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[insects trilling]

[brakes screech]

[truck driver] Hey, there, are you okay?

PRABHU'S HOME

[somber music playing]

What's this? Who are you people?

Ji, I'm Nandan.

You are Parvathy madam's older son, isn't it?

What do you want?

Who are these people, Thatha?

How did you let them in at such a time?

What is this?

Sorry, brother.

They didn't have any more urns at the crematorium.

So madam had to be… brought in this jar.

[whispers] Shut up.

Is this some kind of joke or what? Amma.

-It is true, brother. -[Chiranjeevi] Amma!

Madam had to stay back at the colony near the jungle due the lockdown.

[Chiranjeevi] Amma!

And when the entire colony was infected by LHF,

-madam also got it. -[shushes angrily]

One more word from you and I'll break your bloody face!

-Sir-- -What bullshit is he talking, Thatha?

-What is he saying? Where is Amma? -Your amma betrayed me.

[emotional music playing]

Actually, it was my turn to leave,

but she left first.

[breath trembling]

No.

No.

She couldn't have left.

I…

No matter how late I returned, she always waits…

It can't happen.

No.

[crying]

[gasps]

[Nandan] Brother, madam was like a mother to all of us.

She was an angel.

Until her last breath,

She did everything she could.

She tried her best to save the poor Oraka tribals.

Poor, is it?

Orakas?

Because of those people, my amma is dead…

and you say they are poor?

[Nandan] No, that's not what I meant, brother.

What I meant was those people live, uh, peacefully in the jungle.

It's not their fault at all,

yet because of our disease, they are dying.

And the thousands that are dying over here,

tell me what is their fault?

Huh? No, you explain this to me.

Why are the lives of those Oraka people worth more than our lives, why?

No, brother, I didn't say that.

You did say that!

You said it!

Okay, I agree. I fully agree.

The Orakas are good people, we're the bad guys.

But does that mean our lives are worth nothing?

My amma's life… is also worth nothing?

[cries]

Didn't she just do good all through her life?

-She did, right? -Yes.

What did she get?

What did she get in return from those guys tell me?

[crying]

You guys…

You guys will save the Orakas from this disease? You guys?

[sniffles] Nothing is happening to them!

They drink the infected water, but nothing happens to them.

Those guys are totally fine. They know how to escape the disease.

They know what needs to be done. They just don't want to tell us.

Bloody cannibals!

They are the ones who are inferior to us.

But they are alive and we guys keep dying.

Brother, it's not like that at all. You're just in shock.

You'll be the one in shock, when you see the truth with your own eyes.

[breathing heavily]

[sniffles]

Wait… I will show all of you.

I will show the whole world now.

The true colors of the Oraka community, I will show you.

[theme music playing]

-[man] Mohanlal? -[Parvathy] No.

[man] Uh, Govinda?

[Parvathy] He's my favorite, but no.

Hey, Nagarjuna! That's a nice name, right?

Nagarjuna Prabhu, son of Unnikrishnan Prabhu. [laughs]

I'm not going to name my firstborn after some movie star.

And what's wrong with the name I suggested?

Vaishnavi, if it's a girl, Vinayak, if it's a boy.

Parvathy, we had decided, right? We're having just two.

You'll name the second one and I'll name the first.

Okay, do that. You still have seven-and-a-half months left.

Just don't pick a movie star's name, that's all.

-[brakes screech] -What happened?

[ominous music playing]

[man panting]

[in Oraka] Help.

[man wheezing and coughing]

Help.

[gripping percussive music playing]

[all panting]

Thula? Thula?

Thula?

[intriguing music playing]

Don't be scared.

They're here to help.

What happened?

Are you okay?

Please… [crying]

Please, save…

Save my child.

Please, save…

Save my child.

[Thula crying]

[birds chirping]

[ominous music playing]

[children chattering]

Rumpe!

Go home.

-But, Father-- -Take your brother with you!

[suspenseful music playing]

[panting]

[doctor 1 in English] You don't need to worry.

All the resources of the hospital are at your disposal.

[doctor 2] And keeping your condition in mind,

we'll run all the required tests.

[scanners beeping]

Okay, enough now.

Our most qualified doctors are with Mrs. Shaw at the moment.

That's all we can do for now.

Be honest, Doctor.

Can she beat LHF?

If you want to stay hopeful, then don't ask for my honesty.

[sighs]

[Ketan clicks tongue] What a tragedy.

And I wanted to bring her good news.

All your terms have been accepted.

Jenkins pipeline, ATTAVUS Project.

Nobody will investigate any of your operations anymore.

Now,

in six days the rescue ship

will be ready and waiting for us at Darwin's Bay.

But sadly… the one for whom we did all this…

can't come with us.

We can't leave.

We can't leave without her.

[pensive music playing]

Listen, Mr. Wani…

Right now, I too am feeling very emotional…

but we've made a deal.

Without Swasti, there is no deal.

But… but… but we won't get another chance, Mr. Wani.

With 5,000 people, I, you, and this girlfriend of yours can leave--

You don't get it, do you?

Swasti's medicine that you found on her, it wasn't prescribed for seasickness.

It was for her morning sickness.

Wait.

You mean, she is--

Pregnant.

She is pregnant with their first child.

[tense music playing]

Ketan sahib, our safe haven is Brandon Shaw's private property.

And if his pregnant wife is not fit enough to set a foot on that island,

then none of us will.

But this is madness, Mr. Wani.

Even you know that it… it's impossible to cure LHF.

So many doctors have tried so many experimental treatments,

but there is no hope.

Find a way.

Because if Swasti doesn't live,

then none of us will.

[music intensifies]

Thirteen tens are… 130.

[static over radio]

Oh, wow, Kaddu.

You taught me the 13 times table.

Divya Miss always says, "No nicknames in class."

So, right now I am, Miss Vidisha Savla. Okay?

-Okay. -Um, I'll just, uh, go out for a walk.

At this hour? Don't you think your evening walks are getting too many?

It's okay, Uncle. Anyway I have to stay up a little longer.

-But only 15 minutes. -[Parth] Okay.

-And don't cross the boundary. -Yeah.

-[radio knob clicking] -[radio crackling]

[Basu] How long are you going to keep trying?

He may not even contact you.

No, Uncle, he promised.

[mellow music playing]

And Veenu can be a little late, but he would never break his promise.

[Parth] Sundari.

[cat meowing]

Sundari.

Where are you?

[meowing]

Aww… Sundari.

-[thunder rumbling] -What did you think?

-[meows] -I'd forget to feed you tonight?

How could I?

[ominous music playing]

[groaning softly]

[grunting]

[gasping]

[sinister music playing]

[Santosh] Hello! Is anybody there?

Is anybody there?

I've got to go to Port Blair.

[screaming in pain]

[gasps]

[breathing heavily]

[whimpering]

[groaning]

[screaming]

[whimpering]

[grunting]

[breathing heavily]

[somber music playing]

[sighing]

[gripping music playing]

[grunts]

[Nandan] You brought me so deep into the jungle.

But at least tell me what you want me to do?

[Chiranjeevi] You can help a lot of people, Nandan.

But for that you first need to have trust,

not questions.

How did you know about this place, so deep in the jungle?

I'm a forest guard's son. It's my father's tower.

[evocative music playing]

[in Oraka] They are evil. Evil from beyond the sea… Evil.

[Parvathy in English] When will the police come?

Not until morning. They're not going to find a safer place in the jungle.

[speaking Oraka]

[Thula breathing heavily]

[in English] What's he saying?

That they… That they are going to take his life, Parvathy.

Who?

The guys who a few months earlier had raped this Oraka girl and left.

Probably poachers… who came from the mainland.

You mean this baby…

[Unnikrishnan] A few days ago, NGO workers heard them out

and lodged a police complaint.

Since then the poachers have been chasing them.

While escaping today, they got separated from their tribe.

[Thula moaning]

Just look at her state, she could deliver anytime now.

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] They've threatened these guys that if this baby is born,

they would burn the baby in front of the mother.

What? How can they do that?

[Parvathy sighs]

That's not happening.

I… I won't let it, I swear on my unborn baby.

So long as we are here,

your daughter and her baby won't be harmed at all.

I… I promise you.

[speaking Oraka]

[Parvathy in English] Promise. Hmm?

Brother, this is wrong, brother.

Please let the poor man go.

I told you, Nandan, they're not the ones who are poor, we are poor.

Our people are dying from the disease.

If they had revealed to us

how their people escaped the disease, our people would still be alive.

It could also be possible he doesn't know anything.

Really? Then why did they leave their colony and run away?

They went far away and hid from us because

they want all of us to die, that's it.

[breathing heavily]

Ask him.

Ask him in his language.

Why aren't they falling sick?

Come on.

Ask!

[indistinct chatter]

[scanners beeping]

The key for 138 please.

Oh, madam, there was this guy who came to meet you.

He took your keys and went to your room.

What? Are you new here? Mister attacks people he doesn't know.

[receptionist] Mister who?

[tense music playing]

[Ketan laughing]

Oh, hi! [chuckles]

So, if she dies,

all those hundreds of people from the island can't be evacuated?

Right.

That's why we need to save her.

Um…

But why me, sir?

[gentle music playing]

Since I met you at the hospital the other day,

I've been thinking about you.

About your treatment.

You were saying something about

a plant that could possibly cure this disease.

[sighs]

Yes, sir. But… I just couldn't find the plant.

And I'm very sure the Orakas know something or the other about it, but--

But who knows where the Orakas are right now.

Many NGOs, police, even forest officials, I've approached all of them.

But they all have bigger problems right now.

On my own, I compiled all the findings,

and I even narrowed down the unchecked parts of the forest

where the Orakas could be.

But to scour such a large area, I need a whole search party.

We.

We need a search party.

[Santosh grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[grim music playing]

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[sinister music paying]

[sighs]

[intense music playing]

[breathing heavily]

[grunts]

[sighs]

[sinister music playing]

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[hissing]

[gasps]

Sorry.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, no, no!

Don't come close! Stay back!

Back!

Stay back. Stay back. Stay back.

I will not harm you. I won't do anything.

I promise I'm not here to harm you.

[breath trembling]

[grunting]

[gripping music playing]

[straining]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[shuddering]

[screams]

[screaming in pain]

[beeping softly]

[Vinayak over radio] Sindhu? Sindhu?

