Ratsasan (2018) on Netflix
Arun Kumar sets aside his dream of making films and, under family pressure, joins the police as a sub-inspector. When schoolgirls in the city are murdered, he pursues a serial killer.
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Plot summary
Arun Kumar is fascinated by the minds of psychopaths and dreams of directing films. His family wants something else for him, and he becomes a sub-inspector in the Tamil Nadu Police. He moves into the home of his sister Kokila and her husband Doss, a circle inspector, and their daughter Ammu. At Ammu's school he meets her teacher Viji and Viji's niece Kayal, who cannot hear or speak. Then a schoolgirl is abducted, and the case is given to him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ratsasan (2018)
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- Director Ramkumar was inspired to write Ratsasan after reading an international news story about the Russian serial killer Alexander Spesivtsev, and spent close to a year writing a fictional screenplay built around a psycho killer.
- Ramkumar struggled to find an actor to play the lead role of a forty-year-old man with a child; he wrote the child out of the script but still found it hard to convince actors to sign Ratsasan.
- In April 2016, actor Jai signed Ratsasan, which was to be produced by C. V. Kumar of Thirukumaran Entertainment, but soon after the actor and director dropped out and the producer took the title with him.
