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(Ravan) <i>Since time immemorial,</i>

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<i>when evil rises to threaten
creation itself,</i>

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<i>Lord Vishnu descends
to the mortal realm.</i>

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<i>When</i> dharma <i>itself
hangs by a thread.</i>

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<i>Vishnu's</i> avatar <i>in human form
walked among mortals</i>

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<i>to face the darkness once again</i>

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<i>in the form of Prince Ram.</i>

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<i>But when Vishnu's</i> avatar
<i>takes mortal form,</i>

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<i>who protects the protector?</i>

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<i>Who is it who can transcend
time itself and protect gods.</i>

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<i>In the darkest of times,
when even Vishnu's</i> avatar

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<i>faces impossible odds,</i>

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<i>it is said that Lord Shiva himself
takes form.</i>

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<i>The Rudra</i> avatar <i>doesn't come
to overshadow.</i>

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<i>He just comes to aid
Vishnu's incarnation.</i>

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<i>To ensure the divine plan
unfolds as it must.</i>

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<i>For even the mightiest</i> avatar

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<i>may need its own guardian.</i>

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(theme song)

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(birds chirping)

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Father?

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(laughing)

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Father!

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Come, Akshaykumar. Let's go home.

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Akshay?

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Now, hurry along to your mother.
She's getting worried.

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Didn't she warn you
about climbing trees?

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It wasn't my idea! Meghanad said...

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Hmm.

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I'm sure he did. I shall have words
with your older brother.

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Now, hurry along.

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Thank you, my friend.

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(foreboding music)

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Your Majesty.

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I suppose I owe you something.

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Come, walk with me
while we discuss your reward.

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I need no reward, Your Majesty.

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Anyone in my place
would have done the same.

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You want nothing?

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What sort of <i>rakshas</i> are you?

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A king offers you a boon,
and you turn it down?

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A walk with Your Majesty
is far more valuable

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than any purse of gold.

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There are kings of the world
who would dream of such an audience.

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There are no kings of the world
but me.

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Go on then.

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What matter do you wish to discuss?

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Uh...

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Your youngest son,

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Akshaykumar.

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I see he wishes so hard
to please you

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to live up to your expectations.

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But he cannot.

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Careful, little <i>rakshas</i>.

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I just mean that he's different.
He has a peaceful joy to him.

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Encouraging that might let him
grow up without war and suffering.

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You wish to make him a warrior
but he... wants to be a poet.

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No matter how much you try,

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you cannot force the moon
to become the sun.

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Peaceful? Different?

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A <i>rakshas</i> grows stronger
and more terrifying each day.

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Like my other son, Meghanad.

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Soon he will join me as we wage war
on the <i>devas</i>

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and make Indra and his divine gods
fall to their knees.

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Akshaykumar's place is at my side
to claim such glories.

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He must prove himself
as a son of Ravan.

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And after you have conquered
the <i>devas</i>, then what?

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When does it end?

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It ends when the very sun
rises on my command,

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the very wind blows
only when I will it.

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For not even Agni,
the God of Fire himself,

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shall be able to burn
down my glorious Lanka.

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(scoffs and mumbles) Well,
Agni doesn't have a tail for that.

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My tail alone is sufficient.

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- What?
- Nothing, my Lord.

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But why must Akshay
fit into this plan?

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Akshay is of my blood.

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The blood of divine <i>rakshasas</i>.

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I will burn the poet from his heart
and forge the warrior.

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Ruling over the three <i>lokas</i>
with his father is his destiny.

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Hmm.

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Then I see there is no way
to save Akshaykumar

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to change the dark future
that awaits

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from your lust for absolute power.

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Not absolute.

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For there is one power
still greater than me.

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The one I serve...
For I am his greatest devotee,

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and soon he will smile down
from the heavens

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at all I have achieved
in his honour.

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Lord Shiva.

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Lord Shiva...

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(Nandi) <i>Awaken to who you really are,
Hanuman.</i>

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<i>Awaken.</i>

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(conch resonates)

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Now it is your turn to answer
my questions.

