Visaranai

Pandi and his friends, immigrant workers in Andhra Pradesh, are picked up by cops for a crime they never committed. And thus begins their nightmare, where they become pawns in a vicious game where the voiceless are strangled by those with power.

Cast

V R Dinesh

as Pandi Ravi

Samuthirakani

as Muthuvel

Anandhi

as Shanthi

Aadukalam Murugadoss

as Murugan

Kishore

as K. K.

Misha Ghoshal

as Sindhu

Pradheesh Raj

as Kumar

Ajay Ghosh

as Vishveshwara Rao

E. Ramadoss

as Ramachandran

Halwa Vasu

as Pandi's Boss

Reviews

timesofindia

Visaaranai is an uncompromising, hard-hitting and spine-chilling account of abuse of power. When the film begins, we see Pandi (an effective Dinesh), a migrant in Andhra Pradesh, leaving the park where he and his friends have been spending the nights (it is their way of saving the money that they mi...

Reno

> The dark side of the Indian police force. Another sensational movie from Dhanush K. Raja, the producer of 'The Crow's Egg' that I recently reviewed in this site. This time he joined the hands with the writer, director who bought him a best actor award at the Indian Academy Award for the movie '...

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