As digital literacy increases and legal streaming becomes more affordable, the hope is that audiences will choose to respect the art they love by consuming it through legitimate channels. After all, a film as beautiful as Sillunu Oru Kadhal deserves to be watched in the quality its creators intended.

She was sitting in a room that looked exactly like the internet café they were currently sitting in. The date stamp in the corner read October 15, 2019 —the day she left.