The critically-acclaimed film Visaranai is based on police brutality and is adapted from M Chandrakumar’s novel Lock Up. The film was earlier chosen in the competition section of 72nd Venice Film Festival. This choice has for the second year running bucked the trend of choosing Hindi language films for the prestigious awards. Earlier Tamil films such as Jeans, Indian, Kurithipunal, Devar Magan, Anjali, Nayagan, Deiva Magan were chosen as India’s official entries for Oscar awards.