Key Highlights
- Demanding the removal of “ahistorical scenes” from the film and an apology, Tamil Nadu Youth Congress vice-president Arun Bhaskar has said scenes involving Congress leader Indira Gandhi, played by a lookalike, and the student leader were not historically accurate as Indira Gandhi did not visit Coimbatore on Februrary 12, 1965, or when the film shows her being welcomed by a train on fire, carrying signatures against imposition of Hindi.
- One of Parasakthi’s most significant sequences takes place near Pollachi where Chezhiyan (played by Sivakarthikeyan) has to prove to the Prime Minister that his anti-Hindi imposition stand is the voice of the masses and not his alone.
- To do so, he gathers students from across the State secretly and tries to galvanise a force, even as local forces try to stop him from doing so.
- In a heart-wrenching sequence, armed personnel fire at the protesting students in their quest to glean the whereabouts of Chezhiyan.
- Meanwhile, he has gathered students from other South Indian States as well and they also believe that Hindi imposition may result in loss of jobs and livelihoods.
