Lingaa Page #11

I can't bear to see you like this

I am fine, father

You must be hungry

Please eat

Where's Collector sir?

He's in the backyard

You first eat

Oh gawd!

I have sinned

What I did was unforgivable

When did you come?

Please forgive me

Forgive this sinner

How can you say this?

You're all big shots

More than you?!

Stop crying, please

When did they come?

- Just now, sir

- Did they eat?

No

First serve them dinner

Okay

"A conch even if burnt

remains white, dude"

"There's an air about nobility

They carry a definite dignity"

"Even if exiled by our society

our king will always be royalty"

"Even if fallen from grace

helping hand is never in disgrace"

"Even if he loses his land

and everything in hand..."

"...no one can rob this engineer

of his inimitable cheer"

"Truth will triumph one day when

this world will glorify you then"

"Only you, this village will claim

is a man worthy of name and fame"

"Lies blow like a hurricane

But truth unhurried has its say"

"On that day, in your life

you'll win over all strife"

"Don't give up hope

Don't lose faith and mope"

"Don't be low-spirited

Don't be brokenhearted"

"Trust in 'This too shall pass'

It'll be the nightmare that was"

How was the dinner?

Was that dinner?

It was a royal feast!

Feast, huh?

How is the dam?

It must have withstood

the wind and stormy weather

Unshakable

As strong as you

No one can shake it

even for a 1000 years more

How are our people back home?

Forget all that

Why are you like this?

You saw me as a king,

Collector, engineer

And now you're seeing me

as a cook, you mean that?

What work we choose

to do isn't important

But it is important to

love whatever we do

You gave comfort and stability

to people in 36 villages

But now...like this-

What do I lack?

I have this hall built by my father

to welcome tired travellers

I have the means to feed

my guests without saying 'no'

Didn't you see the cows

giving us fresh milk daily?

What else do I need?

You sold your palace

You lived a life of royalty-

I'm the king here too!

Your daughter is the queen

Am I a king only if

I live in a palace?

Wherever one is, to be happy

and to give people what they lack...

...whoever follows this

way of life, is a king

However much you may justify...

...we want to see you

as king like we did before

This isn't good enough

We'll return the lands

you gave us villagers

You buy back

the palaces you sold

May you live as the king we love

for 100 years majestically

Even now I can go back

to my old life if I wish

I'm educated with

ample mental strength

And my body

has a firm backbone

But I've seen that side of life

I like my present lifestyle

I asked my wife Bharathi

She said she's happy this way

If heart beats

with happiness...

...one can be happy anywhere

If that joy is missing here

wherever one goes-

Sir, come back to our village

We'll treat you like royalty

In my lifetime I wanted to leave

something memorable behind

Solaiyur dam is my identity

Having built it

my work there is over

Don't hold whatever

happened in your heart

Sammandham-

Why rake up the past?

Forget it

Son-in-law?

Can I call you so?

Can he call me

'son-in-'law'?

Very funny!

At least come and open

the temple you closed

What's broken once

cannot be patched up

Please don't compel me

I'll take leave

See you, Bharathi'ka

See you, dear

Father...?

If I feel like seeing

you and my mother...

...I'll send word

Will you visit me?

Karunakara, come here

Tell the people back home

the king is happy in his palace

If you tell all this, they won't

understand and they'll feel sad

We toiled for their happiness

Please keep that in mind

But Your majesty, when you are ready

to forgive us, come back to Solaiyur

The temple you built

will until then be closed

This is a promise

I make on myself!

The promise made

by my father...

...has come true today

70 years later, through his heir

Just as the king wished...

...the temple has been opened

on Lord Shiva's Holy night

And the sacred offering

to God has been made

And the man who made

this happen for us...

...you're accusing him

of being a thief?

Not just this idol

The temple, dam, green fields and

100s of villages around this place...

...all belong to his family

They gave it to us

graciously as charity

Why would he steal

his own possessions?

Lingaa...?

Don't call me Lingaa hereafter

Call me Lingeswara

I'm privileged to have been

named after my grandfather

You said you were

going back home...why?

I don't want to spoil his name

Wait, I won't stop you

My grandfather kept this

in memory of king Lingeswara

Son, hear me out

The king didn't tell me

in my dream to open the temple

That was a lie

The chief engineer

who inspected the dam said

'If you want to save this village

open the doors of the temple'

We've opened the temple now

as per the engineer's last wish

But we are in the dark about

the danger in store for this village

Villagers think the engineer was

killed by a wild deer, that's not true

I saw 4 men stab and kill him

When we thought our village

will be totally destroyed...

...the king, your grandfather

came in time to save all of us

Once again our village is

facing danger 70 years later

Only you must protect us

To save the village, why did

he want the temple opened?

But we were the ones

who opened the temple

Hey! Give me

your yellow bag

'A very good morning

to viewers of Public TV'

'In order to create

Cancer awareness...'

'...Mr Nagabooshan, MP of Solaiyur

has released a latex hot air balloon'

Morning, sir

You're putting up

your price it seems

I can't do it, sir

I'm too scared to do it

Let me go, sir

This is exactly

what he also said

I won't

I won't bow down

to your vile threats

The dam IS strong

I've certified it faces no danger

sealed and even signed it

That's what I want

Where is it?

It's safe and sound

in the place it should be

Hey! Go in and search

Get hold of him

As soon as you get

his report, burn it

If I don't find it?

Burn the house down

Hey listen!

If Uthaman bore the brunt

of the wild deer's antlers...

...remember you've taken

15 million from me as advance

You'll end up

as a mound of ash!

Don't, sir

Tell me what I should do

You'll come tomorrow

for the dam inspection, right?

You'll be drilling a hole

for 50 meters, right?

In those small holes, place bombs

given by my men and connect them

Certify the dam is weak

and you can go your way

Will the bomb explode, sir?

I'll detonate them one by one

The explosion will be drowned

by the sound of the water

But if the dam breaks

because of the explosion?

Bomb is mine

Village is also mine

Will I destroy

my own constituency?

Go...go

See you tomorrow

He wants to discuss

something important

He'll be here anytime, madam

Hey Latchu

Why did you

want to see me?

Sit inside

How much longer

should I wait for you?

Did I ask you to wait?

You didn't

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