A small hamlet... Present Thanjavur...
Lord!
My clan is getting wiped out because of King of Pandia,
you must raise my children,
- l'm handing over him to you. - As you order, my lord.
Oh my son! What am l to do now?
Oh my son!
Hey Chola!
Will you dare go against me? Challenge me?
- Hey Chola! - Hey Pandia!
The people who challenged me are driven out of my region...
Thanjavur 1879 AD Period of last King of Chola dynasty
Wait till the message comes.
How many years may go past.
The Chola prince who left in exile,
reached an island after many days of travel,
it's still a mystery about what happened to him and where did he go.
Many Pandian Kings tried to find the Chola prince.
Anyone who attempted was ambushed by well laid out traps of Cholas on the way.
The dream of Pandian kings to wipe out Cholas and regain the lost Goddess idol,
could never get fulfilled.
Yet, they never gave up trying for it.
They passed the tale about Chola prince and regaining the idol to next generation.
Many Archeologists tried to locate his whereabouts.
Few returned half way and advised others not to tread the dangerous path.
Those who went without caring about it never returned home.
The place where that Chola prince lived which is the dream of every archeologist,
an archeologist found it facing umpteen dangers on the way.
Today... Minghu Ha lsland, near Vietnam...
Acclaimed Archeologist missing! Feared dead!
Sister!
Hi!
I'm Anitha, ArcheoIogy department.
I got the Iast caII from your father in Vietnam.
He said his team has reached there safeIy.
After that no information from him.
Had he found the pIace of ChoIas, it wouId've been a great achievement.
We tried our IeveI best to find your father.
But...on inquiry we came to know the pIace he went is not easy to Iocate.
I shouIdn't be disturbing you at this time...
but we are sending a team immediateIy to find your father,
of course this time with a Iot of protection.
So, with your permission,
can I take aII the papers Ieft by your father?
One more thing.
Minister made a personaI request to you.
If you're interested, you to can join us.
I mean...onIy if you're interested.
You know everything after your father.
It wouId be of great heIp if you too join us.
Of course, take your time.
Take your time.
We'II be Ieaving in two days.
Okay?
Let me make the introductions.
Mr. Ravi, Dr. Lavanya, ArcheoIogist,
Dr. Ramanathan, NaIini and Sasi,
Dr. Sivaram, Ramesh, Communications.
GentIemen, this is an Indian Government project,
Union Minister Veerapandian took speciaI interest and arranged everything.
I'm Ieading the team on behaIf of him.
First thing,
if anything untoward happens to you, Government is not responsibIe,
Okay?
PIease sign these papers.
You needn't worry, we have private security force.
Acclaimed Archeologist missing! Feared dead!
The island Chola prince reached was Minghu Ha island.
We've travel further deep into it.
lt's very difficult terrain.
There are many lurking dangers, my father told me.
First we must find him.
We must set up an office immediateIy in Vietnam.
You stay there onIy, if I need anything, I'II caII you.
Be carefuI, ask everyone to be aIert, okay?
We are ready, you said about 30 heIpers, where are they?
They shouId've been here 2 hours earIier, don't know what happened, madam?
Move...move...
...is that dark cloud your tresses?
ls my body a playground for your poetry?
Blue colour...
Sky and sea are blue colour...
What's the reason, my dear?. ls it your eyes?
May I heIp you in scratching?
What a Iousy bunch of heIpers! A herd of pigs!
If we face any probIem there, we are not responsibIe.
I'm warning you.
- Why is he saying Iike that? - Forget it, we'II see Iater.
Load everything, buggers! RascaIs!
Go..go..go quickIy.
Brother is shouting, go fast, don't keep the customer waiting.
Trying to tamper it, bIoody!
BIoody, buggers! I'm teIIing you, pick it up.
Get going...don't taIk... be on your job.
Check if rope is correct.
DeIicate things, handIe with care, boys!
Don't act smart with me, crook, Ioad it fast, ship is ready to Ieave.
My dear! You're my sweethearts! You gave Iot of money, my dear.
My sweet IoIIipop! How handsome!
You're great! Better than him. Bearded man! Don't shave it off.
Get going...why are you ogIing at me? Am I a girI?
That's why I must wear shirt, you bIoody creep...
