Sailesh Rathnakumar's debut feature film 'Selvi', starring Anjali Patil as a homecare nurse, won the Hylife Vision Award and the Taipei Film Commission Award at the Busan film festival.
The 90-plus minute Tamil drama explores themes of isolation, loneliness, and outsourced care through a homecare nurse picking up shifts for a friend.
Lead actor Anjali Patil prepared for the role by learning basic medical procedures such as tracheostomy care and dubbing her own lines in Tamil.