brothers, producer Kumanavannan and director Gogularaajan, are angry and have a divinity-tinged story to

Darkness” is set in the 1960s, in a secluded Malaysian oil palm plantation which borders

innocent, young wife and plantation worker of the Tamil diaspora community yearns to be a

her to the oppression of her own society and family

of tragic events lead Kaali to realize the divine Mother Goddess in herself and she

Kumanavannan co-founded Padai Art Movement, a group that aims to find an original collective narrative

to personify the struggle of nature in the character Kaali

I want my audience to feel Mother Nature’s pain,” Gogularaajan said

“This is a story that a lot of us in Malaysia are familiar with, even

this gap and took it upon ourselves to fill it