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(suspenseful music)

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(wind blowing)

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(thuds)

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(heavy breathing)

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From Lanka to this winter storm.

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Where am I now?

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In which time am I?

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(laughing)

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Hey!

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You there!

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Hey!

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Hey!

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(groans)

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I just want to know where I am...

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and in what time am I in?

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Is it the past, present or future?

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Hey! Hey there, friends!

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I could do with some...

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help?

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(drum beating)

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(flute playing)

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Huh?

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What have we got here?

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Never seen a <i>vaanar</i> here before.

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Wonder what it tastes like?

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I'm hungry, so why not take a bite?

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(conch resonating)

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You are followers
of the Lord of the Dance?

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(laughing)

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Followers? You hear that?

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Followers?

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No, we are more than mere followers
of the Great Trident-bearer.

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We are his most loyal,

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most dedicated,
most beloved servants.

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(laughing)

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<i>Ganas</i>. Great!

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Hmm.

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And what we are is <i>angry</i>.

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You have disturbed
our revelry and dance.

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Forgive me.

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All I want is to know
where I am

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and which time I am in.

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Oh, that I can help you with.

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You are not in the right place
at the right time.

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(groans)

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(thuds)

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And now you're about to
become breakfast.

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Ours too.

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Stop!

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I can tell you now
I won't make an easy meal.

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Why don't I bring you some fruit
from a tree on Mount Kailash,

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and we can talk...

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or not.

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Will you just stop it!

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That's enough!

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You're biting my leg!

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I wondered why
a <i>vaanar</i> tasted so bitter.

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I said...

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<i>enough</i>!

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(thudding)

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Give up!

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Giving us <i>ganas</i>
orders while on Kailash?

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Just you wait

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until we rip you limb from limb.

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We'll eat you raw. We'll...

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(Nandi) You're going to sit down
and shut up.

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(heavy footsteps approach)

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And let me talk to the <i>vaanar</i>.

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Yes, Lord Nandi.

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You are far from
your rightful place, Hanuman.

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Your voice, I heard it before.

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In Lanka, before I came here.

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Indeed. I called out to you
through time itself

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to guide you here.

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It seems I know you

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even better than you know yourself.

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Then do you know of my torment?

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That I am trapped

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far from my people, from my prince.

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Can you help me return
to where I belong? Where I am needed?

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That power already resides in you,
Hanuman.

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You just need to remember
how to use it.

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But how?

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I can't control it.
It controls me,

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hurling me through time,

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sweeping me from one place
to another like a leaf in a typhoon.

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I am merely stumbling through time.

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Stumble? Yes, but I can teach you
how not to stumble.

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I can teach you how to dance.

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Dance?

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I... I don't dance.

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(laughs)

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Oh, yes, you do. You are an aspect
of the greatest dancer in creation.

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Dance is in every part
of your being.

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Do you not remember?

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Let the <i>ganas</i> remind you
how it is done.

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(conch resounding)

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(Nandi) Dance, Hanuman.

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There is a rhythm to the universe.

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(damru drumming)

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Can you feel it?

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The heartbeat at the centre
of reality.

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Beyond time. Beyond space.

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(traditional music playing)

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These are the steps

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that will lead you to your destiny.
You must learn them well.

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As Ram is an <i>avatar</i> of the divine,

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so are you.

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The power to manipulate time

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belongs to only one.

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You are the Rudra <i>avatar</i>, Hanuman.

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A small part of the great
divine essence of Shiva,

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brought into this world

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to aid the Vishnu's <i>avatar</i>
on his quest.

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The Rudra <i>avatar</i> is one of the most
destructive force of Mahadev.

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And Mahadev is also Mahakaal,
the one who controls time itself.

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It's time to discover why you have
these powers, Hanuman.

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It's the next step in your destiny.

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At Ram's most critical moment,
you will need to stand with him,

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give him hope.

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A part of Shiva, a devotee of Ram.

