Based on real-life incidents from the 1940s, Paradesi is the screen adaptation of Paul Harris Daniel's novel Red Tea, translated into Tamil as Eriyum Panikadu. Set in the Madras Presidency during the British Raj, the film explores the wretched lives of tea plantation workers.
Paradesi
In the 1940s, a group of poor villagers are deceived into working on tea plantations, only to find themselves trapped in a life of slavery with no escape and no glimmer of hope for freedom.