Urumi (ഉറുമി)

Our epics say that Parasurama, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu

Of lung an axe and created Kerala, the land of pepper. But for the western world,

...it was Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese sailor, who discovered Kerala.

In 1498 to enter into India roaming around African country...

Young achiever Vasco gathered his men Paulodacama, Michel & Bonsalo...

He started his journey in 4 ships with the blessing is Manuel king.

The men on the ships were mostly convicts...

Sailing, they finally reached Melindi in Africa...

...threatened the king and got a Gujarati pilot to join them.

He guided them to Calicut.

Kerala welcomed them as it welcomes all guests.

Gama's logbook describes our people as men who pretended

...to know more than they did and short women lacking beauty.

The Samoodiri, a powerful and God-fearing ruler

showed no interest at all in Gama's gifts.

At that time, pepper in Kerala was valued as highly as oil in the Gulf now.

Gama's eyes were riveted on the pepper.

Is this the Goddess? Will you give me this pendant?

Gama offered to buy the pepper for three times its price.

But the Samoodiri showed no interest.

Take him to the dining hall and give him food.

Leaving some of his people behind, Gama left, none too pleased.

Lisbon had grand celebrations in his honour.

History praised Gama as the great man, who discovered a sea route to wealth.

But the future of our country was jeopardized by a handful of pepper.

Let history end there. This movie begins with two young men

who have no interest in their own history and who don't believe that

the past has a tendency to repeat itself Krishnadas,

...known as KD and Tanseer known as Tarzan.

There's drumming in the north while we dance in the south...

And you can see the eastern mynah in the south.

There's drumming in the north while we dance in the south...

And you can see the eastern mynah in the south.

Give me money, then you play.

I don't have money. Wait for a week. I'll surely give. I swear on him.

Daisy da Cunha

Head of the Real Estate Division of Nirvana a mining corporation.

Our group is interested in your ancestral property in Kerala.

But I don't have any property in Kerala.

The property where a tribal school is being run...

My mother's ancestral home. It was sold, taken away from us.

No, no one took it away.

Your grandfather, His Highness Ravi Varma Raja, leased it out.

The lease has expired.

As the last royal heir, you're the sole owner.

How much is there?

Official documents state that the land measures uo to 102 acres

One acre has been inhabited by locals. You know the market value...

Who's this?

He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of that region.

Is your uncle an influential High Court Judge?

Here's a small advance. We're offering 3 times the value.

You can make enquiries and negotiate.

If you need help, Kaimal is your man.

I feel no nostalgia, no sense of homecoming.

Thank God, you have no sentimental issues selling it to foreigners.

That woman from the NGO looks after it now. She's tough.

She'll have sob stories to tell. Say firmly that you've decided...

Hey! Let me ask... Your teacher...?

- Did you bring it? - What?

What a figure! Super!

Who is she? - Did you get scared, Krishnadas?

I'm Bhumi.

NGO...

I wanted to thank you for running this institution all these years in my mother's name.

There's a social issue involved in the sale of your property.

I'm in no position to think of all that.

You have to look at it in totality.

There's an international mining corporation working behind

the political nexus that brought you here.

I know. Nirvana. They came to see me.

Then you know the environmental hazards of mining in this region?

Whose?

So you don't have any kind of social commitment?

No.

According to your mother, the late Chandramani Thamburatti's decision

2 signatories are required to complete this sale.

Who? There's no relative who won't succumb if offered money.

If it's someone who doesn't even know what money is?

After the death of this girl's mother, your mom took care of her.

She was entrusted to my mother along with the keys to the school.

She is a nominee.

It's as if your mother foresaw what is happening today.

Look, if you have no alternative, once the lease period is over...

...No one can prevent you from selling this property.

As for this child all you need is her thumb impression.

You just have to ask her.

She's not capable of refusing or taking some other decision.

But if you decide that you are definitely going to sell...

...this sale will destroy the faith of a 100 families...

...and the foundation we built this Institution on.

You need to let them know.

This is your mother's pen.

Use it to sign the documents.

So, are you going to meet them in the forest?

Krishna!

Tarzan!

Not you! I'm calling Lord Krishna.

