"'Hide and seek'" " Have you got my stuff ready?" " Sure..." "long back" "2 snake gourds Some curry leaves" "Is it enough?" "1/2 kilo Rs 10" "Take this money" "Don't you want the balance?" "(raised voices of vendors)" " Howmuch is this?" " Rs 350" " Must grind some more" " Can't we just grind it in a mixie?" "Girl, curry tastes better when spices are ground on stone the traditional way" "Ask your mother She'll vouch for it" "I've heard spicy tales of how you and mother 'cooked' together" " What?" " Nothing" "What?" "There's neither rice nor vegetables here" "Will you come home early today?" "I'm driving I'll call you back later" "Benny annamstop Benny anna" "Benny anna What's up?" "Did you stop my auto just to enquire about me?" "Alavi'kka appears to be out of town I had gone there" "There's a courier for him" "He must have stepped out to buy some river fish" "Courier?" "Leave it in my auto I'll deliver it" " But it needs his signature" "I can sign, man" " Isn't that good enough?" " Sure" "Give it to me" "Why are you stinking like this from every pore?" "Don't forget Or I'll lose my job" "Alcohol improves memory power" " Haven't you heard that?" "Sure, I have" "This one also" "Leave it inside the auto" "Heard they were having a party, a get-together or some such thing" "So you are in for a blast today, eh?" "Me having a blast?" "I'm just a gone case" " Hey!" "I need to see you later" "Sure, we can meet up" "MBRHDRG" "Where the heck were you, man?" "I had to buy all that you needed, right?" "This isn't a Benz car Lend me a hand, dude" "You have to pay extra for porter service" "You and your lousy English!" "You are eating your heart out for some booze today?" "Later this booze will eat out your heart for good!" "Alavi'kka?" "I'll be back this evening" "If you can manage, I want just 1 peg" "Forget that dream" "Siddhanh has arranged this get-together after so many years" "Don't you dare hang around here" "That isn't the point Ages since I had foreign liquor" "Just a peg of Scotland" "Siddhu's house...?" "Please help me bundle myself in?" "Park this car out of the way?" " Is he at home?" " He'll be back soon" " Dude...?" "Can you buy me a bottle?" " Dry day today, sir" "'Moonshine' will do" "You know... 'battery water'?" "That will do" "Let me try, sir" "Hey!" "My sandals Must be left outside" "Can I get you something to drink?" "What's your name?" "MBRHDRG" "'On the way I met my aunt at our ancestral house'" "'One chap who claims he's your friend has landed'" "'Reeking of booze Swaying on his feet'" "Get up" "It's been so long Where were you all these days?" "I'm right here Where else will I be?" "My wife Revathi" "Raghu, you reached early, rig ht?" "Look at you!" "You are still the same smart guy, eh?" "Pan of my job" "Must be playing around behind her back, eh?" "Why else do you glam-up like this?" "Manu!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Com e, sit here" "I'll be right back Let me get them settled in" "Look at the state he's in." "ls Annie really a fashion designer?" "Why do you even tolerate him I wonder" " What are you doing?" " Dad!" "Give it to me" "It's not meant for games I have work to do" "I leveled 72 points Give it to me" "Dad" "Okay, take it" " Is she also coming?" "Who?" "Your...once upon a time heroine" "You mean Radhika?" "She's somewhere in America" "Unpack this for me, please" "MBRHDRG" " What's your name?" " Manu" " Which grade?" "4th" " You know me?" "Yes" " Who am I?" " Daddy's friend, right?" "What's your name, uncle?" "Rag huram" "What do you do?" "No job" "Ask dad He'll get you a good job" "I will Your house looks good" "Nice home" "Manu" "Go in and play, okay?" "Be careful with that It's got important files" "Just a minute" "A couple of important stuff to attend to" "You are like those prosperous chaps with a home by the riverside who fish as a fashion statement" "Where is your 'bait'?" "Hey!" "No" "I'll be done in a minute" "Give it back, man" "Just a minute" "Now tell me" "Where is your mobile?" "In the toilet" "I've been trying to reach you whole of last year" "And it's always switched off Where did you lose it?" " I dropped it into the closet" "What?" " Put it into the toilet" " Toilet?" "Yes, it would have gone deep into the earth" "And disappeared by now" "You just haven't changed one bit" "I did it deliberately" "Ad-agencies hire talented people for their creative department" "And then ask them to create utter nonsense" "Why do you agree to write all that nonsense?" "You are capable of earning in millions" "Just focus on that" "Don't go back to your old ways" "So nowl must earn millions" "What else?" "Car, house and wife, don't excite me." "And go in search of myself" "At least that way I don't lose myself" "Stop all this existentialism stuff" "This was your problem all along in life lam going in search of myself" "What else?" "Where is Annie?" "Rafique says you are always stone drunk" "He says that's why she hardly comes home" "You've been fiddling with it for a while" "Is it an extra marital...?" "I already have issues Be quiet, please!" "She will be mad at me" "Annie...!" "I'll tell you when the time comes" "About what?" " Can't get along" "Whaaat?" " Not working out" "What?" " Not compatible" "Who?" "Your stupid head!" "Come with me We'll talk" "Get up Let's talk" "Let's have a drink" "That gives you a pep, eh?" "Look at that sudden spun of energy" "The way you came in I thought you'll just sleep through the night" "That was just to fool that old man" "Where is the ash-tray?" "No need for ash tray." "Tell me, what's the problem?" " No problem at all" " Do you know?" "I've watched you and Annie so often green with envy" "Behind the commerce block under the gulmohar tree" "Didn't you write a script...a story?" "Wanting hero Mohanlal to act?" "Didn't you write impressive dialogs?" "Annie and me under the gulmohar tree...?" "If Lal had done that role he would be out of films now" "Now there is neither the gulmohar nor the rain" "There never was anything that connected us then" "Even back then, we used to be at loggerheads" "Radhika was the one who sorted out your squabbles" "Mention her name and look at the rapid blood circulation!" "Rad hika" "In Mumbai I have seen all the top models you can find" "But no one can hold a candle to