Urumi: The Warriors Who Wanted to Kill Vasco Da Gama (2011) - full transcript

Our epics say that Parasurama,
an incarnation of Lord Vishnu

flung 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
Paulo da Cama, 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 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
Tan seer 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 up 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 inquiries 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 a right over
the land you're going to sell.

They have their own customs.
Come and meet Thangachan.

Whom ...? Thangachan?

I...! -Me.

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 a real 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 shiploads 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?

You're right.
There's life in its belly.

My effort was futile, that's all.

If you're hungry,
you know we'll soon be home.

Friend!

From Chirakkal.

Yes, it's Chirakkal's Princess.

Lord Siva, let my country
never want for grain.

May its fame and prosperity
spread over the seven seas.

If you chase a beautiful woman,
she'll blow your heart like a conch.

Let her blow it!
Let her keep blowing it!

The girl standing at the shrine
is Bala of Chirakkal...

I want her alive, with her hands
and legs bound only her!

Stop wagging your tongue,
show me how smart you are.

Yes, I'm Chirakkal Bala.

You can't tie me up, nor can you

even touch a flower
on the heads of my maids.

Go and teach that
arrogant fellow a lesson!

It just made a sound and he died...?

Go and inform the tainted foreign
owners of this dirty weapon...

that their death is drawing near.

Go! Run off!

What is this?

You saw, it spits fire.

A fire-spitter.

Good muscle power...what about
your Will power? Give it to me.

This is not for hands that know only
silver balls and golden cords.

Ask your father, he might make
you one like this to play with.

Come, Vavvali.

This was made by foreign hands,
not by villagers.

An invitation from the one
we were searching for.

Come, we have to go to Puthur.

Let's not talk about foreigners.

Talk about food, I'm hungry.

Look, Allah has sent the food I want!

So much for the elephant?
See what I got!

I'm so hungry!

Who is that cheering, Who is that
dancing in passionate abandon?

We'll do a warrior-dance
in the beautiful forest.

It's him, my friend
who is leading the team.

It's true, so true.
He came to keep us company.

Look at the earth,
it's earth that sprouts gold.

It's where our forefathers
shed their blood.

Take all the good and reject the bad.
Let our granaries be filled with joy and happiness.

Who is that cheering, who is that
dancing in passionate abandon?

We'll do a warrior-dance
in the beautiful forest.

Let's welcome the spring
with festival drums.

We are ready to dance
and sing in the fields...

Wear traditional dress.
Stand in a circle.

Clap your hands and sing and dance.

See how our crops flourish and dance.

O my friend! You're my very soul.

Take all the good and reject the bad.
Let our granaries be filled with joy and happiness.

Who is that cheering, who is that
dancing in passionate abandon?

We'll do a warrior-dance
in the beautiful forest.

It's him, my friend
who is leading the team.

It's true, so true.
He came to keep us company.

Look at the earth,
it's earth that sprouts gold.

It's where our forefathers
shed their blood.

Take all the good and reject the bad.
Let our granaries be filled with joy and happiness.

Bow your heads
to the Prince of Chirakkal!

Vavvali!

Kings don't demand obeisance.
Only the arrogant do that.

Allah!

My father said:
'Never bow down to a tyrant'.

Friend!

This is not a gift for the palace.

Tear the skin off his back
with my whip.

Dearest!

Please don't be foolish!

This is the king, the best of men,
he who safeguards us with...

gold and grain. May he reign
on his throne forever.

The King feared the prediction
that there was danger

if his son succeeded him,
not his daughter.

The King had only one true friend:
Chenicheri Kurup.

A scholar in 12 languages and
a trusted ally of the Portuguese.

Of all the ministers
Vasco took back home...

only he was sent back alive.

But, there were
the reasons for these goods!

The Chirakkal goods are excellent.

Are you trying to deceive us?

What did the new traders who came
from Ceylon and Bengal give you?

I know all the people who give
your Sultan Ismail bad advice.

Did you come here to do
honest trade or show off?

You have to show us the same
loyalty as you show Arackal...

Then our reigning King
will give you a worthy prize.

Your policy is excellent, Chenicheri.

But I think you talk a little too much.

I cannot imagine bowing our heads
before the Arabs or the Chinese.

They need us.

The value for pepper is 1200 times
more in the Persian market.

Let the Arab go if he wants...

There's Italy, Spain,
Germany, France...

We can send ships there directly
and trade with them.

Spain, Italy! Indeed!

They said they'd give us a trade permit,
so that our ships will be safe.

The Arackal people have got
a permit, thanks to their minister.

Why blame the Portuguese?

The Portuguese has never
withheld anything they promised us.

Oh yes, they'll give it all.
I saw what they gave us.

Thanks to our minister's inefficiency
all Kolathunad got was trash!

- I know what I should do.
- So do I.

Here, betel leaves.

Allah!

Walk on!

These are the men who trapped
our people at the temple.

My men captured them at Puthur.

I've brought back the corpses
of the men we killed.

See this, Father?

You seem to grow bluer
in colour as you grow up.

My ancestors built a bridge
to welcome Gama.

Now he dares to send a weapon
to kill my daughter!

War is waged only from 6 to 6.
It's wrong to have broken that rule.

