Costume Designer Radhakrishnan Mangad
Makeup Amal
Art Director Shebeer Ali
Production Executive Naseer Koothuparambu
Associate Director Binoy Mathew
Sound Mixer Vinod P. Sivaram
Sound Designer Arun Ramavarma
Chief Associate Director Sabin Kattungal
Production Controller Shaji Pattikkara
Background Music Bijibal
Editor Manoj Kannoth
Cinematography Aswaghoshan
Story Vysakhan
Screenplay & Dialogues P.N. Gopikrishnan
Producers Benazir, K.V. Abdul Nasar
Direction Priyanandanan
Eh...Excuse me...
Eh...Sir...
Please...
Hey girl!
Please...Where do you get dried tapioca?
Hey!
Hello...Are these fresh?
These mangoes are good...
...can be used to make pickles, sour ones.
Tapioca! The ones boiled, dried,
and cut into pieces.
Where do I get that here?!
Hey you!
To hell with you!
Hey...
Hey young man...
I...
...how do I get out?
How do I get out?
Eenasu!
(Guffawing)
Did you get scared?
Get lost!
Eenasu only needs these hands to survive.
Boss!
What do you think you're doing?
What is it?
Your boss has failed Peter…
...I've been failed.
Cool down...
...Come!
What is it that you're breaking your head over?
Hold me Peter...
Careful
In a place like this...
...people like you will fail.
Your heart is like that
But you won't fail completely
Like the frame of the old Raleigh cycle,
won't get rusty fast but...
You'll just sit there at a corner of the house...
...where no one needs you.
I'll give you a tight slap, you swine!
Left me in the middle of the sea…
…and now you are preaching to me?
Boss, I'm not preaching.
Boss...
If I'd have followed you...
I would've begged at the city square...
...and shouted at my own reflection.
I can't do all that.
But see?
...when you were in trouble...
...the saint himself brought me in front of you.
Isn't that enough?
Peter...
Sunny won the battle
And Thresia went along with him...
...now I'm all alone.
We've reached the exit.
Come...
The bike looks great.
Let's go!
The bike makes one heck of a noise, Boss.
You removed the silencer, didn't you?
You're quite something!
Listen!
Better remember that you are old…
...go slow.
Buzz off kid!
I've known these roads since I was a kid.
But...
...I do get confused in these modern times.
Why?
Because of the new places,
new buildings.
That's alright...
But these new people...
…I am quite lost with them.
The earth is constantly rotating...
...everything will obviously change.
Your problem is that you have a strong memory...
You even remember the chicken shit you stepped on as a kid.
(Laughter)
That's true!
People philosophise that memories are fragrant…
...but truth is that they have a rotting smell
Like the smell of a rotting corpse, it's true!
If we start remembering, we stay stagnant
We'll be trampled by those moving forward.
The slogan of your time...
"Millions would follow you" is all gone...
...now it's "Millions are ahead of you!"
I'm glad you came along, Peter
It's my first time here...
...since Sunny sold this bicycle shop.
Hey...
What're you doing?
There are only two categories of people who hang...
...portraits of the dead & living on the wall
Christians & Communists!
Neither woud progress, remember that.
What are you searching for, you devil?
Boss...
Eldest son of Mukkodan Porinju, Eenasu!
I'm searching for something valuable...
...a 50 cent coin.
I dropped it when I was mending tyres here.
I made that money cheating you
One day...
...when you'd gone to drink tea...
...a lad returned one of our rented bicycles
I charged double the amount
Half of it went into the money box...
...and the other half into my pocket.
I dropped that money here somewhere
I searched a lot but couldn't find it
But I made a decision that day...
...that I'll never cheat you.
You were this little back then.
The lessons I learnt then, I still carry with me
Peter will cheat. All those who can be cheated, I will cheat.
If we don't cheat them, they'll cheat us
But, there are people like you in this world...
I'll never cheat them.
Come boss, that's enough. Let's go!
Boss...
Remember how I nagged you to buy this?
I had a hidden agenda for doing that back then...
Learn to ride a motorcycle...
...along with learning the repair work here.
But I'm saying now...
...even though you lost your cycle shop, and Sunny & Thresiamma subdued you...
...you'll never fail as long as this guy is with you.
But if he leaves, you're a goner.
Climb on board, Peter...
You leave, I'll come
The earth is constantly rotating…
...we'll meet somewhere.
You swine!
After I leave, you want to...
...search for that coin, don't you?
You look smart.
I'll be right back.
