Troubles continue to mount for Sivakarthikeyan’s Parasakthi. The Tamil Nadu Youth Congress has issued a statement condemning what they called as a "deliberate distortion" of historical facts in the film. In a detailed four-point note, the organisation highlighted specific scenes that allegedly do not align with the events of the 1960s anti-Hindi agitation movement in Tamil Nadu. Arun Bhaskar, the State Senior Vice President of the organisation who wrote the statement, further called for the immediate removal of those scenes and demanded a public apology from the film’s makers.
"In 1965, the Congress government never officially announced that Post Office forms must be filled only in Hindi across all states. This is a complete fabrication deliberately created to malign our party," he began and later pointed to a scene where Sivakarthikeyan meets late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and then the latter visiting Coimbatore in the same year. "The foolish team that produced this film seems completely unaware that the law does not permit the imaginary portrayal of deceased national leaders in events that never occurred in history. They have recklessly created scenes that have no historical basis whatsoever," he added, noting that her visit to the city "never took place." "It then fabricates scenes of a train being set on fire in her presence and portrays her as accepting signatures against Hindi imposition. None of these events ever happened in history, and depicting them is highly condemnable," he stated.
Arun Bhaskar also criticised the makers for making an "utterly baseless claim" that the Congress party allegedly shot and killed more than 200 Tamil people in Pollachi. "This accusation is made without a shred of evidence and deliberately portrays our party and our leaders with false and defamatory data," he remarked, further questioning the reason "forcibly" showing the burning of the party's flag in the film.
Concluding his statement, he claimed that Parasakthi is mounted on the "filmmakers' own fabricated imagination and is completely contrary to historical truth, with the sole intention of attacking the Indian National Congress through lies and distortions." Arun Bhaskar urged Congress workers to raise their voices against what he described as an “injustice” to the party and called for a ban on the film until the scenes are removed, failing which he warned that strict legal action will be taken against the makers.
The film previously faced a delay in receiving censor certificate. They only received it a day before the release of the film on Saturday, January 10. It received over 25 cuts where several words and sentences were modified.
Actor and creative producer of Parasakthi, Dev Ramnath, recently addressed the growing negativity surrounding the movie following its release, and slammed users for indulging in influencing public opinion by posting poor reviews. He hit back against a certain section of people using "old videos, shouting political slogans in theatres, and messing with Book My Show ratings."
Besides Sivakarthikeyan, Sreeleela and Ravi Mohan, the film also stars Atharvaa, Dev Ramnath, Prithvi Rajan, Guru Somasundaram, Basil Joseph, Papri Ghosh, and Rana Daggubati. Sudha has written Parasakthi along with Arjun Nadesan, with an additional screenplay by Ganeshaa and dialogues by Madhan Karky and Shan Karuppusamy.