Widely considered to be one of Priyadarshan’s best films, Sirai Chalai was a stark portrayal of British rule in India seen through the eyes of prisoners condemned to languish in a hellhole of a prison in Andaman Islands. Mohanlal and Prabhu were brilliant in their respective roles. The film’s depiction of the colonial rule complete with warts and all its ugliness had the viewers in tears and outraged at the horror of it all.