Popular
Tamil
zombie
thriller
Miruthan
was
screened
at
the
Neuchatel
International
Fantastic
Film
Festival
(NIFFF)
in
Switzerland,
but
the
audience
laughed
and
"hooted
the
loudest" when
they
saw
smoking
disclaimer
in
the
film,
film-maker
Anurag
Kashyap,
who
attended
it,
said.
The
Jayam
Ravi
and
Lakshmi
Menon-starrer
was
screened
at
the
17th
Swiss
film
festival,
read
a
statement
on
the
festival's
official
website.
Hindi
film-maker
Anurag
Kashyap,
whose
latest
film
Raman
Raghav
2.0
had
its
Swiss
premiere
on
Monday
(July
4),
took
to
his
social
media
page
to
share
the
response
that
Miruthan
received
during
its
screening.
"Film
festival
in
Switzerland
showing
the
Tamil
Zombie
movie,
'Miruthan'.
Guess
where
they
laughed,
hooted
the
loudest?
Smoking
disclaimers," Kashyap
tweeted.
Directed
by
Shakti
Soundar
Rajan,
Miruthan
was
bankrolled
by
S
Michael
Rayappan.
It
was
claimed
that
the
film
was
Tamil
cinema's
first
attempt
to
dish
out
a
thriller
in
the
zombie
genre,
which
is
more
popular
in
Western
countries.
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