Singing an old Hindi song
Hey! Our Peter had come yesterday
He reminded me how I got you again
You both are alike
I'll never be able to figure you two out.
You both look so innocent from the outside
Look at you sitting here...
...you won't bite if I put a finger in your mouth
But once the ignition is on...
...you start showing your true colours.
HEY!
Where are you rushing to? To buy pills for your diarrhoea?
No! I'm going to buy medicine for piles. You want some?
Get lost kid!
Barely an adult, trying to lecture me!
Who the heck it this, trying to wake...
...me up so early in the morning?
I'll get you one day.
Wake up, it's past noon now.
Varghese! That wretched old man is on his way. Move aside!
Everyone move aside!
Move aside, let him pass!
Don't you have anything else to do?
You do your job first.
That noise is deafening, Get lost with that bike!
Good that its without a silencer, atleast we know that he's coming.
You know the chap who runs Excellency Bar?
He’s that Mukkodan Sunny’s father.
Mad old man!
Let him come tomorrow, I’ll show him!
He's crooked smart, takes a road only once
You'll have to wait for a week to see him next.
Though I've been in this city all my life...
...you know places that I don't in this town...
...and you drag me along....
...we're like vagabonds.
Can't blame you either
You drink what the earth bleeds...
...how good can you get anyway?
You have some care in you...
...only because you've been with me.
Shall we go get lost, my friend?
So, where did we stop our conversation?
Ah! How your behaviour got better
Do you know?
Though the petrol you drink is bought with Sunny's money...
...engine oil is all me.
That's called love!
Wait! Where're you taking me?
They're kids.
Help! Help!
Don't do that
Don't worry kids, he's just having some fun
You all carry on.
That's a wizard
Wizards do not roam around in bikes
Only wizards own such old bikes
I've seen it with my own eyes
That bike flew over a wall.
Stop lying!
Who're you trying to fool?
Bike flying over the wall it seems.
Everyone says I'm the one causing trouble
They don't know that it's not me riding you but the other way around...
Where are you taking me now?
I asked you a question
Ah! you've stopped.
You're a good boy
You take me where my heart wants to go.
Mukkodan Porinju!
Father of Mukkodan Eenasu
Dear Gandhian comrade!
Can't you go lie in a crematorium or a martyr's column?
Why do you lie here, at the church cemetary?
How can that happen?
You got married and had four children.
When you realised that god cannot feed everyone...
...you compromised on your ideologies.
In the mornings I was at school...
...and in the evenings, I was with you at the cycle shop...
...learning about pedals, chains, mud-guards etc.
To be honest, I liked my evening classes with you better
Lessons that made me sweat.
Can I tell you a secret, dad?
It's a secret that can only be shared with dead fathers.
Do you know...
...what Thresia told me on my wedding night?
Dear husband!
I'm not made of steel and iron...
...I'm a human.
I'll make a move.
I'm still upset with you over one thing though...
A world that run's on strong ideologies, hard work, love...
I believed that would happen, but it never did.
You wouldn't have imagined that my son...
...would run a booze shop & become a modern day Shylock, right?
Neither did I.
What're you murmuring Eenasu?
I'm quoting the Holy Bible father
Would anyone recite the Indian Constitution here?
Which chapter were you quoting?
"Call no man your father upon earth;
for one is your father; in heaven.
Neither be ye called masters;
for one is your master, even Christ"
Mathew, Chapter 23, verses 6-10
I need to tell you something, Eenasu!
Why aren't you coming to church anymore?
Dear father, does Porinju's son...
...have to come all the way to church to see Jesus?
Even at this age...
...you have a few tricks up your sleeve.
Didn't expect this much...
...though Thresia & Sunny warned me.
You were quite stubborn even back then.
Father!
The old testament says that...
...a town can be saved by ten righteous people.
In that case...
...doesn't a family need atleast one righteous person to be safe?
I decided to be one for my family, that's about it.
Eenasu, shouldn't we all live for our children...
...after a point of time?
Listening to them and being with them.
Leave all that, you could come here...
...to see the prayer room model that Sunny donated...
...on his bar's first anniversary.
Does the model smell of liquor father?
Or of blood?
Eenasu!
It's true
Come smell the jewellery that my wife wears...
...some smell like booze, and some like blood.
Ones bought from Excellency bar's profit smell of alcohol...
...and ones bought from the Excellency...
...money lending company's profit smell of blood.
He's doing it to survive, all that will be forgiven.
Do you remember the suicide of...
...Mathew & his family?
They blamed Sunny's Shylockian firm in their suicide note.
What happened to that investigation?
To hell with these priests!
