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Pasanga 2

2015 Tamil film directed by Pandiraj

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ19630501 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pasanga 2 (initially titled as Haiku) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language children's film written, directed and co-produced by Pandiraj. A thematic sequel to Pasanga (2009), the film focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) amongst children and is set in the city, unlike Pasanga. The film stars debutante child actors Nishesh and Vaishnavi in lead alongside Ramdoss, Vidya Pradeep, Karthik Kumar and Bindu Madhavi. This film is produced by Suriya, who also appears in a supporting role along with Amala Paul. The film will mark Pandiraj's last of the trilogy for children, following Pasanga and Marina (2012).

The film was released on 24 December 2015, coinciding with Christmas weekend and became a hit at the box-office. It won multiple awards at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards including Best Film and Best Child Actors. The film's plot was compared with Taare Zameen Par (2007).

Plot

Kavin and Naina are two children who get pushed out of school because of their hyperactive activities. Their parents are not able to bear the attitude of their children and transfer them through many schools.

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“Pasanga 2” enters the record as 2015 Tamil film directed by Pandiraj. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pasanga, Tamil and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2009, 2012, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pasanga, Tamil and film.
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“Pasanga 2” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pasanga, Tamil and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19630501. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2009, 2012 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pasanga 2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.