Dr Visakesa Chandrasekaram is a human rights lawyer and an independent arts practitioner in Sri Lanka and Australia. He has written and presented several creative pieces including Forbidden Area, a play, The King and the Assassin, a fiction and three feature films - Frangipani (2013), Paangshu (2018), and Munnel (2023).

A senior lecturer at the faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dr Visakesa Chandrasekaram is presently in Sydney as a juror at the Sydney Film Festival.

Kulasegaram Sanchayan talks to Dr Visakesa Chandrasekaram about his activism, his work, and in particular his latest film Munnel that is screened at the Sydney Film Festival.

This is the first part of the two-part interview.

---

Final Part:

“The Youth is ready to create a Sri Lanka without racial divide” – Director of ‘Sand’

SBS Tamil

14/06/202316:21

Play

---

Listen to SBS Tamil at 8pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays on SBS Radio 2.

Find your area’s radio frequency by visiting our

tune in page

.

For listening on DAB+

digital radio

, search for ‘SBS Radio’.