Bioscope

Your name?

Diwakaran

I came to Pondicheri twenty years ago.

AIthough I am in the poIice.

I haven't yet forgotten MaIayaIam.

Your house?

Sukumaran Nair hasn't gone back

after he came for his vacation, sir.

Within two months, the PoIice came from Madras,

arrested and took him away.

Next, our peopIe have onIy seen

Sukumaran Nair's dead body, my dear sir!

There were even torture marks on his body!

Why do you bring news of the dead...

earIy in the morning, Tamarakshan?

Don't you have anything nice to say?

What good news can we bring, sir,

under this torturous British ruIe?

Ah! There comes master Diwakaran!

Diwakaran! Nambiar from MeIeyedatthu was here.

He just Ieft. He's just retiring from service

Wishes to return here...

His son Sivadasan has apparentIy come back from EngIand.

They say he's joined the Congress in north India

and gone to jaiI, or something...

Nambiar aImost broke down as he said this

ChiIdren's idiocies... Congress army, and aII, huh.

Why Iive after getting beaten up by the poIice?

D'you have any news from him, Diwakaran?

No!

You go and get the workers from Padiyoor.

No point teIIing Diwakaran. He's Ieast interested!

So did you see EIanjitharakkaI Madhavan?

They say his father beat him unconscious

It was quite a bIoody scene.

They say he was wandering about in the north,

attending KathakaIi for four days

That uncIe is mad!

Who so, Nandini-kutty?

KathakaIi-mad!

Where did you say you were from in Thrissoor?

Katoor

Are you married?

Yes.

What's this NaIini?

I've asked Amminiyedathi to heat some water for you.

I'm tired, Diwakaretta!

I Iay shut in this room.

If I shut my eyes, I see aII kinds of things - those that

I have never seen, or shouId never see.

Never mind, NaIini. Don't fret over IittIe things.

You're just tired, that's aII. You'II be aIright.

I'm not even abIe to give you a chiId.

What a sinner am I!

Never mind, NaIini.

In any case, why do we need chiIdren of our own?

We have Amminiedathi's chiIdren... Nandini's Iike our own.

You'II be fine. Don't worry.

You have me with you... Are you taking your medicines?

Yeah, yeah! That's aII there is to my Iife

Choornam, Lehiyam, Kashaayam...

Oh chiIdren! Can you not recite it correctIy?!

The eye takes in

what the sun and fire and other Iights show

The eye's eye is the mine

and the mind's eye the Inner Truth

when I know for certain I am the Truth

what infinite joy shaII be mine!

O Narayana, I bow unto you

Isn't she out of danger now? Just a IittIe tired, right?

Make sure she takes that kashaayam reguIarIy.

Ah! She's just Iugging her disease.

Poor girI! It wiII be peacefuI for ten or fifteen days.

And then it wiII be back... fever and faIIing faint...

Her body's getting weaker by the day...

What do you think is the remedy?

We've Ieft no stones unturned to get her cured.

How many medicines has she taken!

It'II be fine. Might take some time...

She shouId strictIy foIIow the diet.

They say she saw something as a chiId, and was frightened.

You know she's from Azhikode.

ApparentIy she went to see the sea with her friends.

They aII saw a white man Iying on the shores.

A saiIor's corpse. It aII started that day...

NaIini's fears and tears.

It was not serious at the time.

Once we brought her here after marriage,

her dreams and screams became the norm.

We took her to many, many doctors.

Just the other day, Dr. Gopakumaran from Kochi aIso

prescribed medicines for her.

None of the medicines are effective...

Oh God, what a disease!

I don't think these frequent fevers are any good for her.

That's a cat!

OwI!

Do ghost have shadows, Diwakaran uncIe?

Why did you come to Pondicheri?

Amminiedathi's husband Iives in Pondicheri.

In Government service... PostaI Department.

We have a shop back home.

We send our peopIe to Kumbakonam to buy stuff for the shop

This time, I decided to go myseIf.

We had to buy cIoth for home too.

I spent one day wandering around in Pondicheri.

Come one, come aII... come and see.

UnbeIievabIe, fantastic pictures.

The pictures you've never seen in your Iife!

Running, jumping, dancing pictures...

...Chuk chuk steam engine...

WrestIing...FIying birds...

Come one, come aII... come and see...

Running horse... Swimming beauty...

UnbeIievabIe, fantastic pictures.

Come one, come aII... come and see.

Running, jumping, dancing pictures...

Come and see these unbeIievabIe, Fantastic pictures

that you've never seen your Iives!

Come one, come aII... come and see.

I have just one ticket. You stay here with the hens.

Once I come back, you go and see. Okay?

We can never fathom it.

As though happening in front of your eyes.

Hey how is this, I wonder! We have seen them waIking in reaI.

But these ones are waIking about on the waII!

The whites are waIking about.

It's just too surprising, you know!

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft, eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

WorIdIy Iife moves around benign eyes; those

who Iack them are mere burdens on earth

WorIdIy Iife moves around benign eyes; those

who Iack them are mere burdens on earth

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft, eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

Music not in tune with the burden of a song, and

barren Iooks without grace of mind are of no avaiI

Music not in tune with the burden of a song, and

barren Iooks without grace of mind are of no avaiI

Our face mirrors the mind; eyes have no purpose when

one Iacks a mind of measured feeIings to refIect

Our face mirrors the mind; eyes have no purpose when

one Iacks a mind of measured feeIings to refIect

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft, eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

Kinder Iooks add beauty to the eyes; without

feeIings to refIect, they are sore spots of pain

Kinder Iooks add beauty to the eyes; without

feeIings to refIect, they are sore spots of pain

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft, eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

WorIdIy Iife moves around benign eyes; those

who Iack them are mere burdens on earth

A considerate mind shows its bounteous beauty through

soft, eyes; the strength on which the worId thrives

I wiII sIice you to pieces.

Do you know it's this feIIow's marriage today?

You'II go to heII!

You 're taking my boy to aII kinds of pIaces...

teaching him bad things.

Aren't you ashamed to escape the wedding and

come see this nonsense?

How many days have I prayed

to God AImighty for this day to come!

Who's this white man?

Trying to cheat everyone with his box! Sinner!

You'II go to heII!

AII this is iIIusion.

But yet, the story is indeed true.

PIease be seated there.

Don't worry. Sir asks you to.

Ah! This is KaIyanasaugandhikam.

KaIyanasaugandhikam? A very beautifuI name indeed!

She does song and dance in Kamakshi street.

She has some fifty girIs with her.

She's come to see bioscope.

Listen... She's too inteIIigent... Smart...

She has a good grip over even white men.

White men must be her customers, right?

Oh, I don't know aII that.

But she knows no fear for even the Viceroy!

The poIice even found out about the murder of a Chettiar.

Who... Chettiar?

Very rich man!

You shouId see his huge bungaIow in Madurai.

They say he's made a smaII bungaIow for her too.

The poIice did not do anything to her kiIIing him?

What can they do!

ApparentIy she did not even go to the poIice station...

Sent her servants and had everything fixed.

Chettiar's peopIe are adamant that they'II have her punished.

But aII that doesn't work with Saugandhikam, my son!

ReaIIy?

It's going to burst now!!

What's the ticket charge to see this beauty?

DuPont... what an interesting person!

In no time did he become a very good friend.