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Credits and facts
Movie details
- Runtime
- 147 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Tamil
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Musical
- Director
- K. Balachander
- Cast
- Sivakumar, Suhasini, Sulakshana, Janagaraj
- Production company
- Kavithalayaa Productions
Spoiler-free synopsis
A celebrated Carnatic singer develops an intellectually and emotionally close bond with a music-loving woman, straining his marriage and raising questions about art, companionship, fidelity and infertility.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.The film can support constructive discussion about responsibility, empathy, honesty and the consequences of choices. Parents can ask how characters respond to pressure, relationships and authority, whether loyalty is handled responsibly, and how healthier decisions might change the outcome. It can also prompt comparison between mid-1980s Indian social expectations and present-day ideas about consent, fairness, family duty and personal accountability.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Content needing context includes marital strain, emotional infidelity, infertility, adult romantic choices and the pressures surrounding artistic ambition. Some behaviour may involve poor judgement, deception, aggression, coercion, prejudice or emotionally harmful choices even when the older filmmaking style is less visually explicit than many modern films. Where dependable scene-by-scene documentation is limited, this review uses cautious category language rather than inventing specific incidents, frequency or intensity that the research did not establish.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Useful discussion topics include whether characters respect other people’s choices, how family or social pressure affects decisions, what healthier alternatives were available, and whether consequences fit the behaviour shown. Families can compare the film’s treatment of gender roles, romance, reputation, authority, money, violence or duty with present-day expectations, while remembering that a story can depict harmful behaviour without necessarily endorsing it.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Suggested minimum age: 14+. The strongest considerations are marital strain, emotional infidelity, infertility, adult romantic choices and the pressures surrounding artistic ambition. Viewers at or above the suggested age may find the material manageable with context, while younger or sensitive viewers may need previewing or a parent alongside them. This is an editorial family-viewing recommendation based on researched production and content evidence; it is not a substitute for an official Indian CBFC classification.
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