Teacher! Letter for you!
The second largest continent in the world.
Africa!
The first signs of human life in Africa can be traced back to 7 million years ago.
Teacher!
Saraswati, where were the first cavemen found?
Africa. - Good.
What's the matter, Nokur? Why are you panting?
I have a telegram for you.
It's from Kolkata.
It's from an Italian maiden from Kolkata.
What's her name?
Anna Florian.
What is it? A love letter?
No.
She hopes to meet me.
Who knows what she wants?
Never!
Don't get involved with these foreign girls!
What will people say?
Ma... - Hmm.
...she's not coming to offer her hand in marriage.
You are too much!
She might as well have...
Would give you a chance to become a family man!
Then you would finally stop travelling all over the world!
You need to calm down.
Ma, this is the age to travel the world.
That's enough! Go to Kalighat and pray to the Goddess!
I've already sent the telegram.
Dear Anna! Welcome to Keutia!
Wow! What a nice car!...
Anna. Anna Florian.
Shankar Chowdhury.
I am an anthropologist from Italy.
Are you really an anthropologist?
Yes, sir. I love to work with tribal people all across the world.
Congolese, Africa, Mesoamerica,
India and so on.
I see.
Here in India, I have studied the Khasi, Naga,
or Munda and Toto people.
Really? That's incredible!
I would love to learn about ethnic people too.
But I've come to meet you for a different reason altogether, Shankar.
What is it?
Cauliflower curry and luchi (flatbread). Want some?
Luchi! Sounds so Italian. Love you Ma!
Hey! - Please...
Where will she stay at night? She's already made me her mother-in-law!
Ma... - I will return to Kolkata in the evening, Ma.
You can speak Bengali?
Yes.
Do you want some lentil cake curry?
Tell me...
We are from the island of Sardinia, Italy.
12 years ago my father brought me from Sardinia to Sao Paulo.
Brazil?
Yes, Brazil!
My father Marco Florian was a pianist.
He headed the keyboard section for the Theatro Municipal de Sao Paulo.
Philharmonic?
But in the last 2 years our lives have changed completely.
Why? What happened?
It was my father's dream...
He would become an explorer, a prospector, you see.
That's why he quit his job as a musician and...
...joined the Amazon expedition, two years ago.
He tried navigating the Amazon upstream.
Your father had set out to explore Amazonia?
But why?
Papa had gone out in search of Lake Parime.
Legend says, the City of Gold lies on the bank of Lake Parime.
City of Manoa!
El Dorado.
City of Gold... - Yes!
Francisco de Orellana, the navigator...
...one who explored the Amazon first,
had an anonymous co-voyager, who drew a map.
A piece of which my father had procured.
It mentioned the route to the legendary city.
Your father had a piece of the map to El Dorado?
Yes, but that map was tattered.
It was also torn and incomplete.
And no one knew where the other half was.
The exploration failed due to the emergence of a cyclone on the river.
It is the cyclone in Amazon that caused the shipwreck.
The piece of the map was lost.
And the rest of the crew died...
...while my father alone could swim and make it to the shore.
Your father's adventure sounds like a fairy tale.
Exactly!
My sick father was rescued by the Mura Indians.
They brought him back to civilisation.
My father was afflicted by the yellow fever.
It was a sand fly bite.
His old Portugese friend, Carlito Benitez...
...nursed my father and cured him.
How is he now?
Worse.
He has become an alcoholic.
A lonely and defeated human being.
No.
You cannot say that one is defeated if he fights and loses.
Because a man who is defeated can never fight.
Marco Florian still believes in the existence of El Dorado.
He believes that the City of Gold exists...
...in the valley of the Lower Orinoco river.
The legend of El Dorado is not a myth, Shankar.
The tribes of Amazonia believe so.
And it is this belief that has driven my father mad.
And you have come so far to tell me all of this!
But why?
Why are you sharing all this with me?
Help me out!
I need you to save him from this painful mental agony.
Me?
You are a real explorer, Shankar.
I have read about you.
You can do it.
With you by his side, I am sure my father's dream will come true.
Don't you wish to see the City of Gold?
When are you planning for the expedition?
It was towards the beginning of World War I
When the whole of Europe was fighting the war of...
...nationalism and expansion of empires.
A Bengali man, in colonised India had been overcome...
...by a calling from beyond the seas.
The Northern terrain of South America was calling out to him.
The violent cosmos had created another extensive battlefield for him.
Shankar set out to become one of the few men to have explored Amazonia.
May God be with you...
Ana and Shankar travelled the seas for a long time.
Bombay Port, Piraeus Port in Greece,
the Seville harbour in Italy, and the city of Lisbon had to be passed...
in order to cross the Atalntic and arrive at the port of Santos in South America.
The excitement of seeing the unseen helped Shankar overcome his tiredness.
Shankar's wanderlust finally took flight.