King! It can't be the Portuguese
who sent someone to kill the girl.

It must be Baliahasan from Arackal.

What? Arackal attacking our princess?

Don't waste time thinking drown them
in wild waters or throw them in hot oil.

No! Better still, let elephants
trample them to death!

Bring the tusker!

What a scary sound!

It's our punishment for
stealing the elephant's food.

A single kick must finish off the fellow
who attacked our princess.

Now don't you remember any words
your father used to say?

The women of the palace
do not come to the audience hall.

Is it the custom to punish those,
who protect us?

Bhanu is clever, he brought these
arrogant men before the King.

What stupidity!
If it wasn't for these men

this fire-spitter would have
blown open my heart!

Instead of punishing them you must honour
them as warriors, teacher!

Ignorant Bhanu!
You've scattered our pride.

Where's that dog? -King.

Untie these men. Free them!

I'll never forget
what you did for us today.

Rice that smells of blood!

Where did you complete your studies?

My father gave me weapons,
taught me how to use them.

Karikathiyamma taught me speed.

I learnt how to write
at Karumalayil and...

strategies of war at many centres.

Only this fellow and
his mother gave me food.

I learnt war fight from Mangadu,
Vannalacheri, Vepur & Dharmapatnam teachers.

A King in central Kerala
taught me warfare.

A Fakir in the south
who became my teacher...

sent me to finish my training
at the famous centre in Valor.

Who is your enemy?

He, who says one thing with
his eyes and cheats with his hands.

If you want my enemy's name,
it has always been

the man who destroyed my clan.

As I grow, he grows bigger,
taking over the whole country.

Bravo! A handful of Portuguese came,
asking for pepper.

Their starved bodies
were clad in tatters.

Now they dry their underwear
on the tip of my sword

use my throne as a step-stool
and spit orders at me!

Let's not stay here too long.
It's not a good place.

Tomorrow, to witness
the hanging of Baliahasan...

the Viceroy will come in
a ship named after St. Katrina...

Vasco da Gama, after 22 years!

That hanging must not take place.

The Portuguese who wanted

to kill my daughter must know that
there are brave men in Kolathunad.

I want Gama at my feet.

You have the ability to do it.

Will you?

No!

So you've got Chenicheri
to give these dogs a feast.

Good, Father.

This fellow's an obscenity
that I forgot halfway.

Gama's ready to enter the Arackal Fort.
Will you bring him to me?

Father used to say, if he who holds
his head high is formally invited

to take part in war, it is right
and just that he accepts

Arackal will make
mincemeat out of us.

You can't buy me!
I'll do it because I want to!

I'll bring Vasco here from Arackal.

Vasco is the lord of the Indian Ocean,
greatest of the great!

You're not even fit to stand
before the Viceroy.

Stop bragging, dog!

Prince!

I'll honour my word even before the sand
in the hourglass drips 40 times.

If the manhood under your waist cloth
has even the power of a lizard's tail...

clean up the obscenity
under the King's tongue.

Or if you're man enough, come with me.

I'll show you what male loyalty
means as for calling me dog...

this fellow and I have only
one caste, the caste of 'war'.

And only one class, that of a soldier.

I ate a handful of rice from here.

I give you my word in return 5 of
my best soldiers will go with you...

so will my prayers.

First Bhima...

then Yudhishtira. Arjuna,
Nakula, Sahadeva.

A back-up force will follow you.

No harm must come to the Viceroy.

The Muslim, Ali, and Kelu Nayanar
must not come back to Chirakkal Kelu!

So you're going to Arackal
to avenge me...?

No... yes.

Look at this.

The Serpent blessed Virgin!

The Serpent comes alive at night when
you return, I'll show you where it sleeps.

The roof is leaning to one side.

There's a mother inside
who'll never fall, whatever happens.

She'll have food ready for us,
no matter what time we walk in.

You go first.

Why do you want to stay outside?

Half of what she gives will be yours.

Okay.

Whatever it's bad or good
I'll accept it with pleasure.

Even if she's not the one
who bore me, she's my mother too.

Mother!

What a surprise!

Is no one looking after her?
Cooking all the time!

Mother!

Is the food ready?

Bring your women to live here.

Then you can ask her to cook

it's 40 days since
we've had anything fit to eat.

Lies! He ate the King's food
and gave him a promise.

I've brought him back like
I said I would.

He's taken money to gather
an army for war.

Look, out there.

The big warriors of the palace.

When I was a child, you took a throne
out of my hand once and healed my hand.

But the Portuguese pierced
my heart with a throne...

when I was 8 years old.

That wound has not healed
for 20 years.

At last, that cruel
Vasco is coming back...

to supervise the hanging
of Arackal Baliahasan.

From the age of 8, I've been carrying
this pain and now a release!

I'm going, Mother,
to put an end to him.

Give me your blessing.

All I have to give you is
Ali as dear to me as you are.

Take him.

So you don't want me, Mother?

Allah!

A fort like a Turkish ship Minister
Mammaly Marikar made it invincible.

I've heard there's
an opening in the northern wall.

By the time we get there,
Baliahasan would have been hanged

and a tree would have
sprouted from his grave.

Then, shall we return?

There's only one way to get there,
to reach the viceroy.