I don't want to shout all these out...
...from a roof top and loose my voice.
That's why I use my bike to yell it all out for me.
Yes that's my father...
...but Sunny's fund was made by him.
If the deal was between us, let's sort it out...
...and if it's with my dad, deal with him. That's the right thing to do.
Get off the phone!
What happened Sunny?
Didn't you see the minister?
All of that's taken care of mom.
Then why do you look so upset?
That wretched husband of yours...
...can't he just sit at home?
Why does he make everyone complain...
...since early morning?
What now?
Did he run over someone?
Mom!
Please don't say such things, only that's left to happen.
A cow ran away from the field hearing the bike noise
He splashed mud on school going children
He hit a cycle near the city square
Aren't all these enough?
Those devils call me that second
Wonder who's giving away my number?
My head is going to explode!
What kind of a father is he?
His stubbornness is increasing with age
Better to put him in a geriatric home.
Look at what you're saying about your own husband
This is why I never wanted to marry.
Hey! Stop!
I said stop!
1958 model Atlas bicycle.
I can recognise you...
...even though you're covered in dust.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Since next week is Gandhi's birthday...
...everyone's in search of khadi cotton.
Once it's over...
...no one wants Gandhi or Khadi.
I don't agree with Gandhi's philosophy
But he knew the heart beat of India...
...and how Indian blood flows.
No doubts about that.
Eenasu!
Get me that 14/15 spanner.
Porinju! Then what are you not sure of?
Even this Government does not believe in Gandhi
The Government stand with machines.
The charka is wound by hand & the cycle is peddled by feet. To run the world in the same way...
...we need humans with an iron will.
People as pure as 24 carat gold
Where can we find them anymore?
Freedom is easy to get, harder to sustain
Look now...
...who killed Gandhi?
It's not the British, but an Indian
Those who kill our own country & it's freedom...
...will be Indians as well.
Huh?
Eenasu! You fix this, I'll have a tea and come.
One concentrated tea...
Porinju!
Next Sunday is our church festival...
Did your son stop his studies?
No, he's learning a different lesson now
Your kind of studies are different...
these make you sweat.
These are not my words, but of our father of the nation Gandhi.
The festivities are huge this year...
...you should donate liberally.
It's your festival, why should I help?
Here's your tea.
Poverty & hunger affects so many Christians...
...in and around this area.
Can't the church use this money to help them?
What's the use in saying this?
I'll donate 50 cents.
Porinju!
That's not enough...
...your bicycle business is doing well.
Shall I write a full pound?
Even Jesus spoke only of giving one tenth of a hard earned income
The bicycle...
...goes forward as the wheels go round.
It's not just a vehicle Mathew,
It's a perspective.
This is for the church Porinju!
The priority is not profit, but wages.
You won’t understand it now, but you will soon.
The priest won't say these things...
...but it's there in the Bible.
Do you doubt that?
No matter what you think, the bible is more important to me than the church.
Porinju Memorial Cycle Works
Thought of something?
You want to fly a red flag...
...on top of Red Fort, not me.
But India should stand together, we should not disintegrate
We should be more than just a country on the map.
Eenasu!
We're of help to the poor here
Yeah right!
Hey boy!
What're you doing?
The bearing's loose on this one.
Look here, two bulls in a stable.
You're a smart one, aren't you?
Tell me...
How many balls in a bearing?
In the front or back one?
In front
9-9 in front and 10-10 at the back.
This guy is good.
Tell me...
What spanner do you use to remove the front wheel?
14/15 Master!
No!
That's for the back wheel
But aren't they both the same?
What's your name?
Peter!
That's a saint's name, Peter!
Where do you live?
Leave that!
You take the bicycle for free and ride around for some time...
I don't want to ride, can you give me a job a job here?
He's come in search of a job
That's nice
He's already working.
What're you doing?
Look, your dad is here
Dad?
I'm the cycle owner
Perfect, so you're the owner?
Hear that? he's your owner & not your dad.
This is the problem.
They don't know that you're alive
Hear that?
You fool!
Do you have shame?
How many years has it been since you oiled him?
Ten or fifteen?
It's a miracle he's still running.
When was the last time you checked his air?
Life is so hard sir...
Didn't get the time
I'll whack you!
A butcher has more compassion for bulls than you
He kills them only after giving them water
Hasn't he been supporting your arse for so long.
Forgive me sir!
Forgiveness?
You should ask him for forgiveness, not me.
It's a '58 model Atlas bicycle
His frame will outlive the both of us atleast by fifty years.