My friend!
Anna, welcome to Santos. - Thank you very much, Carlito.
My friend from India, Shankar Chowdhury.
India? The subcontinent of various cultures.
I love India.
Glad to meet you, Carlito.
Let's go home Shankar. Papa is waiting for us.
Marco is not home. He hasn't got back last night.
Oh!
He must have been to the Opera House then.
Who is it?
It's your daughter, Marco! She has come from India.
I missed you so much!
Anna!
Papa! - Anna!
Papa! I missed you a lot too.
Look at you! You are all skin and bones.
Stop worrying about me Pa- - No, no...
Tonight we celebrate your return home.
Tonight we drink the whole night.
Papa! No alcohol, please.
Look who has come to help us out in our voyage.
Who is he?
The Bengali gentleman Fitzgerald used to talk about.
Shankar, the explorer of Africa.
This man from the Orient will help us out in our mission in the Amazon.
Namaste. Shankar Chowdhury.
You're crazy! Stupid girl!
You bring a Bengali gentleman to help us in a rainforest?
No! No!
He will be a wasteful expenditure!
Useless! - Papa wait!
He can do wonders.
That boy is an ignorant fellow.
Useless!...
I have dragged this gentleman all the way from Asia...
...and now you cannot dishonour him. He is our guest in Sao Paulo.
Have I denied him residence in my villa?
He is going to have to pay and prove his worth.
You and your mother suffer from the same disease.
You always fail to find quality men in life!
And that includes you too, Papa.
Excuse me, my friend.
Wise man from the East!
What do you know about the Amazon?
Amazon is the lungs of the planet.
The Carbon Sink. Which we are gradually destroying.
In the same way that the cigar is destroying your lungs.
The cigar is my good old friend.
Francisco de Orellana named the river The Amazon.
Do you know why?
Women warriors in the forest reminded him of Amazon women.
The fighters from the Helenic myth.
In Greece.
It's a common knowledge. Everybody knows that.
The Virgins of the Sun.
Have you ever even read about them?
Because I, Marco Florian...
...I have witnessed them.
This is your room. The guest room of our Villa Rufolo.
Rest for the day.
Grazie.(Thank you)
Aha! Italiano.
No, no. Just trying.
It's good!
Napoli Lasagna. - Wow!
Ravioli in meat soup and...
...my favourite cake. Dinner is ready!
And so...
...Theodore Roosevelt and Signor Candido Rondon...
It was a couple of years back. They tried an expedition in to the Amazon.
They started the expedition in Chacharas. A small village...
...on the river Paraguay.
Then they reached Tapirapua.
And then they reached the plains of plateau Parecis.
Now...
...we have to go to the map, because you will see...
...they get all the way to-
- a new river. The River of Doubt.
At this point of time due to lack of food, the expedition failed.
And that was the last attempt to explore the Amazon.
Signor Shankar!
Champagne de la Jarretieri!
You think an Indian man can handle it?
I don't know, sir.
Thank you, but...
...I don't drink.
No, no, no...
In Italy we blend our work and life like food and wine.
Alcohol is the choice of an...
...escapist.
Don't you dare judge me!
In South America, the monsoon is long.
And the rainfall is heavy.
During the monsoons the water level around the Amazon...
...and its tributaries is about 45 feet more than usual.
During the heavy monsoons, navigating the Amazon becomes impossible.
And thus the forces of nature impeded Shankar's adventure.
It is a sunny morning, at last!
Finally we have a beautiful sun!
Anna! - Papa!
The weather has changed in our favour!
Yes! - You must write to Carlito!
And we can go on our journey!
Papa!
The boat Nunez has built is already off to Amazonia!
From Belem do Para.
Great! That's great!
And Aloisio Nunez will meet us at Manaus.
Happy for your family. - Thank you.
I can feel Bolero in my veins!
Come Carlito!
Goodbye Santos!
From the Port of Santos, moving along the Santos-Jundiai railroad...
...and across the Serra do Mar mountain range...
...Shankar, Anna and Marco moved towards Sao Paulo.
Shankar never imagined that he would get the chance...
...to travel from the east to the west of Brazil.
Sao Paulo, named after Saint Paul.
The city of the rivers Parana, Pinheiros and Tiete.
Our first camp will be on the banks of the Rio Tiete river.
Sao Paulo is now the seat of Brazilian culture and commerce.
Andrade, Malfatti and Sao Paulo football club.
Oh.
The city has a Latin motto...
...for itself.
Non ducor, duco.
It means, 'I am not led, I lead.'
Grande! (Great)
Hello! Alarico!
It is good to see an old friend.
This is Sao Paulo, the land of show business!
Remember, we are Paulistas and you are Paulistanos!
He means the rural-urban divide.
What brought you guys here?
Excuse me Signor Alarico,
we need 3 good Brazilian sports horses!
