Visaranai poster

Visaranai

7.9(88)20161h 58m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$325K
Box office
$1.6M
Language
Telugu
  • foreign worker
  • police corruption
  • police interrogation
  • innocent person killed
  • discrimination

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Vetrimaaran

Produced in

India

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Still from Visaranai

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • TheatricalUA5 Feb 2016
    • TVUAStar Vijay10 Oct 2016
    • Digital / OTTUANetflix 13 Mar 2020
  • United StatesUS

    • PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival9 Jan 2017
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • Theatrical4 Feb 2016
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice Film Festival12 Sept 2015
  • South KoreaKR

    • Digital / OTT195 Jan 2017

Frequently asked questions

Visaranai was released on 4 February 2016.

Audience reviews

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    timesofindia

    2/9/2016

    8/10

    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 might have to spend on a residence) in the wee hours of the morning and rushing to open the provisional store where he wor…

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    Reno

    4/24/2016

    9/10

    > 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 'Playground'. The film was based on the novel 'Lock Up' that loosely inspired by the experiences of the author who is an …

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    Marco-Hugo Landeta Vacas

    6/23/2026

    8/10

    (CASTELLANO) Interrogation —Visaranai— es una película durísima. De esas que no se ven para pasar el rato, sino para salir con mal cuerpo y con la cabeza dando vueltas. Está basada en hechos reales, y eso pesa en cada escena. No porque la película lo subraye constantemente, sino porque todo lo que cuenta tiene esa sensación terrible de realidad posible, de abuso cotidiano, de gente pobre atrapada en un sistema que pu…

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