"Give me a piece of washing soap" "Give six paise" "Yes. giving" "Give ghee for 25 paise" "Give the bottle" "Give two bananas" "Oh Lord Anjaneyal!" "Bless goodness!" "Had Manet Seem?" "Had grandpa!" "For some reason, it's extremely cold today." "(Central Jail)" "All is well." "All is well." "Why friend?" "Aren't getting sleep?" "I'm asking you!" "Didn't you get sleep?" "They say. even walls have ears." "In that" "And after living between these four walls, have you forgotten that you have ears?" "Forgetfulness is God's boon to Mankind." "But He didn't even give me that boon" "Unable to forget anything." "When you go to sleep." "no memories would haunt." "Just close your eyes and go to sleep." "Before closing my eyes." "I should get answers to my questions or they will come in my dream and spoil my sleep." "What is your question, my friend?" "I may not be so knowledgeable!" "But I will answer with the limited knowledge I have." "At least I will get the little virtue of putting you to sleep." "You have made me to come in between these walls." "Isn't that virtue enough?" "Oh my dear!" "The police caught you." "The lawyer argued. thejudge passed thejudgement!" "When there are these 3 Primary Gods," "Like the idol of a secondary god, I've been quiet." "Telling me as the reason for you to come here, what justice is this?" "They all came behind me after I started to walk." "But you are the one who taught me to keep the first step isn't it?" "Oohl!" "Looks like you would say that I only gave you birth and fed you milk, isn't it?" "Why should I compare you with my pure hearted mother!" "In spite of all the hardships, she never took a short route." "Neither did ask me to go." "You mean," "I brought you from the main road to the short route is it?" "Half your support and the other half. my fickle mindedness." "Abha!" "Thankfully, without giving me the full credits, you have made me half indebted." "That is my good virtue!" "Next question?" "Iam yet to ask my first question." "Ah!" "Mean. till now whatever you told and asked are only preface is it?" "Yes!" "Even if the end note of a book is not read, they would read the preface definitely!" "Ohhhh!" "It's too confusing. whatever you're asking." "What is 'rt that you want to ask ask directly." "I'm feeling very drowsy." "This one day. adjust!" "Tomorrow I won't be awake to spoil your sleep." "Ifthe preface is long. the story won't be interesting." "Question number 1." "Ask?" "Before I could ask, you look like you already have answers, so confident?" "You've known me for years don't you know about me?" "I know that you're questions won't be beyond my knowledge." "That's why such confidence." "OK." "My first question." "Ask?" "Are you my friend?" "While I was asleep." "Somewhere my mind cautioned me that you might be awake!" "Iwoke up and saw...you are awake!" "Isn't this enough?" "To know the position that I have given to you in my heart" "I don't want your intelligent answer!" "Tell me directly!" "Are you really my friend?" "That is what." "I thin k." "A good friend will rob the heart." "But you laid foundation to make robbery my profession." "Why?" "Iwas eating bun." "You came with hunger." "I gave you half the bun" "You ate without asking me if it was earned or stolen." "Tell me why?" "The stomach doesn't ask questions dear." "While I was eating if you had stopped and told that it was bought in a wrong way;" "Stolen." "May be my hunger would have shown another way or something." "If only I felt it was wrong, I would tell you!" "What did you say?" "Let me tell loudly." "Listen." "I have never felt that robbery is wrong till now!" "One is sent to jail to regret." "I come and go very often." "Butl have never regretted." "Because of my robbery, my entire family gets to eat their stomach full full and looking at the joy in their eyes, these bars become invisible." "After the meal, when your wife and children asked," ""What do you do for a living?"" "What did you tell them?" "Before sewing my wife and feeding to my children." ""Iam a robber, this was brought out of robbery!"" "is what I told them and fed them." "Ifyou didn't tell them, what can I do?" "Even in our robbery, there is honesty my dear...!" "But. are you not scared that even your children would become robbers as well In future?" "When a politician is not ashamed about his son getting into politics." "Why should a robber when his son becomes a robber?" "After all. like you followed the path I showed you." "Will my kids hang themselves in banyan tree that their father planted?" "In their fate, whatever is written, it is just the way it is." "Meaning, the profession we've chosen was our fate?" "And it isn't our own decision?" "Own decisions, become our fate." "Couldn't hear." "Murmuring won't be heard." "The forehead is always empty, we humans only have to fill it." "Like you just filled those empty sheets and made 'rt into a book" "." "Life is also like that." "Whatever we write is the fate" "No one from above, sits and writes!" "By talking revolutionary like this." "Are you trying to pose yourself as a communist?" "Look" "I left Goddess of Education and ran behind the Goddess of wealth." "You in spite of running behind the goddess of wealth, every now and then peeped into the goddess of education who was coming behind you." "So I don't possess the knowledge and intelligence you have." "Even then, as your friend for these many years, at least, I have understood you to a certain level." "Right now.." "To all the questions in your mind." "I don't have the answer," "Even ifl gave you, you may not accept." "Channa," "God created all men in a similar way." "But wisdom." "He gave as per his wish." "Person with more wisdom walked over the person with less wisdom and sat on the throne." "The person with less wisdom walked over the person without any wisdom and stood beside the throne." "The people without any wisdom like you and me." "Without thinking did some work and neither could sit on the throne nor could stand beside" "Have landed up between these four walls which were built by people like us." "Finally, I want to tell one thing. my friend." "The direction you took the light I showed is not the only reason." "The poverty in your hands was also a reason." "How did you tell you don't have the goddess of education?" "Experience is your education." "But this education of yours didn't give me answer completely." "Thanks... for answering my questions to a certain level." "Sorry for disturbing your sleep... can you do one more help?" "Ahhm"?" "Will you wake my father and