Sindhu, are you there?

-Sindhu, Veenu here. -Veenu!

Yeah, Veenu, I'm right here. Are you there? Where are you?

Punishing me for making you wait for 17 years, are you?

Jyotsna, I'm trying everything I can to come to you, but…

[mellow music playing]

I'm sorry, yaar. It's because of me you're stuck over there.

Veenu…

I am not here because of you.

I'm here for you.

I promise you, Jyotsna, I will come.

And anyway I have to come there before evacuation.

You must've heard the emergency broadcast.

What? Evacuation?

Bhaiya?

Mummy, Papa will come to get us, na?

I'm feeling very scared.

Jyotsna Miss taught you, didn't she?

When you're scared, what do you do?

-[beeps] -[song playing]

[Jyotsna in Tamil] ♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whispering tree? ♪

[birds squawking]

♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whistling bee? ♪

[in Oraka] ♪ The words with wings ♪

♪ The river that sings ♪

♪ Are just a few things… ♪

Kamal? Ajit?

♪ …across space… ♪

[in English] Hey. Prabhu Deva!

-[in Oraka] ♪ …across time… ♪ -[shushes]

[in English] What is this song he's singing? What does it mean?

-This? -[Parvathy] Hmm.

This is the oldest folk song of the Orakas.

-Yeah? -[man humming]

They believe that this song can never die.

It can never die? A song?

The Orakas believe that this is the first ever song of the human race.

Generation after generation, people perished,

but this song always managed to find a way to stay alive.

It was sung centuries ago, and it will be sung centuries from now.

And that's why this song is immortal.

[man humming]

[Chiranjeevi] Spirits are upset?

[Nandan] That's what he replied when I asked him.

He said that the disease is spreading

because his ancestors' spirits are upset?

-What he said is what I said. -Are you drunk or what?

[breathing heavily]

-I know how to make this bugger talk. -Uh…

Uh… No, brother, please, don't do this.

Thousands of us have already died because of him, Nandan.

If he doesn't talk, millions more will die.

[Nandan grunts]

Tell me. Come on.

Why isn't the disease affecting you people? Huh?

What's so special about you people? Huh?

-Tell me! -Brother, no.

I was just 11

when my father tried to save your people by jumping into the forest fire himself.

Why did he give up his life?

What is so special about you people?

My amma, she did the same thing.

To save you people from the disease, why did she give up her life?

What is so special about you people?

What bloody spell did you cast on my poor parents?

Why was saving you people always so important for them? Why?

Why was I… Why was their own son

always less important for them than you people?

What is so special about you people?!

[breathing heavily]

[solemn music playing]

[cries]

[Nandan in Oraka] Are you okay?

The wounds on my body aren't as deep as the wounds on his soul.

[sobbing]

Tell him he already knows the answers to his questions.

He just has to look within.

[grim music playing]

[grunts softly]

[groans]

-[grunting] -[flies buzzing]

[breathing heavily]

[suspenseful music playing]

[grunting]

[retches]

[coughing]

[hisses]

[hisses]

[gasps]

[gripping music playing]

[gasping, grunting]

[yells]

-[yelling] -[rock thumping]

[panting]

[flies buzzing]

[squishes]

[rock thuds]

[grim music playing]

[Ketan in English] The first team will go south of Lathikata, the others, here.

They'll meet us at this check post.

There, we'll divide ourselves into three teams and cover these three areas.

Okay?

Finding the Oraka settlement is our topmost priority.

And…

And I want your complete focus on the job.

[car door closes]

-Hey, focus. -Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

We leave in two. Let's go.

-Dr. Gagra, I want-- -Sir.

Please, uh, not doctor, just Ritu.

[chuckles] Why? Aren't you a doctor, ma'am?

[sighs]

By degree, yes, but I don't know. Doctor is a very prestigious title.

Okay. [chuckles]

Ritu?

-[Ritu] Hmm. -[chuckles]

[Ketan] So, what I was saying is, Ritu…

No pressure, but the fate of the people lives is now in your hands.

[coughing]

Sundari.

[coughing] Sundari.

Stop playing hide-and-seek now, come on.

Sundari.

[ominous music playing]

[gasps]

[coughing]

[breathing heavily]

[fly buzzing]

[breath trembling]

[dramatic music playing]

Guchhu Bhaiya! Guchhu Bhaiya!

We are about to leave!

Stepping out in these conditions is very risky.

We have to take the risk, Uncle.

They broadcast said

all tourist families have to make their way to the evacuation site.

Who knows, maybe they might find their parents there.

-Anyway, we can't stay here-- -Guchhu Bhaiya!

What is this, Basu Uncle? Guchhu Bhaiya is refusing to talk to me.

Guchhu? Guchhu?

[Kaddu] Guchhu Bhaiya, wait!

[gripping music playing]

Hey, Guchhu Bhaiya, listen to me!

Hey, Guchhu Bhaiya, listen!

-Open the door, Guchhu Bhaiya. -I said stay away from me!

[Kaddu] Listen, but we're going to meet Mummy and Papa!

[excitedly] ♪ Tuduk-tuduk, tuduk-tudu ♪

Just go away from here!

Until you open the door, I'll keep on dancing outside like this.

♪ Tuduk, tuduk-tudu ♪

Didn't you hear what I said?! I said stay far away from me!

[Kaddu screams]

[breath trembling]

[crying]

[mask clatters]

[Parvathy humming softly]

[waves lapping]

[humming continues]

[Parvathy in Tamil] ♪ …are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time… ♪

[sinister music playing]

[shouting] Unni!

[Parvathy panting]

[in English] Unni! Oh, no!

-Get… get up. Thula… -[groans]

-Where is the girl? -They took her away, Parvathy.

I couldn't… I couldn't help her.

-I'll take you to the hospital. -No. No…

You go and call Appa, go.

Ask him to bring the police and the villagers here quickly.

-Huh, okay. -And, Parvathy,

she could deliver any minute now. [panting]

We don't have much time.

-Yeah. -So hurry up.

Okay.

[Nandan grunts softly]

Brother. Chiru brother.

[Chiranjeevi] Huh…

You were telling me that your friend got LHF, right?

You stayed with him for so many days, yet, you…

You weren't affected. Why?

-Because God kept you safe… -[yawns]

…for a good deed.

What are you saying?

What I'm saying is, his son is waiting for him.

So releasing him to go back to him is a good deed, isn't it?

You let him…

Uh, I let him go.

But I felt bad so I woke you up.

Chiru… Chiru brother.

[panting]

[gripping music playing]

[Santosh grunting]

[retching]

[gasps]

[panting]

[footsteps crunching]

Is anybody there?

Is somebody there?

I… I've fallen down here.

Papa. Papa!

[uplifting music playing]

Kaddu. Beta, is that you?

Guchhu Bhaiya, come quick.

[hesitates] Guchhu beta.

Get me come out of here, beta.

Get your papa out of here, beta.

[chuckles] Can't get anything right.

Mummy sent you here so you could look for us.

-And you're stuck down here. -[Kaddu] Papa, come on, please try.

Otherwise you will never be able to see us.

You won't be able to find us.

No, beta.

Please don't say that.

[crying]

[sputters] Don't say that. Don't say that.

I'll try. I promise you, I will try.

I promise. [crying]

I will try…

I'll try.

[breathing heavily]

[gripping music playing]

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

[gasping]

[whimpering]

[groaning]

[screaming in pain]

[gripping music continues]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[screaming in pain]

[grunting]

[crying]

I did it, Gargi.

I knew you would do it.

Come.

Come here.

[panting]

[crying]

Must be very tired, na?

It's all right. I'll give you a nice gooseberry oil massage, okay?

And you will sleep soundly.

Go to sleep.

[gentle music playing]

[door opens]

[solemn music playing]

WARNING

[tense music playing]

[policeman 1] Careful, the Lathikata Forest is quite dense.

[policeman 2] Watch your step.

-[grunts] -It's a bit slippery.

[Ketan] Ritu ji.

[Ketan laughs]

You're telling me

that right now, if a helicopter lands here in this jungle to take us back home,

then you would still in your… [sighs]

…sane mind, choose to be here?

-Hmm? [chuckles] -[sighs]

Sir, have you heard the name Forelius pusillus?

Huh?

Forelius pusillus. It's a Brazilian ant.

Brazilian ant, huh? Does it eat sugar and do the samba?

[both chuckle]

-Sir. -Huh?

-To escape the cold… -Hmm.

…these ants, they need to seal their colonies.

-Really? Hmm. -Every night.

-But they can't do it from the inside. -Then?

So one ant has to shut the door with sand from the outside.

And each night, that one ant dies in the cold outside.

[policeman 1] Go and check.

For thousands of ants to stay warm and safe at home,

that one poor ant never gets to return home.

[policeman 2] Found anything there?

[groans]

-What happened? -Ant.

[policeman 2] Check that spot.

-Killed it. -[policeman 3] Sir! Ketan sir!

Sir, the other sector's search team has found someone. Let's hurry.

Let's go. Go on, guys!

Ritu ji, after you.

But, sir, I'm a fully law-abiding citizen, sir.

I know it's illegal to roam in this reserve forest.

But the NGO sent me, sir.

Otherwise, I've never met any Oraka ever in my life, sir.

Sir.

[tense music playing]

Really? Then how do you have this with you?

This is my amma's, sir. She gave it to me long, long back.

You're lying to me?

-Why would I lie? It's my amma's. -Put him in the van.

Amma gave it to me, sir. Why are you putting me in the van?

Hey, that officer knows me, sir! Ketan sir!

Sir, Ketan sir! Ketan sir.

Let me go. He said hi to me, okay?

[coughing]

[sighs]

So what now?

The fever will go in a day or two.

You'll even feel a little better, but, uh…

After that I will die.

Right?

In a single flash,

gone.

When my granny died two years ago…

everyone said…

that she was now up in heaven.

But I knew they were just trying to pacify me…

[crying] …because that day,

the way Kaddu clung to her body and cried nonstop…

no matter where my granny was,

she would come back to pacify her, I'm sure.

Heaven, jannat, swarg.

There is nothing there.

[emotional music playing]

There is no happy ending.

[sighs]

[inhales sharply]

[exhales]

You know, my son Shouvik died 20 years ago.