Give a IittIe space and you take too much, come on get going.
If you caII us pigs again, I'II hack you,
ask anyone here, we are the best here,
our work wiII be cIean, Ioading isn't an easy task,
give respect take respect.
Go...
It's women who ruIe everywhere.
GIad meet you. I know EngIish madam.
Okay madam...okay.
Bevy of girIs are boarding, if you ogIe at them I'II kiII you.
Do you know me? l'm a happy-go-lucky admirer...
Am I shaking or is the ship shaking?
Is it your room?
Are you aIone?
May I give you company?
I've decided at first sight,
if I ever marry, I'II marry onIy you.
May I come in?
Figure good, not decent.... nonsense.
I've decided at first sight,
if I ever marry, I'II marry onIy you.
ShaII we continue it in your room?
What's the meaning of your smirk?
Is it okay?
Don't worry about safety, aIways carry condoms with me.
I aIways pIay it safe.
Look down!
Live free like the bird...
Play like these waves...
under one sky...on one earth...
Let's sing for our rights...
Live free like the bird...
Play like these waves...
under one sky...on one earth...
Let's sing for our rights...
Air didn't consider as untouchables because we are slaves...
Just because we are slaves, sea water won't burn us...
Time won't go ahead leaving us behind...
Love and affection don't desert us...
under one sky... on one earth...
Let's sing for our rights...
Live free like the bird...
Play like these waves...
under one sky... on one earth...
Let's sing for our rights...
Freedom must be enjoyed by everyone...
l want to see freedom like temples...
We want freedom to sing and dance without any fear...
We want a slaveless world of freedom...
under one sky... on one earth...
Let's sing for our rights...
Few weeks later...
Minghu Ha lsland, Vietnam...
Madam, he's our IocaI guide.
Greetings.
- Do you know TamiI? - Yes.
Give us a sec pIease...
TaIked to many but no one is ready to come.
Boat wiII not Iand there... moreover...
TeII me.
They say the isIand is haunted by ghosts, madam.
It seems nobody has ever returned from there.
Shut up.
Don't worry about the cost, teII him I need the boat.
Yes madam.
What?
They are refusing to go beyond even for more money.
Boys, take position.
What's there that's scaring them so much?
Hey!
Can you handIe these boats?
Is there any boat we didn't handIe?
This is nothing for us.
But we'II not do if you ask Iike this.
Ask poIiteIy with a smiIe.
If not Ieave it. Let's stay here onIy.
Farmer is a labourer found by the industrialist God...
Sir pIease, start the boat, sir.
Am I any officer to caII me as sir?
Ask Iike a girI asking her Iover.
Start the boat, pIease.
HoId on the paddIes.
Row Iike MGR in the fiIm 'Padagotti'.
Get going boys!
l'm a hero in the epic...
l'm a slave among the millions in this country...
Her home is palatial bungalow...
Branch of tree is my nest...
What happened?
Run into sand bed.
Can't go any further, we have to waIk from here.
Carry aII the boxes, don't Ieave any box behind.
- Count the boxes. - Okay. Krishna, check the boxes.
I'II check brother.
Something is licking the feet.
As soon you reach there, put fire and start cooking.
Cook gravy and chutney, l'll come.
Run fast! Save me...save me...
Save me...
Run...run...don't stop...run...
- How many? - 10 men.
We must be very careful.
Fix positions of the sentries.
- Our boys are fine, right? - Fine brother.
- Tell everyone to be alert, unknown territory.- Yes sir.
Order them to fire anything that attacks us.
Fall in line!
Be carefuI, Iot of Ieeches... go...go...
Get going...don't stop to watch fun...go...
Go in a Iine, you buffaIo.
Why are you caIIing me a buffaIo?
Hey bIack shirt, move fast.
- You Iook new? - I'm going, ain't I?
What are you appIying on body?
Insect repeIIent.
You need who grow in AC comforts, it'II never come near me.
Won't she taIk to me? Why are you staring at me?
Look at her! She looks like a white sow with a cap.
TeII our boys to Iead, these guys are useIess.
They are very sIow.
By noon we must reach there.
Guards! Take positions.
Starting point of the path taken by Chola prince.
We can go in only after crossing them.
lf we defy them, they may eat us.
Come behind me, but don't look straight at their faces.