send?" "You will question him also?" "What today sleepless night is it?" "Before the deep sleep a small sleeplessness." "Channa, don't spoil your mind too much," "Simply sleep." "What son?" "You won't even let me sleep peacefully?" "Can anyone sleep more peacefully than you, dad?" "How can a person without sleep like you know the pleasure of sleep?" "Your pleasure is only important to you. isn't it?" "Yes." "Don't you feel that is selfishness in it." "Hey...!" "After sharing with everyone in the community what is left for us?" "To feel the pleasure." "You didn't even share anything with the family?" "What are you talking about community?" "I didn't share." "I am selfish." "Now What?" "By Being selfish did you at least grow high?" "To think you as my inspiration." "No." "Luckily, even though I am your blood." "I didn't become like you." "Ifl did, would have stopped talking too." "Thinking, ifl talk my mouth would pain!" "You're the next meaning of Laziness." "Laziness is not my nature." "It's an incapability of the body..." "My body didn't have the energy to do anything." "To make children, didn't that incapability come as an obstacle?" "Aiii." "I am your father." "Let there be little fear and respect." "Fear was there." "Respect died." "If you couldn't take care of us." "If you couldn't give us a good future... why did you give birth to me...?" "Why?" "Aiyyo... for your birth, I never gave any offering to any god...!" "Feeling pleasure is nature..." "Hard work fetches pleasure..." "When lfelt the pleasure." "Did I know trouble will be born?" "This question you should ask the so called creation or nature." "Yourtalking so much know?" "You should have stopped at ploughing... why did you continue until the seeds fell?" "Under the spell of pleasure, will anyone be conscious about the excreta... you fool?" "It is very disgusting to hear. right?" "This is the truth... so many fathers do not express..." "I am Expressing...!" "Meaning." "Am I the excreta that came out of you ?" "But your mother is not like that." "She didn't throw the foetus of her womb out as dirt." "." "Like a temple she saved it." "There is no God above mother... there is no sacred verse beyond the words of a father. they say." "If your only intention was to feel the pleasure, you should have killed me on my birth itself!" "Yes, one should learn how to kill from you." "Killing is not easy...!" "One should struggle even to commit murder." "Iwon't struggle." "In fact. after your birth I did not run away right?" "I have been with you." "I even sat through your wedding formalities." "That's exactly what I am saying." "You were there only for formality." "When I came with hunger..." "You came drunk" "Even left overs that mom got home, you ate..." "If you had to support me when I was hungry." "I wouldn't have gone to him and lwouldn't have become a robber as well." "Aiyyooo..." "I agree that I didn't teach you good deed..." "But did I teach you become a robber ?" "Ahahaaa..." "Such an irresponsible father, you are." "Just say irresponsible sir." "By calling him a father." "Why are you spoiling the purity of the word, father." "Sh." "You have a son; you said." "What do you wish that he becomes?" "I wish he becomes a government officer...!" "But"!" "But...?" "He has written the 7th standard exam thrice." "Education is not getting into his head." "Ahh h...!" "That's why they tell..." "Things won't happen the way we want it to happen...!" "Listen to our conversation." "Ijust said. it is not getting into his head." "I did not say it will never get in...!" "The wish that my son becoming like that has not died..." "He is still making efforts" "And what I am saying now would not be understood by an irresponsible person like you." "What. you are talking like I am the only irresponsible person in the world." "My father was more irresponsible person than I am." "You said, your dad left home for freedom struggle?" "Yes. that is why I told irresponsible." "Chem!" "How will a lazy person like you know what is patriotism and struggle?" "Even I am patriotic about the nation." "But you should have the same patriotism about your house." "All the people who shout slogans in group are not Gandhi...!" "In the name of struggle." "he created his escape route." "To free Mother India from the hands of others, he left my mother into the hands of others." "In the name of nation, my father travelled around the World." "By selling her body, mother fed us." "The ugly truth that I couldn't digest made my mind numb!" "Without doing anything, just by thinking what to do." "I whiled away all my time, that became laziness." "later Laziness became a habit." "After what your father did to you." "Didn't you feel that you shouldn't do the same thing to your son?" "Is this an ancestral property?" "Since your father gave pain, you should pass that on to your son?" "Don't you have sense!" "Hey...hey...hey..." "What man, you great intelligent...!" "You are asking your father himself whether he has sense?" "Even you have two children." "Because of your hastiness only, you have come to jail.." "While taking a hasty decision." "Didn't you remember the responsibility of your children?" "Mother is god!" "Father is god!" "Teacher is god!" "Didn't I teach you?" "For the incapability in you, you are blaming the elders as the reason?" "A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow." "However tall you grow, when you look at your father, you should lift your head up!" "His experience is your lesson." "Just because you couldn't grow and took short route... why do you blame him...?" "What did you say?" "He doesn't have sense is it?" "God has kept brain in your head too, right?" "It is your brain, yourthought and your future..." "Why blame others?" "Think before you speak...!" "If at all you can think... otherwise just shut up"!" "okay?" "I myself wanted to call you sir.You yourself came." "You didn't call, my dear." "You ROARED...!" "You're the teacher who has to correct and give knowledge..." "If you itself get angry..." "How is it sir?" "Hmmm..." "To get correctedio learn the knowledge and then to live.Do you have so much time...?" "No sir...!" "But for whatever time I have... wanted to ask and learn about life." "Better late than never...!" "It is to better to happen than not happen at all." "But it is too late. my dear." "I know." "Sir." "The father who had to be my teacher, did n't show the target!" "Even before I started looking up to you as my teacher." "I lost my path." "In school, I taught you something..." "Do you remember?" "Whenever you want to do something which you have not done before." "It three times!" "Three times!" "First time to experiment, to try!" "Second time to know whether it is done rightly or not!" "Whether we have done correctly or not!" "Third time to know whether to do such a thing in future or not!" "To know, in future whether to do it or not!" "But robbery." "After the third time became inevitable or you didn't like... 