There is an unmissable lack of polish about the way Selva Raghavan (Sri Raghava) writes and stages his romances. For one, they are better than his high-budget, ambitious yet misfiring sci-fi epics. Secondly, they carry a sense of ominous doom lurking behind the initially friction-laden yet ultimately happy lead couple. These were on full display with his previous projects 7G Brundhavan Colony and Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule.
There is a keen sense of self hidden beneath the veneer of a familiar story that drives both those movies. Neither the men nor the women are anything c....