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The Goddess
The Goddess
8.1
/10
30 Ratings

THE GODDESS

பராசக்தி | Parasakthi

Directed by R. Krishnan, S. Panju
India, 1952
Drama

Synopsis

Gunasekaran leaves Burma in the midst of World War II in order to return to India and attend his sister’s wedding. However, tragedy befalls the family and they must find their place in a new Madras.

Synopsis

Gunasekaran leaves Burma in the midst of World War II in order to return to India and attend his sister’s wedding. However, tragedy befalls the family and they must find their place in a new Madras.

Our take

On its release in 1952, R. Krishnan and S. Panju’s Parasakthi was beset with controversy. The film’s scathing challenges to class and gender hierarchies, and religious hypocrisy saw calls for it to be banned, before its canonisation as a pioneering classic that changed the course of Tamil cinema.