My Lord, the new Sasikumar film directed by National Award winner Raju Murugan, releases on February 13 with the backing of Suriya’s 2D Entertainment. It is a legal drama that pits an ordinary man against a system designed to crush him, and on paper at least, it looks like the kind of film both actor and director do best.
The premise is bleak and specific. Sasikumar plays a man who, along with his wife, is wrongly declared dead by the authorities. What sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare becomes something far worse when he uncovers a kidney trafficking ring with connections to corrupt politicians. It is the kind of real-world horror that Raju Murugan has shown an instinct for before, though this time framed as a courtroom fight rather than political satire.
Raju Murugan made his name with Cuckoo in 2014, a tender love story between two visually impaired people that announced him as a director willing to look where others wouldn’t. His follow-up, Joker, went even further. A sharp, dark satire on rural India’s forgotten villages and the politicians who exploit them, it won the National Award for Best Tamil Film in 2016. Since then he has contributed to the anthology Modern Love Chennai and directed Japan in 2023, but My Lord feels like a return to the kind of full-blooded social filmmaking that built his reputation.
Sasikumar, for his part, is coming off the biggest commercial success of his career. Tourist Family, the 2025 comedy-drama about a Sri Lankan Tamil family navigating illegal immigration to India, collected roughly ₹90 crore worldwide, making it one of the most profitable Tamil films of that year. It was a lighter, more accessible film than his usual fare. My Lord looks like a deliberate shift back to the grittier territory he is most associated with, the kind of rural-rooted, socially charged storytelling that defined Subramaniapuram and Nadodigal.
Joining him in the lead is Kannada actress Chaithra J Achar, making her Tamil debut. The supporting cast includes Guru Somasundaram, Asha Sharath, Jayaprakash, and Gopi Nainar. Sean Roldan, who scored Tourist Family and has a working relationship with Raju Murugan going back to Joker, handles the music. Nirav Shah, one of Tamil cinema’s most sought-after cinematographers, is behind the camera.
The film is produced by Jayanthi Ambethkumar under the Olympia Movies banner. 2D Entertainment, Suriya’s production and distribution house, is presenting the film. In a statement, 2D said they see cinema as more than entertainment and business, calling it an art form that plants good thoughts in people’s minds. They described supporting films that reflect society and speak to human values as a responsibility, adding that My Lord does both.
Whether the film lives up to that framing remains to be seen. But the combination of Raju Murugan’s track record for incisive social commentary and Sasikumar’s grounded screen presence makes My Lord one of the more interesting releases this week.