Bereaved

Murugan an old man in his 80's is seeing at a worn out tree outside the window ,with a last dead leaf falling from it. He was travelling with his memories over the waves of Ilayaraja music from the room to the world out.

He is brought back,when the music in the room is stopped by a young lady dressed in saree,asking him to get ready for the function.

He turns his wheel chair from the window towards the door, stops at a table and opens a box, takes the tablet out and has it.

On keeping the box back, he picks up a fallen picture frame, looks at the picture of himself at his wedding. After placing the frame back, he moves towards the door with the memory of his wife.

He travels in the wheels slowly looking at far end of the hall where his wife's photo is hanged with flowers illuminated by the candle lights.

He turns his wheel to his left to the main hall where people are waiting for him. 

His son Arjun, with his wife Maya and two children Kiku and Manju are sitting in a sofa with a bracelet in everyone's hand.

Arjun walks towards dad, puts a bracelete in his hand, tells him it is going to be ok and kisses in his forehead.

Arjun walks back and sits in the sofa with his wife, puts his bracelete back in his hand. He calls AURA and a mechanical voice answers. Arjun looks around and says ACTIVATE.

Murugan seeing everyone falling asleep one by one begins to panic and starts to breathe heavily. 

His vision slowly starts to get diluted, but then his breathe starts to become normal when he looks at his hand is being held tightly by Manju.

His visions starts to blur, within micro second they are into the void. 

He hears a voice of Arjun telling him not to get lost, and they will be back soon.

Murugan slowly starts to open his eyes with the sound of the music and sound of the people chatting. 

He wakes up to find himself is in a ship sailing in sea with people in it.

He gets up panicked, looks at himself walking again without the wheels, struggles at first with his baby steps, then starts to walks around.

He stops at a cabin made up of glassy material, looksvinto it by rubbing his eyes again and again, finding his reflection as same as he was in his wedding photo.

a man taps on his shoulder greeting him. But Murugan doesn't seems to recognize him. 

The man introduces himself as his cousin Shankar who used to play with him on the banyan tree near their childhood home in Madurai.

Murugan smiles at him awkwardly. Shankar consoles him for the loss of his wife.

Murugan nods his head but doesn't seem to care for the words of a stranger.

A woman comes near Shankar and asks him something in his ears. 

Shankar taps his hand, a screen emerges, types a number, images of coins are shown in the screen. He pushes them towards her, she walks away with a smile.

Murugan thinks and asks him, isn't she his wife who died in the car accident in 1995?

Shankar smiles and tells,she is, but this is not her, but she is.

Murugan was silent and confused.murugan looks around for his family.

Shankar tells him,his family is with the bride also  they are the one who sent him here.

Shankar taps his shoulder and takes him for a walk.asks him to look around at people smiling, drinking, playing with their virtual screen in hand.

Shankar tells him that nothing is real here. They all are in their house laying somewhere with that bracelet in hand.

 Also tells him, this is the new reality, the virtual reality, where people can be anywhere, anyone.

Shankar says when his son brought him here at first, he was arrogant but later he seems to enjoy it more here.also he started to gain everything that he had lost in the real world..

later his son bought his wife here, not his wife but a version of her.

Shankar says, that she was total blank like a slate, later he started teaching her everything and stars to write in the blank page.

as days gone, pages starts to fill. Now she is slowly becoming his wife with his memories, a physical version of memories.

Murugan tells, that he had only his wheel chair, as a reminder of what happened to his wife and in here it is gone.

Shankar puts hand over Murugan's shoulder and tells him, it will be tough to forget the loved ones, but still life has to move on. There are so many people that needs them. 

They don't lose them forever, they still live in their memories.

in here, they don't have death but an eternal life. 

Even if they are dead or going to be dead at some day in real life, they can be made into one like them, by showing his hand over all the virtual people.

As their walk ends in the wedding hall, both looks at the bride and groom kissing at each other.

Shankar asks Murugan, how does he think that they will have their first night, here or in real world?

Murugan laughs and both giggles like a child looking at each other.. A woman in the crowd calls Shankar with a hand wave.

shankar hugs Murugan and tells him he has to leave now, also asks him to keep smiling and to start embracing the new reality.

moving away from the crowd, Murugan walks towards the bow, the edge of the ship which reminds him of the movie titanic, which he has seen with his wife on their first wedding anniversary.

As he was floating in his memories, he hears Arjun's voice saying, he was sure that he can find him here.

He looks back to find his whole family standing behind him.

Murugan looks confused. When they moves aside with a smile, Murugan's eyes widens.

A woman walks in with a image of his wife from his wedding photo.

The woman asks Murugan, if this reminds him of titanic?

Arjun looks at Murugan and tells him, he knows mom too..

At the far end ,shankar is standing at far looking at murugan with a warm smile.

Murugan eyes were filled with tears..

Murugan turns back ,looks at her with a smile.