Diesel 2025: Harish Kalyan film promises an action drama, while addressing an important societal issue

Last Updated: 09.20 AM, Oct 12, 2025
Diesel is an upcoming Tamil film scheduled for Diwali release. Young actor Harish Kalyan, who gave back-to-back success with Parking and Lubber Pandhu, is back with Diesel, which is expected to be another content-oriented film with commercial package. As the bookings are to begin soon, here is everything you need to know about Diesel.

Diesel release date is October 17, just in time for the Diwali weekend. Harish Kalyan’s first release of the year, Diesel will be making an entry into the box office along with two other Tamil films, namely Dude starring Pradeep Ranganathan and Mamitha Baiju and Mari Selvaraj’s sports drama Bison with Dhruv Vikram.
The trailer of Diesel was released by the makers a few days ago. With a mix of romance, action, and drama, Diesel trailer has voiceover by Manikandan. The trailer questions about the mafia behind low prices of diesel, and how it operates.
The story of Diesel is said to revolve around the mafia of crude oil, from its procurement, storage, and sales. The film is expected to be an action-packed drama, showcasing Harish Kalyan as angry young man.
Diesel is headlined by actor Harish Kalyan. Along with him, the film also features Athulyaa Ravi, Vinay Rai, Sai Kumar, Ananya, Karunaas, Bose Venkat, Ramesh Tilak, Kaali Venkat, Vivek Prasanna, Sachin Kedhekar, Zakir Husain, Thangadurai, Maaran, KPY Dheena, Apoorva Singh and others. It is written and directed by Shanmugam Muthusamy. The technical crew includes music scored by Dhibu Ninan Thomas and film shot by cinematographers MS Prabhu, Richard M Nathan. San Lokesh is the editor.
The OTT partner platform of Diesel has not yet been revealed.
Diesel has received U/A certificate and has a runtime of 2 hours and 24 minutes.
Q. Why did Harish Kalyan leave Star?
A. Harish Kalyan left the Star movie due to scheduling conflicts and delays, as per reports.
Q. Where can I watch the Diesel movie?
A. Harish Kalyan's Diesel is gearing up for release on October 17.
Q. Who is Diesel heroine?
A. Athulya Ravi plays the female lead in Diesel.