Around 800 years ago, in Sidhavanam forest, an ancient hamlet was home to a hundred families.
A river called “Jeevadhara” flowed from the forest
The sheer magic of the place inspired many Yogis and sages to roam here and undertake severe penances.
These Yogis and Sages became beaconlights to the families of the hamlet and preached Dharma every day
And taught them how to make medicinal herbs from the local vegetation, live life the Ayurveda way and become a great civilization.
For generations together and no matter any calamity,
they exhorted them to never forsake this place and stand eternal vigil to this place and shared a secret of the Universe.
One day, Sidhavanam hamlet came under attack from a Devilish Tribe.
Thanks to the collective divine powers of the sages and the blessed appearance of the Goddess Mother who stood like a protector,
the Devilish tribe was vanquished.
As the hamlet people got petrified to bear the sight of Goddess annihilating the evil tribes...
...Goddess Mother created a momentary Solar Eclipse to hide from plain sight all the destruction of evil.
After the eradication of evil,
the Goddess perhaps wanted to forever stand by the hamlet
hence manifested Herself physically on a hill thereby standing eternal vigil on Sidhavanam hamlet.
The people of hamlet built a temple for the Goddess in gratitude to her benign blessings
With water from Jeevandhara river and flora and fauna from Sidhavanam, the hamlet people started offering oblations to the Holy Goddess in devotion.
With assurance that her foot protects Sidhavanam, they named it as “Padhaghattam”.
For centuries, the temple’s fame spread wide and spawned a great city.
That is Dharmasthali.
Born out of Padaghattam, Dharmasthali became a lodestar for Padaghattam itself and flourished for centuries with adherence to Dharma.
For few years now, Dharmasthali sowed seeds of unholiness,
Thief...Thief..z
and started proliferating evil deeds.
Sir...this paddy belongs to the Goddess...
And should go to feed the Gurukul and the Orphanage.
Send all bags to Basava sir's house.
It became a sanctuary for crimes.
But Padaghattam remained pure like fire on the other bank of the river and carried on life with principles of Dharma.
[PRESENT PADHAGHATTAM]
The mother who feeds entire universe, who have eternal voice and who demolish illness
The reason behind golry of padhaghattam and we surrender our self to the mighty goddess
Mom..
Greetings! MLA Sir.
Greetings! Veda.
They are all researchers and teachers at Ayurveda University.
They have come to meet you and discuss something.
Please sit down. -sit down
It is quite silly why Ayurveda Experts like you live in seclusion at far-flung places.
Come into the real world and join hands with us you will see miracles happen in your lives.
For centuries, our lives are intertwined with Siddhavanam and Dharmasthali.
Not one soul will leave this place.
Do you really want to live in the Dharmasthali Veda after seeing what’s happening over there?
A mother’s role is to instruct and rectify childrens’ mistakes,
not to abandon them.
If you come next week also and take the medicine Everyone will tell ' you are a good girl '.
Okay!
This temple is built by Padaghattam themselves
With this Ghattamma mother,
Dharma as the way, selflessness as the goal
each day reminisce their selflessness
It is our duty to remember Padagattam people forever.
I think I have warned enough, mother...
Don't talk about the people of Padhaghattam From his throught
Either they fear me less...or love them more. I don't understand
Next time he says anything about them,
just beware that your heartbeat for them and heart might just get separated...okay?
How should I tell ?
Think again sir, arresting him is not that easy.
As a police, aren’t you ashamed to speak like that?
You Better stay here.
Four officers came looking for you...
Greetings Sir...
In spite of being a Municipal chairmen,
it is unfortunate how brazenly you are looting the temple town.
We are getting complaints...
Hey...do you know who you are talking to?
Yes, we do...
That’s why we came with enough proofs.
It’s a felony to leave Dharmasthali without having the Goddess’s Darshan...
Let's have the Darshan first...
and talk in leisure.
Did you ever try to find out what happened to those officers who came exactly like you, before?
No.
You came to this position means, You might be intelligent...
By coming to Dharmastali,
How can you be so naive to nab a person like Basava so easily...
Hail, Ghattamma... Hail, Ghattamma...
I hope all of you told at home that you are meeting God today.
Sorry sir...it’s been a mistake. Please sir.
Mutilate them and throw them in the river Jeevadhara.
Ask Obulu to find out who is the one who spoke openly about us.
Okay brother.
Greetings Basava brother...
How is the Gurukul? -All good brother
Are you all studying well? -Yes, brother
Inspite always studies... Even if we wanted to have some fun,
your guys are not sending stuff.
Why students don’t need all that
If not now, when then? Send them immediately...
Okay..
Organise rallies that demand a MLA post for brother... -Okay brother...
Tell all the students... -Okay
All the four officers who came in search of Basava are found dead in Jeevadhara...
