Suzhal (சுழல்)

Hey! What is it?

What's wrong?

A dream?

Yes.

A huge shark!

It swallowed me and my boat!

I deftly avoided its teeth and fell inside its mouth.

The shark's stomach was filled with blocks of gold!

Stacks of currency notes!

I was pleading my heart out, not knowing what to do.

"Please spare me, O shark mother!

My wife is waiting for me at home!"

And then?

"Fine, I'll let you go.

But if you don't come back, I'll swallow your boat," she said!

Just the boat, right? Let it go to rot!

Yes. Just the boat!

But I don't know why I thought like that.

After all, it's just a stupid dream!

But she was perfectly clear.

"You only have 48 hours.

If you don't come back by then, I'll swallow your boat," she said!

I stashed a couple of blocks of gold

and a few bundles of money in my lungi and dashed out!

You had 48 hours left to live.

I wonder what you did in those last moments.

As I had eloped with you back then,

I went to meet my estranged parents one last time.

Then?

That Angadan chap?

From Swaram Finance?

I settled my dues and went to retrieve the boat.

Then…

Hey!

Nagamma!

I cook up three meals a day for him,

and yet he runs after Angadan and whatnot!

Hear me out!

The roof's leaking, isn't it?

So I went to fix it.

Then I went to drink with my guys from the harbor.

Hey!

I'm not dead! So why are you crying?

"I'm not dead! So why are you crying?"

Thinks he's all that!

Even in your dreams, you'll see your mother before you die!

You'll settle your debts!

You'll drink with your friends!

But you won't spare one thought for me!

Shut it!

You dummy!

I did all this for you!

Once I'm gone, my parents shouldn't be a burden to you.

Angadan shouldn't badger you over my debts.

The boys should bring the catch to you even after I'm gone, right?

So if you were to drop dead,

I shouldn't suffer. Is that why you did all this?

Why else?

You dummy!

What will I do without you, dear?

That's why when I went back to the shark, I took you along.

Hail in my heart…

-Love you. -Because of you

You are my everything

You are my forever sea

-They made a 2.5-hour soap opera! -Deep down in my heart

-Which we should watch in theaters! Oafs! -It's only you

-See you! -Like a pearl in a shell…

Where are you off to?

-To spread nets and haul what it grabs! -You're caught within me

That's all I know!

Should I go to the auction all alone?

Aren't you one to sell salt in the salt pan?

Enough with the sweet talk!

Hey, buddy!

Hey, pal!

Fresh fish!

Pomfret! Fresh Pomfret!

400 rupees! 400 rupees!

450!

-450! -500!

I hear 500! Come here, brother!

-Quite the catch yesterday, brother? -Oh, yeah!

What did the sister say?

Take a look at your sister there!

-Pomfret fish! -500! 500! 500!

-500! -700!

700? I hear 700!

-Pomfret, right? -Yes.

-850! -I hear 850!

This is why you should marry an educated girl!

Didn't she flunk eighth grade, brother?

And yet you brag about her so much!

Whether she passed or flunked, she's killing it!

Dear!

I told him we ought to have left much earlier, sister!

But he was too sloshed!

Take him in and tie him up!

Get going, you oaf!

-I'll decide what should be done! -Yeah!

Sister, is he a glass jar?

Would he crack if I held him?

Yes, he is a glass jar! My glass jar!

Shut up and scoot!

Of course!

This is what happens when you drink like a whale!

Not a whale, my precious.

Your glass jar!

My foot!

Here. Have some chocolate!

Hail in my heart… Because of you

Hail in my heart… Because of you

SUZHAL-THE VORTEX

Illusions and deceptions…

Wounds many, the vortex reveals

Endless and relentless…

Wails many, the vortex rains

Won't life triumph?

Won't grief cease?

O vortex

Swirling within Shadows… dark shadows

Riddles within

Will you unravel, O God?

O vortex

Swirling within Shadows… dark shadows

Riddles within

Will you unravel, O God?

Rice and mackerel fish curry? Delicious!

O Nagamma…

Your eyes put me in a trance

Owner!

Owner, I'll handle it!

It's being sent to my house?

Alright.

-What is it? -Sweetie!

We were in a fix over retrieving the boat from Swaram Finance, right?

Worry no more!

The Owner offered to pay you?

-Just once, take me with you-- -No need for that!

The Owner doesn't like to see anyone.

Ravi!

Hey, Ravi!

-You go in. I'll see. -I will go.

Go inside!

-How stubborn… -Hey!

Ravi…

What's happening?

Two minutes. Let me get dressed.

The Owner called and told me about the plan.

-Where's the boat? -At the small harbor!

-Know the old jetty? -Yes, I do.

-Bring the boat there tonight. -Got it.

We set off from there.

-Alright. -Let's go.

-Get my shirt, Nagamma! -Where are you going?

-Be right back! -Where are you off to?

Hey! Eat and go!

There's work to be done! Move!

Get the cycle, Kovaiya!

Dear!

Where did the idiot go?

NAGAMMA

He's not here either!

Dear!

You thought I wouldn't find you if you were drinking here?

You rascal!

Dear!

Where is that oaf?

Dear!

Come along!

Dear!

Shut up and come!

Get down here!

Get in there!

In you go!

Try to break free, and I'll tie you to a rock and toss you into the sea!

You bloody wretch!

What the hell is this?

Innocent young girls?

Nagamma!

Calm down and hear me out.

It's not what you think.

This is my last job for the Owner.

If this goes off without a hitch, all our debts will be settled.

The last job, Nagamma. Trust me.

You call this a job, you wretch?

They are innocent children!

Is your Owner such a scum?

-Nagamma-- -To hell with him!

You of all people… For money?

The Owner's here. Get going!

-Please don't. Those kids don't deserve-- -Not heeding my words at all!

Owner, take a look!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Eight girls.

Owner, I'll load them into the container ship at 2 a.m.

I'll call you once it's done.

Alright, Owner.

Ravi!

Ravi!