Anandabhadram (അനന്തഭദ്രം)

BASED ON SUNIL PARAMESWARAN'S...

...ANANDABHADRAM WHICH FETCHED...

...MALAYALA MANORAMA BEST SELLER AWARD.

ANANDA BHADRAM.

Anandan! Have you heard at any time, the lamps talking?

Can the lamps talk? - Yes they do!

In the Sivan temple in our place!

There, they used to light the lamps in the evenings!

When there is no one around the lamps will talk to each other!

There are many problems in shivapuram.

They say there is some damn problem.

Gruesome! The problem is they are not let to live.

I heard what the sorcerers say!

That is the problem.

Sorceror? Who is he?

Sorcerer of Kuruthur!

He was on penance for years together in a pit.

One day he broke the pit and came out.

Don't make me scary mom.

He used the power of his penance for evil deeds!

He tried to steal the Naga(Holy snake) ring once.

Even Kunjoottan could not stop him.

Who is Kunjootan? - He is a tiny serpent!

The sorcerer killed the saint, and put out the lamps.

MadhavaKurukkal of Madambi who was the great sorcerer.

He came to know it.

He figured out, this was to snatch the diamond of Naga and the written materials.

Is it a diamond stone what you say? - Yes it is.

They believe the diamond is the soul of the universe!

You will be endowed with power if you acquire it.

Many have tried to snatch it.

When they try...

...for it they get bitten by the serpent and die!

That was preserved in the magic chamber!

Did you say a magic chamber?

An old cave temple under the water falls!

A demigoddess is guarding the place!

Demi goddess?

It is where, Kunjoottan and the serpent gods protected the Naga's diamond!

Can we see the diamond?

For that, a girl who has the blessing of goddess...

...from the Madambi house hold has to be with us!

Gayatri Devi was the girl, I mentioned!

I am Gayatri of the Madambi family!

I am 11 years old now!

When I am 20 years old I will transform into a Devi!

Gayatri Devi is mom's name!

One day the sorcerer entered Madambi house hold...

...and snatched away Gayatri!

Maravi Mathai tried to stop him on the way!

- What Maravi Mathai? - Mathai was full of forgetfulness!

He even forgets his own name at times.

He tend to forget things at random.

He always forgets things.

Mathai has not forgotten Gayatri.

The sorcerer dragged Gayatri away!

He tried to snatch the diamond with her!

Madhava Gurukkal came there then.

He stabbed the sorcerer with a poisoned spear!

Gayatri Devi has thus saved!

Maravi Mathai and Madhava Gurukkal were happy afterwards.

Before he died, the sorcerer advised his little son...

...to attain the power of trans migration...

...and to ruin the Madambi house hold!

He gave away the Naga ring to him...

...which was stolen from the magic chamber!

He was told if he wears it on the thumb of the leg...

...he could achieve greatness in the art of sorcery!

What is the name of his little son? - Digambaran!

What has happened to Gayatri?

She was to be made the next goddess of Madambi household by every body!

She was in love with Sethu!

She can't marry when she becomes the goddess!

So she eloped with Sethu! - Where to?

To here!

She could not go back to Sivapuram afterwards!

She could not listen to the talking lamps in Sivakkavu.

Then she became the mother of a child.

That is Ananthan!

Sethu, Ananthan and Gayatri...

...are to fly to America! Isn't it?

You get ready! Daddy will come now!

Where is this train going? - To Sivapuram.

I will go to America, study and achieve greatness.

I will take you then to Sivapuram!

We will light up the lamps there in the temple!

We will light up thousand lamps!

What is it mom? - Do you remember?

You have told that you'll light up a lamp for me!

I shall light up a thousand lamps for my mom.

I will tell those lamps then...

...that Gayatri of Madambi...

...by sitting on the other corner of the world...

...dreamt a lot about this temple with full of lamps!

She also craved much for a comeback.

I forgot to take it.

26,27,29!

I forgot the number 28. This is my seat.

Were I sitting here? Yes, it was here!

He was not sitting in this cabin before.

I have gone with a westerner!

Isn't it sir? Are you sir or madam?

Madam! - I have forgotten that!

All call me as Maravi Mathai!

Maaraavi Mathai!

It's not Maaraavi. It's Maravi.(Amnesia)

My dad and grand dad had amnesia!

So I am being called as Maravi Mathai.

Yet, I have no amnesia as such.

Where are my glasses?

Are you looking for your glasses? - Yes! Have you seen them?

I am very forgetful!

This is his mother's ashes.

Where to? - I'm going to Sivapuram.

Sivapuram?

Yes, I have to light lamps there in the temple...

...and place the bowl of her ashes there.

It was my mother's wish. I will return to America after that.

Devils and spirits still wander around there in Sivakkavu even now!

I have heard my mom telling stories like this.

Nobody dare to light lamps there for a long time! - Why not?

Digambaran the sorcerer performs sorcery in that place.

It is black magic and blood sacrifice there!

Snake!

I am also going to Sivapuram!

Come with me. I will show you the way!

Brother! I want to go to Sivakkavu...

I didn't hear that!

I want to know the way to go to Madambi household!

I don't know my way!

Mr. Mathai, please stop.

Why are you coming after me?

You just have told me that you will show me the way!

The way to go where? - The way to go to Madambi?

This is the way to go to Madambi.

It is beyond Sivakkavu!

Who will go there at this time?

Why not?

You want to know that?

On the last first moon at night at 11:28 I saw the head...

...of Sankaran in the muddy water.

Don't make me scared! - I am not scared!

The way to there is this way.

Maravi Mathai...

Don't tell that I didn't help!

Don't tell I have not forgotten it. Go this way!

I will see Mariyu and come now!

Take care while you go there.

It's a coconut! I was scared!

Brother! Which is the way to Madambi?

You can get there fast if you go by the Sivakkavu!

No body dare to go there at this time of night.

Why so? - When it is dark, it is difficult.

It's very difficult to find out if it is a man or a spirit.

Don't frighten me up!

Blood!

What is it?

Who will I ask for the way to Madambi?

Mom has told me stories about it and made me scary.

Now I am seeing those myself...

...like Sankaran's head, coconut, and spirit.

Bhama!

My dear!

Digambaran!

I have seen him some where!

Nothing to worry! medicine is poured on his face!

He is in deep sleep now!

He has come, without knowing his way!

Or else, will he come at this time of night thro'the Sivakkavu?

That too on a Friday!

It is on this day the souls of the sorcerers come here to do the worship!

Don't complicate things.

We can't take into custody the demigoddess, or the evil spirit!

It is not demi goddess or the evil spirit.

It is the Digambaran!

Is she the one you said who got kidnapped? - Yes!

You have confused me again!

This girl is the kidnapped one that you say.

It is her mind which is kidnapped! It is only her physical body!

Her mind is in Digambaran's control. - She will roam around in the night!

She has loss of memory in the day!

It will be difficult for me if you talk like this.

I can't arrest Digambaran that he has robbed her mind away.

That can't be!

If any policeman had the guts to do that this land would've

...been in a better state now!

Will you go home now? Damn your opinion!

Let him stay there! There's a generation gap between you!

It's treachery on Digambaran's part to betray this man.

I know it by the smell of his blood!

Don't be scared! He is blind!

Where am I now? - We got you from the Sivakkavu!

You were lying there unconscious!

I am not going to leave him!

Can you remember anything that had happened in the past?

An woman!

Can any body tell me the way to Madambi?

What? Way to madambi!

Who is there in Madambi? - Madambi!

Just tell me the way to Madambi!