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"'Would anyone give their life
for a language', you ask?"

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"Languages aren't just sounds
and alphabets."

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"It is the breath of a race."

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"It is an identity."

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"England obliterated the Gaelic language
when they occupied and enslaved Scotland."

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"The day Mikhail Gorbachev decreed Russian
to be the sole language for all..."

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"...there was heavy resistance
in the Soviet Union."

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"The day Jinnah imposed Urdu as the
sole language in East and West Pakistan..."

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"...people began demanding their rights."

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"This brand of fanaticism took root
in India for the first time in 1918."

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"By claiming English to be
an oppressor's language..."

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"...the Indian leaders up north
decided everyone must speak Hindi."

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"They proceeded to covertly and overtly
implement this imposition."

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"Those who resisted this change
were arrested en masse."

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"They were assaulted and tortured."

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"When fear arose about
the Hindi imposition..."

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"...leaving the studies, jobs,
and lives of many in dire straits..."

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"When it was believed there were none left
to rally against this..."

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"...an army rose up
to protect their mother tongue."

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"A army of students
that knew no fear."

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"The Puranaanooru Squad."

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He was part of the very first batch
trained in espionage by Russia's KGB, sir.

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One of the finest and sharpest officers
we have.

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Officer Thiru.
Thirunadan.

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KGB, huh?

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You must be brilliant.

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I am what I am.

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Who is that arrogant prick?

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Sir!
Ibrahim Kamal, IPS.

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Madras Liaison Officer.

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At your service, sir.

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Just got on at the last station.

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Sir?

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Don't, Chezhiya!
Fall back!

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Should we die for a language?

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Then what? Should we keep bowing to them
for life?

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We must strike back!
We must create history!

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We're fighting for your language too,
Govind!

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Join us if you want!
If you're scared, run away!

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You'll die!
Please listen to me!

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Back away!
- Chezhiya!

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'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

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'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

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'Ours is a great army'

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'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

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Ibrahim!
- Yes, sir?

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Make sure all three VIP coaches
are protected!

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'Bring your hands together
and bolster the army'

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'Fall as a seed
and make the world bloom'

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'Ours is a great army'

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'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

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There are too many of them.

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Never mind the protestors.

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Protect the ministers.

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Okay, sir.
Come on!

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'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

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'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

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'Ours is a great army'

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Come on!
- 'Ours is a great army'

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Hurry!

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Make it fast!

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(Let justice prevail)

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Get everyone out, Major!

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Nobody must remain in the compartment!
This is Major's order!

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(Telugu) "Major"?
He didn't clear the last selection!

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(Telugu) Just a "Minor!"
- You'll salute this Major one day!

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Nobody panic!
Leave calmly!

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(Malayalam) Go quickly!

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(Bengali) Careful!

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Get going!

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Come along, I say!

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Come on!
- (Hindi) Let go of my hand!

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Hold on!
- (Hindi) Don't be scared!

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You needn't be afraid!

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You needn't be afraid, ma'am!
We're...

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We're only fighting the imposition
of Hindi!

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We're not against Hindi or its speakers!

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Please don't cry.
Don't be afraid.

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Tell me what I need to do.

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Get them out of here safely, Govind.

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'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

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Go to Madurai and lay low at home,
Govind.

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I'll send word! Come later!
- Okay!

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Ensure he leaves safe!
I'll check if there's anyone left behind!

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Sir!

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'Bring your hands together
and bolster the army'

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(Let justice prevail)

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'Fall as a seed
and make the world bloom'

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'Ours is a great army'

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'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

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Govind's left, hasn't he?
- He left with Aavudai!

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Hurry!
No one should get caught by the police!

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Long Live the Prime Minister!

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I proudly welcome the citizens of Madurai
who are here today...

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...for the inauguration of
the Gandhi Memorial!

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Our beloved Prime Minister
has arrived!

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Welcome, sir.
Make way!

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(Hindi) Who did this?

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Hooligans from the opposition.
We'll get them.

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No one to beat them, sir!
Top class work!

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The fire was made by people
who know chemistry. It spreads fast!

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They've planned their next moves
thoroughly.

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They stopped the train between two stations
so they'd have an easy escape.

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They wrapped it up in just six minutes
and took off.

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Tamil fanatics, huh?

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Not exactly.

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Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali
and Marathi speaking students!

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About twenty in all!

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I think it's a student movement, sir.

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Spread across the country.

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Mr. Prime Minister,
this act seems to be for political gain.

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Wait outside, Thiru.

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Thiru?

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Sir...

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There were railway job openings
listed in Hindi newspapers.

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But not in the Tamil ones.

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This is what provoked the students.

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So, they burned the train.

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This is purely reactionary.

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But, sir...

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We must hunt them down!

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They should be eradicated.

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No.

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This issue can't be solved
with violence.

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It shouldn't give rise
to more dissenters.

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I want this incident to be depicted
as nothing but a fire accident.

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Understood?

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Thiru!

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(Sanskrit) "Alertness Every Moment".

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Always alert.

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That's the IB's motto, right?

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Did someone steal your revolver,
or did you give it away to your comrades?

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(Hindi) Hold up!

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How can you fire it...

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...when the Tamil blood of your father
runs in your veins?

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You're not just any misbegot.

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You are a Madrasi misbegot.

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You have an accurate summary
of my blood report.

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Had you been as thorough
with the ground report...

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...we could've avoided all this,
Chief of Intelligence.

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You're the one who gave the false report,
wasn't it?

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This isn't over!

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You'll face an enquiry for this!
You will pay for this!

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"It has come to my attention..."

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...that my brethren
from the Southern states...

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"...are troubled
by the Official Languages Act."

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"Should they be forced
to only speak in Hindi..."

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"...in official correspondence
with the government..."

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...I understand the fear of those
in non-Hindi speaking regions...

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"...of being denied access
to welfare schemes..."

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...and opportunities
they rightfully deserve.

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"I truly comprehend and sympathize
with your emotions."

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"Until all non-Hindi speaking states..."

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"...give their unanimous consent to accept
Hindi as the official language..."

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"...I pledge that English shall continue
to be an official language until 1965."

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"And will remain so..."

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...even beyond that.
You have my word.

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Tamilarasan!
- Present, sir!

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'She, who is as sweet as Tamil...'
- Muthiah!

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You heard the song!
A fight fete is about to start!

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'She, who is like a flowering vine...'

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'She, who is like a flowering vine
that smiles like the moon'

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'With her honey lips,
she will endow the essence of life'

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'As you savor it drop by drop,
she will bend her head shyly'

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'She, who is as sweet as Tamil...'

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'She, who is like a flowering vine
that smiles like the moon'

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'She, who is like a flowering vine
that smiles like the moon'

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Freedom!
Isn't that what we want?

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Yes!

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One can have love for a language!

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But what you are possessed by
is language fanaticism!

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We see Tamil only as a language, sir!

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They're the ones turning it
to fanaticism.

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Think we'll let trains enter our town when
railway jobs aren't listed in Tamil papers?

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When none of us can get those jobs,
how can we permit it?

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How can we?

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We won't!

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Never mind!
Such ads used to come in English!

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We only asked why they were discontinued!

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English is an alien language.

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To us, everything but Tamil
is an alien language!

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Isn't Hindi an alien language
in many states?

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With English, you can talk to anyone
in the world, Mr. Principal!

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Why are you getting mixed up
with these kids, Mr. Tamil Professor?

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Wouldn't it be helpful to the government,
if we all speak the same language?

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For national unity, right?

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Mr. Principal!

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We were united
when we sent the British packing!

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Were we all speaking the same language
then?

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No!

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Answer Chezhiyan, sir!

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No matter how he protests,
he's still the college topper!

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These guys are Delhi politicians!

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That's their vow for now.
Don't trust them.

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If they break their vow,
their domain will be torched next!

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The vow of the students!

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We always walk the talk!

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Yes, we will!
- Good grief...

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Yes, we will!

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Can I carry that for you, sir?

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Move aside!

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Mr. Principal doesn't need English,
but only needs English cars!

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'The time is ours...'

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'With the speed of fire'

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'Unhating courage...
Worthy sacrifice...'

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'Let's stand for our language'

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'Strap on those wings and step up'

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'Hit that beat and sing your heart away'

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'Directions eight will join hands,
because of you'

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'Our blood is on fire'

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'The crowds roar
when your name is heard'

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'Our nation shall triumph,
because of us'

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(Long Live Tamil)

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'Every town is our own'

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'Tomorrow is ours for the taking'

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'When hands join together as one...'

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'...anything is possible now on'

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'If we all just tend to our homes,
who will tend to our nation?'

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'Charge in with all your might'

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'No town an alien land...
No person a stranger...'

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'Come on, comrade...
Let's begin'

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'Celebrate like never before,
for that is our culture'

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'Should anyone come to divide us,
step up and question them'

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'Keep moving forward...
As our ancestors taught us'

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'Their good words guide us onward'

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'The time is ours...'

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'With the speed of fire'

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'Unhating courage...
Worthy sacrifice...'

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'Let's stand for our language'

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'Strap on those wings and step up'

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'Hit that beat and sing your heart away'

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'Directions eight will join hands,
because of you'

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'Our blood is on fire'

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'The crowds roar
when your name is heard'

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'Our nation shall triumph,
because of us'

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You relay messages
on money orders, Chezhiya.

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After which members of your
Puranaanooru Squad come over...

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...to burn down trains
and conduct protests.

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You guys are a force to be reckoned with!

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But you're all done, right?

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Why send another money order?

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What if we need it for the next protest?

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Be careful, son.

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The police are on the prowl.

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If caught, they'll trump up the charges
and bury you sixty feet down!

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Like we'll let it happen!

00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:41.837 align:center
The Young Lawyers Association will fight
for justice of students for no fee!

00:17:41.962 --> 00:17:43.003 align:center
That's my lawyer for you!

00:17:43.128 --> 00:17:44.462 align:center
How's our legal counsel, sir?

00:17:44.587 --> 00:17:46.212 align:center
Is that why you studied 'Brahmi'
with me?

00:17:46.337 --> 00:17:47.337 align:center
Hey Aavudai!

00:17:48.087 --> 00:17:49.253 align:center
Where's Govind?

00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:54.920 align:center
Chezhiya...

00:17:56.003 --> 00:17:59.420 align:center
"The train transporting central ministers
to Madurai met with a fire accident."

00:17:59.545 --> 00:18:02.087 align:center
"A student passenger burned to death."

00:18:08.045 --> 00:18:09.712 align:center
With your name constantly on his lips...

00:18:09.837 --> 00:18:12.212 align:center
...he'd always be right by your side!

00:18:12.628 --> 00:18:15.920 align:center
And yet, you stand here without him!

00:18:17.378 --> 00:18:18.712 align:center
What are you saying, mom?

00:18:18.837 --> 00:18:21.462 align:center
You think Chezhiya would've let this happen
to Govind?

00:18:23.170 --> 00:18:24.795 align:center
Chezhiya is one of us, mom!

00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.087 align:center
(Saurashtra) He's family!

00:18:26.628 --> 00:18:28.378 align:center
Come in, Chezhiya!

00:18:29.378 --> 00:18:31.212 align:center
No, Chezhiya! We'll slip and fall!
- Hurry!

00:18:35.545 --> 00:18:37.795 align:center
I'll bring him back safely every vacation,
auntie!

00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:39.253 align:center
(Saurashtra) Travel safe, dear!

00:18:39.378 --> 00:18:40.878 align:center
Come!
- (Saurashtra) Bye, grandma!

00:18:41.003 --> 00:18:42.628 align:center
(Saurashtra) Take care!
- Be safe, dear!

00:18:44.670 --> 00:18:46.462 align:center
You'd never have come if I hadn't called!

00:19:07.878 --> 00:19:08.878 align:center
Hello?

00:19:09.337 --> 00:19:10.337 align:center
Brother Thambi?

00:19:13.753 --> 00:19:14.753 align:center
Chezhiya?

00:19:14.878 --> 00:19:18.128 align:center
Michael Reddy, Shariffa,
Chacko and Bindhya...

00:19:18.253 --> 00:19:20.170 align:center
They're safe at Thambiraja's mill
in Pollachi.

00:19:20.295 --> 00:19:21.545 align:center
They asked if they have to come.

00:19:21.962 --> 00:19:23.003 align:center
What do I tell them?

00:19:24.128 --> 00:19:25.295 align:center
(Hindi) Clench your fists.

00:19:25.962 --> 00:19:27.045 align:center
Your pulses are very weak.

00:19:27.170 --> 00:19:29.920 align:center
Your nerves have been damaged.
You will need an amputation.

00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:32.420 align:center
No!

00:19:32.545 --> 00:19:33.545 align:center
Stitch it up!

00:19:33.670 --> 00:19:34.962 align:center
What are you doing, Thiru?

00:19:35.087 --> 00:19:36.087 align:center
What's your problem?

00:19:37.087 --> 00:19:39.628 align:center
You slept with a Tamilian
and gave birth to me!

00:19:41.545 --> 00:19:43.212 align:center
Once he was satisfied, he abandoned you!

00:19:43.670 --> 00:19:45.420 align:center
Thanks to another Tamilian,
I lost an arm!

00:19:47.087 --> 00:19:48.212 align:center
How will I fire now?

00:19:49.170 --> 00:19:50.837 align:center
It's our Puranaanooru Squad.

00:19:51.253 --> 00:19:52.920 align:center
Shall I ask them to come, Chezhiya?

00:19:55.837 --> 00:19:57.128 align:center
No one needs to come anymore.

00:19:59.753 --> 00:20:01.420 align:center
I'm not ready to lose anyone else.

00:20:03.712 --> 00:20:07.253 align:center
As of now,
I'm nothing but a Tamil-speaking cripple!

00:20:07.753 --> 00:20:09.003 align:center
A Madrasi traitor!

00:20:10.128 --> 00:20:11.420 align:center
If that's what you believe...

00:20:12.712 --> 00:20:15.795 align:center
...the world will continue to belittle you
and mock at you!

00:20:19.003 --> 00:20:20.712 align:center
The Puranaanooru Squad is no more!

00:20:20.837 --> 00:20:21.920 align:center
Understood?
- Chezhiya!

00:20:22.045 --> 00:20:24.378 align:center
No more money orders, protests...
No nothing!

00:20:26.003 --> 00:20:27.337 align:center
The Puranaanooru Squad is dead!

00:20:29.962 --> 00:20:30.962 align:center
Mom?

00:20:33.003 --> 00:20:34.670 align:center
I accept it.
I am a Madrasi bastard.

00:20:39.670 --> 00:20:42.170 align:center
I don't want anyone else to die
because of me!

00:20:50.295 --> 00:20:54.753 align:center
I don't want anyone else to die
because of me...

00:20:58.170 --> 00:21:00.003 align:center
"The Supreme Power."

00:21:27.212 --> 00:21:29.087 align:center
Brother!
Turn off that valve!

00:21:29.212 --> 00:21:31.087 align:center
If the pressure rises, it'll explode!

00:21:31.212 --> 00:21:33.420 align:center
(Hindi) What? Everything's fine!
What are you saying?

00:21:35.253 --> 00:21:36.587 align:center
(Broken Hindi) "What happened?"

00:21:37.378 --> 00:21:39.087 align:center
Had it blown up,
you'd be in pieces!

00:21:39.212 --> 00:21:40.628 align:center
You'd have killed 250 people too!

00:21:41.712 --> 00:21:44.003 align:center
"Engine blowback"!
Didn't they teach you that?

00:21:45.003 --> 00:21:46.753 align:center
You'd have been toasted!
- (Hindi) What?

00:21:46.878 --> 00:21:48.337 align:center
(Hindi) Speak in Hindi, Madrasi!

00:21:48.462 --> 00:21:50.503 align:center
(Hindi) From January 26th,
you'll have no choice!

00:21:50.628 --> 00:21:53.920 align:center
(Broken Tamil) You must speak it then!
For now, just do your job, fireman!

00:21:54.045 --> 00:21:55.045 align:center
(Hindi) Got it?

00:21:55.837 --> 00:21:57.212 align:center
Nothing's going to change!

00:21:58.378 --> 00:21:59.462 align:center
Just watch!

00:22:00.503 --> 00:22:02.962 align:center
The PM maybe no more, but his vow
to the Parliament still is!

00:22:03.087 --> 00:22:04.087 align:center
(Hindi) What?

00:22:04.212 --> 00:22:05.628 align:center
Back to Hindi, eh?

00:22:06.503 --> 00:22:09.837 align:center
(Broken Hindi) Lal! When a Madrasi
goes to Delhi, he'll talk in Hindi!

00:22:10.253 --> 00:22:13.087 align:center
(Broken Hindi) When a Hindi guy
comes to Madurai, he must talk in Tamil!

00:22:13.212 --> 00:22:14.295 align:center
(Broken Hindi) Got it?

00:22:14.420 --> 00:22:16.962 align:center
(Hindi) Madurai... Madrasi...
What?

00:22:18.128 --> 00:22:19.128 align:center
Chow down!

00:22:21.670 --> 00:22:23.253 align:center
(Hindi) This fritter is delicious!

00:22:23.378 --> 00:22:24.378 align:center
How's that?

00:22:25.253 --> 00:22:27.545 align:center
You don't want Tamil,
but you want our fritters, eh?

00:22:28.170 --> 00:22:29.253 align:center
Your whack is waiting!

00:22:31.045 --> 00:22:32.462 align:center
(Hindi) Come again, Madrasi?

00:22:41.253 --> 00:22:42.795 align:center
Two one pennies!

00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:43.920 align:center
Goddamn it!

00:22:44.462 --> 00:22:46.920 align:center
Don't say it like that, you dumbos!
- How else then?

00:22:47.045 --> 00:22:49.628 align:center
"One penny plus one penny
equal two pennies."

00:22:49.753 --> 00:22:51.503 align:center
One penny plus one penny
equal two pennies!

00:22:51.628 --> 00:22:52.837 align:center
Don't shout, sillies!

00:22:52.962 --> 00:22:55.003 align:center
"Due to the death
of the Indian Prime Minister..."

00:22:55.128 --> 00:22:58.295 align:center
"...the last twelve days were declared
to be a period of mourning nationwide."

00:22:58.420 --> 00:22:59.712 align:center
"It comes to an end today."

00:23:01.295 --> 00:23:02.545 align:center
What a good man!

00:23:03.087 --> 00:23:04.753 align:center
Without warning, he left us all!

00:23:05.628 --> 00:23:07.795 align:center
You thought he'd die
after a heart-to-heart with you?

00:23:09.212 --> 00:23:11.295 align:center
The Telugu girl from next door
has arrived!

00:23:11.420 --> 00:23:14.087 align:center
Her eyes and ears
are always here!

00:23:15.212 --> 00:23:18.587 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:23:19.337 --> 00:23:22.045 align:center
What are you staring at there?
- (Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:23:24.503 --> 00:23:25.920 align:center
Good grief!
She's at it again!

00:23:27.253 --> 00:23:28.962 align:center
Kid!

00:23:29.087 --> 00:23:30.378 align:center
Chezhiyan will be here soon!

00:23:30.503 --> 00:23:31.628 align:center
Why try to fix it yourself?

00:23:32.253 --> 00:23:33.712 align:center
You don't need him for this!

00:23:33.837 --> 00:23:34.962 align:center
(Telugu) I got it!

00:23:36.128 --> 00:23:37.628 align:center
Careful, Ratna!

00:23:37.753 --> 00:23:40.378 align:center
Easy does it!
- Just take this wire...

00:23:40.503 --> 00:23:41.795 align:center
...and stick it in like this.

00:23:42.712 --> 00:23:43.712 align:center
All done!

00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:45.420 align:center
All done, indeed!

00:23:46.420 --> 00:23:47.628 align:center
Why's the power out, grandma?

00:23:47.753 --> 00:23:50.587 align:center
Only one bulb was flickering.

00:23:50.712 --> 00:23:53.670 align:center
She just had to mess with it!

00:23:53.795 --> 00:23:55.545 align:center
The entire house went dark!
- She's had it!

00:23:55.670 --> 00:23:57.212 align:center
She truly has the magic touch!

00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:00.337 align:center
Didn't I tell you not to let her in here, grandma?

00:24:00.962 --> 00:24:01.962 align:center
Like I let her in!

00:24:02.795 --> 00:24:04.462 align:center
Want to pull wires?
Do it at your house!

00:24:04.587 --> 00:24:06.337 align:center
I will if you get out of my way,
tosser!

00:24:06.462 --> 00:24:07.753 align:center
Who are you calling 'tosser'?

00:24:07.878 --> 00:24:09.378 align:center
You toss coal, right?

00:24:09.503 --> 00:24:10.503 align:center
Coal tosser!

00:24:11.878 --> 00:24:13.878 align:center
Why do I even talk to this creature?

00:24:15.087 --> 00:24:17.087 align:center
Dinner ready, grandma?

00:24:17.212 --> 00:24:19.295 align:center
It's been ready for a while!
The same tamarind stew!

00:24:20.295 --> 00:24:21.295 align:center
It's back!

00:24:21.420 --> 00:24:23.462 align:center
There's a letter for you, Chezhiya!

00:24:23.587 --> 00:24:24.587 align:center
A letter?

00:24:24.712 --> 00:24:25.712 align:center
Where is it?

00:24:26.378 --> 00:24:27.378 align:center
Here!
- Let me see!

00:24:36.128 --> 00:24:37.587 align:center
Who is it from?

00:24:43.878 --> 00:24:46.170 align:center
Your grandson's going to become
a ticket examiner!

00:24:46.295 --> 00:24:47.753 align:center
He's being called for an interview!

00:24:48.295 --> 00:24:49.587 align:center
Posting's in Delhi!
- Really?

00:24:50.670 --> 00:24:54.295 align:center
If anyone calls me a coal tosser again,
tell them I'll rip their tongue out!

00:24:55.795 --> 00:24:56.962 align:center
You just have to learn Hindi!

00:24:57.587 --> 00:24:58.795 align:center
Hindi, huh?

00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.462 align:center
That's a hopeless cause
for our entire clan!

00:25:01.587 --> 00:25:04.337 align:center
I sent you to three teachers
when you were a kid.

00:25:04.462 --> 00:25:07.045 align:center
You couldn't even get three words right!

00:25:07.170 --> 00:25:08.837 align:center
I couldn't because I didn't need it then!

00:25:08.962 --> 00:25:11.420 align:center
Wherever you go to work,
you must learn the local language!

00:25:11.837 --> 00:25:14.503 align:center
Then how am I any different
from that Hindi speaking loco pilot?

00:25:15.128 --> 00:25:17.545 align:center
Don't you know Hindi well, Telugu girl?

00:25:17.670 --> 00:25:18.878 align:center
Why don't you teach him?

00:25:19.003 --> 00:25:20.253 align:center
Who? Her?

00:25:20.878 --> 00:25:23.587 align:center
I'd rather shovel coal for life
than learn Hindi from her!

00:25:23.712 --> 00:25:25.295 align:center
There's the Hindi Federation, right?

00:25:26.003 --> 00:25:28.337 align:center
I'm your only option
in this entire locality!

00:25:28.962 --> 00:25:30.253 align:center
But I can't teach you!

00:25:30.378 --> 00:25:31.503 align:center
Pay for a course and learn!

00:25:32.003 --> 00:25:34.795 align:center
It's late. I have an important
news recording in the morning.

00:25:36.128 --> 00:25:38.045 align:center
Trains will run without him.

00:25:38.170 --> 00:25:40.378 align:center
Even the government will run
without my father!

00:25:40.503 --> 00:25:44.795 align:center
But without Ratnamala,
the National Radio will be at a standstill!

00:25:45.420 --> 00:25:47.212 align:center
Understand that!
Move, tosser!

00:25:47.337 --> 00:25:48.337 align:center
Ratna!

00:25:48.962 --> 00:25:51.087 align:center
I've never once heard your voice
on the radio!

00:25:51.878 --> 00:25:53.837 align:center
What station should I connect to?
- What, indeed?

00:25:54.837 --> 00:25:56.753 align:center
First, disconnect that deaf ear of yours!

00:25:57.170 --> 00:25:58.170 align:center
The mouth on this girl!

00:25:58.295 --> 00:25:59.670 align:center
What did she say?

00:26:00.712 --> 00:26:02.003 align:center
Come feed me dinner!

00:26:02.670 --> 00:26:04.212 align:center
They've closed down colleges.

00:26:04.337 --> 00:26:05.462 align:center
Durai's not home yet?

00:26:05.587 --> 00:26:08.253 align:center
Like he ever tells me when he comes
and goes!

00:26:09.128 --> 00:26:11.337 align:center
He roams around town like a jackass!

00:26:11.462 --> 00:26:14.837 align:center
You slog in that oven all day for him
and come here dark as the night!

00:26:16.087 --> 00:26:19.045 align:center
After raking coal all day,
you expect me to shine like the moon?

00:26:20.087 --> 00:26:21.837 align:center
He's at the top of his class.

00:26:21.962 --> 00:26:23.003 align:center
Don't scold him.

00:26:25.503 --> 00:26:27.462 align:center
I can understand sending it
to Govind's family.

00:26:27.587 --> 00:26:30.462 align:center
But why send money to your brother
when he's not even asking for it?

00:26:31.587 --> 00:26:33.628 align:center
You took loans all over town
to make him study!

00:26:34.170 --> 00:26:35.545 align:center
Does he ever think about that?

00:26:36.712 --> 00:26:37.962 align:center
Will you serve dinner or not?

00:26:38.087 --> 00:26:39.462 align:center
He needn't think about anything!

00:26:39.587 --> 00:26:42.253 align:center
It's good enough if he becomes an engineer
and works a cushy job!

00:26:42.378 --> 00:26:43.545 align:center
As long as he does that, good.

00:26:43.670 --> 00:26:44.670 align:center
Serve dinner!

00:26:46.378 --> 00:26:47.962 align:center
National Radio!

00:26:49.087 --> 00:26:50.420 align:center
Greetings!
- Greetings, dear!

00:26:51.045 --> 00:26:55.045 align:center
(Telugu) 'The man's world quakes'

00:26:55.170 --> 00:26:57.837 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:26:57.962 --> 00:26:58.962 align:center
Please move, ma'am.