'rt became a habit!" "It became a habit with you!" "To leave that habit... habit I came to you many times." "Sir," "But." "You shut the door on my face." "Ah... you never came for confession." "You only came forgiving information!" "Muniyappa...!" "Did you understand what I said?" "No sir..." "But it was nice to hear!" "Aaieem." "Just like this many students who come to me." "Just come to hear." "Not to listen or understand!" "If only you were in the group of people that understood." "If you had to tell me more strictly, Iwould have understood sir." "Aaaa... you can take the horse to the pond." "But you can't make him drink water!" "If you would have come only as a horse, I would have taken you till the water." "May be would have made you drink 'rt also." "But you came like a horse with blinkers of robbery is right." "Even ifl had taken you till the water." "You couldn't have seen the water." "Sh." "Iron that is supposed to be very tough also melts when it is heated." "And, heart is just flesh, isn't sir?" "If you had held my hands." "Iwould have tried to climb up." "But you. like everyone else." "Were scared of me once lwas labelled as a criminal." "You forgot that I am your student." "Yes. my dean... when got promoted from being a robber to a murderer, isn't it fair for me to get scared?" "That too when you have murdered such a soft creature." "How can I take you as a normal student!" "He is an "Animal"" "And not soft...!" "Sojust like killing an animal, will you take the life of a human being that easily?" "Sh." "talk only about my robbery." "I do not regret about the murder." "I committed." "Hmmm..." "Okay dear...!" "For a man who doesn't regret the murder he did..." "Why regret for robbery?" "Because." "I became a murderer... when I went to rob." "Hmmm..." "You're been in jail for 3 years." "Why regret now after all these days?" "Because." "I won't see tomorrow's Sun Rise." "Hmmm"" "Means?" "My Death Sentence." "Silence...!" "For the direction you took, the light I showed is not the only reason." "The lamp in your hands was also a reason." "I agree that I didn't teach you good deed..." "But did I teach you to become a robber?" "You never came for confession." "You came forgiving information!" "Hey Shivlingu." "Give me the key bunch." "Take." ""My Writing"" "The End." "Just before the end I had a dream." "In my dream" "I asked to my friend, my father and my teacher.." "The questions, I always wanted to ask them." ""My Writing"" ""My Fate"" ""My Fate"" "Written by myself" "Channakeshava... take the clothes." "Take bath and get ready." "Officer will come." "How much more time?" "For what?" "To take bath and get ready." "Ten minutes." "Ahh h..." "One min ute..." "You took good care of me and to express my gratitude." "I don't have anything to offer." "But I can say Thank you," "Thank you!" "Lord HanumantharayaJ Save us father." "Channa," "Sh." "It's time for the officer to come." "Get ready soon." "Okay 5'"..." "Sh." "why are you feeling apprehensive...?" "Iam the one who should feel shy." "Open the lock." "Keep the lamp inside." "H mm m..." "You stay here." "Okay officer." "Channa"" "Channa"" "Channa"" "Why...?" "I've been calling." "Were you not able to hear?" "Sorry sin" "Was thinking of something?" "Thinking." "No use ofthat anymore." "Hmmm..." "What were you thinking?" "About the dream I had." "Ithought you wouldn't have slept at all." "You even dreamt. is it," "Yes sir." "Whoever lthought is the reason for my present condition." "I called all of them in my dream and questioned them." "Oh oh." "Got the answer?" "What is 'rt?" ""My writing" has become" ""My Fate"?" "I have included 'written by myself'als0, sir," "You were blaming others." "Finally realised that it's your mistake," "In my dream." "though the characters were different." "Both question and answer were mine." "Means?" "All these years I thought they were the reason for my present condition..." "But this dream opened my eyes...!" "Iam the reason for my current state, it told," "Okay, Channa." "I have very less time." "Let me finish the work I came for." "Iwill read this notice." "Listen." "What notice, Sir?" "Nothing." "Government's procedure." "Understood." "Leave 'rt Sir." "To take me." "You came to give the call letter. is it?" "Duty ofjustice, Channa." "It's my fate." "In the end, I need to read this." "Okay, Sir." "Read." "Yvu." "Chanakeshav a." "three years back i.e., 9-8-1960 mid - night at the time of 12:15 , after breaking into the house located at The centre place of Bangalore, Gandhinagar," "2nd Main Street." "No.108, Sri Krupa , the owner of the house, Mr.Karisubbiah, Aged about 55 years was intentionally stabbed with a knife and was killed till death." "After his death, jumped the compound wall and went to Upparpettai police station." "Sir one minute!" "In this notice; if there are any mistakes, can be corrected. right?" "In the notice, mistake?" "In Government notice?" "Mistake]?" "Do we?" "I mean" "Government people will make mistake anywhere?" "H mm m...that's rig ht..." "Me. a person injail after doing mistake." "Mistook you, A person in jail without doing any mistake," "My mistake." "I have come here to do my duty and that is what I am doing now," "What is that mistake?" "Where?" "Where has the mistake been committed?" "You never make a mistake." "No." "I mean, the people in the Government never make mistakes." "How can there be a mistake then, tell me sir?" "In case. there is a mistake." "How would it be visible to the government officials?" "Even if it is visible to you now." "Makes no difference." "Look you have pinched the child." "Now if you refuse to swing the cradle." "How come?" "What mistake has been committed. tell me?" "If I told?" "We'll correct it." "We'll correct, means?" "Oh... with you is there an option to correct, Sir?" "Ifthere is mistake, whoever it is." "Has to definitely correct," "Life is also like that only right?" "See. when we were kids, we skid and fell." "Fall. get up. and learn to walk. right?" "As soon as we open our mouth." "we don't speak. right?" "First syllables.Then alphabet" "After that you speak, right?" "Looks like you like