A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
November 29, 2011
Original Title:
செங்கடல்
Genres:
Drama | War
Production Companies:
Kanavuppattarai
Production Countries:
India | Sri Lanka
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
Dhanushkodi, the Indo-Sri Lankan border town, is the crucible wherein History is brewing this concoction of defeated lives and exhausted dreams. Manimekalai, the filmmaker, Soori, a half-wit Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee, Munusamy, the fisherman, Rosemary, the social worker in Jesuit Christian Refugee Services, try hard to retain their sanity in this mad jumble. Their interactions with the dead or living refugees, their skirmishes with the Indian and Sri Lankan States, their personal lives overrun by external events - form the kernel of this narration.
Dialogue:
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Director:
Leena Manimekalai
Director of Photography:
M. J. Radhakrishnan
Editor:
Tuhinabho Mujumdar
Location Sound Recordist:
Harikumar Madhavan Nair
Producer:
Leena Manimekalai
Screenplay:
C. Jerrold
Leena Manimekalai
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Sound Designer:
Subadeep Sengupta
Story:
Leena Manimekalai
Supervising Editor:
Sreekar Prasad
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