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Marakkuma Nenjam (2024)
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Original name: மறக்குமா நெஞ்சம்
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age school reunion drama in which students from the 2008 batch of a convent school are forced to get back to their school in 2018 and spend 3 months to take the board exams followed by a court order.
Style:
emotional
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, second chance, nostalgia, convent school, academy, forgiveness, teacher student relationship, redemption, reconciliation, regret, peer pressure, guilt, identity crisis, flashback, identity, youth culture, social commentary, village, teacher, student, classroom, jumping, flashbacks
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