Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Tamil: அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன்; born 1967), also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi (Tamil: ஷோபா சக்தி), is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor.

  2. 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,...

  3. People also ask

  4. Mar 31, 2016 · As a teenager, Jesuthasan was a soldier for the Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan civil war. Now, after 23 years of political asylum in France, he is the star of Dheepan, the new film from ...

  5. 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.

  6. May 5, 2016 · Dheepan is not his real name. (He is played by an actual former Tamil Tigers fighter named Antonythasan Jesuthasan .) Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby), his...

    • Jacques Audiard
  7. Apr 6, 2016 · Antonythasan, in real life an ex Tamil fighter himself who has since turned novelist and political activist, gives a remarkable, Jean Gabin-like performance as Dheepan.

  8. Actor: Dheepan. Jesuthasan Antonythasan is known for Dheepan (2015), Roobha (2018) and The Story of a Brief Marriage.