India, Oct. 17 -- For far too long in South cinema, we have had men on-screen who feel entitled to love - be it from their lovers, friends or family. And when said men do not get what they want, they're prone to throw 3-hour-long tantrums on-screen, packaged as cinema. Pradeep Ranganathan's Agan in director Keerthiswaran's debut film, Dude, is the exact opposite of that. So much so that in one scene, Mamitha Baiju's Kural even asks him why he would go to such lengths for her. But I digress.

Agan (Pradeep) and Kural (Mamitha) have known each other since childhood. They have the kind of ease with each other that only comes from when you've known a person intimately all your life. Agan's mother, Parvathy (Rohini), has been miffed at her bro...