Set in a small highway town in South India, Current Show revolves around Sathi, a young soda-seller in a run-down theatre. This is life lived on the margins of the film world, the netherside of the glitz and glitter of Tamil cinema. Ill-paid and always tired, Sathi finds relief from the tedium of the everyday in marijuana, and the company of his friends - vulnerable, des Set in a small highway town in South India, Current Show revolves around Sathi, a young soda-seller in a run-down theatre. This is life lived on the margins of the film world, the netherside of the glitz and glitter of Tamil cinema. Ill-paid and always tired, Sathi finds relief from the tedium of the everyday in marijuana, and the company of his friends - vulnerable, desperate young men, who work around the theatre and alternately bully and support each other. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events casts the meagre certainties of his days and nights into disarray.