00:26:59.378 --> 00:27:00.712 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk...'

00:27:00.837 --> 00:27:02.420 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:27:02.545 --> 00:27:03.545 align:center
Your tea, sir.

00:27:04.545 --> 00:27:05.545 align:center
Greetings, ma'am.

00:27:05.670 --> 00:27:06.878 align:center
Good Morning, ma'am!

00:27:07.295 --> 00:27:08.337 align:center
Greetings, ma'am!

00:27:08.462 --> 00:27:09.670 align:center
Good Morning, ma'am!

00:27:10.878 --> 00:27:13.920 align:center
(Telugu) 'The man's world quakes'

00:27:14.420 --> 00:27:17.128 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:27:17.962 --> 00:27:19.878 align:center
(Telugu) 'The man's world quakes'

00:27:27.503 --> 00:27:30.212 align:center
Who told you to clean the windows, miss?

00:27:31.087 --> 00:27:34.212 align:center
Your father will sack me if he learns
you're not doing the announcer job!

00:27:34.337 --> 00:27:35.920 align:center
Just once come to the studio!
Read this!

00:27:36.045 --> 00:27:37.587 align:center
Me?
- Yes! Look!

00:27:37.712 --> 00:27:39.337 align:center
Just seeing a mic paralyzes me!

00:27:39.462 --> 00:27:40.628 align:center
You can do it!
- I'll stammer!

00:27:40.753 --> 00:27:42.712 align:center
Just read this once!
- You already know that!

00:27:42.837 --> 00:27:44.087 align:center
You can do it! Just try!
- Sir!

00:27:50.670 --> 00:27:52.920 align:center
Goo... Good Morning.
Here's the morning news.

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:55.003 align:center
Excellent!

00:27:56.212 --> 00:28:00.587 align:center
The central government's
key obj... objective...

00:28:03.462 --> 00:28:06.045 align:center
...is progress through peace.

00:28:06.712 --> 00:28:07.712 align:center
Lovely!

00:28:08.712 --> 00:28:09.962 align:center
A new...

00:28:10.587 --> 00:28:12.795 align:center
...sch... scheme...

00:28:16.212 --> 00:28:18.212 align:center
She thinks she can go on the air
with that stutter!

00:28:18.337 --> 00:28:21.462 align:center
...has been implem... implemented...

00:28:21.587 --> 00:28:22.753 align:center
Miss?
- ...and...

00:28:22.878 --> 00:28:25.503 align:center
She has come here using influence
and is torturing us. So useless!

00:28:28.212 --> 00:28:29.837 align:center
Didn't I tell you, sir?
- Tell me what?

00:28:29.962 --> 00:28:32.128 align:center
Rest assured,
I won't tell my father about this!

00:29:05.337 --> 00:29:06.712 align:center
Hold on!

00:29:06.837 --> 00:29:10.628 align:center
Fill mine in first, sister. I'll have to
send money to my grandson at college.

00:29:10.753 --> 00:29:12.087 align:center
Such a stubborn one!

00:29:12.212 --> 00:29:14.545 align:center
He'd rather starve to death
than ask for money!

00:29:14.670 --> 00:29:15.670 align:center
Fill mine!
- Wait!

00:29:15.795 --> 00:29:18.295 align:center
My son's hands are sore
from working at the tannery!

00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:20.087 align:center
I need to send money
so he can buy medicine.

00:29:20.212 --> 00:29:21.587 align:center
Look what these morons have done!

00:29:24.087 --> 00:29:25.128 align:center
What is this?

00:29:25.545 --> 00:29:27.295 align:center
Move.
- Ask them yourself!

00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:28.587 align:center
What language is this?

00:29:28.712 --> 00:29:30.878 align:center
You've given the wrong form.
I need the Tamil one!

00:29:31.003 --> 00:29:34.378 align:center
This is how it is now, ma'am.
By order of the central government.

00:29:34.795 --> 00:29:36.087 align:center
What language is this?

00:29:36.545 --> 00:29:38.837 align:center
The letters are hanging
like clothes on a drying line!

00:29:38.962 --> 00:29:40.212 align:center
It's Hindi, ma'am.

00:29:40.337 --> 00:29:42.628 align:center
The central government has made
these forms mandatory.

00:29:43.628 --> 00:29:46.420 align:center
I'm the one sending money.
My grandson's the one receiving it.

00:29:47.045 --> 00:29:49.212 align:center
Neither of us know this language,
dear fellow!

00:29:49.837 --> 00:29:51.045 align:center
Fill it out yourself!

00:29:51.170 --> 00:29:55.545 align:center
Wouldn't we have become ministers in Delhi
if we knew Hindi, ma'am?

00:29:56.087 --> 00:29:57.962 align:center
You useless nincompoops!

00:29:58.628 --> 00:30:01.753 align:center
So we'll have to personally go to Delhi
to send money orders?

00:30:03.003 --> 00:30:04.003 align:center
Come along!

00:30:04.128 --> 00:30:05.545 align:center
Nothing to discuss here! Let's go!

00:30:05.670 --> 00:30:07.420 align:center
Come along! Hurry!
- Way to give us trouble!

00:30:07.545 --> 00:30:10.253 align:center
What will my grandson do for sustenance?
- Go tend to your errands!

00:30:12.003 --> 00:30:14.087 align:center
We got him on the line!
Come, Muthammal!

00:30:15.087 --> 00:30:17.503 align:center
PP holding trunk call
from Annamalai University.

00:30:17.628 --> 00:30:18.795 align:center
"Annamalai?"

00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.295 align:center
(Telugu) Is this an MP's residence
or a post office, mom?

00:30:22.462 --> 00:30:24.753 align:center
He and Ratna are childhood friends, right?

00:30:24.878 --> 00:30:25.920 align:center
Go answer it, Muthammal.

00:30:31.545 --> 00:30:33.378 align:center
Hello?
- What is it, grandma?

00:30:33.503 --> 00:30:35.045 align:center
Little one?
- I hear you! Go on!

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:38.295 align:center
We can't send money this month to you.
- What happened?

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:41.003 align:center
At the post office,
every damn thing is in Hindi!

00:30:41.128 --> 00:30:42.128 align:center
"Hindi?"

00:30:42.253 --> 00:30:46.628 align:center
In just one day, these chumps rendered me,
an eighth grade graduate, illiterate!

00:30:47.878 --> 00:30:51.170 align:center
I'll have your brother send money to you
by train.

00:30:51.295 --> 00:30:52.670 align:center
What about the other students?

00:31:01.545 --> 00:31:03.128 align:center
Shammi Kapoor is in a league of his own!

00:31:06.878 --> 00:31:08.462 align:center
Who the hell stopped the screening?

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:22.337 align:center
The kid from the engineering department
changed the reel!

00:31:22.462 --> 00:31:23.628 align:center
Thinks he's a big shot!

00:31:23.753 --> 00:31:25.878 align:center
Will you play a Hindi film
or do I smash your head?

00:31:26.003 --> 00:31:27.003 align:center
Hey, monkey!

00:31:27.128 --> 00:31:28.587 align:center
Hindi films for three weeks in a row?

00:31:28.712 --> 00:31:30.462 align:center
Sit quietly in a corner
and watch our film!

00:31:30.587 --> 00:31:32.128 align:center
Crackling dialogues right here!

00:31:32.628 --> 00:31:33.628 align:center
Thrash him!

00:31:35.795 --> 00:31:36.795 align:center
Careful, Durai!

00:31:49.212 --> 00:31:51.003 align:center
Why are you beating up kids?

00:31:51.128 --> 00:31:52.545 align:center
We've got bigger fish to fry!
Come!

00:31:53.753 --> 00:31:54.753 align:center
Come along!

00:31:56.670 --> 00:32:00.337 align:center
The central minister has decreed the
Hindi Federation as a national institution!

00:32:00.462 --> 00:32:02.712 align:center
It'll be announced on the radio
at 7 AM tomorrow!

00:32:03.128 --> 00:32:04.712 align:center
Got it, Chinnadurai?
- Hold on!

00:32:04.837 --> 00:32:08.712 align:center
This is the first step they're taking
to make Hindi our sole official language!

00:32:11.503 --> 00:32:13.378 align:center
Then, we students
have to land the first blow!

00:32:13.503 --> 00:32:17.170 align:center
You brought quite a scoop
in your first week on the job, Ratna!

00:32:17.753 --> 00:32:18.795 align:center
We'll torch it!

00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:21.670 align:center
'In street after street...'
- Get the stuff! Get all the petrol cans!

00:32:21.795 --> 00:32:23.670 align:center
Don't forget the bottles!
- I have them, buddy!

00:32:23.795 --> 00:32:25.128 align:center
Buddy!
- Come on!

00:32:25.253 --> 00:32:26.878 align:center
We'll crank it up...
- Come on!

00:32:27.003 --> 00:32:28.295 align:center
...and stomp it out!
- You got it!

00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:30.837 align:center
'Gums that flap needlessly,
will have no teeth for company'

00:32:30.962 --> 00:32:33.003 align:center
Why'd you come all this way,
Ratna?

00:32:33.128 --> 00:32:34.753 align:center
One trunk call and we'd have come over!

00:32:34.878 --> 00:32:36.045 align:center
Good thing I showed up!

00:32:36.170 --> 00:32:39.003 align:center
If I hadn't, that politician’s son
would've rearranged your face!

00:32:39.128 --> 00:32:41.337 align:center
'I'll be by your side, for sure'

00:32:41.462 --> 00:32:45.003 align:center
'You may dispatch an army after us,
we'll soldier on with all smiles'

00:32:50.587 --> 00:32:52.628 align:center
Quick! Muthammal will scold us!
- We're coming!

00:32:52.753 --> 00:32:55.045 align:center
We're heading to tuition class, Chezhiya!
- Right!

00:32:55.170 --> 00:32:56.170 align:center
See you!
Study well!

00:32:56.837 --> 00:32:57.837 align:center
Mr. Teacher!

00:32:58.337 --> 00:33:00.462 align:center
You said you'd teach me Hindi.
Where are you off to?

00:33:00.587 --> 00:33:02.212 align:center
The Himalayas!
Want to join me?

00:33:02.337 --> 00:33:04.295 align:center
Forget Hindi!
You keep driving!

00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:06.795 align:center
Haven't even started teaching,
and you ask me to forget it?

00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.087 align:center
Not a man of your word, eh?

00:33:11.128 --> 00:33:12.503 align:center
What about the two rupees I gave?

00:33:12.628 --> 00:33:14.962 align:center
Reclaim it from the Hindi Federation
if you can!

00:33:15.503 --> 00:33:16.920 align:center
Take it and put it on your forehead!

00:33:17.378 --> 00:33:19.462 align:center
Keep driving!
Go!

00:33:41.003 --> 00:33:42.212 align:center
Stand back!

00:33:42.337 --> 00:33:43.628 align:center
Back off, I say!

00:33:47.378 --> 00:33:48.712 align:center
(Let justice prevail)

00:34:30.337 --> 00:34:31.337 align:center
Hello, sir.

00:34:33.253 --> 00:34:34.253 align:center
Welcome back, sir.

00:34:36.587 --> 00:34:38.128 align:center
Ensure the reports are sent to the CM.

00:34:39.545 --> 00:34:41.045 align:center
The brilliant KGB trainee!

00:34:41.587 --> 00:34:44.712 align:center
You couldn't stop them from burning down
the train, nor could you catch them!

00:34:44.837 --> 00:34:46.378 align:center
And yet, they assigned you to this?

00:34:49.378 --> 00:34:50.378 align:center
Arsonism.

00:34:50.503 --> 00:34:53.587 align:center
The same method of operation
as the train incident of 1959.

00:34:53.712 --> 00:34:55.170 align:center
Could it be the same perpetrator?

00:35:01.545 --> 00:35:03.128 align:center
She is the intelligence assistant.

00:35:03.253 --> 00:35:04.253 align:center
Gauri.
- Sir.

00:35:05.712 --> 00:35:07.212 align:center
Deputed from the postal service?

00:35:07.753 --> 00:35:08.878 align:center
Yes, sir.

00:35:09.003 --> 00:35:10.837 align:center
What's my role at the Intelligence Bureau?

00:35:12.087 --> 00:35:16.003 align:center
It's to not ask such questions
and do what I say. That's all.

00:35:21.712 --> 00:35:26.003 align:center
For doing a day of work, your husband earns
a wage of five 'annas'.

00:35:26.503 --> 00:35:28.795 align:center
Don't get me started!

00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.670 align:center
Since when has he gone to work?

00:35:31.170 --> 00:35:32.753 align:center
Useless fellow!

00:35:34.878 --> 00:35:36.212 align:center
What Math geniuses!

00:35:36.337 --> 00:35:37.837 align:center
School's out!
Get going, oldies!

00:35:38.753 --> 00:35:41.337 align:center
They gave you leave on the day
the PM died. Why didn't you come?

00:35:42.753 --> 00:35:43.962 align:center
I would've come had you died.

00:35:44.087 --> 00:35:45.545 align:center
The elder grandson's here, right?

00:35:45.670 --> 00:35:48.587 align:center
He earns well by being a slave to the
Hindi imposing central government!

00:35:48.712 --> 00:35:50.295 align:center
Wash your hands and feet!

00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:51.712 align:center
Sure, talk all high and mighty!

00:35:51.837 --> 00:35:54.420 align:center
Your father died in the line of duty,
leaving a mountain of debt!

00:35:54.545 --> 00:35:57.503 align:center
Your brother left his studies
to go shovel coal!

00:35:58.420 --> 00:36:01.087 align:center
Have you ever seen
his coal-stained hands?

00:36:02.087 --> 00:36:03.795 align:center
He is our savior, man!

00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:06.420 align:center
Despite knowing that,
you roam around like a hooligan!

00:36:06.545 --> 00:36:08.878 align:center
Fine. Our savior's there and so,
we can sustain ourselves.

00:36:09.545 --> 00:36:12.212 align:center
You're there to cook tasty food.
Don't you need someone to eat?

00:36:12.795 --> 00:36:15.253 align:center
Come, grandma! Feed me!
I'm hungry!

00:36:17.753 --> 00:36:18.753 align:center
Come on.

00:36:21.212 --> 00:36:22.587 align:center
We can barely afford
good food.

00:36:23.378 --> 00:36:25.212 align:center
And you intend to reform
the country, Durai?

00:36:26.170 --> 00:36:27.170 align:center
Tamarind stew today too?

00:36:27.295 --> 00:36:29.378 align:center
Even the great Anna eats tamarind stew!
- Brother!

00:36:30.045 --> 00:36:31.045 align:center
Hello, brother.

00:36:31.878 --> 00:36:33.295 align:center
Why'd you burn down the building?

00:36:33.420 --> 00:36:35.503 align:center
Burned it?
Who? Me?

00:36:35.628 --> 00:36:37.378 align:center
Which building?
- Drop the act!

00:36:37.503 --> 00:36:38.837 align:center
My hand!
It hurts!

00:36:38.962 --> 00:36:40.170 align:center
Let him go!

00:36:41.170 --> 00:36:42.503 align:center
I've come straight from college!

00:36:44.087 --> 00:36:46.378 align:center
Definitely her handiwork!
- "Her"?

00:36:46.503 --> 00:36:47.503 align:center
Who?

00:36:48.003 --> 00:36:49.003 align:center
Kannagi, grandma!

00:36:52.378 --> 00:36:55.587 align:center
Her anger won't subside unless she burns
something in Madurai once a year!

00:36:55.712 --> 00:36:57.128 align:center
She definitely did it!

00:36:57.587 --> 00:36:58.795 align:center
Trying to be funny?

00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.545 align:center
Be it in blood or in water,
I can recognize your handwriting!

00:37:02.295 --> 00:37:03.378 align:center
(Let justice prevail)

00:37:11.795 --> 00:37:12.795 align:center
Stop!

00:37:14.295 --> 00:37:17.837 align:center
I've been soft with you as you're orphans,
but you're always at each other’s throats!

00:37:18.962 --> 00:37:20.003 align:center
Stop!

00:37:20.587 --> 00:37:21.962 align:center
Don't!

00:37:22.087 --> 00:37:23.295 align:center
Careful, O elder one!

00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:25.962 align:center
'In street after street,
we'll strike back in kind'

00:37:26.087 --> 00:37:29.795 align:center
'If they try beating us down,
we'll finish it, no sweat'

00:37:30.587 --> 00:37:35.045 align:center
'Gums that flap needlessly,
will no longer have teeth for company'

00:37:35.170 --> 00:37:39.253 align:center
'This khadi-clad army will twist
the system around'

00:37:39.378 --> 00:37:40.503 align:center
Chinna!

00:37:46.128 --> 00:37:49.503 align:center
You two have nothing better to do
than fighting?

00:37:49.628 --> 00:37:51.503 align:center
We're trying to work over here!

00:37:51.628 --> 00:37:53.712 align:center
Get going, you!
This is always a habit with them!

00:37:53.837 --> 00:37:55.628 align:center
Why'd you burn that building, you rascal?

00:37:55.753 --> 00:37:57.462 align:center
Get out of here!
There are people around!

00:37:57.587 --> 00:37:59.462 align:center
They changed everything to Hindi
overnight!

00:38:01.462 --> 00:38:03.170 align:center
Students didn't get their money orders!

00:38:03.295 --> 00:38:06.170 align:center
If we don't pay up, they won't feed us
at the mess or let us write exams!

00:38:06.628 --> 00:38:08.212 align:center
You need to think it through!

00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:11.462 align:center
The minute they imposed a language...

00:38:11.878 --> 00:38:13.670 align:center
...notice how we begin struggling
for food?

00:38:15.087 --> 00:38:16.337 align:center
If we don't question this...

00:38:16.462 --> 00:38:19.295 align:center
...they won't even spare
the underwear of the downtrodden!

00:38:19.962 --> 00:38:22.462 align:center
There are folks in the legislative assembly
to question that!

00:38:27.170 --> 00:38:28.170 align:center
Not a brick!

00:38:30.128 --> 00:38:32.003 align:center
Think acts of arson can fix everything?

00:38:32.420 --> 00:38:34.670 align:center
The public will never endorse
the use of violence!

00:38:34.795 --> 00:38:37.253 align:center
Your only job is to study!
Just focus on that!

00:38:37.795 --> 00:38:41.003 align:center
They won't endorse violence,
but they'll show up to watch it, right?

00:38:41.462 --> 00:38:42.503 align:center
That's good enough!

00:38:42.628 --> 00:38:43.712 align:center
Tamil will prevail!

00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.420 align:center
Durai!

00:38:48.295 --> 00:38:50.253 align:center
You wretches! Always a habit with you!
- Stop!

00:38:50.378 --> 00:38:51.670 align:center
Stop it!
Why are you doing this?

00:38:51.795 --> 00:38:53.253 align:center
Stop!
- Listen to me, Durai!

00:38:57.587 --> 00:38:59.253 align:center
At this age, you won't see
my point.

00:38:59.753 --> 00:39:01.253 align:center
You accomplished your goal, right?

00:39:01.378 --> 00:39:03.420 align:center
Promise you won't burn or destroy
anything again.

00:39:03.545 --> 00:39:05.212 align:center
If you're caught, they won't spare you!

00:39:08.587 --> 00:39:10.337 align:center
Have I ever asked you for anything
before?

00:39:12.962 --> 00:39:13.962 align:center
Alright, brother.

00:39:14.378 --> 00:39:15.753 align:center
I won't burn anything anymore.

00:39:22.545 --> 00:39:24.628 align:center
'Even if the town entire
stands opposite...'

00:39:24.753 --> 00:39:27.503 align:center
'...I'll be by your side, for sure'

00:39:27.628 --> 00:39:31.087 align:center
'You may dispatch an army after us,
we'll soldier on with all smiles'

00:39:31.503 --> 00:39:33.628 align:center
'Even the skies
will shake with thunder'

00:39:33.753 --> 00:39:35.128 align:center
'So high is our aim'

00:39:35.253 --> 00:39:37.545 align:center
What the hell?
You gave your word in a heartbeat!

00:39:38.087 --> 00:39:39.920 align:center
His beatings scared you?

00:39:40.045 --> 00:39:41.378 align:center
Like that'd scare me!

00:39:42.212 --> 00:39:44.878 align:center
For the first time in my life,
my brother hugged me.

00:39:46.045 --> 00:39:47.462 align:center
My precious!

00:39:47.587 --> 00:39:48.878 align:center
You softie!

00:39:49.003 --> 00:39:51.128 align:center
That Telugu girl next door
is corrupting you!

00:39:51.545 --> 00:39:52.545 align:center
Let's go.

00:39:55.962 --> 00:39:57.753 align:center
What, brother?
- Squat, brother!

00:39:57.878 --> 00:39:59.420 align:center
Come home once a week, without fail!

00:40:00.170 --> 00:40:02.462 align:center
For what?
To eat Grandma's tamarind stew?

00:40:02.587 --> 00:40:03.587 align:center
Buzz off!

00:40:04.087 --> 00:40:06.712 align:center
Lay off the troublemaking!
Listen to this 'anna' (brother), too!

00:40:07.462 --> 00:40:10.295 align:center
Come on! I swore to you, didn't I?
Then what?

00:40:10.837 --> 00:40:11.837 align:center
Get on!

00:40:12.253 --> 00:40:14.337 align:center
Get on, I say!
- Always nitpicking!

00:40:14.462 --> 00:40:15.628 align:center
Take these inside!

00:40:17.545 --> 00:40:18.545 align:center
Come here!

00:40:19.545 --> 00:40:20.545 align:center
Go on!

00:40:26.503 --> 00:40:30.087 align:center
'I shall walk with pride,
knowing my brother is by my side'

00:40:30.712 --> 00:40:34.378 align:center
'Standing upon your shoulders,
I shall snatch the stars'

00:40:35.087 --> 00:40:39.087 align:center
'The world's in the palm of your hand...
Spin it with style'

00:40:39.503 --> 00:40:42.628 align:center
'Even when everything rises in opposition,
let your spirit never fade'

00:40:42.753 --> 00:40:44.003 align:center
Brother...

00:40:44.128 --> 00:40:46.462 align:center
'We may be poles apart,
but our pride's one'

00:40:46.587 --> 00:40:48.462 align:center
'Let's see this through,
come what may'

00:40:56.670 --> 00:40:58.628 align:center
(Hindi) The train's moving! Get in!
- Okay, sir!

00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:12.628 align:center
The Chief Minister will see you now, sir.

00:41:20.670 --> 00:41:21.670 align:center
Good Morning.

00:41:24.212 --> 00:41:27.837 align:center
Since the year 1939...

00:41:29.295 --> 00:41:32.337 align:center
...protests against Hindi imposition
have taken place here.

00:41:32.962 --> 00:41:36.503 align:center
They'll protest for a while
before moving on to other business.

00:41:37.170 --> 00:41:40.295 align:center
I've seen the same damn schtick
for the last twenty five years!

00:41:41.170 --> 00:41:43.837 align:center
Now, a bunch of hooligans...

00:41:44.462 --> 00:41:46.462 align:center
...burned down a building.

00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:49.003 align:center
Is it really that big an issue?

00:41:49.128 --> 00:41:51.503 align:center
And you came all the way from Delhi
to investigate it?

00:41:52.003 --> 00:41:56.003 align:center
You're yet to witness
January 26th, 1965, if I'm right.

00:41:56.628 --> 00:41:57.628 align:center
That's why I'm here.

00:42:00.378 --> 00:42:01.753 align:center
"Special Powers Act."

00:42:04.878 --> 00:42:08.212 align:center
That means you have the right
to do anything you wish?

00:42:09.587 --> 00:42:12.920 align:center
You have an all-encompassing authority
granted by the Prime Minister, am I right?

00:42:13.045 --> 00:42:15.712 align:center
Then what are the cops and ministers
here for?

00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:18.337 align:center
They have an important job, sir.

00:42:19.837 --> 00:42:23.045 align:center
To sign every file
we send over.

00:42:27.503 --> 00:42:29.628 align:center
(Telugu) 'O little lassie...'

00:42:37.212 --> 00:42:38.337 align:center
"Ratnamala."

00:42:39.045 --> 00:42:40.545 align:center
"Apprentice"?

00:42:44.045 --> 00:42:46.962 align:center
"Trains will run without you.
Even the govt. will run without my father."

00:42:47.087 --> 00:42:50.420 align:center
"Without Ratnamala, the National Radio
will be at a standstill! Understand that!"

00:42:50.962 --> 00:42:51.962 align:center
Yes, I have.

00:42:53.128 --> 00:42:56.462 align:center
"The High and Noble MP's daughter
reaches high to clean windows!"

00:42:56.587 --> 00:42:58.087 align:center
Great headline, isn't it?

00:42:59.962 --> 00:43:01.003 align:center
How much do you want?

00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:06.337 align:center
Keep it. You'll need it to buy
cleaning fluids and wash cloths!

00:43:08.295 --> 00:43:09.295 align:center
Teach me Hindi!

00:43:09.712 --> 00:43:11.170 align:center
The Hindi Federation can do that!

00:43:11.753 --> 00:43:12.962 align:center
You burned it down, right?

00:43:17.128 --> 00:43:18.670 align:center
How can I teach you?
I can't do it!

00:43:18.795 --> 00:43:19.795 align:center
Why not?

00:43:20.378 --> 00:43:23.795 align:center
I'm the secretary of the All India
Anti-Hindi Students Council!

00:43:24.878 --> 00:43:26.837 align:center
Does your daddy know about that,
Ms. Secretary?

00:43:28.753 --> 00:43:30.670 align:center
(Telugu) 'O little lassie...'

00:43:38.837 --> 00:43:39.920 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk'

00:43:40.628 --> 00:43:43.712 align:center
(Telugu) 'The womenfolk have risen'

00:43:45.253 --> 00:43:46.253 align:center
Hey!

00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:48.920 align:center
(Telugu) What?

00:43:49.045 --> 00:43:50.503 align:center
5 AM tomorrow!

00:43:51.170 --> 00:43:53.712 align:center
Not just my father.
Nobody should know about this!

