MY3 (2023) – A Love Story Coded in Steel and Heart
Dive into MY3 (2023), Disney+ Hotstar’s Tamil sci-fi romantic comedy starring Hansika Motwani and Mugen Rao. A heartfelt blend of robots, romance, and redemption in a futuristic love story.
MY3 is a 2023 Tamil-language television series produced by TrendLoud for Disney+ Hotstar. The South Korean series I’m Not a Robot has been adapted into an Indian version. Directed by M. Rajesh, the plot follows a girl disguising as a robot in order to pay her debts back.
Mugen Rao, Janani, Hansika Motwani, and Shanthanu Bhagyaraj star in the show. On September 15, 2023, all episodes premiered simultaneously. We come across Adithya, a rich entrepreneur, who struggles to stay alone but yet stays with his robotic devices. Yet, he feels empty.
He is depressed because a flashback story explains how he, his father, Chandrasekhar, and his mother, Nandhini, were killed in a car accident.
Only Adithya survived. Adithya as an adult feels bad about it, and in the meantime, he receives a report from his executive manager and income tax officer stating that he has been deceived by Arjun, his friend, and Rajasekhar, his father, who have committed forgery and transferred a significant amount of money into their accounts.
Hearing this, Adithya gets angry and fires them from work. An angry Rajasekhar and Arjun decide to avenge Adithya. Arjun who is very dumb and childish, uses his own stupid tricks to avenge Adithya.
Meanwhile Adithya goes into a shop to receive a gift where the shop is owned by Manimeghalai(a fake name created by Mythiri-the female protagonist-to conceal her identity from her brother which comes in the later part of the story), because of the quality of the material of the umbrella, even though the idea was great(It glows in various colors when rain falls on it).
Adithya gets into a fight with Manimeghalai, and he pushes and touches him, which makes his body react quickly and makes his skin start to burn.
That is when the audiences come to know that he has a skin allergy where human touch causes a reaction in his skin and causing him immense pain. The first episode comes to a close with this.
“The Man Who Couldn’t Be Touched”
The camera opens on silence. a sprawling mansion surrounded by glass towers in the city. Inside, Adithya, a young and brooding entrepreneur (played by Mugen Rao), avoids eye contact, dodges every outstretched hand. He is regarded as a tech magnate and genius by the public.
However, his curse—a rare psychological and physiological aversion to human touch—is unknown to the general public. We’re introduced to his routines—robotic assistants, filtered air systems, gloves for everything. His company is booming, but his life is hollow.
Every flashback to childhood shows the trauma that led here—panic attacks, hospitalization, betrayal. He trusts only one man: his friend and robotics engineer Eeshwar (Shanthanu Bhagyaraj), who promises him a solution.
Enter the concept of Project MY3—a humanoid robot designed to provide companionship without triggering Adithya’s condition. The robot is modeled after a real woman, Mythiri (Hansika Motwani), Eeshwar’s ex-girlfriend, whose features were used without permission.
The robot fails just as the testing begins. Stakes are high. Investors are coming. Eeshwar has a crazy plan. “The Human Switch”
Eeshwar corners Mythiri.
Once an actress full of dreams, now a waitress struggling to survive in Chennai. She hasn’t seen Eeshwar in years—and isn’t exactly thrilled when he offers her a job pretending to be a robot.
Mythiri is desperate for money. Her father is ill, the bills are piling up. She reluctantly agrees after much persuasion and the promise of a large payment.
We witness her robotic training—how to walk, talk, blink like a machine. The humor here is balanced by her emotional weight. Mythiri is being asked to erase her identity for survival. She’s not a machine. She must, however, become one.
The final scene of the episode is loaded with tension: Adithya meets “MY3” for the first time. She bows. “Hello, Sir. I am MY3.”
Adithya, skeptical at first, looks into her eyes. The human behind the facade trembles—but he can’t tell.
“Living Lies”
Adithya begins testing MY3, wary and curious. He issues voice commands, observes her responses. She’s programmed to cook, converse, and even provide emotional support. Mythiri, under pressure, performs flawlessly.
But cracks begin to form. She sneezes during dinner. She flinches at a cockroach. Adithya notices. Yet, strangely, he feels safe around her. He smiles for the first time in years. Even touches her—briefly. No reaction. There was no flare-up of the allergy. It bewilders him.
Meanwhile, Mythiri’s internal battle grows. She’s deceiving someone who’s beginning to trust her. She writes secret diary entries at night, behind locked doors. She writes, “He thinks I’m a machine,” in a particularly moving moment. But today, I felt more human than I have in years.”
“Overloaded Systems” As Adithya opens up, we learn about his past. a mishap as a child. A betrayal by a caregiver. A trauma buried under years of logic. He tells MY3 that “Touch burns me.” But with you, I feel… different.”
Mythiri starts bonding with him—not just as a performer, but emotionally. He shows her his secret workshop. They discuss stars, loneliness, poetry. There’s a soft romantic tension building.
But it’s hard to keep up the ruse. Mythiri burns her hand on a stovetop and reacts too quickly. Adithya grows suspicious. He tells MY3 to run a system check. She freezes. Mythiri’s human instincts kick in—she fakes a shutdown.
Back in her quarters, she breaks down. “I’m not a machine,” she whispers to herself. But she has to be.
“Touch”
The emotional core of the story peaks here.
Adithya tests the limits. He touches her arm. Holds her hand. No reaction. He weeps—his fear breaking, slowly replaced by wonder. “Am I healing?” he asks her.
In a moment of trust, he rests his head on her shoulder. Mythiri, overwhelmed, holds back tears.
She tells Eeshwar: “He needs to know. I can’t do this anymore.” But Eeshwar insists—“Just a few more days. One final demo for investors. Then you’re free.”
Adithya takes MY3 on a short getaway to his childhood villa. He asks there, surrounded by painful memories: “Do you think even machines can love?” She doesn’t respond. But her silence says everything.
The “Code Breaker” The housekeeper, curious about MY3’s lifelike behavior, sneaks into her room. discovers her diary. Alarmed, she gives it to Adithya.
Adithya reads the truth—Mythiri’s real identity. The deception. The tampering. He’s devastated. Underneath his composed demeanor, rage simmers. That evening, during dinner, he asks: “If you’re not real, why do your eyes tremble when I speak?”
Mythiri gives up. “Because I am real. I always was.”
The mask shatters. The robot is human. The trust is destroyed.
“System Failure”
Adithya isolates himself again. Shuts down all staff. Shuts out Eeshwar. MY3 is gone.
His symptoms return. He collapses in his lab, more enraged at himself than anyone else. “I believed in something impossible… because I wanted to.”
Meanwhile, Mythiri returns to her old life, haunted. She freezes when she tries to act in a short film. Nothing feels meaningful.
Eeshwar visits her—apologizing. “We used you. But he… he never smiled before you.”
Adithya sees a counselor. He begins to think. The allergy wasn’t physical—it was psychological. Years of trauma, abandonment, and fear masqueraded as disease.
He finally accepts the truth: “I wasn’t allergic to people. I was allergic to pain.”
Back at the office, he gives a press conference. He cancels the MY3 project. “We tried to replace connection with code. It doesn’t work.”
But behind his words is hope.
“Hello Again”
Months later. A coffee shop. A quiet morning.
Mythiri walks in, looking for a seat. She discovers one. Opposite Adithya.
They lock eyes.
No masks. No lies. No machinery. Just two humans—flawed, vulnerable, open.
“Hi,” she says.
Adithya smiles. “I’ve been rewiring my heart. Turns out… it’s open-source now.”
Bleed out.
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