Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: plot is set in 1940s in village of Travancore, Fact2: Kaliyappan is dragging remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping Mother Goddess, Fact3: King 's messenger While proved beyond doubt pulling on life by boozing worshiping Goddess and treating ailing people with ash obtained by burning hanging rope, Fact4: hangman As has to spend eve of execution tradition, Fact5: son 's sense of punishment Just like witch hunter 's wife in ignores innocent victim Mahabharata
Output (English): The plot is set in the 1940s in a village of Travancore, British India. Kaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess. The reason for this selfdestruction is the remorse born out of the feeling that the last man he hanged was an innocent. While pulling on his life by boozing, worshiping the Goddess and treating ailing people with the ash obtained by burning the hanging rope, one day the Kings messenger once again arrives with the Kings order of appointing him for executing a convict termed as a killer, proved beyond doubt. He leaves to the jail with his Gandhian, freedom fighter son to assist him in his job. As a tradition, the hangman has to spend the eve of the execution awake. When alcohol fails to keep Kaliyappan awake, the jailer starts telling aspicy tale to keep him awake, the tale of a 13yearold girl raped and killed by her own brotherinlaw and an innocent musician boy convicted for this charge. When Kaliyappan comes to know the condemned person he is about to hang is that very same musician boy, he breaks down. The job of executing the convict is passed on to his assistant, his son. The Gandhian, freedom fighter son completes the job. His motivations are not spelt out, but the choice of title hints that the son perhaps punishes the father by reminding him that any of his prior executions may have been a farce just like this one. Just like the witch hunters wife in Mahabharata, the sons sense of punishment completely ignores the innocent victim who would be executed. We are reminded that what we think of something as just may not always be so.