Do you know that?
Get lost!
Remember...
....if I see him again in such bad shape...
I'll clear this
You go stand near the steps Rosie
If he comes, ask him to go for one more round...
...Sunny will leave by then.
No need to do all that
No matter who I see...
...nothing's going to affect me now.
If he doesn't want to see me...
...let him not.
And...
...Tell him something
I've built a luxurious cabin on top...
...of the bar for the new General Manager.
I haven't found anyone to occupy that position yet.
I'm not sure what the future holds...
...only the one above knows.
I married him when I was eighteen
He was thirty eight then
I should tell the entire truth
He was a lot calmer back then.
It's only after he lost the bicycle shop...
...that he became so rough
That's the only reason why I remain patient
I started with the fund I got from selling that shop.
That's how became what I am now.
That's why I'm still holding on to the last...
...ounce of patience I have left in me.
Don't forget our evening plans
The excise commissioner is coming
You lock the house and come there.
Shouldn't we inform him?
Are you mad mom?
If he comes there and start taking about Mathew's suicide...
I'll be in a hell lot of trouble.
Didn't I ask you to go stand near the steps?
He's still got a lot of teeth...
...can't say when he'd bite.
Can't you park this elsewhere?
Sunny needs to park his car here.
Are you listening to me?
Couldn't you have asked him to not to park this...
...right in the middle?
Sir!
I'll serve.
Rosie!
I still have the strength to...
...eat with these hands.
When I don’t have the strength...
...we'll think about it.
Can I make you some tea?
Even in the good days...
...I've never made anyone serve me.
Neither have I believed that a woman has...
...to serve the man.
But earlier...
There was a comfort in eating with family and sharing with one another
All that is gone.
Rosie!
Do you know when the food is tasty?
It's when we realise that this food...
...does not only belong to the one who buys it.
See this dosa...
...the farmers who grew the raw materials are still alive somewhere
And you, the one who made this is in front of me.
It's when I realise that, then the food tastes good.
I'm done!
Leave it there, I'll clean it.
A loner has his own ways Rosie!
Don't hang around here...
That’s enough for her to lose it!
Rosie!
Go!
I'm telling the both of you...
...this is my final word.
The deadline is extended till the 4th
I won't extend even a minute after that.
Till six months before...
...one second.
I'll come over.
...we've been paying the interest on time
It's just that this was unforeseen
The land was handed over by our ancestors...
...It's excruciatingly hard to part with it.
Madam...
All the lands here are owned by some father or mother.
It's only natural for it's ownership to change hands over time.
Can you please extend the deadline further?
You should get going
Sunny...
Good morning Nair!
You know that I hate beating around the bush.
If you ask for an advertisement in the paper...
...you sometimes get it, or you don't.
I've never gone back on my word...
...nor have I made you wait for the promised money.
That's true!
How much do you need...
...to drop the story about Mathew's death?
Look here, for me newspaper and...
...advertisements two different things.
And Sunny...
We've got hard evidence against you.
You don't know as much as I do.
Do you?
I run a money lending company.
Mathew mortgaged his house as collateral
I gave him three times more money than I normally do.
And Nair...
I didn't beg at the festival ground to make this money...
I made it by doing what was necessary at the right time.
I dealt with the problem, and he went and died with his family...
...that's it.
So tell me Rajan Nair...
...what do you want?
What did you think of me?
I'm an ethical news reporter.
I know what you're going to say...
...that you have a few documents...
...and that a tall man with a beard told you things...
...am I right?
Nair!
I know from A to Z of things.
That old man who met you doesn't know that
But you and I know.
So Nair, tell me your conditions
I've never had the intention of harming you...
...my dear Sunny!
This smells great.
Bought it from Singapore last week
Been waiting for the right company to open it.
Don't you drink?
Not at daytime
I compensate for that at night.
I'm like that too...
...but when you insist with so much love...
...how can I refuse?
Now tell me Nair, what's our deal like?
Need to go to the collectorate, bank...
...and the corporation from here, have lots to do....
Alright...
Raman, owner of Bombay textiles....
...he had a problem.
He wasn't giving the sales girls chairs to sit, or bathroom breaks...
...so they went on strike.
Not one journalist in the city wrote even a line about it.
When he heard I was about to, he called me.
He's a decent man, you know?
He gave us new set of clothes for Onam festival...
...along with a good amount to celebrate it.
Do you measure Sunny & Raman on the same scale Nair?
Raman is a textile businessman
He can give you clothes.
Can I send what I sell to your home?
It ruins families
Keep that down, let's settle this matter.