The Arackal Fort capable of withstanding
12 years of war fears only..

The 101 cannons pointed
from Fort St. Angelo.

We've come here readily
gathering our force.

We don't bother even
if anybody dies. -Hey! Stop!

Where do you people go?
Our Andi brother has died getting burnt.

So...? I should watch
Baliahasan's execution...

That was this expired man's final wish.

Not his wish. Don't bring
his curse upon you.

Thanks a lot, sir.

We've come here readily
gathering our force.

We got in. Now how do we get out?

Who's that?

Ayesha. Arakkal Ayesha.

Only one person at Arakkal did not...

bow her head before
the Portuguese to punish her...

the Portuguese dragged
Ayesha to an island.

She killed 9 of the 10 men
who came to molest her...

and left one alive to tell her tale.

People celebrated her name:
Arakkal Ayesha.

Is this the time to sing, sister?

Baliahasan guarded our honour...

While the noose tightens
around his neck, you sing!

Great!

Come quickly, Beevi's calling you.

Come on!

I sent for you, Ayesha to tell you
that you should not go out.

I know you'll dare me and go.

The Portuguese haven't forgotten
what you did Harabichi Beevi.

You were dancing in the Arab's
tent when I first saw you.

I was 10 years old then.

Then, when you came
to Arackal with my Father...

I put henna on your hands
and welcomed you.

Those hands lit the lamp
on Father's grave.

Those hands now wave at the
Portuguese inviting them to your house.

They clap to applaud
Baliahasan's hanging.

Aren't you ashamed to say
you're a woman of Arackal?

And to call yourself a wife?
Harabichi.

Stop your sarcasm!

If I shut my mouth will a 100 canons
stop spitting fire at us?

Did we not offer them as much gold as they
wanted in return for Baliahasan's life?

They're scaring us.

Even our children are afraid.

Every woman here, every germ
of life within her, is afraid.

We should not allow that.

What will we do now?

I'll draw a moustache on you!

In our holy book our religion has
fixed certain punishments for all,

who commit atrocities.

Nobody can get excuse from those
punishments even if they are our brothers.

I, Asim Marikar, spoke to Baliahasan,
but he wouldn't listen.

He sank ships and killed the
Portuguese, our well-wishers.

To carry out his death sentence...

the great viceroy Vasco da Gama's Son,
Estavio has sailed to Kannur.

Estavio da Cama executes
his punishment...

on behalf of Dhuwan emperor
& Vasco da Gama.

Bring Baliahasan.

There's Baliahasan.

Friend.

Will you ask his pardon?

If you ask publicly for pardon...

l will appeal to these people,
in Allah's name...

to make your death a peaceful one.

I will ask pardon.

He says he will ask pardon.

Untie this knot.

You are stronger, you have more
men and weapons than us.

And still, you're afraid.

I ask your pardon because
I have let the Portuguese live.

I still haven't killed them all.
There are Baliahasans in this crowd.

Bolo Takbir!

Allahu Akbar!

My friend.

Rem ember your promise.

You said you'd take him back alive.

Let's not make him a corpse.

How dare you stab me from behind!

All the men Chenicheri sent
with us are traitors.

Don't wait for them. Come.

There's something happening here
that we don't know about.

Those who came with us
have some other aim.

Shut your mouth!

If he dies, his corpse won't walk.

You'll have to carry it yourself
say your prayers if you want to.

Don't open your mouth
for anything else.

So you'll take this man to Chirakkal
and keep your word.

Is the King of Chirakkal
your grandfather?

If we send this coppery head to Vasco,
it would be a good message.

If we keep the son,
the father will follow. Don't kill him.

Kelu is used to doing what he wants.

Listen to me.

The women and children in our village

must see him alive
and take revenge on him.

Your fervour's good!
But we have to cross this forest.

I know my way from Makkam Thara.
Till then, we have to manage.

There's seldom even a wick here.
Today, someone's lighted a lamp.

Anyway we're not lost. Come.

We'll have to tie a rope around
his neck and drag him.

That girl said she'd be waiting
for you with a wedding chain...

if you go back with this burden.
Isn't that why you came with me?

What? You're saying I'm in love
with that haughty girl?

I'll dash a stone at his head like
I'd break coconuts in the temple!

If you think my words are worthless,
go your way, I'm not coming.

What am I without you?

There's no need for weapons
in a place of worship.

Who are you?

I came from the land of the
Aryans in a wooden ship, King.

He's no King, he's my friend.

Now Chirakkal trusts you
and Arackal respects you.

Go to Chirakkal. You will become
commanders of their army.

How?

The friend who's with you
is good and grateful.

Protect the country and the forest.
Don't let the Portuguese take over.

Movement! Movement
through the world's expanse.

There'll be a promise that life
will shine like a full moon.

Movement! Movement
through the world's expanse.

There'll be a promise that life
will shine like a full moon.

In the end, dreams will come true.

Movement! Movement
through the world's expanse.

There'll be a promise that life
will shine like a full moon.

In the end, dreams will come true.

Listen to the call that sleeps
within your heart.

There's a right way out
for everything that happens.

Let us search for it.

Go that way brave warriors!

Each life follows a different destiny.

