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.

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.