Come...come...
Don't look at their faces, stay silent whatever they may do.
Bow down your heads.
Come...come...
It seems he has pIenty of such things, he wants something eIse.
It seems he Iikes her very much, he wants her to marry him.
She's asking, what wiII you do marrying at this age?
It seems the Professor is very good man.
She's asking where is he now?
Where is he now?
Come...
I'm teIIing the same what I toId the earIier expedition teams,
pIease go back.
This is not ordinary thing as you think.
Just teII me, what probIems we may face if we go in?
Look, we beIieve our Gods are Iiving inside.
Now, it's your wish.
Are you scaring us?
No, I'm warning for your good onIy.
Did you see this? Entire viIIage wiII be wiped out in 5 seconds.
Let me see your Gods answer to this.
Excuse me...excuse me...
Where are you taking us?
They said about digging a ditch onIy, never said about the dangers.
Boys are scared, teII me, where are we heading to?
Are you a girI?
If you're a man, shut up and foIIow me.
If you're something eIse, shut your gob and go back.
Girls are braver than men.
Why are you so shell shocked?
Girls are decent in appearance only, their speech stinks worse than Cooum.
Get the ice pack.
You don't eat first, Iet them eat first.
I'm your uncIe, don't scoId me.
- Go! - I'm Ieaving, do it yourseIf.
Keep that Iight here.
She's asking something.
Go man! I asked you to serve her onIy.
Give an inch and you'II take a feet.
Hey...she never taIks... And she taIks too much.
Eat!
Okay.
Hear man!
Protector warrior of the long path...
When the sea splits, everything will turn red...
l'll come angrily, encapsulating...
Cease fire!
HoId fire!
Fire!
ChoIa fIag!
Don't spare anyone aIive.
I can understand, it was my mistake, sir.
I under estimated them.
Yes, I can understand, sir.
I'II inform Anitha.
Yes sir...okay sir...
I need 50 more men.
Ex-miIitary, mercenaries, private goons, I don't mind,
2 doctors with medicaI suppIies.
Guns, knives, smaII and medium bombs, rocket Iaunchers,
Apt radio operators, proper communication...
Are you here on a picnic?
Why didn't you warn about such peopIe here?
Are you with us to have fun?
HeIIo...we are going back, pay us the baIance.
I asked you so many times about where you're taking us fearing this.
What rights do you've to get us kiIIed here?
He has three daughters, they'II ask where is he?
What am I to teII them?
Mani, Raja, Suresh, aII are dead.
Okay, we are Ieaving.
Rest of us must be aIive, right?
Pay for the dead, their famiIies must survive, mustn't they?
We came trusting you, right?
We are aIready neck deep in probIems,
go now, we'II settIe things Iater.
Forget about settIe things Iater.
Give cash, we are going back.
Nobody is going from here.
Got it?
Go!
Look, she's ordering me.
I know who to squeeze out money from you.
You'II come back to Madras, won't you?
Boys, come.
What a Iousy woman we are caught up with!
Pack the bodies in coffins, Iet's go boys.
Come on!
MaIathy, Pushpa, Thiagu...
Are the names correct?
Your famiIy.
Right?
If you create any probIem here, they wiII be in troubIe there.
Think about it.
It's paining, bIoody...
Out!
All of you go out.
Down your pant.
I need to give you a shot of injection.
Why? Give it on my hand.
It's powerfuI injection, you may not be abIe to Iift hand.
Pants down, fast, I don't have time.
How I inject there? Down it IittIe further.
PIease!
Turn that side.
If I give the shot in wrong pIace, you'II be in troubIe.
Show me.
Didn't see much, right?
No cries can bring back the dead, sIeep peacefuIIy.
You'II feeI better.
As search gets deeper...
Heart is celebrating...
lt's you there...
Love is stuttering...
O Siva! Ash smeared Siva...
You're the leader, chief minister, playful artiste...
Battle hero, young man, come on dance...
Don't laugh at my get up...
Don't rub the wrong side of me...
O Siva! Ash smeared Siva...
l'll make...l'll break...
l'll make things like you...
l'll produce...l'll give...sacrifice...
One day is just a speck hidden in me...
Kill yourself to seek me...
Set up camp here.
unload things.
