- Appa? - Yeah?
- Give me money. - I don't have any.
I've been asking since yesterday.
If you keep nagging for money, where do I get it from?
You think I planted a money tree?
You're giving me money! Period!
Why dress up and loaf around?
You're done with college, right?
If you're lying to me and loafing around, I'll skin you alive.
Anyway, go prep for the Holi Pooje (ritual).
I didn't graduate college to perform your rituals.
I'm not going to live your life.
I'm moving to Bombay.
What did you say, Scoundrel? This is our family vocation!
If you want to leave, you'll have to do it over my dead body.
I'll live by my own rules.
If necessary, I won't hesitate to make that happen. Got it?
Man, will Punya agree?
Hey! Screw your father!
Bastard! Look how cocky he is!
Crooked fellow!
He’s a disgrace to his father!
One day he'll have it from me!
[ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES]
You're very prompt!
You don't worry.
Climb up after Sirsipete, go down, turn left and there's a massive mango tree.
Right next to that is my home, okay?
- You can come if you want. - Well.. Sure, Sir. I shall.
Sir, one cough and I get phlegm.
The more I keep it inside, the more infected I get.
Sir, this is all I ask for.
Please get me transferred out of here.
- This is about my family, Sir. - Come on. I got it.
I've told Sir about it.
If needed, I'll tell him again.
Okay? Don't get worked up now.
You wait here!
We'll do this and consider his suggestion.
- We'll do both. - Sir?
Sir, he's a poor man.
He's been requesting a lot for a transfer from here.
Okay.
- So, I got him to meet you. - Fine. Bring him here.
Poor guy.
Hey! Come here.
Sir, Namaste.
Tell me. Where are you from?
Sir, I'm from Mandya.
You guys eat have special meat meals, right?
Yes, Sir. We do. So, we don't mix it with booze.
I mean, we do drink.
But we just don't add it to the food.
You also prepare Mudde and Saaru with it, right?
Yes, Sir.
I'll come by. Get them prepared for us to taste.
Prepare all the items. I'll come by.
Well.. Okay.
- Sir, my trans... - It'll be done.
It'll be done. I'm with you.
I'll do everything necessary. Don't worry.
I've given you the money.
Swami Sharanam. [AYYAPPA CHANT]
Do you have an idea who came here last night?
To hell with her vow of silence.
We'll dig the trenches, so make sure they get crowbars, shovels and baskets.
Master, Namaskara.
We're digging the trenches for the downhill farm, right?
Let's halt the farm work for now.
Really? Why so?
For now, thorn hedge...
Put up a thorn hedge. Go on.
Okay, Master.
Thorn hedge for the downhill farm?
Vittala, hurry up.
- Take this. - Hey!
Why so many thorns? Won't it prick?
Do you plan to sleep on it, eh?
These are poisonous thorns.
With them around, no animal or human will be able to enter.
Yeah, right.
- Varada? - Yeah.
The guy who slapped you on that day?
That guy? I met him on the way.
I asked them what they were digging for.
He goes, "We're digging for treasure. Join us."
Ay! What treasure?
Get to work.
But, tell me this.
I felt very bad that he slapped you.
If I run into him drunk tonight,
I'll give him four good ones.
Don't piss me off now!
I'm in enough trouble already.
- Come on. - Get to work!
Bugging me!
If you see him, go for it!
He must never sleep with his head pointed at our village.
- Right, Varada? - Yeah sure.
Their research is going overboard.
Better to make them go away.
Let them do it, Master.
What's wrong in that?
What?
You don't think that's wrong?
This concerns my lineage’s identity.
I’ll do whatever it takes to protect that.
Ay!
Make preparations. We'll send them running!
And he thinks they’re not wrong?
They think the Kadambas’ lineage are ordinary peasants?
Are you digging holes to find rodents?
I asked you to get the right men and you got them?
They claimed there's an inscription below.
Looks like the village diggers are on it early in the morning.
- My my my! - Greetings, Master.
Greetings, Officer!
Hello to the kinsman. Where's your moron squad?
Heard you're digging for a treasure?
The news made it to me.
Get the bags! We'll fill it with the treasure!
Which knucklehead told you that?
All that digging and I couldn't find a piece of junk in your pitiful village.
And he talks about digging a treasure.
Apparently you told Siddhi that you're digging for a treasure.
That moron, eh?
"Are you digging for a treasure?", he asked.
I said, "Yeah sure. Come take your share."
Got your hooked already, huh?
But somehow a ray of suspicion seems to be glimmering in the hole, right man?
- Glimmering where? - In a hole.
Oh! Really?
How about you look in the hole and see if you can find my inscription?
We'll know where to dig. Come join us.
Hey! Hand the shovel and spade to him.
We'll give you your share, Sir.
What bloody suspicion are you talking about?!
Believe me I’d kick you senseless, but you’re older than me.
