Parasakthi
Action Drama Romance Tamil
1965 Tamil Nadu, India: Chezhiyan becomes entangled in an agitation that threatens the very livelihood of the people of the Madras State. His attempts to protect his passionate student brother put him into a life and death struggle with an intelligence agent whose fanaticism is only met by his ruthlessness.
| Cast: | Sivakarthikeyan, Ravi Mohan, Sreeleela, Atharvaa Murali, Dev Ramnath, Prithvi Pandiarajan |
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| Director: | Sudha Kongara Prasad |
| Editor: | Sathish Suriya |
| Camera: | Ravi K. Chandran |
Guild Reviews
The Revolution Has A Face, Not A Character
(Written for OTT Play)
In Parasakthi — the 2026 version, not the seminal 1952 Krishnan-Panju film written by M Karunanidhi — Sudha Kongara often films Sivakarthikeyan in silhouettes. We meet Chezhiyan (helpfully working as a Tamizh name as well as a call to a revolutionary like Che) in 1959, and what we first see is his outline amidst darkness as he holds an effigy (the language of Hindi anthropomorphised) and threatens to stop a train. It is an immersive entry for a hero in a film based on the anti-Hindi agitations of 1965 in the Madras state. We see him as a student leader, an activist and a revolutionary. And the silhouette gives him shape and form, but not characteristics. It centres the movement and students as its ultimate progenitors.
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