Nov 30

GORANGAL
It is the day of Abhi's trial. A brief flashback of all that has gone wrong in her life runs through her mind, as a fellow inmate advises her to reconcile herself to a long stint in jail, what to do, no, such is life.

Mano is torn between wife and duty. Finally succumbs to wife's promise that the new sambandhi, a judge, can get Abhi freed. Usha and Easwaran try telling him that, not only did he forget about his mother's sickness, today was Abhi's trial, shouldn't he be in court? Wife says, are you going to save her? It is not as though she is going to hang...

After the engagement, Arjun, Kishore and a couple of others get together upstairs for a drink, and persuade Mano to have one also, then two, etc. Finally he passes out. But not before he calls home, and gets Aarati, who makes her usual expression of outrage before banging the phone down.

SELVI
GJ goes to Selvi's house, to ask for the taali back. No way, says Selvi. You may not be anything to me, but I need your taali. What a fine message to the liberated new generation. Taali  is everything. Finally he tries to grab her and take off the taali, an ill advised move. His high school physics teacher would have told him all about the power of inertia, a commodity directly in proportion to mass. In this unequal tussle, Selvi hurls him against the parapet wall, where he struggles to catch his breath. Back home empty handed, he faces the other celestial entity, Tamarai, who says she needs the taali pronto. OK, I'll go to court, says he.

As Prabanjan and click-click are getting set for their wedding night, there is a commotion outside, and old man Pandian awaits, threatening to kill all in sight. Semmangudi (or what's her name) refuses to open the door, and on his insistence, comes back with kerosene which she pours over herself, presumably an 'over my dead body' message.