The very best you got.
What do you need them for? Where are you going?
To be specific...
...El Dorado.
Amazonia? - Yes.
No! That's the Land of Death!
What did he say?
Alarico wants to know, why Amazonia?
The Land of Death.
Land of Death...
In Bengali it is Mrityupuri.
My friend, I must say adios (goodbye).
No, in Portugese we don't say adios, we say 'volte breve'.
Come back soon.
Volte breve!
Mato Grosso , Brazil.
The Mato Grosso terrain is divided into 3 parts.
Pantanals or wetlands.
Cerrado, that which is covered by grass, makes up the major part of the land upstream.
Pronounced Cerrado in Portugese.
And thick rainforests.
This river is called Rio Tiete.
The tribals call it 'River of truthful water.'
Borboun Santos?
Coffee Arabica from Latin America.
Thank you.
On this adventure we shall meet people from various tribes in Amazonia.
Tupinquims, Tupinambas, Tapuyas and Muras.
Are they friendly?
Oh yes!
Some are. Some do not like us.
Us, so called civilised people, pretending to be drinking Arabica coffee.
Coffee... Aren't you drinking today?
You ask too many questions, my boy!
And you talk too much!
Leaving their camp in Rio Tiete, they moved further into the depths of Sao Paulo.
They passed through the Mato Grosso ecosystem and moved towards Cuiaba Vareza Grande.
The people of the Bororo tribe call this a Frenchmans cave.
Ghost shelter.
Are they fighters?
Yes, my boy...
...at times.
Other times they choose to paint.
Here, take it.
From these artists to an artist of a different kind.
The Emanuelle Bowen map.
It is from the David Ramsey collection, 1747.
Wow!
And we are right here.
Cuiaba. - Yes, it is.
Look at the rubber solution.
No!...
Be careful!
Down! Down!
Dear Lord! It is so beautiful!
Papa, Shankar, come!
See, it's amazing! It's a natural pool!
Come! Come!...
Anna! Look!
The bridge was built by the ethnic Kulina people.
Very old. Very fragile.
This bridge is made from the vines of the liana tree.
It may collapse anytime.
Listen...
...we shouldn't take this bridge.
No! but we have no choice.
We have to cross here!
Anna! Anna! You go and you be very careful.
Ok? - Ok, Papa.
Go, Shankar.
Go slowly Anna.
Go slow!
Be careful!
Marco!
Papa!
Are you ok?
Ok! - Ok.
Come on!
Come...
Come on...
Oh!
Anna!
Papa! - Anna!
Marco!
Come on Marco! Get up!
Papa!
I've got you!
Papa! Papa!
Help!
Get up Marco!
Quickly!
I'll come get you!
Slowly grab the side of the bridge.
Yes...
Papa, please, quickly... - Slowly...
Papa I can't! Hurry, Papa!
Marco slow!
Papa is here to help!
Papa I can't! - Stay!
I'm losing it! - No, no...
Papa! Quick!
Quick Papa!
Stay Anna ! Stay...
Hold it!
Papa!
Guys come on! Move!
Move!
The bridge is going to break! Hurry up!
Go Anna! Go! You must go!
Go Anna!
Go! The horses...
I can't!
That's it, my girl.
Go...
Move, Marco.
We are going to jump!
Slow!
Marco!
Papa!
Marco!
Papa!
Marco! Marco!
Papa! - Marco be careful! I'm coming.
Hey!
Shankar!
Anna!
I can do something!
Throw me the rope!
Go ! Get the rope!
Shankar! - Papa hold on!
Hold on! I can do it!
Marco! - Wait!
Hold on I'm getting the rope. - Anna!
Oh my God!... - Papa hold on!
Catch it!
Marco! Hold the rope!
Hold with both hands!
One, two, three... Hold it!
Go! Go!
Hold on! I got you Papa!
Are you ok? - I got you Papa!
Almost there!
Hold on Papa!
Oh Papa!
Shankar!
Come to Papa!
You! You are an angel!
You are a Godsend.
Rubber plantations were one of the main sources of income for Brazil at the time.
In 1910, the escalation of Brazil's economy, which centered around rubber production...
...is remembered by history as The First Rubber Boom.
The rubber barons coined a term for the area - 'The gold mines of Mato Grosso.'
This rubber tree was like a gold mine to the European bussinesmen...
...and brought tears to the eyes of the native Brazilians.
Finally you are going to meet my very good friend, Dr.Clayton.
He will give us the boat and we can navigate the river Madeira...
...all the way to Porto Velho!
Finally! - The rubber barons rule here.
Spanish Mestizo Caucheros.
Muchachos.
They help them control the Ameri-Indian slaves.
Slaves...
The very worst outcome of European colonisation in South America.
It's called The Rubber Boom.
Good. Very good.
Sir, your friends are here. - Huh?
Your friends are here.
