Anaivarukkum vanakkam. 🙏

La Pluie (The Rain)

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(1279 CE, Madhikettan Solai)

The rain was falling increasingly on the grand mountain range's thickly forested terrain. A group of people were trekking through the dense forest at night, using fire torches to navigate.

It appears that a man was navigating the crowd, accompanied by his armed men. He adorned a golden crown and carried a stone idol in his arm. There was also a woman by his side, clutching a stone statue and following him.

The crowd appears to be tired, yet there seems to be nothing left but to keep moving. Soon, the crowd arrived at a site in the midst of the forest with a large flat stone.

The crowned guy climbed the rock and turned to face the crowd.

(Neraya perukku sanga thamizh puriyadhu, so we have subtitles. 😁)

🫅: Yammakkaal! Ini idhuve nin agam, ivvidame neer vaazhveer! (En makkale! Inime idhudhan unga veedu, Ingedhan neenga iruppinge!)

All: 😰

🤴: Chozhar kulam kaaka neer ingu thazhaipeer! (Chozha lineage preserve panna neenga inge populate aavinge!)

All: 😰

🤴: Kavalai vidum! Moondram Rajendra Chozhan aagiya yaam Kollamkonda Pandiyanin thalai koydhu Thanjaiyil meendum vengai kodi naatuvom! 😡 (Kavalai vidunga! Rajendra Chozha III myself, Kollamkonda Pandiyanoda thalaiye vetti Thanjaile thirumba tiger flag veypen!)

All: 😰

🤴: Ivvengai ekkaalamum ammeenukku adipaniya! Idhu yam karamkonda Uchappan meedhaanai! 😡 (Indha tiger eppavume andha fish-kku bow down pannadhu! Idhu en kaile irukkura Uchappan mele promise!)

He rests his palm on the statue in his hand.

🤴: Yaam vidaiperum kaalum nerungivittadhu! (Naan poga vendiya time vandhurichi!)

All: 😭

The crowd began to tear and begged with him not to leave.

🤴: Anjaadheer! Nin kulam kaaka yaam Uchappanaiyum Uchanaitha Ammaiyaaraiyum ivvidam vidugirom! (Bayapadadhinge! Ungale protect panna naan Uchappanaiyum Uchanaitha Ammaiyaaraiyum ingeye viduren!)

He put the statue on the rock top and took the other statue from the lady to place next to it.

All: 😰🙏

🤴: Yaam meendum varuvom! Adhuvarai evvidamum pogadheer! Yaar vizhithum pogadheer! (Naan thirumba varuven! Adhu varaikkum engeyum pogadhinge! Yaar kooptalum pogadhinge!)

That man got down off the rock and cupped the lady's face.

🤴: Yaam varumvarai yammakkal nin poruppu dhevi. 😟 (Naan varra varaikkum ivanga un responsibility.)

👸: Viraivil varavendum aiyane. 😢 (Seekram varanum.)

He kissed her forehead, grabbed a flaming torch, and began walking away alone into the woods.

All: 😰

The crowd gazed at the glowing torch till it vanished in the distance, hoping that he might return to them someday.

(2002, Rameswaram)

The rain and wind were falling fiercely, making the night darker. The ocean waves grew higher and slammed into the massive rock-filled shoreline. A vintage building with a large name board displaying Karunai Illam at the main entrance stood facing the untamed sea.

A middle-aged woman in a saree sat at her study table, looking over paperwork under the desk lamp lighting in her room. Her room window suddenly burst open due to the intense windy rain, causing the papers on her desk to fly away.

🙍‍♀️: Karthare! 😧

She rushed to close the window. As she was going to close the window, she saw something in afar in the sea.

🙍‍♀️: 🧐

She couldn't see clearly due to heavy downpours. She wiped her spectacles with her saree and put them on again to look properly. A bolt of lightning appeared and illuminated the sky for a brief moment, allowing the lady to see clearly.

🙍‍♀️: 🧐😧

She immediately left her room and reached a door at the end of the corridor, knocking on it.

🙍‍♀️: Father Sebastian! Father Sebastian! 😟

A man in his seventies opened the door.

Seb: Ennachi Mariam nee innum thoongaleya? 🙄

Mar: Father, ange dhoorathule oru padagu theriyudhu. 😟

Seb: Mariam Rameswarathule padagukka panjam? 🙄

Mar: Father indha nerathule ipdi climate irukkurappe yaarum meen pudikka pogamatangale Father? 😟

Seb: 🙄

Mar: Ceylon refugees-ah irukkumnu nenaikiren Father. 😟

Seb: 😧

Father Sebastian hurried to the landline in his room to make a call. Mariam dashed to her room, grabbed up a torchlight, and ran down the stairs to exit the building. She rushed for the rocky shore, unconcerned by the hard windy rain or her complete wetting.

She stepped up the rock, turned on the torchlight, and began to wave at the never-ending sea.

(2004, Chennai)

The forest is cruelly drenched from the heavy night rain. A man and a woman going through the wilderness, fatigued and afraid, holding babies in both hands. That man was also holding a young boy's hand as they moved.

The guy and woman were severely wounded, and they kept looking back to see if anyone was following them. The woman suddenly halted moving and sat down on a nearby rock.

👨: Parvathy endhirima namma seekram poganum. 😰

👩: Ennale idhukkumele mudiyadhunga. Namma pillaingale neengadhan kaapathanum. 😫

👨: Needhanema enakku ellame. 😢

She handed the infant to him.

👩: Inime ivanga moonuperumdhan ungalukku ellam, seekram ingendhu poyidunga. Bujju.... 😢

🧒: Amma. 😢

👩: Appakooda serndhu thambingale nalla paarthukkanum nee. 😢

She gradually slumped against the nearby tree, falling into a never-ending sleep.

🧒: Amma. 😢

👩: 💀

👨: Parvathy. 😢

🧒: 😭

That man closed the child's mouth to keep him quiet.

👨: En thangamle sathampodadhepa. 😢

That man observed a few lights in the distance.

👨: Bujju avanga varaanga vaa namma poyidalam ingendhu. 😰

🧒: Amma. 😢

👨: Amma nammale vittu poyitangappa nee vaa namma poyidalam. 😰

Soon, the father and child with the two babies began to walk far away to avoid their threats.

(31st December 2023, Thanjavur)

On the last nightfall of the year, heavy rainfall is pouring down on the city. Everyone was preoccupied with planning the New Year's celebration, disregarding the heavy rain.

An elderly man, clutching a bag, ran along an abandoned road in the pouring rain. Blood was streaming from his body, but he was desperate to flee from the guy who was following him.

A bullet pierced his leg, causing him to fall down.

👴: 😰

👨‍💼: Finally, you stopped running. 😈

👴: Please enne onnum pannidadhe. 😰🙏

👨‍💼: Naan olunga ketappaye nee adhe kuduthurundha unne cash-oda naan anuppiruppen, aana ippo unakku naan adhe yen kettennu therinjirichi, so it seems like I don't have a choice. 😈

👴: Neenga panradhu romba thappu, avanga ellam appaavi manushanga. 😰

That guy seized the bag from the old man.

👨‍💼: Appavithanathe vechi onnuthayum pidunga mudiyadhu perusu. 😈

👴: Neenga panra thappe thatti ketka yaarachum varuvanga. 😡

👨‍💼: No thanks.

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Nandri.

-Mahish