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EntertainmentBollywood actor Disha Patani will be making her debut in Kollywood with ‘Kanguva’, which is touted to be a period fantasy film.Actor Suriya’s upcoming film with director Siva has been titled Kanguva. To be released in 3D, the film will be out in 10 languages – Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, and others. Kanguva will be released next year, the production house has announced. The film is touted to be a period fantasy. The title announcement video shows a warrior, accompanied by a dog and an eagle, leading an army of soldiers. Kanguva is produced under the Studio Green and Uv Creations banner. Producer Ke Gnanavel Raja has announced that this would be Suriya’s career’s biggest budget film. In a recent interview, Gnanavel Raja said, “The budget of this film is three times over the highest budget film that Suriya has done so far. And the business of...

Entertainment The film is said to be a political spectacle that deals with the police’s brutal suppression of an armed people’s movement through extrajudicial methods.Director Vetri Maaran’s Viduthalai Part 1 has been dubbed into Telugu as Vidudhala Part 1. The dubbed version will be released by Geeta Arts on April 15. The film, which is based on a book written by Jeyamohan, stars actors Soori, Vijay Sethupathi, Bhavani Sri, and Gautam Menon among others. The Telugu version’s trailer was released on April 8, Saturday. It shows actor Soori as a low-level police personnel, who is part of a team formed to capture Perumal (Vijay Sethupathi), leader of Praja Dalam, an armed people’s movement. Perumal is declared a terrorist by the State for blowing up a train. The film’s music was scored by Ilaiyaraaja, and the cinematography is by R Velraj. Viduthalai Part 1, produced by Elred Kumar under the banner of Rs Infotainment,...

KollywoodVetrimaaran’s critically acclaimed film Visaranai (2015) was probably the first Tamil film to look at custodial violence in unflinching detail, a change from narratives that routinely glorified it.In Vetrimaaran’s hard-hitting film Viduthalai Part 1, released on March 31, a senior police officer calmly asks for cutting pliers. He then proceeds to pull out the nails of the Adivasi man in his custody, asking him for information that the latter says he doesn’t have. When he doesn’t get what he wants, the officer asks for the man’s daughter-in-law to be brought into the room and stripped. Even as the audience finds it difficult to process the extensive scenes of custodial torture in Viduthalai, the state of Tamil Nadu is witnessing a real life case that mirrors the brutality that was shown on screen. Just a few days before Viduthalai came out, three men alleged on video that...

Vetrimaaran’s “Viduthalai” is all set to become a saga, with audiences eagerly waiting for the sequel to finish the story of people involved in these lucrative police tales. One of the reasons why this film works is that the characters are fleshed out like real policemen who not only lead a harsh life but must succumb to corruption to make sure they lead a sustainable life away from trouble. Here trouble comes in the form of an extremist group called “Makkal Padai,” where the group has fought for the people so that they are not being taken advantage of. The cops also face problems in the form of bureaucracy and the politics of whether/when to do the right thing.

Kumaresan, the newly appointed police constable, joins Operation Ghost Hunt, a statewide search for Perumal, the leader of the group “Makkal Padai” who is now the most wanted man in Tamil Nadu.

Vetrimaaran is a fantastic director, and “Viduthalai” again proved that there is no better storyteller in the socio-political drama genre than him. The pain faced by the oppressed and the police taking advantage, knowing there would be no one that could save them from here on; the sort of power struggle that goes on between the authorities, which is the police and the ministers in the context of this film; and the villagers who end up facing the brunt of the conflict between the extremists and the government. The villagers are not asked about what they want; it is just assumed they would be culprits here.

By the end of the film “Viduthalai,” we get to see Kumaresan finally finding a way to nab Perumal. Kumaresan knew catching hold of this man would mean the women at the police camp would not be tortured for information about him. Perumal, on the other hand,...

Vetrimaaran is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to telling socio-political stories through his stories, screenplays, and narratives. Nobody in recent times in the Tamil cinema space has come close to Vetrimaaran when it comes to making films that are a perfect mix of commercial cinema and soul-stirring, taboo topics that nobody in the past has managed to even speak about through this medium called film. Technically too, his films always stood out, and the last big theatrical release this man had was “Asuran,” starring Dhanush and Manju Warrier. Vetrimaaran’s current outing, “Viduthalai,” which means liberation, is all about understanding the balance between the life that police officers live and the extremists’ group in the state, which is fighting hard for the people of their community so that they thrive and their demands are met.

Spoilers Ahead

The Train Accident

The movie begins with a 12-minute...