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Thuravu
Thuravu
SUJA
She is 52 years old. She runs the business along with her
husband and also has started taking an active part in
community activities like Self-Help Groups for women.
KAPYARACHEN
KRISHNAMMA
VO of TV in the background.
JOY
korach upp ingu eduthe Suje
SUJA
aa 2 on vechenne
Joy changes channel back and keep the remote down and adjust
himself in the chair to start eating.
JOY
Enthaann nokike suje
Suja gets up, keeps her plate and moves towards the door; The
calling bell rings and also bangs on the door. Joy rushes to
and gets out of the door. There is a woman standing outside,
WOMAN A
Joyiye dhe Raju avde veettil veenu
kedakkunnu, Attack aanenn thonnunnu.
odi va.
She turns back and runs back out; Joy starts to run.
JOY
Aa torchingeduthe
He gets back inside, gets the torch from Suja and runs out;
Suja stares out of the door; Torch going towards a house,
many torches going towards the same house.
PASSERBY WOMAN
sujechi, enthannario
SUJA
Ariyilledi, Rajunu attack aanenn
thonnunnu.
Suja gets back in, goes in for a moment and returns to the
door and reaches for the key from inside the door, gets out
and closes the door.
KAPYARACHEN
The single most significant experience
during corona was of Raju's death. It
One child wanders on one side of the frame with a few guavas
turns quick and run back as the other one chases
JOY
Sujee!!
Suja enters the room with the candle. The room has a framed
landscape picture, trophies, plastic flower vase. Joy starts
reciting a prayer as Suja rushes to call the son up and rush
back to get a cloth to cover her head for prayer; She joins
recital; Joy's book has flickering light on it. He snatches
the candle from her and keeps on a table/platform/shelf; The
book and their faces are dark now; Suja stops reciting.
SUJA
Enne vilicho
SUJA
Eh! Enthina viliche cha.
JOY
Njanengum vilichilla.
JOY
Sujee
EXT. MORNING
JOY
Mine and Rajus Dads were buddies and
they came up here when they were very
young. I was born here. My dad had 11
siblings and this house was originally
made for all of them. Later most of
them went out to the gulf and their
kids moved to Europe and all. Only two
of us from the family are here
anymore. Dad had a dairy farm. Raju's
dad started a plantation. I later
started this homestay and farm visit
after my father died, shifting myself
to one portion of the house. And it
was going good also. I was actually
doing quite good and then I invested
more in this. I built more.
Joy looking and scrolling into the phone. Him lying down and
playing video on phone.
EXT. MORNING
Suja and Krishnamma selling batter at a shop with the board '
Dosa batter available' written in three languages. Shop owner
gives back two packets out of a bunch. They try to give ti
back to him but he doesn't budge. They get outside and walk
with a bag of batter packets to an auto-rickshaw.
Suja and few other women are sorting batter packets nad two
are filling up an accounts book.
KRISHNAMMA
I go to work at 6.30. I will get up
around 4 in the morning, and finish up
all housework and make rice for noon
and breakfast and leave by 6.30. Since
my son has to go to work too, I will
pack his food also. I start sweeping
the town by 7.00 and finish up by 10,
or maybe around 9.30. I will then go
for the cardamom sorting job. That
goes on till 5. I will come back after
that and then do the housework and
then will make dinner.
INTERVIEWER
Do you make dinner fresh then
KRISHNAMMA
Yea, Sometimes I use leftover from
noon, but I eat that. Have to make
fresh anyway. What I make in the
morning, they will say its waste at
noon, they don't like it. Then again I
will heat it sometimes and tell that I
made it freshly then.
THRID WOMAN
You can heat it in the oven if you
have. It will really look fresh if you
heat in the oven.
SUJA
chechi, loan paisa?
KRISHNAMMA
I was doing only one job before, now
that my Joy doesn't have a job and my
daughter also can't get a pass to go
back to work, I have to take the extra
job.
THIRD WOMAN
It involves sitting all that time
without a break, that gives a severe
backache. They also check the amount
we amount each of us has sorted.
EXT. DAY
Suja gets into a shop on way. She buys a sweet. Suja sits on
a hillside and looks far.
JOY
ethra nerayi Suje, pettenn
choredukk,veshakkunnu.
Kash kittiyo?
EXT. EVENING
Some women enter a shop and buy sweets and biscuits. One man
stands with a lit beedi.
Construction sounds.
People walking.
JOY
Ichiri choodu vellam veche Suje
SUJA
kulikkano? ipo vekkam
JOY
neeyum onnu kulicho, aalokke
koodiyathalle
Rice heating on the stove, Suja takes and shakes it once and
keeps on stove back.
Suja takes and keeps the sweet beck inside a box and on the
kitchen shelf.
JOY
TV on onakkikke Suje
He eats hurriedly.
SUJA
Entha icha, kall veran
sadhyathaillallo, njan ari rand
pravashyamkazhukitha.
//What is it? There's no chance there
would be a stone in it, I had sieved
it twice.
JOY
Sadhyatha undonnenikkariyilla,
entepallu poi
SUJA
payarinn enganum aarikkum, athang
eduth matti vechitt kazhicho
While this, he takes out the rice he had in mouth and takes
another handful in the mouth. He gets to about to vomit. He
pauses for a moment and takes out that rice from his mouth
also and throws his plate down and leaves.
Outside wide.