01x05 - The Immortal Being

[bunniefuu]

[insects trilling]

[brakes screech]

[truck driver] Hey, there, are you okay?

PRABHU'S HOME

[somber music playing]

What's this? Who are you people?

Ji, I'm Nandan.

You are
Parvathy madam's older son, isn't it?

What do you want?

Who are these people, Thatha?

How did you let them in at such a time?

What is this?

Sorry, brother.

They didn't have any more urns
at the crematorium.

So madam had to be... brought in this jar.

[whispers] Shut up.

Is this some kind of joke or what? Amma.

-It is true, brother.
-[Chiranjeevi] Amma!

Madam had to stay back at the colony
near the jungle due the lockdown.

[Chiranjeevi] Amma!

And when the entire colony
was infected by LHF,

-madam also got it.
-[shushes angrily]

One more word from you
and I'll break your bloody face!

-Sir...
-What bullshit is he talking, Thatha?

-What is he saying? Where is Amma?
-Your amma betrayed me.

[emotional music playing]

Actually, it was my turn to leave,

but she left first.

[breath trembling]

No.

No.

She couldn't have left.

I...

No matter how late I returned,
she always waits...

It can't happen.

No.

[crying]

[gasps]

[Nandan] Brother, madam was like
a mother to all of us.

She was an angel.

Until her last breath,

She did everything she could.

She tried her best
to save the poor Oraka tribals.

Poor, is it?

Orakas?

Because of those people, my amma is dead...

and you say they are poor?

[Nandan] No, that's not
what I meant, brother.

What I meant was those people live,
uh, peacefully in the jungle.

It's not their fault at all,

yet because of our disease,
they are dying.

And the thousands
that are dying over here,

tell me what is their fault?

Huh? No, you explain this to me.

Why are the lives of those Oraka people
worth more than our lives, why?

No, brother, I didn't say that.

You did say that!

You said it!

Okay, I agree. I fully agree.

The Orakas are good people,
we're the bad guys.

But does that mean
our lives are worth nothing?

My amma's life... is also worth nothing?

[cries]

Didn't she just do good
all through her life?

-She did, right?
-Yes.

What did she get?

What did she get in return
from those guys tell me?

[crying]

You guys...

You guys will save the Orakas
from this disease? You guys?

[sniffles] Nothing is happening to them!

They drink the infected water,
but nothing happens to them.

Those guys are totally fine.
They know how to escape the disease.

They know what needs to be done.
They just don't want to tell us.

Bloody cannibals!

They are the ones who are inferior to us.

But they are alive and we guys keep dying.

Brother, it's not like that at all.
You're just in shock.

You'll be the one in shock,
when you see the truth with your own eyes.

[breathing heavily]

[sniffles]

Wait... I will show all of you.

I will show the whole world now.

The true colors of the Oraka community,
I will show you.

{\an}[theme music playing]

{\an}-[man] Mohanlal?
-[Parvathy] No.

{\an}[man] Uh, Govinda?

[Parvathy] He's my favorite, but no.

Hey, Nagarjuna! That's a nice name, right?

Nagarjuna Prabhu,
son of Unnikrishnan Prabhu. [laughs]

I'm not going to name my firstborn
after some movie star.

And what's wrong
with the name I suggested?

Vaishnavi, if it's a girl,
Vinayak, if it's a boy.

Parvathy, we had decided, right?
We're having just two.

You'll name the second one
and I'll name the first.

Okay, do that. You still have
seven-and-a-half months left.

Just don't pick
a movie star's name, that's all.

-[brakes screech]
-What happened?

[ominous music playing]

[man panting]

[in Oraka] Help.

[man wheezing and coughing]

Help.

[gripping percussive music playing]

[all panting]

Thula? Thula?

Thula?

[intriguing music playing]

Don't be scared.

They're here to help.

What happened?

Are you okay?

Please... [crying]

Please, save...

Save my child.

Please, save...

Save my child.

[Thula crying]

[birds chirping]

[ominous music playing]

[children chattering]

Rumpe!

Go home.

-But, Father...
-Take your brother with you!

