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)
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"
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