Ravi, she says this pIace is too dangerous, must Ieave at once.
What danger?
My guess is snakes.
Did you come here with us to teII forest has snakes?
What eIse is there? Lions, Tigers, Monkeys...
I reaIIy got scared.
Go!
Says full of snakes, l'm going to slap her one day.
Where did you find this mad woman?
Hey snake!
Not just one, there are many snakes.
I attacked as group to scatter an army...
Get out!
They teased you.
I didn't Iike it.
You came to heIp me in troubIe.
That's why...
Don't feeI too much, Ieave it.
Sit down.
What are you reading?
Are you searching for peopIe Iost 800 years ago?
Are we going to dig their pIace?
Okay, but we are aIready facing so many probIems.
ChoIas didn't go just Iike that,
they Iaid 7 dangerous death traps, so nobody wouId dare foIIow them.
I mean traps.
Sea, forest tribaIs, security huntsmen, serpents, quicksand, hunger, thirst.
And a viIIage.
We've crossed three dangerous traps.
This pIace is fourth trap.
Serpents.
I mean snakes.
This oIden text on Ieaf is the onIy hope of our escape.
It was written by a Pandian chieftain who went after the ChoIa prince.
Take positions...hold fire.
Get down...get down...
Snake...snake...snake...
Leave me!
- Leave me... - Go...go...go...
Run fast! Go...go...go... jump into the water...
TeII me something I can understand.
Snakes are better than this.
Oh God!
Let's go.
Great figure, right?
- How far have we come? - l don't know.
You warned about serpents, we didn't Iisten to you.
Sorry.
How to go back to that far away pIace?
I'm scared about those snakes.
We'II proceed forward?
Do you know the way?
HeIIo! Wait! Why are you deciding yourseIves?
Won't you ask me?
I can't come Ieaving my peopIe behind.
AIready I'm afraid about their safety.
Let's stay tiII they come here.
We are going, you stay here.
Who asked you to stay? I'm not taIking to you.
Excuse me...pIease don't trust her.
She'II betray you.
She's a cheap woman.
Hands off me.
Know your Iimits.
RascaI!
HeIIo, show some respect, if not...
Rotten piece of shit.
You've Iit the fire, now you'II be happy.
Why are you staring at me?
Showing respect as a woman, if not I'II thrash you.
I'm taking it easy, if not I'II bIow up your head.
Go...making empty threats.
Come on, fire at me.
- Shut up! - You don't taIk to me.
Yuck! Shut up, you scumbag.
Why are you abusing me in EngIish?
Do you consider yourseIf to be a beauty?
- If you don't shut up now... - What wiII you do? Let me see.
Shut up Anitha.
- You shut up, you bitch. - Who you are caIIing a bitch?
You're the biggest fucking bitch I've ever seen.
Yeah, right.
AtIeast I'm not romancing a scumbag here.
Yeah right.
You'd rather Iet him have a peek at your boobs.
Shut up, you bIoody bitch, otherwise I'II bIow your fucking brains off.
Oh! I'm so scared. Go ahead, but you can't.
- Because you're a chicken. - Who you are caIIing a chicken?
You, I'm caIIing you a fucking chicken. Chicken...chicken...
Why are you both speaking in EngIish?
You're responsibIe for aII this, bIoody...
Magazine was fuII, right?
We've Iost many men, sir. We need more weapons.
Not with any bad intention as you think, you were shivering in coId...
I wanted to cover you...trust me.
Removing pant is wrong not the shirt.
With good intention onIy...
lt'll smell bad, adjust.
You're running high fever.
There's onIy one remedy for it, but don't mistake me if I say...
HoId me tight and sIeep.
Your body wiII warm up in few minutes.
Think I'm your brother.
Not a brother, think I'm your friend.
Listen to me, if you sIeep hoIding me tight, you'II not feeI coId.
ShaII we go back?
I can't bear this hunger.
Hey Iousy girIs! No food or water, where are you going?
WiII there be any trap here?
What can be here? Don't think too much. Come!
Leave her...Ieave her, Iet's get rid of the troubIe.
Leave her...Ieave her...go... go away you gun toting girI!
Leave her...I'm teIIing you, Ieave her.
HoId her! HoId her! HoId her!
You never Iisten to me.
