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Synopsis

Kalyanam is part of a local 16-member drama troupe Ramachandran Nadaga Sabha, who essays the streepart as Draupadi in the Mahabharat plays. While he may be content with his life and how he goes about doing his art, it soon becomes a problem for him to find a bride after many cite his effeminate nature, prompting him to ask the troupe’s director, Thandavam, to make him play the rajapart as Arjuna. What ensues is a series of conflicts about the nitty-gritties of street plays. At a distressing point in Jama, Kalyanam’s mother hails Ardhanarishvara, a Hindu deity known for his half-and-half appearance as a man and woman. It might be a passing reference and a minute detail, but in retrospect, it adds a layer to how the family regards their craft as a devotion, which makes them disregard a quality of a man considered not manly enough by most of society