In ‘Tu Yaa Main’, class is the real antagonist

What begins as a glossy Gen-Z romance gradually reveals itself as a study of how class shapes intimacy.

Bejoy Nambiar has never made a film that was only about what it appeared to be. ‘Tu Yaa Main’ announces itself as a Gen-Z romance, two young creators, a sunny beach setting, the visual grammar of Instagram, and then methodically dismantles every comfort that premise implies. By the time the crocodile enters the picture, the film has already identified its real subject. Class difference quietly colonises even the most intimate spaces between people, long before either person has named what they’re actually afraid of.