Prabhu Ram Vyas’s terrific ‘Lover’ charts the stages of a breakup with clinical precision

The film stars Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya. Its rhythms are so fresh and new, and what it does is so revolutionary.

Lover opens with an image of someone learning how to surf and falling off the board – unsteady, fearful – and one of the film’s final images is that of this same person standing on a surfboard, balancing themselves (somewhat) confidently. The metaphor is that relationships are like stormy seas, and whether we choose to continue with the relationship or choose to break up, it’s like learning to surf. It takes a lot of practice. You try it once, then a second time, and do this over and over until you know what you are doing. The graph of most love stories is filled with ups and downs, with different peaks and valleys. The graph of writer-director Prabhuram Vyas’s debut feature is a straight line. Over and over, we see similar attempts by the couple to navigate the rough waters of their relationship.

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