Baaram is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language film written, directed and edited by Priya Krishnaswamy. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil, the only Tamil film to win at the 66th National Film Awards.

Plot

Karuppasamy, a widowed night watchman, lives with his sister and three nephews– Veera, Mani and Murugan– at a town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a traditional healer. After eight days, Karuppasamy dies. His mysterious death gets Veera, an activist, suspicious.