[suspenseful music playing]

[panting]

[doctor in English]
You don't need to worry.

All the resources of the hospital
are at your disposal.

[doctor ] And keeping
your condition in mind,

we'll run all the required tests.

[scanners beeping]

Okay, enough now.

Our most qualified doctors
are with Mrs. Shaw at the moment.

That's all we can do for now.

Be honest, Doctor.

Can she b*at LHF?

If you want to stay hopeful,
then don't ask for my honesty.

[sighs]

[Ketan clicks tongue] What a tragedy.

And I wanted to bring her good news.

All your terms have been accepted.

Jenkins pipeline, ATTAVUS Project.

Nobody will investigate
any of your operations anymore.

Now,

in six days the rescue ship

will be ready
and waiting for us at Darwin's Bay.

But sadly...
the one for whom we did all this...

can't come with us.

We can't leave.

We can't leave without her.

[pensive music playing]

Listen, Mr. Wani...

Right now,
I too am feeling very emotional...

but we've made a deal.

Without Swasti, there is no deal.

But... but... but we won't get
another chance, Mr. Wani.

With , people, I, you,
and this girlfriend of yours can leave...

You don't get it, do you?

Swasti's medicine that you found on her,
it wasn't prescribed for seasickness.

It was for her morning sickness.

Wait.

You mean, she is...

Pregnant.

She is pregnant with their first child.

[tense music playing]

Ketan sahib, our safe haven
is Brandon Shaw's private property.

And if his pregnant wife is not fit enough
to set a foot on that island,

then none of us will.

But this is madness, Mr. Wani.

Even you know that it...
it's impossible to cure LHF.

So many doctors have tried
so many experimental treatments,

but there is no hope.

Find a way.

Because if Swasti doesn't live,

then none of us will.

[music intensifies]

Thirteen tens are... .

[static over radio]

Oh, wow, Kaddu.

You taught me the times table.

Divya Miss always says,
"No nicknames in class."

So, right now I am,
Miss Vidisha Savla. Okay?

-Okay.
-Um, I'll just, uh, go out for a walk.

At this hour? Don't you think
your evening walks are getting too many?

It's okay, Uncle.
Anyway I have to stay up a little longer.

-But only minutes.
-[Parth] Okay.

-And don't cross the boundary.
-Yeah.

-[radio knob clicking]
-[radio crackling]

[Basu] How long
are you going to keep trying?

He may not even contact you.

No, Uncle, he promised.

[mellow music playing]

And Veenu can be a little late,
but he would never break his promise.

[Parth] Sundari.

[cat meowing]

Sundari.

Where are you?

[meowing]

Aww... Sundari.

-[thunder rumbling]
-What did you think?

-[meows]
-I'd forget to feed you tonight?

How could I?

[ominous music playing]

[groaning softly]

[grunting]

[gasping]

[sinister music playing]

[Santosh] Hello! Is anybody there?

Is anybody there?

I've got to go to Port Blair.

[screaming in pain]

[gasps]

[breathing heavily]

[whimpering]

[groaning]

[screaming]

[whimpering]

[grunting]

[breathing heavily]

[somber music playing]

[sighing]

[gripping music playing]

[grunts]

[Nandan] You brought me
so deep into the jungle.

But at least tell me
what you want me to do?

[Chiranjeevi] You can help
a lot of people, Nandan.

But for that you first need to have trust,

not questions.

How did you know about this place,
so deep in the jungle?

I'm a forest guard's son.
It's my father's tower.

[evocative music playing]

[in Oraka] They are evil.
Evil from beyond the sea... Evil.

[Parvathy in English]
When will the police come?

Not until morning. They're not going to
find a safer place in the jungle.

[speaking Oraka]

[Thula breathing heavily]

[in English] What's he saying?

That they... That they are
going to take his life, Parvathy.

Who?

The guys who a few months earlier
had r*ped this Oraka girl and left.

Probably poachers...
who came from the mainland.

You mean this baby...

[Unnikrishnan] A few days ago,
NGO workers heard them out

and lodged a police complaint.

