How are you now?
I'm doing okay.
Is it hurting too much?
Earlier it was hurting, but now I'm fine.
Don't come to work. You take good rest.
Did you eat anything?
No, dear. No one bothered with me.
If you can make something, I can eat.
Shall I order something? Do you want to feed him?
You guys could've spoken over the phone.
Instead, you brought me along to endure this torture.
I was expecting you guys to get romantic.
"Is it hurting? Did you eat?" Lame conversation!
So boring you guys are.
So, you were watching us all this while?
Hey, yuck. Very decent I am.
Just eavesdropping.
-Hi, Mike. What's up? -You're looking cute.
Hi, Jenny. Where are you?
Kalai and I have come to check on Sekar.
Family serial is rocking.
It has become the talk of the town.
It cashed in on the B and C audience.
It's not cinema to have B and C audience.
A heroine has ventured into the small screen.
The initial reaction will be energetic, but it won't last long.
The excitement will drop by the day.
-That's it. -Jenny, numbers are out.
That is affecting our numbers.
The channel has not officially summoned us yet.
Okay, Mike. Relax.
See, our target is youth.
We're on the right track. We can show great numbers.
Let's all catch up and figure this out. Okay?
Over a drink.
Volga knows the place. See you in ten.
-Okay. -Okay, bye.
What happened?
Family serial is slightly screwing up our Dark Tales.
Oh, no! What's next?
Let's discuss in detail over drinks.
Let's leave.
I'm super drunk.
Welcome back to Dark Tales. It's not a story but the truth.
With me, VJ Aravind.
What the fuck is this?
Do you think this is right?
This is actually bold for satellite, Ram.
Don't try to defend them, Mike.
Don't teach me business.
Ask everyone to come in tomorrow.
I've been repeatedly saying it since the first episode
to not run behind TRP ratings.
Quality content will speak for itself.
Now they're tearing us down on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
#BanDarkTales. #BanNamTV.
I'm sure even women's associations will join them soon.
I'm pretty sure our competitors would've started campaigns against us.
Hey, I've already spoken to Jenny about it.
She's very upset at the moment.
Please don't bring this up once again.
Come on, dude. This affects all of us.
How can I not bring this up?
Who stopped you from talking?
Everyone is talking. Why should you stop?
Jenny, I've mentioned this right from the beginning.
There's a difference between making something interesting
and neglecting the truth.
It's not right to go to extremes just to run a show.
"It's not a story but the truth." We quote this in bold font.
Have we ever spoken the truth on the show?
You keep stressing on the truth.
Which truth are you running behind?
We're not running a news channel out here
by listing down facts on current affairs.
See, I'm not here to ruin people's lives.
Whatever it is, I'll face it.
Jenny, I didn't mean that.
The hashtag to ban our show is trending at number one in India.
Pity that we're number one for the wrong things.
-Hey, hey. -Ma'am.
Any publicity is a good publicity.
Give me the lighter.
Why did you close that? Come on, show it to me.
I wanted our programme to be number one.
Our audience isn't mature enough to understand international quality.
Ignore the audience.
Even our colleagues don't get it.
Hey, Jenny. I've been looking for you everywhere.
Tomorrow is our sponsors meeting.
Please don't mess it up by not turning up.
Please, babe.
Please come to the meeting. Just please come.
-Hey, Selma. What happened? -Hi.
We're in big trouble.
Our last episode is facing strong opposition.
Sponsors have come down to the office.
Volga and Jenny are inside in a meeting with them.
We will know our status only after the meeting.
Fine, where are the others?
Others...
What you mean by others?
How many more are you dating?
You're asking about Sekar, right?
His father is in town. He stepped out to meet him.
Dad?
You never come down to meet me.
How come you're here now?
How did the folks from the village let you go?
I felt like seeing you, son,
so I took a bus and came over.
Are you hungry? Shall we go to a restaurant?
Maybe later.
Did you lose the deity's talisman on your wrist?
I must've lost it at the place of the incident.
You look very worried since you've arrived.
We'll get another one tied when I come over to the village.
Don't be ignorant.
You should be wearing it all the time.
Only if you do, it'll keep you and our family safe.
Fine, we'll handle that later.
Is there a temple nearby?