And we can still change what we are saddled
with we can make dreams our weapons...

Let us achieve, O brave warriors!

Wake up and find your path...

Cleanse and sharpen your minds.

Learn the speed of chariots and be
armed with your glowing dreams.

Movement! Movement
through the world's expanse.

There'll be a promise that life
will shine like a full moon.

In the end, dreams will come true.

Listen to the call that sleeps
within your heart.

There's a right way out
for everything that happens.

Let us search for it.

Go that way, O warriors!

We can make dreams our weapons...

We'll see and achieve then,
O brave warriors!

O brave warriors!

All will come true.

A girl with the scent of pepper!

Is she real, or was it a dream?

It's clear we'll reach Chirakkal Vavvali,
you'll be an army chief!

And you'll be King?!

Will I have to bow down to you?

Friend! Isn't that what she told you?

All these dreams!

Come, Let's go.

Listen, you Portuguese fellow!
My Kelu's the King!

Look! A foreigner!

The man with a gun from Portugal.

The man with coppery hair.

Shut up your mouth.

The six-footer who crossed
the seven seas to come here.

Our King's gouged out
the lies in his grey eyes.

What a man he is, our King!

Is this Gama? I've seen him.

He has a beard. Who's this?

This is Gama, Estavio Gama.

The Viceroy's son. -He's Estappan.

The Estappan who gave us nightmares,
talking endlessly

about pepper and trade permits.
Let me look at your face.

This is Gama's seal. If it's his son,
let's announce him as

our special guest
and start negotiations with Cochin.

Bring the ceremonial sword.

A man of your word! You're my
Commander from now on King!

Chirakkal's new Kothuval.

Now Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar.

May the Goddess be with you.

Chirakkal Kothuval offers you
this on the tip of his sword.

This copper-head's little finger.

This will be our message
to viceroy Gama at Cochin.

Though his skin is white,
his blood is red.

Send it with this ring.

Our gift to Gama.
Slice up what's left.

Why kill this man?

Let him make the Portuguese
guns for Chirakkal.

Good. Bandage his wound.

It was wise to let Estappan live.

He'll be bait for the big fish!

I was wondering which of them
sent those men to betray us.

Now I'm sure it wasn't the King.

Betel leaves!

Here's a sight for the king's eyes.

Arab women. The half-caste converts
born in Chirakkal Unnichirutha's clan.

She was stolen from our pond.

They're from the women's
quarters of Arackal...

the family that tried
to shoot our Princess.

It was Maundy Thursday,
the Viceroy went to Cochin.

The Portuguese fought
until the Arackal Fort was ashes.

These women were fleeing to Tellicherry.
I brought them here.

Well done, Kaimal!

Did you give some of them away
to your friends?

Ah, she looks like a carving of our
grandmother, Unnichirutha! Who is she?

Ayesha!

Arakkal Ayesha!

I've heard of her.

The granddaughter of Asma Beebi.

The jewel of Arackal.

Shouldn't we welcome her
into the family, Chenicheri'?

She's a lioness.

We must give her a seat.

Yes, we must make her 'sit'!

But I don't see a suitable chair...

The left thigh for the Queen
and the right for the daughter.

Isn't that what they say?

Come, dear!

Come and sit down.

Touch one Chirakkal woman
and it will burn 100 Arackal women.

Good customs and courtesies.

My gratitude for the mercy
shown to the Arackal women.

By right, I should be Queen here.

But where's my place?

On the uncle's thigh or
in the nephew's chamber?

Clever girl!

This clan honours the custom
of a girl choosing her husband.

Tell the women inside to clean her up.

Be a Prince at least in your bedroom.

Mesmerize her.

Prepare a special bedroom
for the army commanders.

Nayanar, you're back from the war.

Take a silk mattress if you want one.

Is he gone?

Come, Ali.

Do you like scented chambers
and silk mattresses?

You want this one, or this one or.

Whether the war is at Arackal or
Chirakkal, it's the women who suffer.

Chenicheri told me specially
to look after you.

The missing finger still
seems to be there.

You've lost a lot of blood.

Don't move.

The news reached Gama at Cochin.

Viceroy there's fighting at Arackal...

Baliahasan was not hanged.

Estavio fell into enemy hands.

Vasco had overcome
many obstacles in his life.

He was confident of his son's return.

He won't say he can't do it.
When you're tired of the games...

in the bedroom, come out.
I'll be waiting.

I won't sleep.

Was that girl your younger sister?

You could have brought her in here.

Call her now,
before your life snuffs out!

Day will not break tomorrow
for any man here.

Pull her away!

Don't kill the girl. She's beautiful.

We should send her
to the brothel at Mannanar.

Don't, she'll enjoy it there.

Throw her to the public,
they'll tame her.

Bhanu, all you ever get
are leftovers. That's your fate.

Don't touch me!

Never come back
to this cursed land.

Go!

Go and survive somewhere.

Get up, it's time to go.

Where? I dreamt we were
bringing my mother here.

I didn't set out just
to enjoy being an army chief.

I know. We must capture Vasco.

But that's not so easy.

We have the bait here.
We'll take his son with us.

You have a horse now.
Stay on here as chief of the army

and you'll have a hundred.
Be intelligent. Stay here.

