Paradesi is director Bala’s portrayal of real life incidents that took place during the pree independce days in the Madras Presidency where the locals were made to slave in tea plantations.

Pichaikaran is the 2016 movie starring Vijay Antony. It explores the life a rich man who is forced to experience the life of a beggar on the suggestion of a sage to save his ailing mother. It is supposed to be based on a real life incident.

Kazhugu narrates a real life tale based on four friends in Ooty whose job it is to recover bodies of people who jump off the cliff.