Since then the poachers
have been chasing them.

While escaping today,
they got separated from their tribe.

[Thula moaning]

Just look at her state,
she could deliver anytime now.

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] They've threatened these guys
that if this baby is born,

they would burn the baby
in front of the mother.

What? How can they do that?

[Parvathy sighs]

That's not happening.

I... I won't let it,
I swear on my unborn baby.

So long as we are here,

your daughter and her baby
won't be harmed at all.

I... I promise you.

[speaking Oraka]

[Parvathy in English] Promise. Hmm?

Brother, this is wrong, brother.

Please let the poor man go.

I told you, Nandan, they're not the ones
who are poor, we are poor.

Our people are dying from the disease.

If they had revealed to us

how their people escaped the disease,
our people would still be alive.

It could also be possible
he doesn't know anything.

Really? Then why did they leave
their colony and run away?

They went far away and hid from us because

they want all of us to die, that's it.

[breathing heavily]

Ask him.

Ask him in his language.

Why aren't they falling sick?

Come on.

Ask!

[indistinct chatter]

[scanners beeping]

The key for please.

Oh, madam, there was this guy
who came to meet you.

He took your keys and went to your room.

What? Are you new here?
Mister att*cks people he doesn't know.

[receptionist] Mister who?

[tense music playing]

[Ketan laughing]

Oh, hi! [chuckles]

So, if she dies,

all those hundreds of people
from the island can't be evacuated?

Right.

That's why we need to save her.

Um...

But why me, sir?

[gentle music playing]

Since I met you
at the hospital the other day,

I've been thinking about you.

About your treatment.

You were saying something about

a plant that could
possibly cure this disease.

[sighs]

Yes, sir. But...
I just couldn't find the plant.

And I'm very sure the Orakas know
something or the other about it, but...

But who knows
where the Orakas are right now.

Many NGOs, police, even forest officials,
I've approached all of them.

But they all have
bigger problems right now.

On my own, I compiled all the findings,

and I even narrowed down
the unchecked parts of the forest

{\an}where the Orakas could be.

{\an}But to scour such a large area,
I need a whole search party.

We.

We need a search party.

[Santosh grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[grim music playing]

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[sinister music paying]

[sighs]

[intense music playing]

[breathing heavily]

[grunts]

[sighs]

[sinister music playing]

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[hissing]

[gasps]

Sorry.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, no, no!

Don't come close! Stay back!

Back!

Stay back. Stay back. Stay back.

I will not harm you. I won't do anything.

I promise I'm not here to harm you.

[breath trembling]

[grunting]

[gripping music playing]

[straining]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[shuddering]

[screams]

[screaming in pain]

[beeping softly]

[Vinayak over radio] Sindhu? Sindhu?

Sindhu, are you there?

-Sindhu, Veenu here.
-Veenu!

Yeah, Veenu, I'm right here.
Are you there? Where are you?

Punishing me for making you wait
for years, are you?

Jyotsna, I'm trying
everything I can to come to you, but...

[mellow music playing]

I'm sorry, yaar. It's because of me
you're stuck over there.

Veenu...

I am not here because of you.

I'm here for you.

I promise you, Jyotsna, I will come.

And anyway I have to come there
before evacuation.

You must've heard the emergency broadcast.

What? Evacuation?

Bhaiya?

Mummy, Papa will come to get us, na?

I'm feeling very scared.

Jyotsna Miss taught you, didn't she?

When you're scared, what do you do?

-[beeps]
-[song playing]

[Jyotsna in Tamil] ♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whispering tree? ♪

[birds squawking]

♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whistling bee? ♪

[in Oraka]
♪ The words with wings ♪

♪ The river that sings ♪

♪ Are just a few things... ♪

Kamal? Ajit?

♪ ...across space... ♪

[in English] Hey. Prabhu Deva!

-[in Oraka] ♪ ...across time... ♪
-[shushes]

[in English] What is this song
he's singing? What does it mean?

-This?
-[Parvathy] Hmm.

This is the oldest folk song
of the Orakas.

-Yeah?
-[man humming]

They believe that this song can never die.

