. The storylines often touch upon the fear of "home knowing" (parents finding out) and the protective, often overbearing, presence of school authorities. There is a deep sense of "first love" being a bittersweet, fleeting experience that defines one's youth. The Emotional Core

The Kerala school romance storyline is a —it preserves the ache of first love in a conservative society. But it too often sanitizes the fear, erases the marginalised, and ends in convenient marriage or amnesia.