted bombs on a freight train heading from Podanur to Coimbatore! 02:23:31.837 --> 02:23:34.378 Target is the I&B minister! It'll explode on arrival! 02:23:34.503 --> 02:23:37.253 Contact the station master now and have him stop the train! 02:23:37.378 --> 02:23:38.378 Roger that, sir! 02:23:39.087 --> 02:23:40.212 Where are the students? 02:23:41.295 --> 02:23:42.795 They just talk tough, ma'am. 02:23:44.295 --> 02:23:46.920 Give them a mic, and they'll ramble for hours! 02:23:48.878 --> 02:23:51.420 You can get going. Why needlessly waste your time? 02:23:52.295 --> 02:23:53.878 Have an escort ready for Ma'am. 02:23:54.003 --> 02:23:55.003 Chief... 02:23:57.878 --> 02:23:58.878 My resignation. 02:24:00.795 --> 02:24:01.795 What the hell, man? 02:24:01.920 --> 02:24:03.128 No sense of timing! 02:24:04.128 --> 02:24:05.337 Not the time for all this! 02:24:05.878 --> 02:24:07.087 What is the problem, Mr. Rao? 02:24:07.628 --> 02:24:08.628 Ma'am... 02:24:08.753 --> 02:24:10.170 There's still two hours left. 02:24:10.587 --> 02:24:12.378 You've given your word. Please uphold it. 02:24:30.670 --> 02:24:31.753 Why didn't the train stop? 02:24:32.253 --> 02:24:33.253 Come in, RTO! 02:24:33.837 --> 02:24:34.878 What the hell! 02:24:35.003 --> 02:24:36.003 Soldiers! 02:24:39.587 --> 02:24:42.003 'Fire up your intellect and make your foes tremble' 02:24:42.128 --> 02:24:43.128 (Malayalam) Hurry! 02:24:43.253 --> 02:24:45.253 'Sharpen your core and erupt like a volcano' 02:24:45.378 --> 02:24:47.337 'Ours is a great army' 02:24:48.462 --> 02:24:50.087 'Bear witness, for ours is a great army' 02:24:51.837 --> 02:24:52.962 You are late, Major! 02:24:53.087 --> 02:24:55.045 (Malayalam) You told me to be late! 02:24:55.170 --> 02:24:56.462 (Malayalam) Didn't I tell you? 02:24:56.587 --> 02:24:58.962 That you'd salute me one day? 02:24:59.087 --> 02:25:00.878 You'll salute this Major one day! 02:25:02.170 --> 02:25:03.170 Go ahead! 02:25:06.545 --> 02:25:07.545 Arms down! 02:25:08.212 --> 02:25:09.212 Operation over! 02:25:10.003 --> 02:25:12.878 From this moment, we commence a rescue operation! 02:25:13.003 --> 02:25:14.003 Dismissed! 02:25:20.753 --> 02:25:22.170 Two hours are up, Mr. Rao. 02:25:22.753 --> 02:25:23.753 I must leave. 02:25:24.212 --> 02:25:25.503 Namaste. - Namaste, ma'am. 02:25:43.212 --> 02:25:46.962 Long Live Hindi! 02:25:47.087 --> 02:25:49.920 Long Live Hindi! 02:26:20.587 --> 02:26:22.128 I'll give the red signal. Okay, sir. 02:26:23.128 --> 02:26:27.045 No matter what, Ma'am does not leave this station without hearing our voice. 02:26:27.170 --> 02:26:28.295 Yes, Shariffa! 02:26:28.420 --> 02:26:29.712 Take care, Brother Thambi. 02:26:29.837 --> 02:26:31.128 I got this. Go on! 02:26:46.712 --> 02:26:47.920 You can sit here, ma'am. 02:26:52.253 --> 02:26:53.878 The train will be here soon, ma'am. 02:27:12.420 --> 02:27:13.587 Why isn't the train here yet? 02:27:14.545 --> 02:27:15.753 What is the problem? 02:27:15.878 --> 02:27:17.045 It'll be here any moment. 02:27:17.170 --> 02:27:18.170 What the hell, man? 02:28:19.837 --> 02:28:23.212 Know what happens when you try to restrain combustive material? 02:28:25.045 --> 02:28:26.045 Blowback! 02:28:28.503 --> 02:28:29.503 Very well. 02:28:30.128 --> 02:28:31.128 Let's die together! 02:28:32.212 --> 02:28:34.295 Let those signatures go up in smoke with us! 02:28:56.295 --> 02:28:58.878 No matter what you do or however long you take... 02:28:59.003 --> 02:29:00.420 ...we'll just keep coming! 