Mallamma: Why all that now before Renuka. [To Renuka.] So, you’ve left Sarakka behind.
Renuka: Po aththa.
Mallamma: You better preserve your shyness for your baava. Well, where is vadina?
Maisamma: Don’t you know she’s always with that Papi Reddy Patel?
Yellaiah: It’s high time we had put some sense into her head.
Yadagiri: Whenever I’m hard on her, she goads him to get tough with me. Why blame him when she herself is so mean.
Mallamma: Why not I give her a bit of my mind.
Yadagiri: Don’t ever do that akka; you know what a foul mouth she has.
Mallamma: So be it. It won’t do any good to Renuka if she won’t mend her ways now.
Yadagiri: Let’s get Renu married to Narsimma, and that solves all the problems.
Mallamma: How I wish we could do that. But I want Narsimma to be a B.A. at any cost and you know marriage means its curtains down. Moreover, aren’t they too young to wed?
Yadagiri: Oh, how my poor girl is caught between two stools. If we don’t move fast Anasuya would make her wed that good for nothing Saailu, her pimp of a brother.
Maisamma: Be a man at last, and let not things come to that pass.
[Enter: Anasuya.]
Anasuya: Whom is the old hag instigating?
Yadagiri: Learn to respect my mother at least.
Anasuya: Respect her, my foot.
Yadagiri: Any way, what does a loose woman know about respect?
Anasuya: Oh, don’t tell me your mother kept her thighs ever closed.
Mallamma: It’s sickening really; at least consider her age vadina.
Anasuya: True, an old whore is chaste no less. Oh the poor thing.
Mallamma: Forget about her past; now think about Renuka’s future. .
Anasuya: Don’t I know what this panchayat is all about.
Yadagiri: Why what’s the secret about it? Who would want Renu wed a pimp.
Anasuya: Oh, penimiti, better mind your tongue.
Yadagiri: Don’t forget Renu has a mind of her own. Don’t you know she’s fond of Narsimma.
Anasuya: Once she weds Saailu, she would be no less fond of him.
Mallamma: Vadina, why hurry things, let her first complete her Matric.
Anasuya: Why, to let your B.A son elope with her then?
Yellaiah: Well, all along you’ve been teasing them as a couple in the making, didn’t you?
Anasuya: Maybe, but I’ve changed my mind.
Mallamma: But then, they’re in love with each other.
Anasuya: Don’t worry; it won’t take long for them to fall out of it.