Is this aIso a trap set up by the ChoIas?
Very cunning guys!
Big rocks turn into small stones and then disintegrate into sand,
The Sun light will show you the path like Lord Thillai Natarajan...the sun...
Dusk sun...light...
Shadow of light...
path of Natarajan...
Path of Natarajan...
Ready...get up!
Run...run...
Run in the shadow...
Fast...fast... before the shadow vanishes.
Run...run...
Light is going away.... fast...fast!
Stop...stop...
What next?
Wait till the sunrise.
Come here.
Yeah...one step and we'll meet sandy death.
Careful.
Take the lights, be careful and be slow.
Don't come...don't come.
Hey don't come...don't come.
Stop...stop...stop! No..no...no...
Ravi, don't come.
- How to cross this? - Wait till sunrise.
You'll see shadow of Lord Natarajan, run in that shadow.
Don't sIeep, you may get sucked in.
Were you born Iike this or you become Iike this on fuII and no moon days?
Be free.
Won't your peopIe ask if you go out dressing so skimpiIy?
- I don't have anyone. - Dead?
No, father is there, we had a probIem.
I waIked out on him.
What's the probIem?
I feII in Iove with a man. My father didn't Iike him.
He shouted at me, I Ieft his home.
Are you Iiving with your Iover now?
Yuck! He's aIso not a worthy man. RascaI!
He asked me to stop digging and be just a home maker after marriage.
I Ieft him aIso.
Ready...ready..ready...run! Now...run...run...
Shadow...run in the shadow.
Run...faster...
Run...run... Come faster!
Stop...stop...stop wherever you are.
Stop!
What to do now?
Wait tiII evening.
We are on the right track, right?
This is your father's, right?
His handycam, still working.
Did he leave it behind for us?
He must've camped here.
He left behind so many things here, why not leave a chips packet too?
GoId!
- Oh my God! - ls he the missing Chola prince?
May be. Face is similar to the painting.
l can't believe this.
What?
What l can see...
Let me go closer.
What is that?
Oh my God! That's a camel!
l'll eat the whole thing.
l hope you people don't mind.
Go...go...come on...go...
Don't let the camel get away.
Pick up something to kill it.
- Go slow... - Pick up something sharp to kill.
Don't let the camel get away.
Let's have a meal man.
Turn it...turn it my side.
Neck must be on my side.
FinaIIy, we've found the pIace ChoIas Iived.
Thanks to Lavanya.
We are now going in.
Sukumaran for Sun TV news.
l desire you...
Come whatsoever... Let bygones be bygones...
This is a land of dreams...
Man of deeds... Man of challenges...
My heart is bouncing like a kite...
Two glass dolls are dancing in tandem...
l desire you...
Come whatsoever... Let bygones be bygones...
This is a land of dreams...
Man of deeds... Man of challenges...
Two maidens before me... What's wrong if l flirt with them?
This is right question...
You are an energetic macho man...
Ships sailing into sea... lt has hit shore and got stuck...
lt'll rain if it hits hills... At midnoon, it'll turn dark...
Friendship and shame will leave you like dust...
lt's a locked house... but many open entrances...
Come out of your body and observe yourself...
- My lovely rose... - Come, let's have it once...
l'm your man...
Come, touch and lit fire of passion in me...
O Siva! Ash smeared Siva...
Fire will eat away hearts like fireflies...
My heart is bouncing like a kite...
Two glass dolls are dancing in tandem...
What happened? Why is it dead siIence?
I don't know.
l'm Krishnan, l'm an Archeologist.
l'm an Archeologist...
Catch it...catch it...
From generations no change.
No food, no water.
What can people do, King?
You live in the comforts of the palace,
has anyone told you about difficulties we face?
No water even to clean after passing faeces, King.
Can't hold on for long, then don't complain about the stink.
Set up a camp, send a team immediateIy to find those three.
Go, don't stop.
l saw tiger mascot on his back.
l fear him to be a messenger.
Are you a messenger of Cholas?
Why a tiger tattoo on your back?
I'm terribIy hungry, man.
I want mashed eggs, I want biryani.
I haven't eaten for 10 days. My intestines are paining.
l want water, l want biryani, l want chicken piece and beer.
AII because of those...
No.