00:43:57.545 --> 00:43:59.587 align:center
But no fee!
Make note of that as well!

00:44:00.420 --> 00:44:01.503 align:center
(Telugu) Stingy fellow!

00:44:03.545 --> 00:44:04.670 align:center
What'd you just say?

00:44:05.462 --> 00:44:08.170 align:center
Make sure you come by 5:10.
Now go!

00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.712 align:center
(Hindi) A for apple!

00:44:17.462 --> 00:44:19.878 align:center
(Hindi) B for ball!

00:44:20.878 --> 00:44:23.753 align:center
(Hindi) A for apple!
- (Hindi) A for apple!

00:44:24.170 --> 00:44:25.753 align:center
(Hindi) A for...

00:44:26.128 --> 00:44:27.170 align:center
(Hindi) Apple!

00:44:29.628 --> 00:44:30.878 align:center
(Hindi) A for...
- Poovai!

00:44:31.003 --> 00:44:32.753 align:center
Work properly or I'll whack you!
- Got it!

00:44:32.878 --> 00:44:33.878 align:center
Pay attention!

00:44:35.003 --> 00:44:36.462 align:center
(Hindi) A for...

00:44:36.587 --> 00:44:38.545 align:center
(Hindi) A for?
- (Hindi) A for...

00:44:38.670 --> 00:44:40.587 align:center
(Hindi) Apple! Apple! Apple!
- Brother!

00:44:40.712 --> 00:44:43.295 align:center
She's saying 'A for Apple'!
- I'll rip your tongue out!

00:44:44.045 --> 00:44:45.462 align:center
Spare me this crap!
- Wait!

00:44:46.170 --> 00:44:48.795 align:center
If you learn Hindi, you can sell soda
up north! Business will boom!

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:50.962 align:center
I don't care if it booms or bombs!

00:44:51.087 --> 00:44:52.670 align:center
I own this factory!

00:44:52.795 --> 00:44:55.670 align:center
If anyone sees me getting whacked by her,
I'll even lose local business!

00:44:55.795 --> 00:44:56.795 align:center
Leave me be!

00:44:57.670 --> 00:44:59.378 align:center
She'll teach us for no charge!

00:44:59.503 --> 00:45:00.962 align:center
No one else does that!
- (Hindi) Sit!

00:45:03.378 --> 00:45:05.587 align:center
You received awards
from greats like Anna and Periyar!

00:45:05.712 --> 00:45:08.295 align:center
Should you learn Hindi from this sadist
to make a living?

00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:09.545 align:center
Come on!

00:45:10.212 --> 00:45:12.337 align:center
Don't you know even Anna learned Hindi,
Vaigarai?

00:45:12.462 --> 00:45:13.962 align:center
We ought to know what's in it, right?

00:45:14.087 --> 00:45:16.253 align:center
He probably learned from a good teacher!
Buzz off!

00:45:16.378 --> 00:45:17.712 align:center
A for Apple, eh?
You've had it!

00:45:17.837 --> 00:45:20.128 align:center
Why are you taking it out on me
if you don't get Hindi?

00:45:20.253 --> 00:45:21.253 align:center
You run along too!

00:45:21.378 --> 00:45:23.545 align:center
I won't! I'm here to learn!
Continue!

00:45:24.462 --> 00:45:27.920 align:center
(Broken Hindi) A for Apple!
B for ball!

00:45:28.045 --> 00:45:29.670 align:center
You may be dumb,
but you have passion.

00:45:31.045 --> 00:45:32.628 align:center
Good. I like it.

00:45:32.753 --> 00:45:34.087 align:center
(Broken Hindi) B for ball.

00:45:39.795 --> 00:45:41.837 align:center
That's... from the engine...

00:45:43.670 --> 00:45:46.003 align:center
If you come to class
like a pile of dirty laundry...

00:45:47.045 --> 00:45:48.545 align:center
...how can you learn properly?

00:45:49.087 --> 00:45:50.087 align:center
Come neat and clean!

00:45:50.503 --> 00:45:51.503 align:center
Then, we'll continue.

00:45:53.378 --> 00:45:55.087 align:center
Run along!

00:45:56.962 --> 00:45:58.878 align:center
That's all? Only two words?
- (Hindi) Go!

00:45:59.003 --> 00:46:02.212 align:center
At this rate, when will I finish
learning Hindi?

00:46:07.420 --> 00:46:09.545 align:center
How'd we get these donation boxes?

00:46:10.253 --> 00:46:13.712 align:center
To get donations for the Hindi resistance,
I had them placed all over Madras State!

00:46:15.045 --> 00:46:18.170 align:center
We even sent receipts after learning
where the money was sent from.

00:46:18.295 --> 00:46:21.962 align:center
Most donations came from Madras,
Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy and Cuddalore!

00:46:22.628 --> 00:46:25.503 align:center
Not just students.
Even citizens donated wholeheartedly!

00:46:25.628 --> 00:46:26.962 align:center
Pollachi went a step further.

00:46:27.753 --> 00:46:29.128 align:center
Even cops donated!

00:46:29.253 --> 00:46:31.212 align:center
Kid!
Mr. New Officer!

00:46:31.337 --> 00:46:35.128 align:center
Where did those protestors buy petrol
to burn the Hindi Federation building?

00:46:35.712 --> 00:46:37.545 align:center
Instead of investigating that...

00:46:37.670 --> 00:46:39.378 align:center
...you're securing more funds for them?

00:46:40.003 --> 00:46:41.378 align:center
Please do your job, sir!

00:46:46.378 --> 00:46:48.128 align:center
Know where these were found, sir?

00:46:50.670 --> 00:46:54.878 align:center
I went to a petrol bunk to get some,
saying I need it for an Anti-Hindi protest.

00:46:55.003 --> 00:46:57.087 align:center
I said I was going to burn down
your party's office.

00:46:57.212 --> 00:46:58.378 align:center
No one asked for money.

00:46:58.503 --> 00:47:01.462 align:center
They gave it for free, and told me
to burn down a few buses and trains too!

00:47:01.878 --> 00:47:02.878 align:center
Mr. Chief Minister!

00:47:03.295 --> 00:47:05.295 align:center
Your own people are at war with you.

00:47:06.628 --> 00:47:07.837 align:center
If you don't pick up arms...

00:47:09.295 --> 00:47:10.337 align:center
...they'll finish you.

00:47:10.462 --> 00:47:11.462 align:center
We need to fight back!

00:47:11.962 --> 00:47:14.878 align:center
Monitor all phone calls, telegrams
and letters.

00:47:15.878 --> 00:47:20.212 align:center
Heads of postal, telegraph and telephone
departments of the state are here.

00:47:20.337 --> 00:47:23.003 align:center
Flag any communication
which seems suspicious!

00:47:23.128 --> 00:47:27.212 align:center
We need to keep a close eye on anyone
who are with the Tamil protestors, yes?

00:47:27.795 --> 00:47:28.795 align:center
No, no.

00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:29.962 align:center
Everyone!

00:47:30.087 --> 00:47:32.962 align:center
Our ministers, government officials,
civil servants...

00:47:33.087 --> 00:47:35.587 align:center
Monitor everyone who has a telephone.

00:47:36.087 --> 00:47:37.795 align:center
Then what about the Chief Minister?

00:47:39.295 --> 00:47:40.753 align:center
Even my residence, kid?

00:47:42.587 --> 00:47:44.462 align:center
Your residence alone has five telephones.

00:47:46.212 --> 00:47:47.628 align:center
That's where I intend to start!

00:47:49.420 --> 00:47:50.420 align:center
Sir?

00:47:50.878 --> 00:47:51.878 align:center
This is war!

00:47:57.503 --> 00:47:59.920 align:center
A call from Chidambaram
on the PP call line. Proceed.

00:48:00.045 --> 00:48:01.128 align:center
Hello?
- Hello?

00:48:01.253 --> 00:48:03.253 align:center
Hello? I hear you, Ratna.
Go ahead.

00:48:05.378 --> 00:48:07.003 align:center
They've begun searching relentlessly.

00:48:08.503 --> 00:48:10.003 align:center
Didn't think it'd happen so quickly.

00:48:10.128 --> 00:48:11.253 align:center
Who? The Madras Police?

00:48:11.670 --> 00:48:15.295 align:center
No. Some officer who came over
from Delhi to investigate this!

00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.212 align:center
He threatened all of us!

00:48:18.003 --> 00:48:21.962 align:center
He correctly deduced this news was leaked
by the National Radio!

00:48:22.087 --> 00:48:23.295 align:center
You be on your guard, Ratna.

00:48:23.712 --> 00:48:26.462 align:center
Let me know if you hear anything else.
Got it?

00:48:37.170 --> 00:48:38.503 align:center
He's cleaned up nicely!

00:48:40.045 --> 00:48:41.045 align:center
Who was on the phone?

00:48:42.712 --> 00:48:43.962 align:center
I'm the teacher.

00:48:44.087 --> 00:48:45.420 align:center
I ask the questions here.

00:48:45.837 --> 00:48:46.837 align:center
Head up.

00:49:36.545 --> 00:49:37.795 align:center
'O precious pearl...'

00:49:38.587 --> 00:49:39.837 align:center
'O precious pearl...'

00:49:40.837 --> 00:49:44.253 align:center
'My heart's all a flutter'

00:49:44.837 --> 00:49:48.295 align:center
'The ailment of love
is at my door'

00:49:49.587 --> 00:49:50.837 align:center
Broke into my house, have you?

00:49:51.420 --> 00:49:52.920 align:center
Had he seen you...

00:49:53.045 --> 00:49:55.003 align:center
You old crone!
Today is Ugadi!

00:49:56.087 --> 00:49:57.378 align:center
I've brought sweet custard!

00:49:57.837 --> 00:49:59.878 align:center
I painstakingly made it myself!

00:50:01.337 --> 00:50:03.003 align:center
Try it and let me know how it is!

00:50:04.045 --> 00:50:05.045 align:center
Hey!

00:50:05.170 --> 00:50:06.545 align:center
Careful with my pail!

00:50:06.670 --> 00:50:07.920 align:center
Little one!

00:50:08.045 --> 00:50:09.920 align:center
Why is the custard
coming all the way to the bed?

00:50:10.045 --> 00:50:12.712 align:center
True, grandma!
I've never heard her talk like this.

00:50:13.295 --> 00:50:14.337 align:center
Something's not right.

00:50:15.128 --> 00:50:16.212 align:center
Get that custard!

00:50:31.045 --> 00:50:32.045 align:center
He drank it all!

00:50:34.753 --> 00:50:37.212 align:center
Grandma! The cow gave birth yesterday, right?

00:50:37.337 --> 00:50:38.878 align:center
Yes!
What about it?

00:50:39.628 --> 00:50:41.003 align:center
Pour the colostrum in that pail!

00:50:41.670 --> 00:50:44.878 align:center
They'll think ill of us
if we return an empty vessel!

00:50:45.503 --> 00:50:48.045 align:center
What do we care if they think ill of us?

00:50:48.170 --> 00:50:49.295 align:center
Come here, you old crone!

00:50:49.962 --> 00:50:50.962 align:center
What?

00:50:51.378 --> 00:50:53.545 align:center
You'll have to go there someday
to discuss marriage!

00:50:54.545 --> 00:50:55.545 align:center
Come!

00:50:57.462 --> 00:50:59.295 align:center
Oh my goodness!

00:51:00.837 --> 00:51:02.503 align:center
Fine, I'll make some!
Go give it to them!

00:51:02.628 --> 00:51:04.170 align:center
Why must I give it?

00:51:04.295 --> 00:51:06.045 align:center
Tell the one who drank the custard
to do it!

00:51:06.170 --> 00:51:07.170 align:center
Can't you do any chore?

00:51:07.295 --> 00:51:08.420 align:center
Don't scold him, grandma!

00:51:09.878 --> 00:51:10.878 align:center
He's an engineer.

00:51:11.628 --> 00:51:12.712 align:center
I'll go give it.

00:51:31.253 --> 00:51:32.587 align:center
How'd you figure it out?

00:51:33.253 --> 00:51:34.587 align:center
Like it's rocket science!

00:51:35.045 --> 00:51:36.628 align:center
She says it's Ugadi
in the wrong month!

00:51:36.753 --> 00:51:38.712 align:center
He drinks up custard
without brushing his teeth!

00:51:38.837 --> 00:51:40.503 align:center
Just to go next door,
he takes a bath!

00:51:40.628 --> 00:51:42.087 align:center
Hurry!
- (Hindi) Is it "She came"?

00:51:42.212 --> 00:51:43.337 align:center
(Hindi) Or "He came"?

00:51:43.837 --> 00:51:45.503 align:center
(Hindi) Can a chair mend himself?

00:51:46.003 --> 00:51:47.462 align:center
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!

00:51:48.462 --> 00:51:49.587 align:center
How many times do I tell you?

00:51:50.003 --> 00:51:52.753 align:center
Chair is of feminine gender.
Bed is masculine gender!

00:51:53.545 --> 00:51:56.420 align:center
Are the chair and bed
looking to have babies together?

00:51:57.003 --> 00:51:58.337 align:center
Why look at gender there?

00:51:59.170 --> 00:52:00.753 align:center
Just follow my instructions!

00:52:03.295 --> 00:52:04.378 align:center
Next one!
Quickly!

00:52:05.420 --> 00:52:06.503 align:center
I need to leave soon.

00:52:08.753 --> 00:52:09.753 align:center
For what?

00:52:11.045 --> 00:52:13.295 align:center
A woman has a thousand errands
at any moment!

00:52:13.420 --> 00:52:15.087 align:center
Should I check with you
before doing them?

00:52:19.087 --> 00:52:20.128 align:center
Understood.

00:52:20.253 --> 00:52:22.337 align:center
You got some protesting to do
with that damn Durai!

00:52:23.170 --> 00:52:24.462 align:center
Don't talk about your brother!

00:52:25.045 --> 00:52:26.670 align:center
He's out there fighting valiantly!

00:52:28.087 --> 00:52:30.295 align:center
And look at you!
Moron of the highest order!

00:52:31.503 --> 00:52:32.503 align:center
(Telugu) Knucklehead!

00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:33.920 align:center
(Hindi) Scaredy cat!

00:52:36.712 --> 00:52:38.170 align:center
(Hindi) Scaredy cat, eh?

00:52:38.295 --> 00:52:39.462 align:center
That means coward, right?

00:52:39.962 --> 00:52:40.962 align:center
Jeez...
- Right?

00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:42.920 align:center
(Telugu) O dear God...

00:52:43.545 --> 00:52:45.545 align:center
(Hindi) Greetings, sir!
Have a good day!

00:52:46.420 --> 00:52:47.837 align:center
(Hindi) What brings you here?

00:52:47.962 --> 00:52:48.962 align:center
You said that perfectly!

00:52:49.087 --> 00:52:50.628 align:center
You really are in a royal mess!

00:52:51.545 --> 00:52:54.878 align:center
Like Rajaji went to learn Hindi
from Mahatma Gandhi's son...

00:52:55.003 --> 00:52:57.753 align:center
...this Member of Parliament's daughter
is the best you could find?

00:53:00.003 --> 00:53:01.212 align:center
Sure, let's go with that!

00:53:03.212 --> 00:53:04.587 align:center
Something funny?

00:53:04.712 --> 00:53:08.045 align:center
Rajaji ended up not learning
even a single word of Hindi!

00:53:09.420 --> 00:53:12.837 align:center
Then what was Gandhi's son doing
instead of teaching him Hindi?

00:53:12.962 --> 00:53:14.587 align:center
Hindi, Schmindi!

00:53:15.045 --> 00:53:17.503 align:center
He wooed Rajaji's daughter
and married her!

00:53:18.170 --> 00:53:19.295 align:center
I see...
- Chezhiya!

00:53:19.420 --> 00:53:20.962 align:center
Heard you're getting married too!

00:53:21.462 --> 00:53:24.462 align:center
Your grandmother seems to be scouring
the town for a Hindi speaking girl...

00:53:24.587 --> 00:53:27.003 align:center
...as you're about to land a job in Delhi!

00:53:27.128 --> 00:53:28.503 align:center
She asked me about it too.

00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:30.920 align:center
Sir!

00:53:31.045 --> 00:53:32.545 align:center
Let me know if you know any good girls!

00:53:37.378 --> 00:53:39.920 align:center
Can't say one word in Hindi,
and she wants a Hindi girl for him?

00:53:40.045 --> 00:53:42.128 align:center
Ratnamala!
- That old crone wants the moon!

00:53:43.087 --> 00:53:45.378 align:center
Stop, big shot!
- (Telugu) At this rate...

00:53:45.503 --> 00:53:47.503 align:center
Stop, I say!
- At this rate, they'll sell us all out!

00:53:48.128 --> 00:53:49.128 align:center
Hey, apprentice!

00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:50.920 align:center
Please hear me out!

00:53:54.212 --> 00:53:55.587 align:center
Way to light the fuse!

00:53:56.128 --> 00:53:57.337 align:center
This will do for now.

00:53:57.837 --> 00:53:59.795 align:center
I'll be back for my next vacation.
Be ready.

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:01.878 align:center
Will contact you
if I need more help, okay?

00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:04.920 align:center
Ratnamala!

00:54:07.628 --> 00:54:08.670 align:center
(Hindi) Get in the car.

00:54:09.170 --> 00:54:10.337 align:center
(Hindi) I want to go home.

00:54:10.462 --> 00:54:11.462 align:center
By bus.

00:54:12.378 --> 00:54:13.670 align:center
That's where I'm headed too!

00:54:20.837 --> 00:54:23.087 align:center
Good freaking grief!

00:54:30.795 --> 00:54:33.253 align:center
Hey lady... It doesn't look like
you're going home.

00:54:33.378 --> 00:54:34.378 align:center
(Hindi) I want to go home!

00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:36.920 align:center
You'd dare marry another girl
and bring her here?

00:54:38.462 --> 00:54:39.628 align:center
I'll kill you!

00:54:51.212 --> 00:54:52.628 align:center
Couldn't you have said so earlier?

00:54:52.753 --> 00:54:53.753 align:center
(Telugu) Right...

00:54:54.295 --> 00:54:55.295 align:center
Yeah, right!

00:54:55.920 --> 00:54:56.962 align:center
How was I to know?

00:54:57.753 --> 00:54:59.795 align:center
That you'd think of another girl
other than me!

00:55:00.670 --> 00:55:04.128 align:center
(Telugu) How could you even think
of marrying another girl, tosser?

00:55:16.670 --> 00:55:17.753 align:center
I'll learn Telugu as well!

00:55:40.253 --> 00:55:43.587 align:center
'You caress my heart and depart'

00:55:44.003 --> 00:55:45.795 align:center
'O tidal wave'

00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:48.420 align:center
'You steal gazes
before taking to the skies'

00:55:50.503 --> 00:55:55.878 align:center
'You confine this peacock
within a cage'

00:55:56.003 --> 00:55:58.670 align:center
'You set me ablaze
and watch it sizzle'

00:56:00.545 --> 00:56:03.295 align:center
'You appeared before me
like a radiant orchid'

00:56:03.420 --> 00:56:05.587 align:center
'It's moonlight that your eyes shower'

00:56:05.712 --> 00:56:07.920 align:center
'Like a flower in the wild...'

00:56:08.420 --> 00:56:10.420 align:center
'...I shall thrive by your side'

00:56:11.295 --> 00:56:14.337 align:center
'You caress my heart and depart'

00:56:14.462 --> 00:56:16.253 align:center
'O tidal wave'

00:56:16.378 --> 00:56:18.753 align:center
'You steal gazes
before taking to the skies'

00:56:59.337 --> 00:57:00.462 align:center
'Day after day...'

00:57:02.170 --> 00:57:04.045 align:center
'You toot like a train'

00:57:04.503 --> 00:57:06.128 align:center
'You twirl like a peacock'

00:57:07.628 --> 00:57:09.795 align:center
'Spare me your tall tales'

00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:12.045 align:center
'Do away with all these lies'

00:57:12.795 --> 00:57:14.878 align:center
'A girl's heart, can bear it not'

00:57:15.003 --> 00:57:17.003 align:center
'Do not bury it all
in a bed of flowers'

00:57:17.128 --> 00:57:21.420 align:center
'You devoured me entire, O deer'

00:57:22.878 --> 00:57:25.170 align:center
'You caress my heart and depart'

00:57:26.087 --> 00:57:27.920 align:center
'O tidal wave'

00:57:28.045 --> 00:57:30.503 align:center
'You steal gazes
before taking to the skies'

00:57:32.420 --> 00:57:34.420 align:center
'Like a flower in the wild...'

00:57:35.295 --> 00:57:37.212 align:center
'...I shall thrive by your side'

00:57:38.420 --> 00:57:42.670 align:center
'You confine this peacock
within a cage'

00:57:43.337 --> 00:57:45.962 align:center
'You set me ablaze
and watch it sizzle'

00:58:00.545 --> 00:58:01.753 align:center
'Upon your spine...'

00:58:03.420 --> 00:58:05.128 align:center
'...shall I flow like a river?'

00:58:05.545 --> 00:58:08.087 align:center
'Shall I weave together blooms
with the caress of my fingers?'

00:58:08.878 --> 00:58:13.712 align:center
'Even when you play a game of cards,
only I shall be the Queen of Hearts'

00:58:13.837 --> 00:58:18.253 align:center
'A comrade, you may be...
But I shan't spare your life'

00:58:18.378 --> 00:58:20.545 align:center
'I shall forever be...'

00:58:21.378 --> 00:58:22.962 align:center
'...an earring,
hanging on your word'

00:58:24.045 --> 00:58:28.503 align:center
'You confine this peacock
within a cage'

00:58:29.170 --> 00:58:31.670 align:center
'You set me ablaze
and watch it sizzle'

00:58:33.753 --> 00:58:36.378 align:center
'You appeared before me
like a radiant orchid'

00:58:36.503 --> 00:58:38.628 align:center
'It's moonlight that your eyes shower'

00:58:38.753 --> 00:58:41.503 align:center
'Like a flower in the wild...'

00:58:41.628 --> 00:58:43.878 align:center
'...I shall thrive by your side'

00:58:44.628 --> 00:58:49.545 align:center
'You confine this peacock
within a cage'

00:58:49.670 --> 00:58:52.253 align:center
'You set me ablaze
and watch it sizzle'

00:59:07.337 --> 00:59:09.170 align:center
He waited all day at the assembly
for you, sir.

00:59:09.295 --> 00:59:10.962 align:center
He came home first thing in the morning!

00:59:11.545 --> 00:59:15.462 align:center
Per the intel I received,
black flags will fly here on January 26th.

00:59:16.003 --> 00:59:18.003 align:center
I need your signature
to ensure it doesn't happen.

00:59:18.462 --> 00:59:20.670 align:center
You're going to Madurai
to inaugurate Hindi Week, yes?

00:59:22.003 --> 00:59:23.462 align:center
There'll surely be resistance.

00:59:23.587 --> 00:59:25.712 align:center
I'll take care of that, dear boy.

00:59:25.837 --> 00:59:27.212 align:center
You take care of things in Madras.

00:59:29.878 --> 00:59:32.795 align:center
What's going on in this country, brother?

00:59:33.295 --> 00:59:36.087 align:center
Tamilians are dying in a famine
like no other!

00:59:36.212 --> 00:59:38.128 align:center
If we ask for grains to eat...

00:59:38.253 --> 00:59:40.545 align:center
...the central government stuffs Hindi
down our throats!

00:59:40.670 --> 00:59:41.837 align:center
Down with that!

00:59:41.962 --> 00:59:42.962 align:center
At ease!

00:59:50.503 --> 00:59:52.962 align:center
What is tomorrow's headlines, Mr. Karuna?

00:59:55.795 --> 00:59:56.837 align:center
Rise up, brother!

00:59:57.295 --> 00:59:59.420 align:center
It's time to go to war!

01:00:03.253 --> 01:00:04.253 align:center
Ten paise.

01:00:05.253 --> 01:00:08.545 align:center
Pick up tomorrow's edition of 'Sudar'
at the stand and read it yourself!

01:00:10.545 --> 01:00:11.587 align:center
Keep the change.

01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:21.628 align:center
You dare try to burn down
the constitution?

01:00:22.045 --> 01:00:23.670 align:center
Call it baptism by fire!

01:00:23.795 --> 01:00:27.712 align:center
As January 26th marks Republic Day...

01:00:28.545 --> 01:00:31.170 align:center
If the police don't permit us
to raise black flags that day...

01:00:32.462 --> 01:00:34.837 align:center
...I suggest we raise black flags
in our own homes!

01:00:35.295 --> 01:00:36.837 align:center
Comrades!
- You're under arrest, sir!

01:00:36.962 --> 01:00:38.503 align:center
I urge you all to do so!
- For treason!

01:00:38.628 --> 01:00:40.462 align:center
You can shut down this press.

01:00:40.962 --> 01:00:43.462 align:center
The same story is being printed
in thirteen presses!

01:00:43.878 --> 01:00:46.253 align:center
How will you shut that down, son?

01:00:47.378 --> 01:00:49.837 align:center
When the sun rises,
the drums will roar, for sure!

01:00:52.753 --> 01:00:53.753 align:center
Now!

01:00:59.295 --> 01:01:00.545 align:center
It's okay!
I'll handle this.

01:01:00.670 --> 01:01:02.920 align:center
I'll handle it! Travel safe!
- Come peacefully, sir!

01:01:03.045 --> 01:01:04.045 align:center
Shall we go?

01:01:04.587 --> 01:01:06.628 align:center
This arrest shouldn't be
on any official record.

01:01:06.753 --> 01:01:09.087 align:center
Yes, sir.
- Keep moving him.

01:01:09.212 --> 01:01:12.170 align:center
Four days later,
throw him into the Palayamkottai Jail.

01:01:13.628 --> 01:01:16.587 align:center
You're going for your interview
after paying Chinna's college fees?

01:01:17.420 --> 01:01:18.628 align:center
Make sure you pray.

01:01:19.878 --> 01:01:23.128 align:center
O dear Gods, please band together
and be by my grandson's side.

01:01:23.253 --> 01:01:24.587 align:center
Take good care of him!

