Soorarai Pottru

5/12/2026

Sudha Kongara's Soorarai Pottru is a rousing, exuberant film about the cost of disrupting entrenched power, and what it takes to drag an entire industry, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. Inspired by the life of Captain G. R. Gopinath, founder of India's first low-cost airline, the film follows Nedumaaran Rajangam, called Maara (Suriya), a determined man from a remote village who dreams of making air travel affordable for ordinary Indians. What begins as a David-and-Goliath story about breaking aviation monopolies becomes something richer: a portrait of systemic corruption, government collusion, and the particular ruthlessness of capitalists who will risk others' lives to protect their profits. Maara's ambition is simple, almost naïve in its purity: he wants people like his