It can never die? A song?

The Orakas believe that this
is the first ever song of the human race.

Generation after generation,
people perished,

but this song always managed
to find a way to stay alive.

It was sung centuries ago,
and it will be sung centuries from now.

And that's why this song is immortal.

[man humming]

[Chiranjeevi] Spirits are upset?

[Nandan] That's what he replied
when I asked him.

He said that the disease is spreading

because his ancestors' spirits are upset?

-What he said is what I said.
-Are you drunk or what?

[breathing heavily]

-I know how to make this bugger talk.
-Uh...

Uh... No, brother, please, don't do this.

Thousands of us have already d*ed
because of him, Nandan.

If he doesn't talk,
millions more will die.

[Nandan grunts]

Tell me. Come on.

Why isn't the disease
affecting you people? Huh?

What's so special about you people? Huh?

-Tell me!
-Brother, no.

I was just

when my father tried to save your people
by jumping into the forest fire himself.

Why did he give up his life?

What is so special about you people?

My amma, she did the same thing.

To save you people from the disease,
why did she give up her life?

What is so special about you people?

What bloody spell
did you cast on my poor parents?

Why was saving you people
always so important for them? Why?

Why was I... Why was their own son

always less important
for them than you people?

What is so special about you people?!

[breathing heavily]

[solemn music playing]

[cries]

[Nandan in Oraka] Are you okay?

The wounds on my body
aren't as deep as the wounds on his soul.

[sobbing]

Tell him he already knows
the answers to his questions.

He just has to look within.

[grim music playing]

[grunts softly]

[groans]

-[grunting]
-[flies buzzing]

[breathing heavily]

[suspenseful music playing]

[grunting]

[retches]

[coughing]

[hisses]

[hisses]

[gasps]

[gripping music playing]

[gasping, grunting]

[yells]

-[yelling]
-[rock thumping]

[panting]

[flies buzzing]

[squishes]

[rock thuds]

[grim music playing]

[Ketan in English] The first team will go
south of Lathikata, the others, here.

{\an}They'll meet us at this check post.

{\an}There, we'll divide ourselves into
three teams and cover these three areas.

Okay?

Finding the Oraka settlement
is our topmost priority.

And...

And I want your complete focus on the job.

[car door closes]

-Hey, focus.
-Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

We leave in two. Let's go.

-Dr. Gagra, I want...
-Sir.

Please, uh, not doctor, just Ritu.

[chuckles] Why?
Aren't you a doctor, ma'am?

[sighs]

By degree, yes, but I don't know.
Doctor is a very prestigious title.

Okay. [chuckles]

Ritu?

-[Ritu] Hmm.
-[chuckles]

[Ketan] So, what I was saying is, Ritu...

No pressure, but the fate
of the people lives is now in your hands.

[coughing]

Sundari.

[coughing] Sundari.

Stop playing hide-and-seek now, come on.

Sundari.

[ominous music playing]

[gasps]

[coughing]

[breathing heavily]

[fly buzzing]

[breath trembling]

[dramatic music playing]

Guchhu Bhaiya! Guchhu Bhaiya!

We are about to leave!

Stepping out in these conditions
is very risky.

We have to take the risk, Uncle.

They broadcast said

all tourist families have to
make their way to the evacuation site.

Who knows, maybe they might find
their parents there.

-Anyway, we can't stay here...
-Guchhu Bhaiya!

What is this, Basu Uncle?
Guchhu Bhaiya is refusing to talk to me.

Guchhu? Guchhu?

[Kaddu] Guchhu Bhaiya, wait!

[gripping music playing]

Hey, Guchhu Bhaiya, listen to me!

Hey, Guchhu Bhaiya, listen!

-Open the door, Guchhu Bhaiya.
-I said stay away from me!

[Kaddu] Listen,
but we're going to meet Mummy and Papa!

[excitedly] ♪ Tuduk-tuduk, tuduk-tudu ♪

Just go away from here!

Until you open the door,
I'll keep on dancing outside like this.

♪ Tuduk, tuduk-tudu ♪

Didn't you hear what I said?!
I said stay far away from me!

