Aug 21, 2005 Monday updt
NOTE:
1. No to thanglish- folks, please ignore the bracketed comments following the acronym NTF-PI which stands for no to Thanglish Folks - Please Ignore.
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Today's episode once again showed why folks continue to lose interest in this serial.
It was mostly about the selfish a.k.a. greedy men of kolangal.
TV-s house:
Sumathy is being interrogated by her mom as to why she is leaving at this odd hour for work and she spouts valid reasons - more work...have a deadline, etc. She says with our family like this, it is better I stick to this job. At this TV rears up his ugly head and fires blank darts at mom-daughter combo...am I not good for anything? was that dig intended at me? (duh, it was obvious) Then Sumathy says think back for a moment. who is responsible for the fiasco of my life? you pushed me to this stage and even now I don't blame you or have anything against you..
NTF-PI (paithiyam innum sariyaa theLiyalai)
TV actually thinks back for a moment, shakes his head, thinking that not he but only his daughter was mad once upon a time and says he knows best...and blames all on his wife. It was she who stopped everything and always never gave her blessings for any of his project and who in this world did not do fraudulent business or act dishonest? but she is one moodhEvi, joined by her daughter and dil as her cohorts on either side and with the three of them, made sure his business went to the bottom. He starts yelling some more when a kurtawala comes in with another fellow and TV welcomes them. Chithi asks them to leave their footwear outside when TV says, these are the folks who bought our house and so it doesn't matter, thus shocking all. He says Chithi was the one who suggested selling the house to pay debtors. the kurtawala wants some more signatures and TV is frustrated that a building worth 2 crores went for a mere 40 L. The guy says maybe when luck smiles on TV again, he will find another big building for a throwaway price. They leave and all ladies are in shock mode. Chithi wakes up, gives her traditional screech (traditional for kuyili) and asks TV to look for a house as he has 3 ladies to take care of.
commercial break...
cattle shed:
Alamelu grumbles abt life in general and Basker if given coffee by the no good daughter when the local grocery owner sends in his boy for collecting backlog dues. Alamu shrugs it off but Basker asks the boy to come next morning and collect all dues. Boy goes happy and then Basker explains the land deal was set to be finalized tomorrow and he will get his 5 L commission. Alams is all smiles -NTF-PI (indha sandhOshathula, oru rendu suthu namma kaN munnaadiyE oodhinaa) she says, why cant u ask for commission from both parties, from abhi too? and basker silences her. alamu then goes on a dream boat abt how she will reinstigate marriage talks with US-propelled guy and will conduct the wedding, shaming all wagging tongues who spoke ill abt her daughter.
basker looks at her wondering if he can take her to the same temple with the faulty bell where thamarai from selvi went, in the hope that it would fall on her head too.
vidhya also smiles.
TV again:
TV gets up from bed, comes out of his room, asks for coffee and realizes it is time to depart. sees all his prized possessions being carried out while wife, daughter, son and dil are standing in tears. comes down slowly and son weeps buckets on him, almost drowning dad...as if drowning in debt wasn't enough. dad asks him to chin up, not give up in life; we have to succeed; they walk out; why is it they just walk out like that? wont they have planned something. pure fellow, had morning breath too.
all of them waltz out and son cries again and again and again,,,says doesn't hold...(NTF-PI - thaangalai)
watchman drives them out and locks the gate from inside and TV breaks down...says, even he couldn't hold it any longer. he had planned so much and struggled to build this; in fact this was a landmark building in this locality and there was none like it and he will resurrect to build one more. son asks why dad feels now, dad just feels;
(NTF-PI - orE feelaa irukkudaa.)
TV instructs the ladies to stand just there while he and son climbs in the lorry with the things in it, hoping to sell it. (me thinks his first stop will be at shanthis. guess why? - coz it is the local coffee house!! TV definitely needs his morning coffee) TV stands like a lost politician among his possessions, he did not wave, at least. Chithi does a bad imitation of being in emotional pain seeing her once-proud husband shattered like this, (NTF-PI - kadanaaLi aanaalum kaNavan, porukkiyaa irundhaalum purushan atttitude won) and imagines herself as a dainty lady in distress, fans her face and collapses, conveniently into the waiting hands of her able oil-face dil and dry-face daughter, flutters her eyes, closes them, much to the delight of the viewers and to the sorrow of her carriers - appaa, enna weight? the duo let out collective sighs with the rest of us when they place her on the road, we coz we see the 'thodarum', they - a big weight off their hands....!!!!!!