Suzhal

Created by Pushkar and Gayatri, Suzhal - The Vortex is a crime thriller that goes beyond the routine investigation and threatens to shake up the cultural societal fabric, when a crime hits a small town in India. Set against the backdrop of an unique micro-festival, ancient myths collide with the troubling present as we are drawn into the eye of the storm. Day 0: Flag Hoisting Day 1: Procession of the Goddess On the first day of Mayana Kollai festival, Sambaloor town wakes up to the news of a factory fire. Meanwhile, the personal life of the factory’s union leader, Shanmugam, gets complicated. His daughter, Nandini, demands the police’s attention to the matter. Sakkarai, the sub-inspector, gives a cocky response. Day 2: Street play Inspector Regina, on realizing the gravity of Shanmugam’s personal problem, springs into action. Kothandaraman, a fire specialist, arrives at the site to draft a fire report for the insurance company. As day two of the Mayana Kollai festival unfolds, Sakkarai goes looking for clues. With Nandini’s help, he gets a critical tip that sends shockwaves by introducing a new suspect. Day 3: Procession of the Goddess in the Chariot of Her Soldier Shanmugam and his family aggressively pursue the likely suspect. The stakes are too high for Regina and she takes some damage control measures proactively. Kothandaraman's patience wears thin. The conflict between Regina and Shanmugam is all set to explode. Day 4: Immersion of the Goddess Sakkarai and Na...

The Suzhal web series, directed by Bramma-Anucharan, sets out to spin a story about sexual harassment of children. The in-thing today is that we take for granted the character of the people we’re moving with. In fact, our understanding of others is purely based on what they look like. That is to say, our assessment mainly revolves around how the others project themselves. When the characters that we have evaluated from our own POV turn upside down and the real faces or truths get thoroughly exposed in a vortex of circumstances, what happens? That is what the web series ‘Suzhal’ (Vortex) is about. The eight-episode web series written by Pushkar-Gayathri is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The storyline goes like this: Back in the 1990s, a cement factory was set up in Sambalur, a small town. During its construction, a teenage girl, Ammani, goes missing. On the first day of poojas marking what is culturally branded as ‘mayanakollai festival’ (looting at graveyard) at the Angallaman temple, the ‘missing girl’ story goes viral among the people who seem to be mystified by the whodunit. A quarter century down the line, 15-year-old girl Nila (Gopika Ramesh) is missing at the inaugural of the graveyard-related temple festival. She is the daughter of Shanmugam, cement factory union leader (R. Parthiban). When the characters that we have evaluated from our own POV turn upside down and the real faces or truths get thoroughly exposed in a vortex of circumstances, what will happen? That...

Mumbai, Jun 15 (PTI) Actor Sriya Reddy says her upcoming Prime Video Tamil series “Suzhal – The Vortex” is a show with a global appeal and has the potential to open doors for its cast to experiment with their content choices. Written and created by “Vikram Vedha” makers Pushkar and Gayatri, the Prime Video series revolves around the investigation of a missing girl that wreaks havoc and disrupts the fabric of a small town in South India. Reddy, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry and is known for starring in films like “Thimiru” and “Kanchivaram”, features in the series along with Kathir, Aishwarya Rajesh and Radhakrishnan Parthiban. The actor believes her show will definitely set an example for other streaming platforms to follow suit and mount their regional series on a grand scale like “Suzhal”. “We are going to be spoiled for choices. We are going to be more choosy after the release of this series. It would be like, ‘Hey if you’re not giving me a movie in Tamil, I have other options now.’ It’s an exciting time ahead because this will open doors for us, for so many platforms… “All the other actors, platforms will also want to take their shows global. So the future is going to be superb,” Reddy told PTI. “Suzhal – The Vortex” will be Prime Video’s first Tamil original series to premiere across multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and English as well as foreign languages like French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portug...

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve got the first trailer from Amazon Prime Video’s first original Tamil series, Suzhal – The Vortex here. The investigative thriller drama, written and created by creative duo Pushkar and Gayatri, runs to eight parts and follows events that wreak havoc in a small industrial town following the disappearance of a schoolgirl. The series stars the likes of Kathir, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sriya Reddy and Radhakrishnan Parthiban, the series launches across 240 Amazon territories on June 17. It will release across multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English, as well several European languages, Latin Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish. Suzhal – The Vortex begins with the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in Tamil Nadu. What begins as a missing-person investigative drama soon spirals into a thriller with twists and secrets that threatening to tear apart the town and its delicate social fabric. Bramma, who directed the first four episodes, said: “ Suzhal – The Vortex is an effort in differentiated storytelling that’s sure to strike a chord on various levels. With one dark mystery lying at core, the series manoeuvres through a rollercoaster of situations, beliefs and secrets that makes the characters, and the viewers constantly oscillate between what’s true and what’s not.” Amazon, which launched in India in 2016, recently unveiled a 40-strong slate of TV series and films, as part of plans to double its investment in the country o...