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Deepa and Hari are two high-schoolers in love. When a video they foolishly record in an empty classroom after school gets uploaded to a porn site, the school board assembles a committee to punish them. Yet the committee’s decisions find themselves crippled by the social-caste identities of the two students, provoking markedly different reactions. With the involvement of human rights activist and lawyer Jesse, the issue takes a dramatic turn leading to tragic, life-altering outcomes. The inherent corruption and biases in India’s education system are laid bare in this compelling drama.

PRITHVI KONANUR’S films Railway Children (2016) and Pinki Elli? (2020) have been screened at film festivals such as TIFF Kids, Zlín, Hong Kong and many more. Seventeeners premiered at the 2022 Busan International Film Festival.