Rajesh Touchriver is back with a hard-hitting naxal drama

Four years after winning the National Award with his last film,

Naa Bangaru Talli

in 2103 director Rajesh Touchriver is back with his next,

Raktham

.
Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher,

Albert Camus

’s 1949 play, Les Justes, the film explores the moral issues a group of revolutionaries face in the process of executing their plan to assasinate a central minister. “I first read

Les Justes

over twenty years ago when I was in school. The story stayed with me all these years. But when I read about the case of 24 maoists being killed in their den in Odisha last year, and a couple of similar incidents, I began to grapple with the conflict between the ideology of non violence and the right to kill people who inflict violence. And that’s how this film came about,” explains Rajesh, adding, “To take a life without justification is murder so assassins rationalise their actions in order to ensure they are not left morally bankrupt after the deed is done. The individual internal conflicts of the humane assassins surface, and things seem to fall apart as they get closer to the goal.”