KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16 -- Locally-produced Tamil film Pulanaivu has bested a list of many Tamil movies from around the world and won the Best Crime Thriller Feature Film award at the Toronto Tamil Film Festival 2020 (TTFF 2020).

Written and directed by Shalini Balasundaram and Sathish Natarajan, the husband and wife duo released the action-packed mystery-romance film last November.

Starring Malaysian singer and actress Datin Seri Shaila V, Pulanaivu - which means "intelligence" or "investigation" - focuses on a female cop (played by Shaila) in pursuit of a murderer at a college.

In an Instagram post recently, Shaila announced the good news about winning the recognition at TTFF 2020 and congratulated the team behind the movie.

Speaking...