Poster of the film Shakthi Thirumagan

Shakthi Thirumagan

Action Drama Thriller Tamil


A tribal woman is brutally assaulted and killed. Her newborn is mercilessly abandoned in a dump yard, left to die. But fate intervenes — an old man discovers the infant and decides to raise him as his own. The child, named Kittu,After the old man’s death, Kittu is left to fend for himself,determined to confront his mother’s killer.

Cast:Vijay Antony, Trupthi ravindra, Vagai Chandrasekar, Sunil kripalini, Cell Murugan, Rini Bot
Director:Arun Prabu Purushothaman
Writer:Arun Prabu Purushothaman
Editor:Raymond Derrick Crasta
Camera:Shelley Calist

Guild Reviews

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Promising political drama overpowered by preachiness

FCG Member Reviewer Avinash Ramachandran
Avinash Ramachandran | The New Indian Express
Mon, September 22 2025

With Shakthi Thirumagan comprising a myriad of possibilities, the way everything unfolds as a boring lecture in a post-lunch session becomes its biggest undoing

Power. In this world, which is all about the ones on top governing the kinds of lives lived by the ones on the bottom, power is ultimate. Of course, there is the adage that ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ But when presented with the possibility of having absolute power, there are not many who would deny that opportunity. Shakthi Thirumagan is about a person who refuses to deny that opportunity. One which he carefully crafted over time, greased more than a few palms, did more than his fair share of nefarious activities, and gained the key to ultimate power: information. In many ways, Arun Prabu Purushothaman’s Shakthi Thirumagan is a film about how the biggest power in a democracy, even if it might seem increasingly futile in an intolerant world, is the right to ask the right questions to the right people at the right time to get the right kind of information.

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