the present day, Amy is urgently called back to London to have a life-saving operation. However, she is determined to find Parithi and by chance encounters a taxi driver who assumes that she would want to visit a charitable trust named Durai Ammal Foundation. The driver shows her around the foundation, which has organizations providing free housing for orphans and the elderly, medical care, and affordable education (all of which were promised to the dhobi children by the young Amy several years ago). She realizes that the Durai Ammal Foundation was established by Parithi and named after her. Then, when Amy asks the driver what happened to Parithi, he leads her to his tomb and reveals that he died 12 years ago. She kneels before the tomb and claims the thali as her own. She declares "It's mine!" before quietly passing away on Parithi's tomb. Catherine mourns for her, and the taxi driver is dumbfounded to learn that the old woman was "Durai Amma" herself. The epilogue shows Parithi and Amy (as they were in their younger days) in the afterlife, depicted as a 1940s-style Madrasapattinam. As the credits roll, a series of montage images are shown, illustrating the transformation of the early 20th century Madras into modern-day Chennai. Cast Arya as Ilamparithi aka Parithi Amy Jackson as Amy Wilkinson / Duraiammal Carole Trangmar-Palmer as Older Amy Wilkinson / Duraiammal (Voiceover by Andrea Jeremiah) Nassar as Ayyakanu Cochin Haneefa as Nambi Alexx O'Nell as Robert Ellis* Lisa Lazarus as Catherine M. S. Bhaskar as Vengappan Bala Singh as Duraisamy Omar Lateef as Kabir N. L. Srinivasan as Karna Sathish as Pacha M. R. Kishore Kumar as Rengan Elango Kumaravel as Taxi Driver Balaji Venugopal as Veerasekhara Murali Lollu Sabha Jeeva as Murali's assistant Jack James as Governor George Wilkinson George Maryan as English Teacher Appukutty as Kaali Sampath Ram as Anbazhagan Leema Babu as Selvi Loveday Smith as George's wife Jayakumar as Nambi's grandson Ajayan Bala as Chennai Central Station Master Nicholas as DSP Gary Tantony as Golf Grounds Engineer Mike Parish as The Reverend M. Smith Matthieu Bellon as British Officer Neelu Nasreen T. M. Karthik as Painter (uncredited) Production Director A. L. Vijay revealed that Madrasapattinam was supposed to happen later in his career, but the intervention of producer Kalpathi S. Aghoram helped realize the viability of the film earlier. Vijay had first explored the script in his