Filmmaker Chezhiyan, known for acclaimed Tamil film To Let, dies at 57

Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer R. Chezhiyan, best known for To Let, has died at 57 after a prolonged illness. The film, about a lower middle-class family hunting for a rented house, deliberately avoided a background score and won Best Film in the Indian language competition at the 23rd Kolkata International Film Festival, taking the Golden Bengal Tiger.