The onscreen couple Ganapathy and Bhavani, played by Prakash Raj and Leela Samson have set relationship goals for everybody, that one must take care of the other even at the face of serious ailments without expecting any favours in return from them. Mani Ratnam counterbalances this mature romance with the spontaneous, in the moment and modern relationship between Adi and Tara, played by Dulquer Salmaan and Nithya Menen.