MIRUTHAN

A traffic cop falls in love with a young doctor, who heads a research team seeking a cure for zombies, a politically incorrect term, according to her, for the “infected people” ravaging the city. After India’s first zombie lm Go Goa Gone, screened at the Festival in 2013, Indian zombies return in Miruthan. But this time from Bollywood’s challenger Kollywood, or lms made in the state of Tamil Nadu in the Tamil language. And it’s a joyous event, high on octane, big biceps and pulsating music. Tamil zombies don’t stagger like Romero’s: they run and sprint and leap. Kollywood retorts!