Narsimma: But then, why didn’t you complain to Madanna earlier?
Renuka: I knew he would rid me off Saailu but then what next. I didn’t want to run from pillar to post as I’ve fixed my heart on you. But when Sarakka told me you joined his dalam, I didn’t waste a moment, did I?
Narsimma: Didn’t I tell you that our love would script a unique story.
Renuka: Oh, how the filthy five forbade us from marrying? But why didn’t it occur to us to force them to witness our wedding? What a sorry figure they would’ve cut then?
Narsimma: It’s as if they didn’t eat crow at the dalit adalat.
Renuka: Well, but how could they be digesting that now?
[As Narsimma takes her into his arms, lights go off. Curtains down]
Scene – 16
[Curtains up: Muthyal Rao, Papa Rao, Rami Reddy, Papi Reddy and Shaukar Suryam sit morosely in to the courtyard of Muthyal Rao’s gadiof scene -10.]
Shaukar Suryam: What a relief, if it can be called so, to come out of the banduldoddi. What a five-day ordeal it was. Oh, how they turned our plight into a tamaashafor all. Didn’t it turn out to be a tiranaala of our taluka?Can we raise our heads in our lifetime again? (Stares at his forearm) What a shame they added insult to injury. Our forefathers might be turning in their graves at our humiliation.
Rami Reddy: What to say Shaukar Saab,with the death of my son, my family is deprived of its lineage as well.
Papa Rao(Sniffs at his shoulders): What’s left to bestow than the stink of the banduldoddi. Aren’t you better off on that score?
Shaukar Suryam: Perhaps, death is much preferable than to be shamed like this.
Rami Reddy: But then, you were on your knees begging for life, didn’t you?
Shaukar Suryam: Don’t tell me you stood your ground, even after they had killed your son.
Rami Reddy: It’s not as if they had let others go scot-free. Have you forgotten their staff and stuffing warning or what? Apart from handling the gun, these buggers are learning to handle the language as well, aren’t they?
Papa Rao: Why blame any? What can anyone do when they hold the gun and the sarkar is on the run? For that matter haven’t we come to fear their shadow even? Well, did they stand guard at the banduldoddi? Yet didn’t we fail to rescue ourselves from it though the S.P offered us police protection for the rest of our lives?