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Movie Review : Parasakthi

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 Director Sudha Kongara's Parasakthi hit screens on 10th January. The film is based on the TN students anti Hindi imposition movement in the 1960s. The story revolves around a student, Chezhiyan (Sivakarthikeyan) who starts an agitation against Hindi imposition along with co-students, on one dark night on the railway tracks. But when a tragedy befalls one of the members in the fire that ensues, he is shaken and  gives it all up to continue with life.   However, years later events come a full circle when Chezhiyan is drawn again into the agitation, when his younger brother Chinnadurai ( Atharvaa Murali) is fired up by the circumstances prevailing, when Hindi imposition begins to affect lives and livlihoods of the common man.  Chezhiyan finds a compatriot in Ratnamala ( Sreeleela), his neighbour, who aids the cause along with other youngsters.  But the past catches up with him in the form of the ruthless KGB trained special  intelligence officer Thirunaa...