Siva is fascinated by cinema and runs a rundown movie theater. With his theater in financial trouble, he goes to Chennai to meet his childhood friend Madankumar, who is now a film director, and seek his help.
Acting
Sasikumar sells every humiliation with wounded dignity.
Cinematography
Dying single-screen theaters shot like crumbling temples.
Writing
Socrates' script knows exactly how success poisons old bonds.
Director
Socrates
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bramman captures the 2010s crisis of Tamil Nadu's single-screen theaters, hundreds of which closed as multiplexes rose.
Director Socrates named himself after the philosopher and made his debut at 47—Siva's age in the film is no coincidence.
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