![]() He challenges a cruel racist officer named Robert Ellis, who is also Amy's suitor, to a wrestling match to decide the fate of his clan's home. He openly opposes the British officials who attempt to build a golf course in the dhobi clan's dwelling place. Parithi, a member of the dhobi (washermen) clan, is also an experienced wrestler who trains under Ayyakanu. In the process, she recalls the events when she had first visited Chennai, and the chain of events that took place.Ī young Amy, the daughter of the Madras Presidency Governor, George Wilkinson, visits Chennai (then called Madras, with the Chennai District being called Madrasapattinam) along with her translator Nambi and encounters Parithi, whom she calls a "brave man". Amy interrogates various people about Parithi's whereabouts. ![]() ![]() However, after a turn of events, she had married another man from her hometown and thus felt that the thali was no longer her property.Īmy arrives in Madras with her granddaughter Catherine, equipped only with a picture of Parithi that was taken 60 years ago. She wishes to return a thali (traditional wedding threads) belonging to his mother, which he gave her as a sign that she belongs to India and nobody can separate them. An elderly English woman named Amy Wilkinson, almost at her deathbed in London due to a blood clot caused by a past head injury, wants to come down to Madras in search of a young man named Ilam Parithi, whom she last saw on 15 August 1947.
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