01:01:25.753 --> 01:01:27.795 align:center
When you come back,
it will be with a job!

01:01:28.545 --> 01:01:29.753 align:center
You think so?

01:01:29.878 --> 01:01:32.795 align:center
If they could arrest our leader overnight,
think what they'll do to us!

01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:34.503 align:center
So what if we have no leader?

01:01:34.628 --> 01:01:35.628 align:center
We'll do it ourselves!

01:01:35.753 --> 01:01:38.087 align:center
At the party office entrance
in Maasi Street, Madurai!

01:01:38.212 --> 01:01:41.712 align:center
No matter who gets in the way,
we burn their party flag right there!

01:01:42.337 --> 01:01:44.878 align:center
Who will burn it?
We asked across the entire district!

01:01:45.003 --> 01:01:46.003 align:center
No one wants to do it!

01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:47.420 align:center
I'll burn it.

01:01:48.128 --> 01:01:49.837 align:center
They'll arrest you for treason!

01:01:49.962 --> 01:01:51.587 align:center
They'll target and destroy
your family!

01:01:52.003 --> 01:01:54.003 align:center
A few years ago, the Puranaanooru Squad...

01:01:54.128 --> 01:01:56.545 align:center
...burned down a train
and rolled back Hindi imposition!

01:01:56.670 --> 01:01:57.753 align:center
We're just like them!

01:01:58.170 --> 01:01:59.170 align:center
I say we proceed!

01:01:59.295 --> 01:02:00.753 align:center
Even if I die,
I die a warrior!

01:02:00.878 --> 01:02:02.378 align:center
All hail Warrior Chinnadurai!

01:02:02.503 --> 01:02:04.753 align:center
All hail Warrior Chinnadurai!
- Hey!

01:02:04.878 --> 01:02:06.837 align:center
Who are you guys?
What's happening here?

01:02:06.962 --> 01:02:09.587 align:center
"Who are we"? Members of
Madurai's Anti-Hindi imposition squad!

01:02:09.712 --> 01:02:10.878 align:center
Who the hell are you?

01:02:11.962 --> 01:02:15.337 align:center
Your precious comrade who's all
'consequences be damned' over there?

01:02:16.212 --> 01:02:17.503 align:center
His big brother!

01:02:17.628 --> 01:02:19.503 align:center
Please understand
what we're fighting for...

01:02:19.628 --> 01:02:21.503 align:center
Don't get in the middle
of our family issue. Go!

01:02:22.337 --> 01:02:23.670 align:center
Fine, beat yourselves to death!

01:02:24.795 --> 01:02:25.920 align:center
What's with you, sir?

01:02:26.045 --> 01:02:29.670 align:center
You have a home, get meals on time,
good clothes and money whenever you want!

01:02:29.795 --> 01:02:31.712 align:center
So, you feel privileged enough to protest!

01:02:32.587 --> 01:02:35.212 align:center
Know how much these kids' parents struggle
to educate them?

01:02:35.337 --> 01:02:36.420 align:center
Considered their future?

01:02:38.337 --> 01:02:41.753 align:center
Expect us to learn Hindi
and become bootlickers like you?

01:02:43.128 --> 01:02:44.753 align:center
I'll bootlick and make a living.

01:02:45.128 --> 01:02:46.337 align:center
You just focus on studying!

01:02:48.587 --> 01:02:50.462 align:center
No one here can get a job!

01:02:50.587 --> 01:02:52.503 align:center
Then why the hell
do we need to pay college fees?

01:02:56.587 --> 01:02:57.920 align:center
Why'd you rip the demand draft?

01:02:58.420 --> 01:03:00.462 align:center
Stop it, brother!
- Why'd you rip it?

01:03:00.587 --> 01:03:02.128 align:center
Don't you know the value of education?

01:03:02.253 --> 01:03:03.378 align:center
Brother!

01:03:03.962 --> 01:03:04.962 align:center
Durai!

01:03:07.045 --> 01:03:09.128 align:center
No, brother!
Don't do it!

01:03:10.420 --> 01:03:11.420 align:center
Durai!
- Don't!

01:03:12.003 --> 01:03:13.003 align:center
Don't fight!

01:03:14.628 --> 01:03:16.045 align:center
You call yourself a leader?

01:03:17.212 --> 01:03:18.962 align:center
Did you bloody think about your followers?

01:03:19.087 --> 01:03:20.087 align:center
No, brother!

01:03:20.212 --> 01:03:22.337 align:center
Let's see how you protest!
- Don't do it, brother!

01:03:23.795 --> 01:03:26.170 align:center
I'd rather see you be crippled
than lie dead in the street!

01:03:27.170 --> 01:03:28.170 align:center
Durai!

01:03:30.212 --> 01:03:31.545 align:center
Your leader's leg is broken!

01:03:31.670 --> 01:03:34.045 align:center
He must be bedridden for 45 days!
All protests cancelled!

01:03:35.753 --> 01:03:38.045 align:center
I'll head straight to Maasi Street
after my interview!

01:03:38.170 --> 01:03:39.587 align:center
If I see any of you there...

01:03:40.420 --> 01:03:42.253 align:center
...I'll bury you all where you stand!

01:03:42.795 --> 01:03:44.670 align:center
Just eat and only focus on studying!

01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:46.920 align:center
Eat!

01:03:49.045 --> 01:03:50.712 align:center
Give me a hand!
- Get him to the hospital!

01:03:50.837 --> 01:03:53.795 align:center
Let's get him to the hospital!
- Go easy on his leg!

01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:55.920 align:center
Hurry! Come on!
- Lift him up!

01:04:04.628 --> 01:04:05.878 align:center
Can't you watch your step?

01:04:06.628 --> 01:04:08.670 align:center
Hey! Don't fall on the tracks!
- My pen, brother!

01:04:08.795 --> 01:04:10.128 align:center
Buy another one!

01:04:10.587 --> 01:04:11.712 align:center
I don't have money for that.

01:04:11.837 --> 01:04:14.045 align:center
I only have enough
for a return ticket after my exam!

01:04:21.128 --> 01:04:22.337 align:center
What exam, Ayyakannu?

01:04:23.670 --> 01:04:25.420 align:center
The Union Public Service Commission exam.

01:04:25.545 --> 01:04:26.878 align:center
This is my first trip to Madras!

01:04:27.753 --> 01:04:29.378 align:center
Didn't know the route,
and got lost!

01:04:29.795 --> 01:04:31.962 align:center
I'm running late!
This is my last shot!

01:04:33.003 --> 01:04:35.295 align:center
The stress makes me feel
I forgot everything I studied!

01:04:38.045 --> 01:04:39.128 align:center
Here!

01:04:39.253 --> 01:04:40.628 align:center
This is a very lucky pen!

01:04:40.753 --> 01:04:42.045 align:center
The great Anna gifted it to me!

01:04:42.170 --> 01:04:43.378 align:center
Do well!

01:04:46.503 --> 01:04:47.795 align:center
Brother!

01:04:48.212 --> 01:04:49.670 align:center
Brother!

01:04:51.253 --> 01:04:53.545 align:center
Thanks! I'll return it in the evening!
- You better!

01:04:53.670 --> 01:04:56.087 align:center
Don't drop it on the tracks!
- I'll definitely return it!

01:04:56.212 --> 01:04:58.337 align:center
I'll be the first collector
from my town! Just watch!

01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:01.920 align:center
When do you head back?

01:05:02.045 --> 01:05:04.087 align:center
I take the evening Boat Mail Express
once I'm done.

01:05:04.212 --> 01:05:05.378 align:center
Very well.

01:05:05.503 --> 01:05:06.545 align:center
What about your pen?

01:05:07.378 --> 01:05:08.878 align:center
I'll leave it at this counter
at 4 PM!

01:05:09.503 --> 01:05:11.253 align:center
You better keep it, okay?
- I will, brother!

01:05:11.878 --> 01:05:13.795 align:center
Come! Get on this bus
and get off at Panagal Park!

01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:15.420 align:center
Your exam center will be close by!

01:05:15.545 --> 01:05:17.170 align:center
Hurry!
- Thank you very much, brother!

01:05:21.878 --> 01:05:24.420 align:center
Those who are elder must be addressed
as 'aap' (you honorific).

01:05:25.295 --> 01:05:27.420 align:center
And those younger
must be addressed as 'tum' (you).

01:05:28.545 --> 01:05:30.170 align:center
And it's 'ithar aoongi'
(I'll be there).

01:05:31.295 --> 01:05:33.087 align:center
No, you're mistaken.

01:05:33.212 --> 01:05:34.920 align:center
As you're a male,
it should be...

01:05:35.045 --> 01:05:37.628 align:center
...it should be 'aoonga'.
My mistake, sir.

01:05:37.753 --> 01:05:38.753 align:center
I'll correct it, sir.

01:05:39.962 --> 01:05:41.378 align:center
Sorry. You are not eligible.

01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:43.920 align:center
Sir...

01:05:44.462 --> 01:05:45.670 align:center
Why, sir?

01:05:45.795 --> 01:05:48.295 align:center
Didn't I answer correctly
in the job-related questions?

01:05:48.962 --> 01:05:50.420 align:center
Your Hindi is very weak.

01:05:51.003 --> 01:05:54.337 align:center
Nikhil Sharma, Amit Kumar,
Keshav Gupta...

01:05:54.462 --> 01:05:57.837 align:center
They've scored very well
in the written and oral Hindi tests.

01:05:57.962 --> 01:05:59.087 align:center
You are unemployable.

01:05:59.212 --> 01:06:00.712 align:center
Mr. Che... Chezeeyan.

01:06:01.170 --> 01:06:02.212 align:center
Better luck next time.

01:06:03.503 --> 01:06:04.503 align:center
Sir...

01:06:05.545 --> 01:06:06.545 align:center
Sir...

01:06:06.670 --> 01:06:07.878 align:center
I swear I don't get it.

01:06:08.878 --> 01:06:11.128 align:center
You said knowing Hindi was good enough
to land this job.

01:06:11.253 --> 01:06:13.253 align:center
But now, you expect me
to speak fluently like them?

01:06:13.378 --> 01:06:14.378 align:center
How is this fair?

01:06:15.128 --> 01:06:16.670 align:center
They've been speaking it
since birth.

01:06:16.795 --> 01:06:18.545 align:center
I've only been learning
for a little while.

01:06:18.670 --> 01:06:20.212 align:center
There's bound to be a difference, yes?

01:06:22.420 --> 01:06:24.545 align:center
Even you couldn't pronounce my name
properly.

01:06:24.670 --> 01:06:26.670 align:center
Does it mean you're unemployable?
No, right?

01:06:27.170 --> 01:06:29.712 align:center
I put in a lot of effort for six months
to learn this language.

01:06:30.337 --> 01:06:31.712 align:center
I'll pick it up on the job, sir.

01:06:32.128 --> 01:06:34.087 align:center
I speak English well, sir.

01:06:34.212 --> 01:06:35.212 align:center
So what?

01:06:35.337 --> 01:06:37.628 align:center
We've even asked
the English-speaking President...

01:06:37.753 --> 01:06:39.420 align:center
...to address the Parliament
in Hindi.

01:06:39.545 --> 01:06:40.670 align:center
You should change too!

01:06:40.795 --> 01:06:44.753 align:center
Mister! Per the Official Languages Act,
it's compulsory to learn Hindi fluently!

01:06:44.878 --> 01:06:48.712 align:center
From the Supreme Court to Civil Service
exams, everything will be in Hindi.

01:06:49.128 --> 01:06:50.253 align:center
Within one year...

01:06:50.378 --> 01:06:54.003 align:center
...the nameboards of every bus stand,
railway station in South India...

01:06:54.128 --> 01:06:55.545 align:center
...will be written in Hindi.

01:06:55.670 --> 01:06:57.962 align:center
Instead of giving excuses...

01:06:58.087 --> 01:07:00.212 align:center
...learn Hindi fluently
and try again. We'll see.

01:07:00.337 --> 01:07:01.920 align:center
Mr. Chay-Zhee-An.

01:07:02.962 --> 01:07:03.962 align:center
Next!
- Sir...

01:07:04.378 --> 01:07:06.420 align:center
No, sir...
I can do it better.

01:07:06.545 --> 01:07:08.545 align:center
Give me just one chance.
I'll learn it, sir.

01:07:08.670 --> 01:07:10.003 align:center
Next!
- One chance...

01:07:33.462 --> 01:07:37.837 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:07:37.962 --> 01:07:42.253 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:07:42.378 --> 01:07:45.378 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:07:45.503 --> 01:07:49.587 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:07:49.712 --> 01:07:51.087 align:center
Sir!
- Hold it right there!

01:07:51.212 --> 01:07:52.920 align:center
Sir!
- Stop him!

01:07:53.045 --> 01:07:54.045 align:center
Sir!

01:07:54.170 --> 01:07:55.253 align:center
Hey! Get up!
- Sir!

01:07:55.378 --> 01:07:56.587 align:center
Sir!
- Get up!

01:07:56.712 --> 01:07:58.420 align:center
I came to take my last crack
at the IAS exam.

01:07:58.545 --> 01:08:00.795 align:center
They had postponed it by two months,
sent us all home...

01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:02.920 align:center
...and said the exam would be conducted
in Hindi!

01:08:03.045 --> 01:08:04.087 align:center
Son...

01:08:04.212 --> 01:08:08.337 align:center
The National Language Committee is yet
to decide if English can be added...

01:08:08.462 --> 01:08:10.920 align:center
...along with Hindi as the medium
for IAS exams.

01:08:11.837 --> 01:08:14.628 align:center
Please wait until it is publicly announced, son.

01:08:14.753 --> 01:08:15.962 align:center
Don't be hasty.

01:08:16.087 --> 01:08:18.795 align:center
What if the committee says the exam
will only be in Hindi?

01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:22.045 align:center
So what?
You can still write the exam in English!

01:08:22.170 --> 01:08:24.253 align:center
Or learn Hindi
and write the exam!

01:08:24.378 --> 01:08:28.753 align:center
They've announced that learning Hindi
can get you a job in the quota system.

01:08:29.212 --> 01:08:31.045 align:center
We studied in the Tamil medium, sir.

01:08:31.170 --> 01:08:33.212 align:center
It took us 200 years to learn English!

01:08:33.337 --> 01:08:36.378 align:center
Who knows how long it will take
to learn yet another language?

01:08:36.503 --> 01:08:38.253 align:center
We think in Tamil and write in English.

01:08:38.378 --> 01:08:40.545 align:center
We have to check
for spelling mistakes ten times over!

01:08:40.670 --> 01:08:43.420 align:center
But Hindi speakers? It's easy,
as it's their mother tongue.

01:08:43.545 --> 01:08:45.337 align:center
They're rigging everything
in their favor!

01:08:45.462 --> 01:08:47.670 align:center
Shouldn't you speak for us
as our representative, sir?

01:08:47.795 --> 01:08:50.628 align:center
I beg of you, sir.
Do not forsake us!

01:08:50.753 --> 01:08:52.795 align:center
Toss this lunatic out!
- Do not forsake us, sir!

01:08:53.212 --> 01:08:55.420 align:center
Get up! Let's get going!
- Sir!

01:08:55.545 --> 01:08:56.545 align:center
Sir!

01:08:56.670 --> 01:08:58.712 align:center
Come on!
- I'm not a lunatic, sir!

01:08:59.545 --> 01:09:01.295 align:center
Please hear me out, sir!

01:09:08.587 --> 01:09:10.503 align:center
Poor lad!

01:09:50.878 --> 01:09:53.545 align:center
"Hindi imposition burnt down
the only dream I had."

01:09:53.670 --> 01:09:57.003 align:center
"Your language politics
burnt down my future."

01:09:57.128 --> 01:09:59.712 align:center
"Your arrogant power
burnt down my life."

01:09:59.837 --> 01:10:03.212 align:center
"The useless shell that's left behind?
I shall burn it myself!"

01:10:04.337 --> 01:10:06.837 align:center
"Yours truly,
R. Ayyakannu."

01:10:27.712 --> 01:10:29.962 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:10:30.087 --> 01:10:31.837 align:center
Move aside!
- Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:10:31.962 --> 01:10:33.170 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:10:33.628 --> 01:10:34.628 align:center
Where is your chief?

01:10:35.712 --> 01:10:38.670 align:center
The Chief Minister said
Madras must remain quiet.

01:10:39.253 --> 01:10:41.503 align:center
Our chief is on his way
after enforcing that.

01:10:42.212 --> 01:10:43.378 align:center
(Madurai - 7 Kilometres)

01:10:44.837 --> 01:10:45.837 align:center
Step on it!

01:10:47.545 --> 01:10:49.462 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:10:49.587 --> 01:10:51.878 align:center
(Telugu) Please turn that frown
upside down, dear.

01:10:52.003 --> 01:10:55.878 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:10:56.003 --> 01:10:59.378 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:11:00.253 --> 01:11:02.295 align:center
It's just students who are protesting, right?

01:11:02.795 --> 01:11:04.837 align:center
Why not let them, sir?
Aren't you a Tamilian, too?

01:11:05.253 --> 01:11:06.253 align:center
Pull over.

01:11:06.878 --> 01:11:07.878 align:center
Sir?

01:11:09.295 --> 01:11:10.503 align:center
I said so in Tamil, didn't I?

01:11:11.087 --> 01:11:12.253 align:center
Pull over.
- Sir...

01:11:13.462 --> 01:11:14.462 align:center
Yes, sir.

01:11:21.045 --> 01:11:23.253 align:center
Sir? Sir!
No, sir!

01:11:23.378 --> 01:11:24.712 align:center
Sir!

01:11:28.087 --> 01:11:31.628 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:11:31.753 --> 01:11:36.712 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:11:36.837 --> 01:11:41.003 align:center
They've shut factories for ink and dyeing
as well as textile mills in Madurai, buddy!

01:11:41.128 --> 01:11:42.712 align:center
We don't have black cloth, paper or ink!

01:11:42.837 --> 01:11:43.920 align:center
How do we protest now?

01:11:44.045 --> 01:11:46.545 align:center
We're surrounded by cops!
Let's leave!

01:11:46.670 --> 01:11:47.670 align:center
Come here, child.

01:11:51.212 --> 01:11:52.212 align:center
Black...

01:11:53.878 --> 01:11:54.878 align:center
Get lost!

01:11:56.420 --> 01:12:00.003 align:center
Everyone will take notice of
the black flags that fly in the sky today.

01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:02.628 align:center
At ease!

01:12:02.753 --> 01:12:07.087 align:center
Do you know why I came to Madurai
to inaugurate Hindi Week?

01:12:07.795 --> 01:12:11.295 align:center
I believe the very Madurai where
the Sangam movement propagated Tamil...

01:12:11.420 --> 01:12:15.753 align:center
...will also propagate Hindi
which will unite our country!

01:12:16.628 --> 01:12:18.003 align:center
At ease!

01:12:21.628 --> 01:12:25.462 align:center
From now, the official language of India
is no longer English!

01:12:26.087 --> 01:12:30.753 align:center
To enforce that, I rechristen
the Indian Gazette to 'Bharat Rajpatra'.

01:12:30.878 --> 01:12:33.920 align:center
Under that name,
I release its inaugural Hindi edition!

01:12:34.962 --> 01:12:35.962 align:center
Praise be to India!

01:12:37.170 --> 01:12:38.545 align:center
(Hindi) The Hindi Week begins!

01:12:38.670 --> 01:12:41.587 align:center
(Hindi) The Hindi Week begins!

01:12:41.712 --> 01:12:43.295 align:center
(Hindi) The Hindi Week begins!

01:12:43.420 --> 01:12:46.087 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:12:46.878 --> 01:12:49.420 align:center
I saw a gang of students
break into the bank, sir!

01:12:50.587 --> 01:12:51.920 align:center
Let them be trapped in there.

01:12:52.045 --> 01:12:53.878 align:center
Do nothing as long as the CM is here.
Got it?

01:12:54.503 --> 01:12:56.087 align:center
Do what you want to them
once he leaves.

01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:03.503 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:13:03.628 --> 01:13:08.587 align:center
Long Live the Chief Minister!

01:13:08.795 --> 01:13:10.795 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Long Live Tamil!

01:13:10.920 --> 01:13:15.170 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Long Live Tamil!

01:13:15.587 --> 01:13:16.795 align:center
Carbon paper?

01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:18.212 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:18.712 --> 01:13:19.837 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:20.795 --> 01:13:22.087 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:22.962 --> 01:13:23.962 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:24.087 --> 01:13:25.295 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:25.420 --> 01:13:26.712 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:13:31.128 --> 01:13:32.920 align:center
Move aside!
- Come quickly!

01:13:33.045 --> 01:13:34.045 align:center
Move!
- Hold it!

01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:45.920 align:center
Hold him tight!

01:13:48.503 --> 01:13:49.503 align:center
Hold him tight!

01:14:03.087 --> 01:14:06.003 align:center
'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

01:14:06.128 --> 01:14:08.878 align:center
'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

01:14:09.003 --> 01:14:10.420 align:center
'Ours is a great army'

01:14:11.587 --> 01:14:13.712 align:center
'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

01:14:28.712 --> 01:14:29.712 align:center
Get him!

01:14:32.087 --> 01:14:34.545 align:center
So you'd arrest us if we raise black flags?

01:14:35.712 --> 01:14:37.128 align:center
Our hair is black, too!

01:14:37.545 --> 01:14:39.003 align:center
Arrest us if you dare!

01:14:40.170 --> 01:14:42.170 align:center
Can your prison even contain so many of us,
Mr. CM?

01:14:49.462 --> 01:14:52.378 align:center
'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

01:14:52.503 --> 01:14:55.378 align:center
'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

01:14:55.503 --> 01:14:57.295 align:center
'Ours is a great army'

01:14:57.962 --> 01:14:59.712 align:center
'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

01:15:19.837 --> 01:15:22.503 align:center
'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

01:15:22.628 --> 01:15:25.670 align:center
'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

01:15:25.795 --> 01:15:27.212 align:center
'Ours is a great army'

01:15:28.212 --> 01:15:30.087 align:center
'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

01:15:32.628 --> 01:15:33.628 align:center
Light it up, brother!

01:15:34.087 --> 01:15:35.087 align:center
We'll show them!

01:15:57.962 --> 01:15:59.587 align:center
This revolution will spread!

01:15:59.712 --> 01:16:00.712 align:center
It will rage!

01:16:00.837 --> 01:16:02.628 align:center
It will rage on!
- It will rage on!

01:16:05.378 --> 01:16:06.378 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:16:06.503 --> 01:16:07.503 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:16:33.545 --> 01:16:35.170 align:center
Don't go in there, sir!

01:16:35.295 --> 01:16:36.378 align:center
Let go of me!

01:16:36.503 --> 01:16:37.962 align:center
Come on!
This way!

01:16:39.128 --> 01:16:40.503 align:center
Hurry!
- Come on!

01:16:51.587 --> 01:16:52.587 align:center
Come on!

01:17:03.962 --> 01:17:06.212 align:center
You had 'Puranaanooru'
tattooed on your chest!

01:17:06.712 --> 01:17:08.087 align:center
You're the leader of that squad!

01:17:09.087 --> 01:17:10.962 align:center
Get going!
Take cover in Chidambaram!

01:17:11.087 --> 01:17:12.087 align:center
Get in quickly, Durai!

01:17:12.212 --> 01:17:13.212 align:center
Be safe, Poovai!

01:17:13.337 --> 01:17:15.253 align:center
Get going! Step on it
and head to Chidambaram!

01:17:28.462 --> 01:17:29.628 align:center
What you said the other day?

01:17:30.378 --> 01:17:32.212 align:center
The same MO as the 1959 incident.

01:17:32.795 --> 01:17:33.795 align:center
Diethyl.

01:17:34.212 --> 01:17:35.253 align:center
Arsonism.

01:17:35.962 --> 01:17:36.962 align:center
The same man.

01:17:37.087 --> 01:17:38.545 align:center
(Let justice prevail)

01:17:39.753 --> 01:17:40.753 align:center
He's back.

01:17:41.795 --> 01:17:44.628 align:center
'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

01:17:44.753 --> 01:17:47.587 align:center
'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

01:17:47.712 --> 01:17:49.670 align:center
'Ours is a great army'

01:17:50.295 --> 01:17:52.670 align:center
'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

01:18:02.253 --> 01:18:03.337 align:center
Why are you mad at me?

01:18:03.462 --> 01:18:04.670 align:center
Like you don't know!

01:18:05.587 --> 01:18:06.962 align:center
Why did you keep this from me?

01:18:08.087 --> 01:18:09.587 align:center
I didn't tell anyone.

01:18:10.337 --> 01:18:12.253 align:center
I'm not just 'anyone'.
I'm Ratnamala!

01:18:16.378 --> 01:18:17.378 align:center
Ratnamala!

01:18:18.295 --> 01:18:19.295 align:center
Ratnamala!

01:18:20.795 --> 01:18:21.837 align:center
Ratnamala!

01:18:21.962 --> 01:18:24.878 align:center
Is she your dear brother Chinnadurai
to forgive you so easily?

01:18:25.003 --> 01:18:26.128 align:center
You and your lies!

01:18:26.253 --> 01:18:27.295 align:center
Way to screw up, Chief!

01:18:36.420 --> 01:18:37.420 align:center
Talk to her in Telugu.

01:18:40.503 --> 01:18:41.587 align:center
Are you really that naive?

01:18:42.170 --> 01:18:43.587 align:center
You should learn all this, Chief!

01:18:52.253 --> 01:18:53.545 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:18:54.587 --> 01:18:55.587 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:18:56.837 --> 01:19:00.545 align:center
(Telugu) 'Part not from me'

01:19:01.170 --> 01:19:02.295 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:19:03.295 --> 01:19:04.503 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:19:05.545 --> 01:19:09.087 align:center
(Telugu) 'The moon parts not from the sky'

01:19:10.045 --> 01:19:11.420 align:center
(Telugu) Picked up Telugu, eh?

01:19:12.587 --> 01:19:14.337 align:center
(Telugu) How can I not?
For you, Ratnamala!

01:19:14.837 --> 01:19:18.087 align:center
'Why does the world spin
round and round?'

