tamil → English transcript

Before coming into politics

Hey, will people like him even show up?

He himself never came; where’s he going to show up?

A lot of people said that, all gung-ho.

And then, brother,

After announcing the party’s name,

He’s only announced the name, right?

Now they peddled all that,

now they’ve come here.

They say he’ll come straight from a film shoot,

come and seize power.

How can he pull that off?

He can’t.

He can’t, either.

He has so many years behind him,

and on one side, “How can he do it?”

Don’t do the wrong math just because of that.

Because this gathering of ours

isn’t just votes.

Is the coming election anti-people?

Is it a hunt we’ll set for the rulers?

Is it the route we’ll send to our stronghold?

You’ll see very soon when it happens.

Because in the hearts and homes of tens of millions of Amma’s people already

No, man, we exist as life, feelings, and relationships.

Our connections are only with people.

They know who we are, and we know who they are.

Our enemies know very well what we and our people are like.