Oh!
Marco!... - My friend!
Welcome to the Rubber Land!
It is so good to see you again my friend.
Long time no see! I haven't heard you play the sonata for so long.
It would be a privilege for me to play for you once again.
Thank you...
Let me introduce my daughter Anna. You remember?
Oh, sure. - Hello.
And my new friend Shankar, from India!
Namaste.
Ankoma! Ankoma!
Please come here!
Hi!
This is Ankoma. An excellent hunter. - Hello.
This is Marco Florian, an old friend. - Nice to meet you.
Brazilian coffee, want some more? - Ankoma?
What do you all, hunt here?
Crocodiles, yakares, snakes,
wolves,
But only until they try to harm the humans.
Hunting is not a pleasure to me.
It's a profession.
What about jaguars?
Meet Isabelle, my fiancee.
Hello! - Hello!
A little snack for you? - Thank you Isabelle.
Hello...
Amazonian delicacies!
Life in Amazon is not as tasty as tapioca.
The Tapuyas will feed on you.
Stop Augusto! Behave yourself.
They are my friends.
Friends? Intruders! That's what they are!
They come here to loot our gold.
Hey!
Get out!
Excuse me, sir. One moment please.
Please understand...
...we have not come here to loot.
We have not come to take anybody's gold. Please!
We've come here to see, to discover, to...
...to experience!
And understand El Dorado!
Yes!
Yes...
Mr.Barret, we'll meet you at dinner.
See you!
One more thing.
Don't forget to carry guns.
The jaguars would love to feed on you.
So, Clayton's boat is ready.
He has asked me to take a medicine for his friend.
Dr.Dittmer.
Dittmer is a mad, German medicine man all the way out in Barcelos.
But he will be our only contact with the Yanomami tribe.
But I don't understand- - What?
Why does Dittmer stay alone in the jungle?
I mean, why alone?
You will like that soon.
Guarana? Please try it. - Join us my boy!
From Barret's farm. - Yes!
For you. - Wonderful!
Isabelle makes a lovely drink out of those.
I'm sure she does.
Tell me one thing...
...since how long have you been working for...
...for Barret?
For almost 6 years now.
6 years? - Yes, I feel I am wasting my youth.
Why? - Ya, right...
But once I marry Isabelle, I am out of here.
I'll live in Madrid.
I'll open a restaurant down there.
Madrid? - Yes.
Restaurant?
How grand! You must live your dream, my boy!
I will!
Cheers!
About jaguars... Jaguars are not man - eaters.
But there is a drought going on in the Pantanals.
Or the wetlands.
So they have migrated northwards.
Do they live in herds?
No! They are solitary.
Opportunistic.
Stalk and ambush. Predators.
Please don't hit me!
All these days and this is the best you can do?
Where is all the rubber?
Hey! - Hey!
Stop!
You!
Leave her.
Leave her alone.
Let's go.
Congratulations, my friend.
Beautiful!
Pomp and Circumstance.
Sir Edward William Elgar. - Yes.
It reminds me of London.
Thank you.
It is dinner time.
Oh. Come join me ladies and gentlemen.
Ah! Isabelle dear, would you please get me a bottle of Cachaca.
Sure, Mr.Barret. -Thank you.
Please...
So tell me, why shouldn't I feel proud of my race?
We own the New World.
We teach others to live in a civilised manner.
Maybe to play the piano too.
Sorry sir. I beg to differ.
Every land has got its own civilisation.
And they are older than yours.
White people are killing the Aborigines.
Anna!
Excuse me miss, but in the jungle, the fittest survive.
Gun powder talks in the wild.
If gunpowder talks in the wild...
...mine is an orator.
The Aborigines need to be secured rather than flogged, Delgado.
Dear...
...these people are savages.
Illiterates!
Even cannibals.
They would die anyway, right?
In the jungle it's hard to say who kills first.
The prey or the predator.
Aah!
Shankar!
Isabelle is in danger.
Let's go! - Fast!
Stay.
You go that side.
Aah!
Shankar!
Ankoma!...
Aah!
Clayton, I'll make sure that Dittmer receives his medicine.
Oh! Offer him this letter.
It says everything about you.
Me? - Yes.
Goodbye, my friend. - Thank you so much. Goodbye.
See you.
Bye.
The indigenous people of Brazil call this tributary of the Amazon, the River of Cuari.
The Portugese named it Rio Madeira.
The Wood River.
Marco, Anna and Shankar had decided to take this river to reach the Amazon.
Marco, are we navigating the same river?
I don't know Shankar.
I'm not certain. Remember Roosevelt got lost here.
This river is a very dangerous river.
According to the map we have moved far away from our destination, Manaus.
Yes.
Take a look.
Shankar, we take the boat to the river bend...
...then we abandon the boat.
And we go by foot.
After losing their way on the river...