01:19:19.087 --> 01:19:22.295 align:center
'Why does it crumble apart?'

01:19:23.128 --> 01:19:26.420 align:center
'Like a note scribbled in a book...'

01:19:27.087 --> 01:19:30.212 align:center
'...I too am lost'

01:19:32.128 --> 01:19:33.337 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:19:34.378 --> 01:19:35.545 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:19:36.420 --> 01:19:40.087 align:center
'Part not from me'

01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:43.003 align:center
'O young princess'

01:19:43.128 --> 01:19:45.003 align:center
'Just for you,
a yearning knight awaits'

01:19:45.128 --> 01:19:47.420 align:center
'With the orchard blooms
as your witness...'

01:19:47.545 --> 01:19:49.628 align:center
'...relay your response
on a scroll'

01:19:49.753 --> 01:19:51.670 align:center
'Is your heart made of stone?'

01:19:51.795 --> 01:19:53.670 align:center
'Will the bed become one of thorns?'

01:19:53.795 --> 01:19:55.878 align:center
'Will this lass
torment me endlessly?'

01:19:56.003 --> 01:19:58.253 align:center
'My welfare lies in your path'

01:20:21.795 --> 01:20:25.128 align:center
'Are you well, my belle?'

01:20:26.253 --> 01:20:29.878 align:center
'Can a letter tell...'

01:20:30.712 --> 01:20:35.587 align:center
'...how I have fused my kisses
in the pen's ink?'

01:20:39.587 --> 01:20:44.545 align:center
'How I have run out of words
to paint my love?'

01:20:48.087 --> 01:20:51.087 align:center
'With you apart,
this copy aches'

01:20:52.378 --> 01:20:55.545 align:center
'My passion climbs
onto this letter'

01:20:56.920 --> 01:20:59.587 align:center
'Your image is my only shade'

01:21:00.378 --> 01:21:03.920 align:center
'Turn real and be one with me, O love'

01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:07.962 align:center
'O young princess'

01:21:08.087 --> 01:21:10.087 align:center
'Just for you,
a yearning knight awaits'

01:21:10.212 --> 01:21:12.212 align:center
'With the orchard blooms
as your witness...'

01:21:12.337 --> 01:21:14.503 align:center
'...relay your response
on a scroll'

01:21:14.628 --> 01:21:16.587 align:center
'Is your heart made of stone?'

01:21:16.712 --> 01:21:19.003 align:center
'Will the bed become one of thorns?'

01:21:19.128 --> 01:21:21.045 align:center
'Will this lass
torment me endlessly?'

01:21:21.170 --> 01:21:23.170 align:center
'My welfare lies in your path'

01:21:27.253 --> 01:21:30.628 align:center
'Ratnamala...'

01:21:31.670 --> 01:21:35.337 align:center
'Eyelashes part not from the eyes'

01:21:57.295 --> 01:21:59.337 align:center
'O beauty...'

01:21:59.462 --> 01:22:00.878 align:center
'In the corner of your lips...'

01:22:01.628 --> 01:22:05.212 align:center
'...seeps in a soft smile'

01:22:06.045 --> 01:22:12.337 align:center
'Like lightning that streaks
across a cluster of dark clouds'

01:22:14.753 --> 01:22:20.170 align:center
'Like a song that extends
from a semicolon'

01:22:23.420 --> 01:22:26.962 align:center
'A pen twirls
in between my fingers...'

01:22:27.837 --> 01:22:30.920 align:center
'Why don't you exchange places?'

01:22:32.462 --> 01:22:39.503 align:center
'Till the moment I caress you,
I'm nothing but this letter's paper'

01:22:54.420 --> 01:22:55.878 align:center
The telegram just arrived, right?

01:22:56.003 --> 01:22:57.128 align:center
We'll handle it!
Go!

01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:00.712 align:center
A telegram from A. Ramasamy,
the head of Madurai University.

01:23:01.128 --> 01:23:02.670 align:center
At the attack in Maasi street...

01:23:03.462 --> 01:23:05.295 align:center
...two student comrades
passed away.

01:23:05.712 --> 01:23:08.003 align:center
The ruling party goons
brutally attacked students!

01:23:08.128 --> 01:23:10.128 align:center
The cops stood back and watched!

01:23:10.628 --> 01:23:13.587 align:center
We're doing a citywide procession
against police brutality tomorrow!

01:23:13.712 --> 01:23:15.962 align:center
We got authorization!
We're going!

01:23:16.087 --> 01:23:17.087 align:center
We're going!
- Durai!

01:23:17.212 --> 01:23:19.003 align:center
How'd they give permission
on Republic Day?

01:23:20.462 --> 01:23:23.753 align:center
The law gives carte blanche to the cops
for any riots on Republic Day.

01:23:23.878 --> 01:23:25.545 align:center
That's why they signed off in a jiffy!

01:23:25.670 --> 01:23:26.962 align:center
They're luring us into a trap!

01:23:27.462 --> 01:23:29.962 align:center
I don't care!
They attacked students!

01:23:30.503 --> 01:23:32.295 align:center
I'm going.
- We'll go on a procession.

01:23:32.420 --> 01:23:33.587 align:center
But on January 27th!

01:23:34.087 --> 01:23:37.420 align:center
What's deemed illegal on Republic Day
is a democratic right on the next day!

01:23:37.545 --> 01:23:39.712 align:center
But neither you nor the Maasi Street crew
need to come.

01:23:39.837 --> 01:23:41.587 align:center
They're hunting you
even as we speak.

01:23:41.712 --> 01:23:42.795 align:center
I'll go get permission.

01:23:42.920 --> 01:23:44.462 align:center
Forget what happened at Maasi Street!

01:23:44.587 --> 01:23:46.087 align:center
Only peaceful protests from now!

01:23:48.045 --> 01:23:49.378 align:center
That won't cut it, brother.

01:23:50.295 --> 01:23:51.753 align:center
Violence is all they understand.

01:23:52.753 --> 01:23:55.045 align:center
I lost a friend because I was
more violent than you!

01:23:55.170 --> 01:23:57.420 align:center
This is war!
There will be casualties!

01:23:57.545 --> 01:24:00.628 align:center
Not just Netaji! Didn't proponents of
Gandhiji's non-violence also die?

01:24:00.753 --> 01:24:02.045 align:center
Fear won't accomplish crap!

01:24:03.045 --> 01:24:05.545 align:center
Durai...
Don't mistake caution with fear.

01:24:05.670 --> 01:24:06.712 align:center
It's wisdom.

01:24:06.837 --> 01:24:08.587 align:center
You've used every weapon you have.

01:24:09.628 --> 01:24:10.878 align:center
Leave this to me.

01:24:11.003 --> 01:24:15.045 align:center
All our squads will hold processions
in every district on the 27th at 9 AM!

01:24:15.170 --> 01:24:17.170 align:center
I'll handle it.
Please don't step out!

01:24:23.087 --> 01:24:24.087 align:center
Alright.

01:24:26.087 --> 01:24:28.003 align:center
As my brother,
I don't have to listen to you.

01:24:28.795 --> 01:24:30.503 align:center
But as my leader,
I have no choice.

01:24:37.087 --> 01:24:39.420 align:center
Call immediately if anything comes up
on National Radio.

01:24:39.545 --> 01:24:41.670 align:center
One of us will always be by the phone.
- Okay.

01:24:42.462 --> 01:24:43.545 align:center
Start the van, Soda!

01:24:57.253 --> 01:25:00.545 align:center
I told you to give authorization
to those students. Why'd you cancel it?

01:25:00.670 --> 01:25:02.462 align:center
We didn't cancel it.
They did.

01:25:02.587 --> 01:25:05.295 align:center
The students postponed
their mourning procession to the 27th.

01:25:06.003 --> 01:25:07.545 align:center
We can do nothing to them that day.

01:25:07.670 --> 01:25:10.128 align:center
We have shooting orders for tomorrow
as it's Republic Day.

01:25:10.253 --> 01:25:13.045 align:center
But to get it for the day after tomorrow,
we need to invoke Section 144.

01:25:13.170 --> 01:25:15.170 align:center
We need the Chief Minister
to sign off on it.

01:25:16.462 --> 01:25:17.753 align:center
He picked up the scent!

01:25:20.295 --> 01:25:21.587 align:center
Smart bugger!

01:25:27.878 --> 01:25:29.753 align:center
Did the CM answer our call?
- No.

01:25:30.295 --> 01:25:33.753 align:center
We're making sketches of the Maasi Street
perpetrators. We're searching intensely.

01:25:34.337 --> 01:25:35.545 align:center
I'll get the shooting order.

01:25:40.337 --> 01:25:43.753 align:center
Rubber bullets, blank rounds,
tear gas... They're all ready, right?

01:25:44.253 --> 01:25:45.253 align:center
Yes, sir.

01:25:49.087 --> 01:25:52.337 align:center
The CM isn't taking my calls
ever since the Maasi Street Incident.

01:25:52.462 --> 01:25:54.087 align:center
He wouldn't give me an appointment too.

01:25:54.212 --> 01:25:55.420 align:center
Will he give a firing order?

01:26:02.295 --> 01:26:04.253 align:center
You did this knowing Ratna is my daughter?

01:26:08.712 --> 01:26:10.837 align:center
We've recorded several phone calls...

01:26:10.962 --> 01:26:13.503 align:center
...from your house to Annamalai University
in Chidambaram.

01:26:14.712 --> 01:26:15.920 align:center
Treason.

01:26:16.045 --> 01:26:18.087 align:center
Sedition.
Life time imprisonment.

01:26:20.587 --> 01:26:24.212 align:center
As it's your daughter, I came personally,
instead of sending a police force.

01:26:25.337 --> 01:26:28.795 align:center
Press, First Information Reports,
this and that... it'll be embarrassing.

01:26:48.503 --> 01:26:50.837 align:center
Hello?
- It's Baskar Rao, chief.

01:26:50.962 --> 01:26:52.003 align:center
Baskar Rao...

01:26:52.878 --> 01:26:56.045 align:center
Let's invoke Section 144
at Chidambaram, chief.

01:26:58.420 --> 01:26:59.920 align:center
Why do that now?

01:27:01.170 --> 01:27:04.712 align:center
Those students are just conducting
a mourning procession.

01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:06.920 align:center
That's why.

01:27:07.462 --> 01:27:09.878 align:center
Much like the how they burned down
the Hindi Federation...

01:27:10.378 --> 01:27:12.545 align:center
...we have reliable intel
that they intend to burn...

01:27:12.670 --> 01:27:15.545 align:center
...the post office, the telephone exchange
and the railway station.

01:27:15.670 --> 01:27:17.170 align:center
All central government facilities!

01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:20.212 align:center
Who's the source?

01:27:20.712 --> 01:27:22.878 align:center
Our youth wing students
at that college.

01:27:26.587 --> 01:27:28.295 align:center
Inform the district magistrate...

01:27:29.170 --> 01:27:31.587 align:center
...and have them telex the order copy
to me.

01:27:32.128 --> 01:27:33.128 align:center
Yes, chief.

01:27:45.628 --> 01:27:47.712 align:center
Had the CM picked up when I called...

01:27:48.420 --> 01:27:50.170 align:center
...I wouldn't have bothered you, sir.

01:27:56.003 --> 01:27:57.003 align:center
What is this?

01:27:57.587 --> 01:27:58.587 align:center
(Telugu) What the hell?

01:28:01.337 --> 01:28:02.795 align:center
(Telugu) What the...
- Stop, miss!

01:28:02.920 --> 01:28:04.545 align:center
(Telugu) Even after everything?

01:28:04.670 --> 01:28:06.878 align:center
(Telugu) Just one call, dad!
- Please listen!

01:28:07.420 --> 01:28:09.337 align:center
This is for the students' future, dad!

01:28:09.462 --> 01:28:11.212 align:center
You matter more to me
than anything else.

01:28:11.337 --> 01:28:12.337 align:center
(Telugu) Dad...
- Come.

01:28:12.462 --> 01:28:14.045 align:center
(Telugu) Please, dad.

01:28:14.170 --> 01:28:15.920 align:center
(Telugu) Go to bed.
- (Telugu) Please, dad!

01:28:17.545 --> 01:28:19.253 align:center
(Telugu) Dad!

01:28:19.378 --> 01:28:20.837 align:center
(Telugu) Keep her in there!

01:28:20.962 --> 01:28:23.420 align:center
For your bet... betrayal of Tamil...

01:28:23.545 --> 01:28:26.462 align:center
...your party
will never come back to power, dad!

01:28:44.503 --> 01:28:45.545 align:center
Tie it tightly.

01:28:47.628 --> 01:28:48.628 align:center
This too.

01:28:50.878 --> 01:28:52.128 align:center
Even higher if you can!

01:28:56.503 --> 01:28:57.503 align:center
Brother...

01:29:11.753 --> 01:29:13.003 align:center
Chezhiyan isn't here yet.

01:29:13.128 --> 01:29:14.587 align:center
We don't have authorization.

01:29:15.128 --> 01:29:20.170 align:center
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 align:center
There are millions of students!

01:29:25.128 --> 01:29:26.587 align:center
How many people can they kill?

01:29:28.212 --> 01:29:30.378 align:center
I'm going.
Let's see what they can do!

01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:32.420 align:center
Your brother told us not to go!

01:29:33.212 --> 01:29:34.795 align:center
He said he'd get authorization too!

01:29:34.920 --> 01:29:35.920 align:center
Did he succeed?

01:29:37.045 --> 01:29:38.420 align:center
We'll join you!
- Hey, dummy!

01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:40.420 align:center
Want all of us to get caught?

01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:45.503 align:center
We have a lot more to accomplish!

01:29:46.712 --> 01:29:47.753 align:center
Stay here.

01:29:48.878 --> 01:29:50.087 align:center
I'll go finish this.

01:29:50.212 --> 01:29:51.795 align:center
We'll accomplish the rest together.

01:29:55.920 --> 01:29:58.378 align:center
It's 8:55, sir!
We only have five minutes!

01:29:58.503 --> 01:30:00.420 align:center
The Collector agreed to authorize this.

01:30:00.545 --> 01:30:02.503 align:center
Five minutes left, yes?
Wait.

01:30:07.462 --> 01:30:09.420 align:center
(Telugu) Come on! Come on! Come on!

01:30:09.545 --> 01:30:11.878 align:center
The arrogance of Hindi oppressors
is alive and kicking!

01:30:12.003 --> 01:30:13.837 align:center
It is alive and kicking!

01:30:13.962 --> 01:30:16.295 align:center
Law must prevail
and curb their arrogance!

01:30:16.420 --> 01:30:18.628 align:center
Law must prevail
and curb their arrogance!

01:30:18.753 --> 01:30:19.837 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:30:19.962 --> 01:30:22.087 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Victory to Tamilians!

01:30:22.212 --> 01:30:24.462 align:center
These people permitted
a mourning procession.

01:30:24.587 --> 01:30:26.170 align:center
But they also invoked Section 144.

01:30:26.295 --> 01:30:29.170 align:center
Who's insane? Them or those of us
who work for them? I have no idea!

01:30:32.795 --> 01:30:34.628 align:center
"But they also invoked Section 144."

01:30:40.253 --> 01:30:42.212 align:center
Everyone leave!
Students are going to riot!

01:30:42.337 --> 01:30:45.253 align:center
Close the shops!
Everyone leave!

01:30:55.837 --> 01:30:58.378 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:30:59.628 --> 01:31:02.503 align:center
If your issue is with the government,
go to Delhi and protest!

01:31:02.628 --> 01:31:04.795 align:center
Did Gandhi do the Salt Satyagraha Movement
in London?

01:31:05.212 --> 01:31:06.587 align:center
Is Delhi the only part of India?

01:31:06.712 --> 01:31:08.170 align:center
Is Chidambaram in China?

01:31:10.253 --> 01:31:12.753 align:center
Long Live The Republic!
Long Live India!

01:31:12.878 --> 01:31:14.087 align:center
Long Live India!

01:31:14.212 --> 01:31:15.712 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Palaniappan?

01:31:15.837 --> 01:31:16.837 align:center
Sir?

01:31:16.962 --> 01:31:18.295 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Let them pass.

01:31:18.420 --> 01:31:19.420 align:center
Sir?

01:31:19.545 --> 01:31:20.712 align:center
Let them pass, I say.

01:31:20.837 --> 01:31:22.503 align:center
Long Live The Republic!
- Yes, sir.

01:31:22.628 --> 01:31:23.753 align:center
Open it up! Let them pass!

01:31:24.670 --> 01:31:25.878 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:31:44.545 --> 01:31:45.587 align:center
Brother!
- Brother!

01:31:45.712 --> 01:31:46.795 align:center
They already left!

01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:48.045 align:center
Durai left with them!

01:31:48.170 --> 01:31:49.920 align:center
We tried to stop him,
but he didn't listen!

01:31:53.587 --> 01:31:55.003 align:center
Brother!

01:31:55.128 --> 01:31:56.295 align:center
None of you come along!

01:31:56.420 --> 01:31:58.462 align:center
Stay here!
- Listen, brother!

01:31:58.587 --> 01:32:01.753 align:center
Do not impose!
Do not impose Hindi!

01:32:01.878 --> 01:32:04.670 align:center
Do not snatch away the rights
of Tamilians!

01:32:04.795 --> 01:32:06.253 align:center
We will keep fighting!

01:32:06.378 --> 01:32:08.378 align:center
We will keep fighting for Tamil!
- Hurry!

01:32:08.503 --> 01:32:09.587 align:center
Lock the gate!

01:32:09.712 --> 01:32:12.503 align:center
Do not snatch away the rights
of Tamilians!

01:32:12.628 --> 01:32:13.753 align:center
Close it quickly!

01:32:13.878 --> 01:32:15.420 align:center
We will keep fighting!
- Hold them off!

01:32:21.045 --> 01:32:22.962 align:center
The procession is going along peacefully, sir.

01:32:23.087 --> 01:32:24.378 align:center
He's coming peacefully, too.

01:32:24.795 --> 01:32:26.170 align:center
Are you sure he's our target?

01:32:26.753 --> 01:32:28.295 align:center
He most definitely is not.

01:32:29.295 --> 01:32:30.378 align:center
Load this.

01:32:30.503 --> 01:32:31.503 align:center
Shoot him in the chest.

01:32:31.962 --> 01:32:32.962 align:center
Sir...

01:32:33.087 --> 01:32:34.503 align:center
This isn't a rubber bullet.

01:32:34.628 --> 01:32:36.420 align:center
It's .303 caliber high velocity bullets!

01:32:36.545 --> 01:32:37.545 align:center
It'll kill him!

01:32:38.337 --> 01:32:40.087 align:center
We're not sure that he's our target, right?

01:32:41.712 --> 01:32:43.837 align:center
You let the one we're after
slip away at Maasi Street.

01:32:44.837 --> 01:32:46.503 align:center
If we nab and question him,
he'll talk!

01:32:46.628 --> 01:32:48.253 align:center
Shooting him might cause a huge riot!

01:32:49.170 --> 01:32:50.962 align:center
Not at all.
He'll never talk.

01:32:51.670 --> 01:32:54.503 align:center
Even the last remaining student here
won't rat that man out.

01:32:57.337 --> 01:32:58.420 align:center
Mr. Superintendent!

01:32:58.545 --> 01:33:04.003 align:center
Know how 150,000 Britishers ruled over
millions of Indians for 200 years?

01:33:05.795 --> 01:33:07.087 align:center
They'd only shoot once.

01:33:07.962 --> 01:33:10.920 align:center
But the sound of that bullet
would be heard by ten million people!

01:33:12.003 --> 01:33:13.003 align:center
This is just like that.

01:33:13.670 --> 01:33:16.045 align:center
One outcome?
Another person like him won't rise up.

01:33:16.837 --> 01:33:19.628 align:center
The other?
The sound will draw him out!

01:33:24.170 --> 01:33:25.295 align:center
We'll keep fighting!

01:33:25.420 --> 01:33:27.878 align:center
We'll keep fighting for Tamil!

01:33:28.003 --> 01:33:29.003 align:center
Durai!

01:33:29.128 --> 01:33:30.503 align:center
There are snipers in position!

01:33:32.253 --> 01:33:33.628 align:center
Just rubber bullets!

01:33:33.753 --> 01:33:35.045 align:center
They can't fire actual bullets!

01:33:37.420 --> 01:33:38.670 align:center
Deploy tear gas.

01:33:41.753 --> 01:33:42.795 align:center
Fire.

01:33:42.920 --> 01:33:44.337 align:center
Fire!
- We will keep fighting!

01:35:00.628 --> 01:35:01.795 align:center
Leave!

01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:03.045 align:center
Trying to spook us?

01:35:04.462 --> 01:35:05.462 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

01:35:33.878 --> 01:35:34.878 align:center
Don't fire!

01:35:38.962 --> 01:35:39.962 align:center
Fire!

01:35:40.087 --> 01:35:41.503 align:center
Long Live Tamil!
- Don't fire!

01:35:41.628 --> 01:35:42.628 align:center
Victory to Tam...

01:35:56.837 --> 01:36:03.337 align:center
'As the fragrance in the wind,
I'll stand strong'

01:36:07.670 --> 01:36:13.837 align:center
'As the fire in my brother's words,
I'll be reborn'

01:36:14.670 --> 01:36:15.670 align:center
Don't fire!

01:36:17.170 --> 01:36:18.170 align:center
Don't fire!

01:36:20.712 --> 01:36:21.962 align:center
Chinna!

01:36:22.087 --> 01:36:24.753 align:center
'I'll brave everything...'

01:36:24.878 --> 01:36:28.628 align:center
'...for my brother's beside me'

01:36:28.753 --> 01:36:32.212 align:center
Chinna?
- 'Let the breeze in my breath...'

01:36:32.337 --> 01:36:36.045 align:center
'...speak my brother's name'

01:36:36.878 --> 01:36:42.753 align:center
'I shall walk with pride,
knowing my brother is by my side'

01:36:46.628 --> 01:36:47.795 align:center
You'll be okay!

01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:50.503 align:center
'Standing upon his shoulders...'

01:36:50.628 --> 01:36:53.628 align:center
Let's go!
- '...I shall snatch the stars'

01:37:02.670 --> 01:37:03.670 align:center
Move!

01:37:03.795 --> 01:37:04.920 align:center
Don't panic, brother.

01:37:05.045 --> 01:37:07.503 align:center
Such a puny bullet can't hurt me!

01:37:07.628 --> 01:37:09.087 align:center
Don't say anything!

01:37:20.212 --> 01:37:21.212 align:center
Chinna?

01:37:21.795 --> 01:37:23.253 align:center
Chinna!

01:37:24.837 --> 01:37:28.628 align:center
Chinna...
- 'You showed me the world'

01:37:28.753 --> 01:37:32.212 align:center
'I was born to be your shadow'

01:37:33.545 --> 01:37:36.253 align:center
Chinna?
Look at me!

01:37:36.378 --> 01:37:39.753 align:center
'Let's get the fireworks going'

01:37:39.878 --> 01:37:41.545 align:center
'Let's twirl our moustaches'

01:37:41.670 --> 01:37:42.753 align:center
Don't give up, brother.

01:37:45.212 --> 01:37:46.212 align:center
You'll be okay!

01:37:46.337 --> 01:37:47.337 align:center
Get up!

01:37:47.462 --> 01:37:49.753 align:center
'You are...'

01:37:49.878 --> 01:37:54.128 align:center
Stop!
- 'You are, you are God's witness'

01:38:04.045 --> 01:38:05.045 align:center
Sir?

01:38:05.170 --> 01:38:06.337 align:center
Puranaanooru!

01:38:07.378 --> 01:38:09.212 align:center
My younger brother, sir!

01:38:10.253 --> 01:38:11.253 align:center
Sir...

01:38:11.378 --> 01:38:13.087 align:center
Let go of me!

01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:15.295 align:center
Let go of me, I say!

01:38:15.420 --> 01:38:16.420 align:center
Sir!

01:38:16.545 --> 01:38:18.087 align:center
I'm coming, Chinna!

01:38:18.212 --> 01:38:20.462 align:center
He's innocent, sir! Please spare him!
Chinna!

01:38:20.587 --> 01:38:22.045 align:center
Don't be scared!
I'm coming!

01:38:22.170 --> 01:38:24.587 align:center
He's innocent, sir!
Please spare him!

01:38:24.712 --> 01:38:26.753 align:center
I'm coming, Chinna!

01:38:28.545 --> 01:38:29.545 align:center
He's still alive, sir!

01:38:29.670 --> 01:38:31.378 align:center
If we get him to a hospital,
we can save him!

01:38:32.170 --> 01:38:33.337 align:center
Get him inside!

01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:35.962 align:center
'I'll brave everything'

01:38:36.087 --> 01:38:37.962 align:center
By saving him...
- 'For my brother's beside me'

01:38:38.087 --> 01:38:39.878 align:center
...you expect to win
an award for Best Nurse?

01:38:41.670 --> 01:38:44.378 align:center
Let him go!
- 'Let the breeze in my breath...'

01:38:44.503 --> 01:38:47.920 align:center
He's innocent!
- '...speak my brother's name'

01:38:49.503 --> 01:38:55.003 align:center
'I shall walk with pride,
knowing my brother is by my side'

01:38:57.337 --> 01:38:58.837 align:center
Let him go straight to the morgue!

01:39:00.503 --> 01:39:06.045 align:center
'Standing upon his shoulders,
I shall snatch the stars'

01:39:15.795 --> 01:39:17.128 align:center
Chinna...

01:39:18.878 --> 01:39:20.087 align:center
A college student...

01:39:20.212 --> 01:39:22.212 align:center
...was shot to death
by his own government!

01:39:22.337 --> 01:39:24.128 align:center
This is a black day for our democracy!

01:39:24.253 --> 01:39:26.003 align:center
Yes, it is!
- At ease!

01:39:26.128 --> 01:39:27.170 align:center
At ease!

01:39:27.295 --> 01:39:29.670 align:center
The deceased isn't a student!
He was a hooligan!

01:39:30.087 --> 01:39:32.545 align:center
Despite knowing Section 144 was in effect
in Chidambaram...

