Tamil film on anti-nuke stir gets censor nod

TIRUNELVELI: After a long struggle for about a year and a half, a Tamil film titled, ‘Kadal Kuthiraigal’, attempting to depict the links between the people's struggle at Idinthakarai against the Kudankulam nuclear power project and the ‘Eelam struggle’ across the seas in northern Sri Lanka, has cleared the censorship huddles. It is ready for a preview screening in Tirunelveli on January 21 (Sunday) before its commercial opening in February second week.

Choosing Tirunelveli for his first preview screening of the show in India, as the film had its premiere screening outside the country at Toronto in Canada much earlier, the producer-cum-director and dialogue writer of the film, Pugazhendhi Thangaraj said that he chose Tirunelveli for premiere screening of “Kadal Kuthiraigal” for the only reason that it is the biggest town closer to Idinthakarai, which was the epicenter of the anti-nuke protests in the country.