This is quite expensive...
...and I don't waste money.
What you said about the deal that you made with Raman...
...has been clearly recorded in that camera.
Look!
That's enough for Sunny to shut your paper down.
I was just sharing an experience.
Don't worry!
I'm not going to do anything impulsive
This will be with me
So that we don't have any trouble in the future.
And one more thing...
The old man who came to you...
...and complained...
...that's my own father.
Mukkodan Sunny's father Eenasu.
Keep it there
Get me that white & lavender!
And arrange these...
Where's the exit?
Point me towards the exit please!
Anyone!
Where's the exit?
Are they all deaf & blind?
This is perfect for us.
Father!
Praises be to lord!
I've been going in circles trying to get out
Could you point me towards the exit?
Father! The exit...
Father!
Praises be to lord!
How's the new place?
It's grand
Can you point me towards the exit?
Hey! The exit.
Congrats! You've done a great job with this place.
Do you get what I'm saying Eenasu?
Dear Father!
My profits doubled after Peter started working at the store...
...Thresia knows it as well.
I have an affection towards him...
...like of a teacher to his student.
My affection towards Sunny is different.
Eenasu!
Your house & store are two different things...
...do not mix them both.
Can I ask you something father?
Jesus comes to you and says...
Here is Peter...
...my dear disciple
Will you tell him the same thing...
...and ask him to leave?
Will you?
Father!
Our lives are as short lived as a cracker...
...It'll end with a bang.
When I was of age...
...and had learnt enough,
my dad handed over the store to me.
I wanted to hand it over to Sunny.
But what to do?
He failed & stopped going to school
He never came by the store either
Always roaming around with his friends
Thresia wouldn't understand any of this
She's biased towards her son.
A family is not an exhibit at a museum
...it keeps moving on.
Let's walk over to the side.
Times have changed...
...you should know that Eenasu.
Times have changed father.
The earth is filled with machines...
...that run drinking it's blood.
Wars will be waged for this blood.
And blood will keep flowing.
Is this from the book of Mathews?
Or of Luke?
This is from Eenasu's testament.
I'll tell you something father
I'm not going to fire Peter...
...I have a feeling that he'll take care of the store.
You bought it?
Yeah!
Yamaha? Yes!
This looks great. Shankar!
It's a Japanese make
Look at him...
...our scooters will vanish now.
Write down what I'm saying.
What?
Did we oust the British only...
...to bring in Japanese & German?
Did you give the postman his cycle?
Gave it in the morning
What about Vyloppilli master's? (Great Indian poet)
What?
He's quite moody...
...can't say what he'd do.
I'll have it ready by the time he returns from school.
Do you know?
Vyloppilli master gets the inspiration for his poems...
...while riding his cycle.
Riding on these huge machines, do you think you will see your imagination or poetry?
Nonsense!
Boss...
Can we start a bike repair shop?
We'd gain mileage if we start now...
All the bikes in the city will come to us.
You think that the cycle grows old...
...and becomes that bike.
You're wrong!
It's as different as a shovel and gun.
We use the shovel to dig the earth and grow food
But a gun can be used...
...only to kill and threaten.
You didn't go to the hospital, did you Shankar?
Let's go tomorrow.
Hey! Sit down.
Son...
Only in a small life, can we think big....
...and to love unconditionally.
But...
...when your life is fast, busy and crowded...
...you forget even the one's next to you.
Do you need that?
Will he walk in to the party? Mother Mary!
Praises be to lord, Father!
Praises be to lord!
Did your dad & mom arrive?
Do you think my father would ever come?
Remember one thing!
Don't say anything that's wrong Sunny!
How do righteous people survive in the land of evil?
Need to talk to you about something else
That's why I asked you to come early. Please come...
Listen!
He'll bring even the Bishop to fool us...
...don't leave him this time.
The crooked game that he's been playing against us...
...needs to stop today.
You should pray for me...
...and stand with me during hard times.
He's started his game!
Be it in business or at home.
Your blessings are equivalent to that of Jesus
- That's always there with you. - That is all I need.
Praises be to lord!
You both talk...
...I'll be right back.
You come here!
How are you Thresia?
That's a problem
A mad elephant can be tamed...
...but he cannot be tamed if he gets here.
I have enough people ready to backstab me now...
Okay! Where've you reached?
Come fast, we've started.
Vijay! When did you get here?
Please sit
They're over there, watch them closely.
Hello! How're you?
Without us partners knowing about it...
...there should be no more deals in the company.
Kuriakose!
Don't think anyone here will stand up against Sunny.