...Marco and Shankar decided...
...to get out of the water.
They didn't even have a boat.
They decided to reach Manaus by walking through the jungle.
It's a long walk through...
...the Tupinamba Nation territory.
Yes... Let's go!
Let's go. Follow me.
Let's go!
We are here.
Anna!
Lapacho and Yerba Mate herbs.
From the forest.
Makes an antiseptic and a herbal drink.
There are around 500 different kinds of herbs in Amazonia.
Discovered by the ethnic Amazonians.
Now I understand why your friend Dittmer lives amongst the tribals.
Learning tricks to survive in the jungle.
Beyond the ridge lies the valley.
The valley of the river Amazon.
We are almost there.
Finally.
Oh, Mother of God!
Look!
There she lies!
Amazonia!
Manaus was formerly called Lugar de Barra do Rio Negro.
Two of the most important tributaries of the Amazon river...
...Rio Negro, The Black River and Rio Solimoes, The Sandy River...
...meet near the port of Manaus.
Many people used to refer to Manaus as 'The Paris of the Tropics.'
Manaus is beautiful.
Come now!
Rubber is the reason.
It brings a great profit.
That's why the Ameri-Indians, the blacks from Africa and the whites from Europe are all here.
The Africans have made it from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Papa!
Anna!
Caravel Combatente! Ready to combat...
...the waves of Rio Negro.
The tide is in favour.
Destination: Miratinga.
The river Negro is so dark, it's almost like strong tea.
Do you know why? Because of humic acid.
The map says that we are near Miratinga beach.
Yes!
The Witch of Endor.
In my previous expedition, she sank in this area.
And she's waiting for me.
You really believe that the map is still there?
I feel it inside me.
The cork bottle with the map inside is underneath the water. Safe.
Inside the vault, inside the wreck of my boat.
It is intact.
Shankar! Do you have any diving experience?
Bengali?
Of course. I'm a champion swimmer.
Good! Then you and Anna go. I will not go.
Why? - But why?
The sight of my wrecked ship will upset me too much.
I do not want to face my wretched past.
We all have to face the past.
To ensure our future.
Come on. Let's go.
Anna...
...let's go.
Come Papa. Let's go.
Marco Florian.
Chief Juma!
So good to see you after all this time!
You are back. You are healthy.
I have come to explore your Amazonia again.
That's impossible! No one gets back from there alive.
Yes! I understand. But we will be the exception.
And I need your help to locate my shipwreck in the Black River.
I want the map to El Dorado.
Thank you!
Anna come! He's going to help us.
Shankar, you must be careful in these waters, it is a breeding ground for...
...piranha, red belly, and the notorious black caiman.
Juma!
Juma...
Is he alive?
1,2,3,4...
Shankar!
Please God...
Oh my boy!
Thank you God!
Anna! - Papa!
You got to stay there!
Papa! It hurts!
Papa!
Come fast!
Come...
Let's go!
After recovering the map to El Dorado from the shipwreck in Miratinga,
old Marco realised that they were one step closer to their final destination.
In Bengali we call these trees 'Mohiruho'.
These trees have seen the Spanish invasion.
This continent has witnessed the war between the Spanish and the Portugese.
Wow! The map of Orellana.
Yes! But we need to read all the symbols.
There is the river Negro and the lower Orinoco basin.
But somewhere there is the key to our Heaven's Door.
But the scale of the map is arbitrary too.
There are no coordinates.
But there is a piece of the map that is missing!
For us to understand the magic of the map...
...we need to find the rest of it.
That's why the coded directions seem incomplete.
So you have noticed it?
I've seen it. But I can't understand it.
Have you studied cryptology?
Only a little.
The question is my boy, can you decipher the code?
If I had been successful in my previous expedition to El Dorado...
...Anita, she would have not left me so quickly.
Time.
Time is the best doctor, sir.
It will heal your pain. I promise.
It will be ok.
Shankar, time heals the pain...
...but it leaves a scar in your mind...
...and your heart.
My father passed away 2 years ago.
I still think about him.
The Anavilhanas archipelago is about 70 Kms long.
It consists of 400 islands.
The combatants were making there way down the narrow bay...
...of the picturesque Anavilhanas.
Anna! - Yes, Papa?
Look!
Look at that boat house far away.
According to Clayton, Dittmer lives there.
It was a long time since Anna had seen a smile on her old father's face.
But in the midst of the rainforest, Shankar's Bohemian spirit...
...was becoming entwined with the cosmos.
Marco, my friend! Come inside!
Your journey to Barcelo must have been quite eventful.
Here are your medicines.
Oh! My medicines. Come on. Come inside!
Beautiful!
Yes! You see...
Aah! Brazilian food. - Yes, of course.
And such Brazilian food should be accompanied by Cachaca!
Cachaca? Yes!
It's quite strong.
Some Cachaca for you? - No, thank you.
