He leaned back on the couch. The hero snarled a dialogue. The fridge hummed. The baby cooed in the next room.

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As the grainy, pirated copy loaded—the audio slightly out of sync, a faint "TamilRockers" watermark in the corner—he was transported. Not to the movie’s world, but to his world. The one that had crumbled.

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Because 2020 was also the year his father had died. Not from the virus, but from a quiet heart attack in his own bedroom in Thrissur. Flights were grounded. Rahul watched the funeral on a WhatsApp video call, the connection lagging, the image pixelating into green squares.