WITH its fluorescent lights and laminate tables, the little restaurant near the shuttered Chanakya Cinema looked like any no-frills canteen found throughout the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

伴随着灯红酒绿的霓虹灯招牌和胶合板做成的简陋餐桌，在考底力耶电影院旁边的小小餐馆，看起来和南印度大省泰米尔·拿度的当地大排档餐厅毫无差别。