
The scene is set in an office somewhere in Tamil Naidu.
Alagu is an office manager of a shop that exports tairoo. His sister-in-law Soodamani, also works there, as does his mistress Anjali.
“Soodamani!” Alagu yells. “Vangge!”
Soodamani hurries to her brother-in-law’s office. “What is it, Alagu? Tell me!”
“I will have to cut operating cost because no one wants to buy our tairoo. After all, we’re still producing milk although it looks like tairoo. So more has to be spent on research and development,” Alagu explains. “So the first thing I’ll do is to ask you to quit since you’re overpaid and under-qualified.”
“What?” Soodamani retorts in disbelief. “You cannot do that to me, Alagu! My husband is away in Singapore now still working as a cook in a restaurant. I won’t have enough mony to pay for my bullock cart and so on!”
“Dey! Soothe moodu!” Alagu yells. “You do as I say or else I’ll put you up on the retrenchment list and give you only 10 paise as retrenchment benefit.”
“You do that and I’ll tell my akaa that you’ve been screwing Anjali in your office every morning!” Soodamani threatens.
“Dey, pomble! Paithiamma? If that is the game you want to play, then I’ll have no choice but to ask Anjali to leave this office as well,” Alagu bellows.
Soon this day, only Alagu the Powderful Manager, is left in the tairoo export office.
