Periyar (2007)

Original title

பெரியார்

Directed by

Gnana Rajasekaran

Genre

biographical film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 25m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This biographical film follows the life of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, a social reformer and rationalist in India. It shows his work fighting against caste discrimination and superstition.

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What happens

Periyar is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language biographical film, written and directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, about the life of the social reformer and rationalist Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, with Sathyaraj who plays the lead role. This movie was partly funded by the then Tamil Nadu government headed by Karunanidhi. The film was dubbed in Telugu and released as Periyar Ramaswamy Naicker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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