Sand

Sand (2023)

மணல்

What happened over there?

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.

Date of release
2023-11-03
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Casting

Interesting facts

Munnel (transl. Sand/Soil) is a 2023 Sri Lankan Tamil language drama film written, directed and produced by Visakesa Chandrasekaram. The film was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and opened to positive reviews from critics. The film had its theatrical release in Sri Lanka on 3 November 2023. This is also regarded as potentially the first Sri Lankan fully fledged home-grown local Tamil film in the history of Sri Lankan cinema, as most of the crew members who were on board had been native Sri Lankans.

Production

The cast and crew members were predominantly chosen from Tamil speaking North and East parts of Sri Lanka. The film was predominantly shot and set amid rolling powercuts, blackouts, soaring cost of living and fuel shortage fueled by the 2019-present Sri Lankan economic crisis.

The film also roped in several debutante artists including director of philosophy Rishi Selvam, music composer Pathmayan Sivananthan, actors Sivakumar Lingeswaran and Thurkka Magendran. The filmmakers faced significant stiff challenges with regards to managing the debut artists as they never had first-hand hands-on experience and exposure to the film industry and the style of most of the debut artists who were roped in for the film was inspired b…

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