 When Shweta confronts Gautam on the matter, Gautam tells her he wishes to run away and marry Aravan at a local festival, the Koovagam Festival.The festival is held annually where people of the third gender regularly meet to re-enact the story of Aravan, a character from the epic Mahabharata.Shweta decides to find her uncle and bring him back home, and along the way, she makes new friends of the third gender, and discovers a whole new culture.