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Diesel
Diesel is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Shanmugam Muthusamy in his directorial debut and produced by Third Eye Entertainment and SP Cinemas. The film stars Harish Kalyan, Athulya Ravi and Vinay Rai in the lead roles with Vivek Prasanna as the antagonist with an ensemble cast consisting of P. Sai Kumar, Ananya, Karunas, Ramesh Thilak, Kaali Venkat, Sachin Khedekar, Zakir Hussain, Thangadurai, and KPY Dheena in pivotal roles.
Plot
In 1979, a 17 km pipeline was installed to transport crude oil, crossing 40 villages and connecting Chennai Harbour and Ennore, with the OPC crude oil storage unit. The natives resisted, fearing it would harm their livelihoods, but the government used its authority by killing two organizers, effectively ending the protests. Manoharan, one of the organizers, secretly tapped the pipeline and began illicitly smuggling crude oil, using the money to benefit the community without revealing his identity. Years later, Manoharan's adopted son, Vasudevan "Diesel Vasu", a chemical engineer, expanded the illicit trade by transporting it to Pathaan's Mumbai refinery, with bribed government officials turning a blind eye. The refined petrol and diesel were then mixed with the legal supply and distributed in Chennai. Vasu further expanded the operation by disguising white petrol as ice cubes to evade police detection and channeled the money for welfare activities through his friend, Sedrayan "Jettu".
Cast
- A. Govindamoorthy
- Ananya
- Aruldoss
- Athulya Ravi
- Bose Venkat
- Dheena
- G. Marimuthu
- Harish Kalyan
- Kaali Venkat
- Karunas
- Lollu Sabha Maaran
- Munnar Ramesh
- Nassar
- Prem
- Ramesh Thilak
- Rishi Rithvik
- Sachin Khedekar
- Sai Kumar
- Saravana Sakthi
- Stunt Silva
- Subbu Panchu Arunachalam
- Subramaniam Siva
- Thangadurai
- Thirumurugan
- Vetrimaaran
- Viji Chandrasekhar
- Vinay Rai
- Vinod Sagar
- Vivek Prasanna
- Zakir Hussain