To bow to the King
and manage his affairs?

To overcome a pirate, a trader's
brain is better than a hunter's.

To do the right thing at the right.

Time is my way..

Come if you want to. We must
break open the prison and take him.

How?

Came to take a skirt you forgot?

I told you to go away.

Where can I go?

Wherever there's place,
wherever you like.

I like these people.
They're all I have left.

See what they've done to her,
that imbecile, your Prince.

He destroyed her.

Young or old, you don't care?

Cruel wretches!

Shouldn't have left a single man
in this palace alive.

Her reasons, our livelihoods:
They're different things.

You can never forgive those
who hurt women or children, Vavvali.

So you've decided I won't live
to see my next birthday.

I must mend the harm
I did without meaning to.

You must create a diversion now.

A screen that will cover
the eyes of the guards.

Follow me without making a sound.

Estappan!

Estappan's opened
the door and come out!

Catch him!

Aim the target person by your right hand,
twist your right hand towards left...

Join both the right & left hands...

Twist your head, sit properly
& hold your hands tightly..

Strike him strongly.

Lord Allah! That's all.

You're a skilled duelist.

Estappan freed the Arackal women and killed the guards.
He was coming to kill you.

Where's your companion?

He's gone to Madayi.

That's how Estappan had his chance.

I never fail to reward those
who prove their worth.

You will supervise
my guard from now on.

Bring the sword of honour!

Estappan must be shifted
to Bhanu's custody.

The Muslims will attack
once their Women go back.

We may have many army heads.
But the king has only one head.

Chenicheri.

So, you've been given a sword.

There's tooth-powder in the house.

Use as much as you like.

Throw down your broomstick.
I've brought some women.

How did you cross
the river at this time?

I swam. The Goddess held my hand.

They're women from Arackal.
The little one's been mauled.

Look after them. Let them
stay here till their people come.

If they want to go, let them go.

Your fury hasn't abated?

Don't imagine you've done
something great.

I can't express gratitude
that I do not feel.

You're still furious?

That Prince's head
must be chopped off.

Arakkal Ayesha, who hacked
nine Portuguese men in pieces

to save her honour.

If it's true that you've
brought me, to a good place,

give me a weapon to protect
the women, who came along, trusting me.

I was given a Chirakkal sword
and I'm an army chief now.

Everything the girl
said is coming true.

Where are the women?

At Puthur.

Let them stay there for some time.

I asked the Headman
to make sure, no one sees them.

Where's Estavio?

I knocked him down.

Chenicheri had him confined
to Bhanu's room.

It's a mistake to have
let him out of our hands.

No, it's Allah's mercy.

The enemy you seek the
viceroy will come here to get him.

Until then, you please stay here.

Where is it?

The Urumi-sword is not at your Waist.

Did it fall off somewhere?

Or did you fall?

It will never lose its way.

It will come back to me.

So you gave it away
to a girl you've just met!

You've never allowed me
to touch it even once.

Did you give her only
the sword or your heart as well?

This is a problem.

Friend, it's a problem.

What's the problem?

I said, what's the problem?

What problem does
my new army chief have?

This is another problem!

I have eyes that gleam that ignite
sparks each time, they flutter.

I have the beauty and grace
of the flowering poovarasu tree.

When he sees me walk like
the graceful swan...

the theyyam god
will abandon his crown.

Look at my beauty, like a silver cup
that's full to the brim.

I have eyes that gleam that ignite
sparks each time, they flutter.

I have the beauty and grace
of the flowering poovarasu tree.

When he sees me walk
like the graceful swan...

the theyyam god will
abandon his crown.

Look at my beauty, like a silver cup
that's full to the brim.

The elite of Kolathunad will
covet me when they see me...

and all the women
at home will tease me.

The fragrance of my jasmine will intoxicate
the men of the Samoodiri's palace.

The clouds will come running
to line my eyes with kajal.

While the Pooram festival was
grandly celebrated...

While you did the war dance,
you didn't look at me.

Still you are my

I have eyes that gleam that ignite
sparks each time, they flutter.

I have the beauty and grace of
the flowering poovarasu tree.

When he sees me walk
like the graceful swan...

the theyyam god
will abandon his crown.

Look at my beauty, like a silver cup
that's full to the brim.

You are like the bow of Kamadeva,
the God of Love.

Don't swing your sword at me.
I will become a flower.

All the girls in the queen's bathing
ghat will find out about us.

Those who guard our land will
conduct our wedding.

I sang about so many things spoke
without words and yet you said nothing.

Still, you are my

I have eyes that gleam that ignite
sparks each time, they flutter.

I have the beauty and grace
of the flowering poovarasu tree.

When he sees me walk
like the graceful swan...

the theyyam god will
abandon his crown.

Look at my beauty, like a silver cup
that's full to the brim.

Sit here.

For his brain to work, he must eat.

Give him food.

He wants to know
if you're trying to kill him.

He's suspicious.

Trust us.

I just cut him down
to size in Portuguese.

Bhanu, these people love to eat.

If they go to Melindi or Mombasa,
they enjoy chameleons, lizards.

They kill everyone, eat anything.

That's their way.

Does he understand our language?

He doesn't seem to.

