Mandharam begins with the all too familiar trope – the schoolboy who spends his days dreaming about his childhood sweetheart and classmate, who, at the end of school, lets him know that she has a ‘muracherukkan’.

Mandharam begins with the all too familiar trope – the schoolboy who spends his days dreaming about his childhood sweetheart and classmate, who, at the end of school, lets him know that she has a ‘muracherukkan’.