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Set in the backdrop of a film set, in the 1950’s in post colonial Madras, the film is centred around the professional rivalry between a film-maker trying to make his seminal film and the top reigning actor who the director once introduced. The rivalry spirals around the leading actress, a debutante and as the relationship between the three.

A magnetic transformation turns a legendary star into a calculating antagonist fueled by wounded ego. This 1950s Madras period piece captures the fractured soul of a film set caught between a director's vision and a leading man's vanity.