Looks like there’s no law and order in Dharmasthali
It’s our Dharma to guard Padhaghattam...
Let’s discharge our duty.
We have to live like this seeing Basava’s misrule...
Doesn’t a Mother who rules the world know what’s bothering the world?
I can visualise a blazing red sword rending the realms of darkness soon.
[Dharmasthali]
[Siddha Gurukul University]
Hey Rajyalakshmi...Where is your inseparable friend Devaghattamma? Not seen her for a while...
Did you hide her somewhere from me.?
Don’t act smart...or I will train my sights on you...
she also looking very attractive
[Chantings]
Nothing to think...What did I say?
Nothing less than a thousand.
Your business is going good.
Well...are you throwing it away for free?
Hey, Nagulu. -Brother.
How are you?
How’s the journey brother?
no one doubted.
Told them that we do carpentry work, no one doubted.
Today one choir came who sing songs on the Mother Goddess.
Shall we have a look ?
Hmm..
If possible.
Lord of the Mountains, Benevolence Personified, Protector of the Mountain Race!
When the Holy Consort awakes at night,
And wears a garland of jasmine flowers reminiscing the Lord of the Himalayas
When the darting Serpent around Lord Siva’s neck gets restless for union,
... the ashes smearing his body fall from his body moving swiftly,
As the Lord himself gets consumed in call for mating by His holy consort.
Amidst Her eyes burning like ember and her casually disheveled hair,
...and the impetuous blob on Her forehead, the moonlight has returned!
Sensing its Lord Shiva himself, Goddess Parvati’s blushes knew no bounds.
Even the Lord of the Universe has to stay submissive at home,
...beg for small mercies from His wife,
No rules can be enforced for matrimonial harmony,
..sometimes love-sick, sometimes boredom,
...mostly ending in conjugal bliss by the dawn. And by morning, all’s well between the Holy Couple.
It’s a daily ritual of the world’s holy couple to spar and bury the hatchet,
It’s been going on for ages like this, to celebrate after a fight,
Giving a message from their family fables about how to forge bonding.
If you get me married We both will serve you different dishes daily.
If asked about marriage, Never talks
Must be new here...we are your neighbours...
We couldn’t spot a lady in the house.
So we tried to help you in cooking with some curries
Ah...mother...excellent mother...
We don’t even entertain thoughts about women...
Do you know anyone here around this area? We will be right here in your midst...
It slipped..
Understood...you mean slip of my tongue? You’re so subtle
Your baby?
Come..come...co...
What's your name? -Umadevi...
Do not hesitate to ask for any help just in case...
Okay.
Come Uma...
Look...I heard about a place called Padaghattam here
But why am I not able to see any dweller from that place so far?
They stopped coming to Dharmasthali because of all the unholy stuff
Some come once a week to give Ayurvedic medicines, treat and then leave.
unable to see what i do in Dharmasthali,
Someone jealous of us must have gone to the officers and cried foul about us.
Whereas they got drown in Jeevadhara and only brought more misery.
You can cure the sick in the town with herbs that heal.
But don’t you know that there’s no cure for anyone if Dharmasthali ceases to exist?
You’ll face dire consequences if you commit such evil deeds in Dharmasthali.
Every day you have to cross Jeevadhara River from Padaghattam.
Do you buggers realise what happens if the boats turn topsy-turvy? Won’t even find bodies to cry on...
The sons of Goddess mother that fondled them, Padagattam sons
Their sins have come to kicking the very heart of them.
I wonder what more calamities are to be savoured by Holy Mother after all these sad developments.
Do the work..
Who are you?
What do you want?
Need two kgs of Stuff.
Which place ?
Any place where we can sell our wares is good enough to be called as our own.
Hey, Pack 2 kg stuff.
Came for a little " stuff "
Who's she?
Never seen her...
New joining.
Hey, show me your face.
Anyone who puts his legs on the hearts of Paadhagatam people,
That leg has to be removed.
Can’t say which leg though.
Your unrighteousness have reached extreme limit.
Public will think that it’s all because of the Ghattamma Mother’s fury.
Let them all think so.
I wonder what more calamities are to be savoured by Holy Mother after all these sad developments.
Are you going to treat the folks who kicked you in the temple ?
How do we care whoever it is.
We give medical treatment without prejudice to all.
Obulu has gone away somewhere, nobody has a clue.
He only knows all about the tally of the toddy liquor loads,
send our men to capture him wherever he is.
Okay
[A PRIVATE FARM HOUSE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HYDERABAD]
If I am behind you, it's because I look up to when I am in need
You know how crucial Siddhavanam forests are to me.
Why is that file still pending?
Everyone knows what happened in Jagadalpur forest,
Did you forget what Acharya’s troop did to your gang?
