Sivakarthikeyan’s ‘Parasakthi’ opens its 1960s sets to Chennai’s film buffs

Is it imaginable to time-travel backmost to the mid-1960s, to a Tamil Nadu of the past, wherever the Dravidian uprising was reaching a pinnacle? The lone mean with a transportive powerfulness that comes adjacent to the magic of a clip instrumentality is cinema. And it is this prime of the creation signifier that the makers of upcoming Tamil play enactment play Parasakthi have tapped into arsenic they kick-started their pre-release promotions. On Thursday (December 18), the makers of the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer unveiled a expansive accumulation astatine Valluvar Kottam successful Chennai that displays the galore play sets that were created for the film.

According to the makers, the squad led by creation manager Arvind Ashok Kumar had recreated props and sets from the 1960s for the making of the film, immoderate of which person present been recreated oregon rescaled arsenic installations successful the exhibition. From a vigor presumption and a vintage car to a makeshift constabulary presumption and a steam locomotive, the installations committedness to let visitors a accidental to relive beingness successful a bygone era.

As a large highlight, the makers besides unveiled a peculiar behind-the-scenes video narrating however the galore looks and costumes of the pb characters were designed — a video that visitors tin exclusively ticker astatine a tentkotta-style accepted movie theatre installed astatine the exhibition.

The exhibition, which volition beryllium unfastened to nationalist viewing until December 21 (Sunday), was unveiled astatine a expansive lawsuit called the ‘World of Parasakthi’ that was attended by the film’s director, Sudha Kongara; pb actors Sivakarthikeyan, Ravi Mohan, Atharvaa, and Sreeleela; euphony composer GV Prakash Kumar; shaper Aakash Baskaran; creation manager Arvind Ashok Kumar; and costume decorator Poornima Ramaswamy, among different members of the film’s crew.

Speaking astatine the event, manager Sudha said that the facet of being a filmmaker that she loves the astir is however the trade allows the manager to unrecorded galore lives, witnesser galore lifestyles, and research galore worlds. “In Irudhi Suttru, I explored the satellite of boxing; successful Soorarai Pottru, it was astir the aviation industry; and now, successful Parasakthi, I person gone backmost to the 1960s and peeped into that satellite for the past 5 years.” Adding that the movie gave her everything, the filmmaker spoke astir what it meant to revisit a clip erstwhile radical were overmuch simpler. “It was conscionable astir 15 years aft we got Independence, and radical didn’t attraction astir wealth and desire; what they each carried successful their hearts was a fire, a passion. We were a young nation, and each these radical fought for each right. I liked that, and I wanted to speech astir it,” she said. “Be it play props, locations, costumes, jewellery, and adjacent the faces of the inheritance artists we chose to suit the period, we tried our champion to guarantee it’s each authentic. I anticipation this accumulation gives the nationalist the aforesaid feeling these sets did to us,” added the filmmaker.

Meanwhile, the pb leader of the film, Sivakarthikeyan, successful his speech, lauded Sudha for the hard enactment she had enactment successful portion preparing for the film. “The archetypal crushed I chose to bash this movie isn’t the story; it was Sudha ma’am herself. Only aft deciding to bash a movie with her did I adjacent perceive to this story. She has worked hard for astir 5 years connected this film. So, I didn’t person to bash immoderate research; she already had a post-graduation connected the taxable successful a way.”

The Madharaasi-star past thanked shaper Aakash Baaskaran for the inaugural to big the exhibition. “How we instrumentality a movie to its audiences is arsenic important arsenic however we marque it. And this lawsuit is an illustration of what you tin bash erstwhile you recognize the pulse of your film. So I admit the accumulation team,” helium said.

Parasakthi, which is Sivakarthikeyan’s 25th film, is said to seizure a humanities pupil question that everlastingly changed the governmental cloth of Tamil Nadu. The film, which borrows its rubric from the iconic Sivaji Ganesan movie written by M Karunanidhi, has a screenplay penned by Sudha and Arjun Nadesan.

The movie has cinematography by Ravi K Chandran and editing by Sathis. Notably, the movie marks GV Prakash’s 100th movie arsenic a composer. Produced by Dawn Pictures, Parasakthi is acceptable to merchandise successful theatres connected January 14, 2026, during Pongal.

The World of Parasakthi accumulation volition beryllium unfastened to nationalist viewing betwixt 2 PM and 10 PM connected December 19, 20, and 21