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	\| producer = Janaki Sivakumar		\| producer = Janaki Sivakumar
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	\| starring = Leena Manimekalai<br>Antonythasan Jesuthasan		\| starring = Leena Manimekalai<br />Antonythasan Jesuthasan
	\| music = L. V. Ganesan		\| music = L. V. Ganesan
	\| cinematography = [[M. J. Radhakrishnan]]		\| cinematography = [[M. J. Radhakrishnan]]
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	== List of official selections ==		== List of official selections ==
	* Sengadal the DeadSea had won the GFI Production grant for 2010<ref>http://www.globalfilm.org/pdfs/SummerGrantingRelease.pdf</ref>		* Sengadal the DeadSea had won the GFI Production grant for 2010<ref>http://www.globalfilm.org/pdfs/SummerGrantingRelease.pdf {{Bare URL PDF\|date=March 2022}}</ref>
	* Only Tamil film to be screened at the 42nd [[International Film Festival of India]].		* Only Tamil film to be screened at the 42nd [[International Film Festival of India]].
	* Official Selection, International Competition, 32nd Durban International Film Festival, August 2011<ref name=":1">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/No-holds-barred/article11639065.ece\|title=No holds barred\|last=KAMATH\|first=SUDHISH\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2017-05-10\|language=en}}</ref>		* Official Selection, International Competition, 32nd Durban International Film Festival, August 2011<ref name=":1">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/No-holds-barred/article11639065.ece\|title=No holds barred\|last=KAMATH\|first=SUDHISH\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2017-05-10\|language=en}}</ref>
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	[[Category:2011 films]]		[[Category:2011 films]]
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	[[Category:English-language Indian films]]		[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
	[[Category:Films directed by Leena Manimekalai]]		[[Category:Films directed by Leena Manimekalai]]
	[[Category:2010s Tamil-language films]]		[[Category:2010s Tamil-language films]]
	[[Category:2011 directorial debut films]]		[[Category:2011 directorial debut films]]

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{{short description|2011 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Sengadal
| image = Sengadal film.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Leena Manimekalai]]
| producer = Janaki Sivakumar
| writer = C. Jerrold<br/>[[Antonythasan Jesuthasan]]
| starring = Leena Manimekalai<br>Antonythasan Jesuthasan
| music = L. V. Ganesan
| cinematography = [[M. J. Radhakrishnan]]
| editing = [[Sreekar Prasad]]
| studio = Tholl Paavai Theatres
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2011|08||Durban}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil<br/>English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Sengadal''''' (''The Dead Sea'') is a 2011 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil-language]] [[independent film]] written and directed by [[Leena Manimekalai]], who makes her directing debut and stars in the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/N5cVNtXpzn0lpNOCJw5fxI/Fishing-in-death-sea.html|title=Fishing in death sea - Livemint|website=www.livemint.com|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> Produced by Janaki Sivakumar, the film features cinematography by [[M. J. Radhakrishnan]] and editing by [[Sreekar Prasad]]. The film was initially banned by the regional centre of the [[Censor Board]], but [[Film Certification Appellate Tribunal|Appellate Tribunal]] authorities of the board at New Delhi cleared the film in July 2011 after legal struggle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ulaginazhagiyamuthalpenn.blogspot.my/2011_01_01_archive.html?m=1|title=Between body and the flesh|website=ulaginazhagiyamuthalpenn.blogspot.my|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-leena-manimekalai-broke-but-not-broken-1608142|title=Leena Manimekalai: Broke but not broken {{!}} Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis|date=2011-11-06|work=dna|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/troubled-waters/857450/|title=Troubled Waters - Indian Express|website=archive.indianexpress.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=hu100911protagonists.asp|title=Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine|website=archive.tehelka.com|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> ''Sengadal'' was part of the [[Indian Panorama]] at the [[42nd International Film Festival of India]] after the censor board had cleared the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/sengadal-to-put-spotlight-on-tamil-fishermen/888179/|title=Sengadal to put spotlight on Tamil fishermen - Indian Express|website=archive.indianexpress.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref>

== Cast ==
* [[Antonythasan Jesuthasan|Shobasakthi]]
* [[Leena Manimekalai]]
* Nimal
* Rosemarry

