Malenadina Kathegalu | Award winning Kannada short film |ಮಲೆನಾಡಿನ ಕಥೆಗಳು |State-level award winner |

[Antige pintige song playing in background] Shh... be quite Hey boys, don't hunt for fun Come here Do you guys know how it was in our period 40 years back News from radio begins News reporter explaining the climate of coastal region and informing about the upcoming rainy season and the tiger menace in Sringeri and Thirthahalli regions News from radio ends. Kempaya: Here comes lover boy. Kempaya: Now he is coming Manjaya: Annaya, till what time should we wait? if this goes the same way, we cant a

mbush Annayya: Shut up and sit, i know my problems you know Susheela's annoyance if this goes the same way, we cant ambush We can do something don't worry I came in the afternoon only If you had come that early, Why you have not searched for the wild boar we missed last night? I was preparing the rope You always have excuses. Kempa, give me one beedi preparing rope or doing something else in the coffee plantation You always ask for free beedies.. You always say something simply Don't ask for a

matchbox, use the fire instead Finish your works fast or else we cant ambush tonight We will not leave that today, we should hunt that tonight at any cost Okay its time, lest go Kempa, hold the petromax Let me pump it Oh I forgot the gun Have you come here to scratch the back? Annayya, you are supposed to tell something. After tiger attack on lokha and his death Suseela is acting weird Santhosh: Appayya, look at the "Shikari hula" (grass hopper) Suseela: Don't we have someone who kills that gr

ass hopper in our house? Roam whole night hunting and search the missed animal in the morning It may start raining anytime soon and we have not prepared I am only here to work tirelessly Whatever has happened is not enough? I lost my borther You don't bother, but keep hunting Don't annoy me Suseela, hunting is my life I will go for hunting okay? Appayya let me also join hunting Why do you want to go for hunting, come and eat Why you should come? be here You dont learn lessons, you are so adamant

do what ever you want to do. yesterday we shot "wild cat" we should hunt bigger one today Oh that meat I gave to Rangayya and he gave very less money Rangayya: Only this much? It escaped last night But I will hunt it tonight. This is very less? So is your meat News on radio continues Yenkta (forest guard took that money also) Forester: Where had you been last night? No sir, I was searching my escaped buffalo --Thunderstorms -- Looks like it rains tonight? Haven’t you bought your rug? I forgot O

kay take my rug you will not stand cold Annayya, we lost the huge wildboar last night Manjayya : thunderstorms run We should not let go of that wildboar tonight Kempa, I have to attend nature's call you guys keep going my stomach is not well, not sure what Suseela cooked in the afternoon. You are always like this You guys keep going i will join soon Kempa, we will ambush sitting on this tree. Okay lets hunt today Keep my bag let me claimb Kempa, give my Gun bag dont blabber I will see how well y

ou hunt Before animals come I will smoke a beedi, i cant later Give fast You smoke I will take a booze Wild boar snifs wild boar growls wild boar growling continues wild boar screams Liquor botle drops and braks Beedi also falls on liquor fire establishes Kempa help me Annayya help, Annayya come fast Hey Annaya, it is coming toward you hit it don't miss Annayya, I can hear some noise there Annayya if you were not there on time we would be dead last night You only started wildfire Wait even I can

hear that, let me see --dog growls-- --dog runs away-- I came in the afternoon onlny why didnt you bring rug I forgot you still have this bad habit of hiding Kempayya, you tell me I will shoot him right here No annayya, I am innocent Then who’s rug is that? You bugger, you thing we dont know what you have done earlier when you misled us with missed rabbit No guys its not me. This is why last night you were running away when we talked about wild boar Because it is us, we are letting you go, if

someone else was like Kunja Panja, they would have killed you and told everyone that tiger attacked you. No kempayya its not me Dont lie On that day when we shot and missed that deer you searched it and sold the meat to someone, we know all that Kempa leave him we will not let him come with us he will definitely backstab us in future if he hunts along with us, Go away Annaya, what will we do with this huge wild boar this huge one we will give to Rangayya he will give us money, and the small one