02:29:00.878 --> 02:29:01.878 Bring it on! 02:29:02.003 --> 02:29:03.920 Our grandchildren will be ready for you! 02:30:11.753 --> 02:30:12.753 Charge! 02:30:12.878 --> 02:30:14.212 Come on! 02:30:14.337 --> 02:30:15.753 What are you doing? Restrain them! 02:30:15.878 --> 02:30:17.795 Restrain them! - Come on! 02:30:17.920 --> 02:30:19.420 Come on! - Hurry! 02:30:19.545 --> 02:30:21.878 Get it all out! - Hurry! 02:30:22.003 --> 02:30:23.878 This way! - Ma'am! 02:30:24.003 --> 02:30:25.253 Please, ma'am! 02:30:25.378 --> 02:30:26.378 Ma'am! 02:30:29.420 --> 02:30:31.628 (Kannada) Signatures from the land of Basavanna! 02:30:31.753 --> 02:30:33.420 Signatures from the land of Basavanna! 02:30:33.545 --> 02:30:34.878 The Father of Democracy! 02:30:35.003 --> 02:30:38.670 Bangalore, Gulbarga, Hubli, Davangere, Tumkur, Chikmanglur, Mangalore, Mysore! 02:30:38.795 --> 02:30:41.462 (Karnataka) The entire Mysore State! - The whole of Mysore! 02:30:41.587 --> 02:30:43.087 Get it? All of Mysore, it seems! 02:30:44.253 --> 02:30:45.253 Pull it up! 02:30:46.253 --> 02:30:47.587 Does this script look the same? 02:30:53.462 --> 02:30:54.462 Yes. 02:30:55.837 --> 02:30:57.045 It looks all the same to me. 02:30:57.170 --> 02:30:58.587 This is a very different language. 02:30:58.712 --> 02:31:00.920 These are from my neighboring state. Andhra Pradesh. 02:31:01.045 --> 02:31:03.087 Telugu, ma'am! Telugu! - Yes, ma'am! 02:31:03.212 --> 02:31:05.837 Yes, ma'am. They look alike, but they're different languages! 02:31:08.253 --> 02:31:10.003 (Bengali) This is Bengali, ma'am! 02:31:11.128 --> 02:31:15.920 (Bengali) 'Even if no one rallies behind you, walk on alone' 02:31:16.545 --> 02:31:19.962 (Bengali) 'Walk on alone' 02:31:20.712 --> 02:31:22.503 But we're not here alone, ma'am! 02:31:23.878 --> 02:31:25.295 All the languages are here! 02:31:26.087 --> 02:31:28.878 All the languages! All the languages! 02:31:29.462 --> 02:31:31.212 (Malayalam) I'm Malayali, ma'am. 02:31:31.337 --> 02:31:33.170 (Malayalam) These are from Kerala. 02:31:33.295 --> 02:31:35.920 Malayalam! Malayalam! Malayalam! 02:31:36.628 --> 02:31:38.878 This letter came from Madras, ma'am. 02:31:40.420 --> 02:31:41.670 First daughter's mark sheet. 02:31:42.587 --> 02:31:44.087 Younger daughter's name? 02:31:44.212 --> 02:31:45.212 Named after you! 02:31:45.878 --> 02:31:46.878 Yes, ma'am. 02:31:47.420 --> 02:31:49.337 Two daughters futures in your hands, ma'am. 02:31:58.795 --> 02:32:00.087 Sir! 02:32:00.503 --> 02:32:01.753 Let's get you to the hospital! 02:32:06.920 --> 02:32:08.003 Let's go to the hospital! 02:32:08.128 --> 02:32:09.128 Why? 02:32:10.337 --> 02:32:12.545 You expect to get an award for Best Nurse? 02:32:15.878 --> 02:32:19.295 No mongrel will dare question my loyalty. 02:32:25.378 --> 02:32:27.628 Is this Hindi? Can you please read and tell? 02:32:28.962 --> 02:32:29.962 This is Marathi. 02:32:30.087 --> 02:32:32.628 Marathi! Marathi! Marathi! 02:32:36.045 --> 02:32:37.045 Tamil! 02:32:38.837 --> 02:32:39.837 Chezhiya! 02:32:40.878 --> 02:32:41.878 Tamil... 02:32:42.003 --> 02:32:43.003 Tamil, ma'am. 02:32:44.670 --> 02:32:46.128 Help him up! - Chezhiya! 02:32:46.253 --> 02:32:47.503 Get him up! 02:32:47.628 --> 02:32:48.795 Ma'am! 02:32:48.920 --> 02:32:50.962 It was wrong of us to even ask them for signatures! 