01:39:32.670 --> 01:39:34.628 align:center
...he instigated students
to go on a procession!

01:39:34.753 --> 01:39:36.920 align:center
He violently attacked police officers!

01:39:37.045 --> 01:39:39.545 align:center
Do you expect us to put a medal on him?

01:39:39.670 --> 01:39:44.087 align:center
I can firmly say you didn't
publicly declare Section 144 was in effect!

01:39:44.212 --> 01:39:46.045 align:center
Those are tall tales,
honorable member!

01:39:46.587 --> 01:39:50.003 align:center
The student was fully aware Section 144
was in effect, when he gathered the crowd!

01:39:50.128 --> 01:39:51.128 align:center
That's the truth!

01:39:51.253 --> 01:39:54.545 align:center
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 align:center
Blaming them for your mistakes
is old politics!

01:39:57.545 --> 01:39:59.337 align:center
Yes, indeed!
- Honorable Member!

01:40:01.128 --> 01:40:04.128 align:center
There is nothing old or new
in politics!

01:40:04.753 --> 01:40:07.295 align:center
After taking these recent incidents
into account...

01:40:07.878 --> 01:40:11.462 align:center
To ensure the order of peace
is in effect in our state...

01:40:11.587 --> 01:40:13.545 align:center
...and to protect our people...

01:40:14.212 --> 01:40:20.670 align:center
...I announce the strict enforcement
of the DIR (Defence of India Rules) Law!

01:40:20.795 --> 01:40:22.087 align:center
What?
- Mr. Chief Minister!

01:40:22.212 --> 01:40:26.045 align:center
The British put the DIR law in place
to suppress freedom fighters!

01:40:26.170 --> 01:40:28.628 align:center
But now, as soon as the authority
reached your grasp...

01:40:28.753 --> 01:40:31.295 align:center
...you've become the very thing
you swore to destroy!

01:40:31.420 --> 01:40:32.420 align:center
Speak up, everyone!

01:40:32.545 --> 01:40:34.253 align:center
We severely condemn the DIR law!
- At ease!

01:40:34.378 --> 01:40:35.712 align:center
Who will answer for this death?

01:40:35.837 --> 01:40:39.253 align:center
(The Hindi song 'Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen
Sitam' plays on the radio)

01:41:26.295 --> 01:41:27.295 align:center
"Greetings."

01:41:27.420 --> 01:41:30.170 align:center
"Regional News.
Professor's Radio."

01:41:31.295 --> 01:41:32.753 align:center
"As teachers..."

01:41:32.878 --> 01:41:34.962 align:center
...we are quitting
from the language protests.

01:41:35.087 --> 01:41:39.295 align:center
"We regret having stood hand in hand
with students until now."

01:41:39.420 --> 01:41:40.712 align:center
The student Chinnadurai...

01:41:42.670 --> 01:41:44.170 align:center
Under the guise of a language war...

01:41:44.587 --> 01:41:48.253 align:center
"...he assembled a group
to enforce and execute his own wishes."

01:41:49.045 --> 01:41:50.128 align:center
"We condemn that."

01:41:54.212 --> 01:41:55.212 align:center
Tamil Professor.

01:41:58.420 --> 01:42:00.712 align:center
You forced me to talk like this,
you wretches!

01:42:01.420 --> 01:42:03.962 align:center
When our people catch a glimpse
of biriyani...

01:42:05.045 --> 01:42:06.503 align:center
...they'll let go of their dignity.

01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:13.003 align:center
You've had to eat a lot of biriyani,
I see.

01:42:15.878 --> 01:42:18.712 align:center
In the name of punishment posting,
I was relegated to a sewer!

01:42:19.628 --> 01:42:20.628 align:center
For six years!

01:42:21.295 --> 01:42:23.712 align:center
For six years,
I sought perilous missions...

01:42:23.837 --> 01:42:26.337 align:center
...and earned my way back to the top
like a dog!

01:42:27.128 --> 01:42:28.337 align:center
Did I eat biriyani?

01:42:29.337 --> 01:42:30.628 align:center
Or did you let me eat it?

01:42:33.170 --> 01:42:35.587 align:center
You? A criminal who burned down a train?
Seen as a hero!

01:42:36.378 --> 01:42:38.087 align:center
I, who saved lives that day?

01:42:39.087 --> 01:42:40.295 align:center
I got punished!

01:42:41.878 --> 01:42:45.045 align:center
But now?
Both brothers are criminals!

01:42:46.962 --> 01:42:48.420 align:center
You broke my trigger finger.

01:42:49.212 --> 01:42:50.420 align:center
They said my career was over.

01:42:51.128 --> 01:42:52.128 align:center
Did I give up?

01:42:53.378 --> 01:42:55.837 align:center
Didn't I learn to do everything
with my left hand?

01:42:58.503 --> 01:43:00.337 align:center
In the same way, we ask you
to learn Hindi.

01:43:02.253 --> 01:43:06.795 align:center
But the two of you brothers
want to make students lazy...

01:43:07.587 --> 01:43:09.837 align:center
...and intend to hamper
the nation's progress!

01:43:10.545 --> 01:43:12.587 align:center
A gang that's against its own country!

01:43:16.087 --> 01:43:18.295 align:center
Anti-national scum!

01:43:22.753 --> 01:43:23.878 align:center
The Sepoy Mut...

01:43:29.087 --> 01:43:31.837 align:center
A hundred years
before the Sepoy Mutiny...

01:43:32.587 --> 01:43:35.378 align:center
...it was Tamilians
who first opposed the British.

01:43:37.670 --> 01:43:40.420 align:center
We don't need anyone to lecture us
about patriotism!

01:43:44.295 --> 01:43:45.962 align:center
You're propagating national progress?

01:43:47.087 --> 01:43:48.087 align:center
How is that?

01:43:49.170 --> 01:43:51.253 align:center
After burying our fundamental rights?

01:43:52.462 --> 01:43:53.503 align:center
On top of that grave?

01:44:00.753 --> 01:44:03.087 align:center
Your brother lies exactly where he belongs.

01:44:04.837 --> 01:44:07.253 align:center
We burned a corpse
that reeked of sewer stench!

01:44:22.587 --> 01:44:24.337 align:center
I want all their names.

01:44:25.753 --> 01:44:28.378 align:center
Give a statement
confessing you burned down that train.

01:44:30.212 --> 01:44:31.753 align:center
You only killed one brother of mine.

01:44:36.295 --> 01:44:38.212 align:center
There is an army.

01:44:40.045 --> 01:44:42.128 align:center
There is a great army.

01:44:44.128 --> 01:44:46.462 align:center
To protect my mother tongue...

01:44:46.587 --> 01:44:48.670 align:center
...there is a great army!

01:45:04.212 --> 01:45:05.962 align:center
I learned something from the KGB.

01:45:07.878 --> 01:45:11.253 align:center
You can't get the truth out of anyone
by relentlessly torturing them.

01:45:12.087 --> 01:45:14.837 align:center
Because beyond a point...

01:45:16.295 --> 01:45:17.837 align:center
...the brain shuts down...

01:45:17.962 --> 01:45:19.837 align:center
...and they'll have no idea what to do.

01:45:20.837 --> 01:45:22.003 align:center
They'll lose their senses!

01:45:32.503 --> 01:45:34.837 align:center
But I know you have no such limits.

01:45:37.628 --> 01:45:40.045 align:center
No breaking point.

01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:43.795 align:center
So, I can do this as long as I want!

01:45:49.878 --> 01:45:51.920 align:center
Kill me.

01:45:54.503 --> 01:45:57.420 align:center
You went through hell for six years
for letting me slip away once!

01:45:58.420 --> 01:46:01.253 align:center
Let me slip away again,
your entire life will be a living hell!

01:46:36.670 --> 01:46:37.670 align:center
Here.

01:46:37.795 --> 01:46:40.337 align:center
Stab me with it
and escape.

01:46:51.587 --> 01:46:52.587 align:center
Will you leave...

01:46:53.212 --> 01:46:56.253 align:center
...or will you die at Thiru's hands
like your friend Govind did?

01:47:10.003 --> 01:47:11.253 align:center
Who are you people?
Tell me!

01:47:11.378 --> 01:47:12.587 align:center
(Hindi) Don't hit me!

01:47:12.712 --> 01:47:15.128 align:center
Tell me the name of the man who hit me!
I'll let you go!

01:47:15.545 --> 01:47:16.837 align:center
(Hindi) Please don't hit me!

01:47:19.420 --> 01:47:20.712 align:center
(Hindi) Please don't kill me...

01:47:25.628 --> 01:47:26.670 align:center
(Hindi) Listen, kid.

01:47:28.045 --> 01:47:29.378 align:center
(Hindi) This isn't your fight.

01:47:31.462 --> 01:47:32.545 align:center
(Hindi) The names.

01:47:32.670 --> 01:47:33.962 align:center
(Hindi) Please don't kill me!

01:47:34.087 --> 01:47:35.753 align:center
(Hindi) The names of your allies!

01:47:37.753 --> 01:47:39.753 align:center
(Hindi) Just give me the names
of your allies!

01:47:40.878 --> 01:47:41.878 align:center
(Hindi) Tell me!

01:47:46.670 --> 01:47:48.378 align:center
(Hindi) Please don't kill me!

01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:56.670 align:center
You were my only bloody clue!

01:48:06.462 --> 01:48:08.795 align:center
Your friend didn't reveal your name
till the end.

01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:11.003 align:center
Thiru won't follow protocol.
He'll just kill you.

01:48:13.545 --> 01:48:14.670 align:center
Come on.

01:48:14.795 --> 01:48:16.253 align:center
Go into hiding in Andhra Pradesh.

01:48:17.253 --> 01:48:18.253 align:center
Trust me.

01:48:18.962 --> 01:48:20.128 align:center
I'm a Tamilian too!

01:48:24.420 --> 01:48:26.587 align:center
Will you tell us where Chezhiyan is or not?

01:48:26.712 --> 01:48:28.587 align:center
Tell me where he is!
- Answer me!

01:48:28.712 --> 01:48:30.045 align:center
Where have you hidden him?

01:48:30.170 --> 01:48:31.712 align:center
Tell me!
Will you tell me or not?

01:48:31.837 --> 01:48:34.170 align:center
If I arrest you all,
you'll be in jail for life!

01:48:34.295 --> 01:48:37.170 align:center
Don't let anyone go
until they tell us where Chezhiyan is!

01:48:37.295 --> 01:48:38.753 align:center
Get in the van!
- Answer me!

01:48:38.878 --> 01:48:40.253 align:center
Where is Chezhiyan?

01:48:40.378 --> 01:48:41.753 align:center
Tell the truth!

01:48:41.878 --> 01:48:43.753 align:center
Where is he?
- The great Anna studied here!

01:48:43.878 --> 01:48:45.378 align:center
Know what'll happen if he finds out?

01:48:45.503 --> 01:48:47.295 align:center
Your precious Anna is also in jail!
Move!

01:48:51.003 --> 01:48:52.003 align:center
Sir...

01:48:52.795 --> 01:48:55.253 align:center
I tried my hardest to stop him.

01:49:09.253 --> 01:49:10.628 align:center
Who the hell are you to strike me?

01:49:11.087 --> 01:49:12.378 align:center
I'm an IB officer like you too!

01:49:28.212 --> 01:49:29.503 align:center
Are you and I the same?

01:49:30.503 --> 01:49:31.795 align:center
Traitor!

01:49:34.503 --> 01:49:35.920 align:center
You hiding your grandson in here?

01:49:36.045 --> 01:49:38.212 align:center
Where are you going?
Don't go in there!

01:49:38.795 --> 01:49:40.003 align:center
Get up! Let's go!

01:49:40.128 --> 01:49:41.420 align:center
Where's your leader?

01:49:41.545 --> 01:49:43.628 align:center
Where is Chezhiyan?
- Tell me where he is!

01:49:43.753 --> 01:49:44.878 align:center
Don't hit them!
- Get going!

01:49:46.878 --> 01:49:47.962 align:center
Whack him!

01:49:48.087 --> 01:49:49.962 align:center
I can't see!

01:49:50.837 --> 01:49:51.837 align:center
Move!

01:50:05.170 --> 01:50:06.920 align:center
Hey! Get up!

01:50:07.337 --> 01:50:08.378 align:center
Sir?

01:50:15.087 --> 01:50:16.128 align:center
Thank you.

01:50:16.253 --> 01:50:17.628 align:center
(Hindi) I don't need your thanks.

01:50:18.503 --> 01:50:20.628 align:center
(Hindi) Your grandmother's cooking
will suffice.

01:50:22.920 --> 01:50:24.170 align:center
(Hindi) Be safe, brother.

01:50:33.878 --> 01:50:34.878 align:center
No one here, ma'am!

01:50:35.003 --> 01:50:37.045 align:center
No one in this compartment, sir.
- Keep searching!

01:50:37.170 --> 01:50:39.003 align:center
Check the next compartment, constable!

01:50:39.128 --> 01:50:41.170 align:center
Check the engine, too!
- Yes, sir!

01:50:42.212 --> 01:50:43.337 align:center
Go there!
- Okay, sir.

01:51:24.045 --> 01:51:25.170 align:center
Chezhiya!
- Chezhiya!

01:51:25.712 --> 01:51:27.170 align:center
(Hindi) What the hell happened?

01:51:28.378 --> 01:51:29.378 align:center
The money order arrived.

01:51:30.045 --> 01:51:31.045 align:center
What's the plan, Che?

01:51:32.337 --> 01:51:34.920 align:center
Many Delhi University students are with us.

01:51:35.462 --> 01:51:37.212 align:center
South Indians, North Indians...

01:51:37.337 --> 01:51:39.045 align:center
Even Fine Arts students!

01:51:39.587 --> 01:51:40.795 align:center
What's our plan?

01:51:42.170 --> 01:51:43.170 align:center
It's dangerous.

01:51:43.837 --> 01:51:45.795 align:center
Tell us something we don't know!

01:51:46.337 --> 01:51:47.337 align:center
Let's go!

01:51:48.670 --> 01:51:50.170 align:center
The target is the All Party Meeting.

01:51:50.295 --> 01:51:52.878 align:center
Just set up the stuff.
I'll handle the rest myself.

01:51:53.003 --> 01:51:54.712 align:center
You don't need this hassle!
- Nonsense!

01:51:54.837 --> 01:51:56.295 align:center
This is a fight against oppression!

01:51:56.420 --> 01:51:58.878 align:center
If we let it lie,
they'll keep escalating matters!

01:51:59.003 --> 01:52:00.337 align:center
(Bengali) One by one...

01:52:00.462 --> 01:52:02.337 align:center
They'll break our backbone!

01:52:02.462 --> 01:52:05.003 align:center
But the Prime Minister
is at the China border, Chezhiya.

01:52:05.128 --> 01:52:07.670 align:center
He won't be present
at tomorrow's All Party Meeting.

01:52:07.795 --> 01:52:08.878 align:center
Let him stay there!

01:52:09.003 --> 01:52:10.295 align:center
I'm here to meet someone else!

01:52:10.420 --> 01:52:11.420 align:center
Whom?

01:52:12.503 --> 01:52:14.545 align:center
You think it's so easy to meet her,
Chezhiya?

01:52:34.170 --> 01:52:35.503 align:center
(Hindi) Tear it apart!

01:52:45.378 --> 01:52:47.795 align:center
All the bus boards have been changed
overnight, ma'am!

01:52:54.087 --> 01:52:56.170 align:center
What exactly have you written in Tamil?

01:52:56.295 --> 01:52:57.462 align:center
They're fuming!

01:52:57.587 --> 01:52:58.628 align:center
"Long Live Hindi."

01:53:18.837 --> 01:53:19.837 align:center
I'm Chezhiyan!

01:53:19.962 --> 01:53:21.045 align:center
From Madras, ma'am.

01:53:23.712 --> 01:53:26.212 align:center
For just one day, we imposed a language
you don't understand.

01:53:26.337 --> 01:53:27.337 align:center
Much like you did!

01:53:28.087 --> 01:53:29.212 align:center
How does it taste?

01:53:29.337 --> 01:53:30.378 align:center
Hey, Madrasi!

01:53:30.503 --> 01:53:31.670 align:center
(Hindi) Get down from there!

01:53:31.795 --> 01:53:33.462 align:center
These fellows don't know Hindi!

01:53:34.128 --> 01:53:35.587 align:center
Brains are filled with sand!

01:53:35.712 --> 01:53:37.587 align:center
Duffers, ma'am!
You should arrest them!

01:53:40.420 --> 01:53:42.420 align:center
(Hindi) This was our only way
to meet you, ma'am.

01:53:43.962 --> 01:53:46.587 align:center
(Hindi) I learned Hindi for six months.

01:53:46.712 --> 01:53:48.003 align:center
(Hindi) But I stopped.

01:53:48.462 --> 01:53:49.962 align:center
I stopped learning it, ma'am!

01:53:50.503 --> 01:53:52.087 align:center
Not because I couldn't learn Hindi.

01:53:52.670 --> 01:53:55.670 align:center
But because nobody has the right
to shove a language down my throat!

01:53:58.003 --> 01:54:00.462 align:center
You first told us, "Just learn a few words
and that's enough".

01:54:01.212 --> 01:54:04.503 align:center
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 align:center
They're already at the finish line...

01:54:07.337 --> 01:54:10.378 align:center
...while we start from the beginning
and we kill ourselves to run this race!

01:54:10.837 --> 01:54:13.087 align:center
If we don't do that,
we are unemployable.

01:54:13.628 --> 01:54:14.628 align:center
You won't hire us!

01:54:14.753 --> 01:54:16.628 align:center
Are we not the citizens of this country,
ma'am?

01:54:16.753 --> 01:54:17.753 align:center
We are!
- We are!

01:54:17.878 --> 01:54:19.587 align:center
Ma'am!
He's a fugitive!

01:54:20.212 --> 01:54:21.337 align:center
He has escaped from jail!

01:54:22.128 --> 01:54:23.128 align:center
Really?

01:54:24.212 --> 01:54:25.753 align:center
Got any record of that?

01:54:26.420 --> 01:54:28.045 align:center
Do you have any records of my arrest?

01:54:28.170 --> 01:54:29.170 align:center
An FIR copy?

01:54:30.670 --> 01:54:32.587 align:center
All we wrote is "Long Live Hindi"!

01:54:33.462 --> 01:54:34.795 align:center
And it must thrive in this city!

01:54:36.003 --> 01:54:37.837 align:center
We only ask to let Tamil thrive
in our soil!

01:54:42.503 --> 01:54:44.337 align:center
(Hindi) Your father gave us his word,
ma'am.

01:54:45.253 --> 01:54:46.545 align:center
It's your father's vow.

01:54:47.587 --> 01:54:48.962 align:center
You need to uphold it, ma'am.

01:54:59.087 --> 01:55:01.378 align:center
We want justice!

01:55:01.503 --> 01:55:03.212 align:center
We want justice!

01:55:03.337 --> 01:55:05.753 align:center
We want justice!

01:55:05.878 --> 01:55:07.920 align:center
We want justice!

01:55:08.045 --> 01:55:09.670 align:center
We want justice!

01:55:16.087 --> 01:55:18.670 align:center
But you don't seem to care about
the unity of this country.

01:55:18.795 --> 01:55:20.295 align:center
In fact just the opposite, ma'am.

01:55:21.545 --> 01:55:23.503 align:center
Unity in diversity
is the strength of our nation.

01:55:24.878 --> 01:55:25.920 align:center
We want unity.

01:55:26.045 --> 01:55:27.337 align:center
You want uniformity.

01:55:27.462 --> 01:55:28.628 align:center
That's the difference.

01:55:31.170 --> 01:55:32.170 align:center
Ma'am...

01:55:32.295 --> 01:55:35.628 align:center
I ask for a referendum.
Let people vote for their future.

01:55:37.670 --> 01:55:39.753 align:center
But referendums are not constitutional.

01:55:39.878 --> 01:55:41.712 align:center
Then I ask for a signature campaign!

01:55:41.837 --> 01:55:43.045 align:center
We'll seek endorsements.

01:55:43.170 --> 01:55:44.920 align:center
Please hear the voice of the public.

01:55:45.045 --> 01:55:47.212 align:center
As their representative,
take it to the Parliament.

01:55:48.878 --> 01:55:50.045 align:center
Isn't that constitutional?

01:55:53.253 --> 01:55:54.878 align:center
And you said he's an illiterate goon?

01:55:55.003 --> 01:55:56.003 align:center
But ma'am...

01:55:59.295 --> 01:56:00.795 align:center
So what is it you want?

01:56:01.462 --> 01:56:02.587 align:center
Firstly, ma'am...

01:56:02.712 --> 01:56:04.962 align:center
We want English to continue
as the official language.

01:56:06.003 --> 01:56:07.295 align:center
But I can't decide that.

01:56:08.295 --> 01:56:10.420 align:center
You don't have the support
in the Parliament.

01:56:10.878 --> 01:56:14.420 align:center
And you definitely don't have
the 75% majority vote...

01:56:14.545 --> 01:56:16.295 align:center
...from non-Hindi speaking states.

01:56:17.128 --> 01:56:21.878 align:center
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 align:center
They're the ones who will vote for you.

01:56:28.670 --> 01:56:29.962 align:center
And how will you prove that?

01:56:31.420 --> 01:56:33.753 align:center
The state government says
there's no dissent down south.

01:56:34.795 --> 01:56:37.587 align:center
But I will prove that we're opposing
this imposition, ma'am.

01:56:40.337 --> 01:56:43.462 align:center
But I'm assuming that the Tamil people
are not against Hindi.

01:56:43.587 --> 01:56:45.420 align:center
Absolutely correct, ma'am!
100%!

01:56:45.545 --> 01:56:47.670 align:center
We are not against Hindi
and we will never be.

01:56:48.753 --> 01:56:51.378 align:center
We will oppose it only when you impose it
on us, ma'am.

01:56:53.503 --> 01:56:54.503 align:center
Okay.

01:56:55.587 --> 01:56:58.545 align:center
Show me the support when I come
to Coimbatore on February 12th.

01:56:59.587 --> 01:57:00.878 align:center
You have seven days.

01:57:01.003 --> 01:57:04.795 align:center
How do we show numbers when the state govt.
has imposed Section 144 on us?

01:57:04.920 --> 01:57:05.962 align:center
Fair enough!

01:57:06.712 --> 01:57:08.378 align:center
Section 144 will be revoked.

01:57:08.503 --> 01:57:09.503 align:center
Ma'am...

01:57:13.045 --> 01:57:14.712 align:center
But here's the thing, Mr. Chezhiyan.

01:57:15.962 --> 01:57:18.587 align:center
While I understand your reasons
for today's protest...

01:57:19.545 --> 01:57:21.212 align:center
...I do not appreciate
your methods.

01:57:21.837 --> 01:57:22.837 align:center
It was wrong.

01:57:24.003 --> 01:57:25.753 align:center
You should not have disturbed the public.

01:57:28.753 --> 01:57:29.753 align:center
Sorry, ma'am.

01:57:30.462 --> 01:57:33.128 align:center
We have decided to indulge
only in peaceful protests now on.

01:57:34.128 --> 01:57:35.878 align:center
Please uphold our trust, ma'am.

01:57:36.628 --> 01:57:37.712 align:center
We believe in you, ma'am.

01:57:43.003 --> 01:57:46.712 align:center
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 align:center
Not even one percent, ma'am!

01:57:48.962 --> 01:57:50.837 align:center
Everyone's starving down there!

01:57:50.962 --> 01:57:55.795 align:center
Will those people tend to their hunger,
or focus on this silly protest?

01:57:56.378 --> 01:57:58.712 align:center
Then why must you worry? You shouldn't.
- Yes, ma'am.

01:57:59.795 --> 01:58:00.920 align:center
You must understand.

01:58:01.628 --> 01:58:05.128 align:center
The only way to end this,
is to allow him to do this.

01:58:06.295 --> 01:58:09.337 align:center
To lose in the eyes of the public
once and for all.

01:58:10.712 --> 01:58:11.712 align:center
And if he wins?

01:58:12.628 --> 01:58:16.378 align:center
We're not bound to accept that decision.
- Yes.

01:58:19.128 --> 01:58:21.503 align:center
"A Tamil protest
that brought Delhi to a standstill!"

01:58:22.378 --> 01:58:26.087 align:center
So far, the voice of protestors
would only echo through Madras State!

01:58:26.837 --> 01:58:29.295 align:center
It has even reached Delhi now!
- Indeed, sir!

01:58:29.420 --> 01:58:31.420 align:center
Are you behind this, Mr. Anna?

01:58:31.878 --> 01:58:33.253 align:center
No, sir.
We are not behind this.

01:58:34.337 --> 01:58:36.712 align:center
But whoever did this
is a brother of mine!

01:58:37.295 --> 01:58:39.212 align:center
But whoever has done this
is my brother!

01:58:39.337 --> 01:58:42.670 align:center
'She, who is like a flowering vine
that smiles like the moon'

01:58:42.795 --> 01:58:45.670 align:center
'She, who is like a flowering vine
that smiles like the moon'

01:58:48.962 --> 01:58:51.962 align:center
'With her honey lips,
she will endow the essence of life'

01:58:52.087 --> 01:58:54.462 align:center
'As you savor it drop by drop,
she will bend her head shyly'

01:58:56.753 --> 01:59:00.170 align:center
They think we're just young punks
who can't achieve anything!

01:59:01.337 --> 01:59:02.378 align:center
Let them!

01:59:04.753 --> 01:59:06.087 align:center
An army is needed!

01:59:06.212 --> 01:59:07.545 align:center
An army is needed!

01:59:07.670 --> 01:59:09.378 align:center
A great army is needed!

01:59:09.503 --> 01:59:10.920 align:center
A great army is needed!

01:59:11.045 --> 01:59:13.920 align:center
A great army is needed
to safeguard Tamil!

01:59:14.045 --> 01:59:16.587 align:center
'O army of comrades'

01:59:16.795 --> 01:59:19.045 align:center
'Let's go to war'

01:59:19.170 --> 01:59:21.503 align:center
'Be it life or death...'
- Ensure no one finds out.

