This is my forest: Apocalypto – Tamil dubbing

Frame: Complete dark screen. A light of fire slowly getting big and spreading in zig zag motion in to two directions. Wild drum sounds accompanies the fire and getting bigger and bigger. Finally it forms about an oval shape remembering the outline of Sri Lankan map. Fire and Drum sound forms in to a tribal rhythm. One meter high platform set on back portion of the stage. Two persons enter to the stage with a kind of tribal dance. One wearing old style police dress and having a long gun in one hand and having big moustache. Other wearing a fancy tiger dress with a painted body and a long tale. They play according to music and shows different hunter and pray games. When they reach middle of the stage they see the fire ring. Hunter shows happiness on it and asks the tiger to jump through the fire ring; tiger first rejects it then jumps. Hunter asks to repeat it through other side; tiger does that too. Hunter asks to do it several times. And slowly increase the frequency of drum music. Tiger makes his move faster and faster according to the music. And when he is in his maximum, through the fire ring he jumps long down to the stage over from the platform. And lay down on ground as if he died. Hunter in his ecstasy does continuous dancing, looking down and shouting and goes to the back stage.
Slowly tiger raises his face and wakes up and stands looking up with a determinant face. And shouts :

Enn Peru Jaguar Paw,
Appa peru Flint Sky.
Enn Appa ennaku munnadi entha katta vettaiyataru.
Enn Peru Jaguar Paw.
Nann oru Vetttaikaran.
Ethu enn kadu.
Ennakku piraku ennudaiya paiyangal oovarkaludaiya piyankalukaka Intha kaatil vetti yaduvalrgal.
( I am Jaguar Paw, son of Flint Sky. My Father hunted this forest before me. My name is Jaguar Paw. I am a hunter. This is my forest. And my sons will hunt it with their sons after I am gone)

He raises his hand and catches the fire ring and shakes it. Fire caught up completely inside the ring and becomes a big one.

After a minute silence Background dialogue
"Before a civilization is destroyed without, it's destroyed within"

Interview - How Opal Mehta Got Kissed

Frame: Office room of Harvard's Dean of Admissions. A young girl of age 17 well dressed as if came for an interview stands in the room. She having a file with her and looks very nervous. She looks around to find any one is coming and making sure no one is near. Slowly opens the file reads the document and closes it. Moving towards the chair and stands as if Dean of Admission and boldly asks : "Tell me a little about yourself? "

Fastly moves towards her old position and makes a fast look at the file and replies herself. Makes an artificial serene smile then starts: "I am ambitious and determined. I put one hundred and ten percent into everything I do. I don't like to be just average at anything, so I'm always pushing myself to be the best. I'm interested in a wide array of academic subjects. I also try to be environmentally and politically aware. I'm active in my school's recycling program, and in addition to reading the newspaper every day, and recycling it (polite laugh), I'm heavily involved in student government."

Makes a sigh, and moves back to Deans place as if pleased with her reply asks again : "What's your biggest weakness?"

Moves back to her old position and with more confidence : "I suppose being a perfectionist could be considered a weakness. For example, I always quadruple-proofread all my papers for school. But I like to think of it as one of my strengths as well. I've never missed a comma."
Looks out to the audience as if she won.
On the moment sound of foot steps some one is coming. She become very nervous and doing something something with the file and stands very politely waiting for the Dean. A Dean of Admission a bold man slowly come to the room and takes his chair and calmly makes a look at the lady. She is trying to smile but not. He asks her to sit on the opposite chair; she nervously sits at the tip of the chair. He offers his hand she accepts. She opens the file and takes resume give it to the Dean with her trembling hands. He takes it and sets it aside as if any interest on that and leans forward looking at her eyes. She is waiting for the question by counting the seconds . After a minute of silence.


Dean : "What do you like to do for fun?"

She got nervous as if she didn't hear the question and gives a blank look.

Dean again with stress: "What do you like to do for fun?"

She began to sweat. File falls from her hand. Looks up and blank. Just sits with out speaking a word. Lights fade away in the room.

Vande Mukunda Hare - Devasuram

Frame: front entrance door portion of an old Kerala style house (padippura of a nalukettu) through the half opened door we can see inside where two crossed legs of a person kept on the long handles of a wooden easy chair (Charukasera). A very thin actor wearing only a white dothi (Mundu) that too only up to half of his legs on bare foot, who is coming from a long journey by walk with his properties in a bag (rucksack) and an Edakka (One kind of musical instrument) in other hand. Walks side ways from one side of the stage and stands in frond of the door showing his back to the audience. Light from the Ranthal Vilakku hanging one side of the door makes a long shadow of the person in to the audience. He stands still for a minute and started playing the Edakka and slowly singing the following lyrics.

Vande mukunda hare jaya shaure santhapaHare murare

Dwapara chandrikaa charchithamam ninte dwaraka puri evidee

Peeli thilakkavum kola kuzhal pattumAmbadi paikalum evide
Kroora vishada sharam kondu neerumee nenjilen athma pranamam

Prema swaroopanam sneha sadheerthyante

kalkalen kanneer pranamam

Prema swaroopanam sneha satheerthyante kalkalen kanneer pranamam

He stands still for one more minute and slowly walks past to the other side of the stage. Mean while the legs inside trying to move from the chair as if he wants to stand up.

Texts within a text : Ottayaan - Kavalam Narayana Panikkar

Frame: As the play begins, we find an Actor who is on a trip with his properties in a bag (rucksack), and far away from his stage. He is wandering through the darkness; a spot light follows him where ever he goes. He is getting frightened with the darkness around him. Slowly started fighting with the darkness using various skills as an actor, and saying “Don’t ask me who wins or who loses” in regular gaps when it seems enemy is not near. Finally he furnishes his escape and says adieu to the audience.

Melchizedek, Old King of Salem - The Alchemist

Frame: A big bright light stream from left side falls to the bottom right side of the stage in an oval shape. At right side a boy sitting lazy on a bench and reading a big book. A man with long hairs and body completely covered with long cloth stands in between the light and the boy. Light only creeps through his hairs, And face completely shaded. A background sound of wind passing through a desert can hear. Boy trying to stand up and walk towards the person and light as if he is against a strong force and fails to move forward several times. Following overlapping dialogs can hear in different phase and voice vibrations.
"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it"
" It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie."
" And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
" It’s a force that happens to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe."
"making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision"
“The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation. All things are one.”

Let There Be Light : Bible - Book of Genesis

Frame: Complete darkness on stage. A big metal bang sound followed by a background voice. "Let there be light". A pointed dim light far from a distance falls on pool of water placed in the centre of stage. Waves from turbulent water scatter the light in to all part of the stage. Slowly water comes in to a study state as the light getting brighter. A moon size circle reflection of light from the water stays still on the back curtain.
Background voice "And there was light".

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Director's Cut

Kalidasa in the beginning of Raghuvamasam
"Vaagarthaaviva samprukthou vaagartha prathipatthaye
jagathah pitarou vandey Parvati Parameshwarow"

Means word and it's meaning are inseparable as Parvati and Parameshwara in Ardhanareeswara.
But for a director it is a text and a physical text (written transcriptions of physical actions/gestures to construct the theme). So form and purpose of the text may change dynamically like normal human being and his imaginations.