While Tamil cinema is running after the horror genre, Pradeep Sundar, who has had his tutelage under top M’town filmmakers, is wielding the megaphone for a family drama. Titled Irandu Manam Vendum, the movie is based on a real-life incident.
A ten-month-old baby gets lost from Nagerkovil during the tsunami and is raised by a judge elsewhere. After a while, the real parents turn up and claim the child. The emotional trauma that the two undergo forms the crux of the film. “This has happened to one of my acquaintances and I took inspiration. The beaches of Nagercoil are almost a character in this!” Pradeep tells us. Chilanka from Kerala debuts in Tamil. The movie has been given a clean slate by the Censor Board without a single cut, and Pradeep asserts that family audiences would lap up the movie.