her" "Did you know?" "One day in 1997 just after the summer holidays" "I was getting off a bus at our college bus stop" "I just stepped out and a sudden shower of rain from nowhere" "As I look at the opposite road I see her walk towards me" " Radhika" "And the way she looked" "With rain drops clinging to her hair" "And streaming down her face" "Clara" "It trickled down as I watched stunned" "By stunned I mean I was lost in that moment" "I just stood staring as she walked towards me" "When I regained consciousness" "After a long time, I simply ran to that" "Remember that old man's small eatery?" "I ran, got an old umbrella from him and went back" "I drew her under the umbrella" "Just she and I under the umbrella with the rain lashing around us" "In that rain, she and I under the umbrella" "Do you know jasmine flowers?" "She had jasmine on her hair" "Fragrance from that jasmine The smell of rain" "And fresh moist earth Her special scent" "It will be ecstatic" "I'm reminded of a poem by Ayyappa Panniker" "Kurukkuthi mulla [Jasmine flowers]" "Youth belongs to me whispered the flower" "Jasmine close to the bosom are buds clasped to blossom" "Pronounced 'njha' Jha, dha or whatever" "My neighbor's surname sounds like that" "He committed suicide Neck deep in loans" "How you say it is no big deal" "Come on Continue your Radhika story" "And when I got off the bus- What's your wife's name?" "That was a nasty mood killer, right?" "What's the joke?" "He was talking about his fans" "Aa-radhika He meant fans!" "Tea?" "Shall we mix it in this?" "No!" "It will curdle" "I'll tell you later" "Does she know?" "Shall I tell her?" "Come" "Alavi'kka!" "Just get me an ashtray and my phone" "How long have you been living here?" "No, dude I come once in a while" "Listen What's your issue with Annie?" "Sit here and tell me" "No issue" "Leave it there" "She isn't adjusting with your life style?" "Is that the issue?" "Or is it because you don't have kids?" "How can being childless be a hassle?" "Then what?" "She deserves a better life" "That's it" "Rafique Ask him to come in" "Hey'." "Bucket" "You fatso!" "Return my 150 bucks" "Mr Poet!" "Here Let's begin auspiciously" "Hey no!" "Meet Suhra" "Suhra Rafique" "Isn't he Rafique?" "Then why the emphasis?" "Meet my greatest wealth Hannah" "Hannah?" "He is Rafique She's Suhra" "Hey!" "She's Suhra Rafique" "I'm meeting Suhra for the 1st time" "That isn't surprising?" "!" "Keeps me like a caged bird" "Isn't Annie coming?" "She will" "Hey!" "Radhi..." "All of you have changed so much" "Suhra come, we'll sit inside" "I knowyou You write songs, right?" "Not songs Poems" "What's the difference!" "Do you booze so you can write?" "I write to earn booze" "Drink within limits Don't ruin your health tiff" "Is this how you talk to someone you just met?" "Drunkards deserve..." "...only such words" " Is he married?" " Love marriage" "Was she blind?" "!" "Do you have any idea who he is?" "He's not an ordinary contractor like your father" "He holds a top post in an advertisement agency" "Earns 150 million per annum" "This unkempt fellow who reeks of alcohol?" "!" "Your acid tongue is the reason I don't take you out anywhere" "I know that only too well" "You had no option this time, right?" "Just to show your friends I exist" "Only 2 p995" "If you drink more I'll tell my father" "What the...!" "Rafiquem!" "What was all that for?" "!" "Life is such a drag these days" "Earlier Suhra used to wait up till I came back from hospital at night" "After some time it was the maid" "Nowadays she also is fast asleep" "I eat whatever I can find and hit the sack" "Same story Last 5 years" "What about other 'activities'?" "How long will you 'plough' your own 'field'?" "!" "It is fun to trespass in someone else's field" "Generally Malayali's start losing their prowess by 40" "This lag begins when a man is 35 years" "In my opinion the Kerala Govt should bring a rule" "After 5 years of marriage, a wife must be declared as a man's sister" "Then she should get married to someone else" "Why do you smoke like a steam engine?" "Rejuvenating, no?" "Then pass it to me also" "Sidhu This is fantastic" "I vote for this" "Is it?" "Just a minute" "You've really changed a lot" "Listen to him speak English!" "What is he up to?" "Come tiff" "I can prescribe tablets for blood pressure" "I already gulp them like a 3 course meal" "Get me my drink" "Move that away" "It's unnerving how stress piles up" "College was such fun, flirting, rowdyism, playing peeping Tom" "What a blast it was!" "She occupied all my thoughts Radhika" "Remember our library?" "The pages of old books had a peculiar smell" "My mind is full of that" "He used to bring beef with Chinese potatoes" "Wow!" "Delicious" "I often went hungry in hostel" "To eat the beef-potato he brought" "After I became a doctor people asked me why I was so fat" "Guys, from the day I got married I became a glutton with a capital G" "I compensated for all those days of starvation" "But I'd always wanted a contented family life I often dreamed of it" "But when I never got the girl I loved" "I just gave up" "You loved a girl?" "Who is that now?" "Who was it?" "If you had just told us we would have got her for you" "Sure" "That was just a comedy" "Love?" "Love is a joke?" "Love is not a comedy" "It's an emotion that stealthily creeps into your nerves" "Shut up!" "What?" "Cynical about love" "What about you and Annie?" "You just said something about smell, pages, library" "You guys simply sizzled" "Blunders born out of immaturity" "It's because you don't realize the value of what you've got" "When I lost the one I loved I just sold my soul lam now a slave to Suhara's father" "If he asked me to go on my bended knees I'll happily crawl to him" "You think I am being funny?" "He's absolutely nasty" "He takes off to Bangalore every now and then" "But before that a session of massages at Kotakkal" "That pig ought to be shot!" "Old man!" "His worn out pans may need a little massage" "My fate is sealed I'll be back" "You want to shoot my father, right?" "When your house was confiscated legally you wanted my father as well as his money" "Shall I call him now?" "Drunk and deriding my father I will call him now" "That woman will break this house into two" "Mind your own business, will you?" "Now