Long long ago… So long ago… nobody can say how long ago… This is not Patti vada sutta kathai… this is one story filled with action sequences and loads of fun…
There lived three friends… Gandhi, Nehru, and Nethaji… let us have a short introduction of each one of them…
Gandhi - Tall , Lean , handsome guy with poor memory - Evannuku avan romba nallvanuu nenaipu…
Nehru - Average height , smart guy with good elocution skills - evana vai illaina nai thukittu poidum.
Nethaji - Short and stout guy with good humor - Nakkal pudihca alunga…
they became friends during their school days and they became very close… all of them finished their undergraduation at different universities.Gandhi and Nethaji were working in MNCs while Nehru was pursuing his higher education…
From now i will explain the story from the eyes of nethaji …
It was the new year time and we all three planned to have a get together at Gandhi’s residence … I lied family that i was on a business trip and came to Gandhis house while Nehru also reached Gandhi’s residence - the place is far off from the city/ town , house is in the middle of the farmland ,interestingly you may start to sleep alone but any snake can accompany you during the night.
We All three were happy to meet each other after a long time and we were chatting all day and enjoying the beauty of Gandhi’s residence and the farmland nearby . we also started playing cricket using thenna mattai (coconut tree branch) as the bat. i hurt myself by falling down during the play twice while Gandhi was hurt playing the fast deliveries from me ( few spots of his white skin became purple after getting hit )…but by then we did not know that they were the signs of things to follow…
In the evening - Gandhi went to meet his aunty and uncle house ,by the way met his cousin (Athai ponnu ) and came out with the news that she was repeatedly teased by a bunch of roadside rameos who were reportedly spending their day time at the same school of hers in the name of students.his cousin name is Kannagi and guy who teased her was kovalan…
We three heroes discussed how to sort out the issue and finally decided to mildly threaten that guy and thought he would be afraid as we were 5 or 6 six years elder. but Gandhi was very serious and he said he want to slap that guy but what happened was a completely different story…
We got the number of kovalan from kannagi and gave a call to him and said we are his school seniors and want to meet him and discuss about an issue, it was very evident that he was afraid and he said he was out of station and would arrive the next day.we were eagerly waiting for him.
next day, the incident day , we spoke to Kovalan and said we will meet him in the evening. meanwhile , cousin of Nehru , Rahul entered the picture , he also joined us for meeting kovalan . he was a tall and stout fellow , we asked him just to stay back and stare at kovalan and threaten him and not to speak a word.
We asked him to come to an isolated place to see him but he was afraid and asked to come to little populated area near a ground. we started to the place. Gandhi who smokes bought few of them, just for build up and blow smoke over their face - we have seen almost all rajini movies…
We took two wheelers and we four reached the spot… there were aroud 15 guys standing near that ground while around 5 of them is kovalan and his gang and others were drunken local college students… as per plan , Gandhi started smoking ,Rahul started staring… we asked who is kovalan and started investigating him about what mischief he did… while others were interfering and disturbing.. i took kovalan with me and went for a walk around the ground , gave him good advise and threatened him of dire consequences.he understood and i thought the issue is over. while i returned, the atmosphere completely different .all of them were in a fighting mood… rahul is almost in to quarrel … then i advised that we had spoken to Kovalan and the issue is over… we were about to board and start in our two wheelers… they were using unparliamentary words and wanted us to stay and fight… but we did not know that they were waiting for their rowdy friends to join.
Four more guys arrived and they were confident now. i did not know what Gandhi did but he was the first one to be hit. midst the shouting voices we heard a loud bang , Gandhi was hit right on his head but that was a coward who hit him from back. i initially thought he was it by bottle but it was steel wire used for fencing (kambi veli ).blood was flowing down his face. i was shocked but immediately bounced on the bad guy and caught his both hands before he could beat gandhi the next time.
i left him and came the other side - one more guy was trying to beat me with belt . was beaten once and next time i snatched the belt from him and belted him twice , he ran away , i thought it was over. but he came back with the steel fence and before i could react, i was hit twice , now blood was flowing down my face too… then i reacted to him before he could beat - i said ” already Ratham varuthu vendam vittudu ” ( already blood is flowing leave me )…thank god he left me….
i turned around to see Nehru running for his life… three guys were chasing him… beaten by hand and beaten by steel wire once… next time he snatched the wire … i thought now it is our turn and we are going to beat them up…but to my dismay poor nehru thrown the wire away and ran again…
Helmet saves life … it was true.. i was the evidence… i saw rahul defending himself from the steel wire using helmet… fortunately he was not badly hurt…
Gandhi again… after all this drama… Gandhi.. true to his name was silently getting beaten with steel wire … with out shouting or running away… what was even more funny is… he was beaten by a guy and he is asking the same guy “ungaluku oru thangachi irunthu… epadi oruthan panna.. neenga summa viduveengala… ” (if have sister like me , and if she is teased , will you be silent) there came an answer - he was beaten again with steel wire. blood all over his face, except his eyes everything was blood red even his teeth.
everything happened in a minute… they were well trained it seems.. all of them disappeared in a second… they also damaged our vehicle so that we cant ride… Gandhi immediately gave a call to his father and asked him to come there. i and nehru stayed back with the vehicle and asked Rahul to take Gandhi to hospital… and we took the vehicle and started walking slowly… still with the excitement of the fight and with fast pumping hearts… two mins… all the members of gandhi’s family were at the spot… i cant imagine how they got there too quickly… and one member of that gang was caught was being beaten all of them… now everything was settled gandhi’s family arrived… one guy was caught… enough to capture the entire gang… Gandhi’s family took the poor guy to police station and we poor guys were taken to hospital… took the first aid and had TT injections … again we were all happy excited and making fun on each other for what we did and started enjoying every moment of it… amidst all this.. we were hungry.. we then went to hotel took hearty dinner…all the time i was trying to cover my face , i don want anyone to recognize me as i have lied that i was on a business trip…
we went to police station and explained the incident to inspector and we all returned to Gandhi’s residence - his mom immediately fainted on seeing him and then she recovered to say -” Namma parambaraileye , adika poi adi vangittu vantha van nee than da.. ” ( you are only one in our family , to have gone to beat people and got beaten up) there was a immediate burst of laughter on hearing that…but Gandhi with all his bandages unable to laugh… he did not fight back… he did not run away.. he did not even defend… thats Gandhi… Non voilence all the way… Gandhi woke up the next day to confess us that - he was beating up the baddies with the towel he had.. while they were beating him with steal wire… laughter again…
Gandhi was the hero that day…. we thanked each other for giving ourselves the most exciting episode of our lifes and we parted away after the holidays…
now eagerly waiting for our next meeting…
everyone should live exciting moments like these… it is fun all the way….
