Director Sudha Kongara's Parasakthi, headlined by Sivakarthikeyan, is gearing up for its OTT release nearly a month after it opened in theatres. The streaming platform has been revealed as Zee5, which has scheduled the premiere of the Tamil period political thriller for Feb. 7.
Parasakthi features a stellar ensemble cast featuring Ravi Mohan, Atharvaa, and Sreeleela, among others. The film marks Sreeleela's Tamil debut.
In its review of the film, THE WEEK wrote: "Sudha's film takes on the duty of issuing a clarion call for resisting unwanted intrusion into our integrity, identity, and endeavours for progress. It's a film that clarifies, through its characters, that it's not against Hindi or those who speak it, but against its imposition of it. It rightly brings up the point that the other state wouldn't like it if this state tried to impose its language on them."
On Sivakarthikeyan's performance, the review further added that it "doesn't exactly have one of Sivakarthikeyan's finest performances, but the actor doesn't do a bad job either. He has done better earlier, though."
Scripted jointly by Sudha Kongara and Arjun Nadesan and bankrolled by Dawn Pictures, Parasakthi has veteran Ravi K Chandran as director of photography and Sathish Surya (Soorarai Pottru) on the editing table, with GV Prakash Kumar working on the music.
Sudha's last directorial was Sarfira, the Akshay Kumar-led Hindi remake of her National Award-winning Tamil feature Soorarai Pottru, starring Suriya and Aparna Balamurali.
Sivakarthikeyan's last film was Madharaasi, a Tamil action thriller written and directed by AR Murugadoss, which co-starred Rukmini Vasanth, alongside Vidyut Jammwal, Biju Menon, Vikranth, and Shabeer Kallarakkal.
