Mersal (2017)

Joseph Vijay: Vetrimaaran, Maaran, Vetri

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• Vetrimaran : You want to bury the truth? Son of a gun! No one can do that. 2 instead of 1 will take revenge you. Don't think our hands will always be lowered. One day... Some day or the other our hands will rise and speak!

• Vetrimaran : A baby is born in 10 months. It takes 3 years to become a graduate. For a doctor or engineer it takes 4-5 years. But for a leader to be moulded... it takes a "yuga". We get only 1 leader for a generation. A leader isn't a mere word... it is trust in totality of an entire generation!

• Maaran : TV, mixie, grinder, fan as freebies, Rs 5000 per vote, our state is known for doling out all this as if we can't give tablets?

• Vetri : Kids love magic, and I love kids!

• Vetri : The spark of fire you set aflame... will ask you to blaze in all its glory... The deeds of karma you sowed... will wait to slice and stamp you with fury!

• Vetri : Man has faith in 2 entities blindly. One is God, the other is doctor. We tonsure our heads as a vow to God, but we trust a doctor with our life. That doctor should not go astray... A criminal should not be a doctor. Misdeeds happen everywhere, but in the medical field it isn't a mere misdeed. It is treachery. There is no forgiveness for that betrayal!

• Vetri : People are more petrified of hospitals than dying of strange diseases. Only that fear... is the investment of private hospitals!

• Vetri : There are million way to get rich, but medicine is not the route. Till the last broker in this business is busted and bashed... my struggle will continue.

• Vetrimaran : Hereafter no one in this village will be deprived of medical aid. Let us build the hospital!

• Vetrimaran : Listen carefully... When you know it is wrong, don't remove your conscience. Take off your police uniform!

• Vetri : But before the last sword, I would like to say a poem for my Tamil friend Dr. Arjun, in Tamil... the mother of all languages!

• Maaran : Because you say we have progressed, in a cinematic style let me quote our hero Vijaykanth. "In creating the best doctors and sending them to 34 foreign countries, India stands first." But at the same time, in providing proper medical aid for her own people, India occupies 112th place. 57.3% of doctors in India lack proper medical qualifications. Do you know the number of medical errors in India? 5.2 million. In a nation with a population of 1.2 billion... if only 120 people enjoy proper medical aid, it isn't called 'progress'.

• Maaran : Medicine of high quality, free for humanity... that is my dream.

• Maaran : In the midst of 100 efficient doctors, there are at least 10 doctors using medicine as a business tool. They will lose their cool hearing my replies... Are you angry?

• Vetri : Nothing personal, just... service!

• Vetri : So many lose their near and dear ones without proper medical facilities. The pain lodged in every common man's heart... his helpless fury.