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Without giving away the climax, Vidiyalai Thedum Poobalam follows the life of Kumaran, a young factory worker in a Tirunelveli-based industrial town during the economic upheavals of the late 20th century. The "balloon" in the story is symbolic of Kumaran’s dreams—inflated with hope yet always vulnerable to the piercing needle of reality. Soon they encountered , a hermit monk who