But all those who came here after
his father spoke fluent Malayalam.

I think he follows it.
Shall we find out?

How?

This is his last meal. Velutha,
hang him when he's done.

He understands Malayalam perfectly.

You're a poor actor. Don't try
to fool me. When the new regime

in your country became intolerable,
I was one of those

who requested Vasco da Gama
to come back to Kerala.

And now he likes Unniraman
of Cochin more than me.

I will save you, Estavio.

In return, you must make this prince,
Bhanuvikraman, an important man.

And Vasco must come here himself.

What did he say?

To free him.

That's dangerous.

Let the time come. Estavio

I'll do what is necessary then.

This prince is your friend.

'Bastard' means he
who does not have a father.

This sword refuses
to surrender to my hands.

It's not used to being
handled by strangers.

Disobedience is something
I prefer to subdue.

This is not just a whiplash.

It's time for the journey.

You burnt our house.
Now you're sending me back?

Stop this two-faced game.

I'll take over as guard.

You're the reason
my home turned to ashes.

I didn't come there to kill Arab women.

The father will gather
an army and come for his son.

That's exactly what I'm waiting for.

The mercenaries of Chirakkal
can't defeat his army.

I did not hope for an army
when I set out on this hunt.

You're not confronting
just one man, the Viceroy.

War is something to win not to fear.

Put aside your arrogance.

I've no army, I've only my word
to give you. Am ass strength.

Go to the villages, gather those
who have fire within them.

Ayesha is with you as well.

There are people in the Arackal
army who are loyal to me.

Why give me help I did not seek?

I am also with Kothuval's son
on his journey.

Where do you go with your force?
Not with my force.

To Madai along with my friend.

I'm going to start a good matter punishing
Payanbai & meeting Madai soldiers.

Ifs very tough.
You always roaming with your friend.

Friendi's words are right.

If we don't say anything to them,
whom shouldn't we say..

We need not hear the
unwanted suggestions.

I wanted to tell you a thing.

What's that?

He's my friend from my childhood.

He's like dragonfly,
which dies immediately if we harm it.

Whoever may say anything.
He will be honest. I'll be there with him.

I am also there with you. Can you
take me also to your destination?

Queen should go along with the king. Flight?
-Will you become a king, right? - Princess.

King is on the way.
Don't torture us by singing here.

King will be there only
if there is his kingdom. Flight?

Friend has planned to gather
some people & question you directly

I'll come from my journey & tell you
that when you'd come with me.

Keezha Nayanar! -You man!

Keezha Nayanar didn't go to Puthur
cowardly & not to hide somewhere.

To ask credit. -King has gone
for that only. Right?

He will definitely arrange it.

Why did you ask credit
for us, Nayanar?

We will give you the crops alone
of Madha Nayakar.

You man! Shout louder!
Let our people come here.

Come on! Come on!
We didn't come here to ask money.

To ask man power for our force.

We have a great force to redeem
our Kozhikodu from our enemies.

We have our warriors
to destroy our enemies.

I saw my siblings suffer
for they want to kill me...

Puthur soldiers couldn't help me.

When they killed
Thalachangodu dragging his hair...

Nobody supported us getting
bribe from your king.

Then they ceased our group.

Somebody laughed louder at that time.

Some other people died
in prison. Why?

To cross our seas, we need permits.

Why should we?

When we send people to ask
they come back as corpses.

This is becoming
a routine in every part.

So Kelu has come
to ask for a favour.

The Portuguese have nearly
1000 people and we here

have 5 men for each one of them.

I was born on this soil.

I ask this soil to loan me its men.

Doesn't he know that if you don't
obey the Portuguese, they'll hang you?

True, I sing for wages, but
I get enough to eat and be happy.

Come with me, all of you
who are strong and brave.

Give me a 1000 hands to go
to war with the Portuguese.

We don't need this hang-pole
that pierces our Mother earth's chest.

History must never say that
this animal was a burden to me.

Go on drawing.

Hold me, I'm coming down.

My back.

These people are from Kodungallur...

Syrians who are suffering because
they opposed the Portuguese.

They'd be glad if you give them
an opportunity to do trade with us.

Madhevos, Yusuf.

If you help us, King,
We will always remember you.

What's the point of remembering?

If we get a discount on taxes, we'll bring
you your share of the profits.

Shouldn't I have a word
with Chenicheri?

No King should seek another's help
if he feels he's doing the right thing.

Go and see the officials.

Thank you, King.

There's something I have to tell you.

The person who broke open the cell
to free the Arackal women was me.

Kelu!

They are safe now, at Puthur.

That was wrong, King.

You must make amends for your mistake.

The people at Arackal
are our enemies, Kelu.

-Our prestige -What prestige?

For banishing your sister
because a Muslim touched her

during a quarrel about
the partition of the property?

Or for your fear that
Cheraman Perumal would...

hand your entire land over to Islam?

Enough of that.

Christians, Muslims,
must all stand with us now.

The Arackal girl.

We've already spoken about it.

Don't touch the ground.
Carefully, attentively...

Imagine he's a wild boar that
has come to destroy your crops.

A wild boar.

Betel leaves.

You seem overcome by emotion.

Yes, it's emotion.

The emotion of joy.