children?" "Look,Don't change the topic?" "What was the mistake, tell me that first?" "Since you're compelling." "I am saying this." "Sir." "From what you read." "There is one thing missing and one thing incorrect." "What?" "First when I went to rob in that house." "He came to catch me." "While trying to escape from him." "I killed him." "Secondly, after killing;" "ljumped the compound, you read." "But ljumped the compound only when I entered the house." "After the murder," "I walked out thru the gate." "as majestic as a king." "0h yes. right!" "Hhe the the").!" "What a mistake?" "Let go, Sir." "It is not the time to take count of mistakes." "It's a Government notice." "which does not make a mistake, right." "Then it is not supposed to have even a small mistake right?" "That's why I said.That's it." "This isn't a minute mistake?" "It's a mountain sized blunder." "As you told me;" "Let me correct it." "Thank you so much..." "My heart is still not convinced man." "An ordinary murderer had to correct this." "Ordinary murderer?" "Nice." "Sir." "Holy water does not have to shell." "Holy water wherever it comes from, it is divine." "Leave it." "Read further sir." "Where was I?" "At Upparpettai." "Ah?" "I mean, when you read Upparpettai, I intervened." "Ah..." "Correct." "Came to Upparpettai Police station and you surrendered yourself." "In the court, since you accepted your crime yourself." "According to IPC section 302." "You've been sentenced Death Penalty." "Why are you looking at me." "Sir?" "Ialready agreed long back isn't 'rt?" "No mistake at all." "In the notice." "Channa..." "Your life is only one hour long." "Even at the verge of death." "You're still able to make fun?" "An actor. he has to laugh outside." "Even if he is crying. deep down." "But I don't know to ad." "What can I do." "What can I do." "And after losing all my dignity, at least before crying." "I thought I will laugh and make others laugh," "What to do Sir?" "Am not able to shed tears." "Like our town's lake, my tears have dried up too." "Hmmm...!" "Realisation of mistake is seen." "But in your talk.. .regret." "Regret!"" "What does that mean. sir?" "That word has absolutely no meaning with you. sir." "Not even the value of a Paris." "Did I?" "Have I not regretted...?" "Didn't you read my appeal petitions?" "Why sir... blame only me?" "If blaming me for three years is not sufficient, as you said, one hour only;" "blame me and feel happy!" "Or even after I become a corpse, will you not spare me...?" "Channa, can't your cracker of a speech be" "written into a story/novel?" "My Story"" "novel..." "For both and has been put sir!" "Read further." "Sir," "On thisjudgement, the mercy petition that you appealed to the president, was rejected and as informed to you eight days before Le." "05.12.1963." "Thursday." "This days i.e. 12.12.1963, Thursday before sunrise between the death penalty should be executed as per thejudgement given bythe Court of law" "You should now get ready Channa!" "Your wife, Children have come and are waiting outside." "If you want to see anyone?" "Your mother is also with them?" "Her?" "Sh." "Can I see the sun?" "Your mother." "Definitely would like to see you." "Special permission has been obtained." "Special permission?" "Mother to see her son requires special permission?" "Mother to see her son requires special permission?" "Yes." "we generally don't give such options to anyone." "Right officer?" "Mmm I am an ordinary murderer." "Mmm I am an ordinary murderer." "For such a person, an extra-ordinary permission." "Done sir...send...!" "Sir...!" "one minute...!" "Thank you for showing at least this much of courtesy on me...!" "Ah ah...!" "You can talk to her only in front ofthe officer," "Right Officer?" "Right Officer?" "Leave," "Why this sarcastic smile, man?" "Inevitable," "We definitely need to be here." "We definitely need to be here." "Right sin you definitely need to be here Sir." "Because." "What if my mother poisons and kills me, spoiling the hunger of your rope." "No, it's not like that." "Don't lie sir." "Lying is what we criminals do..." "You speak the truth sir." "You need to be here for that purpose, right?" "Sir, can I tell one thing...?" "What?" "The only mother who tried to kill her son by poisoning him the mother 'Kayadwonly!" "Even that she didn't do 'rt by herself" ""If the husband asks the wife to eat soil..." ""If the husband asks the wife to eat soil... if eaten.. .you get salvation"" "This belief made her do that act." "Leave the mythology, sir...!" "You know about the tiger thing?" "Hmmm"!" "Tiger sir...!" "When the cub is sleeping next to her, you should watch the mother tiger." "If she feels that her cub's life is danger, without thinking about her own life, without thinking about her own life, 'rt will pounce right in front of the hunter's rifle." "Don't worry." "Si L"!" "My mother won't kill me." "My mother won't kill me." "Iam a killer. agreed," "But my mother." "Just like your mother and all the other mothers." "Is a Mother." "That's it." "That's it." "That's it." "Rules need to be followed, Channa." "Rules need to be followed, Channa." "We're not scared that someone will get poison and give you. now'" "Your mother has got you coffee" "and our doctor has tested it." "Oh Oh...!" "What was the result Sir?" "Was there an infection?" "For the coffee?" "For the coffee?" "Channa..." "Pardon me, sir..." "There is not tests conducted on the bad and contaminated coffee that are served in hotels everyday," "But you test the coffee a mom gets" "But you test the coffee a mom gets for her son in this last minute" "That's why I said that," "That is..." "That also is your rules, Sir." "You need to follow." "Even now I wouldn't have accepted to meet her." "Even now I wouldn't have accepted to meet her." "But it's the mother's womb...!" "Sir." "Sometimes when sons leave home to go out station, his mother comes till the doorstep, wiping the tears." "And she bids farewell and blesses." "Now that I am leaving to go to on a journey to a far off place." "Ajoumeythat has no return." "Waiting to see the mother is fair, right Sir?" "I didn't want to make hercry." "But I am bowing down to her wish." "But I am bowing down to her wish." "Before I get into the womb of Mother Earth." "It is my responsibility to see the mother who brought me to this Earth." "Channa WChannaW my dear." "my dear." "Would you leave me and go?" "Would you leave me and go my dear"?" "Channa...oh god!" "Officer," "Officer," "I have taken a lot of pain in giving birth to him." "He is my only son." "His