Iruvar

Iruvar

Power....Authority....Position....

1997140 min7.5 / 10

A cerebral, morally complex examination of ambition and the entanglement of cinema with political power in Tamil Nadu, told through fictionalized portraits of real historical figures.

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

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