National Award-winning Tamil film Visaaranai, directed by filmmaker Vetrimaaran, will be India’s official entry to the Oscars in 2017. It will feature in the Foreign Language Film category. Premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Visaaranai or Interrogation is a power-packed work about police high-handedness on four hapless Tamil daily-wage earning labourers who have made the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh their home. In fact, they do not even have a hut, a makeshift tent in a public park serving as one.The film was based on the true and horrific experience of a Coimbatore-based autorickshaw driver, M Chandra Kumar — who wrote a book, Lock Up, narrating his nightmarish 13 days in a small prison cell in Andhra Pradesh .