that you are stable you want to shoot my dad" "Don't you have any shame?" "He is getting abused" "I'll stop with this now Your friends may overhear" "I told you not to drink more than 2 pegs" "Getting drunk and finding fault with my dad" "When we get back you'll get it from me!" "Tiff" "Son, be careful and don't lose it" "It's an expensive gadget" "Don't worry, sonny Your dad has plenty of money" "What's up?" "What is this, dude?" "Why don't you try something you are good at?" "Uncle, are there any fishes in this river?" "Of course" " Crocodiles too?" " One is sitting inside the house" "Did you bring it here?" "The crocodile brought me here" "You just wait I'll tell all this verbatim to my dad" "Alavi'kka, need any help?" "I'll call if I want help" "Women should be more docile and gentle" "Just mind your own business" "I employ only women in my kitchen" "My father won't allow men" "This house generally is left locked" "Sidhu comes once in a while and stays here alone" "I've come here Maybe just once" "Not a good decision" "Sell this house and deposit the money in the bank" "That is more profitable" "Sohra, you are so business minded" "I belong to Maliakkal family My family is full of traders" "My father deals in real estate" "The biggest building in Kozhikode belongs to him" "Haven't you heard of Shalimar buildings?" "Yes..." "Shalimar" "I have, yes" " Alavi'kka?" " Coming" "Yes, Narayan'etta I am here" "Will you come?" "Yes, sure I'm here Yes, sure I'm here" "Dude, remember our Narayan'etta?" "Narayan who made those yummy 'unniappams'?" "He'll be here in half an hour" "Narayan rescued him once" "Rescued him?" "What is that story?" "Don't you know?" "Farewell day" "After college hours he and Chacko went to the ladies' hostel" " To meet Radhika?" " To meet Radhika" "Fix one for me, dude" "Alavi'kka, you can go in now" "Chicken is roasting now, bro" "Enough That will do" "Okay!" "go" " Listen to this - insensitive idiot!" "We were fully sloshed when we jumped over the wall" "We sawa guy sliding down from the 2nd floor window" "None other than 'hunter' Xavier Father Xavier?" "Father Xavier" "Sidhu just pushed us away and went towards Radhika's room" "Remember that lotus pond?" "He sat there and looking up at Radhika's room and sang" "What was that song, dude?" ""Sumangali, do you rememb-"" "Yes, that's the song" "Before he could finish his song that guy looking like Seen Connery" " Sean Connery" " That Connery guy came and caught us" "Finally Chacko got him a full bottle of rum and squared it up" "What a pity!" "Why didn't I hear of this?" "If we told you, then Annie will also know" "And then Radhika will also know So we hushed it up" "You were not destined, dude Some other lucky guy got her" "A lover boy whose love remained untold" "Will Narayanan bring the 'unni appams'?" "He will" "That reminds me" "You wrote a poem on these steamed fritters, remember?" "Want to see?" "Bring it Let's see" "I'll be right back" "I have been watching you ever since we came here" "The very name 'Radhika' makes your adrenalin rush" "Everyone who walks into your life will leave" "I'll be the only one to stick on with you" " Who else is coming?" " Our Annie" " Move aside Manu, my dear" " Manu, come here tiff" " There comes your 'unni appam'" " Show it to me" "Let me see if it tastes as good as it once did" "Leave it" "Did you think I saved this for your blessed fritters poem?" "Then why?" "Really want to know?" "Rad hika" "Did she write stories too?" "I never knew" "You had eyes only for Annie" "Both of them will write stuff no one could ever decipher" "By evening they will begin to fight" "Who will fritter away time writing poems on fritters?" "!" "Don't make it a big issue" "Read this Read it" "MBRHDRG" "Instead of introducing me as his neighbor casually" "Couldn't he have said I was his best friend?" "I was slig hted A guest insulted" "I no longer wanted to linger there" "I was in a hurry I turned and walked away" "While my heart murmured" "I should've never come" "Never come when not welcome" "Words on paper hurt like needles in my heart" "It was that hurt which took me closer to her" "Whenever I come here I sit and read that story" "Just for the wonderful world she creates with her words" "To be immersed in it is sheer bliss!" "Some rascal run Creative Associates" "Should make them read this to know how refined Malayalam is" "Does Annie know you resigned?" "Why should she when we are about to separate?" "What did you say?" "I want to live in total freedom" "Hence this separation" "But if you talk it over won't she understand?" "Why do you want to- What's left to talk?" "She should have married a good Christian, a rubber estate owner" "Why should she ruin her life being with me?" "All this is because of your dirty behavior" " How is she responsible?" " So what is your problem?" "What's my problem?" "Do you know Xavier and I got beaten up for your sake?" "You can take the blows" "But I won't let you pan ways with her" " Who wants your permission?" " Do you know?" "She's a simple soul I liked her very much" "I even wrote her a letter without him knowing" "This vagabond charmed her and took her away from me" "Now he wants to" "You son of a" "You want to ditch her, right?" " Annie?" "What is all this, Sidhu?" "He is just showing off like old times after drinks" "Showing his affection like old times" "Is this how you show affection?" "Stinks like hell" " How many rounds over?" " We've just begun" " Why are you covered in dust?" " That was just...nothing" "Revathi, meet Annie" " Had a comfonablejourney?" "Yes" " Meet Suhra" " Rafique's wife" "I know you" "The one who fell in love and got married" "Whatever, love or otherwise Don't bug us now" "Annie, you've been travelling Go in and relax" "Go in" "Did you know, Sidhu?" "It's been a year since he and I spoke" "He doesn't even have a phone Do you know what he's doing?" "It's true We'll set it rig ht" "You go relax for some time It will all be fine" "MBRHDRG" "If Chacko and Radhika were here, this would have been complete" "Radhika must be in California Wonder where Chacko is?" "Where in California?" "She must be leading a happy life there" "Shall I tell you something that will make you happy?" "What , Annie?" "I've resigned my job at Mumbai" "That's the end of