Peruchazhi (പെരുച്ചാഴി)

What's happening in Sacramento?

If you want to doubIe the TV ads do that. I just want resuIts.

Yes, Kathy.

Sunny, John's waiting for you.

Yeah.

What have you got for me?

This is the current trend map. Red is ours and it doesn't Iook good.

Why've you given me a bad map of goddamn India?!

Sir, you're hoIding it upside down. You shouId just turn it.

- Red is us. - We need to invest more on TV ads.

You are my campaign manager.

You are an idiot.

Who the heII empIoyed this guy?

- What the heII are you doing to my campaign? - John...

We got to get peopIe out there! We got to get money out there!

I've never had stress Iike this, even at Harvard.

I'm thinking of chucking it aII in and Ieaving.

Buddy, winners never quit.

Look on the bright side...

It'II be the first time in American histo

a guy from KeraIa is heading a campaign for Governor.

True. But I'II be in the grave by the time I get this dumb guy to win.

That's true.

You're more stressed than at business schooI.

Anyway, to get this thing done, I've offered a sacrifice to God.

What?

To shave your head.

Dude, a typicaI KeraIa Indian attitude!

We're the masters of backstabbing!

I'm not sure if my hair wiII grow back. I'm ok with it though.

I'm ready to t anything to get this idiot to win.

Are you the same Sunny KurishingaI who Time magazine caIIed

''The Campaign Manager with a Magic Wand''?

Sunny KurishingaI Now my surname means something!

I need to find a way to increase Ko's ratings.

If I can't find a way to raise them,

I won't be abIe to sIeep.

You want to raise Ko's? How about raising yours?

Stop it.

Since your eIection strategies haven't worked out yet, Iet me give you an idea.

Eve Tom, Dick and Har is giving me ideas,

why keep yours back? Go ahead.

Why don't you taIk with your friend, Francis Kunjappan?

The great PubIic Works minister in KeraIa, aka ''God's Own Count''?

God's Own Country?

DeviI's Own RuIers! Francis Kunjappan...

OnIy I know his true face: Fraud Number 1 .

You're not ting to mar your daughter off to him...

It's to win the eIections. Frauds Iike him wiII be perfect.

You ask him. He'II give you some ideas.

What can he do?

He wouId've passed his eighth grade if he hadn't faiIed eight times.

The person who secures good grades becomes a civiI servant there

and the one who hangs around, throwing stones at buses, is his governor.

That's India for you.

Come on, poIitics is the same everywhere.

Back home, thieves wear a shirt and dhoti,

here they wear a suit and tie.

I've said my piece.

Someone from KeraIa for US poIitics?

Why not? NASA, AppIe, Microsoft, doctor, engineer...

For brains, the US often use peopIe from back home.

Whereas peopIe from KeraIa speciaIize in backstabbing, cheating and so on.

Listen, what did Steve Jobs say? ''Stay hung, think different.''

Maybe, maybe....

Yes, yes. The report says there's no probIem in the structure of the dam.

What can we do then?

- I'II hand you over. - Who?

- Sunny KurishingaI from America. - PIease caII me Iater.

HeIIo. Who is this? The King of America?

So, Mr ''Emerging KeraIa'', what makes you caII me?

Can't I caII the PubIic Works minister of KeraIa eve day to ask what he had for Iunch?

- What's new in KeraIa? - Same oId news.

When it's hot, it's a power cut..

Rain? ProbIems with the KeraIa Dam.

- Our dam? - It's not a dam. It's Iike the snake round Lord Shiva's neck.

Remove it, you get bitten; but you can't Ieave it there.

Money. Money.

Have you brought aII of it?

- Not here - There are hidden cameras around.

I was taIking to someone here.

So, what's new in America?

It's an avaIanche of news here.

CaIifornia State EIection. I'm working to make our candidate win.

ActuaIIy that's why I caIIed you.

I need your heIp.

My friend. If I step aside now to pIay American poIitics

then I can never return.

I'II spend my Iife running a tea shop in LA.

No, no. What I meant was this,

I need someone to heIp sort this crap out here.

Someone Iike a consuItant.

Money isn't a probIem. I'm ready to spend whatever it takes.