It’s challenging now to go to another forest, before that fire is put out
Instead, why don’t you choose another business..
you guys roam around me like dogs and try to advise me 'what to do,'
"Acharya."
From one week, why Umadevi is not coming for music classes.
We are only interested in learning the education Why this music? We don’t want it.
Please don’t say that...she loves music
If she practises hard, she can reach the top
Don’t worry about what it costs... send her from tomorrow
I will take care of the rest.
Okay.
Attend the classes in the morning Umadevi
Okay, Nilambari teacher.
Okay...bye
Didn't find her Vedha!
Did you see our girl 'Ghattamma' -No, sir
Veda, No sign of her.
Did you see our girl Devaghattamma anywhere son?
No.
Sir, have you seen our Padaghattam girl anywhere?
No sir
Our girl Devaghattamma hasn’t returned to our place sir...
Did you see her?
No...but did you search in the Gurukul?
Went there also, Heard that she left in evening it self
Saw, no where.
Must’ve stopped for some shelter in the rain
No matter what,
She lights a lamp and chants mantras herself for the Forest Goddess...
Come let’s go.
Exactly, She fell in our trap When it's raining.
Who will go first ?
Hey...let me first get a taste of her... then will decide by chits
Mother Ghattamma...!
we named her after you
Not a soul will rest until she returns
Where did you hide her,
wherever she is send her safely to "Padaghattam" .
[Siddha Gurukula University]
Can’t find her here... Seems to have escaped...Go fetch her
Brother...We can’t find her here
Okay...you two go there... And you come with me.
You are the one to light the lamp... shouldn’t put out the lamp like this
Here she is...
I thought we are going to miss her today..
Who are you?
what business you have here?
I should be asking you that question
What are you supposed to do? What are you up to now?
who the hell are you?
They call me Acharya... even if I don’t teach any lessons...
Perhaps, since I impart life lessons.
Either ignore what’s going on here... or die in our hands.
It will take a while before we leave... it’s already too late for you
Do pooja and light a lamp as you do in "Padhaghattam". By sitting there worship your goddess.
Don’t worry... Go there
She should be giving the shouts, not giving sacred chants and doing worship
Go and drag her.
Do it as rigorously as you would do every day at Padaghattam.
The mother who feeds entire universe, who have eternal voice and who demolish illness
The reason behind golry of padhaghattam and we surrender our self to the mighty goddess
daughter of forest, protector of greenery and who destroys angry and agony
Give us the strength and give us the wisdom mother of consciousness
Goddess of kindness who daily showering by eternal river water as worship
Give us will and wish mother along with purity
Siddha Gurukula University...
You ought to know more about Siddha than me...
Siddha...
Siddha...Brother.
Siddha...
Siddha made enormous sacrifices for this Dharmasthali.
...that’s what every stone and shrub in this valley tells you and knows it...
you folks have forgotten all of that and turned cold-hearted ...
Even Ghattamma has become a silent witness to your doings.
But I am going to ensure every stone resonates to the sacrifice made by Siddha, if not , I will straighten them out.
Come with me.
Father
Why don’t you borrow from someone for now...
Will buy it next month..okay?
What happened to your cheerful face Umadevi? Quite unsual
All I am asking dad is to buy a flute for me...
Every time he says,”next time”... All my friends have one...except me
Hey, Flute!...
So you too have one... Can you play?
It’s not mine...in memory of a friend’s
Really...then I don’t want it
It’s okay...you’re my friend too... Play it...reminds Me of my friend
is it ? Okay.
(Musical Notes)
What have you thought about Nilambari’s marriage?
Unless you talk and come to a consensus, she is going to wait perennially
For the remaining life
Uma...It’s not like that...see
Where did you find this Uma...Who gave it?
A friend next-door gave it
Who are you?
How did you get this?
Who gave it to you? Please Tell me.
Siddha...
How do you know Siddha?
Siddha used to tell In this Dharmasthali, dharma is there in very inch of it
But that is not to be seen any where
Reason.
After Siddha left this place, Dharmasthali came under the iron grip of Basava.
The scale of his wicked deeds erased all the good Dharma preached by Padaghattam.
Tomorrow is the D-Day of the Chariot Procession of Ghattamma.
A festival usually ushered in by Padaghattam people.
But instead, it is going to be inaugurated by that evil man.
I can’t see how the Holy Goddess can bear witness to this unholy spectacle.
To stop seeing that,I just hope my heart stops beating
Let’s see how it unfolds tomorrow
Hey, What are you doing?
Auspicious time running out... Let’s start the Procession...
It’s felony to pull the chariot with blood-stained hands, move on and let someone else take over...
Call Padaghattam people who are well-trained in this...
Time’s running out...Padaghattam people please come...
Hail Ghattamma.... Hail Ghattamma...