Oh, really?
Attitude written all over your face!
I'll deal with you! I will!
Thinks he can boss me in my village!
Continue digging!
Appa, I have a wish.
I wish to undo this hut and build a house with a tiled roof.
You know why? I'd been to the forest department's office.
It was so beautiful, you know?
I felt ashamed of our house.
I'm ashamed of myself after listening to your words.
Get lost!
Fine!
All he does is day dreaming!
[CYCLE BELL RINGS]
Ramu, watch where you're going!
Give that to me!
I’ll use this excuse to take leave for the Holi Pooje.
What will you do without me?
[RINGS BELL]
Swami?
We've found a relic of the Kadambas.
What am I, a god to be woken up with a bell?
Give it here.
No harm in thinking so.
- How do you find our research work? - Phenomenal, I must say!
To mark this discovery, please grant me two days leave for Holi?
Holidays make me sick!
You woke me up from deep slumber just to ask for leaves? Dumbo!
Won't even consider that you're under a vow...
Get lost! Go!
Argh! Oh no.
Swami, I'm sorry.
Man found a random priest's bell and thinks it belongs to the Kadambas.
How are you so stupid?
What animal was that? Bickering like that?
Not an animal. It was him.
- Don't laugh... - HEY! WATCH OUT!
My chariot! God! No!
Gone in the waters!
My chariot drowned! Oh no!
Why are you on the road ringing your bell like a temple priest?
Hey! Your Master must have sent you to bump me off!
Wait! Wasn't that you?
The one who went and told him that we're digging for a treasure?
To hell with your treasure! My chariot just drowned!
To hell with you!
Wait man! It just took a dip.
It'll be out after a nice scrubbing and bath.
If you keep messing with me like this...
If you don't get my bicycle out...
I'll cause a scene and gather all the villagers!
- I'm warning you! - Really?
- Yes! - Call them. We'll see
[STARTS SCREAMING]
Whoa! Calm down! Hey Phani!
- Get him his cycle. - Not possible, Swami.
I'm allergic to water.
Seeking revenge already, huh?
You'll have it from me soon.
- Sir? - Yeah?
Let's arrive at a deal.
Give me this spectacle.
We'll forget all about my cycle and everything else.
- Really? Kid! - Yes!
Your hair, your face and this specs are all of the same colour.
- This won't suit you! Stop it now! - Sir...
Phani, I'll sanction your..
Whoa! Dude sank in the tank?!
Swami!
I see some inscriptions down there, Sir.
Yeah? Bring it up.
If you find another stone just like that...
Can you read it?
'LAKSHMI RAHASYA' (Secret of fortune)
Hey! You!
Ask your man Varada to come to my office!
Oy! Come here!
- Take this. - Okay.
- Sit here. - Oh no, Sir.
- Oy! - No, Sir! - Just sit!
Just sit.
- Jaggery tea. - It's great, Sir.
Why did you ask me to come?
I'm planning to chuck my loyalty aside and make some money.
I need your help though.
Tell me what I should do, Sir.
Remember the inscription you brought?
What was in it?
Oy!
Sit down man.
Why, Sir?
I was working yesterday.
And found this inscription.
This inscription is somehow connected to the other one.
I did say something when I was drunk.
I can't recall it now.
Did your inscription read..?
'Lakshmi Rahasya'?
Yeah!
This also reads 'Lakshmi Rahasya'.
If you tell me what's in the other stone, I'll tell you what's in here.
Pavataarohana madhye labhyate pushkarani
Tana madhye labhyate Kadamba Vaksham
Tatra labhyate Lakshmi Rahasyam
- I didn't get a thing. - Parvatha, a hillock.
'While alighting the hillock, you'll find a lagoon
'In the middle of it, you shall find the Kadamba tree'
'After which, below the tree, you shall find the 'Secret of Fortune'
I got it, Sir.
- Sir. - Yeah?
This.. right here.
I know the location you're talking about.
I'd heard that Maarigudda had a treasure.
This right here is about the treasure.
Apparently, it was the Kadambas' fortress. Let's go.
- Hey! - What's wrong?
This isn't a two-men job. It's a king's treasure.
Greetings, Swami.
Come on in, Swami Sir.
You'd asked for a week's holiday, right Swami?
- Yes, Swami. - Take it, Swami.
- Your dinner? - Leave it there. I'll eat later, Swami.
- I'll see you, Swami. - Take care, Swami.
Sir, how many men do you need?
Three or four men including you.
- Only trustworthy people. - Sure.
Together, we'll find the treasure
If we find it...
We share it, half and half.
Okay.
What about my men?
Oh.
Give this fortune to your men.
Don't tell them about the other fortune.
A hundred. A thousand.
Okay then.
You're unbelievable.
You got me a job with the Master.
And now you're getting me a government job?
All thanks to you man.
