“How Tamil Nadu politics paints National Hero Mukund Varadarajan as a War Criminal”, Swarajyamag, November 14, 2024:
“Tamil filmmakers, in general, have a tendency to caricature Brahmin characters on screen.
It’s not every day that a film faces controversy for being both factual and yet not factual enough.
That is the fate of the Tamil film Amaran, a biopic on martyr Major Mukund Varadarajan, the fourth recipient of the Ashoka Chakra from Tamil Nadu. The braveheart, a Major in the Indian Army’s Rajput Regiment, was on deputation to the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion in Jammu and Kashmir when he was killed by terrorists in gun-and-grenade combat on 25 April 2014, at the age of 31…….”
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