Aah! Careful!
It's quite strong.
And a little bit for Anna.
Oh yes! Just a little bit please.
Try a little bit. It's quite strong.
Thank you.
The Land of Gold.
The Spanish used to call it El Dorado.
The whole world is mad about it.
Everyone wants to loot it.
So many fables, so many songs are written on it.
But has anybody really witnessed it?
We are not here to loot the gold.
We are here to witness the truth.
That's alright.
Some people say that the...
...ancient people, Muisca people from Colombia...
...used to store their gold in the Guatavita Lake.
There is a lot of fashion for this history.
It is near the Parime Lake. The mythical Parime Lake.
Stands the City of Manoa.
The City of Gold.
Well, there's never anyone, ever mapped it.
Why don't you do so?
Why don't you go there yourself and find it out?
By yourself on the Yanomami land.
I was hoping you would help us.
Come on! I will help you with maps, routes, everything!
Are you sure?
Yes!
So you will help us! - This is good news!
Yes!
This is wonderful!
Let's make a toast!
The Witches Language.
Doctor... - Yes?
Can I borrow this book of yours?
Are you interested in witchcraft son?
Not really, sir.
But I will need it to decipher the code written on the map.
Ok. Take it.
It's always a pleasure of mine.
Thank you.
I learnt it from a shaman, you know...
Oh Anna please. - Yes, doctor.
Marco, do come here.
Excuse me.
You must keep this Anna with you.
This is Yarima's locket. Keep it with you.
You take this photograph with you and use it as an identity.
They will recognise me in the Yanomami territory. Ok?
Thank you.
Thank you very much. But please...
...show us the way, so we can set sail tomorrow.
But use a raft, not a boat.
Boats cannot move on the rapids of Sao Gabriel.
I see.
Ok, so this is the map. This is the route.
This is your route to Terra Incognita.
The Unknown Territory.
After leaving Barcelo's...
...Anna , Marco and Shankar had taken the Rio Negro in order to reach Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira.
(Singing Italian song)
Ssh!
Marco! Marco!
Shankar!
Why are you so scared, Shankar?
Why are you so on edge?
I think...
I think somebody is following us.
This jungle has many manatees and tapirs.
Take it easy Shankar.
Don't be stressed.
It is all the fear inside you...
...that makes you so restless.
Fear inside!
Marco!
Papa! Are you alright?
Gold hunters!
Anna! Down!
No!
Marco! Be careful!
Who is there?
Keep cover! I'll go for the grenade!
This is Spanish gold. We discovered it first!
We named it the Golden One.
We excavated the Amazon.
We drew the map.
El Dorado belongs to the Spanish people.
This city belongs to the Amazonian people!
Don't you dare loot it!
It's their heritage!
Marco are you ok?
Papa! Papa are you alright?
Anna! I can handle it.
Go! Man the boat! It cannot be unmanned. Guide!
Fast!
Oh my God!
The current is really strong.
Shankar, Anna, you've got to keep your balance.
Stay! Good, good...
The raft is going the wrong way! Shankar help me!
Look! there is a steep waterfall ahead.
Be prepared! We must jump when we get there!
Anna move on your right!
Left! Left! Left!
Stop!
Oh God!
No!
Be prepared!
Jump!
Are you ok? Marco?
Marco...
Papa! Are you alright? Papa tell me!
That way.
Aah!
Ssh...It's alright, Papa.
I think...
You'll be alright.
...we won't be able to complete our mission.
Shankar,
have you ever witnessed a pain so bitter...
Have you ever witnessed?
Your dearest dying a painful death?
Yes, I did! - No, no!...
Look at me Shankar!
Look at me!
Before you, you see a defeated soul...
...drowning in a pool of endless, nauseating, cheap alcohol!!
An endless guilt.
You think you are ready to accept defeat my boy?
Perhaps.
Don't worry!
Fortune- Oh Anna!
Fortune favours the brave.
If I had the other half of the map...
...then I may have been able to crack the Honorius code.
Do you really mean that?
Yes, I do.
Dittmer said that Orellana had travelled to the land of the Yanomamis.
Maybe they know where the other half of the map is?
Marco, Anna and Shankar set out for Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira...
... at the break of dawn.
And there, on the banks of the Vaupes river...
...lay the villages of the Bares, Arapacos, Baniwa and Werekena people.
They are commonly known as the Tupi-Guarani speaking people.
The 3 explorers continued their journey on a canoe...
...they had borrowed from the village of Uaupes.
The Lazinho River, the Caburai River, La River and the Tucano river...
... must be crossed in order to reach the foot of the Pico da Neblina Mountain.
These were the instructions given by Dr.Claus Dittmer.
Web of the tarantula.
The most dangerous spider species in Amazonia.
They frequently make these thick webs.
Is this cabin safe for us?
I think they must have left the place a long time ago.