01:59:21.628 --> 01:59:23.837 align:center
'...we shall face it together'

01:59:23.962 --> 01:59:28.712 align:center
'With courage,
we will seek answers'

01:59:28.837 --> 01:59:32.837 align:center
'As a roaring wildfire,
we will reclaim justice'

01:59:33.628 --> 01:59:38.253 align:center
'Without seeing the light of change,
these eyes shall sleep not'

01:59:38.378 --> 01:59:42.212 align:center
'Even if bullets pierce our chests,
our quest for truth will cease not'

01:59:42.337 --> 01:59:45.545 align:center
What crap! What good will come of them?
Look at the trash he's reading!

01:59:45.670 --> 01:59:47.920 align:center
'We will guard our motherland
now and forever'

01:59:48.045 --> 01:59:50.253 align:center
'We took to arms that day'

01:59:50.378 --> 01:59:52.670 align:center
'Even a calf will pounce in an attack'

01:59:52.795 --> 01:59:55.170 align:center
'A needless, needless law...'

01:59:55.295 --> 01:59:57.503 align:center
'Won't the arrogance
of those in power fall?'

01:59:57.628 --> 01:59:59.712 align:center
'Our blood boils to stir us on'

01:59:59.837 --> 02:00:01.920 align:center
'A war of blazing passion'

02:00:03.670 --> 02:00:04.670 align:center
(Telugu) Dear...

02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:11.670 align:center
Will you kill this old crone, dear?

02:00:11.795 --> 02:00:14.128 align:center
Without Chinna or Chezhiya,
I don't care who lives or dies!

02:00:14.545 --> 02:00:15.545 align:center
(Telugu) Dear...

02:00:15.962 --> 02:00:17.212 align:center
That soda guy is here.

02:00:18.170 --> 02:00:19.628 align:center
Go.
- A money order from Chezhiyan.

02:00:19.753 --> 02:00:21.962 align:center
'Vanquishing oppressors
does not count as sins'

02:00:22.087 --> 02:00:23.337 align:center
'Set off like a storm'

02:00:24.378 --> 02:00:25.628 align:center
'Set off like a storm'

02:00:26.920 --> 02:00:29.378 align:center
'When your wings are torn apart,
stand not with patience'

02:00:29.503 --> 02:00:31.628 align:center
'If you rise with fury,
the oppression cannot go on'

02:00:31.753 --> 02:00:33.337 align:center
'Be the action'

02:00:34.170 --> 02:00:35.712 align:center
'Be the action'

02:00:36.670 --> 02:00:38.962 align:center
'If there's evil afoot...'

02:00:39.087 --> 02:00:41.253 align:center
'...mustn't it be quelled?'

02:00:41.378 --> 02:00:43.503 align:center
'Cowards, we shall never be'

02:00:43.628 --> 02:00:44.962 align:center
Chinna was right.

02:00:45.087 --> 02:00:47.628 align:center
Comrades of both Gandhiji and Netaji
laid down their lives.

02:00:47.753 --> 02:00:50.962 align:center
Another war of independence!
- 'A day has a dawn and a dusk'

02:00:51.087 --> 02:00:53.378 align:center
'Waging war is the way to victory'

02:00:53.503 --> 02:00:55.753 align:center
'Let's get this done,
one way or the other'

02:00:56.212 --> 02:00:58.337 align:center
"Mere spectators, this puppet government!"

02:00:59.045 --> 02:01:00.420 align:center
"A spineless government."

02:01:01.003 --> 02:01:04.587 align:center
"A disgraceful, shameless,
unjust government."

02:01:04.712 --> 02:01:08.712 align:center
The opposition is ripping you apart
at the assembly with these words!

02:01:19.837 --> 02:01:22.128 align:center
'Our war is for the liberation of Tamil'

02:01:22.253 --> 02:01:24.462 align:center
'Shatter the obstacles
and leave our foes to dust'

02:01:24.587 --> 02:01:25.878 align:center
'As mountains,
we shall rise'

02:01:26.753 --> 02:01:28.295 align:center
'Reclaim our birthright,
we shall'

02:01:29.503 --> 02:01:31.670 align:center
'Let the feeling
that Tamil is our life soar'

02:01:31.795 --> 02:01:33.962 align:center
'Even if the end approaches...'

02:01:34.087 --> 02:01:36.170 align:center
'...let's fight injustice'

02:01:36.295 --> 02:01:38.962 align:center
'As a fire, let's blaze...
We shall never hesitate to rage'

02:01:39.087 --> 02:01:43.837 align:center
'The culture that taught justice
to the custodians of justice...'

02:01:43.962 --> 02:01:47.337 align:center
'How can we accept the orders
of the oppressors?'

02:01:48.587 --> 02:01:53.295 align:center
'The culture known for its compassion
even to a jasmine vine...'

02:01:53.420 --> 02:01:56.337 align:center
'How can we accept trouble
and be ruined?'

02:01:56.462 --> 02:01:58.170 align:center
'Let's get this done,
one way or the other'

02:01:58.295 --> 02:02:00.503 align:center
'O army of comrades'

02:02:00.628 --> 02:02:02.503 align:center
'Let's go to war'

02:02:03.045 --> 02:02:05.337 align:center
'Be it life or death...'

02:02:05.462 --> 02:02:07.170 align:center
'...we shall face it together'

02:02:07.837 --> 02:02:11.878 align:center
'With courage,
we will seek answers'

02:02:12.670 --> 02:02:16.878 align:center
'As a roaring wildfire,
we will reclaim justice'

02:02:20.253 --> 02:02:21.253 align:center
May I sit, sir?

02:02:22.003 --> 02:02:23.003 align:center
Sit the hell down!

02:02:23.545 --> 02:02:24.753 align:center
As if you have manners!

02:02:25.170 --> 02:02:27.962 align:center
I had flagged all post offices
in Delhi.

02:02:28.087 --> 02:02:29.337 align:center
After the protest...

02:02:29.462 --> 02:02:31.878 align:center
...22 money orders were sent,
all for the same amount!

02:02:33.378 --> 02:02:34.378 align:center
So?

02:02:34.503 --> 02:02:35.503 align:center
12.02 rupees.

02:02:36.212 --> 02:02:38.670 align:center
Twelfth day, second month.
February 12.

02:02:40.587 --> 02:02:41.670 align:center
What?

02:02:41.795 --> 02:02:44.962 align:center
All along, they've used a sum to represent
the day of their operation.

02:02:45.087 --> 02:02:46.378 align:center
The day of their operation.

02:02:46.795 --> 02:02:48.087 align:center
Turn it around and take a look.

02:02:51.878 --> 02:02:55.295 align:center
"We'll meet in Pollachi.
Through Aaliyar forest from Valparai."

02:02:56.670 --> 02:02:57.670 align:center
"Gandhi."

02:03:00.212 --> 02:03:01.462 align:center
What language script is this?

02:03:01.587 --> 02:03:03.837 align:center
Brahmi. 2,000 years old.

02:03:05.295 --> 02:03:06.295 align:center
How do you know?

02:03:06.420 --> 02:03:09.420 align:center
In the last six years, I learned
every iteration of the Tamil script.

02:03:11.003 --> 02:03:13.253 align:center
I let these money orders go through.

02:03:14.212 --> 02:03:16.003 align:center
Shall I say why, Mr. Chief Minister?

02:03:16.503 --> 02:03:17.628 align:center
It says 'Gandhi'.

02:03:17.753 --> 02:03:19.962 align:center
It definitely must be the Gandhi Memorial
in Madurai.

02:03:20.087 --> 02:03:22.670 align:center
You know what happened there
and who showed up.

02:03:23.253 --> 02:03:27.253 align:center
The entire Puranaanooru gang who burned
down a train are coming to Pollachi.

02:03:29.295 --> 02:03:32.170 align:center
Just one of them
brought Delhi to its knees!

02:03:32.795 --> 02:03:34.087 align:center
Don't worry, sir.

02:03:34.212 --> 02:03:36.003 align:center
Not a single signature will reach Delhi.

02:03:36.128 --> 02:03:38.420 align:center
Because not a single one of them
will reach Coimbatore.

02:03:39.462 --> 02:03:40.462 align:center
I need your orders.

02:03:41.462 --> 02:03:42.462 align:center
But...

02:03:43.503 --> 02:03:46.045 align:center
Isn't the state police
entirely at your command?

02:03:47.212 --> 02:03:48.712 align:center
I don't need state police.

02:03:48.837 --> 02:03:49.837 align:center
Why?

02:03:49.962 --> 02:03:51.212 align:center
Look at their names!

02:03:51.337 --> 02:03:54.003 align:center
Tamilkumaran, Tamilarasan, Tamilvendan...
Tamil everywhere!

02:03:54.128 --> 02:03:55.462 align:center
I can't do shit with them!

02:03:57.087 --> 02:03:58.795 align:center
I want a special task force.

02:04:01.295 --> 02:04:02.378 align:center
My requisition.

02:04:02.503 --> 02:04:06.795 align:center
Non-Tamil speaking police and personnel
from other states.

02:04:06.920 --> 02:04:07.962 align:center
Immediately.

02:04:08.587 --> 02:04:09.628 align:center
There won't be any media.

02:04:11.212 --> 02:04:13.628 align:center
We'll wipe them out
and bury them in Pollachi.

02:04:14.295 --> 02:04:15.503 align:center
The public will never know.

02:04:16.212 --> 02:04:17.920 align:center
Come! Park here!

02:04:18.587 --> 02:04:20.545 align:center
No problems on the way, Vaigarai?
- No.

02:04:20.670 --> 02:04:22.712 align:center
Haven't seen you all in six years!
- Brother!

02:04:22.837 --> 02:04:25.878 align:center
I've had our boys stashed away
all across Pollachi!

02:04:26.003 --> 02:04:27.628 align:center
Don't worry.
We'll take care of them.

02:04:27.753 --> 02:04:29.212 align:center
Signatures arrive safely?

02:04:30.503 --> 02:04:32.295 align:center
Where are the kids from the other states?

02:04:32.420 --> 02:04:33.795 align:center
Michael, Chacko and the rest?

02:04:34.795 --> 02:04:35.962 align:center
Just our state, huh?

02:04:37.170 --> 02:04:39.087 align:center
We need them to get the majority, right?

02:04:39.212 --> 02:04:41.753 align:center
We'll have to make do
with those who are here by dawn.

02:04:43.462 --> 02:04:45.837 align:center
Been years since you all tasted this soda!
Open one up!

02:04:47.003 --> 02:04:48.962 align:center
Park these vans in the grove, Palanisamy!

02:04:49.087 --> 02:04:50.087 align:center
Let's go! Come on!

02:04:50.212 --> 02:04:51.670 align:center
Not a single van should be seen here!

02:04:51.795 --> 02:04:53.045 align:center
Come along, Poovai!

02:04:53.170 --> 02:04:54.628 align:center
I'll go to my Grandma's tonight.

02:04:54.753 --> 02:04:56.503 align:center
I'll bring the guys over before dawn!

02:04:57.087 --> 02:04:58.337 align:center
Be safe.
- Will do!

02:05:03.295 --> 02:05:04.295 align:center
Hold this!

02:05:11.045 --> 02:05:12.170 align:center
Sir!

02:05:12.295 --> 02:05:14.878 align:center
No chance a single student
has crossed this check post.

02:05:23.420 --> 02:05:24.420 align:center
It's time, Chezhiya.

02:05:25.045 --> 02:05:27.003 align:center
I don't think those guys are coming.

02:05:27.753 --> 02:05:28.753 align:center
Chezhiya!

02:05:30.045 --> 02:05:31.128 align:center
I have an idea!

02:05:31.253 --> 02:05:33.878 align:center
There's something called pirate radio.
We can talk on that!

02:05:34.003 --> 02:05:36.045 align:center
We can tell the world
what's happening here.

02:05:36.170 --> 02:05:37.503 align:center
At Dhanushkodi last year...

02:05:37.628 --> 02:05:40.212 align:center
Enough! Stick to just screwing around
electric wires!

02:05:40.337 --> 02:05:43.128 align:center
Like you're Sarojini Naidu
who can sing like a bird on the mic!

02:05:43.253 --> 02:05:45.712 align:center
And she claims she can save Tamil!

02:05:45.837 --> 02:05:49.462 align:center
She fancies she can save it all
with radio parts she stole!

02:05:50.087 --> 02:05:51.128 align:center
Listen!

02:05:51.253 --> 02:05:52.712 align:center
I was born and raised here!

02:05:53.337 --> 02:05:55.295 align:center
I'm just as much Tamil as you are!

02:05:56.128 --> 02:05:57.253 align:center
Understand this!

02:05:57.878 --> 02:06:01.878 align:center
If Telugu is named the national language,
I will be the first to protest against it!

02:06:09.420 --> 02:06:10.837 align:center
"How can I talk in the radio?"

02:06:10.962 --> 02:06:13.253 align:center
"You already know the answer, Ratna."

02:06:13.378 --> 02:06:16.587 align:center
"This government has every radio station
and newspaper in its pocket!"

02:06:16.712 --> 02:06:19.795 align:center
"They decide what news
the public gets to hear and read!"

02:06:20.420 --> 02:06:21.503 align:center
"We need to shatter that."

02:06:22.420 --> 02:06:24.503 align:center
"Are radio waves their birthright?"

02:06:25.045 --> 02:06:27.170 align:center
"They can hear it even if we talk, right?"

02:06:27.295 --> 02:06:28.712 align:center
"Speak, Ratna!"

02:06:29.503 --> 02:06:30.795 align:center
"We'll see what they do!"

02:06:35.045 --> 02:06:38.670 align:center
From a certain height
and a certain angle...

02:06:38.795 --> 02:06:40.628 align:center
...we can broadcast
across long distances.

02:06:41.878 --> 02:06:45.378 align:center
We can even hack into the frequency
of National Radio!

02:06:47.087 --> 02:06:48.212 align:center
Signal intrusion.

02:06:49.670 --> 02:06:51.337 align:center
I learned it from the enemy, Mister.

02:06:52.587 --> 02:06:53.587 align:center
Highly risky.

02:06:54.462 --> 02:06:55.545 align:center
But it's doable!

02:06:56.212 --> 02:06:58.795 align:center
We should use it to tell the world
what's happening here!

02:07:02.378 --> 02:07:04.420 align:center
(Telugu) Who the hell are you
to question me?

02:07:04.545 --> 02:07:07.045 align:center
(Telugu) You can't speak two languages
even to save your life!

02:07:07.170 --> 02:07:09.253 align:center
(Telugu) I'll rip your tongue out, jackass!

02:07:09.378 --> 02:07:11.212 align:center
(Telugu) Brainless oaf!

02:07:12.003 --> 02:07:14.170 align:center
(Telugu) Who the hell are you
to question me?

02:07:15.962 --> 02:07:19.003 align:center
Hey... She's saying something in Telugu.

02:07:19.545 --> 02:07:20.545 align:center
I don't follow!

02:07:21.712 --> 02:07:23.545 align:center
She can cuss in all languages!

02:07:34.628 --> 02:07:35.628 align:center
Michael Reddy!

02:07:42.712 --> 02:07:43.712 align:center
Shariffa!

02:07:44.628 --> 02:07:45.628 align:center
Welcome!

02:07:46.295 --> 02:07:47.295 align:center
Chezhiya!

02:07:53.462 --> 02:07:54.920 align:center
When I saw the codeword 'Gandhi'...

02:07:55.837 --> 02:07:58.003 align:center
...I knew I had to come here
even if it costs me my life!

02:07:58.128 --> 02:08:00.503 align:center
The first money order in six years!
How could I not come?

02:08:00.628 --> 02:08:02.628 align:center
How'd you get past the cops?

02:08:02.753 --> 02:08:05.295 align:center
We parked at Udumalaipettai
and took the freight train!

02:08:05.420 --> 02:08:07.753 align:center
That's how we get the goods
for our mill!

02:08:08.378 --> 02:08:10.837 align:center
Chacko couldn't make it, Che.

02:08:11.670 --> 02:08:14.337 align:center
He was summoned
for a government operation.

02:08:14.462 --> 02:08:16.087 align:center
Only Kerala signatures aren't here yet?

02:08:16.212 --> 02:08:17.795 align:center
Come, let's go eat!
- Brother!

02:08:19.003 --> 02:08:20.128 align:center
It's okay. We'll handle it.

02:08:20.587 --> 02:08:23.337 align:center
You guys have come from all over
the nation to save a mother tongue!

02:08:23.462 --> 02:08:25.462 align:center
What kind of man would I be
if I didn't feed our kin?

02:08:26.295 --> 02:08:28.795 align:center
Come along, everyone!

02:08:30.878 --> 02:08:32.378 align:center
Eat as much as you want!

02:08:33.295 --> 02:08:35.128 align:center
(Telugu) Eat well!

02:08:35.837 --> 02:08:38.087 align:center
Serve some to the Bengali girl!
- (Kannada) Chow down!

02:08:38.753 --> 02:08:42.212 align:center
(Bengali) Eating on banana leaves
seems to be a staple of Tamil culture.

02:08:42.337 --> 02:08:43.712 align:center
(Bengali) Great food, right?

02:08:44.503 --> 02:08:45.795 align:center
(Telugu) Damn! So spicy!

02:08:46.670 --> 02:08:49.003 align:center
Come to Madurai
and we'll gorge down spiny loach soup!

02:08:50.128 --> 02:08:51.545 align:center
No food like Madurai food!

02:08:52.253 --> 02:08:55.128 align:center
(Kannada) Come over to my place!
You won't see food like ours anywhere!

02:08:58.295 --> 02:08:59.628 align:center
This is our India right here!

02:08:59.753 --> 02:09:03.003 align:center
Banana leaves loaded with stew,
vegetables, lentil curry, tamarind stew...

02:09:03.128 --> 02:09:04.462 align:center
Like a feast!

02:09:04.587 --> 02:09:06.420 align:center
But what does this damn government say?

02:09:06.545 --> 02:09:08.962 align:center
They're trying to turn India
into a land of dry chapatis!

02:09:09.087 --> 02:09:10.087 align:center
The dumbos!

02:09:10.212 --> 02:09:12.212 align:center
(Telugu) Hit the nail in the head!
- Spot on!

02:09:13.837 --> 02:09:14.837 align:center
Eat well!

02:09:16.587 --> 02:09:18.837 align:center
Relax. We'll mop the floor with them!

02:09:18.962 --> 02:09:20.295 align:center
(Kannada) Well said!

02:09:25.545 --> 02:09:26.712 align:center
Leave in half an hour.

02:09:37.253 --> 02:09:39.462 align:center
Attention, citizens!

02:09:40.337 --> 02:09:43.212 align:center
Turn in the students who are hiding
in your town immediately!

02:09:44.045 --> 02:09:45.920 align:center
I have shooting orders!

02:09:47.628 --> 02:09:49.753 align:center
Why must you die for those miscreants?

02:09:51.003 --> 02:09:52.878 align:center
How did this mongrel pick up our scent?

02:09:54.795 --> 02:09:55.920 align:center
He read my tattoo.

02:09:58.045 --> 02:09:59.420 align:center
He saw the money orders.

02:10:00.670 --> 02:10:01.712 align:center
He understands Brahmi!

02:10:02.587 --> 02:10:03.753 align:center
How did this slip past me?

02:10:04.670 --> 02:10:05.670 align:center
But...

02:10:06.170 --> 02:10:09.003 align:center
But why did he let money orders through
and get us here?

02:10:13.628 --> 02:10:14.837 align:center
Brother Thambi?

02:10:14.962 --> 02:10:17.045 align:center
Is there another way in to Coimbatore?

02:10:18.545 --> 02:10:19.545 align:center
No, there isn't.

02:10:20.087 --> 02:10:22.545 align:center
There is a way. But...

02:10:28.878 --> 02:10:29.878 align:center
Sir!

02:10:30.670 --> 02:10:31.670 align:center
Forces are here, sir.

02:10:31.795 --> 02:10:34.003 align:center
(Malayalam) It's all quiet.
There's no issue here!

02:10:34.128 --> 02:10:35.212 align:center
Hey!

02:10:35.337 --> 02:10:37.087 align:center
We already told you there's nobody here!

02:10:37.212 --> 02:10:38.212 align:center
Leave!

02:10:40.670 --> 02:10:41.670 align:center
Get going!

02:10:42.670 --> 02:10:44.378 align:center
Please leave!

02:10:46.212 --> 02:10:47.795 align:center
(Malayalam) There seems to be no issue.

02:10:47.920 --> 02:10:49.253 align:center
Then create one!

02:10:54.670 --> 02:10:57.087 align:center
This is how the factory's sewage
reaches the Aliyar river.

02:10:57.212 --> 02:10:59.420 align:center
You can use it to get to the outskirts
of town!

02:10:59.545 --> 02:11:01.087 align:center
Easy to reach the main road from there!

02:11:02.712 --> 02:11:04.378 align:center
Sir...
- (Malayalam) Search that side!

02:11:04.503 --> 02:11:05.712 align:center
What's going on, sir?

02:11:06.253 --> 02:11:07.920 align:center
(Malayalam) We got one!
- Let go of me.

02:11:08.045 --> 02:11:09.420 align:center
(Malayalam) Come!
- Let go of him!

02:11:09.545 --> 02:11:10.545 align:center
Let go!

02:11:10.670 --> 02:11:13.670 align:center
Please spare my grandson!
- (Malayalam) Don't let him escape!

02:11:13.795 --> 02:11:14.962 align:center
Let go!

02:11:15.087 --> 02:11:16.628 align:center
Why are you arresting me?

02:11:16.753 --> 02:11:18.045 align:center
Let go of my hand!

02:11:18.170 --> 02:11:19.712 align:center
Let go!
- (Malayalam) I'll whack you!

02:11:34.420 --> 02:11:36.378 align:center
This is the reason for the trouble, right?
Watch!

02:11:38.962 --> 02:11:40.670 align:center
Careful!
- Come quickly!

02:11:40.795 --> 02:11:42.837 align:center
One at a time!
- Hurry!

02:11:42.962 --> 02:11:44.045 align:center
Watch your step, dear!

02:11:44.170 --> 02:11:45.587 align:center
(Hindi) Careful, Ratna!
- Be safe!

02:11:46.003 --> 02:11:47.753 align:center
He smeared dung on the post office board.

02:11:48.628 --> 02:11:50.378 align:center
Is it still quiet, Commander?

02:11:54.378 --> 02:11:57.503 align:center
They killed him! Is there no one
to question this injustice?

02:11:59.420 --> 02:12:00.837 align:center
My dear boy!

02:12:06.503 --> 02:12:08.587 align:center
Forces!
Lathi charge!

02:12:08.712 --> 02:12:11.045 align:center
Come on!
Charge!

02:12:27.212 --> 02:12:28.503 align:center
I'm not leaving you behind.

02:12:29.795 --> 02:12:32.503 align:center
If our last stand is deemed to be
in Pollachi, so be it!

02:12:33.587 --> 02:12:35.545 align:center
What's the point if we all perish here?

02:12:36.170 --> 02:12:38.462 align:center
Our army and these signatures
need to reach Coimbatore!

02:12:38.587 --> 02:12:40.753 align:center
Gather everyone and leave!
I'll come with the van!

02:12:52.295 --> 02:12:53.295 align:center
Leave them alone!

02:12:53.420 --> 02:12:54.962 align:center
You killed my grandson!

02:12:58.545 --> 02:12:59.837 align:center
The mob is attacking us, sir!

02:12:59.962 --> 02:13:01.837 align:center
We're suffering casualties!
We need backup!

02:13:02.753 --> 02:13:03.753 align:center
You may leave.

02:13:20.587 --> 02:13:22.670 align:center
I'll have the vans drop off the goods.

02:13:23.670 --> 02:13:24.837 align:center
Travel safe!

02:13:26.212 --> 02:13:27.587 align:center
Victory and courage to us all!

02:13:33.087 --> 02:13:35.087 align:center
(Hindi) Search every inch of this place!
Hurry!

02:13:35.212 --> 02:13:36.212 align:center
Go! Go! Go!

02:13:36.337 --> 02:13:39.545 align:center
(Hindi) Search every single house! Hurry!

02:13:51.337 --> 02:13:53.545 align:center
(Hindi) Move in!
Search the whole place! Go!

02:13:54.212 --> 02:13:55.212 align:center
Quick!

02:14:10.837 --> 02:14:11.837 align:center
Dubey!

02:14:11.962 --> 02:14:13.337 align:center
(Hindi) Nobody there! Let's go!

02:14:49.712 --> 02:14:52.462 align:center
(Hindi) They're making a run for it!
- (Hindi) Catch them!

02:14:52.587 --> 02:14:53.670 align:center
(Hindi) No one escapes!

02:14:55.253 --> 02:14:56.503 align:center
Won't answer me, huh?

02:14:57.670 --> 02:14:59.670 align:center
Just turn in the students
and the signatures.

02:15:04.295 --> 02:15:06.170 align:center
Rifle Company!
Open fire!

02:15:10.587 --> 02:15:16.503 align:center
These mongrels have decided
to turn Pollachi into a cemetery?

02:15:21.878 --> 02:15:23.378 align:center
Hey! Come on!

02:15:23.503 --> 02:15:24.545 align:center
Come along, Ratna!

02:15:24.670 --> 02:15:26.962 align:center
I have an important errand to run.
Be right back.

02:15:27.087 --> 02:15:28.878 align:center
Go on.
- Are you insane?

02:15:29.003 --> 02:15:30.962 align:center
They're shooting us down
without any restraint!

02:15:31.087 --> 02:15:32.087 align:center
Come along, I say!

02:15:37.045 --> 02:15:38.045 align:center
Go on.

02:15:38.587 --> 02:15:39.587 align:center
Be safe.

02:15:41.212 --> 02:15:43.003 align:center
Let's go!
Come on!

02:15:44.753 --> 02:15:46.920 align:center
(Hindi) Get down from there!

02:15:48.670 --> 02:15:49.962 align:center
(Hindi) Come along!

02:15:50.545 --> 02:15:51.670 align:center
(Hindi) Get out from there!