This is not going to happen.
He'll get scared once he sees these documents
We have full proof!
Do you think he wouldn't know...
...what you got from the auditor?
He's smart!
Mark my words, he'll make an excuse and vanish.
He won't talk to us.
I know that...
Wherever he goes, I'll follow and catch him...
...and I'll talk to him, face to face.
Let this party end.
After all it's our establishment too...
...so let's not create a ruckus right away.
Looks like my dad is on his way here...
...you go check in the town and find him.
Okay!
He didn't create any problem after that.
Babu!
Did Sunny sir's dad come this way?
Why? Did he create any problems there?
It'll be a problem if he gets there.
He's like Bin-Laden
Can't say what trouble he will make.
That's all? I'll find and lock him up
No need, just ask your boys to scare him.
You leave, we'll take care of it.
Also...
...we don't want to scare him a bit too much...
...right?
Two tea's!
I told you what I have to say...
There are things you can't buy and sell...
...this place is one of those things.
It's not just a small store, on a piece of land with a few bicycles...
The hearts & minds of two generations lies there.
We're all getting old
How long can we survive with this bicycle store anyway?
It's smart to hand over business to your children when time comes.
We barely make any profit there
No use keeping it open either.
Who uses cycles now?
Now it has become useless to you...
What runs in our veins is not blood, but bicycles.
You told with pride back then...
...that my hands are hardened by work...
...it is so because I worked fixing bicycles.
I'm not here to listen to old myths...
If we pay now, we'll get a share of that hotel.
We need to sell the shop for that.
I'll take care of everything else...
but if that's not the case...
...think that you don't have a son named Sunny!
Can't you give it?
Can you sell the birds in the sky?
Can you sell the air we breathe?
Can you sell Jesus and the cross?
That place had a real owner...
...you know him
He's your neighbour now, lying under the ground.
Mukkodan Porinju!
Let me ask him first.
Dad!
I'm defying you for the first time
It's because I have no other way out
You used to bury the seeds of the jackfruit you've eaten...
...in our backyard.
You used to watch it grow
And when it grew into a tree...
...and bore fruit...
You cut the fruit into pieces and fed us.
Only then would you be at peace.
You'd be ridden of your guilt only then.
Now your son...
...is going to sell the store.
Can I dad?
Now will have to bear me and my problems!
BEEP
Boss!
What is it?
You'd told me something when...
...I came to work for you.
Peter...
It's not hard to make a bicycle...
...but it is to maintain one.
Oiling the rusty areas...
...oiling it's parts regularly
cleaning the wheels...
That's how right?
No, not like that.
Come with me...
Making a bicycle...
...that's engineering.
Repairing one...
...is an art.
Not always do I do exactly as I'm told
I do the same thing, in my own way.
That's what I like.
Look at you!
You look more energetic.
Have you started scaring people at night with your bike?
You're going to get it from me now.
How much longer can I stay...
...like this, all rusty.
Till they sell me as scrap?
And Boss...
Sunny won't sell you...
...he's crooked minded.
He'll put you in a coffin,
call everyone in town,
make Thresia wear black...
...and make a show of your funeral.
No way!
He won't get to see my body.
If...
...my bike gives up on me as well,
I'll drown myself in the ocean.
Then no one will see Eenasu!
You have high hopes
Sunny will bring your corpse back on a whale.
Boss!
If you don't mind me asking...
Get it over with, you devil!
What use are you to your son and wife now?
No use!
Then can't they...
...kill you?
Maybe they're scared of getting caught.
I was in Madurai...
...for some time
Something interesting happens there.
Old and useless old men like you...
...are given a splendid oil bath.
Then they place you on the bed...
...and feed you lots of coconut water
You'll start a fever the second day...
...and die on the fourth day.
It's called "Thalaikkuth".
Can I share this with Sunny?
I still have the strength to throw you into the lake.
Calm down...
...let's go for a spin.
Let's have a few drinks...
...in the occasion of...
...Mukkodan company anniversary celebrations.
I'm not anyone's dad
I'm Mukkodan Porinju's son Eenasu!
Son of the Gandhian comrade who helped...
...communist leader Chadayammuri flee during the ban.
Come!
Eenasu!
Folk doctor Emmatty gave this for you
Who's sick here?
This will help you calm down and get some good sleep.
Didn't he prescribe coconut water as well?
Mom!
I've told you a million times, not to park this here.
I'll break this into pieces one day!
Who are they?
Kuriakose and others...
You go inside, go!
You shouldn't have left before concluding our talks...
