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Stories have the power to transport us to worlds we may never meet. In Nitham Oru Vaanam, debut filmmaker Ra Karthik tells a simple yet relevant story through a protagonist who, at a young age, falls in love with this portable nature of stories. . He can't get any more meta, as Karthik's story feels like a fairy tale told on a cozy winter night. The protagonist of Karthik is Arjun (Ashok Selvan), a twentysomething who has always liked to sit with his books and imagine himself as one of their characters. However, he is not so interested in opening up to the world outside of himself. To everyone around him, including his parents, he comes across as an irritable but shy man with compulsive perfectionism and germophobia. Director: R. Karthik Writer: R. Karthik Stars: Ritu Varma, Aparna Balamurali, Ashok Selvan The way we are introduced to Arjun's world is pretty straightforward, but for good reason. On the way to Kolkata, Arjun gets stranded at a bus stop in Bhubaneswar, where ...