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Take his fears away.

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(music continues)

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Lord Ram... I must go to him.

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Take me to his moment
of greatest despair.

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(whimsical chiming)

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(gasps)

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Hello?

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Who's there?

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Face me.

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(suspenseful music)

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Who's there?

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It's just me.

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My Lord...

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a devoted servant.

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I saw you alone and thought

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you may enjoy some company.

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Yes, please join me.

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(sighs) That's very kind of you.

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I've come a long way,
and these old bones of mine ache.

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But the journey is still remaining.

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Tell me of your journey, stranger.

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For it seems
I have one to take now as well.

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It will be a hard road.

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And I worry for my wife
and my brother

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who will join me in... exile.

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My road's been long and hard,
as well, my Lord.

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I have lost loved ones
but found others

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who have become close to my heart.

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Sometimes, I wish
I'd never left home,

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could have remained
as I was in a simpler time.

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But the journey has made me
what I am.

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Stronger,

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wiser, self-aware

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and for that I am grateful.

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Grateful? Despite the suffering
you have endured?

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(chuckles)

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Grateful because of the suffering.

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Suffering is not the enemy
of <i>dharma</i>.

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It is the forge
in our darkest moments.

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When all seems lost,

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that is when hope burns brightest.

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Your words ring of a deep truth.

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But...

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Hmm.

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When I was a boy, my mother told me.

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There was a terrible fight happening
inside me, between two wolves.

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<i>One is darkness and evil.</i>

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<i>Filled with anger, envy,
hatred, greed, sadness...</i>

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<i>and despair.</i>

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<i>The other is light and good.</i>

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<i>He is joy and peace,
love, happiness, kindness</i>

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<i>and hope.</i>

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<i>Every day they are fighting
inside of me. Inside all of us.</i>

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And which wolf wins?

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That's easy. The one you feed.

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Your mother was a wise woman
to tell you that story.

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Yes, she was.

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I shall not forget it.
Thank you, stranger.

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Uh.

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Perhaps our paths will cross again
somewhere.

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Yes... maybe in another time.

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You will meet your Hanuman again.

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Come on out.

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Guru.

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Did you already know
I was the Rudra <i>avatar</i>?

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Yes, but I did not know
how to help you.

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I am glad Nandi did.

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Usually, a Rudra avatar
is a force of terror

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and Shiva's wrathful power.

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But in you,

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it is something even greater.
A force of hope.

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But how did you know
I would be here?

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You and Ram are bound in a way

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that transcends time and space.

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Ram's exile is his darkest moment.

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He lost everything, even hope.

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I suspected, when I first met you,

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that you had come back
through time for a reason.

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This was it. The strength
you gave him now

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will guide him through
the darkest days ahead.

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Even I could not teach him this.
He needs you.

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(sighs)

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I saw Ravan in the past.

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Tried to persuade him to give up
on his obsession with power.

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Or at least free Akshay
from the burden

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of living up to him and Indrajit.

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But...

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Ravan's path cannot be changed,
Hanuman.

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Sadly neither could Akshaykumar's.

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Maybe he will find a peace
in the realm of death

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that he could not have in life.

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Wait! "The realm of death."

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That's it!
Vishwamitra, you're a genius!

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That much is certain.
But what do you mean?

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Mastering time as my Rudra <i>avatar</i>

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was not just to come back for Ram
at this moment.

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It was to make sure I can help
Vishnu's <i>avatar</i> to gain the weapon

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he needs to finally defeat Ravan
in the future.

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I had to master this power
to finally find Yama's death arrow.

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How so? What makes you think
Ravan will show you where it is now?

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(chuckles) Who said he is the one
going to show me?

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Then if not...

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Ah, yes, of course. I understand.

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(chuckles)

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Well done, Hanuman.

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(laughs)

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I'm going to get the death arrow
from Yama himself.

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I must travel beyond time itself
and visit the kingdom of the dead.

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Yamlok.

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(dramatic music rises)