Come on, get up…
Get up…
- Hey, get up… - Come on, get up.
- Get up… - Come on, get up.
Come.
Left-right, left-right…
Stay in line…
Come on.
Get to one side.
Madam, one minute…
Please.
If you bring so many without notice…
How do we accommodate them all?
What to do, ma’am? It is a war precaution measure.
But we can’t let such people stay here…
Some time ago, didn’t we bring one lot from the city?
If we release some of them, can’t we accommodate this bunch?
Let me see…
- I will talk to Dr. Arun… - Okay.
and see if we can shift the ones who feel better.
There is no other option anyway.
Thanks, ma'am.
Whether it's war or the president’s visit, the headache is all ours.
You just haul people from the streets and dump them here.
Though it hasn't been declared publicly, this is a War Emergency situation.
We have been asked to haul up all the vagrants from the streets.
These civilians without identity are a national threat, doctor.
Especially in war times.
Will there be war?
I don’t know.
But, everyone is put on alert.
Open your eyes.
Wide.
Look up.
Open your mouth.
Yes.
Take a deep breath.
There is nothing wrong with you.
All good.
Next…
How long have you been here?
A long time.
How many months, exactly?
Around six months.
Open your mouth.
Extend your tongue.
Okay.
Let me check.
Look up.
Now this eye.
Okay.
Take a deep breath.
Relax, and breathe deeply.
Take a deep breath.
No issues… You can go home.
Your health is perfect.
Okay?
Even when I was brought here I had no problem, doctor.
All mental patients say that.
As of now, you have no problem, okay?
Continue your tablets for a few days.
Okay, then.
Can I ask you something?
Go ahead.
Doctor, are you mad?
Me?
No.
All mental patients say that, right?
Next, next.
Come on, sit.
- I hope you won’t ask questions. - No, sir.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes, not your mouth.
This tablet… Take one, three times a day.
This, one in the morning and one at night.
This one, before you sleep.
Take it regularly, okay?
- What's your name? - Kunjikrishnan.
- What's your name? - Ramesh.
Hey, look…
If you wander in the streets again,
the cops will bring you back, okay?
It'll be better for you if you are careful.
Take one, three times a day.
One.
Two.
Three.
One in the morning.
And one at night.
Three times a day.
All over the country, security arrangements have been tightened.
According to unofficial reports, war can begin at any moment.
The Defense Minister confirms that border security has been strengthened.
But to the question of whether there will be war, he didn’t respond.
There are also reports that new atomic energy plants have started
functioning in different parts of the country.
The Defense Minister did not respond to this query as well.
The number of international flights has been reduced considerably.
Hey, why are you peeping?
I am not peeping.
What do you want?
I…
I stay over there.
I was not here for some time.
But, when I left, nobody was staying here.
Do I need your permission to stay here?
Now that you know who stays here, get lost!
I have work to do.
I have only seen her once.
She never comes to this side.
After you left, we didn’t go there.
I saw her a few times,
but she didn’t talk.
But why the hell is she staying there?
Who is it?
It is us, Grandpa.
Have you fed the goats?
Yes.
How is your health?
Who is this?
It is me!
It has been a long time since you left.
Where were you?
I was not here for some time.
The police picked me up and put me in a hospital.
Why would the police put you in a hospital?
There are madmen among cops as well.
They think others are mad.
They berate and abuse people…
And sometimes put them in jail or a mental hospital.
It's their madness, what else?
Did they beat you?
No.
But they gave me electric shocks.
I am scared of cops.
There are men who look like cops, that often come here.
Men who look like cops? Who are they?
It’s an airplane.
Look, here comes another airplane.
The war is about to start, I hear.
War?!
Yes.
It is full of factory people out there…
They look like cops.
Airplanes fly past frequently.
Those who came here said, "The war is about to begin."
Did they come here?
Yes, a couple of times.
They said we have to leave this place.
Someone has bought this land to build a factory.
I am scared of them.
Do you know them?
