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Without sacrifices or pleas to our deity

Watch grain flow into our granary

Without sacrifices or pleas to our deity

Watch grain flow into our granary

Mokkachaami's wife on a craving spree

of red rice will deliver a very fair baby

People rejoice

this time of abundant gain

Sultry summer

paves the way to cool rain

Check Maayaandi the boogieman's speed in

his hurry forgot his loin cloth indeed!

Dwelling place... that gave birth to me

We'll eat hot rice tonight, a blessing

Chariot of Karna, King of Anga

in a parched village is a silver lining

Nimble on our feet,

we don't saunter

House with a baby

we don't enter

We don't use our stick if there's draught

We don't leave evidence to get caught

We don't shed blood

or kill where we steal

We won't ogle at girls

asleep, even if it's a deal

Village... that gave birth to me

We'll eat hot rice tonight, a blessing

Chariot of Karna, son of Queen Kunti

in a barren village, a silver lining

Who... through thatched roof

showers riches on us?

Who... who is our Provider?

Is Aiyanar our Providence?

Karuppaa!

Without spoiling a theft

by slip or slide

Without an owl's hoot

or a sickle defiled

Let our thefts survive

prosper and thrive!

When sleepy eyes droop

we go to steal in a group

Whatever our fate, maybe

our families undergo misery

All this tears, blood and sweat

just to live with no hunger threat

We die every minute every night

Not worth living, it's a fatal plight

Even if our deity has hazy memory

Mother earth knows our history

Even if around the world we toil

we'll rest in peace only in our soil

Our heart like rice

overflows to boil

Native place... that gave birth to me

mixed in my life's blood, my community

My birthplace... my ancestors' blessing

You are our life's breath, our everything

My birthplace... forefathers' blessing

You are our life's breath, our everything

You are our life's breath,

our everything

You are our life's breath,

our everything

- Grandma.

- Who is it?

Varipuli.

All the young girls

keep talking about you.

What are you doing

in the middle of the night here?

I just came out for a walk.

Don't loiter around,

exercising your limbs.

Your God might

bless you with cramps

and make you impotent!

Is this how a respectable

old lady talks?!

Take care of yourself.

Oi! Kombudhi.

What happened, uncle?

Do you know about

the outsider you've brought in?

When we stole near Chithoor

we killed a man by mistake...

he's from that village

I'm not sure if he wants to take

revenge on you or entire clan.

Don't be silly, uncle

I felt he had integrity

That's why I brought him.

He lied saying he's an orphan.

He doesn't seem like one of us

I am sleepy

Don't make up stories.

He'll wreck havoc on all of us soon

Then you'll know why I said this.

Hey! Chimney fellow!

Why are you ignoring me?

Queen of Vembur is bathing

So I thought I'll return later.

Queen has finished her ablutions.

The king from

faraway land can go ahead

I'll gladly oblige!

Varipuli? Watch out

for the crocodiles!

Don't you worry

I'm good at guarding!

Karuppu Name of my God

Fire Name of my clique

Back bone Our trowel

Loot Our duty

Fly like a pheasant to combat

Hang upside down like a bat

Forget rest or sleep

Grab your stick and leap

I'll pour hooch to numb your sense

I'll also shed blood in your defense

Our path is strewn with thorny nettle

Protect and help us prove our mettle

Goddess Jakkamma

When we cross hills to deceive

sprint across valleys to thieve

Give us grit and guts

in our hearts

Theft... ransack... robbery

heist... break-in... burglary

Con... crime... conspiracy

Plunder... pilfer... piracy

Our elders are against Varipuli

being accepted as one of us.

Pidari uncle is maligning him

I don't know what to do.

Take the trowel

to assist

Hold the martyr stick

to inspect

Open the right spot

to benefit

Proceed with speed

This is our deal

to successfully steal

Name of my God

Karuppu

Name of my clique Fire

Our trowel Back bone

Our duty Loot

Looting Vadipatti is no skill.

You are bragging

as if it was a royal theft.

Even we have broken into

so many forts in our times.

Your theft hasn't even

fetched 10 gulps of hooch.

Shameless scoundrels!

- Kombudhi! Come here.

- What, uncle?

You are gloating

that you are the best robber.

For 6 generations no one has been

able to steal from Kottaiyur.

Prove your worth

by stealing there

I'll then accept

that you are the greatest.

Let's see

how strong Kottaiyur is.

Not even an owl can enter it

ou don't have to bring gold from there

Just a handful of Kottaiyur's soil will do.

That'll prove, you are a man!

We will do what you say

Then we'll rip your grey beard?!

Karuppaaa...

Karupaaa... run.

They got away.

How do we tell our land lords

that these thieves escaped?

5 of them came

4 have run away

1 of them must be

here somewhere.

Kottaiyur is guarded

by us from Mathur.

We'll lose all respect

if this news leaks out.

He can't escape our sharp eyes

He must be here somewhere.

Hit him.

It's dawned now

We can't save him.

It's impossible now.

We've lost our Kombudhi

He has met his end

I am not returning

without Kombudhi.

Whoever has skill

and strength, come with me.

If you are a coward, get lost.

Kombudhi? Can't bear

to see you like this!

Say something.

Thank You God

for saving Your child.

How can you,

our head honcho lie so still?

You retrieved my son

from Lord Yama's jaws.

May you live long!

No one has ever brought home

one of us after day break

I spoke ill of you

without realizing.

Forgive me.

Entire forest will tremble, when you

shout with your Pongam tree stick.

Caught red handed or escaping

is not a matter of consequence.

When those men chased us...

Chinnaaaaa!

They called him

some name in a frenzy

I saw enmity and animosity

on that man's face.

This boy is hiding

something from us.

Shut up.

Being married to a lion

why are you grieving?

Everyone is waiting to

worship my brother-in-law.

He has himself digested death.

And you are weeping.

A lady from Kedaiyur

can bleed but not shed tears!

I've got rat snake's oil

from Suruli hills.

Rub it on my brother-in-law

and he'll walk within 3 days.

Are you an invalid

to ask if you are well or unwell?

We've come to ask for a bride

from a brave man's house?

Permit your sister

to marry my brother.

Hey! Will you marry me or not?

Why are you suddenly

proposing to me?

You need an auspicious day for it?

They've chosen a groom

for me from Kedaiyur.

But I don't want to leave

my brother and this land.

Is that the reason?

You have a bevy of suitors

following you ardently.

Ask them

Why me?

You brought my brother back

when everyone else abandoned him.

That's why.

Then assume that

I didn't save him?!

You buffalo, pig, corpse with Saturn's

malefic effect afflicted by cholera!

I like you

That's why

I too like you

but I can't marry you.

Wait.

You think I'd have slept

with someone since I'm friendly.

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