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Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Tamil: அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன்; born 1967), also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi (Tamil: ஷோபா சக்தி), is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor.
Jan 12, 2018 · Antonythasan Jesuthasan: from Tamil Tiger to leading man. As a teenager, Antonythasan Jesuthasan fought in Sri Lanka’s civil war. After 23 years living in exile, art imitated life when he starred in French director Jacques Audiard’s thriller Dheepan. He speaks to Cindy Sasha.
Apr 20, 2016 · It is also loosely the story of the film’s star, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a writer and former leftist militant from Sri Lanka, who arrived in France in 1993 with a fake French passport,...
May 6, 2016 · Antonythasan Jesuthasan was once a Tamil Tiger — a separatist fighter in Sri Lanka's brutal, decades-long civil war. He fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually...
Jesuthasan Antonythasan is known for Dheepan (2015), Roobha (2018) and The Story of a Brief Marriage.
Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Tamil: அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன்), also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi (Tamil: ஷோபா சக்தி), is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor. Jesuthasan was born in 1967. He is originally from the village of Allaipiddy on the island of Velanaitivu in northern Sri Lanka.
In an arresting performance, the nonprofessional actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan (himself a former child soldier) stars as a Tamil fighter who, along with a woman and a child posing as his wife and daughter, flees war-torn Sri Lanka only to land in a Paris suburb blighted by drugs.