But even today, when I think of him, he comes back…

He comes back to me in the form of tears or sometimes a smile.

I don't know what happens after one dies.

[sighs]

I… I don't even know if something like heaven exists or not.

All I know is that we don't cease to exist.

For the ones that love us, beta,

we continue to exist in their lives in some form or the other.

What you said was right.

There's no happy ending.

Just because

there is no ending.

[coughing]

Sir, I need to leave now.

Guchhu.

[sighs]

I just couldn't… watch my son Shouvik pass away.

That's why I was not beside him in his final moments.

I can't repeat the same mistake.

-[hesitates] No. No, sir. -[sighs]

This is dangerous.

If you come with me then maybe you too might get…

I have been alone for years, beta.

If I die now, by going with you, what difference will it make?

Come.

He had this with him. It's a symbol of Orakas.

Only those related to the Orakas by blood, have it.

I'm sure he must have stolen it.

[intriguing music playing]

Sir. Ketan sir, you know very well that I got into a police tangle

only once in my life.

Then I started the travel company. Now no more shady business.

Listen, we are here to ask the Orakas some very important questions.

Yeah.

So, if there's anything you know, spit it out now.

If I knew anything, 100% I would have come and told you myself.

After all, it's for my own benefit. We trust each other.

-Benefit? -We're both from Port Blair, na?

It's a nice design.

Thank you, sir.

That sir is still staring at me suspiciously.

-I said it's my amma's. You believe me-- -Yeah, he does not believe.

He says that this Oraka symbol is not given to outsiders.

Is that right?

They give this only to those people with whom they have

a relationship of blood.

Am I wrong?

[solemn music playing]

If you know something, you'll tell me?

For sure, right? Hmm?

-[chuckles] -Fuck off.

Thanks.

[wistful music playing]

NURSING HOME GYNECOLOGIST AND OBSTETRICIAN

[in Oraka] I just want to talk…

I just want to talk…

Stop!

[in English] Catch him!

[wistful music continues]

Tie him up!

[music intensifies]

[breathing heavily]

[in Oraka] ♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whispering tree? ♪

♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whistling bee? ♪

♪ The words with wings… ♪

[Parvathy in Tamil] ♪ The river that sings ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

[humming]

[mellow music playing]

[in English] Officers told Appa that those guys hit the baby's mother,

tried to burn her when she was giving birth to him.

But the baby didn't even get a scratch.

[chuckles]

Maybe the baby is immortal like their song. No one can destroy him.

[chuckles softly]

Why don't we call him Chiranjeevi in that case?

Yeah, well… Chiranjeevi it is.

[Parvathy] Here.

[Unnikrishnan] Our Chiru.

[Parvathy in Tamil] ♪ The cloud with rains ♪

♪ The moon that shines ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

[humming]

[theme music playing]

[in Oraka] Father…

Can we please stop?

No one stops till we reach the village. Keep walking!

Jaja!

[eerie music playing]

[flies buzzing]

Leave.

Cross the valley and never come back.

-But, Father-- -[tribals yell]

The infected animal has contaminated the water

and now it's inside you.

Nothing can be done now.

[somber music playing]

[breathing heavily]

[panting]

[breath trembling]

[shuddering]

[hiccups]

[dramatic music playing]

[thunder rumbling]

[music intensifies]

[hiccups]

[insects trilling]

[leaves rustling]

[birds chirping]

[water flowing]

[intriguing music playing]

The first… The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher of the illness has arrived!

The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher!

[all chanting] The first vanquisher! The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher! The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher! The first vanquisher!

The first vanquisher!

[knob clicking]

[Ritu] Sir, LK-37,

the peptide we were looking for, the Oraka system has it.

So, did he consume the plant recently?

Not he, sir, his ancestors did.

Sir, Orakas have consumed the plant for generations,

and they have developed an immunity against this disease.

-That would mean-- -Yes, sir.

The Orakas are not our guides to the cure.

They are the cure.

[theme music playing]

[static over radio]

So, what you mean to say is that the plant may be extinct,

but the pesticide is still present inside the Oraka?

Uh… Peptide, sir. Peptide.

Yeah, that's what I said.

So, does this mean that if we take out the, well, peptide from the Oraka

and put it into the patient--

Cisternal puncture, mass spectroscopy and intravenous infusion.

Uh, but, yeah, right.

So, will that save the patient?

We can't make any definite conclusions, but that's our theory.

[sighs] Hypothesis.

Then what are we waiting for? Why don't we do this right away?

Because this procedure is very risky.

From a region close to his brain, the CSF…

I… I mean, we will extract a fluid.

And Orakas are neither immunized

nor do they have pharmaceutical resistance.

This could be very dangerous for a man like him, sir.

[Bhowmik] Meaning?

Meaning, he… he could die, sir.

And what about us?

I hope we both won't be at risk by this procedure.

Both?

Are…

Are you pregnant?

I hope that's not an issue.

Uh, I don't think so.

I don't think we can tell the LG about this.

We all know about his love for the Orakas.

He will scrap this procedure, but not let any harm come to them.

But, sir, someone's life is at stake here.

Five thousand lives are at stake here, Dr. Mahajan.

If anything happens to Mrs. Shaw,

not a single person can get off this Kaala Paani.

And, Dr. Mahajan, your real problem is not the LG, okay?

Your real problem is that girl

who wants to do this procedure.

You had yourself said,

she informed the mainland at the wrong time,

then wasted resources in search of an extinct plant.

She has failed you every single time.

Do you really think…

Well, forget you, Doctor.

Does she think that she can do it?

I can't do it. How can I win when I don't have any good cards?

Well, this game is only played with cards, beta.

But it is won with your brain.

Would I take a break if my brain worked?

I'd study for the unit test.

That's tomorrow, right? Should I help you?

[chuckles softly]

Papa, you were a topper of economics,

mine's a DNA and Genetic Code test,

not GDP and production cost.

[chuckles] So you think that's hard?

DNA is just like baggage, beta,

that is like inheritance received from ancestors.

Sometimes good things come out of it, like good looks or a good physique.

[water pouring]

And at other times, you get diabetes or less height.

Really, what did you get from Grandpa?

[juice pouring]

Well…

I got a voice.

[pensive music playing]

His voice that still rings inside me saying,

"You are a born loser."

"You will always be inferior to others."

Why would he say that?

[sighs]

Well, it was generational conditioning.

He was a Dalit, but he swore by the caste system.

He used to feel that I too would stay inferior in society.

But I believed that the cards we get is never in our control,

but what we do with those cards is something we choose.

And I chose to

raise.

[groaning] Papa.

What? Your cards are worse compared to what I have.

-[laughs] -[horn honking]

[man] Kuldeep sahib!

-[honking continues] -Oh, Kuldeep!

Kuldeep sahib!

[bike engine idling]

[engine stops]

This is his house, right?

-What a weird guy. He's come here. -[Ritu] Who is it, Papa?

-[man] Kuldeep! -There's a 100-year-old tree on his land.

He's been told the Municipal Corporation cannot give permission to fell it.

-[man] Oh, Kuldeep! -But he just doesn't give up.

[man] Kuldeep sahib!

[tense music playing]

Don't say anything, all right?

I've explained to you that you will not get permission.

What are you doing? Stop making me run!

What do you mean? Why are you yelling?

Ay! Show me some respect!

You are being disrespectful. Harassing me at my house.

Listen, you! I'm calling you sahib, but remember your place.

-What do you mean? -I'll show you.

Papa.

[man] You got this job because of your caste, okay?

Else, like your ancestors, you'd be serving at our feet.

How dare you?

-That is your true place. -Papa.

-Papa, you all right? -[man] Let's go.

[engine starts]

Papa. Papa.

-[Parth] Papa! -[gasping] Guchhu.

[breathing heavily]

[indistinct chatter]

[groans]

[man 1] Wait, wait, wait, wait…

By Waheguru's grace you have recovered, but you still badly need to rest.

Where am I?

-[man 2 singing Punjabi hymn] -[devotional music playing]

[man 1] While looking for Oraka tribals,

forest officers had gone deep into the jungle.

Or no one would ever have found you.

These people?

There were so many LHF cases in the nearby hospitals

that they ran out of space for other patients.

Now, if Waheguru won't help the helpless,

then who will?

Really? Then why didn't he help me?

[crying] I called out to all the names of the gods that I knew, but…

[hopeful music playing]

-What's the matter, beta? -Uh, uh…

Ay, bhaiya, where did you find this bottle?

[Jyotsna] Basu Uncle!

Parth.

[door thuds, creaks]

Parth!

[somber music playing]

[crying]

[sniffles]

[somber music continues]

[engine starts]

Jyotsna Miss, why did Bhaiya and Mr. Basu leave long before we did?

Didn't I tell you, Kaddu,

that there are many like us who also want to leave?

They went a little earlier to secure seats for all of us.

Yeah. Mummy, Papa will also be there. The two of them, Bhaiya, me and you.

-We'll need five seats in all. -No, Kaddu.

I have to wait here to meet a friend of mine.

I won't be able to come with you,

but I will drop you to where your mummy and papa are. Okay?

[Kaddu] Okay.

There is someone who will be able to help us get there.

You used to ask

why she did so much for them.

What did your amma get from the Orakas?

She got you.

[pensive music playing]

When she got you,

your amma felt so indebted that throughout her entire life,

she kept serving them.

And you,

what did you do?

What did you do to them?

I made a mistake.

I made a terrible mistake, Thatha.

What…

What do I do now?

[cries]

[Chiranjeevi sobbing]

Stop stinging like the scorpion, be a frog and help someone.

[knock at door]

Chiru.

-[Kaddu] Jyotsna Miss-- -I need to talk to Aunty about something.

[Kaddu] Jyotsna Miss.

What is it, Kaddu? What is it?

[gentle music playing]

[siren wailing in distance]

So, uh, that means, uh,

in order to save Mrs. Shaw, we do not need any kind of plant?

Right, sir. Once we have consent, we can start the trials.

Uh, I don't understand.

The Chief Secretary has already given his permission,

the patient and doctors are both ready.

Whose consent do we need now?

[monitor beeping]

[Shashi] If we do carry out this procedure on you,

it could help many more people with a chance of survival.

However, uh…

[clears throat]

…your survival is almost impossible.