Raghu's lonely life" "Nowl'll be with him wherever he is" "Also I am giving him a free rein only for today" "But from tomorrow his booze and cigarettes will be rationed" "Very good" "Otherwise his insides will rot to pieces" "Hey!" "Does this get together mean only booze and gossip?" "Sidhu, sing a song" "Add some life into this party No other work!" "Song?" "Sidhu will sing?" "He was the star singer of our college" "Go ahead Sing, dude" "His golden voice" "An entire campus used to get intoxicated hearing his voice" "Look at him fiddling with that key pad?" "His fingers flew 10 times faster over his guitar" "You've been married so long Don't you know this?" "Haven't you told her?" "My head is full of debit, credit and consignments" "Sing in this chaos, huh?" "No other work!" "We have no better work now" "Tonight we are students back to our campus days" "Retarded fellows with varied stubbles" "Sing Sing, dude" "Sing, man" "Do you know who wrote this song?" "Who?" "Our own favorite poet" "Shall I?" "Tiff" ""In these eyes can you see sweet love's pain poignantly?"" ""In these lines can you listen a rhythm of yearning in between?" ""Far away, a lonely moon lit sky merging into a woeful song at night emerging"" "MBRHDRG" ""On this earth, in my heart's alcove rain showered fresh drops from above"" ""Touch of first love tinkling like bangles softly jingling"" ""Memories brought me a melody filled with words of love in harmony"" ""Far away, a lonely moon lit sky merging into a woeful song at night emerging"" ""Without any rhythm converging in a languid feeling submerging"" "MBRHDRG" "Hannah, come here tiff" ""Blooming of youth is an awakening of senses buried within yearning"" ""New raptures unrevealed Coven and concealed"" ""Silent sensations bloom glad into a precious love ballad"" ""Far away, a lonely moon lit sky merging into a woeful song at night emerging"" ""Without any rhythm forging in a languid feeling submerging"" ""As she faded away into an abyss Not knowing why this went amiss"" ""In these eyes can you see sweet love's pain soulfully?"" "MBRHDRG" "Wasn't this the song that won you the inter-zonal 1st prize?" "The old intensity still lingers" "Thoughts of a special person got him the 1st place that day" "Sidhu had a silent love when he was in college" "Radhika Isn't it?" "I know" "He has told me about her" "Kaput:" "tiff" "What is it?" "Did you lose interest in music only after you married me?" "I am no Yesudas to choose it as my career" "I sang because they asked me" "That's all" "I really don't know if Radhika was in your thoughts" "But you sang beautifully" "None of them ever knew thatl once liked Radhika" "These guys, Rag hu, Rafique liked her too" "I liked her a little bit more" "That's all it was" "Look, we are meeting after 14 years" "The gap is 14 long years" "Spare me for this one day" "Is that too much to ask?" "I am really stressed out Okay?" "Ease up" "If my husband had said this I wouldn't have taken it so lightly" "If you're lenient with your men they will dance on your head" "My dear Suhra" "Don't comment and make it worse" "Sidhu was the 5th guy who 'saw' me as a bride" "Some of the men before him had liked me and so did I" "But it was Sidhu I finally married" "One day my father told me a groom was coming to 'see' me" "It was only then I realized I was 'ready' to get married" "Father told me a lot about the prospective bridegroom" "That he was a good man, very rich with a big house" "I went through the ritual of meeting the boy, talked to him, serving tea" "After they left I started dreaming" "About my honeymoon, my house, the kids I would have" "Actually don't we all go through this dream-phase?" "But next day the marriage mediator said the groom's family had rejected me" "Why?" "Because the groom's aunt didn't find a western closet in the bathroom" "So?" "I swear I was dumped" "Many more proposals petered out for vague reasons" "Rafique's proposal was the last one in the list" "I shouldn't have agreed to a man with a 24x7job" "If he had been a farmer, I would at least see him daily" "Nowadays I must also fix an appointment to see him" "I have always wondered" "Why don't they have anything to discuss with us?" "When they meet friends they talk nineteen to a dozen" "At home, they clutch the TV remote and sit sulking, staring at the screen" "We are all almost sailing in the same boat" "And those who look a picture of contentment lead the most pathetic lives" "Wonder why we marry 1 particular guy among 100 others in the world" "Marriage in our society is based on matching financial and social status" "No one bothers whether our thoughts or feelings match" "We bear their kids and live with the belief.." "...we are the sole love of their life" "We are left with nothing else to do" "No man can be trusted when he goes past 35" "They all go in search of other nests to roost" "There used to be a nurse and a Dr Nadiya at Rafique's hospital" "God!" "I was most worried till that doctor got married" "I got my father to dismiss that nurse from there" "What are you saying, Suhra?" "It is like that" "Can't trust them at all ls Radhika married?" "May be" "She's in America, right?" "Must have got married at least a couple of times, no?" " I don't know" " Is she pretty?" "I have seen her in their college albums" "Frankly she is really beautiful" "She was the dream girl of our college" "Was she?" "What was it between Sid hu and Rad hika?" "My dear Revathi Just an infatuation if he meets her now, he'll realize, he's gotten over all that" "She would have become a fatso by now in USA" "Did my hubby have a crush on someone in college?" "Oh!" "No" "Why are you decked in gold like this, Suhra?" "If I were you, I'd have sold the lot and gone for a world tour" "Allah!" "Sell gold to go on a tour?" "!" "If all the gold of women in Kerala are sold... 3 generations can easily eat and live without working" "My gold need not be used to feed people" "MBRHDRG" "If I had a hammer in hand all this could have been bashed up" "Ah!" "Yes The box" "'Let's have 1 more'" "'Is it the first time for you?" "'" "'I was wondering how he fell into the pool'" "'Sit up and drink' 'You're asking for trouble'" "Dude, ask him not to go in for a separation" "'Leave it'" "'We only have one life, bro'" "'Rafique, get