There is something which got scratched in the crowd ...
I felt his eyes were snooping on me...
Search across Dharmasthali...I need to look him up
And find out what he is scanning for
Open the Register.
What's your Name? From which place you are?
Brother, No one found.
You did a good job...take this.. -Don’t want money...
Why don’t you take it?
It’s a small job...
You helped me get back up again...Take it.
It’s just a photo, isn’t it?
But why are you showing behind and talking?
Brother-in-law, We have combed the entire village... No trace of any doubt.
We scrutinised all the new people in the town... But none so far
Must be here...somewhere here...
What happened to the work for which you came, Acharya..?
He is yet to visit this place...
I am waiting for him
That’s fine..how are our folks?
We are all meeting tomorrow night at Jagityala
Why? - know Sivudu right...
his mother’s last wish that he gets married to his sister-in-law...
He said he will be delighted if you can make it.
Brother...
We met like this, Very happy.
How are you, Bridegroom?
It’s all for my mother, brother
So, it’s not about the girl is it? So, should I tie the knot with her...
so you Can happily take care of your mother?
Hey..
Brother...ceremony is in the morning... why don’t you take some spirit?
Okay..
Havoc! Havoc! Everywhere Havoc!
Havoc Wherever I go!
Havoc Havoc, all over!
My beauty drives people mad
The swing in my plaits
Drives up the traffic every minute
Where can I hide my lissomness?
Very hard...Very hard...
Yes indeed, Mandakini
Ignore the voyeurs...
It’s hard, I know, Mandakini I admire your belly button...
Every man wants to be my ladies’ tailor to measure my perfect body
Right you are...even we get some livelihood now
Men want to be gynaceologists so they can feel my body
This is a bit exaggerated but nevertheless lovely to hear, dear
It’s tough to get out of home with my bounty of features
Very hard..
Very hard..Very hard..Mandakini
You’ve ignited an incense stick of your beauty
It’s tough on you, Mandakini
Ward off the evil eye, with your elders’ help
Do you know how men ogle at me?
: That’s another lie...now you’re feigning.
No, the men climb to our terrace to watch me bathe
Stop lying with your litany of lies.
: It’s tough to remain veiled with my body beautiful...
very tough
Very hard...very hard Mandakini
No more discussions!
Very hard..Mandakini
Let the glamour parade begin!
You are right...
Obulu absconding from work
even the students in Gurukul turned sincere...
Someone is here and upto something
Rathore Sir... please come
You have taken Dharmasthali in your grip...
but you are making small mistakes and collecting loose change Basava...
Everyone is afraid of you...
But if you have to grow politically, this is not enough Basava.
While I couldn’t accomplish here when I sent my brother Dharmasthali last time,
I am happy atleast you have achieved what you wished.
Now I want you to accomplish my unfinished dreams.
I want the Siddhavanam forest that you can see from here.
I have annexed other forests by displacing the Adivasis there.
But in this forest where Padaghattam people are worshipped as God by all the neighborhood, I am helpless.
I should make them commit errors and then get them banished by the everyone who live here.
Sir, Suddenly she fell down.
Nurse ..
Doctor..
The ayurvedic medicine taken by the children contained poison
Can’t say what will happen until 24 hours pass.
Surprised how such experienced Padaghattam people gave such a medicine ...
Seems like a wilful mistake...they knew everything.
How they did this on innocent children?
instead...Picking innocent children now means they will resort to more cruelties in future.
Let’s break their bones and tell them it is wrong to do like this...
Come..lets go Let’s go.
Hey come,
How many more childrens lives will you take with this poison mix?
How can you even think of harming young innocents like this?
Stop...What’s all this?
It’s the same medicine that Padaghattam people give each time
but now they say it has become poison.
I am now a reformed man sir
Until The Padhaghattam people are there, Nothing will happen to the girl.
But woe betide if something happens to Padhaghattam
We bow to those people, no matter how evil we are, With utmost devotion sir,
But now they have an existential threat..
Strangers have entered into the town.
They must have mixed poison in Ayurvedic doses.
There is a bigger conspiracy happening on Padhaghattam
Let this night pass, no harm shall come to him.
But if we overstay here tonight,
There’s risk to all lives of Padaghattam
If we all have to survive another day, We have to leave this place, here and now.
What are you talking...leave Padaghattam?
For whatever reasons we inhabited this place for generations,
It’s time to move on from here, if we all wish to survive.
We may not know why we are living here for ages,
but, our leader Veda surely knows
why Atleast for his sake, let’s weigh our thoughts and ...instead of rushing out
We lived here for centuries...
But if we stay longer, I am afraid the place will turn a graveyard
Enough is enough..
We can safeguard our leader Veda’s life only if we flee this place
It’s all going as per the plan.
next week we can start the work.. Will have oath auspicious time fixed.
