Adrift

Manam Pona Pokkil

By Ponselvam KARTHI

AK STUDIOS - as PROD

Experimental - Post-Production 2026

Adrift between faith and flesh, Karthi carries the wounds of missing love and silent betrayals, as he makes a desperate bid to find dignity and affection in a world that denies him both.

    • Year of production
    • 2026
    • Genres
    • Experimental
    • Countries
    • INDIA
    • Languages
    • TAMIL
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ponselvam KARTHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Nilavazhagan SUBBIAH (NULL), Awadhesh KUMAR (NULL), Rakasree BASU (NULL), Prateek BAGI (NULL), Shaunak SUR (NULL)
    • Synopsis
    • After escaping the confines of a strict Christian orphanage in Tamil Nadu, young Karthi believed he had crossed into freedom. Adulthood finds him confined instead to the isolation of a remote windmill outpost, where his hunger for dignity and affection warps into lies, betrayal, and deep existential collapse. Mocked, exposed, and finally broken by the community he returns to, he walks out with no destination — standing adrift on a wind-scoured shore between what he fled and what he still longs