Perumthachan (പെരുന്തച്ചൻ)

The wind is very strong!

The fault is not the wind's alone.

The lamp is placed inappropriately. That's all.

It was meant to be a light to the devotees

who are going to the shores from the temple.

Shouldn't the wind allow it too?

It will.

Or we'll have to make it.

Keep the lamp lit.

You may proceed now.

The southern wind won't blow it off.

When the winds of 'Thulam' month arrive..

We shall deal with that later.

Ask them to bury 36 centimetres of the stone.

I have simply placed it.

Where are you from, my Lord?

Oh! This was the sacred thread given to me to build a temple.

I am not a Brahmin.

I am a carpenter.

It's a wonder that a carpenter blocked the wind.

Where are you from?

I'm from a faraway place.

It is called Uliyannoor.

Now I get it!

I see.

You are welcome to my home for dinner.

It is nearby.

What?

'PERUMTHACHAN'

What is it? - You are invited to the manor.

By whom? - The count.

The count who married the heiress.

He said that his name is Mampattam Unni.

I see!

Count Unni from my past!

Is he here?

It is me.

It's me.

If a carpenter was able to block the wind with a stone

I concluded that it was none other than Perumthachan.

I didn't know that you are here.

While I was planning to send word to Ariyalur

I heard that you quit.

That was not it.

One needs experience along with knowledge.

They don't know that.

Sit, Raman.

28 years! - What is it?

My first training assignment with my teacher was here.

It was called 'Puthankovilakam' back then.

Really?

Sit, Raman.

Sit.

Even if you visit a work under construction

it will forever be known as your work.

Such is your fame!

The people here don't know about it, though.

I'm amazed!

The first three months or so.

There was a younger count who was a lunatic.

No! Don't use 'lunatic' while referring to nobility.

In such instances, you use 'special'.

That is the word to use.

The elder count and his special brother

are no more.

They died way before I came here.

He sits alongside the count.

He talks as if they are equals.

That too in our courtyard.

Who is it?

When I was asked for refreshments

I thought it was for a count or a nobleman.

Do you know who he is?

A mere carpenter.

Will his caste upgrade just because he studied Sanskrit with the count?

It's Perumthachan! - What?

Do you remember the Chittarikkavu Temple outside my manor? - Yes.

I always recollect it during my prayers.

That of Goddess Saraswathi. - Yes.

Lack of venerations in the temple there led to many aftermaths.

The remedy found was to construct a similar temple here

and worship.

It shall face the north.

There was an idol of Lord Shiva inside.

It faces east.

Yes. - Wow! Raman remembers it clearly.

I carved a lotus in the attic of the elder count's chamber.

Yes. - And by his orders, to calm down

a crying adamant child

I had built a swing.

It was made from Black Murdah. - I see.

This is it.

Then you may see that child

right now, Raman.

She is still a bit adamant.

It must have been my sister.

She too was there back then.

No. It was you.

The adamant face of yours and its features

are still in my memory.

While carving the idol of 'Swayamvara Durga'

I wanted to make sure that the face remained the same. - I see.

Your elder sister had a round face, two-toned

and had a low nose.

Wow! What a memory!

Poor thing! Her sister too passed away, Raman.

No matter how skilled he is, he is still my old Raman.

He had left with a text that my father held dear

saying that he will return it soon.

It is now that I am seeing him after that.

Where are you planning to conduct the ritual?

You calculate on your own. We had done this before.

Then again, should we check the horoscope or the celestial effects?

What is your norm?

I stopped doing celestial calculations.

I can't.

It's okay if you can't. - I used to predict the owner's future

based on the nature of his land.

It was mostly correct.

Should you mention that?

I have heard of many miracles.

Also your mistakes.

I failed in calculating my future.

That is when I stopped doing it.

Such a man should not predict the future of others.

Isn't that correct?

Though I didn't want a marriage, I traded that notion of mine

for a girl with a good horoscope.

I felt like doing it.

So what? Isn't that a necessity?

It was an ideal match.

It was good in all aspects.

I couldn't see that she had a short life ahead of her.

What else could I do?

You must make the idol.

Even Varutheekkara Thirumeni said that you

are the ideal man to do it.

Isn't that so? It is a must.

I am not compelling you to do the calculations.

The idol must be placed on the day of 'Navami'.

That is necessary.

Didn't you say that you prayed a lot to that Goddess

when you were a kid and the image is still etched in your mind?

What if the Goddess herself led you here?

Isn't that so, Bhargavi?

Didn't someone recently praise the idol at Chengannur?

I didn't make that one.

An old idol was there in a nearby pond.

I merely showed it to them.

Yes.

How? How did you know of the idol in the pond?

I had a vision.

Certain omens too.

Such indications are mostly correct.

Then say something based on the indications you saw here.

We shall listen to it.

Yes! We shall.. Tell us.

Wealth and food will continue to increase.

You already have more than enough, don't you?

We're doing well because of the good deeds of the ancestors.

You must make one thing that you don't have.

The one thing that you and the lady don't have here

is a cradle.

Isn't that what you need?

You blabbered that to him the moment you met, didn't you?

I.. I never said anything.

I only asked him to.. - Ma'am, it is easily understood.

Children make the house noisy.

There will at least be a single toy lying around.

The swing is dusty. No one uses it.

On top that, an omen. A calf came running and left.

You might not have noticed that.

Let the time come. I will make the cradle for sure.

Make sure you have sandalwood ready.

You too might have heard that saying this

will fetch you gifts and money.

Ma'am, I have failed only on calculating my future so far.

Raman.

We got married 16 years ago.

Venerations, expiation rituals.. We have nothing left to do.

There is no other way to continue our bloodline.

If they ask me to leave and look for another man..

Don't they follow matrilineal inheritance?

If they ask me to leave, I must leave.

Will she take such a step?

Doesn't she have more than enough people to advise her?

What if she sees it fit after repeatedly hearing it?

I, who lived here

and governed this place in a way

will be in poverty if sent back home.

Doesn't ending a 16-year-old relationship bother you?

What? Yes..

You just don't know the situation back home.

Three years!

And that too, not continuously.

The few days that I get in between the ending

and commencing of my projects.

And yet, when she passed, I died inside.

We can think of death as God's decision.

This..