The movie was released on November 2 directly on Amazon Prime and has become a great milestone for Suriya and one of the movies that would perennially live and decorate the Tamil cinema.
The jury is comprised of 15 members and they will be finalizing one movie out of 14 and that one movie would be sent as India's entry for the Academy Awards.
Maanaadu has become one of the much-anticipated movies of Simbu as the movie is inching closer to the release after the episodes of controversies, setbacks, and external crises.
Piraisoodan was admitted to a private hospital in the city a few days ago following an ailment. Despite the treatment to save him, he had breathed his last at around 4.45 pm on Friday.
Vijay is currently busy with his upcoming movie 'Beast' helmed by Nelson Dilipkumar. Beast is bankrolled by Kalanithi Maran under his own banner Sun Pictures.