When Murugan opened his eyes, he felt a strange sensation on his body. He felt nauseated; his head seemed heavy as if he was carrying a mountain over his head. He wondered "Where am I? In heaven or hell"...Slowly he looked around. He saw a familiar place... The TV was switched on and he saw the plastic cups and the unopened whiskey bottles. He was alive... His brain picked up speed and started functioning...

Murugan always wondered about the mystery called life... He cursed it. He always thought that life was unfair to him never giving him what he wanted... He knew he was on the losing side, in the game called life... He came to the big city, Chennai with lots of dreams...Murugan was always fascinated by machines... He thought had the skills and the talent to become a good mechanic... But even after 5 years he was still staying in the same old mansion in Triplicane.His life had not progressed a bit... He found tough to meet his ends with his daily income... He left his love life in the village, promising her to be back after 5 years and marry her. But when he got the letter from his friend that she was going to get married and could not wait any longer, he felt he was standing at the edge of his life... He knew that he had failed and saw no hope. That’s when he decided to end his life...

He headed straight to Thiruneermalai, a temple on a mountain... He planned to marry her in the same temple. He thought it would be poetic if he ended his life by jumping off the cliff of the mountain... His mind was racing with thoughts. He relieved of his past memories... The movies that he saw with her, the plots he devised to meet her. She too was a kamalahasan fan... They never missed a movie of his... As he was nearing the edge of a cliff, a thought flashed in his mind...Was his idea fool-proof? What if he survives the fall and hangs on a tree branch as kamal survived in the movie punnagai mannan? No. He knew that life derived a sadistic pleasure by making him fail in his attempts...He changed his mind and thought of a new plan...

Murugan switched on the TV in his room... He removed the plastic cups and the whiskey bottles that he bought from the nearby TASMAC shop...He read somewhere that taking sleeping pills along with alcohol would put him into permanent sleep... He bought 4 bottles of alcohol and he knew it would take a big effort from him to finish off 4 bottles. He had only tasted beer in his life... He opened the first bottle and started his ritual...

That's the last thing Murugan could remember. He woke up to find 2 bottles of whiskey still unopened... The sleeping pills were scattered around him. He couldn’t believe what was happening to him... Obviously he must have passed out before completing his task... Life was not letting him to live or die... He had to somehow make the last plan work...He was not going to take any more failures... He looked at the time. It was 7:30 AM on that beautiful Sunday...He sobered up and started off towards the Marina beach...

Murugan cursed himself for not trying out this plan first... All he had to do was keep walking towards the beach and finally into the water... The rest would be taken care automatically... He knew that the beach would not be crowded on this Sunday morning... He saw the regular joggers, a group of people practicing karate and a few kids playing cricket... He scanned the beach for a while and decided on the spot from where he was going to step into the water...

He stepped on the sand and started his final walk with his head down...He must have walked a 100 feet but the sea still looked far off. As soon as he crossed the group of kids playing cricket, he heard screams around him... Murugan lifted his head and couldn’t believe what he saw...A huge wave of about 15 feet high was coming at him... He felt as if the God of death finally took pity on him and was greeting him with its huge arms... The next moment the wave hit him. He was completely drowned and his mind went blank. There was complete darkness for almost 15 seconds. He knew that he was riding on the wave but he feared that the wave was carrying him towards the shore...

When the first wave dropped him, he was hardly 10 feet away from the shore... He couldn’t understand what was happening. It was not the same marina beach that he knew of. The first wave has almost left 5 feet of water and he was barely able to stand... He was not going to give up at any cost. He decided to let the sea take him and decided to move forward. He felt someone was holding onto him... He noticed a kid, tightly holding on to his belly... The kid gagged as soon as his body hit the air...He must be one of the kids from the cricket group...

Just as Murugan placed the kid on his shoulder, he saw the second wave coming towards him...He saw a tree hardly couple of feet away and ran towards it... It was not easy running in water and with a kid on a shoulder. He mustered all his energy and leapt towards the tree. As soon as the kid, by his instincts, got hold of the branch of the tree, the second wave hit them. Murugan failed to catch hold of the tree branch and the wave carried him. Murugan saw debris around him before he passed out.

When Murugan opened his eyes, he felt a strange sensation on his body. He felt nauseated;his head seemed heavy as if he was carrying a mountain over his head. He wondered "Where am I? In heaven or hell"...Slowly he looked around. He saw a familiar place... The TV camera was zooming on him. There were people around. He was alive. His brain picked up speed and started functioning...He had survived the Tsunami and saved a kid...

From then on, Murugan became the local hero. He was considered as the bravest, strongest man who could handle any situation and never give up.

Murugan wondered about the mystery called life...