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Parachute (2024 TV series)

Parachute (பாராசூட்) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language drama thriller web series that premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 29 November 2024. It follows two siblings who run away from home on their father's moped, named Parachute, and go missing, triggering a search that brings their strict parenting style under scrutiny.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	29 November 2024, as a Disney+ Hotstar (now JioHotstar) Tamil original¹
Format	One season of five episodes, each about 30 minutes; the total runtime is close to that of a feature film³^•⁴
Premise	Siblings Varun (11) and Rudhra (7) flee home on their father's moped, called Parachute, and go missing; a demoted traffic cop, Kiruba, leads the search²
Lead cast	Kishore as Shanmugam, Kani Thiru as Lakshmi, child actors Shakthi Rithvik and Iyal as the siblings, and Krishna as Kiruba³
Key crew	Director Rasu Ranjith (some sources credit Sridhar K); writer K. Sridhar; music Yuvan Shankar Raja; cinematography Om Narayan; editing Richard Kevin⁵^•⁶
Production	Tribal Horse Entertainment, with actor Krishna Kulasekaran as producer in his debut Tamil production⁶^•⁷
Languages	Tamil original, with Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali dubbed versions⁸
IMDb rating	7.3/10 from 346 votes⁹

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Plot and themes

Shanmugam (Kishore) is a cooking gas cylinder delivery agent who, despite a low income, sends his children to a private school. He is short-tempered and beats his 11-year-old son Varun (Shakthi Rithvik) when the boy does wrong. When Varun and his 7-year-old sister Rudhra (Iyal) take their father's beloved moped, named Parachute, on a joyride, the bike slips out of their hands and the children go missing. Their mother Lakshmi (Kani Thiru) and father file a missing complaint, and Kiruba (Krishna), a police officer demoted to the traffic department, takes charge of finding them. The case becomes entangled with the theft of another towed bike from the police station.²^•¹⁰

The series explores family dynamics, parenting, and childhood innocence, and it addresses corporal punishment and domestic violence directly. Reviewers noted that it departs from the long-standing convention in Tamil cinema of presenting domestic violence as a token of love, and that it argues Shanmugam needs to change his ways without dehumanizing him. Kiruba's line that if beating children changed them, society would have changed long ago given the police's own beatings, was singled out as one of the series' strongest moments.²^•¹⁰

Cast and characters

Kishore as Shanmugam, the children's father, a strict disciplinarian³
Kani Thiru as Lakshmi, the children's mother³
Shakthi Rithvik as Varun, the 11-year-old elder brother³
Iyal as Rudhra, the 7-year-old younger sister³
Krishna Kulasekaran as Kirubakaran (Kiruba), the police officer investigating the case³
Kaali Venkat as Charles, a neighbor³^•¹¹
Bava Chelladurai as Lakshmi's father³
Sharanya Ramachandran in a supporting role⁵

Production

Krishna Kulasekaran, known for films such as Kazhugu (2012), both starred in and produced the series, his first production in Tamil; he had been producing since 2018.⁷ The series was made under the Tribal Horse Entertainment banner.⁶ Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the music, Om Narayan handled cinematography, and Richard Kevin edited the series.⁵

Sources disagree on the director's credit. JustWatch, IMDb, and DT Next credit Rasu Ranjith as director,³^•⁵^•⁶ while Filmibeat and News9live credit Sridhar K.¹²^•⁸ IMDb lists K. Sridhar as the writer and Rasu Ranjith as director.⁶

Release and availability

The series premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 29 November 2024, with all five episodes released together.¹ In India it streams on JioHotstar, the successor platform to Disney+ Hotstar, by subscription or free with ads.³ Outside India it is available on Hulu in the United States and on Starzplay in other regions.¹³^•¹⁴ The official trailer, released on the JioHotstar Tamil YouTube channel on 14 November 2024, drew over 3.6 million views.¹⁵

Reception

The series received generally positive reviews. OTTplay rated it 3.5 out of 5, calling it an earnest family drama elevated by the cast's performances and crisp writing, and crediting the two child actors with propelling the show.² A review in The New Indian Express praised the emotional core and the series' stance on domestic violence and parenting, while criticizing preachy stretches and some logical shortcuts in the writing.¹⁰ The Indian Express named Kani Thiru one of the breakout talents of Tamil cinema in 2024 for her performance as Lakshmi, describing her quiet portrayal of a mother oscillating between affection and fear as the hinge of the series, in her first leading role.⁴ On IMDb the series holds a 7.3/10 rating from 346 votes.⁹

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026