Can you tell them not to come here?
Let me see.
I will tell them when I meet them.
Didn’t you go to school today?
Today is Sunday.
Oh… I forgot
Nowadays I can’t remember dates or times.
Hey man, keep the volume down!
Lower the volume of that song!
People need peace here!
What is it? A festival or carnival or something?
The man in that bogey has returned.
He is insane.
So even if we don’t come, you have company.
Nice company!
Why do you wear this uniform when you come here?
The uniform avoids suspicion.
And if you insist,
I will remove it now itself.
Don’t be in such a hurry.
Come here.
What are you doing there?
We have a neighbor now.
What if he gets curious and peeps?
Okay.
Switch off that radio, man!
I don’t like songs.
I’m telling you, I don’t like it!
- Can you see anything? - Yes.
Have a look.
What if we go closer and look?
No, they have guns.
They won’t see us.
Come.
Come on, run…
Hold it.
Where were you?
It has been months since you left!
Since I was unable to find you, I tried one or two guys as helpers.
But no one stays beyond a fortnight.
No one likes to do this kind of job.
Shall I join duty?
There was a dead body.
They just took it.
Tomorrow, I think they are doing a postmortem.
You go and come back tomorrow.
But one thing…
Don’t disappear all of a sudden, like the last time.
Have you had tea?
Then you leave. I have some work to attend to.
- Uncle. - Yes?
What's up, dear?
Grandpa is looking for you.
I am coming.
What is your name?
How old are you?
Come, dear.
Well…
We have been living here for a very long time.
Even when all the others left,
we stayed back.
We have no other place to go.
Now these factory people are harassing us.
They came here a few times.
They say they are taking over this place…
And want us to vacate this house.
What can we do?
Who do we complain to?
The company works for the government.
And if they ask us to move, what can we do?
But what authority do they have to ask us to vacate all of a sudden?
Is there no law in this country?
Those cops picked me up from the streets
and put me in a mental asylum for six months.
Under what law?
And who can I ask?
Maybe that's just how it is in war times.
They can arrest anybody,
and confiscate any house.
Who can we ask?
But isn’t it like that even when there is no war?
What is this war for?
Who knows?
Come on, run.
Fast.
Hey, come here.
Who are you?
We haven’t seen you here.
I…
I stay in that old railway bogey.
That's the old railway station.
That land is unauthorized.
It belongs to the government.
On what authority are you staying there?
We came to remind you again…
You have to vacate this place within a month.
Have you understood?
Give me the bat.
- Bowl to me. - There is no ball.
You are playing cricket without a ball?
No, we lost it while playing.
Let us go.
Hey…
Did you get scared?
They won’t do anything.
Are you not on duty today?
Isn’t it all about our convenience?
Come in.
Brother.
Why are you late?
There is a body kept for postmortem.
I will be back by morning.
Take care.
- Don’t fall asleep, okay? - Okay.
Don’t get scared.
It has been a long time since someone came here.
Aren’t you dead?
Yes, but I can talk to you.
How come?
Come here.
Don’t be scared.
Come here.
Come.
Sit close to me.
Sit there… Sit close.
Before I died, I led a very busy life, writing, reading, and giving speeches.
Now, it is 36 hours since I died.
And I have not spoken to anyone.
Once you die…
…can you speak?
Not to everyone…
But, I can speak to you.
Why?
You have come from a mental hospital.
Normal people can’t speak to the dead.
They don’t have the mental purity.
But you do.
So, you can speak to me.
Sir… your name?
Once you are dead, do names matter?
Everyone calls it a dead body!
Before I died, my name was Basheer.
I can’t say, "Before I died."
Because I didn’t die…
I was killed.
I was shot…
Yes, I was shot dead.
Hold my hand.
Come on, hold it.
Don’t be scared.
Hold it firmly.
Yes, like that.
Now close your eyes.
Close it.
Good boy.
My name is Basheer.
I was a university professor.