02:32:53.587 --> 02:32:55.128 What can illiterate citizens do? 02:32:56.337 --> 02:32:57.420 To show their support... 02:32:58.420 --> 02:32:59.837 ...they sent their ration cards. 02:33:04.462 --> 02:33:05.962 (Hindi) Their means of sustenance. 02:33:06.503 --> 02:33:07.670 That's what they sent over. 02:33:10.920 --> 02:33:13.378 What more evidence do you need for public support? 02:33:15.837 --> 02:33:17.795 Do we have to bring over the people who sent these? 02:33:20.587 --> 02:33:23.003 Your people blocked every path on their journey. 02:33:24.503 --> 02:33:25.795 The ones who surpassed it? 02:33:27.003 --> 02:33:28.087 They were shot to death. 02:33:29.587 --> 02:33:34.128 "As hard as it'd be for North Indians, if Tamil is legally forced on them..." 02:33:34.253 --> 02:33:36.253 "...that's how it's like for us to learn Hindi." 02:33:37.087 --> 02:33:39.962 Lullabies of our mothers, stories of our grandmothers... 02:33:40.087 --> 02:33:41.670 'Wisdom of our grandfathers..." 02:33:41.795 --> 02:33:43.962 "Our education, literature, music..." 02:33:44.087 --> 02:33:46.212 "All of it is etched in our blood!" 02:33:46.920 --> 02:33:50.712 As you can't take the language out of our blood, you intend to make us bleed? 02:33:52.795 --> 02:33:56.962 "To show your support for Tamil, assemble at the Coimbatore Junction!" 02:33:57.087 --> 02:33:59.545 "The futures of the students are in your hands!" 02:33:59.670 --> 02:34:01.420 "Your future is in your hands!" 02:34:03.337 --> 02:34:05.128 As of now, we'll stop this protest. 02:34:08.045 --> 02:34:10.087 We've done everything we could. 02:34:13.253 --> 02:34:15.045 What do you intend to do, ma'am? 02:34:17.462 --> 02:34:19.837 He says he's done what he could do. It's up to you now. 02:34:27.253 --> 02:34:28.753 "Our bodies may fall." 02:34:29.253 --> 02:34:30.878 "But our linguistic pride never will!" 02:34:31.003 --> 02:34:32.420 "Our voices will not abate!" 02:34:32.878 --> 02:34:35.253 Until the last Tamilian is left, it will echo far and wide! 02:34:35.670 --> 02:34:38.462 "Our bodies, for this soil. Our lives, for Tamil!" 02:34:38.587 --> 02:34:39.628 Long Live Tamil! 02:34:40.878 --> 02:34:41.878 Victory to Tamilians! 02:34:42.003 --> 02:34:43.378 "Victory to Tamilians!" 02:34:51.212 --> 02:34:54.128 "I give my word to the students of this nation!" 02:34:54.587 --> 02:34:57.295 The promises of our late great Prime Minister... 02:34:58.337 --> 02:35:02.087 ...will continue to be upheld wholeheartedly! 02:35:02.212 --> 02:35:05.587 "Every state is free to choose their own official language." 02:35:05.712 --> 02:35:10.378 "Be it through their regional language or English..." 02:35:11.337 --> 02:35:14.962 "...they have complete freedom to conduct their official business!" 02:35:15.753 --> 02:35:18.795 "If even one non-Hindi speaking state..." 02:35:18.920 --> 02:35:23.712 "...voices its displeasure against making Hindi the sole official language..." 02:35:24.420 --> 02:35:26.253 "...the bill will not be passed." 02:35:27.170 --> 02:35:33.295 "I firmly state that English will continue to be recognized as an official language!" 02:35:36.378 --> 02:35:40.420 Should the legislative assembly be convened hastily because the students ask so? 02:35:40.545 --> 02:35:41.670 Who are students? 02:35:42.087 --> 02:35:43.337 The blood of our blood. 02:35:43.462 --> 02:35:44.837 The flesh of our flesh. 