Promising political drama overpowered by preachiness

POWER. In this world, which is all about the ones on top governing the kinds of lives lived by the ones on the bottom, power is ultimate.

- AVINASH RAMACHANDRAN

Of course, there is the adage that 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' But when presented with the possibility of having absolute power, there are not many who would deny that opportunity. In many ways, Arun Prabu Purushothaman's Shakthi Thirumagan is a film about how the biggest power in a democracy, even if it might seem increasingly futile in an intolerant world, is the right to ask the right questions to the right people at the right time to get the right kind of information.