Visaranai(2016)

Visaaranai is an uncompromising, hard-hitting and spine-chilling account of abuse of power. When the film begins, we see Pandi (an effective Dinesh), a migrant in Andhra Pradesh, leaving the park where he and his friends have been spending the nights (it is their way of saving the money that they might have to spend on a residence) in the wee hours of the morning and rushing to open the provisional store where he…

Reviewed on February 9, 2016

> The dark side of the Indian police force. Another sensational movie from Dhanush K. Raja, the producer of 'The Crow's Egg' that I recently reviewed in this site. This time he joined the hands with the writer, director who bought him a best actor award at the Indian Academy Award for the movie 'Playground'. The film was based on the novel 'Lock Up' that loosely inspired by the experiences of the author who is an…

Reviewed on April 24, 2016

(CASTELLANO) Interrogation —Visaranai— es una película durísima. De esas que no se ven para pasar el rato, sino para salir con mal cuerpo y con la cabeza dando vueltas. Está basada en hechos reales, y eso pesa en cada escena. No porque la película lo subraye constantemente, sino porque todo lo que cuenta tiene esa sensación terrible de realidad posible, de abuso cotidiano, de gente pobre atrapada en un sistema que…

Reviewed on June 23, 2026