I think... Let's find the insect first.
I'll take a nap.
Let me get some water. I am so thirsty.
In life...
...nature can be so adverse. Don't you think, Shankar?
The plantations, rubber workshops...
...the ports, the boats, everything for men on land, especially the undiscovered tribes.
They are truly free in the jungle.
Civilised nations, state boundaries,
are merely cages to bind them.
If we keep putting them in our cages, they will all die.
They will die anyway.
Hmm. I know. We will all die.
We all die. Even with the best of the guns and the medicines.
They can't save us.
Shankar!
Look up! - Hmm?
Look up!
What's that?
Pheromone.
Pheromone of a great reptile.
Shankar, we're in grave danger.
What reptile?
Aah!
Anna...
Anna!
Anna wait!
Anna move! Move!
Come on! Get up!
Marco!
Anna!
Papa!
Anna!
Papa, no!
Papa!
No! - Marco!
Marco!
Papa!... - Marco come on! Get up!...
Get up! Everything will be fine...
Please! Papa!... - Marco!
Marco come on! Get up!
Marco!
Papa...
...you were an amazing pianist.
As a child I used to fall asleep while my father played the piano.
My mother used to sing me lullabies too.
I think all mothers do.
How far should we have to go now?
A few more miles.
After that, it's the mountain road.
And once you cross the mountains, it's Terra Incognita.
The Unknown Land.
So then, let's start the trek.
I need to stay here for a day.
I have a debt...
...which I must repay.
Anna understood that Shankar would not move ahead until he took...
...his revenge on the Water Boa or Green Anaconda of the Murina variety.
But he could not seem to understand how he would kill it.
Shankar knew that the most poisonous creature...
...in Amazonia was the 5cm tall, golden poison dart frog.
The amount of poison present on the skin of a single frog...
...is enough to subdue 12 fully grown human beings.
Shankar was collecting this poison from the leaves of the Bromeliad tree.
And then he began preparing the huge animal trap for the Water Boa.
Anna!
Jump!
I said jump! Jump!
No Shankar! I can't! - Don't be afraid! Jump!
Come on Anna! Jump! - I can't jump!
Aah!
After avenging Marco's death, the tired Shankar and Anna,
spent a night at the Boca do Tucano Jungle.
The next morning they set out for the Pico da Neblina mountain's 2nd base camp.
Bededuro Novo.
Anna!
The dangerous trek extended from Bededuro Novo to Garimpo do Tucano.
Anna! Come fast!
Witness for yourself. We have nearly reached our destination!
In Brazil the Pico da Neblina stands between the Serra da Neblina, Serra do Imeri
and the Guyana Highlands. It separates Brazil from Venezuela.
Anna and Shankar's mission was to reach the cloud covered peak of Pico da Neblina.
And thus they began climbing the peak.
I'm so drained out.
Climbing rock is so tiring.
Shankar, look! What are these glittering spars?
My eyes are burning.
These are the sprinkles of gold glittering on the mountain rock.
You know...pure gold.
Spars of gold on the hills.
That means we are very close.
Anna!
Anna! Are you ok?
Oh wow!
Beautiful!
Look...
We are friends. We are not enemies.
We are friends. Ok? Trust us!
No enemy.
We have locket!
Anna! Listen to me! Look at me.
You have the locket? Show them.
Come on!
But how are we going to reach it, Shankar? - Why?
It's on my neck.
Good God!
Look at me! No harm! - No, no, no, Shankar!
No! Listen we are friends. Not enemies! Don't touch!
We are not enemies! Friends... No harm!...
Come on!
Stop! Don't!
Chief?
Map. I'm looking for...
...full map. Have you seen this?
Pieces...
I have half.
We've got it. The map of Orellana.
Yes!
We did it!
Yes, we've got it.
We are here.
The rest of the journey is in the lower Orinoco bank.
I may be able to decipher the coded directions.
Papa's vision is coming true Shankar.
It is.
Don't worry. We will do it.
Could you bring one of the fire torches here?
Good God!
Eureka! - What's happening?
Hold it! Hold it!
Can you see it?
Yes!
Anna, I think it's done. I think it's in Spanish.
Really? I learnt some Spanish. I can read it.
Can you translate it for me?
La fila, la fila. Rema su barco.
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the haze.
What was the next? - Next?
Jog the smoking deer horn,
Earth has set ablaze.
Yes! Yes!
Vestibulo palido...
Down the ashen hallway, Up the weeping head.
Yes! What next?
Show me what that was?
Laberinto siniestro,
I'm almost there.
Crawl the warren ominous,
To the golden bed.
Shankar!
To the golden bed!
Thank you.
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the haze,
Jog the smoking deer horn, Earth has set ablaze,
Down the ashen hallway, Up the weeping head,
Crawl the warren ominous,
To the golden bed.