Therefore, think carefully before you answer.

[speaking Oraka]

[tense music playing]

[speaking harshly]

[in English] Brother, don't talk so harshly to him, please.

What did you say? You got a request from the Tribal Welfare,

that's why I let you stand here.

But don't teach me how to talk to this Oraka.

-Enmae. -What?

His name is Enmae.

Before you decide to claim a man's life, at least learn his name, brother.

[speaking Oraka]

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] He is ready.

What they believe is,

sacrificing their lives for someone is the best kind of death.

He is willing to help you, but only on one condition.

What is it?

[speaking Oraka]

[door opens]

[Nandan in English] He's saying, "Do whatever you like with me,

but you must make sure no harm should come to my tribe."

Don't worry. We have no reason to cause harm to the people of your tribe.

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] And you had no reason to bring back this disease either.

[Enmae speaking Oraka]

[in English] Didn't you even destroy our ancestors' homes and upset them?

[Ketan] Hang on.

What did he say?

Sir, he feels that this disease hit because his ancestors are angry with us.

No, not that. The last word that he spoke. Repeat that.

Attavous.

"Attavous." Atta-vus…

ATTAVUS.

She put her own life at risk to help me.

You can be assured that if your children are with her,

she'll take good care of them.

Did she tell you anything about her? Where she stays? Where I can find her?

She said she worked at the Holy Spirit Hospital.

Holy Spirit. Where is it?

It's in Port Blair, sir, and we're eight hours away in Diglipur.

Apart from emergency services, only people with permission can go.

That could take two to four days.

What did she say her name was?

Jyotsna Miss, when will Mummy, Papa come?

Did Uncle say anything?

Kaddu, as soon as I get to know anything, I will let you know, okay?

Until then, you keep drawing.

-What's that you're drawing? -Jalebi leaf.

Jalebi leaf?

It's there in this.

This is Basu Uncle's journal, right? Why did you bring this with you?

For Guchhu Bhaiya. He used to read it everyday.

When I'll give it to him, he'll be very surprised.

[Chiranjeevi] She doesn't know about her brother?

[somber music playing]

Nor about her mother.

[Chiranjeevi exhales]

[Jyotsna sighs]

Here.

This is what you wanted from Amma, right?

Here. Take the car and go.

You can leave tomorrow along with the kid, okay?

Thanks.

And if you speak to Veenu, don't tell him anything about Amma, please.

God knows where he is, how he is. It will break him.

And you?

What will you do now?

[cries]

[sighing] I don't know

[sniffles]

Someone else is paying the price for my mistake.

I just want to go to that Oraka and beg for his forgiveness with folded hands.

But I can't do it.

-[sighs] -And why not?

They're saying it's a secret or something.

He's admitted to the upper floor of the hospital.

Only doctors are allowed there, we common people can't see him.

A nurse?

Will a nurse be allowed there?

This pregnancy will be an added complication for us.

So, please finish all the required tests and checkups by tonight.

Tomorrow morning, we start with the procedure, okay?

-[doctor 1] Sir. -[doctor 2] All right.

[Shashi] Dr. Vasi, Ritu.

[pensive music playing]

Ritu, Dr. Vasi and I can handle the cisternal puncture,

but peptide sequencing expertise is something only you have here.

You're sure you'll be able to oversee it?

Yeah. Yes, sir.

You have done this before, right?

Uh, yes, sir. Many times.

But back then, so many lives were not depending on it.

Dr. Mahajan, I'm so sorry, but Mrs. Shaw… Mrs. Shaw just…

[hiccupping]

[monitor beeping]

Wasn't there some time before I went into LHF, stage two.

Will this affect my child?

Uh…

Um, Mrs. Shaw,

Dr. Swaroop here is one of the best gynacs we have,

and she'll be with you all the time.

[tense music playing]

[door opens]

You guys know what this means, right?

She has only a few hours left.

We can't wait till tomorrow.

If we have to save the mother and the child, it has to be done tonight.

Ritu.

The most difficult and the most important part of this procedure is yours.

Can you do this by midnight?

[hesitates] I… I don't know, sir.

I can…

-I can try. -[Shashi] You have to be sure, Ritu.

Are you sure?

No, I'm not sure.

Why would I call you had I been sure?

Kuldeep, I'm sorry, you cannot file a complaint.

It hasn't even been three months since you became department head.

How will it look, huh?

Such a senior officer cannot even handle an ordinary man?

So, what do you want?

I let him be?

He abused me, yaar.

-He made a casteist remark at me. -[man] Yeah, so?

So what, Kuldeep?

[pensive music playing]

Look, Kuldeep, you and I have been hearing such remarks since we were kids.

And we'll always keep hearing them, forever.

The only difference is the position that you have reached today,

no one in your family has ever reached that position.

Today, people know you, regard you, they respect you.

They can all see the name you've built for yourself.

But if you take on such a small-time ordinary guy even today,

then all they'll see ever again

is your surname.

[sighs]

So, my father was right.

It's my surname that will decide my fate.

It will never make a difference as to what I think is right!

[man] Kuldeep.

No, I don't…

I don't think…

I don't think I can do it, sir.

What?

Sir, she's in the final stage now.

In this condition, for me,

it'll be impossible to save both her child and her.

If what I'm saying is wrong, please correct me.

Brother.

Oh, sorry. Sir.

"You people destroyed our ancestors' homes and disturbed their peace."

"Which is why their spirits were enraged and they brought back this disease."

Is that right?

Sir, this is what he keeps saying all the time.

"Attavous" means ancestors' home.

[intriguing music playing]

These Orakas, uh, they bury their dead, don't they?

What are their graveyards like?

Sir, actually, they…

After they bury, they scatter seeds over the soil.

Then years later, trees grow in that place,

and that land becomes part of the jungle.

So that's why it's hard to locate their graveyards.

Is it possible that Jenkins Island has one of their graveyards?

[Nandan] Definitely, sir.

Before the British arrived, only Orakas lived in Jenkins.

The administration created a bio park there

to protect their jungles.

If they had a graveyard there,

it should be near the Jenkins Biological Park.

-Jenkins Biological Park. -[Nandan] Yes, sir.

The plant that Ritu ma'am was looking for, what was the name?

-Andamani Echinacea. -Right.

-Shouldn't that have been found there? -It should have, but it wasn't.

Inform the Coast Guard.

Tell them today the SDPO will go to Jenkins.

Sir.

Good.

-[guard] Your full name? -[Jyotsna] Jyotsna Dey.

-[guard] Age? -[Jyotsna] Twenty-seven.

Okay, you can go. I'll make a note of it.

Please get me the other register.

That lady is my mom's friend. Ghosh Aunty. She works right here.

She can help me meet the doctor assigned,

but for not more than two minutes.

As soon as I know anything, I'll tell you.

[monitor beeping]

[medical apparatus clanking]

Sir, there's someone outside to see you.

Sir, just once, please. Let me meet him just once.

Listen, uh…

-Chiranjeevi, sir. -Chiranjeevi.

The procedure has almost started.

Which is why you cannot meet Enmae. I'm really sorry. Sorry.

But, sir…

Sir, because of me, will he…

Is he going to die?

[sighs] Look, it's the procedure.

It's not your fault at all.

It's not my fault?

It's totally my… It is totally my fault, sir.

I caught him and brought him here, sir.

He was living his life happily with his people,

but I snatched him and his life, sir.

-[crying] I… I have murdered him, sir. -Chiru…

I have murdered him.

[sobbing]

[Shashi] The CSF that we're going to extract from him,

there's a possibility it can cure this disease.

[sobbing]

And I know listening to this will not lessen your grief,

but his death will not go in vain.

[Chiranjeevi crying] No, no.

Uh, please take him away.

[Chiranjeevi] I murdered him.

And make sure you keep your mask on in the hospital, please.

[Jyotsna sniffling]

Come.

Sir! Sir, I don't… I don't require a mask.

This disease doesn't affect me, sir.

-What? -Yes, sir.

Actually, my…

My biological mother was an Oraka.

Just like Enmae, I won't get this disease.

Why don't you… Why don't you test me also, sir?

Whatever you're looking for inside him, you'll find inside me.

You can take whatever you want from inside me, sir. Just let him go.

Let him go, sir.

Chiru… Chiru, do you even realize what you're saying?

-It's dangerous. You could lose your life. -Let it be. Let me die.

When I meet my amma in heaven, at least she'll be able to say that,

"Yes, you did a good job. You're my good son."

Or else, what will she say?

My poor amma, she could die for the Orakas, but I…

Why can't I die, sir?

[solemn music playing]

Please, sir.

Please admit me, sir.

-I can test you. -Please.

But… please think about it.

No more thinking, sir.

To save someone else's life, you're going to give up your own.

Sir, I…

All my life, I've only been taking and taking from everyone, sir.

From my amma, from my brother, from my friend, from my tourist,

I've only taken, taken.

I've never given anything back.

Sir, please, this is my only chance to give something, sir. Let me do it.

[crying] Let me give it, sir.

Please, sir.

Please, sir. Please, sir, please. Sir…

-Let's go. -[Santosh] Bhaiya!

Dhanmeet ji wants you upstairs.

-[man 1] Dhanmeet ji? -Yes. Over there.

[man 1] But for what?

-About some payment? -[man 2] About payment?

But, uh, we weren't told anything.

[suspenseful music playing]

[engine starts]

-[man 1] Hey! What are you doing? -[man 2] What are you doing?

-How can you take the vehicle? -Hey!

-[man 1] Stop! -[man 2] Where are you going?

[man 1] Let's go! Come on!

-Where are you going? -[man 2] Stop the vehicle!

[both] Hey!

[man 1] Stop!

[gripping music playing]

[man wheezing and coughing]

[brakes squeal]

[tense music playing]

[breathing heavily]

I have to reach Diglipur Hospital, beta.

[sighs]

[Santosh] Uncle, I have a really long way to go.

Please forgive me, if you can.

[engine starts]

[dramatic music playing]

How dare you?!

How can you even suggest something like that?

Ma'am, right now the LHF bacteria

is spreading to your lungs, kidneys and liver.

The meds to stop your organ failure

can't be given to you owing to your pregnancy.

And if we don't administer those drugs soon,

then… then you will die.

Then let me die! Nothing should happen to my child, okay?

