Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Born: January 1, 1967
in Allaippiddi, Sri Lanka
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. Jesuthasan had various low-paid jobs in Paris including stacking shelves in supermarkets, cooking, dish washing, street sweeping, hefting boxes around, construction work and working as a bellhop at Euro Disney. Jesuthasan's acting career started in 2011 when he wrote and starred in Sengadal (The Dead Sea), a film about Tamil fishermen struggling to make a living in the largely abandoned village of Dhanushkodi in southern India.

Movies for Antonythasan Jesuthasan...

Dilemna Dilemma
Title: Dilemna Dilemma
Character: The flower seller
Released: April 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Dana and Fox meet through a dating app for conspiracy theorists, but soon discover they don’t share the same interests. As some terrifying events occur around them, they wonder about the purpose of having met.
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Woman at Sea
Title: Woman at Sea
Character: Jesus
Released: January 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Lili has left everything behind to travel to the edge of the earth and accomplish her dream, fishing the Northern seas. She persuades Ian, the captain of a trawler by the name of Rebel, to give her a chance and let her join the crew. The only woman on board, they call her Sparrow. Hidden behind a frail appearance is a will of steel, and her courage and determination ultimately win over their respect. Adopted into this world of often unfortunate individuals, Lili will conquer her right to live differently, free.
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Men in Blue
Title: Men in Blue
Character: Vijayan Kumar
Released: July 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Resistance brews among the Indian immigrants who were stripped of their dignity when a reputed shipyard in Texas conscripted them as guest workers to repair the oil rigs and ships damaged after Hurricane Katrina.
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Notre-Dame on Fire
Title: Notre-Dame on Fire
Character: Jonas, guardian of the cathedral
Released: March 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
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Title: Coyotes
Character: Amine
Released: May 16, 2021
Type: TV
A troop of scouts arrives at Warnaffe for their big summer camp. Among them, the newest member of the Coyotes patrol, Kevin, a rebellious and lonely boy. From the first evening, he leaves to find something to smoke in the neighbouring village. There he meets Marie with whom it's love at first sight. They spend the night by a lake in a quarry. The next day, still under the influence of drugs, Kevin dives into the lake, discovers a cave, diamonds and a corpse of a young man. This is where problems started.
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Casanova, Last Love
Title: Casanova, Last Love
Character: Jarba
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a young prostitute to whom he is so attracted that he forgets about the other women.
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The Loyal Man
Title: The Loyal Man
Character: Monsieur
Released: February 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Aathi is a quiet henchman for a tough boss of the Paris Tamil mafia. When he meets Minnale, a young immigrant with nowhere to go, he begins to question his loyalty.
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A Private War
Title: A Private War
Character: Tamilselvan
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
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Paris Pigalle
Title: Paris Pigalle
Character: Hakim
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.
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Roobha
Title: Roobha
Character: Anthony
Released: December 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A beautiful twenty-year old transwoman dancer, Roobha, falls in love with a much older charismatic family man, Anthony, giving him a sense of escape and solace from his mundane life and troubles.
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Little Jaffna
Title: Little Jaffna
Character: Sathya
Released: July 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2009, war is raging in Sri Lanka. 10,000 km away, in the Tamil district of Paris, Seelan sees his daily life turned upside down.
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The Sunshine
Title: The Sunshine
Released: February 9, 2017
Type: Movie
The Sunshine is about a young refugee (Armstrong) who flees from the war-torn northern Sri Lanka and embarks on a perilous journey through India, Nepal, Thailand towards an uncertain destination, leaving his childhood sweetheart on the shores that foam blood. The film looks back at the perils faced by Armstrong, a Sri Lankan Tamil, along with his epic odyssey from conflict and violence-ridden homeland, towards far corners of the world risking death, detention and deportation over the lands and seas. The Sunshine will explore the ultimate universal question how and why people get prepared to risk everything. The movie will tell the story of human struggle and not just merely make a political statement. Director Leena Manimekalai says, The Sunshine is unique and personal because it has the autobiographical touch of her friend and writer Shobasakthi.
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Dheepan
Title: Dheepan
Character: Dheepan
Released: August 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.
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Sengadal
Title: Sengadal
Released: November 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Dhanushkodi, the Indo-Sri Lankan border town, is the crucible wherein History is brewing this concoction of defeated lives and exhausted dreams. Manimekalai, the filmmaker, Soori, a half-wit Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee, Munusamy, the fisherman, Rosemary, the social worker in Jesuit Christian Refugee Services, try hard to retain their sanity in this mad jumble. Their interactions with the dead or living refugees, their skirmishes with the Indian and Sri Lankan States, their personal lives overrun by external events - form the kernel of this narration.