we shot yesterday, use for the feast. Call everyone yes call kutri kunja kitta... --Folk song begins-- you are like God but no one is giving proper money for the meet Kempayya, come along with boys to riverside for the feast No Annayya I have work I will meet you in the evening Okay.. Kitta why are you here Kittayya: Manjayya why are sitting here alone why are you not going to Annayya's feast? No I wont go, they have decided to drop me for hunting, I will teach them a lesson Villager: Annayya,

wildboar meat is really good Annayya, If Lokha was here he would have had this full bottle of alcohol Yes kitta, We went for hunt on that day and every one was high, even lokha could not stand. Somehow we saw a tiger and i remembered that it killed my cattles and i pulled the trigger Lokha said no but I shot it That injured tiger came towards us Since reloading takes time I told lokha to shoot and we ran Even Lokha missed the shot and it came towards him I can only remember I said run guys run

. Not sure what happened, when we came back only blood was there, no tiger no lokha I was tensed that what Suseela will say. Okay have some booze Okay Kitta, i will go for hunting Guys I am leaving.. Is is good Idea to shoot after having this much drinks? This is nothing for me Annayya, look how Manjayya backstabbed us You forget Manjayya, we should hunt tonight I can hear some "Gejje" sound Its Nothing, I have gun, lets go ahead No we will go back I saw some while thing there Its nothing come l

ets go ahead No no, I had little bit booze tonight, we will go back Annayya, we could not hunt last night. Kempa you look like a ghost with this dress We are only ghost here Hey Kempayya, look at that, its like a ghost with fire Ya its a ghost There is some wrong with this place come lets go back, run It has been a week aren’t you going for hunt? We should go Kempa What happened? What to say, After seeing that ghost it keeps coming infront of my eyes Nothing Happens, let hunt tonight. Let me see

I will visit the priest and come Okay Kempaya, it has been a week without hunt, it is very hard to survive Whatever it may be we should hunt tonight Annayya, see there is a ghost Where it is? It looks like some person. Lets see Lokha: leave me It looks like out Lokha Hey Lokha is it you?? Suseela made all the last rights thinking you are gone Annayya, Forester is no the person you think Yenkta: Sir, this is the money Annayya gave I wont touch this money, put this in choudi temple hundi Hundi??

Yes go ahead Okay sir We can't go against these people, if we do they put fire to the forest, I know what to do with these people I will do something That guy takes money and plays games with us. We can't believe this guy. hey, we cant believe this guy. Brother-in-law, Leave me I will tell you everything After the tigers encounter when you all ran. Lokka: Annnyaya, hey annaya help me Forester: You would have been into tigers mouth You have been saved because of me Throw this guy to the corner L

okka: sir do not hit me sir please Yenkta: sir dont hit in hands, take stick. Sir do not hit Forest officer: go bring the itching plant lokka: sir please sir Oh it's itching plant oh no sir I will get itching, sir. don't do it That is the reason we are putting Its itching so much sir, no sir They made me "Kolli Devva" (Fire Ghost) to scare you. Are you Joking with me? I have your gun I will put your whole family behind bars Sir, I will obey whatever you say Okay, you will obey ? Yes sir, I am s

wearing on God Chaudamma. From now on you should obey me Sure sir From now on you should make them stop hunting Sure sir From Now on you should become Fire Ghost What "Fire Ghost"?? Yes Fire Ghost only They also used me to search the treasure Those days there were many rumours and stories about the treasure in the thick forest of Malnad those are the inspirations to write this story Many went to search treasure but nobody got it One more person came in search of treasure he enquired lot about t

reasure One night while searching treasure the find one person from the same village They even used him to search the treasure Is there any relationship between the treasure hunt and trying to stop the hunting?? Treasure ??!! What happened next Kittajja? This is the Part one of Malnad stories I have seen. There are lot of dimensions which I have not yet shared The hidden stories in them will be revealed in the next part. --Traditional Folk song begins--