up'" "'Only friends can advise him' 'I have to talk to you'" "'You don't know how to be diplomatic'" "'I have seen how you treat Suhra'" "'You can't step into his space'" " Sir?" " There you are!" " Did you get?" "Yes, sir" "Today is a dry day" "I finally got it from a military chap" "Here's the balance" "I don't want I never accept tips" "I'll go?" "Do you want a peg?" "Can I have that one?" "Sure" "One more?" "Thank you, sir" "Can I leave?" "Hey!" "What's your name?" "Name...?" "I must leave" "Benny!" "You son of a mongrel!" "Sidhu!" "Come quickly Look..." "Benny is here" "Benny?" "Get up" "Benny?" "Why this scruffy look?" "Rafique?" "!" "Benny is here Benny Chacko" "Benny!" "Dude, watch out Pool" "Fully fuddled!" "Did you have to dig a pond in the middle of your garden?" "Idiot!" "That's not a pond It's a pool" "Get up tiff" "Howdid you guys recognize me?" "When I look at the mirror, even I don't recognize myself" "How did you know it was me?" "Do you know how hard I tried tracing you?" "Where were you?" "Tried to trace me?" "You never even bothered to come for my wedding" "You got married?" "Was it after marriage your life turned haywire?" "I got married too" "And that too to a TV actress" "Remember the TV serial 'She was a goddess'" "I married that goddess Sophia Menon" "And...?" "And..." "I don't intend to narrate my sob story for you to savor" "If she had asked I would have told" "Radhika!" "She was the only one who came for my wedding" "Radhika came for your wedding?" "Sure, she did" "All the way from Paris" "She waited for a long time thinking you guys would come too" "Dude, it was the day Revathi's uncle died" "So I couldn't come" "What a day he picked to conk off 00!" "I tried calling him But never got through" "My house was legally confiscated then" "How can I come in when I was so 'happy'?" "!" "So Benny, what do you do now?" "I drive an auto rickshaw" " Auto rickshaw?" " Yes" "Do you guys often get together like this?" "This is the 1st time, dude Although Sidhu and I often 'chat'" "Xavier is not in whatsApp or FB" "He needs permission from the Vatican for that" "That's good" "Or a single post will be enough for all sins to pile up on him" "Who?" "!" "You mean our 'hunter' Xavier?" "Is he a priest?" "My God!" "Vicar of an entire Parish" "Our Old Vicar" "All he needed to do was look at a girl and she will conceive!" "I was the one who helped his maid abort her baby!" "Be quiet" "Remember Mary Varghese?" "You mean our 'disaster lady'?" "Her love and passion drove him to distraction" "She then eloped with someone else" "Unable to bear his sorrow he chose the path of the Lord" "'Dukhkham' You pronounce it as 'Kha'" "Are you a Malayalam teacher?" "I'll kick you!" "You're at it from the time I came" " Didn't you get me?" "I didn't" "You...!" "This is like being bitten by a viper" "Expensive stuff usually is" "Let's go" "Let's move from vices to virtues and eat" "You mean what they feed horses?" "Horses or even donkeys Come" "You've all changed so much You're almost bald now" "Who is this new entrant?" "Suhra, he's Benny, our classmate" "We were together" "He is not at all what he looks like now" "He is a 1st rank holder Science graduate Benny Chacko" "Science graduate?" "What do you do?" "I drive an auto" "Science graduate driving an auto?" "Why not?" "Won't the auto run?" "My wife, dude" " Sit here" " No, I'll sit here" "This is more comfortable Where do you live, Benny?" "Here, quite nearby" "Allah!" "This is the first time I'm seeing a woman drink if my father ever sees" "Dam n the 'father' word!" "Do you know for how long I've put up with this 'father'?" "Just stop it, will you, Suhra?" "!" "Come back home I'll deal with you then" "You are to blame for all this" "You and your blasted poems that made me lose her forever" "Otherwise I would have married her" "Go ahead and take her now" "Don't tempt me now, okay?" "Behave yourself" "High time you stopped What the heck?" "!" "My dear Rafique I did not fall in love with his poems" "If that was the case, I'd have fallen for poet Chullikkad" "I fell in love with Raghu the person" "I was just...making fun" "Just a minute" "One minute I'll be back" "Hey Sidhu...go" "MBRHDRG" "It's been so long since we were together like this?" "Annie?" "I want to...tell you something" "That must be Xavier" "Rafique?" "I think Xavier is here" "Hey hunter!" "Rad hika" "What's up?" "Tiff" "Where is Sidhu?" "Tiff" "First time I'm seeing such implicit obedience" "No, thanks" "I'll happily have your share" "Do I look like someone who does not drink?" "What is it?" "To the..." "...red angel" "Even if we were out of touch I get to know all the latest news" "Our Xavier must be her informer" "How was your journey?" "Don't flirt" "So boring" "Talcum powder on your neck" "Hey Mr Poet!" "Why are you looking like a gypsy?" " What's up?" "Yes, I am" "Annie looks just the same" "Because she never had babies" "You must share a bed to have babies!" "These 2 live in different cities" "It's better mad chaps like me don't father kids" " Can be free" "Very true" "Where is Xavier?" "Let me call him" " Beautiful saree, no?" " Not so good" "I haven't heard you compliment my red saree!" "This isn't the same red, Suhra" "Not able to reach him" "He must be after some woman" "Dark women is his weakness" "Surya, Ranjini, Bhanupriya" "Why not?" "Shouldn't dark people fall in love?" "Of course they can But not priests of a church" "Frankly I envy him a lot" "No worries or tensions" "Listen to women confessing their sins and float in a Heaven of his own" "What news of Malayalees in the land of Obama?" "Less said the better" "They are trying to build another Kerala in the U.S" "They watch live telecasts of all major festivals of Kerala" "Their kids learn Bharathanatyam and even perform at the opera house" "Onam is celebrated by every one That's true" "It's the Malayalees living outside Kerala who celebrate Onam grandly" "I was in Bombay for some time" "Onam that's celebrated in August is extended till New year in mid April" "Show me a Malayali who doesn't grab a chance to drink?" "On Buddha's Enlightenment day too they will open a bottle or two" "Rad hika?" "Don't you practice Bharatanatyam these days" "Nowl practice tango, salsa I even teach fitness oriented zumba" "I have some