More of the Shanthi - Karthik - Manisha saga today.
Opening scene: Karthik calls Indhu and asks her where her mom is. Shanthi comes into the room, Karthik tells Indhu that the gramathu thatha is sick and all three of them have to leave for the village. Shanthi tells Indhu that she alone will go since it was she who said hurtful things and so she has to go and ask for forgiveness. Besides, Indhu has her exams and she needs to be in school (this last when Indhu says she would also like to go). Shanthi then calls up Narayanan, asks him to come there immediately to take her to the gramam. Manisha comes down, Shanthi tells her that she is going to the village. Karthik is standing around looking helpless the entire time.
Shanthi sitting in the car, gets to the village, goes inside the house (all doors are open, as usual). Athai is there, greets Shanthi, says that mama did nothing but talk about Shanthi and her problems, then he went out on the two wheeler and collided with a truck. He is lying in bed with his eyes closed, Shanthi calls to him, and he asks her if she has come to see if he is still alive. Shanthi then explains that she herself does not know what is happening to her life, and so on, and asks him for forgiveness for the way she spoke to him in Chennai. Uncle and niece are reconciled.
Indhu and Rocky come for lunch, Indhu goes into the kitchen, calls Manisha amma ( I guess she has decided that she has two mothers from now on) and asks if lunch is ready. Manisha tells them to sit down, and then Karthik comes to join them, Manisha says she is busy in the kitchen, so Karthik serves the two children and himself, and they eat. Then Karthik goes into the kitchen and asks Manisha why he is being tortured like this, and do they not see how he is suffering. Manisha says she fully understands his situation, blah blah. Indhu comes in and asks for hot water for Rocky, Karthik takes the hot water to his son, cools the water by doing the transfer from one cup to the other a la waiters in Chennai, then gives the water to his son, and pours his paasam on his son by stroking his head!
Back to the gramam, the phone rings, athai picks up the phone, it is RK for Shanthi. She goes to call Shanthi, who is in the shower. In the meantime, mama picks up the phone and asks if RK is checking to see if he is still alive, and then proceeds to blast RK for putting Shanthi through the hell she is in, and asks RK why he couldn't check his own son (did RK ever do anything sensible like that?) and how does he propose to douse the fire in Shanthi's eyes, and so on, and finally hangs up. RK wipes his eyes... FREEZE
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