And…

What exactly should happen to the other children here?

Ma'am, our people have made it very clear that if anything happens to you,

then no one will leave this island.

Thousands of families and their kids will probably not get another chance

to escape from here.

-Uh, but you can get that, ma'am. -No.

[hiccups]

[breathing heavily]

I won't get it either.

This is my last chance to…

It… [hiccups]

…took 12 years for me to get pregnant.

[somber music playing]

[crying] And I…

I can't let it just go like that.

I… I can't let it go.

But, ma'am, the truth is that… your baby won't make it.

Either we terminate the pregnancy now

or it dies… with you.

I dream of him, you know?

[sniffles]

I can see him clearly.

And he has my eyes.

Every time,

each time I see him, he… he smiles at me.

[sobbing]

I won't be able to see him again.

Please, can I have this baby?

Sorry, ma'am, we're running out of time. You have to make a decision now.

You know what you're doing, right?

For thousands of strangers, you're asking a mother to kill her child.

It's not right.

Ma'am, I know.

[sobbing]

I know what I'm asking you to do is not a good thing.

But it is the right thing.

[Swasti sniffles]

[bawling]

[melancholic music playing]

[policeman] Stop the car.

Stop the car.

[tense music playing]

[brakes squeal]

[engine stops]

-Pass? -Salaam, sir.

-[policeman] Srikant Mondal? -Yes, sir.

Why is there no photo attached?

Uh, there was a photo, sir. Maybe it just came off.

[inspector over radio] Veera? Veera, any update?

Yes, sir. Yes, yes. I think we found him.

[inspector] Okay, do what you have to do.

Get down.

[grunts softly]

Okay. So tell me the truth. Who are you and where're you headed?

I'm telling the truth, sir. I'm an ambulance driver

and I'm… going to Holy Spirit Hospital, sir.

Holy Spirit Hospital, huh?

Hospital, huh?

Holy Spirit Hospital?

Back at Sanjeevani, there are two families waiting since the past three hours,

along with their dead bodies, huh?

And for your own dirty business, you're going to Holy Spirit.

-No, sir. No sir-- -Huh?

-Hey! Take him and lock him up! -No, no, no, no, no! No, sir! No, sir!

[sputtering] I will come.

Wherever you want me to come, I will come.

Come. Move.

[Nandan] But, sir, the Oraka graveyard won't be on such barren land.

I have no idea what we are doing here.

If you had an idea, you would be the SDPO, brother.

This is the place, sir.

Echinacea plants were last seen in this very place.

No, sir. Had they been seen, they would be here.

You can't touch the vegetation around here.

This is an environmental buffer zone.

[policeman] Sir! Sir! We found a ditch here.

Come on.

[suspenseful music playing]

Sir, there's something here.

Take a look, sir.

-Parvez. -Sir.

Collect all the soil samples here quickly.

Not just top soil, about four to five-foot deep.

And send the samples to the lab. Quickly.

But, sir, what are we checking here?

Not checking. We need to confirm.

That this is the place.

This is the ground zero of LHF-27.

[music intensifies]

[vehicle approaching]

[brakes squeal]

[Basu] Are you people insane?

Where the hell were you?

Sir, this ambulance driver was going somewhere else.

-I had to bring him here. -[Basu] Hello, hello.

Hello, I'm talking to you.

Show some respect for the dead, at least.

Getting here was difficult, sir.

But now that I've come, I'll take them away.

-Here. -Hmm?

Don't you need a copy of the death certificate?

New on the job?

No, sir. Yeah, sure. Give it to me.

[Veera] Load them in the vehicle.

-Who is this? -He was my father.

-Okay. You carry on. I will handle this. -[man] Okay.

Who was your family member?

[Basu] He was not family, but was like family.

Poor boy was just 16.

[Veera] He had no family?

[Basu] No, just a younger sister besides him,

but we didn't tell her about it yet.

By now, she must have reached the evacuation center.

[Veera] And parents?

[Basu] They were stuck on Neil Island.

But thank God, at least, they'll get to meet their daughter.

[suspenseful music playing]

[breathing heavily]

[gasps]

[crying]

[Veera] Okay. Come on, guys!

[breath trembling]

Come on. Hurry up.

Lift it carefully.

[thunder rumbling in distance]

Come on.

[melancholic music playing]

[sobbing]

[wailing and grunting]

[crying] Please forgive me. Forgive me, beta.

[Veera] Hey! Come on out! What the hell are you doing in there?

[grunts]

What happened? What were you doing in there?

Nothing, sir. Just adjusting it.

Come on. Off to the crematorium. Quickly!

Listen… [clears throat]

Keep this with you.

I cannot accompany you,

but please conduct his last rites as if he were your own.

[melancholic music playing]

Please take good care of Guchhu.

Parth.

Parth.

-[ambulance door closes] -[engine starts]

[Ritu breathing heavily]

-[clicks tongue, sighs] -[water trickling]

[sighs]

[tense music builds up]

[sinister music playing]

[heartbeat thumping]

[imperceptible]

[whirring]

[whirring]

[bubbling]

[music intensifies]

-[music fades] -[heartbeat thumping]

[water trickling]

Ritu, Mrs. Shaw is losing consciousness.

Her BP is not stabilizing.

Dr. Mahajan needs you.

[slurps]

[sighs]

Papa, what is it? Are you okay?

Well, he… cut that tree, beta.

[somber music playing]

To take revenge on me…

[breath trembling]

…he cut down that 100-year-old tree.

He said,

"You… couldn't even complain against me."

"How can you take action?"

Papa.

Sir.

[monitor beeping]

-[Shashi] She just had a seizure. -[Ritu] What?

How can she have a seizure?

[Shashi] The fever's rising.

Her heart rate is dropping, and now this seizure.

We have to stop.

Was it a seizure or convulsion?

What? I think I know the difference!

But, sir, she's supposed to.

If the AMPs are spreading in her system, then she's supposed to have convulsions.

Sir, I… I think she will stabilize for sure.

We just need to stay put.

[Vasi] Ritu.

[somber music playing]

Papa… all will be fine.

Nothing will be fine, beta.

All will stay the same.

No, Papa, don't think like that.

[crying] Neither your grandpa could make it,

nor could I,

nor will you make it.

What is point of all this education?

Throw these books in garbage.

Papa. Papa! No, Papa!

[Vasi] He's having painful headaches. He vomited twice.

We were about to give subfalcine--

No, sir, this procedure can't cause a midline shift.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

[screaming]

Extreme sensitivity to light. Uh, who's the on-duty anesthesiologist?

Dr. Burman.

Call him and ask him to check for a CSF leak. He'll know what to do. Go!

I'll be right back.

Papa!

Papa.

-Papa, no! Please leave my books alone. -Leave me.

-[Ritu crying] -Chemistry! This Bio!

[crying] Papa, please.

Huh?

Papa, no. Papa, please.

You'll become a scientist?

-You'll become a doctor? -Papa, please.

Do as many PhDs as you want,

but nobody will ever read the "Doctor" attached to your name!

Papa, please. No.

All they'll ever read is the surname attached to your name!

[crying] No, Papa.

You won't be able to achieve anything just like me.

[sobbing]

[monitor beeping rapidly]

Ritu, it's getting worse. Should we call it off?

Sir, trust me, she will stabilize.

Her heart rate is nearing 150. We must do something.

[Kuldeep] Didn't I do it too?

All the injustice that I faced, I just passed it on to you.

[solemn music playing]

Now at each tough moment, you too will hear the same voice

that I kept hearing.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

Antipyretics. We just give her some antipyretics.

That's it? That's all we do? Are you sure about this?

Don't listen… Don't listen to that voice.

Whatever you achieve will be decided by your training and your efforts alone,

not by your family.

So, always have faith in yourself, beta.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

I'm sure, sir. Very sure.

And I take full responsibility of it.

Your ancestors' burden is not for you to bear.

You have to become what you want to be.

[both crying]

[door closes]

[breathing heavily]

[sighs]

[door opens]

[door closes]

Mrs. Shaw is stable now.

[sighs in relief]

And so is Chiranjeevi.

Congratulations, Dr. Gagra.

Now you have a theory.

[chuckles softly]

Yeah.

[solemn music playing]

[crying]

[sobbing]

[Jyotsna] Are you okay?

But that means you found the cure to LHF.

But at what cost?

And anyway,

the plant we needed for a long-term sustainable treatment

is probably extinct by now.

[intriguing music playing]

This plant?

Yes.

Echinacea, that's the plant.

Then let me tell you,

this plant is not extinct yet.

[dramatic music playing]

[theme music playing]

[insects trilling]

[gripping music playing]

[in Oraka] The city people… [panting]

The city people… They unleashed the curse.

-[thuds] -Look.

[tense music playing]

We must intervene,

otherwise the infected water will reach the city people and they'll die.

We must break the water pipe tonight.

-And then warn the city people. -We cannot do that, Enmae.

Once they know about the illness,

they'll soon discover that we're safe from it.

And that would put us in danger.

Then… Then we move.

After breaking the water pipe,

we find a new shelter where they can never find us.

And what if they do?

First they came for our trees,

then they came for our land

and soon they'll come for our bodies.

What will we do then?

[tense music builds up]

[music fades]

[in English] You mean… all four of them?

Yes, sir.

After Mrs. Shaw, I used the AMP reserve on four other critical patients.

And all four of them survived.

Sir, LK-37 is much more powerful than we anticipated.

Even in trace amounts. It is very effective against the bacteria.

With just this one sample, we can end up saving dozens of lives.

[SP Shiva] What?

If that half-blood Oraka's sample can save so many lives,

imagine how many can be saved with the whole Oraka population?

[tense music playing]

What?

[hesitates] Sir…

Sir, the donor barely survived.

If we do this to the 400 Orakas,

you can't imagine the number of people who will die.

They are already dying, Doctor.

Thousands have died. Now, millions more may die.

That's why we are evacuating them, sir.

The first batch leaves Darwin's Bay for Huxley today.

Evacuation cannot help the infected, Doctor.

For that, we need a cure.

And we have one now. Sir…

We should find their colony and talk to the Orakas.

They're nature-loving, non-violent, sir. I'm very confident that they will agree.

[Shashi] What if they don't?

If they don't want to endanger their lives

and the lives of their children for our sake, then?