Once I realized that
kingship is not easy

I never enjoyed peace of mind.

Now that I have
two strong young men

to look after
my affairs, is a satisfaction.

Now I feel that I'm a King.

When the scaffolds the Portuguese
had put up were uprooted

the fear in people's
hearts came out with them.

They had a leader now
to unite them, Kelu.

Your pupils are pale,
your eyes have a reddish tinge.

By the time you're King,
you'll be blind, like Dhritarashtra.

Who is Dhritarashtra?

The King of the Kauravas.

I do everything
the King tells me, and yet.

That's why I say, the way
forward is the Portuguese way.

I have received bad news
from Puther Kelu...

and Ali are running around,
gathering people.

They want to amass a huge army.

Their aim is to attain
the Chirakkal throne.

I what should I do?

The throne...is not a low-legged bed.

You must use the imprisoned
Estavio to get to Vasco da Gama...

and I then climb up through
Vasco to the position of King.

This time, the gift was
your son's little finger.

Next time you send the army
they'll send his head.

Asim is coming in the guise
of a Muslim devotee.

Vasco is sending troops
to rescue Estappan.

Those pigs will come
and eat your crops.

Vasco knew that if he himself led
the army that would endanger his son.

So, he sent trusted
Portuguese warriors...

to rescue Estavio, his son
along with some local warriors.

Did you hear the village army
sing a funeral dirge?

Go and tell them that the ritual
of uprooting has started a folk song.

Mother! Won't our suffers go off?

Our excitements & our happiness...

Do you know about our peaceful life
& delicious cooking, you girl?

Dear! Do you know
those things, you girl?

Who are you?

Like the thundering waves...

Like flying embers...

You come like the fiery ethira' dancer.

The one who holds within him
the completeness of the arts.

Those closely entwined tresses
have so much grace and beauty.

What lies in those eyes, where
waves splash, is it lust or compassion?

Is it a dream or a tender shoot?

Is it fire or words?

Will you not tell me?

Who are you?

Like the thundering waves...

Like flying embers...

You come like the fiery ethira' dancer.

The one who holds within him
the completeness of the arts.

In the night-dark flow
of your wet tresses...

you wear a crescent moon.

In the unleashed blade
of the urumi-sword...

you are the gleam of gold.

In the Ezhimala hills
and the Elamala hills...

You unfurl a peacock
that merges into my dream.

You become the body
of an un-quenched thirst.

Who are you?

From the body
which is getting spoiled...

To the devil sailor named Vasco,
who is going to die...

Kelu & his country people
expected Vasco's death.

It's time for action.

Ali and Kelu have overcome the King.

Your father, Vasco da Gama,
is sitting idle in Cochin.

I'm sending the Crown Prince
himself to Vasco with the news.

'Vao' in Portuguese means
'Go' in Malayalam!

A message from Kolathunad,
for the first time after the riots.

A dwarf...?

What Chenicheri said was right.

Your every word is foolish.

Chirakkal Bhanuvikraman.

Sit down.

He's not yet become King.
He's the Crown Prince.

You look the part. It wouldn't be
wrong to call you King.

Gama is on the warpath.

He caught a fever in Goa
and has become very weak.

And he's worried about his son.
Who thought this would happen?

Estavio

Chenicheri Kurup is very clever.
He didn't come himself because

he knew he'd never go back.

I'll explain things to this fellow.

I'll tell him what to do
and how to do it.

Tell him, why you've come.

The trade permit trade permit.

Trade permit?

Yes.

There's a person outside. You can go.

Your father will never
touch Opium again.

Good! The Goddess's face
will become clear again.

There'll soon be a wedding chain
around your neck.

You'll make me hate this world?

So you want to retire, do you?

I have a warrior in mind.

Go and put on these new clothes.

When you come back wearing them,
I'll tell you who it is.

I have someone in mind too.

Only clothes - no jewels?

Off with you!

Why didn't you tell me
you were going on a journey?

Danger lurks everywhere now.

Look at this.

For 4 years, you've been begging
the Portuguese for a trade permit.

I managed to get it in just 4 days!

What do you have to say now?

Who has the right to levy taxes
on the God-given expanse of the sea?

Whose feet did you fall at?

Stuff it back in the throat
of whoever gave it to you.

See that your index
finger does not tremble.

Chenicheri...

Those eyes...

Chenicheri, close those eyes.

We'd not allow European force
to cross our country...

Estappan has escaped.

And the King

Estavio has escaped.

Now Gama will come with his arm y.

The late King would have given
orders to prepare for war.

Tell the chieftains.

The Chirakkal army will
do take orders from me.

They will not be with you.

You, your army and Kurup
who feeds you Opium.

Do what you want?

You dare talk back to the King?

Sit down on that throne, Bhanu.

First teach him the basics of monarchy
before he plays the King's role.

You want to fight the Portuguese?

That is real treason.

You want poor folk who are used to tilling
the land to fight the Portuguese army.

You're selfish!

Your duty to a King is to protect
his people, not shed their blood.

There's a scheming,
greedy woman in you.

Authority over the Lakshadweep
Islands and a title.

That's the bait the Portuguese
hold against you.

My father once asked you to support him
and fight for our people.

