Herold Vikramsinghe too helps to find her biological mother. Herold Vikramsinghe (Prakash Raj) who is a Sinhalese, their guide during the trip.
The three of them (excluding the two boys who are left under the care of their grandfather) travel to Sri Lanka and are greeted by Dr. Thiruchelvan finally gives in and promises to take Amudha to Sri Lanka to find her biological mother. She requests to meet her biological mother at all costs despite Indira's insistence that they can't possibly find the mother even if they wanted to. Vinay was born few years after their marriage, followed by the younger brother, and thus, the family happened.Įven after hearing this, Amudha is rebellious and dissatisfied. Indira suggests the name 'Amudha' after seeing the baby once, and then adopt the baby after they marry each other. He then proposes to Indira (in whom he is also interested) in order to be able to adopt the baby. Thiruchelvan, after a while, finds the urge to adopt the small baby girl and raise her, but realizes that he will not be allowed to do so until he is married. Indira is his neighbour, and has always expressed interest in him. At one such instance, Thiruchelvan sees a newborn baby girl, and writes a short story about why her mother found the urge to abandon her child and return to a war-ridden land. The film then flashes to nine years previously in Rameswaram, where Thiruchelvan, then a budding writer, constantly travels to the refugee camp and writes stories inspired by the people there. Amudha asks her parents to tell her the story of how she comes to be adopted. Indira's father criticizes them for revealing the truth to her at such a young age, but Thiruchelvan and Indira are certain they have taken the right decision. Amudha is heavily disturbed after hearing the news and begins comparing and distancing herself from the family, seeing herself as an outsider. She was adopted from a refugee camp in Rameswaram after her parents abandoned her. After praying in the temple, Thiruchelvan brings Amudha to the beach, and she runs around in the beach, he reveals the truth that she was adopted and is not their biological daughter. Indira later reminds Thiruchelvan that they have promised themselves to reveal 'the truth' to Amudha on her ninth birthday. Amudha's ninth birthday approaches and both her parents take her to the temple early in the morning. Indira (Simran Bagga) is Amudha's mother, while she has a younger brother named Vinay, with whom she always has childish frictions, and another younger brother called Akhil. Madhavan), who uses the pen name 'Indira' for his books. She introduces her short-tempered but talented father, writer Thiruchelvan (R. Keerthana) narrates about her family life. The film later shifts focus to nine years later in Chennai where a young exuberant girl Amudha (P. However, as soon as the baby is born, her urge to find her husband and be with her people back home overwhelms her and she leaves behind the newborn girl in hopes that the girl will lead a better life. While a local collector takes down the names of the refugees, Shyama's water breaks and she gives birth to a baby girl. The villagers board a boat to the shores of Rameswaram, which is a famous refugee hub for Sri Lankan Tamils. Shyama is initially stubborn to leave since one of the men says that he has seen Dileepan with bullet wounds in the forest near the mud lake, but her relatives convince her that she has to seek refuge for the sake of her to-be-born child.
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Her villagers begin fleeing to India to seek refuge as the war between LTTE and the Sri Lankan army goes full scale, affecting their village in the process. Shyama realizes that she is pregnant and waits in vain for Dileepan to return. What happened to Dileepan after that remains a mystery. He asks Shyama to leave for her safety while he remains in the forest. While romancing each other at a mud river after marriage, the couple hear sounds of Sri Lankan army troops approaching. Chakravarthy), who along with few other Sri Lankan Tamils in the village (including Shyama's elder brother) is part of the Tamil Tigers rebel association, which fights for the Eelam Tamil Nation.
The film begins in a small village in Sri Lanka called Mankulam, where a Sri Lankan Tamil woman Shyama (Nandita Das) gets married to Dileepan (J.