My mother has toId me not to abuse women.
I wish to tie Anitha and rape her.
Won't you cry then? Won't you cry saying you raped me?
Why am l getting bad ideas? So what if l get it?
Sub-conscious thoughts are coming out.
lf Lavanya agrees, l'll marry her...
She'll not agree. Lousy woman!
Is he the messenger?
WiII he take us to our motherIand?
WiII it pour down heaviIy?
You've Iost your baIance, Devar.
Without dress...
...like power in it, warmth of humans...
Hey Ieave us! Hey! Who the heII are you?
Brother, I'm innocent, Anitha did everything.
HeIIo! What's happening here?
Where are we? Who are these peopIe?
ChoIas!
The ChoIas whom we came searching here. They are ChoIas.
- You said they wouId be dead. - We thought like that.
But they didn't perish.
They have continued to live here for generations after generations.
I'm coming from ChoIa kingdom.
My name is Nambirattiar.
Lord Siva of South of Meru, Protector of Thanjai,
King of the ChoIa, Udaiyar Sri Rajendrasena's daughter.
I've taken a vow.
My wish is to make Iove with King and achieve fame.
- Hey! Where are you taking me? - Leave me...Anitha, no...Ieave me.
How long we have been waiting for this day?
How many generations we have been waging this battle?
My name is Anitha Pandian.
l belong to the royal family. They are my ancestors.
For generation to generation, we have only one dream,
to find the place where the missing Chola prince lived,
and bring back our family deity's idol.
This revenge is fed to us with mother's milk and is part of our genes.
Like union Minister Veerapandian, Ex-Major Ravisekharan,
eight of us remain in that clan, our parents raised us as royals.
Taught us many arts.
Though we live as ordinary citizens, the revenge hasn't died down.
l didn't expect Cholas who stole our family deity would be alive.
Good, the vow taken by our ancestors must get fulfilled.
l must wipe out the Cholas who enslaved Pandians.
l've only one weapon with me. My body!
My mother has taught me how to use it to attack.
We are well aware of all your terror acts against us.
ln the golden swing decorated with romance...
Can you sing, Devar?
A baIIad, free verse, a poem sung in praise of hero by 7 different aged women.
AtIeast any one?
Okay. Can you atIeast sing medIey of songs with the Iast word?
Where's the land with dancing pods of paddy?
Where's the court where my word was rule?
Where's the battlefield where bow and arrows played?
Where's the statue chiseled out from rocks?
Men without a motherland...
O my supreme lord! Adorned with moon...
Revenge has brought me here...
ln search of land filled with greenery...
Eyes got tired in that eternal search...
Searching for the eluding flower of prosperity...
My life has been spent...
ln search of the music of chisels on rocks ears got melted away...
My tongue has lost it's sense in search of a meal...
Kings of Cholas who ruled with tiger mascot on their flag...
Now have to eat rats to survive...
Now have to live like plants surviving on air...
Am l a king who rules over a country of skulls?
How am l to continue? Praising him to the hilt...
What's the message?
Where's the Ietter?
Ordered to be deIivered when aIone.
My wish is to make love with King and achieve fame.
Message?
Let our Iegs entwine, Iips unite, bodies merge,
eyes cIosed, sIeep together,
and I hesitatingIy...
Your eyes don't mean it.
Your touch says something different.
Your gestures mean something eIse.
Your panting chest is not good.
Nothing is right with your womanhood.
I know your cunningness.
Your praise of the enemy is pure chicanery.
TeII me!
Cry!
This is not bIood of a ChoIa!
This is bIood of an coward, frightened and panic stricken wretched man.
Are you a ChoIa?
Is this your ChoIa kingdom?
Even the worst of my Thanjavur dress better than you.
Living Iike pigs in sty roIIing over in your own urine and faeces.
Think of my Thanjavur.
If you don't respect, you'II not get any message.
For what you've been waiting for 1000 years, it'II not happen.
I won't teII the message even if you torture me.
Make Iove with me, Iet our bIood mix,
Iet your shouIder get tired and take rest on my chest,
I'II teII you the message then.
Aren't you a king?
Your queens are sIeeping with you onIy, right?
Or eIse are they sIeeping with other men to satisfy their urges?
You want more?
TeII me the message.
TeII me!
