Veettilekkulla Vazhi

Cast

• Prithviraj as Doctor
• Master Govardhan as Kid
• Malvika Sharma as Wife of doctor
• Indrajith as Rassaq, a Tamil Terrorist
• Irshad as Abdulla
• Vinay Forrt as Terrorist Leader in Ajmeer
• S.Saji as Malayali Terrorist
• Melwyn as Sardarji Truck Driver
• Kiran Raj as Najeem
• Assim Jamal as Terrorist Leader at Kashmir
• Lakshmipriya as Rashida as Kid's mother
• Dhanya Mary Varghese as Teacher

Production

Veettilekkulla Vazhi is the third directorial venture of Dr. Biju whose previous films are Saira and Raman. Veettilekkulla Vazhi is an adventure drama that wants to explore the bloodstained facets of present-day terrorism. Produced by B. C. Joshi under the banner of Soorya Cinema, the film was mainly shot from Ladakh, Kashmir, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bikkneer, Ajmer, Pushkarand, Delhi and Kerala.

Festival screenings

The film was screened at 28 international film festivals including:

• 12th Mumbai Film Festival (Mumbai, India; 2010) as the opening film in the Indian Frames section.
• 34th Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt; 2010) in the Out of Competition section.
• 15th International Film Festival of Kerala (Trivandrum, India; 2010)
• 3rd Jaipur International Film Festival (Jaipur, India; 2011)
• 5th Chennai International Film Festival (Chennai, India; 2011)
• 10th Imagine India International Film Festival (Madrid, Spain; 2011) in competition section.
• 11th New York Indian Film Festival (New York, USA; 2011) in competition section
• Zanzibar International Film Festival (Zanzibar, Tanzania; 2011)
• London Indian Film Festival (London, UK; 2011)
• Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival (Germany; 2011)
• 38th Telluride Film Festival (Telluride, USA; 2011)
• New Generation Film Festival (Frankfurt, Germany; 2011)
• Third Eye Asian Film Festival (Mumbai, India; 2011)
• Seattle Film Festival (Seattle, USA; 2011)

Accolades

References

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