March 19, 2007 - Monday updt
Adhi gets arrested and Kanchu faints.
As everyone around tries to coddle and catch her...(a herculian task), Rekha has the presence of mind to run to her car and get a cell phone and call dear dad who is happily on his way to the party office. SKPD thinks that it is guru dhasai and he is going to get an imp. post at the office when he is rudely awakened by the news of Adhi's arrest and the police APB lookout for him. Rekha warns him not to go the party office, not to go to their houses but to disappear for some time. SKPD asks her to cut the call and not to call anymore on his cell, he would contact her.
Then starts a merry go round..when SKPD instructs his driver to drive to pallavakkam, paati vaakkam, do a u turn, go to kottivaakkam...(never knew there were this many vaakkams around chennai) and finally asks him to stop the car, takes a dirty malayaLa thundu from the car, ties a mundaasu..(no, he is not planning for a uppu karuvaadu song) and then instructs his car to drive around without him; gets in an auto, asks the auto driver if he recognizes him, auto driver says, i have a feeling i have seen u somewhere; then he hurriedly gets down in one vaakkam with beach...calls one of his adiyaaL to come with a boat.
Adhi in police jeep come to the jail vaLaagam and he is beseiged by reporters...and questions. He shuns all and is taken inside to the warden where he insists that he is placed in a first class cell reserved for VIPs. The warden says he has to get special permission from the court to place Adhi there; Adhi whips out his cell but the warden grabs it and says Adhi cannot use it. Adhi is screaming all along and finally in disgust, the warden tells his men to take Adhi to a common cell. and lo behold, our King is taken to a subject's ondu kudithanam.
Adhi keeps protesting when they open up a cell and push him inside and lock it.
He turns around in frustration and is shocked to see a bunch of housemates inside, gawking at him. Then starts the comedy of heights. All others start teasing Adhi who yells at them to stop it and while doing so, backs up to the open toilet in the corner on a perch and sits on it...The porcelain King on the porcelain Queen!!!! A guy comes near Adhi and asks him to get up so he can use it..Adhi doesn't realize at first but when the obvious fact is pointed out, he recoils in horror and runs to the other side as though the very devil is behind him. (how can it be when he himself if one?). He cries in self-pity and flashbacks what Abhi told him when meeting him during her frequent loan-begging trip..that one day, Adhi might also be behind bars and will not be able to survive. Then another incident where Abhi tells him that yes, she is low class but then when she falls, the impact is small. But when Adhi falls from his high in the air throne of his, he might fall harder. His 'abbbiiiiiiiii' fills the jail.
Poor abi is happily riding in the bus asking Thols if they have reached Cochin yet. In Cochin land, two ruffians get a faxed copy of Abhi's photo and hand this over to another bunch of thugs with the instructions to finish her and her companion, Thols. They wait anxiously for the bus and inside Abhi is waiting for a glimpse of the bus station..to alight.
...........thodarum.............
btw, new scenes featuring someone trying to shoot Abhi and Thols grabbing that person's hand is shown; also, abhi sitting happily in the mudhalaaLi chair back at work; Usha, Eashwar and Rekha in a frame when Eash grabs the cell phone Rekhs is talking on and pushes Rekhs away; shivdas behind bars; - all are shown.