![]() What ensues is a chain of events, mysterious for some, absurd for others, but everyone decides to go with the ‘popular’ opinion. While Naaniyamma is oblivious to the hullaballoo, an upright Kochukuttan decides to address his moral dilemma and join the rooster hunt. ![]() Panic-stricken patriots, revolutionaries, believers, communists and rural folk vouch for the ‘existential crisis’ caused by the piercing sarcastic hoot of cockerels in the village and together decide to go for ‘total annihilation’. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Communists, schoolchildren, teachers – everyone’s rituals and activities, even the National Anthem, get disrupted by the catastrophic hoot of the rooster, which, interestingly, no one has seen, but only heard or felt. Rumours mount, pass from ear to ear, get repeated and finally ‘become’ the truth.
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