fatherjust gave birth to him...!" "His fatherjust gave birth to him...!" "I struggled and raised him Officer." "Officer, he is still young." "Has done a mistake that he is not supposed to," "Just because a child stumbles and falls down" "Just because a child stumbles and falls down will you chop its legs off?" "Tell me Officer, lfa life has to be taken for another." "Then hang me!" "Just hang me." "Officerl!" "Just hang me!" "Just hang me." "Officerl!" "Just hang me!" "Mother." "Iam a big sinner, mother." "Forthe struggle you had to go through in giving birth to me and bringing me up." "This is what I give you in return" "Her son getting hung to death." "Such a thing to watch, such a main." "I don't know what punishment the lord of hell would give for this." "Mother." "In future even if a woman is called infertile, it's ok." "But" "But please wish that she doesn't even conceive to a son like me." "Even if a mother knows that her son has committed a crime, she will never accept it." "Channa, never accept it!" "Never accept it!" "Channa, if you want to make a wish, just make a wish that no son born in future makes the same mistake you did.Wish that..." "Wish that"!" "Wish like that dear...!" "Wish like that...!" "Channa, my dean" "Oh God," "Ma'a m." "Give him coffee and leave." "Ne".!" "I won't go!" "!" "Where should I go?" "Why should I go?" "Hang me along with him. as well." "After my son dies, why should I be alive?" "Why should I be alive?" "Officer... look Ma.." "My daughter in law is sitting outside dumbstruck with their 2 children." "One is 4 years and the other is Z." "They are playing the rain game." "Ifthey ask me "Where is our father?"" "What do ltell them?" "How do I face them?" "No..." "I won't go, lwon't leave my son and go."" "I won't!" "Mother." "Won't go").!" "Mother." "I won't go!" "I won't go!" "Mother." "Mother." "Give me the coffee give me the coffee.." "Mother!" "How lucky, mother." "How lucky, mother." "After I was born.you fed me milk." "you raised me." "When my life is being taken away." "You giving me milk with sugar!" "What. mother?" "Since this is my last glass of milk, have you emptied all the sugar at home into this." "Sugar?" "Where is there going to be sugar at that house?" "Where is that house?" "It's not even a house." "It's a graveym rd!" "It's a graveym rd!" "Whatever is left there is bones." "And only ash" "Officer, look here..." "These are his children." "Look how cute they look" "At least looking at their face." "Please leave my son." "Officer." "Leave him." "Don't hang him, Officer, Leave him." "Mother." "Mother. please keep quiet." "Mother. please keep quiet." "Channa, look here..." "Look at your children dear." "Look dean" "Look at your children." "Channa" "Leave this place." "The more you stay..." "Take this useless tumbler and go?" "What do ltell them?" "What do I show anyone?" "Who needs this useless empty tumbler?" "What did this tumbler to." "Mother?" "Milk comes and milk goes." "If you throw even this away." "Where will you store milk?" "Mother?" "This tumbler is needed Mother." "The children need milk" "They need you also." "You're the one who got me married?" "For a mistake I did." "For the mistake of born to me," "why are you punishing them?" "Just like how you're ready to die for your son, you should live for the sake of your daughter in law." "You should like for the sake of your daughter in law." "You don't have the right to misguide their path." "You don't." "It's getting late." "And if this goes on, it will be dawn." "For the world, it's going to be day!" "But for us it's darkness." "Sun is rising," "Here." "My son is sinking." "Officer" "Sinking..." "I won't go." "I won't go." "Mother..." "Mother..." "I won't go." "Mother...!" "Okay, don't go." "My wife and children are outside right?" "Kill them in front of everyone." "Channa" "Don't provoke your mother." "No, sir." "By doing that, their problem will be solved and her wish will be fulfilled, as well." "They will bring you and hang you with me." "Let's both die together." "Why are you talking like this?" "Then what else do I do?" "Iam sorry, mother.." "I am putting you thru so much pain.." "So much pain.." "For some time it'll be tough." "Thereafter..." "Sh." "Sin please!" "Sir please take her." "Sin" "Look Mother!" "Please stay outside." "Everything will be over soon." "And we will only handover the dead body..." "Handover Channa." "Take her...!" "March out...!" "Which sinners eyes fel on.." "The beautiful life given by mother" "Which demon entered inside me.." "For the sin I did," "For the unbearable pain you suffered while giving birth," "I can never pay you back" "I became a painful son to yoy at the time leaving too." "I became a painful son to yoy at the time leaving too." "Tough!" "VeryTougm!" "Anything else to tell or ask?" "Channa?" "Will you make it happen, Sir?" "If it is not against law.." "Sin." "my wife... sells milk.." "Okay." "Buyers may cheat he without paying." "Pity her... because of hunger, she might become a robber too," "so if you buy milk for the Jail.." "Hmmm." "The Government has given a contract." "That is not possible...!" "But. one thing can be done." "I'll buy for my house and have my neighbours can be asked to buy also." "Making them pay is my responsibility." "Can be done." "Fine sir." "Second one..." "The following year." "My children will be admitted to school." "There," "They shouldn't be asked their father's name." "Need that arrangement made," "Why?" "Because." "Why because, no one should point fingers at them and insult them as children ofa murderer..." "That is why."" "No Channa, we cannot shut people up by hiding the truth." "Isn't that the reality?" "No, that is not the reality sir." "That is not..." "Which is why I am requesting." "Why?" "Aren't they your children?" "They are my children, Sir." "They are ...my children only, Sir..." "But they are not the children of a murderer." "I don't get it." "I committed the murderer." "After they were born." "And they are are Channa's children, Sir... m that oi a murderer." "Ok, I will try, ls that it?" "There's one more." "Sir," "What]" "Get my novel printed." "And the proceeds from the Novel should go to my mother.." "Selling this?" "Don't even have 2nd thought where people will buy, Sir." "Call for a tender stating. "The murderer who created sensation in Gandhi Nagan." "Murderer Charmakeshavfiflhy Fate..." "Publishers will break the walls ofthejail and come." "You may even have to do a Iathi charge." "For our people, a neighbour's fight is entertainment." "Sir." "And