Brother-in-law.
Okay sir.
All the five men who mixed poison in Ayurvedic medicine surrendered at the police station.
While those men were confined to the abandoned bungalow,
this fellow was fooling around that place...
Maybe he is the one orchestrating the whole thing.
Are you the culprit? You ungrateful wretch!
I thought you had more sense than your brother-in-law
How did you believe I can do all this?
The man who broke both the limbs of Obulu...
the one who cut your wrist at the Fair
and the one who broke the bones of those who mixed poison in medicines is all one person.
Who's that? Who's that...?
There’s a carpenter who came to the Western Bazar...
They say he is so skilled in his craft that his hand
I think many have vouched for that, I mean brother, can cut anybody like the saw he uses,
So many have seen that.
Next you are the one.
For 800 years, this dense Siddhavanam forest is enmeshed with Padaghattam And you people want to abandon it?
The Goddess which manifested to protect you,
the world of Dharmasthali which you have created.
isn’t it a mistake to leave all that, Sir?
As someone just said, “ We doubt if the Goddess meant to protect us is still residing here...
As for Dharmasthali...it’s only a place... but Dharma is long dead there.
Our bonding with Padaghattam, Dharmasthali, and Jeevadhara is broken..
There’s no river without water... no Dharmasthali exists beyond your shadows
that's all past..
no doubt, we once adorned Ghattamma like lamps
Now we have become moths to the fire of those very lamps... they are killing us.
This place Jeevadhara itself is a witness to all the life that’s proliferated here.
Even though I am not a life-giver, I vow to protect you putting my life as a front.
Believe me, Please return to Padaghattam...Go back.
If he says so, it will happen...Let’s all turn back
You must be new to this place... We have a monster there...
There’s no end to his litany of evil deeds which makes Ghattamma also a hapless bystander.
Think again,
There think of the devils...they are coming...let’s go
They are coming for me.
I have come prepared for this.
What are you saying sir...Do you know what it is to spar with him...You don’t know who and whence
I think you don’t know him well...just come with us.
Come with us sir...Look, they are trooping in.
Sir, we are all leaving this place.
you all leaving okay,
Someone by name Acharya came here
Where?
Where is that fellow?
Where?
We will dissuade him and take him alongwith us...Leave him alone sir.
To win a war, we must only march one step forward...
But me to win this war,
I need each one of you to retreat one step back... until you reach Padaghattam.
Did you see the dread in their eyes?
How can that wither away with these morsels of courage you are injecting with?
It won’t work...They won’t go back.
Come..
Hey,
Who are you?
COMARADE...!
Comrade Acharya.
You think you can escape after clashing with me?
I intend to see you perish...
How dare you speak like this in front of me... In my Dharmasthali.
What’s your strength?
For twenty years or more,
when we roam in the jungle and thrive in the midst of wild animals
on one hand and hundreds of cops on the other hand,
And nothing harmed me,
What else do I have except courage and strength.
Do you think it is an act of bravado to inflict minor wounds
On my hand with a knife when no one else’s looking.
I just wanted to announce myself ...
but had I had my way, the dagger would have cut deeper into your chest...
Why did you come here?
What do you want?
Return of past glory in Dharmasthali and restoration of Dharma in Padaghattam.
in-fact, Padaghattam should remain in existence.
Just because someone asks you a favour,
you think you can monopolise the whole of Padaghattam just like that...
If you want to go from Dharmasthali to Padaghattam,
you have to cross not just Jeevadhara river
But also surpass Acharya, understand?
How are you connected to Padaghattam?
If anything happens to Padaghattam Why do you care?
Divine Forest on one side... Holy Water body on the other side..
...Padaghattam in the middle.
Divine Forest on one side... Holy Water body on the other side.. ...
Padaghattam in the middle.
Each grain of sand...
Contains Mother’s infinite love
That guards you and me until we die...
[Few years ago]
Siddha..
[Chanting]
Take this.
[Chanting]
The Goddess’s necklace is missing...
Hold this.
Not for this brother...
Before leaving Dharmasthali you realise the hasty action and its consequences...
You can also learn Dharma and leave after a few days.
Come.
[Dharmasthali Gurukul University]
Don't leave your grip.
Everybody’s saying that you have chased and beaten boys from other village
I only ensured they feel responsible for their actions.
It is just a petty theft...do they deserve such punishment?
I wanted to make them know what they did is not Dharma.
What if Dharmasthali becomes Adharmasthali (Unholy) because of many and bigger mistakes repeating?
How will you react?
How can Dharmasthali become Adharmasthali?
I just wanted to test your strength. That's why said so,
Nothing will harm Dharmasthali as long you are here.
True...As long as Siddha lives, nothing happens to Dharmasthali.