== Plot ==
On the Indian mainland, across the waters, arrive the Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, an unending stream of people dispossessed of their lands and Gods, to an uncertain future with ever receding hopes of return. Dhanushkodi, the Indo-Sri Lankan border town, is the crucible wherein History is brewing this concoction of defeated lives and exhausted dreams. Hope is a big word and resistance but a tired expression. Three decades of struggle for a nation is washed out, a race obliterated. For, there is no one fighting their war back home now. Heroic images have turned to dust. The bunkers run with the wasted blood. Smoke rises from heaps of putrid flesh. Unwanted lives rot away in barbed wire human zoos. The misery spills over to the Indian shore. Fishermen fishing in fear in ignorance of friendly and enemy waters get dumped as rebels, spies and smugglers and unceremoniously beaten to death or shot or maimed. Yet, each morning sees their boats launched once again to the sea as the sea is their motherland and the language of fish their mother tongue. Manimekalai, the filmmaker, Munusamy, the fisherman, Rosemary, the social worker in Jesuit Christian Refugee Services, try hard to retain their sanity in this mad jumble. Their interactions with the dead or living refugees, their skirmishes with the Indian and Sri Lankan States, their personal lives overrun by external events - form the kernel of this narration. Soori, a half-wit Sri Lankan Tamil, who connects to the world through his radio, stands aloof in this bleak world of despair sending lightning jolts of truth into the dark recesses of History. No wonder, he vanishes into the blue and Manimekalai is forced by the State to return to the world of civil obedience. Munusamy is killed and Rosemary turns to her God, the same God who parted the Red Sea to save his flock in their flight from annihilation.

== Production ==
This film was a people participatory work, says director.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2011/dec/16/sea-of-sufferings-320775.html|title=Sea of sufferings|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> The movie was filmed in Dhanuskodi, India which is just 18 km from Sri Lanka.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2011/aug/280811-Horrors-of-Tamil-Lankan-fishermen-on-celluloid.htm|title=Horrors of Tamil-Lankan fishermen on celluloid|website=archive.mid-day.com|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> When talking about the movie, the director says, the real victory of her movie would be, even if one fisherman is saved from killing of Sri Lankan navy.<ref name=":0" /> Writer, director, producer Leena Manimekalai, tried gather funds via crowd sourcing for the distribution of the movie.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Small-budget-filmmakers-now-woo-the-masses-for-money/articleshow/12323056.cms?from=mdr|title=Small budget filmmakers now woo the masses for money - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref>

[[File:The Producer of the film “Sengadal”, Janaki Sivakumar, the Director, Leena Mammekalai, the Screenplay Writer, Anthonyhdasan and the Executive Producer, Jacob Herald with the Director, IFFI, Shri Shankar Mohan.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Film crew, [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]] ([[42nd International Film Festival of India|2011]]) ]]

== List of official selections ==
* Sengadal the DeadSea had won the GFI Production grant for 2010<ref>http://www.globalfilm.org/pdfs/SummerGrantingRelease.pdf</ref>
* Only Tamil film to be screened at the 42nd [[International Film Festival of India]].
* Official Selection, International Competition, 32nd Durban International Film Festival, August 2011<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/No-holds-barred/article11639065.ece|title=No holds barred|last=KAMATH|first=SUDHISH|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en}}</ref>
* Official Selection, First Film Competition, 35th World Montreal Film Festival, September 2011<ref name=":1" />
* Official Selection, International Competition, Mumbai Film Fest, MAMI, October 2011<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/dead-seas-indian-independent-films-154749115.html|title=Of dead seas and Indian independent films|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
* NAWFF Award (Best Asian Woman Film award), Tokyo International Film Festival, November 2011<ref name=":1" />
* Indian Panorama, Indian International Film Festival, Goa, December 2011<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Festive-fare/article13552327.ece#|title=Festive fare|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/slide-show-1-south-interview-with-leena-manimekalai/20111230.htm|title='There are no actors in my film'|work=Rediff|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1111204/jsp/7days/story_14835618.jsp#.WRKHS9J97IV|title=Limelight|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref>
* World Cinema Official Selection, International Film Festival of Kerala, 2011
* Chithrabarathi Competition, Bangalore International Film Festival, 2011
* Official Korean Premiere, International Women Film Festival, South Korea, 2012
* Official Taiwan Premiere, International Women Film Festival, Taipei, 2012
* NAWFF Premieres at International Women Film Festivals at Israel and Beijing, 2012
* Pecheurs De Monde International Film Festival, Lorient, France, 2013
* Rare Picks at Hundred years of Indian Cinema Package, 2013

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=1683488}} (IMDb)

[[Category:2011 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Leena Manimekalai]]
[[Category:2010s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:2011 directorial debut films]]

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