WEBVTT 00:39.465 --> 00:40.424 I was waiting for you 00:40.425 --> 00:43.744 Your son touched my wife’s belly 00:43.745 --> 00:44.785 That’s why we lost our child 00:46.105 --> 00:47.984 I will burn you alive 00:47.985 --> 00:50.344 Babu... Leave it 00:50.345 --> 00:54.225 Do you know why these people are gathered here? 00:54.985 --> 00:57.784 You know the problems in the village 00:57.785 --> 01:01.224 We also heard a lot about Sreekuttan 01:01.225 --> 01:02.185 Do you know about the village collective’s meeting? 01:03.185 --> 01:04.904 We all know who your mother is 01:04.905 --> 01:06.904 We also know about your ancestral house 01:06.905 --> 01:09.944 Do you know how many people have gone missing from the vicinity of your house? 01:09.945 --> 01:13.744 Since Sreekuttan’s birth, a curse has fallen upon the village 01:13.745 --> 01:16.225 A lot of people have experienced it 01:16.785 --> 01:19.384 So, the village has taken a final decision 01:19.385 --> 01:24.224 Either you, Leela and Sreekuttan leave the village immediately 01:24.225 --> 01:27.384 Or Sreekuttan should never come out of the house 01:27.385 --> 01:28.785 The village has imposed a ban on him 01:29.985 --> 01:33.945 In case Sreekuttan is seen outside, your will face unimaginable consequences 01:35.665 --> 01:38.225 Come... hope you understood everything 02:39.385 --> 02:40.824 Sreedhar? 02:40.825 --> 02:42.545 Upstairs 03:15.825 --> 03:18.025 Rajan? 03:31.465 --> 03:35.904 Didn’t time itself bring you here, just as I predicted? 03:35.905 --> 03:41.344 I've been looking for you for a long time. 03:41.345 --> 03:44.425 Raja, you look older than I am 03:47.225 --> 03:49.545 Sit down... hmmm 04:00.905 --> 04:01.865 I made a mistake last time 04:03.345 --> 04:04.145 Please forgive me 04:05.225 --> 04:06.945 Don't hold it against me 04:09.305 --> 04:13.785 Forgive? But you didn’t do anything 04:19.545 --> 04:22.025 You drink now, don’t you? 04:38.145 --> 04:40.105 I have some doubts 04:50.785 --> 04:53.065 I know what you want to find out 04:53.665 --> 04:54.585 Come 05:12.545 --> 05:14.465 You took a long time to come 05:17.025 --> 05:19.065 You believed in your mother 05:20.065 --> 05:20.345 Sit 05:25.545 --> 05:29.785 If you had killed your mother just as I told you to 05:31.785 --> 05:34.145 You wouldn't be sitting here in front of me today 05:36.505 --> 05:38.985 How will I kill my mother? 05:44.145 --> 05:46.305 Why? That’s not even your mother 05:48.465 --> 05:51.105 I don’t understand 05:52.105 --> 05:53.065 Can you be more specific? 05:55.105 --> 06:00.304 Raja, you mother Kanthi 06:00.305 --> 06:03.705 died when you were just 18. 06:09.145 --> 06:10.825 Whom did I look after all these years? 06:11.945 --> 06:14.985 You did not take care of your mother 06:16.145 --> 06:17.505 You nursed a vicious monster 06:26.465 --> 06:27.545 Rajan 06:42.905 --> 06:48.224 The one who had control over the spirit of your mother, who died 30 years ago 06:48.225 --> 06:49.625 Was a buffalo 06:52.785 --> 06:56.065 Another entity she created from her own power 06:58.265 --> 07:03.385 A buffalo-human creature called Erumamaadan 07:06.505 --> 07:10.345 That power circles around Kanthi all the time 07:14.945 --> 07:18.225 It’s hard for me to believe all this 07:26.385 --> 07:28.664 The other doubt you have 07:28.665 --> 07:31.665 Is whether Sreekuttan is really Leela’s child 07:35.465 --> 07:39.064 Rajan, Sreekuttan is not your blood 07:39.065 --> 07:41.824 He is born to Kanthi and the Erumamaadan 07:41.825 --> 07:45.185 Leela was merely a body used to manifest that power 07:49.265 --> 07:53.025 Sreekuttan will live as a human only until he turns 10 07:53.665 --> 07:56.985 On the full moon night of his eleventh year 07:57.625 --> 08:01.025 He’ll abandon his human body and be a demon 08:02.945 --> 08:04.425 Like your mother 08:08.145 --> 08:11.425 Does he not turn 11 tomorrow? 