Look, I don’t think they are going to stop kissing,” said a young woman when it looked like Manu Narayan and Anisha Nagarajan, the star-crossed lovers in the show, and who were locked in a passionate kiss at the very end seemed to have been dazed by the standing ovation.

What does a good Tamil mother feel about her daughter being kissed day after day before hundreds of people, a reporter asks Geeta Nagarajan.

“I have been holding my breath,” she says, enigmatically, but with a broad grin. It is as if she is saying, “This is show business, don’t you know?”

The show, with several haunting melodies, energising dances and high emotion, now faces the crucial test: Will audiences in the coming months embrace it with the same enthusiasm with which over 1,760 invitees at its premiere did?

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