You handed him over
to the Portuguese instead...

My father, Chirakkal Kothuval
you betrayed him.

Kothuval!

If it was only my self-interest,

then your head would
have been on my lap.

Open your eyes.

There's only one enemy.

22 years ago, my father ignited
a spark in my heart, with which.

I swore to light a pyre
for the Viceroy

Estavio.

Princess!

The moment you chose to open
my door was not auspicious.

The King is gone.

I have only one thing to say
without pomp or ceremony,

you must come out
of this sad room now.

Our country needs its Princess.

I can feel my father's agony.

Before his pyre turns to ashes
the army will reach the palace.

Don't be foolish and allow their
guns to come up to this door.

Knowingly don't be
a witness to the wrongs.

I know who killed my father and why...

I cringe that the blood that flows
in his veins is the same as mine...

Yes, I will leave this palace
without pomp or ceremony

I will leave this palace that will
bow down to the Portuguese...

and come to your village.

I will be with you, Princess,
wherever you go.

From now on, that's all I want to dedicate
myself to Puthur is your palace now.

We didn't have the time, Princess,
to prepare a welcome for you.

I have not left home.

I have come home.

We'll surround them at the spot
where the viceroy arrives.

Look, a 100 people
are digging the moat.

Get the women and children ready
to go north to the mountains.

Here, a letter. The King will know
who sent it and what to do.

As always, the woman retreats.

No, you will lead them.

You will safeguard the mothers

who will give us a whole
new generation of warriors.

Why did you choose me
for this mission?

If I know you are there, far away,
I will come back just for you.

We have fresh garlands
for the new stage.

And the scene is set for us.

We hold our love for this
soil close to our hearts.

And in the abode we've made,
no one is a stranger.

Our souls and our lives
are linked to our dreams...

this is what the wise ones
have always taught us.

There are many changes, Viceroy.

Temples have become taverns.

Enough spaces have been created...

for the Portuguese
cannons to be placed.

Pepper traders compete in every
port as for that garrulous King...

we did away with him.

Rather, Bhanu helped.

Here he is, the King.

All that this Minister, Kurup wishes
for is the affection of Portugal.

Affection...

Estappan, my friend.

News as Dhuwan, the new king of
Portugal, has saved his promise.

Minister Kuruppu is the Government
General of lakh islands hereafter.

Your contract of dividing the tax amount of
ships those comes for all the directions...

Hey Chakrathali Hasim Pakir!

You've become a great man as this
Chenacheli Kuruppan's broad-mind.

If I get this reward now...

I have the intelligence to think
whether I can go to lakh islands or prison.

Kuruppu is going to give up his
role that he played until now.

I have 2 eyes, which wants to redeem
my country from European forces.

I won't get this reward to spoil that.

Estavio! I'm a prestigious person.

Don't prevent anyone from leaving.

People have gathered
at the appointed spots.

Before the war starts,
talk to them to give them courage.

We've talked enough. Now for deeds.

The Chirakkal army is approaching.

So Kaimal, no one with you
when you switched sides?

Have you seen the deep pit
in which to bury men like you?

Standing shoulder to shoulder,
you gave of your best

your weapons in tune
with your hearts.

Now, to the palace.

Friend!

Vavvali, my friend.

Vavvali, it's nothing.

Vavvali, nothing's happened to you.

Friend! Nothing... Close your mouth.

Move... -Move. -Be careful.

Nothing, Vavvali.

Go, my friend.

Achieve what you dared.

Tomorrow, no one will remember Vavvali.

Maybe no one will praise Kelu.

But give me your word that
the world will never glorify Vasco.

No, no.

You are my brother and protector.

Before I cut his throat,
you should come.

I'll wait for you.

Viceroy! The village army has come.

What Ali said became true.

History forgot Kelu and
the world praised Vasco.

Other countries followed the
Portuguese 400 years of servitude...

until a Gandhi liberated us.

The spaces of war have shifted.

It's here now.

We stand before
the weapon that is money.

The decision is yours to make
and the responsibility of this as well.

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

Friend!

These people are harmless,
nothing like what we feared.

It was along and tiring journey.

What's the evening programme?

A meeting with the landowner,
Krishnadas...

and Nirvana, the mining corporation.

Sir, if you plant one tree,
will it become a forest?

All the trees I planted till now
have become forests.

Sir, considering the debates
on mining in Orissa

what's your personal opinion
about this enterprise in Kerala?

You're asking whether I have
shares in the company, Nirvana.

No, I don't.
It is an international consortium.

Blood!

Be positive, it's a good omen. Sign.

This project will be located
on a vast portion of land

that is being sold willingly
by Krishnadas with your support

this will become
one of India's best mining cities.

I have to think about it again.

I said, I have to give it
some more thought.

Satellite cities,
opportunities for employment.

IT parks.
The media must understand that

I am not against environmental issues.

I am against fake
environmental activists.

I cannot sell.

Brother!

I had no sentiments at all
for the soil I was born on

until I arrived here.

I came here, met some people and heard

of the dream that those
who lived and died on this soil had.

That dream is now mine as well,
I want to try once more...

and see if we can make
that dream come true.

Be careful, that's an urumi-sword.

If I know you are there, far away,
I will come back, just for you.