The next morning Shankar and Anna borrowed a canoe from the Yanomami people...
...and set off for Terra Incognita or the Unknown Land.
No one had named this river.
No one knows the name of this terrain.
Shankar named the river Rio Esperanca.
According to the map, this river will lead them to Lake Parime.
It seems that there are no more fish in the river.
Let's try hunting capybaras.
We have no food.
Have you gone mad?
The water is acidic here.
I will not drink it!
I am dying of thirst.
We can't survive without water.
The Land of Death, Shankar. Let's go back.
Death is better than defeat.
Let's go.
Anna?
Wake up, Anna.
No.
I can't.
I can't open my eyes.
Look at the fruits on those trees.
Those can be food for us.
Anna!
These will keep us alive.
They will keep us alive.
Anna...
...we need to get down.
No Shankar. Go on alone.
I can't...
Stay here. Ok?
Ok...
I dragged you in to this mayhem. I'm so sorry.
Don't be.
You gave me a reason to live.
An opportunity where we can explore Amazonia.
Where can I ever get a friend like you?
My mother's locket.
Keep this with you.
She gifted me in her deathbed.
Just in case.
Anna, we both will be fine. Trust me.
What happened to your mother?
Around this time...
...3 years back, she passed away in Sardinia.
She had heart disease.
When she died, she was so lonely.
I'm sorry.
I think my vision is becoming clouded due to hunger.
My head is spinning...
But my body feels fine.
You will feel sleepy after a while. - What?
Sleep, my child.
All throughout the night.
Are your eyelids heavy too?
I think we have been intoxicated by the fruit.
The natives of Amazonia...
Didn't you know?
Why?
You didn't stop me...
...from having it.
It is the Virola fruit Shankar.
We need sleep.
We should sleep.
Anna! Anna get up!
Hmm?
We have reached our second destination.
Jog the smoking deer horn,
Earth has set ablaze.
Days and nights pass by. They lose track of time.
Shankar and Anna's bodies keep deteriorating as they...
...survive on minimal food on their long river journey.
Their hope, spirit and determination begin to fade away.
But they still remain unable to discover the first clue in the map.
Shankar! Wake up!...
My eyes just wouldn't open.
I think it was the fruit. So where are we?
Look at the hillock. The smoking horn.
Remember?
You're right.
It's a dormant volcano, Anna.
I guess...
...it was there in our map.
Anna! That means we are near El Dorado. Isn't it?
Yes! Exactly!
Come on! Start rowing!
Nature seems to be coming to life again.
Let us find the ashen corridor.
The limestone hills are ash in colour.
The entry to the City of Gold is hidden somewhere here.
Eureka!
Look, Shankar!
The river flows down a narrow crack.
Let's row upstream. The crack in the mountain is the ashen corridor.
Row fast Anna! Come on. Back me up.
Mission accomplished!
Mission successful!
Not yet Anna! We still need to reach the Weeping Head.
We need to climb up...
...to reach the mouth.
The warren ominous.
That's what was written on the map.
Come.
Huh!
Aah!
Let's break the rock, Shankar!
Oh! We are finally here!
Let's go.
We've made it.
It feels like we've travelled back to the Pre-Columbian civilisation.
What a splendour! Wow!
I'm the mythical tribal chief!
Of the Muisca native people of Colombia!
An alien queen, hailing from afar!
We did it! We did it!
Anna...
The City of Gold.
Marco!
We did it!
We've got company, Shankar.
Anna...
Run!
Anna!
Get up!
Shankar run! Run!
Anna get up! - Leave me!
I will not leave you! Ok?
Anna get up! Come on! Get up!
Get up!
Anna!
I can't go on any longer, Shankar.
Listen. If you die here, then I will too. Ok?
Anna! Look up!
Virgins of the Sun.
Anna...
Coffee?
Thank you.
My pleasure.
They have written about us. That we explored Amazonia.
And discovered the Rio Esperanca.
But you didn't write about El Dorado?
I did it on purpose. So that no one can find out...
...that we have discovered El Dorado.
So sad.
No Anna. It's not.
Let them believe that...
...there was and there is no City of Gold.
So many lives will be saved.
So much bloodshed will be avoided.
Would you like to carry on with your exploration in Brazil?
I doubt.
I must return to my own country.
To my mother.
But it was a great travelling experience with you.
I felt the same Shankar.
I would love to back to the Yanomami land.
Not in search of gold.
But...
...in quest of a new way of life.
I suppose.
You have my best wishes.
Ok. It's time for me to go.
It's time to set sail for India.
Have a safe journey, Shankar. - Thank you.
Hope to see you.
Thank you. - Oh wait!
I forgot.
I brought a gift for you from El Dorado.
It belongs to you.
A prized possession.
How!
Take it. It's for you.
Anna...the Florian family is one...
...that I will never forget.
Let's go. Let's go to the port.