The Case of the Wiggling Toes

Muhurtam
Manjula reveals to her husband that she is pregnant. Much joy. She expresses a desire to see her sisters. Her husband (I can only think of him as Ravi in Metti Oli) says that should be no problem at all, now that Kadir is in the picture. Anyhow, the news gets to Janani and Bharati, who make some dopey excuse of going to the temple, and make their way to see Manjula.

Meanwhile, Sivaperumal and his mother are over at Kadir's place to make a showy apology for her behavior. Sivaperumal affects to be furious with his mother and she is suitably contrite, touching the feet of Kadir's mother, etc., to which the expected "oh my god what are you doing", etc., etc. by Kadir's parents. Having created a good impression there, mother and son come out and give each other high fives (figuratively) at their performance.

Kadir and Bharati have one of their syrupy conversations over the phone.

Selvi
Selvi's father, Yogeswaran, is upset with his wife and son for participating in this betrayal of Selvi. The wife is matter-of-fact, saying this is our ticket out of poverty, and loses no time in pointing out Yogeswaran's own disappearance when the family needed him the most. He has no answer. She adds that after all, she herself is a second wife. Then she says that Selvi's marriage was all agreed upon (nichyadartham) but the groom died. Yogeswaran intervenes to say the gro0m is very much alive, and in fact, he is staying with the young man. The mother and brother are shocked, but mother says, this is not the time to bring this up. Mum's the word, so to speak.

Selvi is shown near a door. One was looking for the proverbial glass of milk, but no, this is a welcome change. It is Tamarai's door. She goes in to plead with her friend and to apologize to the comatose figure. When she clutches Tamarai's feet and weeps, the toes wiggle, and the eyelids blink, though Selvi does not notice.

Manaivi
Episode devoted to Nandu and the idiot astrologer. The fool, having witnessed the conversation between Nandu and the electricitian a couple of days back, has still been going with Nandu to 'distribute invitations', as though on auto-pilot. After these rounds, Nandu stops off at the Police Stn. to attend to some work. Astrologer says he'd rather walk back home. On the way, he is accosted by Nandu's friend Pallavan, who takes him to the temple (so it will be convenient to swear he is speaking the truth!) and shows him documentary evidence (photos on his camera) of Nandu and other women. He goads the astrologer to cancel the wedding, throw the invitations at Nandu's face. Astrologer rightly predicts that Nandu is a powerful man ad he, after all, is only an indigent astrologer. Never mind, says Pallavan, Nandu will probably put you in jail, but I will rescue you.

Astrologer heads to the Police Station, and as scripted by Pallavan yells and screams (though not with sufficient conviction) at Nandu. Nandu throws him into a chair (he seems to know this was Pallavan's doing all along) and taunts the old man, "didn't your horoscopes reveal to you that I was a bad guy?" But, he says, I WAS a bad guy; after seeing Rohini, who, though hardly a beauty queen nonetheless presented some inner attractions, he has given up all his vices. The old man refuses to be persuaded, and throws some more papers at Nandu. Nandu calls a constable, hands over a bag (whether recovered from astrologer is unclear) and asks him to check tghe contents. The constable says it is ganja. Throw him in the lockup, says Nandu, and the astrologer is astonished at this devilry. He begins chanting some prayers.

Tooooooodrummmmmm!