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Kayamai Kadakka
Kayamai Kadakka is a 2021 Tamil-language Thriller/Drama feature film written, directed, edited, and produced by Kiran R and is a partially crowd-funded film. The film was shot in and around Coimbatore employing guerrilla-filmmaking technique with a limited crew size of five. The film was titled 'Parallel Lines' during its initial film festival run. The film was released worldwide online on a pay-per-view platform on December 3rd, 2021.

The Times of India described the film as "An indie with ambition that manages to punch above its weight, Kayamai Kadakka is a minimalist thriller that keeps us guessing about where the narrative will go next."

Kayamai Kadakka world premiered at the Canada's Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival in December 2020, hosted online by the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox. The film won Jury Prize at the festival and received special mention for Ensemble Performance, Screenplay, Editing, and Sound Design.

It was later screened at the New York Indian Film Festival 2021, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021, Independent Film Festival of Chennai 2021, Caleidoscope Indian Film Festival Boston 2021.

Plot
Two men, who know each other only through Facebook, share two things in common: their name and their opinion towards injustice to crimes against women. Their lives take a deadly turn when they both meet in person for the first time.