...We can solve this amicably right now
Davis...
We've been together till now
Don't forget that
We've built this up brick by brick
This isn't anyones ancestral property.
I know where I should add & subtract
I don't care about what anyone else thinks.
That's what we have to say as well
Things should be transparent between us
There should no longer be two ledgers.
That's what I'm saying!
I shouldn't say this now...
...but we'll have trouble if you don't fix this.
Okay
Let's go!
What's all this?
Thresia!
You've packed food for Peter?
Yes!
It's been two days since we've had a customer
I'm not feeling as confident as before either
Time is slipping off my fingers.
Where's Sunny?
He's sleeping
He came back at dawn
Can't you ask him to come help me at the store?
Since he failed 10th grade, he's been roaming around...
...with those many useless friends of his.
Where were you?
One tea please!
Where the heck were you?
An idea how late it is?
Boss!
This Mathews...
...is in badly debt.
You must help him
What're you saying?
Bringing random people in front of me...
...and asking me to help them
Come here!
Dear brother! Don't look so stiff
Try to be a little sad.
Go now!
Boss...
This Mathew's story...
Is quite something
Lost his job when the cotton mill shut down.
His wife is still at the chest hospital sick...
...he has two kids studying in school
Can you imagine?
Maybe! What should I do about it?
Come here!
Don't give him anything for free...
...he has a good motorcycle with him
He's quoting a low price...
...if you pay him that, it'll be of help to him
...and we'll have a bike
This bike?
I can't do this
Please help him Boss!
How many people have you helped?
Count him along with them
Keep it over there.
Didn't you take...
...Mr.Shankar to the hospital till he passed?
His family never bothered.
This is like that.
Is that so?
This is neither from Japan or Germany...
...it's Indian made.
Like Gandhi & A.K.Gopalan said...
It's first class, made in India.
Enough!
Not that I have money...
...but it's to help someone
And listen, I don't need the bike.
Just ask him to return the money back when he has it
Ask him to come get the cash tomorrow.
Success!
It's all done...
Eenasu!
I can't thank you enough...
...let the bike be here...
...as a collateral, I insist.
I'll be right back, have some work in town.
Come! Come!
You're not riding a horse, It's a bike
It's been 2 months since you started learning...
...leave the clutch, more acceleration!
Hold the clutch while changing gears.
You may think you're a king while riding this.
But this one rides at its own will.
You understand that first.
It's the rider that points him in one direction.
I'm done learning.
After all, this doesn’t top a bicycle anyway.
This guy is good
I think I can manage once I learn to tame it.
Boss...
I...
...I'm thinking I'll quit working for you.
What'd you say?
It's not like that...
...there's a new bike repair shop in town
They called, I'm thinking if I should go.
But, do you know how to repair bikes?
I learnt a little at night, from a nearby workshop.
I know that you're upset...
...but I think I need to go.
Can't survive repairing cycles these days.
And, I don't have anyone.
You're the one...
...who treated me like your own
So I'll tell you...
...I need to conquer, all my dreams.
Only then will I be happy, Boss!
You're a good person!
But the time of good people are over.
Stop!
Give this sermon at church
I'm not your liability
You go...
...and
...be happy someplace.
Boss!
I don't need this
Don't worry
Keep it!
I'll find a replacement and only then will I go.
Where do you need to go, I'll drop you.
No! You leave, I'll walk.
At night, I sleep in the arms of God.
The wheels of my chariot still moves forward..
Haven't forgotten the songs
How was sleep last night?
Don't get me started Porinju'etta!
Too many the mosquitoess...
How about your grave Pranchi?
...let's have tea.
Do you have jaggery tea?
Jaggery tea?
No, you don't get that here.
I can make you a sugar tea.
We'll give you some jaggery.
You're Nellikunnu Lona's son Thomas right?
No!
I'm Thomas's son Shinto.
Do you know my father?
I know your grandfather...
...he threw a stone inside the church
When father Vadakkan conducted a sermon...
He'd brought your dad, who was a kid then.
My forefathers ruined my life
Monsoon or Winter...
...I have to live making tea from dawn till midnight.
Those devils!
If they'd just bought 10 cents of land near the highway...
...I'd been settled by now. But they didn’t.
You sing that song again
At night, I sleep in the arms of God.
The wheels of my chariot still moves forward.
Porinju?
Eenasu!
They're a bunch of mad men.
You've forgotten the way here, haven't you?
What happened here? The skin has darkened…
What's troubling you?
Whats the point of asking?
You can't deal with it.
That may be true...