You can’t even grow.
Take this.
Siddha... -Sir.
Nothing, Siddha... Nilambari’s mischief is driving me mad...
Why do you say that sir? Isn’t she the most talented music artiste here?
She knows a lot more than music...
You are out of tune, Paparao.
Nothing wrong, when I am going mad already, Nilambari.
You like me that much, Papi -Yes
Music can heal any disease, cure any pain.
If your music heals even one of them, You win my heart.
Stop.
What are you doing?
Don’t dare come here again...
I will break your legs.
But her mischievous ways are bringing new headaches every day.
She’s a good girl...Intelligent...Don’t be harsh on her.
Why don’t you temper her down, since you’re both in the same class
Rest assured sir, I will....Let me start with some Yoga and Meditation in the morning...things will be smooth.
Good
Greetings.
Nilambari...
Uncle told me that you teach well and asked me to be alert.....
But you have been teaching everybody except me..
Please come teach something, Siddha.
You are so well-versed in everything... What can I teach you?
I mean...you know everything... what more can you learn from me
Come, teach me a nice grip ...
Come.
Ok then...we will be at the cow ranch...
take your time and teach how to get good grips in a couple of days...don’t teach in one go.
Neelambari Neelambari, the nonpareil!
The perfect beauty, lady queen of Her Master.
Salute you, the sibling of moon, I’m coming to you..Neelambari
Stop murmuring sacred chants like a priest, I've no time to waste!
I know nothing lovely lady Feeling helpless with your gaiety!
Take me through a guided tour of your riches,
Neelambari Neelambari, the nonpareil!
Neelambari, Neelambari, the teasing beauty!
I’m still basking in the glory of dreams about chasing you...
You’re still learning, dear student, train harder
Stop not till you reach your goal.
Never, not till my last breath, my dear
You’re the raison d’etre of my existence, my darling.
Now and forever with you, life after life.
Neelambari Neelambari, the nonpareil!
Neelambari, Neelambari, the teasing beauty!
He is younger brother of big business man Rathore...
Please sit. -Sit
He came here to discuss a business proposal.
I asked him to meet here as everybody looks up to Padaghattam here..
Tell me..
Dharmasthali is a famous town
but all name and fame comes because it is a temple town. We can scale it to the next level
Cause it's a temple town
You get some livelihood Because of the pilgrims
it's the only source of income.
make it as an Industrial town so that it depends less on earnings from temple tourism.
All of your lives will get transformed...
Everybody is happy here.
We don't really need that big change.
Don’t think small.. Lives will get held.
You can only grow in life by the scale of your ambition and aspiration.
who will grow...?
You can go elsewhere if you want to grow more and more.
You are all small-time tribals living in forestlands...
What do you know?
Dharmam.
Dharma...Whatever Padaghattam says according to Dharma is the gospel
You are young and must be having some temptations...
How can you listen to these closed-mindset fellows?
Divine forest on one side...
Holy Water on the other side...
Padaghattam in between...
Each grain of sand... Contains Mother’s infinite love..
That guards you and me until we die...
Our lives remain protected as long as we swear by Padaghattam, blessed by the Divine Goddess.
If you understood, You can leave.
You must be here with some aspirations.
Even I have some aspirations. From many years.
Staying here and chanting only Dharma..
I'm like a cannabis plant in a basil garden
If you join hands with me, we can uproot all the basil plants.
What do you want? -Dharmasthali...
I want to become the Lord of Dharmasthali ... where the powerful mother goddess is.
everything here should be in my control.
With our support, You can achieve whatever you want.
Let us make small beginnings..
Stop there, wait.
I did expect a turn of events at Dharmasthali but not this kind.
Happy atleast our people survived
In a town like that, Who has dare to do it?
In temple premises We have tried to explain things easily...
Some get it, some don’t...Those who didn’t get it,
we are obliged to straighten them out...
Here everyone are gentle, Always do Pooja and perform rituals,
You might think that, We rely on the deity whenever difficulties arise.
You may be mistaken.
we charge ahead to take things in control like possessed men under the Goddess’s influence.
I hope you and your people now realize how difficult it is to confront the divinity within us.
Good...good..
Greetings
What brings you here Sir?
Need to discuss an important matter
Here’s Divine Prasad...
Nilambari and Siddha love each other.
I’ve learnt of this recently...
Inspite being born in Padhaghattam,
Siddha is a gem of a boy...Since you raised him up,
wanted to discuss about their marriage with you.
Even though Padhaghattam raised him,
his biological parents are some other...
Very long ago they deserted him in Siddhavanam,
They may return any day and take him back...
Better not to pin hopes on him...
Please convince Nilambari about this complication.
Due to the presence of a temple in this village, Everyone sat on the couch trying to make no small mistake
People here, have to change as normal people.
