Tamil star Suriya plays tribal rights advocate in 'Jai Bhim'

Chennai

 The movie, directed by T.J. Gnanavel, will start streamingon Amazon Prime from November 2. It will also be dubbed and released in Telugu,Malayalam and Kannada. Apart from Suriya, its cast consists of Prakash Raj, RaoRamesh, Rajisha Vijayan, Lijo Mol Jose and Manikandan.

The movie is about oppressed tribals who find happiness inthe little joys of life, even though they do not own land, nor homes. The smalljoys of this tribe are portrayed in the movie, which is based on a real-lifeincident dating back to 1993.

The story is about Sengenni and Rajakannu, a couplebelonging to the Irular tribe. Rajakannu is arrested and goes missing from thepolice station. Sengenni then seeks the help of Advocate Chandru to get justicefor her husband. Suriya, who plays Advocate Chandru, appears on behalf ofSengenni and argues the case for Rajakannu.

The film has been co-produced by RajasekarKarpoorasundarapandian. The cinematography is by S.R. Kadir and Sean Rolden hasgiven the music.

The movie was officially announced in April 2021 and it wenton the floors immediately, but the pandemic stalled the shooting, which wasresumed in July and completed in September.

Suriya was last seen in "Soorarai Pottru", wherehe played the father of budget airlines in India, Captain G.R. Gopinath of AirDeccan fame. The movie, directed by Sudha Kongara, saw Malayalam actress AparnaBalamurali playing the female lead opposite Suriya.