...but you'll feel better talking about it.
Lot of problems in life
Problems caused by dad on one side...
...and problems of the business on the other.
I have to end it all...
...I will.
You are still scared of your father, isn’t it?
Yes.
There's a way he looks at me...
…My eyes sink into their hollows.
It's that fierce a look.
If that old man looks that way, why do you get scared?
If I did fear…
...I wouldn't exist right now.
While at St.Thomas school, I stabbed a boy with a compass…
...I was beaten black and blue by the Reverend father there.
It didn't hurt me...
...but when dad got to know…
...he held my shoulder and looked at me.
That's when I realised that I did something wrong.
It is that fierce a look.
You feel that look in your gut.
The blood I've spilled to get here, haunts me when he looks.
Cant you dump him at a geriatric home?
Why do you keep him?
You should get married.
Once you have a woman and children, you'll forget your old man.
I don't like to lose anywhere.
Even though I'm winning now...
...I feel like an orphan
If that needs to go...
...I should make my father the manager of my booze shop.
Only then will I win.
Hey Peter!
Peter!
Peter! Stop!
Peter!
I can recognize you in any costume.
You can't fool me whatever you do.
You got the wrong man. I’m not Peter, I'm Sudhakaran!
Aren't you Sunny?
Owner of Excellency bar?
Yes, how do you know me?
I come there occasionally.
You're coming from Maggie's place aren't you?
Is it the moon in the sky?
Or is it a lonely lover?
Who awakens your thought's tonight?
Oh! Who awakens them?
Peter!
I'll get you one day
I heard that you died in Bombay.
You're still alive, you dog!
Your death will be in my hands!
Sunny!
You can’t kill a person who is...
...already dead! Thats the problem!
Do you need to make such a ruckus to come here?
It's so that I can talk to you about our church.
Father!
Here's a blank cheque
Our annual festival should be grand...
...my church should not lack in anything.
Did you have to come all the way here at midnight...
...for this?
If something comes to mind, I have to finish it immediately.
Anyway, did you meet my father?
He's a peculiar type…
...untameable.
Let me try again
Don't!
I'll deal with him, you go sleep.
Sunny!
You're a little too drunk tonight.
I'll take care of that as well, Father!
Okay
Do you have a match box?
I don't smoke.
Look inside your pocket, maybe you have one.
Whats wrong with you, didn’t I say I don't smoke?
Sunny!
Listen to me
This is my final word.
If you're unhappy, deal with it.
Go to court, go to the police...
Go wherever you want! I’ll see you there.
I have't lost in front of my own father.
(muffled sounds)
Calm down Sunny, brother!
Look...
Let Kuriakose think...
...I'll drop you back home.
Hey Umesh, you're playing a dirty game, wagging your tail to Sunny!
Don't make me loose my patience...
...and start swearing at you.
You come with me.
You bugger off!
Sunny, my brother...
DAD!
My Jesus!
Hey! Sunny!
Son!
What's happened to him?
What's wrong?
How many times have we told sir...
...not to park this over here.
Look what's happened now!
(Wailing sounds)
It's just a small bump, nothing has happened.
Even if it is damaged, we can repair it.
It was an accident...
...he didn't mean to do it.
Shut your mouth!
It's my son & not yours that died.
Eenasu!
Your time is up
Confess your sins...
...and surrender yourself to Christ.
No!
Even if the lamb renounces the church,
The church will come searching for the lamb.
Get ready!
No, I don't want it.
"The births & deaths of believers are as normal...
...as that of a flower blooming and wilting.
The death of a non-believer is not so;
It's a return to faith.
Close thy eyes, pink is the colour of death
It first arrives in thy eyes, like a holy cloud
and it fills your insides.
Thou art now empty within, for all that...
...the world taught you has been erased.
Angels are floating on clouds formed inside thou."
Father!
Move aside
Confessions at this midnight hour!
Eenasu, come here!
Let's go to a place.
Why are you so timid? Get up and come here!
Lets go!
Let's go!
Balu!
Don’t be stingy with powder & perfume
He's my only father, need to make this grand.
Under his eyes please.
Looks good right?
Stay still dad.
Here I am leaving to the other world,
Thank you for all that you've provided here.
Nice!
I am journeying to a place where...
...the pure and the just attain utmost happiness.
Come, let's go!
That's it!
Wishing permanent good luck for the man,
For those who have nothing, my home is there
Enough!
In the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit...
...Amen!
You coming?
I'll be there.
Done?
Eenasu, son of Mukkodan Porinju
Born on 15th August, 1947. Died on...