students" "Remember once in a students' fest What was the name?" "Talent Time Remember you performed a dance?" "Which one?" "I know nothing about dance But that day you were too" "I was so impressed" "You performed a flame formation" "It was mind blowing" "Thank you" "She's gone Your wife just left" "No wife will tolerate her husband going gaga over another woman" "What will they think if you stay away like this?" "Are you sick?" "Head ache?" "Feeling feverish?" "Mom, give me this charger Give it to me now" "Will you go away?" "Go, Manu Don't pester me" "Go" "MBRHDRG" "This guy is such a pest!" "You'll fall sick if you get wet like this" "Get out of that water now" "Suhra, let him enjoy for one day" "He'll make a habit of this" "Want to tie me to your apron strings?" "Just be quiet, Suhra" "Do you also want to join us?" "Give it to me" "This is absolutely volatile" "Then why don't you set it ablaze?" "!" " I too want it" " Give it to me" "This is not for you" "I'll deal with this one!" "Please come out of there You'll die of suffocation lam just playing, Suhra" "Playing?" "My foot!" "I tried this once and blacked out" "Today we'll also black out" "What a beautiful shade of green" "Now blow" "Allah!" "Fire gorging drunkards!" "I've been guzzling fire from the day I married you" "Come on, man" "That which burns must be sipped in waist deep water" "No, thanks" "Com e, sit here" "Annie, both of you jump in" "They tried Lo ng ag o" "Aren't you a doctor?" "You want people to gossip?" "Come out now" "What gossip?" "Which 'people' are here to gossip?" "Tiff" "This is our wedding album" "How is this saree?" "This is my family My dad is a school teacher" "Mom, housewife" "Your wedding album?" "Walk down memory lane and see how we looked then" "You sit there" "This is what happens if you drink too much" "Beautiful album He puked all over it" "He threw up, that's all One can't control that" "Couldn't he have held back?" "Com e, sit here" "Love and vomit are alike" "An overdose will make you gag, right?" "Sit there" "My friend, do you realize the worth in dollars you threw up and wasted?" "I'm so sorry" "Hey!" " Look who's here" " Sidhu!" "Who's this?" "Narayan'etta?" "Look who's here Rafique" "Raghu my b°V" "Rad hika" "Who's this?" "Narayan'etta?" " Unniavra""" "unniavra""" "Open it" "Let this boost up your party" "Take it" "Delicious!" "Remembering old bonds" "A gift from old students to the 'unniappam' expert" "I don't want it" " I can't handle it" " Drink, Narayanan bro" "Small one" "No" "Doesn't matter" "Small drink Sit down" "Tastes just like old times, Narayan'etta" "Forgotten college days?" "Have this" "Where is your better half?" "What?" "Where is the lady of the house?" "Revathi" "Go and call her" "Your fritters are famous even in America" "Do children these days like to eat 'unniappam'?" "My daughter is a nurse in Australia" "She feels it beneath her dignity to see me do this job" "So I stay at home" "What a pity!" "Remember the poem you wrote about my 'unniappam'?" "I had framed it and hung on a wall at home" "She removed it" "What a weird world!" "Narayan'etta, can you tell me the recipe?" "I'll go back and become a star in America" "I will tell only you, my dear" " Shall I?" " Of course" "Rice powder" "That too raw rice Must not be fried" "But powdered finely" "Then you must meltjaggery and bring it to a boil" "After it bubbles and boils it has to be sieved" "It will become like honey" "You have to mix powdered rice and this jaggery into a fine batter" "Then you must use a mature coconut cut into tiny bits" "Add some finely chopped cashew and fry it in ghee" "It will get fried and come nicely" "Fry it to a golden hue with a heavenly flavor" "To this add sesame seeds and mix the batter well" "Then it must marinate for 4 hours" "It takes 4 hours" "Only then the 'marriage' of all the ingredients will stabilize" "Deep fry in the 'appam' pan" "'Unniappam' ready" "But this is the ordinary recipe" "I will tell you the secret of my special recipe" "I add a few teaspoons of raisin juice to the boiling jaggery" "That lends a flavor to the taste buds" "And eases the tummy" "Thank you, Narayan'etta" "Cooking is an an by itself" "You should not have given it up for your daughter" "Hey!" "Look who's this?" "!" " Here!" " Smart girl" "Annie, I saw your photo in a magazine" "Now let me leave It's quite late" "I came all the way here only to see you enjoy my 'unniappams'" "I feel so happy Now let me take leave" "Have a couple of drinks" "Not only that Have dinner with us" "My daughter will call Checking up on me" "Sol had better leave" "Do you have to go?" "I must Why displease anyone?" "I will go eat at home" "1 minute" " Put it back, Sidhu" " Brother, this is" "Put it right back" "I worked for a salary and served food to many children" "I always felt you were children who belonged under one roof" "I was not wrong!" "You are all still together" "No one realizes the value of bonds like you do" "I am very happy today" "As if I was back in college" "Let me leave?" "Poor man!" "He came and left so quickly" "Where are you?" "I've been waiting for you" " I will be a little late" "I thought you'll come early" "You go to bed I'll call you later" "Hey!" "Our Father Xavier" "Ask him to bring some wine" " I will" " Put it on speaker" "Speak on" "Praise be to the Lord" "Leave that alone Where are you now?" "Sorry, friends lam going back" "Attend a Holy mass whichl can't avoid" "If you don't come, we will perform your final mass" "Radhika came all the way from America to see you" "Are you a cross on the church wall?" "I have to attend it" "The Lord won't forgive me" "Neither will we, you" "I will pray that only good befalls you" "I'll have you in my prayers" "He hung up on us" "What does he do?" "Murder God with his jokes?" "Will he come?" "Let him be content with his Holy mass" "Let us celebrate" "As long as you don't make a mess of it tiff" "So...?" "Happy?" "You mean my married life?" "Happy married life" "All those are dreams" "They never materialize into reality if they do then they cease to be dreams" "That is absolute truth Shake hands on that" "Years ago I met her on the road from the airport" "Sophia" "And?" "Her car had broken down and she signaled my auto" "I kept asking her questions all the way from