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Acting
Viji Chandrasekhar's disappearance-act virtuosity
Direction
Lakshmi Ramakrishnan's unsentimental slum poetry
Writing
Dialogue that breathes Chennai concrete

Director
Lakshmi Ramakrishnan
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