-Then we leave them no choice. -Careful! Careful, Shiva.

Before you say another word, be very careful.

Well, sir, he is saying exactly what we are thinking.

We can prevent the deaths of thousands of people, sir.

But we have to risk the lives of 400 people.

[sighs]

You have to decide, sir.

Will you

flip the switch?

[music intensifies]

[theme music playing]

Are you sure the Japanese doctor's journal really mentioned Andamani Echinacea?

Uh, not sure of the name, but those leaves are hard to miss.

There was a map where two islands on which the plant is available were marked.

Two?

[intriguing music playing]

That means, this plant exists not in Jenkins alone.

Jyotsna…

Jyotsna, if we find that plant, then I'm sure, in a few weeks,

a risk-free, sustainable treatment can be developed.

And we could even…

End this epidemic.

I've got to go to that island soon. How soon can you get me that journal?

Uh, I have to take a child to the evacuation site first.

Once she's taken care of,

I'll bring the journal to wherever you ask me to.

Okay. Come with me.

The nearest beach from here is Colinpur.

You go get the journal, and we'll leave from there.

Sorry, but I think I need to stay back.

Years ago, I lost something precious,

and today I'm finally going to get it back.

But don't worry.

I know someone who'll be of great help to you to take off from there.

-I'll ask him to meet us there. -Okay.

Just wait here.

Take this satellite radio.

If there's any problem, you can reach me at any time.

Oh, and… I know that passengers will be screened

for evacuation at a nearby school.

Nirmala International. I know.

I know it very well.

[school bell ringing]

[teacher] Okay.

So what is Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution?

Who knows the answer?

-Survival of the fittest. -Correct, Jyotsna.

The most fit. Who is the fittest?

Those, who through hardships, pain, and sometimes even luck,

-are able to adapt to themselves-- -Ma'am, may I come in?

But some lifeforms that never change, their downfall definitely happens.

Just like in our class we have…

[students] Vinayak Prabhu!

[teacher] How can you be late every day, Vinayak?

Sorry, Ma'am.

-My cycle-- -Okay, okay. Get in, quickly.

Okay.

-Let us… -You're late again.

I had gone to the bakery to get patties for you.

Fresh and hot.

You could've gone after school.

-Who likes cool patties? -[driver] Vinayak bhai!

Oh, Vinayak bhai!

[knocks on vehicle]

We've reached. I've got to go the other way from here.

-Thank you for the lift. -Take this.

Will you be able to walk in this state?

There's a clinic on our way, should I drop you there?

I have an important appointment. And this time, I don't want to be late.

-Okay then. Let's go. -[engine starts]

[tense music playing]

-[scanner beeps] -[spray hisses]

[wind chimes tinkling]

[chuckles] Hey, Ketan sahib.

Today's your release from Kaala Paani.

You should be busy packing, what the hell are you doing here?

I've come here to tell you that my father was right.

It's really important to read newspapers.

During my Civil preparation, I would read six newspapers a day.

In a little corner in one of those newspapers,

I had read an article one day.

-[sighs] -Today, in a public library,

after eight hours of effort with four officers,

I finally found it again.

[pensive music playing]

Atta-vous, Mr. Wani.

Attavous.

It's an Oraka term for graveyard.

For centuries, when anyone died of LHF,

the Orakas would bury their body in one particular graveyard.

What the British once called Bogart Hill

has now become Jenkins Bio Park today, right?

[tense music playing]

Lab reports confirm that the soil there is teeming with this bacteria.

But after burying the bodies, the Orakas did one more thing on their land.

They sowed the seeds of a plant which they believed was nature's own antibiotic.

Andamani Echinacea.

[pensive music playing]

And centuries later, some people chose that very same land

for their own project.

Not only did they remove those plants from there,

but the also dug up the ground and brought the monster to life.

The LHF bacteria.

That used the rain to make its way to the lake

and then the pipeline to reach our homes.

But, Mr. Wani,

you had an idea about all this right from the start. Didn't you?

So, you've come here to accuse us.

No, no, sir.

I'm only here to know the truth.

The truth, and you?

Really, Ketan sahib?

Incidentally, the responsibility of informing you about the truth

is not mine.

Correct.

Why would you inform me, huh?

Just pray that no one else asks you this very same question in the future.

What were you all doing there?

What was the ATTAVUS Project?

[Wani] We wanted Brandon to inaugurate the Jenkins pipeline himself.

But ATOM's CEO is a very busy man.

And the nearest airport to Jenkins is hours away at Port Blair.

[drink pouring]

So we had to find a solution.

[bottle thuds]

And in Jenkins itself.

[pensive music playing]

A helipad?

A helipad on the banks of Jenkins Lake,

with the sun setting in the background.

When Brandon would alight the helicopter,

it would've made for a perfect photo op.

[chuckles softly]

We had planned to hold the biggest publicity event till date.

But he never came.

Mm-mm.

He sent Swasti in his place, and then,

we had to abandon the entire project midway.

No.

[sighs]

All this nonsense…

[scoffs]

…just to land a bloody helicopter?

Sorry to disappoint you, Ketan sahib, but there is no sinister plan.

It was just a human error.

And we never thought it'll lead to such a catastrophe.

But you very well knew that the land was in an environmental buffer zone.

Despite having thousands of acres of land,

why the hell did you occupy that one acre of land?

Because we could.

We could do it and we did it.

Every second day you get to hear

that the plastic in the ocean is killing so many dolphins, so many turtles.

What exactly do you think?

That those who throw plastic on the beach want to kill those creatures? No!

They do it because they can do it. That's it!

And what environmental buffer zone are you talking about, Ketan sahib?

The place you're standing in now was a dense jungle some years ago.

Every major city of the world was built by chopping forests, Ketan sahib.

And they were built by people like us.

But… I could blame this whole damn thing on you too, Ketan sahib.

Had you not proved Dr. Singh wrong,

then this disease would never have reached our homes.

But, no, you worked in your best interest like we did.

And none of that makes us evil, it just makes us…

Makes us… human!

And I'm very sure, Ketan sahib,

that you'll continue to work like this in your best interest.

[tense music playing]

The ATTAVUS Project details will not leave this room because

your ticket to get out of this place is in my hands.

And trust me, Ketan sahib, I can cancel it whenever I want to.

[Rajbir] Sir, they are here.

-Show them to the office. -Okay.

[Nandan] Chiru.

Look, who's come to see you.

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] He says, "Thank you." Says, it's only because of you,

he'll be able to meet his son again someday.

[inhales deeply]

Not someday, today itself.

[contemplative music playing]

I separated a father from his children.

Life has given me a second chance.

I will reunite him with his children

today itself.

[Shashi] With the recent developments,

our researchers will not only need new resources,

but also a safe space to operate in.

And that's why we're proposing to open a new research center for LHF

at Huxley Island.

[pensive music playing]

[Wani] Sir,

it'll be a great honor for us to be working with you, but, uh,

if any antidote gets developed there,

then ATOM will need its patent rights,

for perpetuity.

Uh, I think it is too early to be discussing--

That… can be arranged.

Then I have just one concern.

LK-37,

how do we procure that?

Sir, there's one plant that contains this peptide.

Come on, Ketan sahib, that plant is a myth.

No one has seen it in so many years.

Sir, the only place where this peptide remains is inside the Orakas.

Listen to me. Uh… You need not worry about LK-37.

-We will arrange it for you. -Fine.

Then all we need is someone to head the research team.

And going by her recent achievements,

I think, uh, Dr. Gagra is the best candidate, isn't she?

Ketan sahib, it'll be of great help to us if you could escort the doctor on this.

We would want to make sure that there is no inconvenience to her

in the journey to Huxley.

Great.

-[sirens wailing] -[crowd clamoring]

[whistle blowing]

[man] Sir, please!

Sir, please. Listen to me, sir.

Let us… Let us in. Let us in, please.

[pensive music playing]

Kaddu!

-Kaddu! -Ay, don't remove the mask. Put it on.

-Ka-- -Don't shout.

Come on. Keep moving.

[policeman] Stand in line. Slowly.

[scanner beeping]

-What's happening? Please tell me. -I'll tell you.

What's going on?

-Bhai, please. -Come. I'll explain.

Why can't you tell me? What are you doing?

[tense music playing]

-[beeps] -I'm looking for my daughter.

-Vidisha Savla is her name. -[man 1] Unbutton.

-Huh? -[man 1] Unbutton your shirt.

Turn around.

[beeping]

-Okay, clear. -[man 2 over PA system] Come one by one.

-[man 1] That way. -[man 3] Come.

-[man 1] Next! -[man 2] Help us so that we can help you.

Show me your hand.

Don't take this off until the boarding is completed.

You'll not be allowed to go anywhere without this.

Sir, I have a six-year-old daughter.

Go and ask in the verification area. Go on. Next.

-[man 2] 1086. 1086, token number. -[whistle blowing]

This way. And please register your token number here.

Please note,

only those with token numbers 1201 till 1300 will remain in the waiting area.

The school building is not a part of the containment area.

So please do not go there.

Do not crowd around.

Everyone will get registered, please do not worry.

-[man 4] Sir! I'll arrange for you. -[man 5] What do you mean?

What is the meaning of this?

[man 6] Sir, the ship has limited capacity.

Try to understand. Tourist families get first preference. I can't.

-Please take him away! -How can you do this to us?

-I've been waiting here. -Sir, my token.

You've got time. Please wait outside.

Sir, my daughter is here somewhere.

-Let me meet her once. -That's not allowed.

You'll have to go as per the token number. Wait outside.

-Please cooperate. Go and wait outside. -One minute.

[man 6] Queue up. Please.

Form a queue!

-[female officer] You handle him. -Stop this guy!

Security!

[gripping music playing]

[people clamoring]

[policeman] Stop!

-Stop! Catch him! -Excuse me. Excuse me.

[policeman] Stop! Stop!

What are you doing?

[Santosh over mic] Kaddu! Kaddu!

Papa is here, beta.

-Give me that. Who is this? -Papa's here.

Kaddu. I'm here, beta.

I'm here, beta. Papa's here.

-What are you doing? -Kaddu! Vidisha… Vidisha Savla!

-Come with us! Calm down! -A six-year-old girl!

-I'm her father! -Calm down!

