Visaranai (Investigation)
With his Chennai-based bike-theft story Polladhavan (2007) and Madurai-based rooster fighting story Aadukalam (2011), Vetrimaran entertained the audience as well as allowed them to identify with the characters. In that limited commercial format, he provided great emotional catharsis for the viewers. It is a rare quality for an Indian or Tamil film-maker, where cinema in the name of entertainment doesn’t allow portraying the truthfulness of human emotions. Now, with Visaranai ( Interrogation) he masters the balance between the so-called ‘mainstream’ and ‘highbrow’ to offer a stupendous, thrilling examination about the pawns of the ‘system’. Visaranai offers the kind of experience that keeps our senses sharp and elegantly passes on the emotional bruises of the characters to us. The film is partly based on Mr. Chandrakumar’s novel Lockup , which chronicles the author’s real life experience with police brutality. Visaranai or ...