RR comes home ( ada pOnga da..entha home nnu watch panni panni Roja kku
konja nanjam irukkira marai yum kazhandudum pOle irukku !!) This time it is Palli's
house - since he left for KumbakOnam from here , it is only logical (awww) that he
returns there !!!! Palli has a bad head ache and so not in the arena. Priya is sent to
fetch mommy and MIL manages to Oram kattufy SIL " enna aachu?? Rukku?? Anu
kitte pOttu kuduthaachaa??" Sundu answers "as of now RR is safe" . Palli comes,
offers some food for both , Sundu declines and leaves, Priya is asked to get the dosai
maavu out...hubby and wife adjourn to privacy. Intha kashta kaala privacy pathi enna
solla??? EppO maattippOmO nnu oru sly look from RR ..oblivious to that , Palli
karaichufies tamarind in RR 's thoppai - talks about her trip to Anu's house and how
she came to know the hatred of Anu's athai - RR GETS TO KNOW uh huh that the lady
who nurtures Balu /Meena is the athai of Anu ( athu sari ) Palli says that the said athai
is angry for loosing Shree - "or she has some other axe to grind?" RR looks down -
the same sly look uh huh. Palli finally leaves to make the promised dosa.
On the other hand, Anu is ready with the dosas ( RR, rendu veet le yum ore break-
fast !!!! ) Santhosh comes and apologizes for his act. Manju assumes the role of
mommy and chides him. Finally he gets angry, hits Manju and Anu hits him back.
Santhosh breaks the casserole and manages to discard the dosas ( paavam appa,
ipdi dosai dosai aa kuduthaa??) Anu does the one thing she is adept at - holds her
head on her hands and sits - Santhosh leaves home - never to come back??RR
speaks to Ganesh and asks for a time - " I want to come clean, check with Rukku
and let us meet " Rukku condescends to meet him in the evening " at the beach "
( athu sari, life history pesanum nna Nadu theru conference hall thaan venum
Veet le ellam pesa mudiyaathe !!) Looks like RR sensed Roja's apprehension
about dosas -Refuses to eat Palli's dosas, shouts at Karthik whose only job
seems to be "Search Shreenithi " and goes to work.
Another self pity trip with the willing Sundu " today is the climax in my life. My office
staff will come to know my two timing... the traffic constable who salutes me will
look at me differently..." (Yovvv, ithellam thaan unakku kavalai yaa??? antha rendu kudumbam???? ) Sundu as usual has a wise quip " both Anu and Pallavi will
understand your thyagam .."
Freeze
Update for Tues, May 17, 2011:
RR sheds tears over the thought that the watchman will not salute him any more, his "staffs" will not have any respect for him any more, his andhasthu, gouravam, maanam, mariyadhai are all gone, and Sundu tells him not to weep like a girl (your tears are too late, anyway!) and to go and explain all to Rukku.
Anu's house - Anu is weeping in her bedroom. Manju consoles her - your son is not going to commit suicide, he is too much of a coward - and takes her to the dining table. Anu doesn't feel well, asks Manju to call RR and make him talk to Santhosh, but his phone is "switched off". She asks her to call Sundu, same "switched off", Santhosh's phone is still at home, so finally Manju calls the office and is told that he and Sundu have gone out to some undisclosed place. Anu is wondering where they have gone and switched off their phones, also.
Tiruvanmiyur beach - RR and Sundu (the scene reminded me of the one in Sindhu Bhairavi - the ocean, rocks etc.,) awaiting Rukku and Ganesh. Sundu tells RR to be bold and they go to meet AAR and Ganesh. Rukku turns her face away from RR, Ganesh as usual tells her to listen to the nyayam on RR's side (this guy is such a blind idiot!) and Rukku says there can be no justification for a man to tie two thalis and deceive two women (exactly my thoughts!). RR says that when he got married to Anu, it was to find a wife to suit his mother, and after she came into his life, she brought happiness and laughter to their home.
Thodarum ...
Wednesday 18th May 2011 - Episode - 274
RR says that he doesn't want to be responsible for misery in Viswanathan's family. He felt there was a nyaayam in Viswanathan's wanting to get his daughter married to him, he was feeling guilty because he had fixed up Anu for RR, since she was dead, he wanted to make up for it by giving his daughter to RR. RR felt that this was the way to repay his nanri kadan to V, but his mother refused to accept this He thinks of V saying that this josiyam is old stuff, and Palli will commit suicide if she doesn't marry him, thinks of his mother saying that he should not marry again while Anu is still alive, is confused.
His mother comes in then, and asks what he is thinking about. He tells her that he has decided to marry Palli, he doesn't think Anu is alive (just two months of mourning, and he hasn't even seen her dead body) so he has decided to remarry. Paati says he has fallen for V's money, he says it is because Palli has threatened to commit suicide, so he could not oppose V at that point, it was only for the nanri kadan. Paati says don't hide behind this nanri kadan, he says that he will marry Palli with her asirvadham only, Paati says that is impossible and there will be no relationship between them henceforth.
RR then turns to his fount of wisdom - Sundu the great - for advice. Sundu tells him he cannot grieve and spend the rest of his life grieving for Anu, your mother wants you to do this (I really wanted to lash out at Sundu at this point), don't all widowers remarry, you are young, childless, blah, blah, this is not drogam, and Palli is your best choice because she will marry only you. He does say one thing - don't marry for nanri, viswaasam, if you like Palli, then marry. All mothers will insist that the son remarries if he is widowed (my grandmother didn't say that to my father, so my gm must be a bad person!), your mother wants you to remain unmarried just because of some josiyar. You have only two options - oppose your amma and marry Palli, or reject V and stay single forever.
RR says that he decided that instead of thinking about the dead Anu, he would marry Palli and make her happy, along with her family. Here I am a little confused - I think he goes ahead and gets married and goes home, finds the door locked, the neighbor gives him the key. He goes inside, finds a letter from mother, saying that now that V has become more important to him, she is leaving him and going away to some unseen place. She signs herself as his ithanai naaLaa ammaavaa irundha Gomathy ammaL.
Sundu says that after his mother also left, RR was very upset. He searched everywhere for his mother, didn't find her, Sundu consoled him, said why should you stay single for the rest of your life? Ganesh says that this proves that RR married Palli not out of love or any such kaNraavi, but out of a sense of duty. Didn't I always tell you that RR is a great man, and he would never do any drogam to anyone? Rukku says that doesn't prove that he had neirmai and nyayam, if so, he would have told Palli that he was married already. RR says he tried to do so, but V and his wife stopped him from doing so. Anu was dead, why tell Palli about this and make her life a mess, so RR also thought why say something that will only bring her misery (aaha, what great logic! I applaud your noble thoughts, RR and Abinaya Creations! Go ahead and give more newly widowed men ideas like this!)