it adds more eagerness when it's a convict's!" "And who ever offers more money, sell it to them and the funds that come out of that should be delivered to my mother." "That is if she is alive until then..." "Why. man...?" "Why you so negatively?" "Just because I think...whatever is going to happen, will it not happen Sir?" "Dassharathas men heart itself broke it seems..." "Pity my mother..." "A woman." "In "Your Fate" have you written about us?" "I mean," "Systems, arrangements.." "If there is something written in an objectionable point of view." "Can't get approval." "It's not an objection, Sir," "Perceive this as an argument," "Not a complaint letter." "A Novel." "Objections made in literature should be welcome, don't you think Sir?" "Murder." "Court. punishment. hanging." "My opinion about them." "That's all I have expressed." "Oh hh, mean you have expressed your opinion?" "So mean, if someone beheads another, no one should do a thing." "A Punishment should not be pronounced." "For your comfort of your nose, you just written?" "Hmm mm?" "MY hose?" "It's going to breathe only for a little more time." "Why even discussed about that?" "Sh." "people tend to appreciate the nose after it's dead." "They will throw stones at you while you're alive" "And build a statue with stones when you die." "Hmmm"!" "Hmmm"!" "Would you like such a statue to be constructed for you also?" "Che chem!" "I don't even deserve a tomb stone built for myself and you're talking about a statue!" "Ifthis novel is read... you'll understand everything." "Now." "Understood, Sir," "Out of ti me. isn't it." "Let me stop at the Preface and Straight away, in brief tell you my argument." "Please. you have to listen, Sir," "What argument man, that is...?" "Sir, I went to that house that day and did what?" "Which house?" "That one sir... the crime scene." "What you did?" "Killed," "Killed." "Committed a Murder." "Isn't it Sin]" "Yes...!" "That's true." "Now. in sometime." "Around my throat, you will put a rope and do something. right?" "What is 'rt Sir?" "That is a punishment." "One country attacks another country." "On the houses." "Bombs are dropped like rain on houses where children are sleeping?" "What is that?" "That is war." "And that's done to restore justice?" "But ifl stab someone with a knife, it's a murder." "This is an irrelevant topic." "There is no relevance between this and that," "There is relevance, Sir." "There is." "In all the three circumstances." "whatever happens is the same" "Loss of life." "When I commit, it is a murder." "When you pronounce. it is a punishment." "When a country wages a war." "'rt is to restorejustice." "Why are you laughing, man?" "Nothing Sir." "Ijust put forward my argument." "And you've already come and sat on my seat, isn't it." "That's why I laughed." "That's all." "Leave it Sir...!" "If we think little calmly, all the countries are wage war." "Could be brought here and be seated...!" "Just because the dictionary has many terms, doesn't change the nature ofthe sin, Sir," "Have you written that as well?" "HmmmJ" "I have elaborately discussed Sir...!" "To give birth.." "For the mother nine months." "To kill... for the rope...?" "Like this." "I have argued." "More than the murder I committed." "You punishment is cruel." "It is a lot more uncivilised, is what I have written Sir.." "Channam!" "Please Sir" "I've requested to accept 'rt Sir." "No compulsion at all" "Our lawyer also kept telling to accept it...!" "You didn't accept!" "You just heard it out." "Even now." "Hear me out, Sir," "Sh." "lam a murderer." "For a murdered." "While he commits a murder." "the devil would have entered his body." "We tum into Animals." "Hatred. revenge." "The fear that you would catch us.." "Like this, we have a lot of reasons.." "To commit the murder." "And we would commit the murder." "But what is your reason?" "Claim no hatred forjustice." "Revenge cannot exist?" "You don't have a reason to fear anything." "I sit in the court calmly, 'investigate comfortable." "One day.finally, you pass thejudgement." "8 days prior to my executive." "You'll send me a notice saying." ""We are going to hang you"" "You clean the ripe that is used for hanging." "Test until you get convinced, whether 'rt would withstand the weight," "At an auspicious time." "Take a procession." "Keeping the witnesses in front." "You take away life legally. isn't it," "Sir." "A murder which is more planned and intended." "Uncivilised murder." "Is what I did, Sir?" "Isn't yours a cognizable offense]" "Channa, you're... you're crossing the limits." "Sin please sir." "Like a dying flame emitting more light, let me quickly tell everything." "Please hear me out Sir." "Sin you know very well." "How much I love my mother." "my wife and children." "But." "Why did I go to that bungalow?" "Why did I kill the person in that bungalow. so cruelly?" "The reason behind the anger and such cruelty?" "You won't get answered to these questions even after 100 years, Sir." "But then, for the murder I committed." "There is ajustified reason and I am proud ofthat." "And by killing me." "You shouldn't feel proud that you made justice prevail." "We won't feel proud, man." "Channa..." "You've got it all wrong." "Hanging is done to secure the society," "NO." "Sir." "After bringing me between these four walls and locking me up..." "Why is there fear for the society." "Sir?" "How many days you can be locked up...?" "Huh...?" "Oh, since I can't be locked up forever, you're hanging me?" "Not that.." "That ism" "Now what. man?" "Life imprisonment should have been given, hang until death should not be done." "Is that your argument?" "No sin" "I won't accept even that?" "It's just waste of food for you." "Look." "Look..." "That is not your problem." "Food. we never said no." "In fad." "After coming here." "You have put on 22 Kgs, Do you know?" "Oh really, Sir?" "AyyoJ" "Didn't you tell me lying is your right. man?" "Oh yes." "Eight day before." "While they gave me the notice." "they checked my weight," "It's mostly done to make sure the rope is able to hold my weight," "But still, this is an insult, Sir." "Why?" "Then?" "To a convict who is going to be seeing the rope that's going to be around his neck even a little bit of food would be difficult to pass." "In spite of that" "I have gained 22 Pound" "Isn't that an insult." "Sir?" "Che." "Sh." "people outside the prison think the food served here is not good." "The food available in the government shops involve fraud and is unhealthy." "But if the food you serve is consumed, 'rt increases