When there’s no temple here, only town will remember.
Bring down the temple, is it?
It's a ancient temple ...
The rains are also pouring heavily,
It is natural for such temples and schools to collapse,
Siddha!
What Siddha! You are always doting on others’ kids...
When will you marry so we can start playing with your kids?
Okay.
Aadanna! The priest’s daughter and I ...
Siddha...the folks from the city are razing the temple to the ground
For stopping them They did this,
Aadanna...
-Ghattamma’s Temple
Ghattamma’s Temple
Veda...take care of Aadanna
We’ll finish him fist before the temple...
Aadanna..
Bring down the temple before dawn...
If siddha come to stop you.
With that temple he too should be grounded.
Hey...break the temple doors open!
[NEAR ANDHRA-ORISSA BORDER]
Who are you? Where am I?
You are safe with your people.
You are our leader Sankaranna’s son
Comrade..!
Shankar...
Shankar..
Sumathi..
Leave the place with son and troop...
Sure,
Acharya..
Tell, Shankaranna.
Acharya, make sure he's also a part of the movement.
Red salute!
Being an infant roaming in this forest would be dangerous,
So, Acharya left you to grow in Padhaghattam near Siddavanam forest.
Even if you didn’t see him,
he always enquired about your well-being
and admired the way you came up in life as if you were his own child.
After all these years of staying happy and safe,
he was not sure how to cross paths with you again.
He is indeed your Guardian Angel,
and has come into your life at the right moment again when you were in danger.
Acharya...
Siddha...
As per Sankaranna’s wishes,
we were waiting for an opportune moment to welcome you into our movement.
Want to fill inspiration of the movement
It runs deep in your veins, before coming here. the spirit of fighting injustice.
The day has come when you join the Movement as per Shankara’s wish
So, welcome you comrade to our troop. Welcome.
Acharya... He is captured at point blank,
We can’t save him now or we will all be caught.
All your troop must be here somewhere. Tell them to show up...Tell them to show up.
Guns down.
As new commer in the troop, you must know some things
Many will lose their lives in the struggle.
Being sensitive and acting on impulse is not our trait, Comrade.
It’s not impulsive..it’s my Dharma to protect those in danger by throwing all our mite in, Comrade.
He is a born warrior, fierce like Red Mars.
Now smeared in vermillion borne out of blood.
Roaming in the trails of forest
Keeping vigil at night and day like a World Protector!
No family bonds here, guns the only company
Exiled to forest to uplift the downtrodden and protect them forever.
Piercing the sky like a shooting star,
Lurking in the middle of planet like a volcano of fire like
Marching in unison, matching step by step,
..it is now the rally of the masses for a mass revolution.
A.. Amma Aa...Acharya
We should all be prepared to sacrifice our lives or take lives, in this fight to re-establish an egalitarian society...Comrades.
Red Salute! -Red Salute!
Greetings, Brother.
Everything is finished.
Dense forest has been cut down And made us suffer from diseases.
Came to know that some precious minerals are there. so, started digging
So many people died because land and water became poisonous.
We did our best to stop them but they killed many of us brutally sir.
They even dragged our boys inside to forcibly make them slog at work sir.
Aa...Acharya
Where are you running.
Rajendra... -Yes
Acharya’s troop is roaming in our midst...Be careful...
Where are the Security Personnel?
Oh...here they are.
You go and send that load.
Need a break...Can you get me some tea?
Enough of all your banter after reaching late... Still haven’t come to senses after yesterday’s high is it?
Hey, Why are you babbling like that.
Oh!
Acharya sir...
Ssss..Sorry...Prasad sir.
What is this mindless killing when I am talking ?
Arrey...I am pissed off because he said I am inebriated... Ram sir.
I will talk to him...wait.
Please talk...Please talk - I will
Hey, why did he stab.
He seems to have killed your man in a rush of unmedicated blood pressure...
Why are jetting in between?
What Ram Sir...Why are you killing people for talking?
why is he pouncing on me?
Control yourself please...
Whatever happened, happened...Leave it. We need to get back to work and discharge our duty...Jai Hind.
Come, sir.
Hey, what are you looking at, hold him.
Rajendra, hey...hey.
Hey, Why are you fretting over...He must’ve gone by now...
Load him in truck and sendoff. Good riddance...Hey
Prasad sir, wait
What is this, Prasad Sir... Why such haste...
Again you killed.
I can’t stand those menacing looks Ram Sir...I will again...
Prasad sir, come aside Let me talk.
Why so much rashness Ram sir
What else can I do Prasad sir...he is just jostling me
Are why don’t you just talk instead of stabbing
Prasad sir, again...
I didn’t do it intentionally... he hurled himself onto me and got stabbed
You should have taken B.P Tablets
Sorry sir...Sorry.. Get back to work.