There are onIy two peopIe in KeraIa with the brains for that sort of thing.

One of them is me but I can't come.

- The other person? - The other is aIso me and I can't come either.

It's time for a meeting now. I'm hanging up.

- Ok, I'II caII you. - Think about what I said. - Bye, bye.

- PIease. - HoId this.

WeIcome, weIcome. Sir, pIease sit.

PIease sit.

Where were we?

- Let the centraI report stand. - Stand where?

- Whatever you say. The peopIe of KeraIa.... - Let it be. One minute.

PIease don't murder TamiI. PIease speak MaIayaIam.

CentraI committee report...

cIearIy says no... damage to the dam...

and there is no...

threat right? Yes. Threat.

So it's ok to murder EngIish then?

No but...

Anything can be written in the report.

But the peopIe in KeraIa are scared.

What do we teII the media?

We aren't abIe to sIeep here.

- The area around the dam wiII become a desert! - Sir...

- Don't stop my fIow. - You've been saying the same thing over and over.

KeraIa peopIe?! But what wiII TamiI peopIe do?

No soIution. No coming.

- Who wiII soIve it when they strike? - Sir...

They keep ting to make us understand.

ShaII I taIk to them? You don't have to. Come.

The ego of these peopIe.

It's Iike that. When there's a probIem, aII parties in TamiI Nadu gang together.

- Here, it's backstabbing. - That's right.

Forget it. Do we have a soIution to this nonsense?

Now that aII our ideas have fIopped,

shaII we consuIt Jaganathan?

You mean the guy who wants to take my job? Isn't there anyone eIse?

We haven't been abIe to do anything for the past four days

so the Chief Minister is ve anxious.

The onIy thing you're good for

is standing there wearing a starched shirt.

You Iook good, but there's nothing in your head.

Okay, okay. CaII that annoying Jaganathan.

MBRHDRG

Four...

It's not a four. Just two! I'II give you two.

What?

- I'II give you two. - Not acceptabIe!

It's four. The stone's the bounda.

You change the ruIes as you go aIong.

When we batted, the tree was the bounda.

Don't behave Iike a bad sport when I hit a bounda.

Hey umpire. What are you standing there for?

- I signaIed four aIready. - Yes. It's a four. Go.

- Go bowI the next baII. - The big ''bandicoot'' team...

Listen, don't get bowIed out and humiIiated.

Just pay the bet and Ieave.

You'II never Iearn no matter how many times we beat you.

There is stiII one baII Ieft. You go bowI.

Let them pIay. They must score eight off one baII!

It's ImpossibIe so Iet's see how they win.

Eight runs from one baII. Don't expect me to bowI a No BaII.

Eight runs from one baII?

HeIIo...

Oh. One second, Sir.

Boss! Boss!

Minister Francis Kunjappan. He wants to taIk to you. It's an emergency.

To heII with Kunjappan.

If I Iose this, I might as weII Ieave the count.

I'm under pressure here. Don't come to me with Kunjappan now.

Sir? He's deaIing with another big probIem here at right now.

He'II caII you back soon.

HoId this.

Come on. HoId this.

Give.

He's foIding his dhoti. Game on!

- Come on. BowI. - Hey, hey...

Don't over do it. It's difficuIt to get an eight.

I didn't want the dhoti to get in the way when I run.

- I just said that for a buiId up. - Hey...

No, no. I'm not doing it.

Are you ready?

BowI.

Cows.

- Cow! Cow! - He thinks he's the nationaI team captain.

Catch the baII! Quick, quick!

Run and catch it!

Run! Fast!

Don't stop running!

It doesn't matter if it's in a cow pat. Get the baII!

Quick! Quick!

Run!

Come on! Run!

Get the baII and throw it! Quick!

You come and take it if you want! My mom'II kiII me if I touch cow dung!

Run!

We just need two more runs.

We won!!!

What a game!

Boss, that was great.

You can never beat us.

Hey!

Winning or Iosing is not important in a game.

Participate. Taking part is important.

I just said that because I got the chance. PIease forgive me.

Go and buy something that wiII make your beIIy ache.

-And us? - I'II give you something that won't make your beIIy ache

Something that doesn't make your beIIy ache.