Temple? There's one nearby. I'll take you.
Lord, always protect my son.
Give me your hand.
Make sure you don't lose this again.
Swear on me.
Terribly sorry.
It went on air beyond my control.
It is our mistake.
We are apologising.
Hereafter, any concept without my personal verification or approval
won't go on air.
Fuck!
So, this is the latest concept.
It's about a girl getting molested by a ghost.
See, it's going to be bold. Okay, Ram?
But trust me. International.
-It's interesting, Jenny. -Yeah.
Of course, it has to be bold.
Yeah, exactly.
During the night, other channels run random stuff.
Of course, we're giving quality content.
And then...
how are you placed tonight, babe?
I'm gonna smoke up and watch porn.
Wanna send your wife?
She's at her mother's house.
Fucking bastard.
This is the hot topic on Twitter, Facebook and the newspapers.
We selected your channel because of family audience viewership.
But now our product is getting tagged along with the ban hashtag.
Yeah. Meme creators, social media activists,
everyone is attacking our product because of Dark Tales.
My client is completely unhappy.
It'll all settle in a couple of days.
They'll be distracted by other news.
-You guys need not worry. -No, no.
We don't think so.
Client has already decided to withdraw the sponsorship.
It's beyond our control.
Yes, we're walking out too.
Wow!
When our show was topping the TRPs,
no questions were asked.
Instead, everyone partied until dawn.
-Just calm down, Jenny. -But now...
one episode
and they walk out on us.
Excellent!
Just calm down, Jenny.
Hereafter, we'll take Ram sir's approval before going on air.
Am I right, Ram sir?
That's... that's client and the channel's call.
I don't have anything personal in that.
I can see clearly what went wrong and where.
Ram, we both know how it works.
You can't just put the whole blame on us.
Hello, hello, hello.
We came with a belief because you're a leading channel.
But we can't suffer for your mistakes.
Terminate the agreement as soon as possible and send across the copy.
It will be better
if you do it as early as possible.
Fuck!
Okay, we're calling it off.
No more Dark Tales.
-Wrap up everything. -What the fuck!
This seems like a personal vengeance!
Jenny, Jenny, calm down.
The channel has a reputation to protect.
All the sponsors are interconnected.
If you continue this, no sponsors are going to come to us.
And we're not doing any social work here.
-Okay? -Bull-fucking-shit!
Jenny, please just calm down and listen to what he has to say.
Ram, is there another way to continue this programme?
Mike, they're being dumb and now you're being just like them.
If only any miracle happens.
Why not?
You know, Mike. Miracles will never happen.
I thought you were with your father.
He left earlier than expected.
Kannan said there's an issue. What happened?
There's no problem.
We're done.
Sponsors backed out from the show, guys.
So, the channel scrapped our show.
So, I guess let's move on.
I've come to realize my worth
Wondering what brought this change
My shadow as become A stranger to me
Hoping for things To fall in place
Time is running out
I'm headed into a different direction now
Life has been absorbed by our jobs
But there's a ray of hope
Just like the rising tide In the ocean
Even if it recedes I will rise
Just like dew on the peaks
Even when suppressed It'll flow through it
At a popular independent TV Channel,
because women were depicted in poor light,
women's associations have staged a protest in front of their office.
Buddy, Jenny is here. Change the channel.
It's all over social media.
Ignoring it won't stop anything.
Let it be, Ash. Don't change.
Listen, you guys are technicians and work off screen,
but I'm an on-screen personality.
The producer who hired me is ignoring my calls.
I think he has blocked me.
They'll bar me from all the events happening in town.
Hey, you don't have any commitments.
In fact, no one here has commitments.
But I have many commitments depending on this job.
Home loan, car loan.
On top of that, credit card bills.
I don't know how I'm going to manage things.
This channel is not going to hire us anymore.
They've banished us.
Hey, stop talking nonsense.
Cinema is our life, but we've been ranting nonsense.
I'm looking at this break as a blessing in disguise.
Kannan has penned down many stories during college days.
Let's pick a good script from among those and make a movie.
Instead, you guys are spouting nonsense.
True, I agree.
But I don't want to leave this channel with a failure.
It's a different thing to quit after running a successful show.
But it's a shame when we're fired after our show is scrapped.