[Kaddu screams]

[breath trembling]

[crying]

[mask clatters]

[Parvathy humming softly]

[waves lapping]

[humming continues]

[Parvathy in Tamil]
♪ ...are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time... ♪

[sinister music playing]

[shouting] Unni!

[Parvathy panting]

[in English] Unni! Oh, no!

-Get... get up. Thula...
-[groans]

-Where is the girl?
-They took her away, Parvathy.

I couldn't... I couldn't help her.

-I'll take you to the hospital.
-No. No...

You go and call Appa, go.

Ask him to bring the police
and the villagers here quickly.

-Huh, okay.
-And, Parvathy,

she could deliver
any minute now. [panting]

We don't have much time.

-Yeah.
-So hurry up.

Okay.

[Nandan grunts softly]

Brother. Chiru brother.

[Chiranjeevi] Huh...

You were telling me
that your friend got LHF, right?

You stayed with him
for so many days, yet, you...

You weren't affected. Why?

-Because God kept you safe...
-[yawns]

...for a good deed.

What are you saying?

What I'm saying is,
his son is waiting for him.

So releasing him to go back to him
is a good deed, isn't it?

You let him...

Uh, I let him go.

But I felt bad so I woke you up.

Chiru... Chiru brother.

[panting]

[gripping music playing]

[Santosh grunting]

[retching]

[gasps]

[panting]

[footsteps crunching]

Is anybody there?

Is somebody there?

I... I've fallen down here.

Papa. Papa!

[uplifting music playing]

Kaddu. Beta, is that you?

Guchhu Bhaiya, come quick.

[hesitates] Guchhu beta.

Get me come out of here, beta.

Get your papa out of here, beta.

[chuckles] Can't get anything right.

Mummy sent you here
so you could look for us.

-And you're stuck down here.
-[Kaddu] Papa, come on, please try.

Otherwise you will
never be able to see us.

You won't be able to find us.

No, beta.

Please don't say that.

[crying]

[sputters] Don't say that. Don't say that.

I'll try. I promise you, I will try.

I promise. [crying]

I will try...

I'll try.

[breathing heavily]

[gripping music playing]

{\an}[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[gasping]

[whimpering]

[groaning]

[screaming in pain]

[gripping music continues]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[screaming in pain]

[grunting]

[crying]

I did it, Gargi.

I knew you would do it.

Come.

Come here.

[panting]

[crying]

Must be very tired, na?

It's all right. I'll give you
a nice gooseberry oil massage, okay?

And you will sleep soundly.

Go to sleep.

[gentle music playing]

[door opens]

[solemn music playing]

WARNING

[tense music playing]

[policeman ] Careful,
the Lathikata Forest is quite dense.

[policeman ] Watch your step.

-[grunts]
-It's a bit slippery.

[Ketan] Ritu ji.

[Ketan laughs]

You're telling me

that right now, if a helicopter lands here
in this jungle to take us back home,

then you would still in your... [sighs]

...sane mind, choose to be here?

-Hmm? [chuckles]
-[sighs]

Sir, have you
heard the name Forelius pusillus?

Huh?

Forelius pusillus. It's a Brazilian ant.

Brazilian ant, huh?
Does it eat sugar and do the samba?

[both chuckle]

-Sir.
-Huh?

-To escape the cold...
-Hmm.

...these ants, they need
to seal their colonies.

-Really? Hmm.
-Every night.

-But they can't do it from the inside.
-Then?

So one ant has to shut the door
with sand from the outside.

And each night,
that one ant dies in the cold outside.

[policeman ] Go and check.

For thousands of ants to stay warm
and safe at home,

that one poor ant
never gets to return home.

[policeman ] Found anything there?

[groans]

-What happened?
-Ant.

[policeman ] Check that spot.

-k*lled it.
-[policeman ] Sir! Ketan sir!

Sir, the other sector's search team
has found someone. Let's hurry.

Let's go. Go on, guys!

Ritu ji, after you.

But, sir, I'm a fully
law-abiding citizen, sir.

