MUMBAI: Dr Biju Kumar’s latest Malayalam film Veettilekkulla Vazhi (The Way Home) has been selected to feature in the Competition Section of the 10th Imagine India International film festival scheduled to be held at Madrid, Spain, from 17 to 31 May.
The film concerns a doctor who sees his wife and five-year-old son die in an explosion at a market in Delhi. Now working at a Prison Hospital, he is assigned the case of a woman in critical condition, a surviving suicide bomber from the ‘Indian Jihadi’ terrorist group. Despite his efforts, the woman dies. But before dying, she entrusts him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father Abdul Zuban Tariq, head of the terrorist group. What forms next is what the film is all about.
The film has already been screened in five international film festivals including the Cairo and Mumbai fest. It bagged the Netpac award for best film in the IFFK,last year.
The film will release in India in April.