08:12.145 --> 08:15.305 Don’t you see the moment when time has brought you before me? 08:21.745 --> 08:22.785 What’s a solution for this? 08:27.945 --> 08:38.385 Rajan... Your mother has a history you know nothing about... you need to know it. 08:40.305 --> 08:41.985 Who your mother really was 08:48.505 --> 08:55.464 She was born to the last generation of the hunter-gatherer community of Vedars 08:55.465 --> 09:00.265 Your mother Kanthi’s beauty was in her shining eyes. 09:01.305 --> 09:04.785 So perfect, she would make anyone fall in love at first sight 09:05.745 --> 09:10.465 They say she had many supernatural powers even when she was a child 09:11.065 --> 09:15.664 Then her maternal uncle decided to teach Kanti witchcraft 09:24.545 --> 09:28.624 A woman occultist named Sumeshwari was the teacher 09:25.773 --> 09:29.133 He took her to a tantric family in Kongini village, known for their mystical powers In that family, only girls were taught witchcraft 09:28.625 --> 09:33.144 She had a son and a daughter 09:33.145 --> 09:35.745 Her daughter was Ayilya and son Mallikan 09:36.305 --> 09:39.224 After marriage, Ayilya was living in Ratnagiri 09:39.225 --> 09:43.704 Kanthi, who began learning witchcraft, soon became the best student 09:43.705 --> 09:46.184 Sumeshwari was surprised by her ability in sorcery 09:46.185 --> 09:52.385 Sumeshwari taught Kanthi all chapters of Raktaakshara, which contained all forms of witchcraft 09:53.225 --> 09:54.984 Except one chapter 09:54.985 --> 10:00.424 The Raktadhyaayam (The blood chapter). Because it was never allowed to be taught 10:00.425 --> 10:01.985 That was a forbidden chapter 10:02.545 --> 10:09.224 But Kanthi had a growing curiosity to know what Raktadhyayam was 10:09.225 --> 10:14.024 That was the time when the evil spirit Muchundi had descended in the Karimala forest 10:14.025 --> 10:21.504 At the same time, Sumeshwari had to go to Ratnagiri for the naming ceremony her daughter Ayilya’s son 10:21.505 --> 10:29.584 So, until Sumeshwari returned, she sent Kanthi and other disciples to protect the village 10:29.585 --> 10:34.384 But before Sumeshwari returned, Kanthi defeated the evil force 10:34.385 --> 10:39.345 The villagers began calling Kanthi by the name of their forest goddess Chandulika 10:40.065 --> 10:44.504 All this success boosted Kanthi’s pride 10:52.665 --> 10:54.224 The crux of the chapter was to 10:53.214 --> 10:56.523 She sneaked into the magical sanctum and stole the book Raktaakshara Learned the forbidden chapter Rakthadhyayam byheart 10:54.225 --> 10:58.025 Lure a virgin young man and marry him 10:58.745 --> 11:02.425 Then kill him and capture his soul 11:02.985 --> 11:06.465 It’s believed that ritual would give the ultimate power 11:07.065 --> 11:12.704 Understanding this secret, Kanthi seduced Sumeshwari’s son Mallikan 11:12.705 --> 11:17.225 She made him fall in love with her, then married him and killed him 11:17.825 --> 11:21.584 Then she captured his soul 11:21.585 --> 11:23.824 She created an Erumamaadan, the man-buffalo spirit 11:23.825 --> 11:25.785 Thus, Kanthi became the most powerful 11:26.425 --> 11:29.224 When Sumeshwari learned this, she cursed her 11:29.225 --> 11:32.664 But the curse did not take effect on Kanthi 11:32.665 --> 11:39.184 She summoned Erumamaadan and destroyed Sumeshwari and her entire lineage 11:39.185 --> 11:43.305 Kanthi did not know that only Ayilya’s son had survived from that lineage 11:44.145 --> 11:49.064 But what Kanthi did not want happened in her life 11:49.065 --> 11:53.665 Without Kanthi knowing, Mallikan’s child was growing inside her womb 11:54.265 --> 11:58.744 When the child was born, and she named him Rajan 11:58.745 --> 12:01.785 The presence of Erumamaadan made her even more terrifying 12:02.425 --> 12:09.264 Kanthi used her hair and spells to capture many things and destroy many others 12:09.265 --> 12:13.145 Her eating habits changed; she began consuming only raw mongoose meat and alcohol 12:13.545 --> 12:18.264 But one day, when Kanthi went to Hanumankunnu for witchcraft rituals... 