02:15:52.087 --> 02:15:53.295 align:center
(Hindi) Get out from there!

02:15:53.420 --> 02:15:54.753 align:center
I have a child, sir!

02:15:55.337 --> 02:15:57.503 align:center
Please tell them not to fire, sir!

02:16:16.920 --> 02:16:18.253 align:center
We caught the students, sir.

02:16:37.878 --> 02:16:40.128 align:center
Answer my question
only with the truth.

02:16:41.295 --> 02:16:42.545 align:center
Where is Chezhiyan?

02:16:43.462 --> 02:16:44.462 align:center
Sir!

02:16:45.462 --> 02:16:47.712 align:center
Found the signed papers?
- No, sir.

02:16:55.087 --> 02:16:56.712 align:center
One by one, all of you will die!

02:16:57.337 --> 02:16:59.462 align:center
Tell me!
Where is Chezhiyan?

02:17:00.087 --> 02:17:01.087 align:center
I don't know, sir.

02:17:04.378 --> 02:17:07.087 align:center
If you couldn't find the papers,
it doesn't mean they're not here!

02:17:07.837 --> 02:17:09.087 align:center
Go search!
- Yes, sir!

02:17:09.587 --> 02:17:11.920 align:center
(Hindi) Search every inch of this town!

02:17:12.045 --> 02:17:13.878 align:center
Every single one of you are suspects!

02:17:14.462 --> 02:17:16.795 align:center
You! You! You!
All of you are suspects!

02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:19.170 align:center
If I toss you in jail,
you'll be there for life!

02:17:19.295 --> 02:17:21.170 align:center
Please, sir... Don't...
- Where is Chezhiyan?

02:17:21.295 --> 02:17:22.462 align:center
Where the hell is he?

02:17:22.587 --> 02:17:24.253 align:center
I swear I don't know!

02:17:26.170 --> 02:17:27.212 align:center
Sir!

02:17:27.337 --> 02:17:28.670 align:center
Why are you doing this to us?

02:18:16.253 --> 02:18:17.253 align:center
You found your target.

02:18:18.587 --> 02:18:19.587 align:center
Let these people go.

02:18:21.045 --> 02:18:22.045 align:center
Sir!

02:18:22.170 --> 02:18:23.587 align:center
All the signatures are in there!

02:18:25.545 --> 02:18:26.670 align:center
Burn them.

02:18:26.795 --> 02:18:27.878 align:center
Burn them all.

02:18:55.628 --> 02:18:57.003 align:center
Where the hell are the papers?

02:18:57.128 --> 02:18:58.378 align:center
Tricking me with empty sheets?

02:19:09.962 --> 02:19:12.087 align:center
You took your own sweet time, Major!
You're late!

02:19:12.962 --> 02:19:15.420 align:center
Shoot all of them
and burn them all!

02:19:16.170 --> 02:19:18.253 align:center
There must be no evidence
of this entire incident!

02:19:18.378 --> 02:19:19.962 align:center
History should have no record of this!

02:19:22.503 --> 02:19:23.670 align:center
Major!

02:19:24.212 --> 02:19:25.587 align:center
Don't shoot him!
I need him!

02:19:31.712 --> 02:19:32.712 align:center
Brother Thambi!

02:19:33.420 --> 02:19:34.962 align:center
Do you know to drive this thing
or not?

02:19:35.462 --> 02:19:36.795 align:center
My first time, buddy!

02:19:36.920 --> 02:19:38.295 align:center
The drivers usually handle this!

02:19:39.212 --> 02:19:40.337 align:center
Don't be scared!

02:19:40.462 --> 02:19:42.337 align:center
Just watch how we reach our destination!

02:19:42.462 --> 02:19:43.587 align:center
Where?
- Where, brother?

02:19:44.337 --> 02:19:46.087 align:center
Where are we going?
- "Where are we going"?

02:19:46.503 --> 02:19:48.420 align:center
Where else? Coimbatore!
- Seems unlikely!

02:20:04.795 --> 02:20:05.795 align:center
Police!

02:20:06.462 --> 02:20:09.795 align:center
Come what may, that lady doesn't leave
without seeing the signatures!

02:20:09.920 --> 02:20:11.128 align:center
I'll handle the cops.

02:20:11.253 --> 02:20:12.587 align:center
(Telugu) Get it done, Shariffa.

02:20:12.712 --> 02:20:14.337 align:center
(Telugu) See to it.
- (Kannada) I will.

02:20:17.128 --> 02:20:18.378 align:center
Careful, Michael!

02:20:20.337 --> 02:20:21.837 align:center
(Kannada) Be alert,
Michael Reddy!

02:20:26.670 --> 02:20:28.628 align:center
(Malayalam) One of them is getting away!
Get him!

02:20:30.712 --> 02:20:33.587 align:center
(Hindi) Hurry! Keep going!
- (Hindi) Back it up! Even more!

02:20:38.462 --> 02:20:39.462 align:center
(Malayalam) Stop!

02:20:40.545 --> 02:20:41.545 align:center
(Malayalam) Stop him!

02:20:42.337 --> 02:20:43.337 align:center
(Malayalam) Get him!

02:20:50.045 --> 02:20:52.712 align:center
(Kannada) Don't stop, brother!
Keep going!

02:21:01.503 --> 02:21:02.503 align:center
Michael!

02:21:36.878 --> 02:21:37.878 align:center
Come in, Gauri!

02:21:40.545 --> 02:21:41.962 align:center
The minister's life is in danger!

02:21:42.587 --> 02:21:45.003 align:center
Get her out of the Coimbatore station
immediately!

02:21:45.712 --> 02:21:46.712 align:center
I can't hear you, sir.

02:21:46.837 --> 02:21:47.837 align:center
Come in, Gauri!

02:21:48.962 --> 02:21:51.587 align:center
The minister's life is in jeopardy!
Get her out of the station!

02:21:58.253 --> 02:21:59.837 align:center
Hoist it that side!
Can't get a signal!

02:22:09.337 --> 02:22:10.420 align:center
Got it!
- Got it?

02:22:10.545 --> 02:22:11.545 align:center
Yes!

02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:18.837 align:center
For a human to think...

02:22:19.420 --> 02:22:20.753 align:center
...the most impor...

02:22:20.878 --> 02:22:24.003 align:center
...important tool...

02:22:24.837 --> 02:22:26.878 align:center
...is... is...

02:22:27.003 --> 02:22:28.003 align:center
...language!

02:22:45.795 --> 02:22:48.337 align:center
Destroying a language
is akin to destroying one's identity.

02:22:48.837 --> 02:22:51.753 align:center
An individual without an identity
can easily be enslaved.

02:22:52.795 --> 02:22:54.337 align:center
Language politics in a nutshell!

02:22:56.003 --> 02:22:59.628 align:center
Destroying my mother tongue is akin
to destroying my ability to think.

02:23:01.170 --> 02:23:04.087 align:center
If we are unable to think,
how can we ever make progress?

02:23:06.295 --> 02:23:07.795 align:center
That's what they want.

02:23:09.795 --> 02:23:13.878 align:center
To show your support for Tamil,
assemble at the Coimbatore Junction!

02:23:22.045 --> 02:23:24.003 align:center
Go for field radio officer, 13th Company,
over!

02:23:24.795 --> 02:23:26.212 align:center
Special Officer Thiru here!
Over!

02:23:26.337 --> 02:23:28.087 align:center
Reading loud and clear!
I await your order!

02:23:28.212 --> 02:23:31.712 align:center
They've planted bombs on a freight train
heading from Podanur to Coimbatore!

02:23:31.837 --> 02:23:34.378 align:center
Target is the I&B minister!
It'll explode on arrival!

02:23:34.503 --> 02:23:37.253 align:center
Contact the station master now
and have him stop the train!

02:23:37.378 --> 02:23:38.378 align:center
Roger that, sir!

02:23:39.087 --> 02:23:40.212 align:center
Where are the students?

02:23:41.295 --> 02:23:42.795 align:center
They just talk tough, ma'am.

02:23:44.295 --> 02:23:46.920 align:center
Give them a mic,
and they'll ramble for hours!

02:23:48.878 --> 02:23:51.420 align:center
You can get going.
Why needlessly waste your time?

02:23:52.295 --> 02:23:53.878 align:center
Have an escort ready for Ma'am.

02:23:54.003 --> 02:23:55.003 align:center
Chief...

02:23:57.878 --> 02:23:58.878 align:center
My resignation.

02:24:00.795 --> 02:24:01.795 align:center
What the hell, man?

02:24:01.920 --> 02:24:03.128 align:center
No sense of timing!

02:24:04.128 --> 02:24:05.337 align:center
Not the time for all this!

02:24:05.878 --> 02:24:07.087 align:center
What is the problem, Mr. Rao?

02:24:07.628 --> 02:24:08.628 align:center
Ma'am...

02:24:08.753 --> 02:24:10.170 align:center
There's still two hours left.

02:24:10.587 --> 02:24:12.378 align:center
You've given your word.
Please uphold it.

02:24:30.670 --> 02:24:31.753 align:center
Why didn't the train stop?

02:24:32.253 --> 02:24:33.253 align:center
Come in, RTO!

02:24:33.837 --> 02:24:34.878 align:center
What the hell!

02:24:35.003 --> 02:24:36.003 align:center
Soldiers!

02:24:39.587 --> 02:24:42.003 align:center
'Fire up your intellect
and make your foes tremble'

02:24:42.128 --> 02:24:43.128 align:center
(Malayalam) Hurry!

02:24:43.253 --> 02:24:45.253 align:center
'Sharpen your core
and erupt like a volcano'

02:24:45.378 --> 02:24:47.337 align:center
'Ours is a great army'

02:24:48.462 --> 02:24:50.087 align:center
'Bear witness, for ours is a great army'

02:24:51.837 --> 02:24:52.962 align:center
You are late, Major!

02:24:53.087 --> 02:24:55.045 align:center
(Malayalam) You told me to be late!

02:24:55.170 --> 02:24:56.462 align:center
(Malayalam) Didn't I tell you?

02:24:56.587 --> 02:24:58.962 align:center
That you'd salute me one day?

02:24:59.087 --> 02:25:00.878 align:center
You'll salute this Major one day!

02:25:02.170 --> 02:25:03.170 align:center
Go ahead!

02:25:06.545 --> 02:25:07.545 align:center
Arms down!

02:25:08.212 --> 02:25:09.212 align:center
Operation over!

02:25:10.003 --> 02:25:12.878 align:center
From this moment,
we commence a rescue operation!

02:25:13.003 --> 02:25:14.003 align:center
Dismissed!

02:25:20.753 --> 02:25:22.170 align:center
Two hours are up, Mr. Rao.

02:25:22.753 --> 02:25:23.753 align:center
I must leave.

02:25:24.212 --> 02:25:25.503 align:center
Namaste.
- Namaste, ma'am.

02:25:43.212 --> 02:25:46.962 align:center
Long Live Hindi!

02:25:47.087 --> 02:25:49.920 align:center
Long Live Hindi!

02:26:20.587 --> 02:26:22.128 align:center
I'll give the red signal.
Okay, sir.

02:26:23.128 --> 02:26:27.045 align:center
No matter what, Ma'am does not leave
this station without hearing our voice.

02:26:27.170 --> 02:26:28.295 align:center
Yes, Shariffa!

02:26:28.420 --> 02:26:29.712 align:center
Take care, Brother Thambi.

02:26:29.837 --> 02:26:31.128 align:center
I got this. Go on!

02:26:46.712 --> 02:26:47.920 align:center
You can sit here, ma'am.

02:26:52.253 --> 02:26:53.878 align:center
The train will be here soon, ma'am.

02:27:12.420 --> 02:27:13.587 align:center
Why isn't the train here yet?

02:27:14.545 --> 02:27:15.753 align:center
What is the problem?

02:27:15.878 --> 02:27:17.045 align:center
It'll be here any moment.

02:27:17.170 --> 02:27:18.170 align:center
What the hell, man?

02:28:19.837 --> 02:28:23.212 align:center
Know what happens when you try
to restrain combustive material?

02:28:25.045 --> 02:28:26.045 align:center
Blowback!

02:28:28.503 --> 02:28:29.503 align:center
Very well.

02:28:30.128 --> 02:28:31.128 align:center
Let's die together!

02:28:32.212 --> 02:28:34.295 align:center
Let those signatures go up in smoke
with us!

02:28:56.295 --> 02:28:58.878 align:center
No matter what you do
or however long you take...

02:28:59.003 --> 02:29:00.420 align:center
...we'll just keep coming!

02:29:00.878 --> 02:29:01.878 align:center
Bring it on!

02:29:02.003 --> 02:29:03.920 align:center
Our grandchildren will be ready for you!

02:30:11.753 --> 02:30:12.753 align:center
Charge!

02:30:12.878 --> 02:30:14.212 align:center
Come on!

02:30:14.337 --> 02:30:15.753 align:center
What are you doing?
Restrain them!

02:30:15.878 --> 02:30:17.795 align:center
Restrain them!
- Come on!

02:30:17.920 --> 02:30:19.420 align:center
Come on!
- Hurry!

02:30:19.545 --> 02:30:21.878 align:center
Get it all out!
- Hurry!

02:30:22.003 --> 02:30:23.878 align:center
This way!
- Ma'am!

02:30:24.003 --> 02:30:25.253 align:center
Please, ma'am!

02:30:25.378 --> 02:30:26.378 align:center
Ma'am!

02:30:29.420 --> 02:30:31.628 align:center
(Kannada) Signatures from the land
of Basavanna!

02:30:31.753 --> 02:30:33.420 align:center
Signatures from the land
of Basavanna!

02:30:33.545 --> 02:30:34.878 align:center
The Father of Democracy!

02:30:35.003 --> 02:30:38.670 align:center
Bangalore, Gulbarga, Hubli, Davangere,
Tumkur, Chikmanglur, Mangalore, Mysore!

02:30:38.795 --> 02:30:41.462 align:center
(Karnataka) The entire Mysore State!
- The whole of Mysore!

02:30:41.587 --> 02:30:43.087 align:center
Get it? All of Mysore, it seems!

02:30:44.253 --> 02:30:45.253 align:center
Pull it up!

02:30:46.253 --> 02:30:47.587 align:center
Does this script look the same?

02:30:53.462 --> 02:30:54.462 align:center
Yes.

02:30:55.837 --> 02:30:57.045 align:center
It looks all the same to me.

02:30:57.170 --> 02:30:58.587 align:center
This is a very different language.

02:30:58.712 --> 02:31:00.920 align:center
These are from my neighboring state.
Andhra Pradesh.

02:31:01.045 --> 02:31:03.087 align:center
Telugu, ma'am! Telugu!
- Yes, ma'am!

02:31:03.212 --> 02:31:05.837 align:center
Yes, ma'am. They look alike,
but they're different languages!

02:31:08.253 --> 02:31:10.003 align:center
(Bengali) This is Bengali, ma'am!

02:31:11.128 --> 02:31:15.920 align:center
(Bengali) 'Even if no one
rallies behind you, walk on alone'

02:31:16.545 --> 02:31:19.962 align:center
(Bengali) 'Walk on alone'

02:31:20.712 --> 02:31:22.503 align:center
But we're not here alone, ma'am!

02:31:23.878 --> 02:31:25.295 align:center
All the languages are here!

02:31:26.087 --> 02:31:28.878 align:center
All the languages!
All the languages!

02:31:29.462 --> 02:31:31.212 align:center
(Malayalam) I'm Malayali, ma'am.

02:31:31.337 --> 02:31:33.170 align:center
(Malayalam) These are from Kerala.

02:31:33.295 --> 02:31:35.920 align:center
Malayalam! Malayalam! Malayalam!

02:31:36.628 --> 02:31:38.878 align:center
This letter came from Madras,
ma'am.

02:31:40.420 --> 02:31:41.670 align:center
First daughter's mark sheet.

02:31:42.587 --> 02:31:44.087 align:center
Younger daughter's name?

02:31:44.212 --> 02:31:45.212 align:center
Named after you!

02:31:45.878 --> 02:31:46.878 align:center
Yes, ma'am.

02:31:47.420 --> 02:31:49.337 align:center
Two daughters futures in your hands,
ma'am.

02:31:58.795 --> 02:32:00.087 align:center
Sir!

02:32:00.503 --> 02:32:01.753 align:center
Let's get you to the hospital!

02:32:06.920 --> 02:32:08.003 align:center
Let's go to the hospital!

02:32:08.128 --> 02:32:09.128 align:center
Why?

02:32:10.337 --> 02:32:12.545 align:center
You expect to get
an award for Best Nurse?

02:32:15.878 --> 02:32:19.295 align:center
No mongrel will dare question my loyalty.

02:32:25.378 --> 02:32:27.628 align:center
Is this Hindi?
Can you please read and tell?

02:32:28.962 --> 02:32:29.962 align:center
This is Marathi.

02:32:30.087 --> 02:32:32.628 align:center
Marathi! Marathi! Marathi!

02:32:36.045 --> 02:32:37.045 align:center
Tamil!

02:32:38.837 --> 02:32:39.837 align:center
Chezhiya!

02:32:40.878 --> 02:32:41.878 align:center
Tamil...

02:32:42.003 --> 02:32:43.003 align:center
Tamil, ma'am.

02:32:44.670 --> 02:32:46.128 align:center
Help him up!
- Chezhiya!

02:32:46.253 --> 02:32:47.503 align:center
Get him up!

02:32:47.628 --> 02:32:48.795 align:center
Ma'am!

02:32:48.920 --> 02:32:50.962 align:center
It was wrong of us to even ask them
for signatures!

02:32:53.587 --> 02:32:55.128 align:center
What can illiterate citizens do?

02:32:56.337 --> 02:32:57.420 align:center
To show their support...

02:32:58.420 --> 02:32:59.837 align:center
...they sent their ration cards.

02:33:04.462 --> 02:33:05.962 align:center
(Hindi) Their means of sustenance.

02:33:06.503 --> 02:33:07.670 align:center
That's what they sent over.

02:33:10.920 --> 02:33:13.378 align:center
What more evidence do you need
for public support?

02:33:15.837 --> 02:33:17.795 align:center
Do we have to bring over the people
who sent these?

02:33:20.587 --> 02:33:23.003 align:center
Your people blocked every path
on their journey.

02:33:24.503 --> 02:33:25.795 align:center
The ones who surpassed it?

02:33:27.003 --> 02:33:28.087 align:center
They were shot to death.

02:33:29.587 --> 02:33:34.128 align:center
"As hard as it'd be for North Indians,
if Tamil is legally forced on them..."

02:33:34.253 --> 02:33:36.253 align:center
"...that's how it's like
for us to learn Hindi."

02:33:37.087 --> 02:33:39.962 align:center
Lullabies of our mothers,
stories of our grandmothers...

02:33:40.087 --> 02:33:41.670 align:center
'Wisdom of our grandfathers..."

02:33:41.795 --> 02:33:43.962 align:center
"Our education, literature, music..."

02:33:44.087 --> 02:33:46.212 align:center
"All of it is etched in our blood!"

02:33:46.920 --> 02:33:50.712 align:center
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 align:center
"To show your support for Tamil,
assemble at the Coimbatore Junction!"

02:33:57.087 --> 02:33:59.545 align:center
"The futures of the students
are in your hands!"

02:33:59.670 --> 02:34:01.420 align:center
"Your future is in your hands!"

02:34:03.337 --> 02:34:05.128 align:center
As of now,
we'll stop this protest.

02:34:08.045 --> 02:34:10.087 align:center
We've done everything we could.

02:34:13.253 --> 02:34:15.045 align:center
What do you intend to do, ma'am?

02:34:17.462 --> 02:34:19.837 align:center
He says he's done what he could do.
It's up to you now.

02:34:27.253 --> 02:34:28.753 align:center
"Our bodies may fall."

02:34:29.253 --> 02:34:30.878 align:center
"But our linguistic pride never will!"

02:34:31.003 --> 02:34:32.420 align:center
"Our voices will not abate!"

02:34:32.878 --> 02:34:35.253 align:center
Until the last Tamilian is left,
it will echo far and wide!

02:34:35.670 --> 02:34:38.462 align:center
"Our bodies, for this soil.
Our lives, for Tamil!"

02:34:38.587 --> 02:34:39.628 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:34:40.878 --> 02:34:41.878 align:center
Victory to Tamilians!

02:34:42.003 --> 02:34:43.378 align:center
"Victory to Tamilians!"

02:34:51.212 --> 02:34:54.128 align:center
"I give my word to the students
of this nation!"

02:34:54.587 --> 02:34:57.295 align:center
The promises of our late great
Prime Minister...

02:34:58.337 --> 02:35:02.087 align:center
...will continue to be upheld
wholeheartedly!

02:35:02.212 --> 02:35:05.587 align:center
"Every state is free to choose
their own official language."

02:35:05.712 --> 02:35:10.378 align:center
"Be it through their regional language
or English..."

02:35:11.337 --> 02:35:14.962 align:center
"...they have complete freedom
to conduct their official business!"

02:35:15.753 --> 02:35:18.795 align:center
"If even one non-Hindi speaking
state..."

02:35:18.920 --> 02:35:23.712 align:center
"...voices its displeasure against
making Hindi the sole official language..."

02:35:24.420 --> 02:35:26.253 align:center
"...the bill will not be passed."

02:35:27.170 --> 02:35:33.295 align:center
"I firmly state that English will continue
to be recognized as an official language!"

02:35:36.378 --> 02:35:40.420 align:center
Should the legislative assembly be convened
hastily because the students ask so?

02:35:40.545 --> 02:35:41.670 align:center
Who are students?

02:35:42.087 --> 02:35:43.337 align:center
The blood of our blood.

02:35:43.462 --> 02:35:44.837 align:center
The flesh of our flesh.

02:35:44.962 --> 02:35:46.212 align:center
The soul of our future!

02:35:48.670 --> 02:35:50.253 align:center
What about the train they burned down?

02:35:51.253 --> 02:35:53.962 align:center
A few burnt train coaches
can be rebuilt.

02:35:54.878 --> 02:35:57.670 align:center
But if the lives of students
are destroyed...

02:35:57.795 --> 02:35:59.212 align:center
...can it be reclaimed?

02:36:02.837 --> 02:36:06.795 align:center
"We disregard the Official Languages Act
in all schools of Tamil Nadu."

02:36:07.378 --> 02:36:12.878 align:center
"This assembly decrees Tamil and English
to be the official mediums of instruction."

02:36:17.712 --> 02:36:20.128 align:center
If you remove us
and seat the opposition here...

02:36:20.753 --> 02:36:23.378 align:center
When you ponder the resistance you'll face
if it comes to pass...

02:36:23.962 --> 02:36:25.295 align:center
...you'll be struck by fear.

02:36:26.212 --> 02:36:29.587 align:center
As long as that fear persists
within you...

02:36:30.378 --> 02:36:34.212 align:center
...it will tell you
Anna still rules this land.

02:36:41.128 --> 02:36:42.503 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:36:42.628 --> 02:36:43.753 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:36:43.878 --> 02:36:45.253 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:36:45.378 --> 02:36:46.878 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:36:48.712 --> 02:36:50.212 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:36:50.337 --> 02:36:52.045 align:center
Long Live Tamil!

02:37:09.378 --> 02:37:12.920 align:center
"A statue immortalizing comrade Rajendran,
who succumbed to police gunfire..."

02:37:13.045 --> 02:37:16.170 align:center
"...has been erected at the entrance
of his alma mater."

02:38:06.003 --> 02:38:08.420 align:center
'O army of comrades'

02:38:08.545 --> 02:38:10.795 align:center
'Let's go to war'

02:38:10.920 --> 02:38:13.253 align:center
'Be it life or death...'

02:38:13.378 --> 02:38:15.587 align:center
'...we shall face it together'

02:38:15.712 --> 02:38:20.462 align:center
'With courage,
we will seek answers'

02:38:20.587 --> 02:38:24.587 align:center
'As a roaring wildfire,
we will reclaim justice'

02:38:25.378 --> 02:38:30.003 align:center
'Without seeing the light of change,
these eyes shall sleep not'

02:38:30.128 --> 02:38:34.712 align:center
'Even if bullets pierce our chests,
our quest for truth will cease not'

02:38:34.837 --> 02:38:37.295 align:center
'No change comes about on its own'

02:38:37.420 --> 02:38:39.670 align:center
'We will guard our motherland
now and forever'

02:38:39.795 --> 02:38:42.003 align:center
'We took to arms that day'

02:38:42.128 --> 02:38:44.420 align:center
'Even a calf will pounce in an attack'

02:38:44.545 --> 02:38:46.920 align:center
'A needless, needless law...'

02:38:47.045 --> 02:38:49.253 align:center
'Won't the arrogance
of those in power fall?'

02:38:49.378 --> 02:38:51.462 align:center
'Our blood boils to stir us on'

02:38:51.587 --> 02:38:53.670 align:center
'A war of blazing passion'

02:38:56.253 --> 02:38:58.503 align:center
'How is it right to relinquish
what belongs to us?'

02:38:58.628 --> 02:39:00.920 align:center
'Vanquishing oppressors
does not count as sins'

02:39:01.045 --> 02:39:02.295 align:center
'Set off like a storm'

02:39:03.337 --> 02:39:04.795 align:center
'Set off like a storm'

02:39:05.795 --> 02:39:08.212 align:center
'When your wings are torn apart,
stand not with patience'

02:39:08.337 --> 02:39:10.628 align:center
'If you rise with fury,
the oppression cannot go on'

02:39:10.753 --> 02:39:12.170 align:center
'Be the action'

02:39:13.087 --> 02:39:14.545 align:center
'Be the action'

02:39:15.503 --> 02:39:17.795 align:center
'If there's evil afoot...'

02:39:17.920 --> 02:39:20.087 align:center
'...mustn't it be quelled?'

02:39:20.212 --> 02:39:24.420 align:center
'Cowards, we shall never be'

02:39:25.045 --> 02:39:29.712 align:center
'A day has a dawn and a dusk'

02:39:29.837 --> 02:39:32.628 align:center
'Waging war is the way to victory'

02:39:32.753 --> 02:39:34.545 align:center
'Let's get this done,
one way or the other'