We have to prove ourselves here.
Jenny, do you think having Ram... Is this even possible?
My mother has already asked me to return home.
If I return in this state to Malaysia,
she'll get me married the very next day.
If we get everything we wish for. We wouldn't need god.
If you're only going to gawk at her,
she'll get married eventually.
Then we'll sing this song at her wedding reception.
Listen, the pace at which you're progressing,
you may not get Selma, but, at least, you can get Shruthi.
Stop it, Sekar!
Stop distracting.
We're discussing some serious shit.
Why do we need Ram? We have Mike and Volga with us.
Hey, it's not like there's just one channel.
There are many options to explore.
You're being silly.
In the end, we got to work together.
That's about it. Okay?
No, it has to be this channel.
We're not going anywhere.
Let's think about what we have to do to make it happen.
Hey, guys!
Hi!
-What is happening? -Get away from here.
Come on. Move, damn it.
-You're annoying. -Take a seat.
-Come, come. -Okay.
It's been long since I met you.
Obviously, who else?
I was called for the look test of a new movie.
I went for it. What about you?
The usual routine. Just chilling with the boys.
Did your wound heal?
What happened?
I haven't been eating well. I just took my meds.
Haven't you eaten anything yet?
No one bothered to cook.
Can you make something for me?
-Hey, what was her name? -Who?
The girl from the soap advertisement
who didn't know how to walk, later slipped and fell.
-That model. -She's just yapping. Ignore her.
Come on, Volga.
You should ask Sekar. He knows her well.
Sekar, what was that girl's name?
It's Sushma, right?
I'm gonna whack you. Stop it.
Jobless idiot.
Buddy, I believe you're still in touch with her on WhatsApp.
-Fucker! -Don't beat me.
I've been generous with you.
Last night, I got you two beers, damn it.
Hey, stop it, guys.
Love has just re-entered their lives.
Don't disturb them.
There's nothing between us, Jenny.
There's nothing between us?
My dear, please spare me.
Hey, how come you have a new talisman on your wrist?
Oh, this one.
When Dad was in town, he took me to a temple,
then tied this talisman and asked me to wear it all the time.
I don't believe in these things.
I just do it so that his feelings are not hurt.
So, you really don't know?
Know what?
Hey, you're the inspiration for Dark Tales.
This is new to me.
When I arrived at your place wondering what to do next,
you were floating in the air.
I was really scared.
Sekar!
Sekar?
Hey, Jenny. When did you get here?
When you woke up, you were totally unaware of it.
But when I inquired, your father confessed.
Sekar was a very active child during his childhood.
He'd always accompany me when I headed out to perform a ritual.
But one day I was performing something dangerous.
So, I put him to sleep and left to perform the ritual.
Dad! Dad! Dad! Where are you, Dad?
He woke up in the middle of the night and went looking for me everywhere.
Later, he lost his way back home.
I looked for him everywhere, but I couldn't find him.
I found him at the graveyard, sleeping on the ground.
Certain types of horoscopes, whether good or bad,
have the ability to absorb supernatural powers.
Sekar's horoscope is one among them.
Son! Son!
Dad?
Evil spirits tried to possess him.
To save him from them, I tied this talisman to his wrist.
Hey, let me go!
It's hurting, damn it!
That's why it's imperative for him to wear it all the time.
Come on, dude. Do you really believe in these things?
I should've shot a video of you floating in the air.
I made a mistake.
Thank goodness that you didn't shoot a video.
If not, you would've created a new show out of it.
-You're right. -He's speaking the truth.
What did you say?
Thank goodness that you didn't shoot a video.
If not, you would've created a new show out of it.
Fuck! That's a brilliant idea.
Babe, this is our miracle!
Jenny, I don't really get you.
Listen, we're going to shoot ghosts live and telecast on TV.
Live Telecast.
Lights.
Camera.
Hot.
Whom is she speaking to?
Hey?
What? What are you people doing?
-Nothing, we were wondering... -What the fuck!
Hey, please be careful.
-Which way? -This way.
I think we've reached another house looking for a light.
Kalai, you stay right here.
Buddy, be careful.
Sekar.
-Hey, I didn't do anything! -Be careful.
Thank God you found a lighter.
Watch your step.