In the film, Madhavan plays a 42-year-old, old-fashioned Sanskrit teacher who falls in love with a progressive, French professor, ten years younger than him. While the role was somewhat age-appropriate for the actor, he was still concerned. “I was worried about looking too old while romancing a younger actor,” he says, adding that he didn’t want to make people ‘cringe’ while watching the film. He elaborates, “If you see a shot where an older man is romancing a younger woman, instead of seeing the characters, you think that the actor is having fun, and then that romance is gone; you have killed the scene. It looks like one man is taking advantage of the situation.”
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