02:35:44.962 --> 02:35:46.212 The soul of our future! 02:35:48.670 --> 02:35:50.253 What about the train they burned down? 02:35:51.253 --> 02:35:53.962 A few burnt train coaches can be rebuilt. 02:35:54.878 --> 02:35:57.670 But if the lives of students are destroyed... 02:35:57.795 --> 02:35:59.212 ...can it be reclaimed? 02:36:02.837 --> 02:36:06.795 "We disregard the Official Languages Act in all schools of Tamil Nadu." 02:36:07.378 --> 02:36:12.878 "This assembly decrees Tamil and English to be the official mediums of instruction." 02:36:17.712 --> 02:36:20.128 If you remove us and seat the opposition here... 02:36:20.753 --> 02:36:23.378 When you ponder the resistance you'll face if it comes to pass... 02:36:23.962 --> 02:36:25.295 ...you'll be struck by fear. 02:36:26.212 --> 02:36:29.587 As long as that fear persists within you... 02:36:30.378 --> 02:36:34.212 ...it will tell you Anna still rules this land. 02:36:41.128 --> 02:36:42.503 Long Live Tamil! 02:36:42.628 --> 02:36:43.753 Long Live Tamil! 02:36:43.878 --> 02:36:45.253 Long Live Tamil! 02:36:45.378 --> 02:36:46.878 Long Live Tamil! 02:36:48.712 --> 02:36:50.212 Long Live Tamil! 02:36:50.337 --> 02:36:52.045 Long Live Tamil! 02:37:09.378 --> 02:37:12.920 "A statue immortalizing comrade Rajendran, who succumbed to police gunfire..." 02:37:13.045 --> 02:37:16.170 "...has been erected at the entrance of his alma mater." 02:38:06.003 --> 02:38:08.420 'O army of comrades' 02:38:08.545 --> 02:38:10.795 'Let's go to war' 02:38:10.920 --> 02:38:13.253 'Be it life or death...' 02:38:13.378 --> 02:38:15.587 '...we shall face it together' 02:38:15.712 --> 02:38:20.462 'With courage, we will seek answers' 02:38:20.587 --> 02:38:24.587 'As a roaring wildfire, we will reclaim justice' 02:38:25.378 --> 02:38:30.003 'Without seeing the light of change, these eyes shall sleep not' 02:38:30.128 --> 02:38:34.712 'Even if bullets pierce our chests, our quest for truth will cease not' 02:38:34.837 --> 02:38:37.295 'No change comes about on its own' 02:38:37.420 --> 02:38:39.670 'We will guard our motherland now and forever' 02:38:39.795 --> 02:38:42.003 'We took to arms that day' 02:38:42.128 --> 02:38:44.420 'Even a calf will pounce in an attack' 02:38:44.545 --> 02:38:46.920 'A needless, needless law...' 02:38:47.045 --> 02:38:49.253 'Won't the arrogance of those in power fall?' 02:38:49.378 --> 02:38:51.462 'Our blood boils to stir us on' 02:38:51.587 --> 02:38:53.670 'A war of blazing passion' 02:38:56.253 --> 02:38:58.503 'How is it right to relinquish what belongs to us?' 02:38:58.628 --> 02:39:00.920 'Vanquishing oppressors does not count as sins' 02:39:01.045 --> 02:39:02.295 'Set off like a storm' 02:39:03.337 --> 02:39:04.795 'Set off like a storm' 02:39:05.795 --> 02:39:08.212 'When your wings are torn apart, stand not with patience' 02:39:08.337 --> 02:39:10.628 'If you rise with fury, the oppression cannot go on' 02:39:10.753 --> 02:39:12.170 'Be the action' 02:39:13.087 --> 02:39:14.545 'Be the action' 02:39:15.503 --> 02:39:17.795 'If there's evil afoot...' 02:39:17.920 --> 02:39:20.087 '...mustn't it be quelled?' 02:39:20.212 --> 02:39:24.420 'Cowards, we shall never be' 02:39:25.045 --> 02:39:29.712 'A day has a dawn and a dusk' 02:39:29.837 --> 02:39:32.628 'Waging war is the way to victory' 02:39:32.753 --> 02:39:34.545 'Let's get this done, one way or the other'