the airport" "But she never replied to a single question" "When I dropped her at her place she gave me a 1000 rupee note" "I refused and she threw it at my face" "I said I did not have enough change" "She said keep the change" "I went back thrice to return the change to her" "She is in Canada now" "What was the need to go after a wife who left you?" "Suhra, it wasn't you who went to her, right?" "Why did you go?" "Don't ask me why I have no answer" "This is the problem with Malayali boys" "They never come out in the open with their love" "Sometimes I wonder why not one of you fell in love with me" "We thought why lose the friendship we shared" "Right, dude?" "Why were you so afraid?" "Afraid of you?" "If I had declared my love would you have accepted?" "I can't even tolerate you" "I bow to Annie lfSidhu had... maybe life would have been different" "Thank God I escaped" "Hey!" "I was kidding" "Shall I serve dinner?" "Yes Let's have dinner" "Manu, go wash your hand" "Let's eat" "Come, Sidhu" "Dude, ask her to come" "Sit down, dude Where are you going?" "Bring those left over fritters" "MBRHDRG" "Alavi'kka, see if you can find that bottle" " Rafique?" "Are you in Facebook?" "Yes" "You have time for Facebook But you can't talk to Suhra, right?" "I've told you 100 times not to log into that site" "Why don't just you eat, Suhra?" "Call everyone for dinner" "You can do that yourself" "How can you mix up everything?" "You don't talk Think you are a saint?" "!" "Many a mickle makes a muckle" "That's what it is" "I want to pee" "The loo is over there" "I want to look at the stars and pee" "He's totally tipsy" "Is it a crime even to pee?" " What is this, Raghu?" " Hey!" "What is it?" "Nothing, he just wants to pee gazing at the stars" "Haven't you seen people pee?" "Come here if you haven't" "He wants to divorce Annie" "What?" "Poor thing!" "She doesn't know as yet" "MBRHDRG" "Master chef Alavi'kka" "Very true" "Though he looks rough and tough" "He's #1 in cooking" "Fish curry is yummy Where's he?" " Yummy fish curry" " Thank you" "After the lunch at Benny's wedding I'm enjoying authentic Kerala cuisine only today" "Why did you and Sophie split?" "I'll tell only if Radhika asks me" "Okay, then take it I asked" "Okay, I'll tell you because Radhika asked" "Also Malayalees love to hear someone else's sob story" "I was sitting in a restaurant and enjoying a 'masala dosa'" "I happened to see a TV show" "Sophia was yelling at her mother-in-law in it" "I tracked her down and proposed to her" "I was a 1st rank holder with a lucrative job" "Car, bungalow, the whole works" " No hitches whatsoever" "And?" "We had a grand wedding" "But on our wedding night, just for fun and my misfortune I asked her a question" "Whether I was the 1st man in her life" "What did she say?" "She said only if the light was switched on she will know for sure" "Smart girl!" "But wondering if she was kidding or being serious I broke into cold sweat" "From that day I became suspicious" "I started watching her secretly" "This led to anger, hatred, fights, arguments" "And not silly fights Violent quarrels" "One day she said something and I kicked her on her butt" "Great!" "Then things moved in lightning speed" "She was admitted in hospital" "And a complaint filed through the women's commission" "The case drained me of all my assets" "My house and car were in her name" "She just walked off with both" "I got fed up with life I started drinking" "And became a total wreck" " Now I drive that auto" " Hey you!" "While our child and I are starving at home you are busy buttering up these gentlemen and hogging" "When I called Prasad I realized you were here" "How much did you earn today?" "Nothing, Renu" "It probably went down the drain in some bar" "Don't think we will starve to death" "Hereafter I will drive the auto" "Just 40 bucks after a whole day's work, eh?" "Did you send the rest of the money to your ex-wife?" "Come home I'll deal with you there" "I won't" " Who was that?" " That is my kid" "Renu, she's the mother" "When I became a drunkard my brother drove me out of my own home" "Aimless and loitering I landed up in her house" "She helped me buy the auto" "She's a simple soul, dude Hunger drives her to this state" "Hey!" "Call her back Ask her to eat here" "Call her back" "She's a simple woman I'll bring her back" "Lost the mood to eat" "Benny?" " What...?" " Take this" "Hey!" "No need This is not for you" " For Renu" " Don't do this" "If Renu refuses it I'll take it back" "No, no need Keep it" "No need, let it be" "Listen to me Take it" "MBRHDRG" "He's lucky being an auto driver" "At least he enjoys freedom" "He is free to drive or decide not to drive" "It's not money but freedom that is most important in life" "I have to move" "What you say is right" "The minute you get money you lose your peace of mind" "And marriage makes it worse" "Why?" "We lose peace of mind" "Would you have been better off, if you had married her?" "Suhra, you do know, don't you?" "He was deeply in love with her" "Isn't it true?" "He has written her many love letters" "But she didn't budge" "Haven't you told her all this?" "Suhra!" "Did she get angry and walk out?" "Don't blurt out stuff in such an insensitive way" "I thought she knew" "So I'm not the only one in my husband's heart" "Annie occupies it too" "I studied in St Josephs school" "I was a bright student I even got distinction in 10th grade" "Father said, girls need not study This was more than enough" "I tried to tell him I want to study further" "And become a doctor" "Father promised to get me married to a doctor" "I'm so unlucky" "No one listened to my wish to stand on my own feet" "Don't feel so unhappy Annie has no interest in Rafiq ue" "When in college I too had my crushes" "But I never told anyone" "It isn't possible to see into another's heart, can we?" "Just think about it Try to love Rafiq ue" "Even today you are more your father's daughter" "You must understand you are Rafique's wife also" "Everything will be alright" "I really thought you would've told Suhra" "You should have After all she's your wife" "Only now she knows who my parents are!" "Imagine confiding to her?" "Radhika Any problem?" "I've somehow comforted her Now just be quiet" "Won't you understand?" "Pour me a drink" "Sing a