Clipping from the movie ‘Swathi Kolai Vazhakku’
“All my films have dealt with social issues and have created awareness. This one, too, will spark some awareness among the audience. We have retained the subject to what exactly happened and have reported on the case. There will be neither songs nor any sequence that deviates from the incident,” said Ramesh Selvan to The Times of India.
He further added that the entire story has been shot based on news reports and the locations have been used to shoot the movie and there are no songs or unnecessary sequences that will be distracting the audience away from the movie. “Once the film is ready, we will screen it for both Swathi and Ramkumar’s parents, probably by the end of June, and only then release it,” he said.
Arya and Mano from the theater group ‘Koothu-p-pattarai’ are essaying the roles of Swathi and Ramkumar respectively.
There have been films based on real life crime previously, including the sensational Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. However, most makers have chosen to use fictional names to avoid legal hassles, including ‘Talvar’ which was sympathetic to Aarushi’s parents in its narrative.
