Tamil film 'Visaranai' goes to Venice Film Festival

Tamil film Visaranai has been selected for the Venice International Film Festival. However, not many people know that the film, scripted and directed by noted director Vetrimaaran, is based on a Tamil novel called Lock Up.

Lock Up was written in 2006 by Coimbatore auto drive, M Chandrakumar alias Auto Chandran, and narrates an unforgettable part of his life. During his 20s he fled from his hometown Coimbatore to Andhra Pradesh. He was working as server in a hotel in a village near Guntur. One day he was arrested along with some others on ‘case of doubt’ and the treatment meted out to him and others by the police is what he captured in Lock Up. In many media interviews, he has stated how torturous those 14 days in police custody were.
 
Chandran has written many other novels as well in his spare time like Boomiyai kolaikalam aakkum America and Kovaiyil Jeeva. Director Vetrimaaran reportedly called up Chandran personally when he wanted to make his novel into a film.

Chandran will fly to Venice for the screening of the film with the director on September 8.

Watch the trailer here: