Sunday, March 11, 2007

Up to Mar 9

Kolangal

Sivadas is lying in an abandoned warehouse where he has been brought by Tolkappian and others.  Abhi visits and there. He is so grateful to Abhi and Tolkappian for saving his life, and expresses his gratitude.  When he sees Abhi in tears, he asks what the matter is.  She tells him that she has lost the company, because the majority of the shares now the rest with Adi. "But, but, how?", he asks.  I still have my shares, and if I transfer them to you, you will get the company back.  This is exactly what Abhi wants to hear, but she doesn't want to say herself.  She rushes off to get the appropriate documents prepared.  (One more reason why Abhi and Tolkappian don't the company-anyone else in her place would have had the documents ready when she came to see Sivadas!).

  Abhi goes to the lawyer, who says that getting a signature from Sivadas at this point would reveal that they have actually been hiding a fugitive, a fact which the opposition could use against them.  He suggests, brilliantly, and after a good deal of thought, that she should get the papers signed with a prior date, that is, before Sivadas  was a fugitive from justice.

Meanwhile Adi has set inspector Tillai after Abhi, asking him to tail her and Tolkappian, in the hope that they would lead him to Sivadas, although how exactly Tillai should tail two different people at the same time, defying numerous laws of physics, is not explained.  Nor does Tillai ask.

Tillai confronts Abhi as she comes out off her lawyer's office.  But she is one step ahead of him, and has only an innocent document with her.  After she has baffled the inspector, her lawyer joins her, and gives her the actual document to be signed by Sivadas. As she departs, Tillai gets suspicious once more, and follows her. Along and idiotic chase ensues, including one scene where she changes into a burqa, while holding the same old telltale blue file in her hands.Tillai finally notices and gives chase.  By the time she reaches the hideout, Adi has somehow managed to find the location, and has dispatched a large number of hoodlums with instructions to finish off everybody they find around Sivadas, and of course, the man himself.  Tolkappian spots the invading party, and sizing up the situation, comes to the conclusion that the only way to save Sivadas is to give him up to the police.  He therefore informs a police official he knows, who arrives quickly with a large contingent.  Meanwhile, Tolkappian and others battle the invaders, keeping them at bay, protecting Sivadas before the police arrived.  Except the other defenders don't know that the police are going to show up.  When the police do arrive they take Sivadas into custody, and why doing so, the inspector thoughtfully thanks Tolkappian.  This comes as a complete shock to Sivadas, was now convinced that Tolkappian has doublecrossed him.  He accuses him of doing so.

As the fugitive is being led away, Abhi arrives with the paperwork.  When she discovers what has happened, she is furious at
Tolkappian.  She says if he had waited a few minutes longer, she could have gotten the paper signed. now, owing to his panic, they have lost their company forever.  She is inconsolable.  Tolkappian keeps telling her that was no other way to save Sivadas, and if he had waited, Adi's goonswould have killed him, destroying any chance of ever getting anything signed by him.

The next day, as Sivadas is being produced before a magistrate, in preparation to being transferred to the Kerala police, Abhi and Tolkappian show up.  They are actually hoping to get the paper signed at the court! obviously, that doesn't happen.

Adi and Minister clebrate this news.