weight." "Sh." "don't tell this to anyone outside." "People would think"it's better to live inside.than living outside"" "And for this stomach filling prison food, people might want to rush inside." "My committing murders or robbery." "You should have been an artist. man." "But you become a murderer." "Living up to the meaning of your name, you speak very well...!" "By writing the novel;" "Now." "I became an artist also, right Sir?" "Hmmm"!" "Channa, without pronouncing lifetime imprisonment and directly taking to the gallows." "It is not to save food." "To create the fear that when someone takes away a life, his life is also at stake." "When you create such a fear." "The person will not commit such a thing." "That's your assumption!" "HuhmmmJ" "That's what I've written." "that it is your assumption." "Sh." "Has it been many centuries since they discovered the death sentence by hanging until death?" "Ummm_!" "Am not doing the inaugural ceremony?" "Until now. hasn't the rope squeezed many throats?" "Even that did not stop me, Sir?" "I still committed a murder." "Death Sentences won't stop murders." "Sir," "But then, if we didn't have the death sentence, the number of murders would have increased in the society, Channa." "That is only an opinion, that's all." "There is no statistics to prove it," "There is no connection between death sentence and a murder." "How's that"?" "How are you so sure?" "Sir." "The root cause of murders." "Should be neutrally investigated." "For Example," "Husband would have gone to work if by chance he comes home in-between to discover another man in his place." "He might take a knife and stab his wife and that man." "While.the police are chasing him and to escape from them." "He might kill the police man." "Brother can kill each other for property." "Murders can happen because of caste problems." "In this situations." "The whole town will be decorated with these ropes." "Murders will still not stop." "Sir," "There are no records to this." "Sh." "Murderers are not Vampires." "It's equally disgusting for them." "Why so much Sir...?" "There are many times when the murderer goes with the police station with the knife and admitted that he committed the murder." "That's is like the murderer putting the rope around his neck like a garland." "Just like I did?" "So the rope wasn't put by you." "." "I did that to myself." "Human Rights..." "The discussion about Human Rights?" "The Cyrus Cylinder conversation is 6th Century has come so far. till here." "But." "Justice." "Justice is right there, Standing right there, hasn't moved." "But." "In my conversation all this while." "You said it has elements of Cyrus Cylinder." ""Hank you very much (or that." "With that, another question." "Make it quick." "Everyone that committed a murder." "have been hanged?" "What]" "Let me put it this way," "Isn't there a possibility to escape death sentence even after committing a murder?" "Ifthere are no proper witnesses," "Ah." "Witness." "That's is exactly what I have written sir." "Where justice and what is it based up on!" "To pronounce a punishment. committing a murder is not so important." "But Witness is important." "Huh.." "Of course, Witness is important, without that?" "Exactly, Sir." "Without witness nothing can be done." "Witness can be dangerous to life, Sir," "By believing a witness." "You could even hang an innocent person." "All that you need is a 100 witness to say, yes he committed the murder." "That is enough." "Keep the Rarest of the rare cases away.." "Rare...?" "Is it possible to accept your explanation stating it's rare?" "More than the sin you get by not punishing a hundred murderers." "The sin you get by punishing on innocent person is bigger." "I understand you expression." "Sir, lam not innocent." "Iam a murderer." "You.." "A n advocate," "You should have become an advocate, isn't it?" "No way!" "No way." "Sir." "The sin I have committed so far is enough." "Using my intelligence to argue that "A robber is not a robber"" ""A murderer is not a murderer"" "and change the color ofjustice." "is a big sin." "I don't want." "Intelligence is dangerous." "Sir." "Ah!" "Ifthat intelligence is dangerous whoever you used to argue on your behalf?" "Your Advocate?" "You should've left him and argued for yourself, right?" "You're saying something about a justified reason, you could have mentioned that, right?" "Oh." "so If I did give a "justified reason" to commit a murder;" "There is no punishment." "is that what yourjustice says?" "What is that?" "Justified Reason..." "Justified Reason.." "What justified reason?" "Each killer will have a justified reason, according to him!" "Godse, who killed Gandhi also had a veryjustified reason, according to him." "But then, Did we let him go?" "Did we not hang him?" "People's system!" "Ours is a democratic country." "One nation." "One law and everyone as to bow down to the law." "Hmmm"!" "Iagree Sin everyone should bow down." "I do agree." "But there are also a lot of unacceptable things.." "Understood Sir." "As long as there is difference of opinions." "There will be debates and arguments." "Sorry." "Greetings Doctor." "Why are you coughing." "Doctor?" "You took good care of my health for the last eight days. until now," "And it looks like you've forgotten about your well-being." "About this carelessness." "Iam extremely disappointed." "Notjust that." "There is also another disappointment." "Poor." "Lord Brahma!" "Why did he create doctors?" "To save humans, for the wellbeing of human life." "But guess what the humans use them for?" "Until a person dies." "fold their hands and watch." "After the life goes away, give a certificate confirming the deathl?" "Channa"!" "Put your hands behind your back please." "What's this?" "Smells like ghee. right?" "To reduce the pain while being hung." "I have applied ghee. banana and soap around the rope." "My father taught me...!" "They usually pour milk and ghee after one does." "But you're applying ghee, while am going to die." "Let your service continue." "A-Yyy"!" "Enough now." "Stop talking. man." "Please don't ask me to stop talking sir." "In just a little more time." "The rope will anyway stop my sound." "Let me at least talk until then." "Later. when you handover my corpse to my people who are waiting for me..." "When my mother falls on my body and says, "Talk Chan na.." "Talk dea r.."" "When my children ask excitedly, "Are you freed from jail, dad...?"" "When my wife asks." ""Dear. shall we go home...?"" "At that time.." "How can l... my corpse... how can 'rt speak