Ramakrishna, on the other hand, is naïve, his innocence yet to be marred by the big cities. Money doesn’t matter to her, but she’s keen that he be successful. It also reflects in her choice of a boyfriend. She says as much when she chooses to promote a fellow employee. Bhanumathi is headstrong, modern and someone interested in profiles rather than people. It is this mismatch of expectations that the film explores with its lead characters, Bhanumathi and Ramakrishna, who are also opposites in character. With men expected to reach a position of financial security, in this worsening economy, at the age of 27, a woman’s ability to earn, it seems, has no consequence on their choices. We learn that his marital status is on account of expectations of a ‘government job’ and a commensurate salary. On the other hand, there’s the unmarried Ramakrishna (Naveen Chandra) who is 33. It doesn’t matter to him that he is the same age as Bhanumathi. A thirty-year-old successful working woman, Bhanumathi, gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, Ram, who chooses to marry a younger woman. With all this in mind, the premise of Bhanumathi & Ramakrishna is interesting. As one gets closer to 30, this insistence on marriage, offered as a solution to every problem, morphs into full-blown panic. The most favourite joke of ‘uncles’ and ‘aunties’ at weddings is to tell a young person that they are next in line. One would think the point of such an institution is to find a person to spend your life with, but compatibility usually features last in the ‘marriage checklist.’ There is salary, caste.