Doesn't your thick skull get what I'm saying?
No need to come to the river to get the crab.
Two more months and the crabs in the river will land at our doorstep.
Tch! I mean money!
Have money, the world will be at your service.
- Are you coming or not? - The offer sounds great, right?
Damn!
You sure, right?
Why? Don't you trust me?
Do they pay advance amount for government jobs?
I said we'll do it only if they pay us in advance.
They did.
In the end, it shouldn't be like we've got no government job or job at the Master's house.
Nah. This one's for real.
- Sure? - Yeah.
- Hey! - Master?
Why are you running like your life depends on it?
Master, we got a government job.
Here's some of money I owe you.
The rest, I'll repay once I get my salary next month.
What's this new joke now?
You really think they could get government jobs?
It's not a joke. It's for real.
Varada has got us a job at the Archaeological department.
We won't be coming to work at your home.
Whoa! A labourers revolution in the forest!
Go on! Clap man!
Good luck with it! Let's see how long it'll go on.
You can ask Varada about it.
Man's acting up these days!
The mushroom born in winter...
won’t last till summer.
Let's go.
What the hell is this?
What the hell are you wearing, Varada?
- Don't you have any responsibility? - For what?!
A government job requires discipline.
- Man's looking all dirty. - Yeah!
What an idiot.
I was in a hurry.
Learn to be like us.
Dressed up like we're going to the Master's house.
- What is this rope for? - Got no responsibility.
Sir, Namaste.
Huh?
- Erm.. What? - Yeah. Let's go.
Take this. Hold the spade.
Shivarama, take the pickaxe.
Let's go.
- Looks like it's the same job here too. - Hurry.
Do you know the story of the Siddhis?
What a terrific story, I tell you!
Our people came here during the times of the Vascodagama.
We were not slaves. We were rulers.
Shush! Enough with the same story all the time.
- Sir, this is Maarigudda. - Okay.
Named after the Maarigallu (Goddess Maari's inscription) in the forest.
Watch your steps
Careful, huh?
There's a lot of history to this place.
Sir, back in the day, the banks had the walls of the fortress!
There was also a temple in the past.
You can see a broken statue of Basavanna there.
There's a lot of them.
This place was believed to be the Kadamba's fortress.
Their soldiers instilled the Maarigallu and performed rituals to it.
That was when.. Careful.
Goddess Maari came here.
Maaravva - Our Goddess!
Our Maaramma is like a child when she laughs.
Turns gruesome only when she's angry.
A lot of miracles take place here.
Filled with Maari's powers.
Since it's deep in the forest, we pray once a week.
Yes. [IN UNISON]
- Shall we go? - Yeah. This way.
- We go straight. - This way, Sir.
Oh God!
[OFFICER] Namaste, Sir!
Hey! Are you guys back to steal peacock feather?
Come on guys.
Our men didn't come to work today.
So, I've got them as replacements to help me.
Apparently, there's a fortress of the Kadambas around here?
Then how come we didn't get intimated about it?
Oh. Looks like my men forgot to submit the permission letter.
Don't worry. I'll get it sent, okay?
Sure.
Apparently there's a lagoon around here?
Lagoon? Is that like a langoor?
Oh. You've no idea then.
A lake. Where water gets collected.
Oh. Then I've got no clue.
I only joined recently. It could be around here.
You can go look for it.
- If you need any help, let us know. - Sure. We will.
- Let's go. - See you.
- Let's go. - Sir?
Why did you mention a langoor, Sir?
A lagoon man!
- Yeah. What's that? - A damn lake man!
- Just a lake? - Yes!
Sir, I can't believe you asked him.
I'm the king of this jungle. You should ask me.
He knows every nook and corner, Sir.
Sir, when I go out hunting with my father.
I wash my bum in that very lake, Sir.
- I mean it, Sir. - Damn you! Really?
Two hillocks across, we'll find a twin-lake.
- Will you show me? - Sure, Sir. Let's go.
This is the lake. The place is a bit strange.
- Sir? - Yeah?
We got past the first stage.
Where's the Kadamba tree?
For a Kadamba tree to stand five hundred years, you think it was made out of stone?
- Take it out.. the machine. - Oh yeah.
[EERIE NOISE]
What is that weird noise?
What's happening here?
What is that sound, Sir?
[EERIE NOISES]
God!
I'm hearing it for the first time.
Oh God!
Looks like it'll rain.
- WHOA! - Sir!
I told you this place is a bit strange.
Birds don't chirp like this for wind.
Looks like a tiger's here.
- Something weird is happening. - Shut up, Mongrel!
Sir, he knows nothing!
This is the spring birds' shrieks!
I know this! Is Goddess Maari here?
Let's run from here, Sir!
Please hurry up!
[INCOHERENT SOUNDS]
What is it?
Blood!
Let's go, Sir!
Looks like we're done for.