Malargal Update for Monday, August 14th, 2006
Scene I
Linga, Linga, LingaLingaLinga' s house
Tulasi is given 5 minutes to try to escape from the house. She is
made to run here and there (paavam...director must have thought she
needed to lose some weight). Around every corner and turn is an
aDiyaaL with some kind of knife/blade to show her. She finally makes
it out to the gate, but there are 3 more fellows waiting. She is
defeated. Linga calls to her from a balcony of the house. She goes
back into the bedroom where Linga tells her that she cannot go
anywhere, and she should just give in. He tells her to have dinner
and be ready for him. Tulasi sobs uncontrollably.
Scene II
Vidya's House
Sivagami is reassuring Vidya and Vidya is reassuring Sivagami. Vidya
tells her mother she's confident of being able to change her MIL's
opinion of her. She asks Sivagami to somehow convince her father to
leave before Ramesh's mom and co return from the store. Sivagami and
Vidya bring NK coffee and Vidya tries to make her father
leave...Mallika' s house is far away and they should leave now, etc.
NK doesn't budge. He tells Vidya it's only proper that they stay
until Vidya's MIL comes back home. As expected, MIL, Chittappa and
family arrive. Upon seeing NK and SK, Chitti makes some snide remark
about Vidya taking the opportunity of their being gone to immediately
call her parents. NK protests and says that they just arrived by
chance, and good thing they did...poor Vidya, gramam belle shouldn't
have been left home alone...if they'd taken her along, she wouldn't
have been attacked by the goondas. Chitti makes some more choice
remarks. SK asks how they can speak so callously about Vidya, to
which MIL launches into a tirade of her own about how she only
brought Vidya into the home for Ramesh's sake, and any connection
with the rest of the household doesn't exist. She asks them to
leave. SK speaks up and tells them that all this time they thought
Vidya was happy, and now they know the truth. NK and SK, totally
dejected, exit. Ramesh arrives back home as they are leaving with
heads down. He asks if his mother said anything offensive. SK says
no, it was just a bad time. Ramesh goes back inside and asks his
mother if she said anything to NK/SK. Mom gets angry with him and
says just because Vidya is in the home, her family better not use
that as an excuse to come to the home.
Scene III
Bhaskar's House
Bhaskar outside with the baby when NK/SK walk up the stairs. Bhaskar
is surprised to see them. NK asks Bhaskar why he created a stink
when they specifically told him to be calm and adjusting. Bhaskar
storms into the house and asks his FIL if there's any respect for him
in the house at all. FIL asks him what the problem is. Bhaskar
asks FIL how he could call his parents without telling him. NK
reiterates that he's just trying to iron out the problem before it
gets worse. Bhaskar tells his parents they don't know half the
things that have been happening. SK asks Mallika why she doesn't
want to stay with Revathi...after all, they were together in
Nachiarpuram. mallika is silent. Bhaskar tells his mother not to
bother saying anything, because, according to everyone in the house,
SK is responsible for creating all the problems and instigating
Bhaskar. SK is shocked. Mallika's father tells NK that he had
consulted a joshiar, who indicated that it would be best for Bhaskar
and Mallika to live separately for a short time. Bhaskar tells his
FIL that if his parents had paid so much attention to jadaghams, his
daughter would never have gotten married at all, and would have been
relegated to some corner. Mallika's mom (who was stewing all this
time) finally explodes and asks if Bhaskar is trying to say hurtful
things. NK gets angry and almost slaps Bhaskar. SK intervenes,
still angry that Mallika and her mom have been blaming everything on
her. NK tells Bhaskar if it will prevent things from growing more
serious, they should separate for a while. They prepare to take
leave. Suddenly, Mallika's mom offers to make tiffin for them (she
is happy that they agreed to a separation). NK and Sk decline and
depart. They tell Bhaskar to stay in Mallika's home until he and
Siva find a new place.
Malarum...
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