Retro (taglined Love-Laughter-War) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language romantic action thriller film written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. Produced by Stone Bench Creations and 2D Entertainment, the film stars Suriya and Pooja Hegde in the lead roles. In the film, Paarivel "Paari" Kannan, an orphan raised by a gangster, faces betrayal and a violent cult as he searches for his true origins, fulfils a prophecy, and tries to reunite with his lost love, Rukmini.

Plot

In 1960s Thoothukudi, a gangster's wife, Sandhya, adopts an orphaned infant with a spear-shaped scar on his stomach. She names him Paarivel "Paari" Kannan, raising him lovingly while her husband, Thilagan, refuses to acknowledge the boy. After Sandhya's death, a teenage Paari meets Rukmini at their mothers’ funeral rites in Varanasi. On their train back to Thoothukudi, when Thilagan is ambushed, Paari saves him, earning Thilagan's reluctant respect.