God! Protect me

It's because of you that I have to walk over stones and thorns.

These people have aright over the land you're going to sell.

They have their own customs. Come and meet Thangachan.

Whom...? Thangachan?

...1 -Me.

Get permission to sell from our chief, the tiger.

Get permission to sell from our chief, the tiger.

Only the queen been remained.

But that was enough for all of us to come back.

Are you Thangachan?

I ask the questions. Do you know who you are?

I'm Krishnadas. Don't ask for my ID.

Those men with guns took it away.

Do you know Rama Varma Raja?

He's my father. A cartoonist.

He used to say that I'm the worst cartoon he drew!

So you're my father's friend.

Nice to meet you, Uncle. Untie me.

This rock surface

So you know your father. Your father's father?

Ravi Varma.

You know your father's father. His father's father's father's father?

I came here for areal estate deal...

...To sell my ancestral property. You needn't mock me.

What do you want?

You came to sell the land we stand on.

Do you know the warrior, who shed his blood for it?

You took crooked roads to get here.

Before you sell, place a fistful of earth in your hand and think of your lineage.

The Portuguese who brought money and gold to buy pepper

swore to destroy our land. Your ancestor, Kelu, was then 8 years old.

The convicts Vasco left behind looted our land without mercy.

There was one person who could protect us.

Father!

They're attacking Abdu's wedding house.

You enter my house and act insolent?

You should know that this is Chirakkal that I am Chirakkal Kothuval.

Did you cross the seas just to desecrate the soil of our land?

Never harm a woman or a child.

That's the rule of our Kingdom.

Our country was his way to wealth knowing that, Vasco came again

Not to beg, but to wage war.

He came with 15 warships

and sighted a ship returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca.

He captured it.

There were over 400 people in it including women and children.

Al Faqi, its owner, offered him 4 ships full of gold and pepper

but Vasco denied the offer.

These atrocities made the country furious.

Ask the Dubash to write a letter.

Let the Brahmin go with his son to negotiate.

They will not harm a father, who comes unarmed with his son.

I am ready. But to sacrifice my son...

I have only him to perform my last rites.

There's no time to talk 400 lives are in danger.

I'll send my son.

Chirakkal Kothuval's son, Kelu, will come with you to the ship.

Are you scared?

Your mother and father are with you.

Never bow down before an enemy. That is dharma.

I will be with you.

A father's promise.

A whole country waited for their return.

Vasco had expected the Samoodiri and Kothuval to come for talks.

He despised these messengers and their strange customs.

In the child's eyes he saw an enemy being born...

a clan who would never surrender its pride.

That foreign ship must sink into the sea with the sun today.

No vestige of Vasco's arrogance must remain

From next year, Kothuval can perform obsequies for his son.

You insult the land that feeds you forget Chenicheri's teachings

...Only those who want to come need come

Chenicheri Kurup remember his name. You'll soon meet him.

Don't harm him, he's only a child.

Is this how you behave towards those who come to make peace?

Vasco sliced off the tongue and ears of the poor peace-maker.

Vasco had his disobedient dog's ears sewn onto the poor man's face

The world now praises him as a great man!

Father!

Jump!

Kelu, go!

On the shore covered with corpses lay a mother, not quite dead.

The jewels she'd wanted to give Vasco's men in exchange for her life...

...she gave to Kelu.

He took them with hands that did not tremble and with a heart that burned.

Ali found him there, cold and hungry and took him home.

He nurtured within him, revenge.

This sword called the Urumi needs a drop of your life.

The Portuguese empire spread from Cochin to Goa.

To halt its growth, a golden weapon with a soul of fire took life in him.

'A weapon must have inner strength'

His father's words guided him.

The sword is not held in a warrior's hands, it has to be within him.

Kelu grew up. His sole aim to kill Vasco.

He learnt to walk in forests filled with beasts of prey.

O forefathers! Show me a fire on which to roast him.

Let it go, Vavvali. There's life in its belly.

How? You're right. It's a female.

My father said: 'Never harm Women and children'.

Don't break that rule and bring evil upon us. Let it go.

My mother told you not to starve me. Don't her words have value?