I used to teach, write in periodicals,
and also engage in cultural and political activities.
I used to write a weekly political column
in a reputed English newspaper.
I regularly wrote articles,
spoke in cultural forums,
and continuously reacted against communalism,
discrimination, and war.
Be seated.
The fascists deal with those who react and revolt in the same way.
It is the same all over the world.
- Who are you? - Good morning, professor.
Good morning.
We wanted to discuss something.
Please come in.
I was the fourth writer to be assassinated by the communalists.
Even while being shot…
Do you know what I was thinking?
"If everyone had taken a book in their hands instead of a gun,
how peaceful this world would have been!"
Are you asleep?
Give me the key.
The doctor will arrive soon for the postmortem.
He is a professor it seems!
Someone shot him.
It was in the TV news.
Now with postmortem, police, and press it will be a huge ruckus here.
You may go.
Come back tomorrow morning.
Let me get everything else ready.
Didn’t I tell you earlier?
"If only everyone took a book in their hands instead of a gun…
How peaceful this world would have been!"
Hey, dear.
Come here.
I will finish eating and come.
I said come here.
Come.
Why did you go there?
You were not here when I came.
And she called me there, so…
Don’t go there.
And never mix with that woman.
After school, go straight to your home.
Okay?
Why did you come?
Just like that.
You go home. I will come there.
Okay.
Dear, come here… Finish eating and go.
Dear, you can go…
If that girl comes and eats here, will the sky fall down?
How many goats do you have?
Thirty.
Are there wild animals here?
Yes, but don’t be scared.
They never harm anyone.
Anyway, it is not animals that one should fear.
There are men who are more dangerous.
When the fox saw the goat that had gone astray…
It decided to kill and eat it.
But it wanted to find a reason to kill it.
So the fox went to the goat and said, "Didn’t you dishonor me last year?"
The goat replied,
"I was born only a few months back,
and I was not there last year!"
Then the fox changed track.
He said the goat was eating grass where he hunts his prey.
Then the goat said, "No, Lord. I am not old enough to eat grass."
Then the fox said the goat was drinking from the same river.
The goat said it does not drink anything except for his mother’s milk.
Stopping the allegations, the fox killed him. He ate the goat and said,
"You may have fair answers to all my accusations…
But I don’t want to skip my dinner and go hungry today."
What is the moral of this story?
For the powerful and evil, there will always be reasons
to hurt the powerless and poor.
Do you know how to play cricket?
Yes.
Why?
Shall we play?
Don’t you want to listen to the next story?
Let us play for some time and then listen to the story.
Come.
Here is some wine…
I have to leave soon.
Our Chief Security Officer is coming tomorrow.
I'm not sure if I will be able to come here so frequently.
The war is about to start.
War? With whom?
Why should we bother about all that?
Let us get down to our business.
Wait…
Let me close the door.
Who is going to come here?
You are not the only person who comes here.
That I know.
Most people in your factory come here.
I know that as well.
But nobody is going to come here now.
Is it?
What is it?
A windmill.
When it turns, it produces electricity.
Will you fix up some lights for me as well?
This is not correct. Write it again.
You didn’t go to work today?
Sister, what about the rest of the lessons?
You two come with me.
Look…
That woman is no good.
She is an amiable woman.
Amiable?
You have misunderstood her.
She is a good girl.
She comes here often
and helps the kids to learn.
She has no relatives to speak of.
But I know some relatives who visit her at night!
Mostly the guards from that factory.
Consider it her means of livelihood.
On the basis of someone's work,
we cannot judge whether they are good or bad.
More than the body,
we should consider the mind, right?
We humans
We all rise as one
We humans rise
As one life
In the minds that create borders
Is it the thirst for hot blood?
United as one
We surge ahead
United as one
Sons of this soil
United as one
We surge ahead
As one world
In our hearts
We fight vengeance
And move forward together
It is time for the white doves
To fly far with spikes of corn
United as one
We surge ahead
United as one
Sons of this soil
As one world
To banish war
To spread love
The hands readying to fight
Minds yearning to spill blood
Someone pleads "No" Lighting the embers
The vultures of doom Who are they searching for?