Sir?" "What mam?" "Ithinkyou are a staunch believer of god." "Yes." "for all the sins we are committing." "It's possible only for Lord Shiva to save us." "Shiva!" "We worship the Three-eyed Lord who is fragrant and who nourishes and nurtures all beings." "As is the ripened cucumber is freed from its bondage, may he liberate us from death for the sake of immortality" "(Sanskrit Mantra)" "Do you know the meaning of this mantra?" "No... but." "Learned people say that ifthis mantra is chant, our life span would increase." "I chanted."" "will my life span increase?" "What's this?" "While a son is leaving to a faraway place." "They will gift new clothes... is this similar to that...?" "That is to avoid you from watching this cruel scene." "A cover for your eyes." "How can death be seen to the person who's dying...?" "It's seen only to you, who watch... only you need to wear a mask." "As per law we have the same procedure." "We will need to close our eyes." "( Prayer song )" "Criminals' prayer started..." "In spite of knowing that God is not going to save them." "They will still pray." "Channa, you have the option to pray to your favourite god, as a last chance." "Now." "I neither have the need nor use from 'rt sir." "Will you give the same time forjustification?" "Don't worry. sir." "I will not speak anymore..." "I had told that I had a justified reason f orthe murder I did..." "Can I recollect it...?" "Hmmm"!" "Don't shout!" "If you shout." "Your wife and kid sleeping in the next room will come to know about your dirty deed." "More importantly, if this kid comes to know about it would break her heart" "And that will give her a lot of pain for the rest of her life." "Come out.." "Come out." "Ay." "Who are you. man?" "Iam a thief." "Thief?" "Shhhhh!" "That is not important now!" "Don't talk loudly and lose your own respect." "In this room." "Your wife and daughter are sleeping." "The child sleeping in the other room looks as old as your own daughter." "The affection on your daughter." "Has turned into lust on the other child?" "Che!" "!" "How could you think of such a thing?" "Is this something new to even think?" "She probably is the 17th or 18th maid to come for work in my house." "All of them are of the same age." "Whatever I do, they are not aware." "While doing such a thing." "Doesn't your daughter come in front of your eyes?" "I presume that you are speaking such nonsense because you are drunk..." "This is wrong... stop it right now," "Am!" "Who are you to tell me to stop?" "From the mouth of a robber... preaching. is it"?" "Valmiki who wrote Ramayana was also a robber" "I steal." "I don't do nasty things like you." "Nasty]" "Is robbery an honest job?" "You put your hands for money." "And L..." "What did you just say...?" "Affection on my daughter and lust on maid, yes?" "I don't know any such differences."" "ljust haven't gotten a chance until now or Even the daughter.." "You are not a bad person." "The god who created a pervert like you." "He is bad." "He is bad." "Its a seed I sowed... what's wrong if I eat the fruit?" "You are not only harmful to the child... you are harmful to the entire society." "People like you shouldn't be alive... shouldn't be alive." "More than the pain of knowing you're not alive." "If she comes to know about your perverted mind." "She will die mentally." "Atender heart like that shouldn't die" "and a pervert like you should not be alive." "Friend didn't become my teacher," "Teacher didn't show me the target," "Father's laziness didn't teach me any lesson." "Didn't listen to mother's inner voice," "There are no more questions left behind for my punishment," "This punishment became a big question to the people who believed me." "Oh God, if at all you exist." "Please save the ones who believed me." "Save this nation." "When a man doesn't have the right to create." "Does he have the right to kill?" "Reconsider capital punishment once again...!" "All India Radio," "The news." "Being read by M4Ranagarao." "Headlines." "The central jail authorities have declared that Channakeshava." "The man behind the sensational murder case in Gandhi Nagar." "Was hanged till death during the early hours of today as per the Supreme Courtjudgement." "The assassination of former American President," "John F Kennedy has taken a new turn..." "There are some important demise of lives that becomes merely News." "The punishment for a crime has been an universal trait and culture." "When a country's legal approach towards a convict is brutal and tough, the punishment is also brutal and tough." "At the same time, when a country's legal approach towards a convict is humanitarian and soft, the punishment is also soft and gives the convict the space for realisation." "The prevailing variation in approaches by human beings towards human beings becomes the mirror that reflects the law and order of their country." "At the same point of time where Capital punishment is in practise in India, there are many countries in the world that never practised Capital punishment and and there are many more countries that abolished the practise that existed in their law and order" "Since the time the first Capital punishment was executed, the debate of whether Capital punishment is right or wrong." "Whether it should be adopted or abolished has started," "Many organisations and individuals all over the world including India have have raised their voice of anti and pro stands towards capital punishment." "'Haggada kone' is also a similar voice raised towards capital punishment by Late Mr.Parvathavani." "This play, written in the year 1962 has seen many stages which was watched by you in the form ofa feature film." "Late Mr.Pa rvathavani had made a mark as an actor also apart from writing, directing and producing plays for television and radio." "You can witness his performance as an actor in the kannada feature films including'Bhagyadha Lakshmi Baaramma' which has Late Dr.Rajkumar in the lead." "Writing plays which pose as the mirror that reflects the human values is the highlight of Late Mr.Parvathavani." "Apart from the appreciation from many legendary writers." "He has been honoured by Kannada Sahithya Parishad, Karnatka State Sahitya Academy." "Central Music and arts Academy." "Karnataka Rajyotsava Committee." "Karnataka Academy for Drama and many more cultural organisations." "We are completely satisfied to have made a feature film of such a legendary writer" "Late Mr.Pa rvathavani's play without disturbing its feel." "Hope you are satisfied by watching this film, as well."