Priyadarshan makes it to international film festival

Director Priyadarshan has many commercial potboilers to his credit. But this talented director has made Tamil flick Kanchivaram about a year ago and this film has been selected to be screened at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be screened in the special presentation section. Kanchivaram, a period film set in the

late 1940s, is all about the lives of silk weavers in Kanchipuram.

Kanchivaram has Prakash Raj and Shriya Reddy in the lead roles. Prakash Raj, a master weaver, irked by weavers’ poor standards of living triggers a revolution. The story is based on real life incidents, which occurred during a time when silk weavers were treated as bonded laborers. The revolution leads to the formation of a co-operative society, which is functional even today.