song, Sidhu" "Sing, dude" "I sang once That is enough" " I am okay with this" "You sing" "Sing Sidhu" "It's been so long since I heard you sing" "Revathi is so lucky Sidhu has such a sweet voice" "Do you know how many girls lost sleep over it?" "Which song do you want, Radhika?" "Whichever Up to you" "Ladies and gentleman Sidhu will now sing" "I'll start?" " Such a great feeling" "What...?" " The earth, these rivers, this night" "And...?" "And you" ""Such a lovely feeling too"" ""This world, these rivers and this night with you"" ""We are so close to each other Moon and stars are far out there"" ""But why do they look unreal to me?"" ""These moon and stars really?"" ""While I feel the truth actually in all these around me"" ""The earth, these rivers, the night..."" "tiff" "What is the problem now?" "I want to know right now Who am Ito you?" "Keep your voice down" "Keep your voice down" "Seeing her again you forgot me and our son" "Go live with her if you want" "Don't sing in front of me I can't bear it" "Shut up Keep your voice down" "What flower did you say?" "Yes!" "Jasmine" "That fragrance is still there in your heart, right?" "I am going away with my son" "You can sing, smell jasmine and do whatever you want" " Enough!" "Why should I?" "It's enough" "I can't live a life of indignity like this" "There's a limit to what I can tolerate" "I have only that to say" "I want to know rig ht now" "Should Radhika be here or me?" "What did you say?" "Is it Radhika or me?" "Sidhu" "Hey Radhika!" " Are you happy now?" "Why?" "She went away" " Who?" " Radhika" "Get together My foot!" "Whateverjoy we had is now lost" "I don't blame Revathi at all" "You should have been more in control" "What did I do wrong?" "Is it a crime to sing?" "Song?" "You behaved horribly towards Revathi" "What I" "You clean forgot she was your wife" "Annie" "Why was this party for?" "Who planned it?" "I did" "I wanted to talk to you, Annie" "I asked Xavier to arrange this party" "I insisted all of them should be here" "What is it, Raghu?" "Annie" "Let us split" "Let us once for all end everything" "I have to move on" "I don't know where" "To travel wherever I want" "I don't want any obstacles" "Or any hindrance tiff" "Sidhu?" "She's Renuka, I told you about her?" "Suhra She's my daughter" "Sit" "Annie" "You sit down" "RaghumRafique" "My wife Renuka is here" "Why are you all looking so upset?" "What happened?" "Where is Radhika?" "Radhika left" "Annie and Raghu are breaking up" "This will be our last get-together" "Raghu..." "Sidhu?" "What is all this?" "Everything is a mess here" "What is the issue?" "Is there any family without problems?" "Look at us We fight everyday" "We can never be without quarreling" "But in the evening we patch up, that's all" "But your ego rules you" "Poor Radhika!" "What did she do?" "Ask Sidhu" "He must be the one who is most miserable amongst us" "'We met after so long" "'Breaking up like this is so unfair'" "Look!" "Our Xavier is here" "Xavier?" "Where were you all these years?" "But you said you couldn't come?" "God works in mysterious ways" "Sorry!" "I'm a little late" "I went for the last Mass" "But found the lady hale and healthy milking her cows" "Sit down" "Xavier This is my..." "Renu" "What's wrong?" "Where is Radhika?" " She was upset and left" " Upset?" "Why?" "Annie What happened?" "Don't you know?" "You arranged this party because Raghu asked, isn't it?" "Xavier, I want to talk to you" "Renu, take the baby and go home" "I'll come a little later" "Let me first get out of this tiff" "You are all such boors!" "Everyone wants to know if his neighbor is happy" "Try and love the woman in your own house" "Then you'll realize all women are the same" "But you seek greener pastures" "And sail like ships around the world" "You drop anchor in any port you get" "You then end up feeling lonely and find your way back home" "By then all bonds are broken" "When she cooks a fish curry tell her it's tasty" "That is all they expect" "You aren't married How do you know all this?" "Isn't this what I hear daily?" "Is there any secret a priest doesn't know?" "If you can't love the person you can see how can you love God whom you can't see?" "!" "How far can you fly as a free bird, dude?" "Fly...but fly together" "And still if you don't find peace, come back to me" "I am in search of teachers who can teach orphans" "Anyway you've given up everything in life" "Teach those children Let them at least benefit" "Remem ber this" "You are not the only one living for yourself" "Don't forget Annie Both of you travel together" "Wherever the destination if it is peace that you really seek" "MBRHDRG" "Don't get me wrong, please" "Let me tell you what I personally feel" "Marriage, kids, family are all messy affairs" "I shouldn't be saying all this being pan of the Vatican" "But why don't you lead life the old fashioned way?" "Quarreling but bound by love too" "Revathi" "Dude, did you know?" "Radhika has not been in touch with her husband for past 1 year" "She doesn't know the reason" "But he is in Paris and she in California" "Maybe he is into another relationship" "Last week I called him because she asked me to" "I reprimanded him" "He listened to me without saying a single word" "And then hung up on me" "Radhika can't even imagine a life without him" "Poor thing!" "She came here to get some relief" "But here" "It's her birthday today" "I did not mean to hurt Radhi" "Revathi, understand this" "Radhika's heart belongs completely to John" "There is no place in it for Sidhu" "Benny, can you get a cake?" "She'll come if I call her" "I can easily arrange a cake Our Prasad can do it" "Just a minute" "His mobile is switched off" "Prasad gave me a box this morning" "Alavi'kka" "Where is the box I kept here?" "You leave it lying around Someone will walk away with it" "I've kept it inside" "Xavier!" " What is it?" " Look at this" "Rad hika" "Try calling that number" "Switched off" " Happy Birthday, my love" "John" "Can you give me your phone?" "MBRHDRG" "'Dear Radhika I am Revathi'" "'Amisunderstanding which lasted only for a minute'" "'I couldn't control myself'" "'Only now we found the gift John sent you'" "'Your beloved John is waiting for you in Paris'" "'Will you please forgive me?" "'" "'Happy birthday, Radhika'" "MBRHDRG"