-Has anyone seen her? -Calm down!

[crying] Has anyone seen her? Has anyone seen my six-year-old daughter?

-[policeman grunts] -Please…

[melancholic music playing]

She's only six years old.

[man 6] Leave him alone. He's lost his child.

Has anybody seen her? Kaddu…

Has anybody seen my six-year-old baby?

[sobbing]

She's just six… Has anybody here…

-Has anybody seen her? -[Kaddu] Papa?

Papa!

[gasps] Kaddu!

[grunts]

Papa!

[emotional music playing]

[Santosh bawling]

[kisses]

Sorry, sorry, sorry, beta. Papa left you and went away.

I will never leave you again. Never again, never.

[crying] I was very brave, Papa.

I was very scared.

But I cried three times only.

Okay… Okay, four times.

[whimpering and sobbing]

I have brought you something, beta.

[bag unzips]

Here.

Where is Mummy, Papa?

Bhaiya… Bhaiya also came to you, na?

Uh, he had come, beta.

But both of them, you know, they got transferred from here, beta.

You mean, that like the way Shekhar Uncle was transferred from Bokaro?

Yes, beta. Like that.

But Mummy and Parth Bhaiya… have been a transferred very far away.

[crying]

[melancholic music playing]

Now it's just us, beta.

It'll take us a very long time to meet them.

It's just us now.

Papa, Jyotsna Miss.

-Hey. -[Santosh] God bless you, madam.

-Please get up, sir. Please. -[Santosh] You're an angel.

[crying] You're an angel.

Thank you so much for saving my child.

I'm sorry.

But Parth couldn't…

[sobbing] I know, ma'am.

But you were there by my son's side in his final moments.

[all crying]

Kaddu.

Do you know what? I have to leave for some important work now.

I don't know when I'll be able to see you again,

but you must always remain a brave girl, okay?

And when… When you get scared, you know what to do, right?

Well, you know what?

I used to think earlier that Divya Miss is my favorite teacher.

But when anyone asks me again,

I will tell them that Jyotsna Miss is my favorite.

[chuckles softly]

[sniffles]

[engine whirring]

Have you travelled secretly before?

[Chiranjeevi clicks tongue]

Essential services vehicle, no? No one will dare to touch it.

With the right contact, right price, you can travel wherever you want.

[in Oraka] What is happening?

I told you before, right? Don't you remember?

[in English] Hey.

What is this you are doing?

Orakas talk with not just words, but also gestures.

While hunting in the jungle,

without making a sound, they communicate with each other.

Look here…

This means run away.

And this means keep waiting.

And this means blend in.

-Meaning? -Meaning, become one with nature.

Hide in the jungle in such a way

that even animals with sharp vision cannot spot you.

-[brakes squealing] -Uh, Chiru…

-[Chiranjeevi] Shh. -[engine idling]

-[engine stops] -[flashlight clicks]

[door opens]

[tense music playing]

We received an alert from the hospital that one Oraka patient is missing.

But look here now, there are two Orakas.

[Mister whimpering]

[sighs]

[Ritu sighs]

Thank you, sir. Thank you for believing in me.

[mellow music playing]

And I was right, sir. Not only was the peptide effective,

but I also located the plant.

Okay.

But the information in that journal is from the 1940s.

What if the plant is really extinct?

That we'll know only once we reach the island, sir.

But, Ritu, what ATOM wants is for you to go to Huxley Island with them.

Who cares what they want?

Sir, I should get going now. That girl will be reaching Colinpur shortly.

And, uh,

for taking care of Mister, thank you.

[chuckles softly]

Hold on.

If you want, I… I could drop you off over there.

[Jyotsna] "Veenu, in a few weeks, things might be okay here."

"And then,

I want to stay back here with you."

No, uh…

[mellow music playing]

"I mean, let's have dinner."

Yeah, that's better.

"Let's have dinner and see where it goes."

I can't…

[sighs] "Veenu…"

"I have something to tell you, Veenu."

"Papa's been transferred to the mainland."

"I'm going, Veenu."

"Sorry, I couldn't tell you about…"

Nah.

"Really sorry, I couldn't tell you about this earlier."

-[students] Good morning, ma'am. -Sit down! How's everybody doing?

-[students] Good, ma'am! -Good, okay.

So today's class,

we are going to be putting Darwin's theory to test.

Okay?

So what we'll do now is get into groups of two and plant some seeds.

Then for the rest of our years in school, two, three, four,

we will keep track as to which plant remains "fittest to survive."

-Did you get it? -Ma'am, may I come in?

[students laughing]

[mellow music playing]

[teacher sighs]

You're late again.

-Shh. -[teacher] Today, we will learn…

But hadn't I told you I wanted to talk in the tiffin break?

I had forgotten to carry seeds for this. I had to jump my house wall and go.

But I got these.

Look. Marigold seeds.

Everyone is planting marigold and rose.

How will we get to know which one is our plant?

-So I got these. -[young Jyotsna] What seeds are these?

[teacher] …tiny ones, which we will place at the bottom of the pot,

so that when we water…

Um, Amma had said its some special plant.

But she didn't mention what the plant's name is.

Tch. You fool, when you don't even know what the name of the plant is,

how are we going to come to know which plant is ours?

[teacher] …you will throw them out. Pointed stones you do not need.

So the naming is done, neither will you forget nor I.

[mellow music playing]

[teacher] Come here. Show me.

[Jyotsna chuckling] And then you had to convince Niyati ma'am

that in your thatha's village, blue flowers of the Jyotsna plant bloom.

-[chuckles] -[radio crackles]

Wow! So, now I'm being ridiculed on the emergency broadcast.

[radio crackles]

Is that why the doctor gave you the radio?

Sorry. You are right.

I better pick up pace.

Okay, listen, I'll reach there very soon.

Just please don't delay your return, okay?

Or this time, you'll be the one waiting for 17 years.

This time, we won't wait, Veenu.

Actually, I want to…

What?

Nothing. I'll tell you when I meet you.

See you soon.

Sir, I think we missed taking the turn to Colinpur back there.

[tense music playing]

Uh…

We're not going to Colinpur, right?

I'm sorry, Ritu.

If you leave now, then along with you,

my chance to leave this place goes with you.

But, sir…

But this…

-This is not who you are. -This is exactly who I am!

The Ketan I've been portraying to you is not who I am.

[somber music playing]

But, sir, today if you don't become the one that I've seen, sir…

[breath trembling]

…then the people here will have no hope left at all.

Sir, please.

[sighs]

Sir, we can save thousands of lives.

Please let me go.

Sir, please let me go.

[engine stops]

Sir, ATOM Paradise is right around the corner.

If we go any further,

-we won't be able to turn around. -[Ritu] Please, let me go.

I cannot turn around now.

Start the vehicle.

[pensive music playing]

[SP Shiva] Sir,

this is our last chance.

If we were to allow that Oraka to go back,

then we may never end up finding their new settlement.

Shiva, he just wants to go home.

Now to stop or interrogate him, we don't have any reason.

There are thousands of reasons,

whom we can stop from reaching their graves.

But for that, I cannot harm a peaceful community, okay?

Sir, uh, I am aware that it's the Orakas themselves

that gave you a new lease of life.

Any good human like you would not allow any harm to come to them.

But right now, you need to choose.

Either you can be a good human being,

or a true leader.

[engine stops]

[imperceptible]

[solemn music playing]

Good news, you guys can go.

It seems like the LG really has a soft corner for you Orakas.

Thanks, brother. Say thanks to the LG too, brother.

Hey. Come, let's go.

Ketan sahib, right on time.

We were just about to leave.

How come you're sitting alone out here?

You know what, Mr. Wani?

I never believed in creating an impression.

It made absolutely no difference to me what people thought about me.

Where is Dr. Gagra?

Then why the hell does it matter so much to me what she thinks about me?

-I asked, where is Dr. Gagra? -One sec.

That's exactly what I'm telling you. One sec. Let me set the context first.

Why is it that I want her to like me?

[sentimental music playing]

As in, I was bringing her here with me…

but she didn't want to come.

[car door closes]

So then I… I let her go.

[taps on car]

Thank you.

What? We fought with the administration,

we insisted that your name should be on the list of evacuees.

Uh, I know.

Trust me, if you don't go today,

then no one is going to miss you on that ship.

I know, Mr. Wani, I know. Don't you think I don't know?

I know. I know.

Then tell us, where is she? We will go and get her.

Ketan sahib, you know we need her with us at, uh… at Huxley.

What's wrong with you?

Arey, I'm getting so bloody pissed off at myself!

In spite… In spite of causing so much damage to myself…

-Idiot! -[tissue holder clatters]

I… I… I want to protect her.

But I don't know why.

Mr. Wani, I know, but I won't tell you and I don't know why.

And I don't know why. [breathing heavily]

I don't know why. I can't understand…

Shit, shit, shit, shit!

Shit!

Have I…

Have I fallen in bloody love or something?

Ew!

Ew!

[Ketan breathing heavily]

[Ketan mumbles]

What are you… What are you doing, Ketan sahib?

The door to return home is staring at you in the face,

and you… and you are shutting it?

I don't know. I don't know, Mr. Wani.

But… what I do know is that,

that Brazilian ant must feeling exactly like how I feel now.

[sentimental music swells]

You know, Ketan sahib, we don't take no for an answer.

If you don't speak, then we will have to make you speak.

Right.

I do deserve this.

All right, my Kanchan.

-Start. -[grunts]

[indistinct chatter]

-[Jyotsna] You're looking for this? -Thank you, Jyotsna Miss.

Thank goodness I hadn't gone too far

or you would score badly in your holiday homework.

Yeah, I would have lost my marks, and then I would have failed.

Divya Miss would have scolded me.

Thank you, Jyotsna Miss.

Look, how many leaves I have added to this.

[ominous music playing]

I still have a lot of to finish though.

Jyotsna Miss, you know what?

Please don't tell anyone, okay?

-[Jyotsna] Hmm. -Ruby Rhino has told me so many secrets.

-Yeah? Really? -Yeah.

Madam, we're not allowed to come to this side. Why have you come?

[tense music playing]

What secrets did Ruby tell you?

All of Ruby's friends were left back at home.

And she's missing all her friends a lot.

She's very sad, and she was saying that until she meets her friends,

she will neither eat, not drink, nor play with me.