12:18.265 --> 12:20.625 A divine power arose against her magical powers 12:21.025 --> 12:23.784 That affected her powers 12:23.785 --> 12:30.145 Humiliated, Kanthi withdrew from the outside world and began waiting to create a greater power 12:30.585 --> 12:33.344 She needed a woman’s body to create that 12:33.345 --> 12:35.625 A woman born in the divine clan of the Asura lineage 12:36.625 --> 12:38.225 That was your Leela 12:38.545 --> 12:42.225 Through Leela, Kanthi materialised that power 12:43.305 --> 12:48.985 That boy whom Kanthi spared from killing that day is me Sreedhar 12:51.185 --> 12:57.145 My life’s purpose is to destroy the power that killed my mother and my family 12:57.825 --> 13:01.145 And to burn that demon into ashes 13:04.625 --> 13:08.425 I have been waiting for ages for that 13:11.545 --> 13:15.425 For that I need your help, Rajan 13:22.265 --> 13:25.745 The stories you’ve heard are not just legends, Rajan 13:30.025 --> 13:32.385 You... You are just her slave 13:36.625 --> 13:39.665 Even after all this, if you still don’t understand... 13:40.905 --> 13:44.825 I understand everything now 13:47.665 --> 13:49.625 Then what is the solution now? 13:50.825 --> 13:52.625 There is only one solution 14:01.025 --> 14:04.345 Are you not the reason for all the problems in this village? 14:05.145 --> 14:14.945 Hey Leela, you’ve been making Rajan and Sreekuttan upset lately 14:18.825 --> 14:26.745 I don’t care about Rajan, but Sreekuttan... 14:27.345 --> 14:33.945 Even if you thought of hurting him... I will kill you 14:34.585 --> 14:39.384 Sreekuttan is my son. I will decide whether to cane him or scold him 14:39.385 --> 14:41.825 Who are you to question that? 14:43.225 --> 14:47.425 You are just an old woman; you even need someone’s help just to lie down 14:49.145 --> 14:55.345 Yeah, you are right. I am an old woman 14:56.585 --> 15:01.425 I might even need someone else’s help 15:02.145 --> 15:09.465 But I am powerful, and I am happy 15:13.385 --> 15:17.905 I don’t have the body to create a life 15:19.745 --> 15:24.345 But I still have the power to create one 15:27.545 --> 15:33.825 That was the only reason I needed you 15:35.345 --> 15:42.145 You are a strong woman who can match my power; you won’t break 15:42.905 --> 15:49.625 So, no matter what you say, I still like you 15:50.545 --> 15:51.185 Oh, Stop it 15:52.225 --> 15:54.985 Leela, Sreekuttan is my son 15:56.425 --> 16:00.424 My lineage... you are just a pawn in the process 16:00.425 --> 16:02.025 And Rajan... just a mule 16:04.025 --> 16:09.624 Don’t try to influence me like you did with Rajettan 16:09.625 --> 16:12.825 So, you know it 16:13.225 --> 16:20.545 But what else can that idiot do 16:24.625 --> 16:30.545 Who do you think brought you here in the first place 16:33.425 --> 16:38.185 Do you think Rajan brought you here by marrying you? 18:03.425 --> 18:05.105 Is there any truth in what your mother said? 18:09.105 --> 18:11.385 What did she say? Stop crying? 18:12.665 --> 18:16.345 She said that she asked you to marry me 18:17.345 --> 18:18.305 And that Sreekuttan is her son 18:19.825 --> 18:25.385 Leela, what’s wrong with you? That old woman keeps blurting out whatever comes to her mind 18:26.145 --> 18:26.585 Don’t you still understand that? 18:29.225 --> 18:33.545 Villagers say something, she says something else... I don’t understand anything anymore 18:45.745 --> 18:46.305 Don’t cry 18:47.465 --> 18:49.785 That’s why I had asked not to meet her alone 18:58.025 --> 19:06.425 Raja, you have only one solution; you must kill your own mother 20:43.665 --> 20:45.425 Is Sreekuttan my son or not? 20:48.145 --> 20:49.345 Why? Did Sreedhar not tell you anything? 20:52.225 --> 20:53.825 I need to hear it in your voice 20:54.345 --> 20:58.145 When you see Sreekuttan, do you see yourself in him? 20:59.625 --> 21:01.225 Or do you see me in him 21:06.625 --> 21:09.825 Were you the reason for the death of our first child? 21:11.025 --> 21:16.145 It was just a sacrifice to create a higher power 21:17.945 --> 21:19.225 So what? 21:20.825 --> 21:22.225 We have Sreekuttan now 21:25.625 --> 21:27.425 Be happy 21:28.105 --> 21:30.545 Whatever it is, Sreekuttan is at least a man 21:31.185 --> 21:32.985 Unlike you 22:04.025 --> 22:08.225 I have been living like a slave all this time for my mother 22:09.145 --> 22:10.865 I loved my mother that much 22:14.505 --> 22:16.025 But you... 22:27.945 --> 22:30.025 What did you do to my mother...