SAND

MUNNEL

By Visakesa CHANDRASEKARAM

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Second film - Completed 2023

A former rebel returns home from military detention searching for his missing lover whose plight was yet to be revealed by the rebel’s soothsaying mother.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2023
Tiger Competition - Jury Prize
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Second film, Drama
    • Countries
    • SRI LANKA
    • Languages
    • TAMIL, SINHALE
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 102 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Visakesa CHANDRASEKARAM
    • Writer(s)
    • Visakesa CHANDRASEKARAM
    • Producer(s)
    • Visakesa CHANDRASEKARAM (Havelock Arts Studios)
    • Synopsis
    • Rudran, an ex-Tamil militant returns home from military detention, looking for his lover Vaani who had disappeared during the war. Rudran’s mother, Sellamma who is gifted with a ‘boon’ of soothsaying, tells the locals whether their kith and kin are alive or dead, but she refuses to say the same about Vaani. While men and women defeated in the war find solace in massive Hindu temples, Rudran initially refuses to pray, but later in an act of desperation, he joins a month-long pilgrimage seeking help from God Ayyappa, hoping to unite with his lover.