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Maalai Nerathu… also brings to Tamil cinema a new, important issue, which I can’t quite mention without spoiling the film. But suffice it to say that it’s a bit disappointing that not enough screen time is spent delineating the after-effects on the victim, despite an entire half occurring after the incident. Sure, movies aren’t documentaries, but it’d have been quite interesting to see the scars on the victim’s personality, to see how their everyday life is affected. There’s one shot in the bathroom, and a couple of mental flashes to that fateful night, but little else.