Nine Emotions) is a 2005 Indian Tamil language film directed by Santosh Sivan.

[1][2][3] The film revolves around the story of a young girl Shweta taking her first steps towards adulthood.

However, she soon discovers that every night, her uncle Gautam (Kushboo) transforms himself into a woman to lead a completely different life.

The festival is held annually, where people of the third gender regularly meet to re-enact the story of Aravan, a character from the epic Mahabharata.

Shweta decides to find her uncle and bring him back home, and along the way, she makes new friends of the third gender and discovers a whole new culture.