Synopsis: Aravind, a high school physics teacher in Pollachi is on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to transition from being a male to a female. Only his close friend Haritha knows about it. Arvind’s father is going through a financial crisis and wants to mortgage the family home to restart his hotel business that was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Being an influential person in the community, a financier agrees to help him if he married his daughter to Aravind. As arrangements for his engagement are made, feeling helpless he consults his HRT doctor and a psychiatrist who suggest to go public with the transitioning and start living life as a woman with the name Bhanu. But this is not taken well by the school prinicpal or the students nor his father who wants to throw him out of the house. What follows is Aravind’s struggle for acceptance as Bhanu facing humiliation and bullying.
Directors Bio: Samyuktha Vijayan is a dancer and a techie. A transgender woman based in San Francisco, USA, she grew up as a boy in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While working for a multinantional company in the USA, Samyuktha transitioned from male to female. Since then, she is actively working with the transgender community to highlight their struggles and helps them secure mainstream jobs. She founded Toutestudio, a made-to-rent wedding couture boutique where she trained and employed transwomen. She was conferred with the Top Ten Youth Award of Tamil Nadu (2019) by Ananda Vikatan.
Producer: Samyuktha Vijayan is a dancer and a techie. A transgender woman based in San Francisco, USA, she grew up as a boy in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While working for a multinantional company in the USA, Samyuktha transitioned from male to female. Since then, she is actively working with the transgender community to highlight their struggles and helps them secure mainstream jobs. She founded Toutestudio, a made-to-rent wedding couture boutique where she trained and employed transwomen. She was conferred with the Top Ten Youth Award of Tamil Nadu (2019) by Ananda Vikatan.
