Vishnu Vishal

Personal context

Summary

Vishnu Vishal is an Indian actor and producer known for genre-spanning Tamil films including Vennila Kabaddi Kuzhu, Ratsasan, FIR and Gatta Kusthi. He has repeatedly described equality and social division as concerns in his work: he said he made Gatta Kusthi to show gender equality, and has discussed caste bias in cricket, suspicion toward Muslims and religious intolerance in connection with Jeeva, FIR and Lal Salaam. He has said he believes in equality and freedom of speech and has spoken out online against violations of those principles. He has also said he is generally unaware of politics and takes an informed stand when an issue comes to his attention.