Update for Friday, Oct 15, 2010:
Starts with Balu telling RR that his secret is safe, and he will never disclose it to anyone, even if it means that he will get his child back. RR is happy that he has such good friends! Pallu comes back to the room and asks where they are staying, Balu says it is with someone from their hometown, and says it is time to go. Pallu asks for the address, RR says he knows the place and he will take her there (so she doesn't even know about the existence of his mother! What did he tell her? that his mother was dead? Wonderful son! and his friends keep praising him!) Pallu wants to drop Balu and Meenakshi in their car, but Balu says that they can go by auto, so Karthik is asked to find them an auto.
Gopi sitting on the verandah in his house, refusing to eat. Usha comes to call him inside, followed by SR, but he asks how the food was prepared, and Usha says that with rice, paruppu, milagai, puLi, uppu etc. He asks where all this came from (the store, where else?) and finally explains that all the provisions were courtesy MK, and he will not eat because MK is a fraud. When he knew that SR was to marry RR's son Karthik, MK should have withdrawn from the field (adeyappa, you were the one who encouraged your daughter to lure him and entrap him, now why do you call him a fraud>?). Usha tells him to go and stand in front of the mirror and say all this, because all this applies to him! Gopi says he will eat in a different 5 star hotel every day, he is a free man now, he doesn't have to eat Usha's cooking any more. Usha and SR go inside, disgusted, to eat.
Balu and Meenakshi in the doctor's office, he tells them that if she takes the medicines regularly, she can be cured in three months (does this mean the serial will be over in three months? Is this what is called being overly optimistic? Eljay, will you never learn?). Balu comes outside, tells his wife to wait there, and goes across the street to buy medicines. (You are just as much of an idiot as that Pallu, you leave a mentally ill person alone outside the hospital, and go across the street, shouldn't you at least have left her inside and asked someone responsible to watch her while you got the medicines, or taken her home and then gone to buy the medicines?) He pays for the medicines, looks back at the hospital, and - guess what? No prizes for guessing right, Meenakshi is missing. He hurries back to the hospital, and calls out Meenakshi!Meenakshi! to the sidewalk, expecting her to materialize suddenly out of thin air!
Shreenidhi's phone rings, it is Karthik asking her why she didn't answer his calls earlier, she explains about her being in a meeting with her MD, he says he is coming. He comes and she gets on his bike, and they are off, through streets which are deserted (surely these streets are not in present day Madras). They pass a couple who get down in front of a house, and the couple happen to be - Pallu's parents. Pallu's mom keeps staring at Karthik on the bike, Pallu's dad asks her something and keeps staring at her face, instead of following her glance and seeing what she is looking at, which would be a normal reaction of most people (but then the serial characters are not normal people!) He finally asks her what is holding her attention and she points to karthik, he calls out Karthik, who has passed them by now, and Karthik turns around, sees them, and says Uh, oh, the cat is out of the bag. He stops the bike, Shree gets down, sees them, recognizes them as the couple whom she saw outside the temple when she was with Paati (RR's mom), he introduces them as his grandparents, thatha wants to know how Shree knows Karthi, Shree mazhuppufies, Karthi says they are just friends, and he is dropping her off at work, and they push off.
More coincidences - Meenakshi is caught in the traffic, Shree sees her, asks Karthik to stop, gets down and goes up to her and asks her where she wants to go. Meenakshi looks bewildered, and Karthi wants to know what she is doing there, and right then, Balu comes there. Karthi asks him how he could have left her alone (I had the same question too!), and then hails an auto for them to go to Adyar. Meenakshi tells Balu to get in first, she seems reluctant to go, and Shree holds her by the shoulders, and she seems to feel something when Shree holds her. She gets into the auto, but keeps looking back at Shree.
Thodarum ...
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