What’s happening here...
Are they the Security personnel?
Sir..
We were about to assume duty when the Naxal’s intercepted and took out uniforms sir...
I think it’s Acharya’s troop sir.
Ye, come and Watch the play between a tiger and a leopard
Finally, smiles return to our lives,
Catching like wildfire, with drumbeats of happiness.
Festivities return to the pitch dark forest!
Even the winds are whirling to the dance of mother earth,
Bright moonshine is piercing the nightfall of Cimmerian darkness
Come let’s partake in this feast of festivities,
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
Cuckoo, please don’t wake us with your wake-up call
We’re lost in the count of days and nights
Let’s dance and drink to our merry,
Even a skyfall can’t ruin our party tonite,
We’ve got the world in our palm and nothing to worry,
Let’s spin the top, now that we’ve got the world in our hands.
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
Every flora and fauna, now our friends.
Each mound, each turn, now our allies.
This forest showered its benevolence like a mother
And nurtured us to become powerful weapons.
The lives of everyone in the forest are dear to it.
We’ve got to defend everybody now, and keep their woes away.
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
Bravo! Bravo! Let’s go gaga!
Let’s party the whole night, no holds barred!
The Naxal’s have come to our mine in Jagadalpur forest, killed our people and abducted the Adivasi kids.
They also said they will eliminate everyone who sets his foot upon this or any other forest.
Before this warning becomes public information, we need to annihilate all of them in the forest itself.
I need that forest at any cost, Khilla.
Not like that keep it like this way.
That's it
I am expecting a retaliatory response from them after the cessation of mining activities....
Have to be careful Acharya.
Yesterday, the kids you brought back were playing with a map
After this forest,
They are going to start mining in Paddhaghattam which is in Siddhavanam forest,
I have seen a lot of damage being done in this forest due to mining
I can’t stand the very thought of collateral damage that will be wreaked on my Padaghattam
and wanted to repay my debt to them.
I am very much indebted to Paddaghattam and the people over their.
Your tireless efforts to rescue those in distress is my main inspiration...
I want to go back and stand like a pillar of strength to my land and people, Acharya.
I have seen you as a toddler...
Now I see a fully-matured real Comrade...
Okay, Start immediately...
Surya...Please escort him all the way till he crosses the forest.
Depart, Comrade.!
Red Salute! -Red Salute!
Acharya and his troop are currently in Kotha Paaka...
They wouldn’t have crossed more than 15 kms by now
So they would be still be in this vicinity...
they may cross us anytime now...
Let’s not spare anybody and finish them all We have to wrest control of the forest back to us...
And if you happen to spot Acharya,
remember to shoot him in the head right away...Understood?
Siddha -Inform this to Acharya immediately
Okay.
Do we wait till they come?
Let’s finish as many as we can and weaken the enemy.
Acharya...
Siddha..
Siddha,,
Siddha..
Bose..
Siddha...Siddha..
Bose, call the doctor from near by village.
[Padaghattam]
Righteousness is to stand for help
Courage is to walk with righteousness
Red Salute! -Red Salute!
I can't forget, Padaghattam has to remain intact as per the last wish of Siddha...
If the precious Minerals in Siddhavanam been extracted.
Biodiversity in the area is threatened,
This truth is known by only the Paddaghatam leaders of all generations
For that we stay here and protect the forest. That's the only known Dharma by us.
Forsake not our duty to protect, even when life’s in peril
Whatever we have mined so far is nothing compared to the plunder of deposits that awaits us here in this forest Basava
The mineral wealth here is invaluable...
Unbeknownst to them, they are using it like an Ayurvedic Sanctuary
It’s a shame now a few hundred of nameless people coming between me and that forest.
What if we kill those hundred people...
The people of Padaghattam will celebrate the goddess incarnated day as a festival which comes once in 12 years...
another three days to go for the festivities...
If we ensure nobody steps out of their homes on that day in Dharmasthala.
we can catch all of them(padhaghattam people) and slaughter them like goats.
My men will get into the act of killing all the surreptitiously
But we have to stop Acharya from turning into a savior
The person who hides in the forest, if he Moves midst of society, why will the police leave him
This is Jeevandhara responsible for the flourishing of the ecosystem in the forest of Sidhavanam.
Let’s conserve water as preciously as we can...
And pray to Ghattamma to give us the strength to follow Dharma.
Let’s propitiate her and seek her blessings.
Come, let's go.
They are hundred of them....Everybody in Pooja.
Before they realise what’s happening, we have to finish all of them.
Do not spare even the women and the kids, Khilla.
Hundred of them, right? Need to severe their heads.
(Chants)
(Sanskrit hymns)
COMRADE...!
(Sanskrit hymns)