I know it's illegal
to roam in this reserve forest.

But the NGO sent me, sir.

Otherwise, I've never met
any Oraka ever in my life, sir.

Sir.

[tense music playing]

Really? Then how do you
have this with you?

This is my amma's, sir.
She gave it to me long, long back.

You're lying to me?

-Why would I lie? It's my amma's.
-Put him in the van.

Amma gave it to me, sir.
Why are you putting me in the van?

Hey, that officer knows me, sir!
Ketan sir!

Sir, Ketan sir! Ketan sir.

Let me go. He said hi to me, okay?

[coughing]

[sighs]

So what now?

The fever will go in a day or two.

You'll even feel a little better, but, uh...

After that I will die.

Right?

In a single flash,

gone.

When my granny d*ed two years ago...

everyone said...

that she was now up in heaven.

But I knew
they were just trying to pacify me...

[crying] ...because that day,

the way Kaddu clung to her body
and cried nonstop...

no matter where my granny was,

she would come back
to pacify her, I'm sure.

Heaven, jannat, swarg.

There is nothing there.

[emotional music playing]

There is no happy ending.

[sighs]

[inhales sharply]

[exhales]

You know, my son Shouvik d*ed
years ago.

But even today,
when I think of him, he comes back...

He comes back to me
in the form of tears or sometimes a smile.

I don't know what happens after one dies.

[sighs]

I... I don't even know
if something like heaven exists or not.

All I know is that
we don't cease to exist.

For the ones that love us, beta,

we continue to exist in their lives
in some form or the other.

What you said was right.

There's no happy ending.

Just because

there is no ending.

[coughing]

Sir, I need to leave now.

Guchhu.

[sighs]

I just couldn't... watch my son
Shouvik pass away.

That's why I was not beside him
in his final moments.

I can't repeat the same mistake.

-[hesitates] No. No, sir.
-[sighs]

This is dangerous.

If you come with me
then maybe you too might get...

I have been alone for years, beta.

If I die now, by going with you,
what difference will it make?

Come.

He had this with him.
It's a symbol of Orakas.

Only those related
to the Orakas by blood, have it.

I'm sure he must have stolen it.

[intriguing music playing]

Sir. Ketan sir, you know very well
that I got into a police tangle

only once in my life.

Then I started the travel company.
Now no more shady business.

Listen, we are here to ask the Orakas
some very important questions.

Yeah.

So, if there's anything you know,
spit it out now.

If I knew anything, % I would have
come and told you myself.

After all, it's for my own benefit.
We trust each other.

-Benefit?
-We're both from Port Blair, na?

It's a nice design.

Thank you, sir.

That sir is still
staring at me suspiciously.

-I said it's my amma's. You believe me...
-Yeah, he does not believe.

He says that this Oraka symbol
is not given to outsiders.

Is that right?

They give this only to those people
with whom they have

a relationship of blood.

Am I wrong?

[solemn music playing]

If you know something, you'll tell me?

For sure, right? Hmm?

-[chuckles]
-f*ck off.

Thanks.

[wistful music playing]

NURSING HOME
GYNECOLOGIST AND OBSTETRICIAN

[in Oraka] I just want to talk...

I just want to talk...

Stop!

[in English] Catch him!

[wistful music continues]

Tie him up!

[music intensifies]

[breathing heavily]

[in Oraka] ♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whispering tree? ♪

♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whistling bee? ♪

♪ The words with wings... ♪

[Parvathy in Tamil]
♪ The river that sings ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

[humming]

[mellow music playing]

[in English] Officers told Appa that
those guys hit the baby's mother,

tried to burn her
when she was giving birth to him.

But the baby didn't even get a scratch.

[chuckles]

Maybe the baby is immortal
like their song. No one can destroy him.

[chuckles softly]

Why don't we call him
Chiranjeevi in that case?

Yeah, well... Chiranjeevi it is.

[Parvathy] Here.

[Unnikrishnan] Our Chiru.

[Parvathy in Tamil]
♪ The cloud with rains ♪

♪ The moon that shines ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

[humming]

[theme music playing]