The earth is afire We sing seething with pain
For a land faraway
United as one
We surge ahead
United as one…
- Sir… - Come here!
I didn't do anything.
We fight for this land
Sir, please. I didn't do anything.
United as one
- Why have you caught me? - Keep walking!
We surge ahead
As One World…
Enough of this! Go away!
Sir, please don't…
Get in!
Get out of the way!
Go back!
Police, go back!
Move!
- Police, go back! - Move!
Police, go back!
Move!
Police, go back!
Move!
Police, go back!
Move!
Police, go back!
- Police, go back! - Police, go back!
Stop running!
Police, go back!
I said, stop running!
Stop!
Didn’t we tell you not to hang around here?
Come.
Freedom?
Yes, freedom.
Do you like deer meat?
Someone brought it yesterday.
If you like it, here it is.
Hey dude,
can you fix one or two lights for me?
It is too dark there.
At night, if some snakes sneak in, I wouldn't even know.
I saw you last night.
You saw me? Where?
At Ambedkar Square.
Yesterday you were there, listening to music.
I didn't come to listen.
When I was passing by, I heard the song and came there.
When the police chased the crowd, I saw you being hauled.
Were you there to listen?
No, I am a musician.
Yesterday it was our band that sang there.
Then how did you die so soon?
Did the cops beat you to death?
No, during the stampede, I had a heart attack.
But, I don’t remember seeing you there.
I played the guitar.
United as one
We surge ahead
United as one
Sons of this soil
United as one
Come on, stop it. Move out.
Do you want me to tell you separately?
Do you want me to tell you in person?
Before that, I had suffered two heart attacks.
My wife and daughter had asked me not to do concerts.
But can a guitarist renounce music?
If there is no music, there is no life.
Amidst that ruckus, a cop smashed my guitar.
Anyway, for a dead man, what music?
I was thinking…
"If everyone listened to music…
How peaceful and devoid of violence this world would have been!"
Didn’t I tell you?
"If everyone listened to music…
How peaceful and devoid of violence this world would have been!"
It's not possible today.
Why?
It's not possible today, that’s all.
I took time off duty to come here.
Did I ask you to leave duty and come here?
You have a customer today, so you don’t need us?
I don’t have to report to you, whether I have a customer or not.
Why waste time fighting?
I have limited time.
I told you, today I can’t.
Don’t act too smart.
Am I not paying you?
My body, my mind, my liking.
I decide what I want and when I want it.
Understood?
If it is more money that you want, I can…
Get lost.
Hey…
I had turned down the volume.
It's not that.
I came to take back my vessel.
Have you prepared food?
I have cooked a little extra…
If you want, you can come and eat.
Hey, bring that radio as well.
Sometimes, I like to listen to songs.
When I am happy I eat like this…
Using a knife, and fork and all.
Do you drink wine?
Cheers!
Don’t drink wine in one gulp!
Till I was 14,
I used to stay in the house of a Portuguese man.
My mother used to work there.
This fork and knife are to remember that period.
Do you know how to dance?
No.
You didn’t ask my name.
Neither have you asked my name.
Don’t you want to know?
Uncle.
- What happened? - Grandpa…
- What happened to him? - Grandpa…
What happened?
The old man is not well, it seems…
Come, dear.
What is happening here?
Their grandfather died.
Who are you?
We stay in those old railway bogeys.
This site was acquired by the factory. You can’t bury the body here.
Then what should we do, sir?
You can’t bury it, but you may burn it.
Did you hear what we said? Take the body somewhere and burn it.
Whether you bury or burn it, it returns to the same earth. Right, sir?
Just obey our orders, okay?
Whether we burn it or bury it, what difference does it make?
The police and security people are all the same.
Whatever they say is the truth!
If they say you are mad, you are mad even if they are wrong.
