Film on Rohingya refugees 'Kaattu Kadal Athirukal' set to release today

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

31st January 2020 

Anu Mohan, Leona Lishoy, Kailash, Anil Murali, Dr. Anil Venugopal, and Saran play the principal characters along with a real-life Tibetan refugee named Dawa Lhamo. 

A film on Rohingya refugees, Kaattu Kadal Athirukal, is finally releasing in theatres today. Directed by Samad Mankada, the film produced by EK Shaji was cleared recently by the CBFC after omitting references to cows and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).

Anu Mohan, Leona Lishoy, Kailash, Anil Murali, Dr. Anil Venugopal, and Saran play the principal characters along with a real-life Tibetan refugee named Dawa Lhamo.

Exiled: The Roots of Myanmar's Persecution of the Rohingya

Aljazeera
25 Nov 2019

Insight into the harrowing experiences faced by Myanmar's Rohingya at the hands of the military and Buddhist factions.

A film by Shahida Tulaganova

"After killing all the men, they asked: 'Who are you?' We replied: 'We are Rohingya, Rohingya'. They said: 'This is not your country, you can't live here," recalls Rowza Begun, a Rohingya refugee.

I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts review – youthful counterblast to oppression

The Guardian

Mike McCahill
Wed 13 Mar 2019

A group of refugees from Myanmar, living in Canada, make a stage show of their traumatic experiences in Yusuf Zine’s deliberately upbeat documentary.
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Testament of youth … I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts. Photograph: Huh Nation 

The levels of displacement in today’s world are such that it is possible to make a film about the plight of Myanmar’s indigenous Rohingya people without travelling beyond a few snowy blocks in Toronto.