Rameswaram, a scenic island in Tamil Nadu, with limitless nature’s bounty is located thirty-six miles from Jaffna, which is troubled by the ethnic conflict and identified by the sounds of war. There is only one escape route to circumvent this struggle –Rameswaram – where thousands of Tamil refugees land every day hoping for a better tomorrow.

Manivannan is a Tamil teacher in Jaffna,who is the owner of plenty of fertile lands and also a much respected man in the town. Fourteen members of his family get killed in an attack which follows his exit from his native town along with the only living member of his family- Jeeva to land in Rameswaram. Though Jeeva and his friends leave Jaffna in a bid to

safeguard their lives, they are not too happy in Rameswaram and are eager to leave for their motherland. Lal is a humane wealthy man in Rameswaram who helps the expatriates from Srilanka and his daughter Bhavana falls in love with Jeeva. Villainy comes in the form of bad cop and Bhavana’s cousin, Inspector Bose, who wreaks havoc in the lives of the pair with his vicious conspiracies. Will Jeeva’s attempt to reclaim his love and to venture into his homeland again prove fruitful? Rameswaram has the answer, nothing that’s too unpredictable.

Jeeva’s dialogues pregnant with emotions are sharp and thought provoking. When Bhavana calls him a refugee, he retorts angrily saying that migrated Tamils is a better epithet. Though he does his role well, the native Tamil that he speaks fails him miserably. In fact, none of the cast speaks Tamil the way Srilankan Tamil should be spoken. This certainly is a major let down and is a huge block from getting involved with the film. When the nucleus of the subject is about the refugees, adequate care should have been taken by the director to fill up these gaps. The sequence