It is the same here.
You come to my place to sleep.
Yes, it's better not to stay alone here.
No, it is okay. We will sleep here.
Close the door and go to sleep.
So many stars!
Let's sit here for some time.
When…
I was 14 years old, my mother died.
She was working at the house of a Portuguese man.
When one of his relatives came…
He tried to molest me.
Mom tried to stop him.
At his first kick, my mom died!
I don’t even know where my mom was buried.
When my mom was lying there dead, he raped me.
I left that house that day.
After that, I have lived like a gypsy.
Wandering here and there.
When did you last see someone die?
I don’t remember when I saw death last…
But…
I see dead people.
I also talk to them.
You talk to the dead?
Look… A comet!
Where?
There…
I didn’t see it.
It was on a night when there were…
no stars in the sky, but only rain,
that my mom died.
There was a shop veranda where we slept regularly.
Next to the road.
That's where it happened.
I was only five or six years old.
I don’t remember everything clearly.
But I remember the rain.
As the sky was star-less…
Mom said it would rain that night.
At night,
when I got wet,
I woke up.
First, I thought it was raindrops.
Only later did I realize…
It was my mother’s blood.
I still don’t know who killed my mother.
A comet!
Let's go.
Come.
There are so many of you…
How come everyone is silent today?
What happened?
Hey, come here…
We have something to say.
Yes?
That’s why I asked you earlier…
If you have anything to tell me.
We were wondering whether we should talk to you.
And?
Did you decide to talk?
What we want to say…
at least one person should hear.
What if you could do something about it?
Come closer.
It is a secret.
But we are alone here.
Who is going to come to a mortuary at night?
Come on, tell me your secret.
You stay inside the bogey near the old railway station, right?
Yes.
You know me?
We have seen you on our way to the factory.
You are officials in that factory?
No.
We are workers there.
- Do you know what is manufactured there? - No.
That factory manufactures chemical weapons.
We are workers from one of the units.
The factory started working only two months ago.
We were brought from outside on a contract basis.
We had to work in shifts.
All these days, installation work was going on.
Yesterday was the test phase.
A technical experiment of filling liquid phosphate in 15 huge tanks.
During yesterday’s test run, there was a technical fault.
In the transit, there was a leak in the storage tank.
Hey, there is a problem. The valve is not working!
Hello?!
Hello, sir.
But it was too late.
There was a leak in the pipe and the four of us died.
Liquid phosphate when mixed with air, becomes poisonous.
When the room gets filled with that gas…
Even protection gear is of no use.
It didn’t even take a minute to die.
The factory people have not revealed that we died due to a gas leak.
After repairing that pipe,
the chemical factory will be commissioned at twelve o'clock tomorrow.
All those 15 tanks will be filled with liquid phosphate.
The top officials and ministers are coming for the inauguration.
Why are they making these chemicals?
For the war, what else?
But the problem doesn’t end there.
If the factory is commissioned…
There will be big a tragedy here.
The variations in the pressure valves
indicate that there may be leaks in other pipes as well.
But no one has taken note of that.
No one has checked it either.
If this factory is commissioned tomorrow…
Within an hour, there will be a huge tragedy.
In a 20 km radius of the factory, there will be huge losses.
Won’t the officials and workers in your factory find out?
Everyone is busy with the inaugural function.
As top officials and ministers are coming, everyone is busy with the preparations.
In the midst of all that, there won’t be a technical check.
So, what can be done now?
What can the dead do about it?
Only those who are alive, like you, can do something.
Me?!
Yes, you should bring this to someone’s notice.
How can I enter the factory?
Please do something about it.
Now you are the only person who knows about it.
Only you can prevent that tragedy!
They have guns and all.
I am scared of them.
Hey, stop!
I want to say something.
Don’t come forward.
Raise your hands.
Behind your head!
I want to come in.
I have information to give.
I want to meet one of your officers.
Go back,
or I will shoot you.
I have to meet someone. It is very urgent.