Okay, so, you cheer up Ruby,

-I'll be back soon, okay? -Okay.

This…

Don't be upset, Ruby.

-Why didn't the screening show this? -Your friends will come.

Maybe because of her epilepsy medication, her symptoms are delayed.

It's the rarest of rare cases, but she's definitely infected.

[Kaddu] We'll go out somewhere.

But where will we go?

[Jyotsna] Santosh ji, we need to inform the authorities about this.

Where do you want to go?

[Jyotsna] Kaddu…

won't be able to leave from here.

Stay back here?

But, madam, there will be facilities on the island, medical aid.

-There must be some camp, some doctor-- -Sir, sir…

That island is a safe space.

Only healthy, non-infected people can go there.

In a few days, Kaddu will get infectious,

and if she goes there, the disease will spread there as well.

That's why she will have to stay here.

But don't worry, I will figure out what to do.

Kaddu, can I take this green band?

-I'll get you a pink Ruby Rhino one, okay? -Yeah.

[somber music playing]

[Nandan grunts]

[Chiranjeevi] I was advised bed rest, why're you going slow?

[Nandan] Sorry, brother, I'm not used to… [groans]

What happened?

[Nandan groaning]

Ay, when did this happen? Huh?

[groans]

You're hurt. Why didn't you tell me earlier?

[Nandan whimpers]

[speaking Oraka]

-[in English] Don't worry. I'm okay. -What did he say?

He's asking me to go back.

Yeah, he's right. It's a deep wound. You won't be able to walk the whole way.

-But I'm okay, Chiru dada. -Listen to me, Nandan. Listen to me.

Already, you've done enough service for strangers, haven't you?

-But I can walk, Chiru dada. -How will you walk?

-And what about him? -Don't worry about him. I'm here.

[in Oraka] I will miss you, Enmae brother.

[Chiranjeevi chuckles]

[in English] I'll miss you too, brother.

Saala, if you were a girl, Raksha Bandhan would have driven you mad.

[Nandan chuckles]

Bye.

Come. We…

[foreboding music playing]

[rustling]

What happened?

[speaking Oraka]

[in English] Thank you.

I'm requesting you to leave this place as soon as you're able to.

They could come after you at any time.

[intriguing music playing]

[radio whines, crackles]

Dr. Gagra.

Dr. Gagra, this is Jyotsna speaking.

-Are you there, Dr. Gagra? -Yes, Jyotsna.

I have reached. Where are you?

Actually, there has been a major problem here.

I won't be able to come, Doctor.

Yeah, but, Jyotsna, how will I reach the island without you?

I know. That's exactly why I've contacted you.

I can at least give you the name and coordinates of the island.

Yeah, that…

Fine.

For now, even that's fine. One second.

Yeah, tell me.

Uh, the island is…

-Dr. Gagra. -Yeah?

I'll call you right back.

What happened? Have you informed them as yet?

Please let Kaddu leave with me, madam.

[emotional music playing]

I have lost everything since I have come here. Lost everything.

[crying] Now I only have my daughter left with me.

I can't lose her, madam.

Santosh ji, nothing will happen to Kaddu. We won't let anything happen to her.

I will be with you all the way.

But Kaddu can't leave this place.

She will die here, madam.

Some miracle could happen there.

Who will save her here? No one can save her.

Sir, in a few weeks, a doctor here might find a cure--

Weeks? Kaddu only has ten days left, madam.

Please.

Do this for us. Please let us leave.

Santosh ji, your daughter is very precious to me too.

[sniffles]

I also don't want her to be sick.

But just because of her, we cannot risk the lives of so many people.

Madam, please! Please.

-Santosh ji, no! -I don't have anything left, madam!

Santosh ji, no, this is not done! That is not going to happen.

[crying] Only my daughter.

If you're not going to inform the authorities,

then I will have to do it.

[muffled grunt]

[Kaddu] Papa?

Jyotsna Miss?

[muffled grunting]

[Santosh grunts]

[in Tamil] ♪ What… ♪

♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whispering tree? ♪

[Jyotsna grunting, muffled]

[Kaddu] ♪ Can you hear ♪

♪ The whistling bee? ♪

-♪ The words with wings ♪ -[both grunting]

♪ The river that sings ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

-[Kaddu humming] -[choking]

-[Jyotsna gasps] -[grunts]

[Santosh whimpers]

[Kaddu humming]

[young Parvathy] ♪ The cloud with rains ♪

♪ The moon that shines ♪

♪ Are just a few things ♪

♪ That I send for you ♪

♪ Across space ♪

♪ Across time ♪

[crying]

[young Parvathy humming]

[Vinayak over radio, in English] Jyotsna. Jyotsna.

[radio crackling, whining]

Sindhu? Jyotsna, I'm here.

I told you I won't be late this time, right?

Jyotsna?

I am here before time, Jyotsna. Jyot…

[indistinct chatter]

[sirens blaring in distance]

[rustling]

You heard that?

[speaking Oraka]

[clock ticking]

[Shashi exhales]

[in English] Sir, all the information you wanted regarding CSF extraction

and peptide sequencing,

is compiled in here, sir.

Hmm.

Uh…

Pardon me for asking, sir, but… if we are not pursuing the Orakas,

then why are you reading up on this?

[sighs]

Do you know, Doctor,

what every Indian military soldier's core value is?

Dharma.

Duty.

Our civilization teaches us

that on the battlefield,

even if our opponents are our dear ones,

every soldier must do only

what his duty commands.

[pensive music playing]

I need this information because…

I too have followed my duty.

A few hours ago, I made a decision.

[tense music playing]

[rustling]

A decision that would change the fate of these islands

forever.

No.

No, sir, this… This is a huge mistake, sir.

Whether the numbers are big or small,

we can't randomly play around with human lives like this, sir.

And here we're talking about an indigenous tribal community

that can't even defend itself.

An entire culture will perish, sir.

Of all the people, you…

How can you do such a thing?

I could not do it. But I had to do it. I had to change.

So that thousands of people could survive,

their leader had to… evolve.

[clamoring]

Because evolution is the price

paid by every species to survive.

Including we, the humans.

Humans are the result of change.

Had life not moved out of water and reached the ground just in time,

there will be no humans today.

Mass extinction events wiped out even the biggest of creatures.

But our ancestors persisted even in such circumstances.

[Ketan groans]

[breathing heavily]

[panting]

[LG Qadri] Had they given up,

humans would have been extinct today.

[Ketan breathing heavily]

[Ketan exclaims]

Masala Jazz.

[laughs]

Hey, Kanchan!

Why are you punching like a sissy?

Fight!

[tense music playing]

[sighs contentedly]

[Ketan groaning]

[Ketan laughing maniacally]

Jyotsna, come in! Come in, Jyotsna!

-[radio crackles] -[clicks tongue]

[LG Qadri] Our ancestors

were smaller and weaker than other beasts.

They could neither fly nor run fast.

[Basu] Stop!

-[LG Qadri] All they had was brains. -[Basu] Don't move.

[LG Qadri] And each other's support.

Don't you touch the boat!

[gripping music playing]

Did Jyotsna send you?

[LG Qadri] Had they not learned to unitedly fight the others,

humans would've been extinct today.

-[whistle blowing] -[sirens wailing]

And when we needed hands to pick up tools,

had we not learned to stand up on our feet,

humans would have been extinct today.

[sirens wailing]

[gripping music continues]

[indistinct chatter]

[policeman] Please cooperate.

[Bhowmik] We did it, Shiva. Five thousand healthy people.

Five thousand who are untouched by the infection.

[man] Thank you.

Sir, your band?

And yours?

Thank you. Get in.

[indistinct chatter]

Hello, Captain.

[indistinct chatter]

[LG Qadri] Whether human or cockroach, dinosaur or bacteria,

there's one thing common in all.

Nature did give all of them one chance to change.

Those who couldn't change, were labelled weak,

and got wiped out by nature.

Do you know where we have to go?

I don't know, but I have an idea.

But what I don't know is,

if the thing that you're going there in search of

is still alive… or has disappeared forever.

[indistinct chatter]

Papa, I've finished my homework.

Hibiscus. Lemon.

[LG Qadri] And those that could change with circumstances

were considered to be the fittest.

[solemn music playing]

And the fittest always survive.

[music swells]

[horn blows]

[gripping music playing]

[rattling]

[horn blows]

[beeping]

[horn blows]

[gripping music continues]

Probably, that's why the Orakas… are at risk today.

Because they could never evolve.

Maybe that's why…

they are destined

to lose the battle of survival.

[police officer] Look over there. Check every nook and corner.

[policeman 1] There's no one here.

-[police officer] Anything inside? -[policeman 1] No, sir.

[police officer] Check over there. Search thoroughly.

[policeman 1] Yes, sir.

There, there. That side.

[policeman 2] Sir, we looked everywhere, there's no one.

[tense music playing]

-[policeman 1] Search every hut there. -[policeman 2] Go that side.

[in Oraka] Where are your people?

Where is everyone?

[rustling]

[in English] Hey, look. There!

Get him!

-[policeman 1] Come on. -Get him here!

[policeman 1] After him!

[policemen shouting]

[policeman 2] That side! Be quick!

-[policeman 3] Come on. -[policeman 2] Hey!

-Come on. Quick! -[policeman 4] Go, go!

[policeman 5] Hey! Stop!

[gripping music playing]

[policeman 1] Where is he?

[policeman 2] He ran into the jungle. Check there.

[policeman 1] Can you see him anywhere?

-Where did he go? -[policeman 3] Disappeared.

[police officer] Where is he?

Where did he go?

I'm sure, he disappeared into the jungle.

Let's go inside and look. There's nowhere else he could have gone.

[policeman 1] How can he disappear?

[policemen shouting] Hey!

-Where are you going? -Stop!

-Where are you going? -Hey, stop!

[in Oraka] And what if they do?

First they came for our trees,

then they came for our land,

and soon they'll come for our bodies.

What will we do then?

[gripping tribal music playing]

[in English] Hey.

[in Oraka] Stay back!

[in English] Hey!

[in Oraka] Stay back! Stay back or we'll shoot!

We would push them against the wall.

A wall they can never climb over.

[tribe member] And then?

Then…

Then we fight!

[dramatic music playing]

[theme music playing]