Gauthamante Radham (ഗൗതമൻ്റെ രഥം)

There's a cycle for everything in this world.

Time has a cycle.

Weather has a cycle.

Every organism has a food chain cycle.

Well, even the piece of paper that we mint out,

for which everyone goes crazy is called the same,

Chakaram (Money).

Did you know,

in this world, which was cluelessly spinning, the most greatest invention

of all time, which transformed human life significantly, was also called,

Chakaram (Wheel).

Gautham.

Hurry up.

- Where were you? - I was coming here.

Where's the key?

Oh no! I forgot to take it.

Go and get it fast.

Is that Molushi?

Ramendran from Palakkad,

a gentle and kind soul,

and moreover the only postmaster for this remote village; was my father, and it is

here, in his ancestral home, that me, Gautham,

spent the first 10 year's of his life.

Sreenu, I can't find my cycle's keys.

Its should be there.

Just check there itself.

I had put it on top of the cupboard yesterday.

Dad, here are the keys.

Where you out spinning the wheel this early.

Dada's Gautham.

Tell him.

Dad, please bring honey candy when you come.

Why not?

How many do you want?

How many? - Three.

Three.

Does one person need three candies?

This kid!

Raman, don't waste your money.

Dada will bring it.

But let's not give granny any.

Then you needn't buy any.

You may leave.

I will buy it mom, you don't worry.

Your blood sugar will shoot up.

Granny, used to be my best buddy there.

Every evening, granny used to tell me epics from mythology.

What an epic!

In order to kill baby Krishna, Sakadasuran came rushing toward's him.

I used to gulp down mom's rice and sambar listening to granny’s epic thrillers.

And for the war of Mahabharata, on a chariot drawn by 7

horses, Krishna and Arjun, race towards the battlefield.

Of all of granny's stories, I liked Krishna's.

Aren't there supposed to be 7 horses?

Over here, we have only 2.

The remaining 5 are out grazing.

Because he was the one riding.

She occasionally used to take a break from epics, and used to say a real life story.

Back in the day, my Raman's father,

your grandfather,

when he used to drive his car from Ceylon (Sri Lanka),

he used to have a handful of honey candy,

and used to take me out for a drive in his car.

Gautham, have you ever been inside a car?

Lambi car!

If there's ever a car, that's the car.

The man who drive's it, that's the man.

Eh?

He used to bring your grandfather from, Ceylon

to Palakkad, without any damage whatsoever.

If he was there today,

there would have been a car in our driveway.

The car that was driven from Ceylon to Palakkad. Got it?

Catching a glimpse of the Ambassador car that

came to our neighbour Ousepettan's house

sowed the seeds of love in my heart.

And like any boy, my first love too was car.

Oh, wish I could even get inside an Amby car.

That's when, dad got transferred from Palakkad to Cochin.

So finally, an Amby car came to my ancestral home's driveway too.

That day, I was really excited about getting in the car for the first time..

As a souvenir of Palakkad's memories, we loaded dad's One

cycle, and drove into a new life in Cochin, in a car.

After 8 years, due to the unavailability of honey candy, granny

will upgrade herself to Cadbury's Silk,

joining forces with all the women in the neighborhood,

my mom will start a Thiruvathira club,

From that old One's Raleigh Bicycle, my father never upgrading his

ride, these were all things that I never expected will happen.

Granny, granny.

Granny, do you need silk candy.

Give me some, please give me some.

Bug off.

I am leaving.

Back in the day, when your grandfather came by car from Ceylon to Palakkad..

Granny, I have told you many times that you can

no longer fool me with this dumb story of yours.

See old lady.

I have got brains now.

Okay? - Oh!

Since when do yo have this brain?

Only after my Ramendran was born, right?

Listen, whatever it is, not just grandpa, but

no one can drive from Sri Lanka to here.

You and your dumb stories.

There's a big ocean between India and Sri Lanka.

My dear genius, you are wrong.

Your grandfather came here using the Rama Sethu

built by Lord Ram and Hanuman.

Granny, Ramasethu exist's only in the mythology.

That doesn't exists now.

Get lost.

Whatever Lord Ram has built, will never cease to exist.

Then, I have got news for you.

All of it got washed away, a long time ago.

There's no use talking to you, silly boy.

Isn't the Ramasethu debate over yet?

Mom, she doesn’t get it.

80 years of age, but what's the use of it,

don't have the any sense at all.

Mom, do you know,

while I was in 5th grade, I boasted this story in school and

got mocked for it till 12th grade, by being called Hanuman.

Oh... Hanuman.

The son of Marut.

The immortal one.

Vayu..

Give me back my Silk.

You have had enough.

Move... Move aside.

Why? Why are you hiding it?

Let you students see what their spiritual teacher was up to?

No wonder you have this tremor in your hands.

It's because you say such eye-popping lies.

Here, hold it.

This is because I killed a cat while I was a kid.

That's why I have these tremors.

Oh, is it? And it has nothing to do with your age?

Oh, not at all.

Here, just hold me.

Wow, you haven't even aged a day.

Hey, get off my back you silly boy.

- Oh, is it? - Hey Gautham, open up.

After moving out to Cochin,

when granny's stories started to do re-run's,

to escape from that,

I arranged the kids from the neighborhood for her.

Little did I know,

that it would evolve into a weekly Purana Class

and without any shame,

that my bestie Venkedi will also join.

Payasam.

Behave.

And that's how Krishna's moral advice helped.

All of a sudden, Karnan's chariots wheels got stuck in the battle field.

Knew it, this is what happens, when you make battlefields over sinkholes.

Can you just be quiet?

Venkedi, to whom are you lecturing communism?

She is the one, who supports those who built road by filling the sea?

These ignorant children.

Gautham, don't dare to say a word more about Adam's bridge.

Adam's bridge doesn't exist, doesn't exist, doesn't exist.

- Whatever, granny continue with you story.

After Karnan's vehicle's wheel got stuck, then?

This is enough for today.

Spoiled my mood completely.

You kid's go and come back after a week.

- Nobody leave. - Where are you all to, like small kids?

Sit down, have got a surprise.

Isn't it Payasam?

- Mom, do you want it now? - No.

Isn't it Payasam? I got the smell of it.

Have it?

I will have the big glass.

Take whichever one you want.

Hey, how was today's story session?

The story got stuck along with Karnan's chariot's

wheel, now need to get it out of there.