Who is going to believe this?
Dead people talking and all that.
No one is going to believe it.
I know that.
But that is the truth!
I also don’t know why the dead talk to me.
If it is true or just a dream…
I don’t know.
This gas plant leak, is it true?
I don’t know.
That is how I remember it…
But…
I…
Is this all my imagination?
Damn!
It all started when I got out of that hospital.
The dead men and their talking.
Why don’t we go to the hospital?
The police took me to that hospital when I was walking on the streets.
I had no problems till then.
Even I don’t know how many times they gave me shocks there.
It all started when I got out.
The dead men walk with me.
They talk to me.
I don’t know what to do.
Listen.
We told you…
They are all busy preparing to receive the guests.
This evening the factory will be commissioned.
The pipe will leak…
And there will be a big tragedy!
Will you please leave me alone?
Why do you spoil my peace of mind?
Will anyone believe that dead people talk to me?
They will only say I am mad.
In this world,
only people with little madness can live peacefully.
Please leave me alone.
I only want to talk to people who are alive.
I don’t want anything to do with the dead.
But now, you are the only person who can help us.
If you don’t do something, there will be a huge catastrophe.
You go and tell someone else.
I can do nothing about this.
But we can only talk to you.
Why is that?
That we don’t know as well.
You have got to do something.
But what can I do?!
In the morning, I just escaped being shot.
I can’t go there again.
There is one way…
Sir…
Yes.
Is the Sub Inspector in?
If it is a complaint, give it there.
It's not a complaint. I want to see the Sub Inspector.
Go there.
Sir…
Sir, I want to say something.
- You can sit. - No, sir…
What is it?
It is about the factory in the valley.
There is a problem there.
What problem?
One of the pipes there has a leak.
The tanks will be filled tonight.
And the poisonous gas leak will destroy the whole area.
Are you a worker there?
No, sir.
Then how do you know this?
The workers there told me.
What are their names?
I don’t know, sir…
You don’t know the names?
When did they tell you?
At the mortuary…
Mortuary?
What were you doing there?
Well…
I work there as the watchman’s help.
Why did the workers come there?
They didn’t come.
They were brought there.
Brought there?
Yesterday, in that factory there was a gas leak.
Four people inhaled the gas and died.
Their bodies are kept in the mortuary.
You said they talked to you…
Yes, at the mortuary.
Sir, they talked to me…
after they died.
So, they told you about the gas leak in the factory after they died?
Yes, sir.
Nonsense!
If you step in here again with such stories
I will send you to the mental hospital!
Take him away.
Get lost!
What is this? Why do you let in such people?
Sorry, sir.
Get lost.
There's a vehicle out there.
Where?
Oh, I guessed you’d be here!
There was no light upstairs.
What do you want?
What kind of a question is that?
Don’t you know what we want?
It's not possible today.
Don’t act smart.
Let's go to my place.
Even this place is okay.
Either way, we are okay with it.
You better leave.
What kind of talk is that?
Do you want more money?
- Then tell me… - Get lost!
Come on, move aside.
Oh, nice!
You are not alone here. There is another one as well!
She is a small girl, but I don't mind.
Get out.
Get out of here.
Hey, don’t act smart!
Hey girl, you stand up!
Let us have a look.
Don’t you understand what we’re saying?
Come on, get up.
Leave them alone.
Don’t you interfere!
Go and catch her.
Will someone come in search of them?
Let us bury them before that.
I think Uncle has returned.
Don’t get scared I will go and bring Uncle.
You two stay here.
I will come soon. Close the door.
If anyone comes, don’t open it.
What happened?
There, downstairs…
What is it?
Come.
We dumped the bodies here. Now they aren't there.
Where are the kids?
They are in their room.
Come.
I had asked them to stay here.
Their vehicle was parked here.
Don’t worry.
The kids must be around.
We will look for them as well.
So, you don’t know where they are?
We know only what happened before death.
We don’t know what happens after death.
We have to find the kids soon.