Third day from now, Iet's traveI towards ChoIa kingdom,
you'II be coronated in ChoIa kingdom.
PeopIe of ChoIa are waiting for you.
This is the message I have brought for you.
Is it enough?
Don't teII Iies!
TeII me the truth!
Truth! Trust me.
You'II see ChoIa kingdom in two weeks.
Men without a motherland...
This is cry of your son...
A King's lament...
Where's the land with dancing pods of paddy?
Where's the court where my word was rule?
Where's the battlefield where bow and arrows played?
Where's the statue chiseled out from rocks?
Are you the messenger? Is it reaIIy you?
Messenger will come, get killed,
and wipe tears of the destitute,
and it will pour down heavily, nothing has come true,
are the paintings of my ancestors lies?
Everything will come true, shouldn't time be favourable?
Chola kingdom is just gaining strength.
Trust me. Your bad days are over.
We have established water houses and rest homes in the way.
No need to worry or fear.
Everything will go on smoothly.
O King! Why are you hesitating?
Why don't you teII us what you know?
We know about the messenger's arrivaI,
we have been sitting tight hoIding our breathe since Iast night.
What's the message? Is it good news?
WiII it end our years of travaiIs and make our dreams come true?
My peopIe!
The days of you fearing me and I fearing you is over.
Two days from now we are traveIIing towards our motherIand.
SiIence pIease...siIence!
Are we Ieaving for good?
Has the king become a groom again?
The prediction was messenger wouId bring rains.
But not a drop of rain feII.
Is it any bad omen?
My peopIe!
I have hope!
Those who trust me, can join me.
If not I'II go aIone and take you aII after seeing our homeIand.
Don't speak Iike this and Ieave us to die here,
we've got an opportunity which was denied to our ancestors,
pIease forgive us,
before you point it to us, Iet us see Thanjavur,
my heart yearns to hug civiIised peopIe.
ShouIdn't we offer sacrifice for our safe journey?
I'm ready to offer myseIf, King.
Why? Don't you want to see your motherIand?
I've grown very oId.
I can't even stand on my Iegs.
I've to move aII round enjoy feasts.
I've to befriend many there.
I've to make Iove to beautifuI women.
Can I do aII this?
Come on do it.
King! WiII you reach motherIand safeIy taking my Iife?
Hey oId man! No seIf praise pIease.
Look at the oId man's wish!
Okay! You proceed!
On setting foot in Thanjavur, spare a second to think about me.
O Goddess! Accept his life as sacrifice.
Hey l'm Chandran! l found the Cholas!
Leave us...leave us...
Father!
Come...you may die.... come here...
Hey...you...
He's my father... my father...
Get up...get up...come...come...
Father!
Go, fight him! Go...fight him, why are you scared?
Are you a coward? Go fight him...you coward!
Fight and die...die...
Fight with our wrestIer.
Coward!
Our saviour Goddess!
What great deeds have l done to play host to you?
Journey to motherIand starts tomorrow,
this is royal edict to collect materials and goods for the travel.
Our messenger God!
Have come save our souls!
May you appear before us! May you shower your blessings on us!
Don't cry...please don't cry...
Don't cry...
Don't cry my dear children...
Kill him!
Long live King of Pandias!
Take positions!
Attack!
Stop...stop...stop...stop!
Women! Supply water!
Have water.
March forward! March forward!
Fire!
Don't move...don't move...
March forward!
Protect King!
All of you converge!
Don't spare them! Attack them!
What's the name of this battaIion?
You never toId me about it.
You thought we'II get scared of it.
Turning into water and five basic elements as our roots...
We'll not leave till our body disintegrates in earth...
South Thanjavur... our golden motherland!
Till we touch our motherland, we'll not leave this earth...
Though down and out...
We'll not die till we die in our motherland...
Come on dance!
Dance...wiII you dance or not?
Come on dance!
Dance this step!
Leave me
Father!
My daughter!
....going to go, come and join!
King of the Tiger flag! Come!
How many times I warned you to be aIert!
RascaIs! Don't Ieave him aIive. Go!
Time has come! Have a safe journey King!
Thick stresses! Big forehead!
Lord Siva, the protector of people...
May your soul reach the lotus feet of Him...
Journey of ChoIa continues...
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