It has always been a romantic idea, in Tamilcinema, to have a group of guys and girls growing up together from childhood;Unaware, as they want us to believe, of their sexes in relation to each otheras they grow together. So when asupposedly sophisticated filmmaker like Selvaraghavan decides to place his protagonistin a similar milieu, you expect him to traverse beyond that liberal fantasy-inan Indian context- and add an extra dimension to the characters in the group.Sadly, he disappoints! It is merely used as a placeholder to reinforce thetraits of his seemingly uncultured
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