Amaran Mukundan

A true-life communicative of Major Mukund Varadarajan, a commissioned serviceman successful the Indian Army`s Rajput Regiment, who was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his valor during a counterterrorism cognition portion connected deputation to the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion successful Jammu and Kashmir.
While the Movie excelled successful potraying Mukundan's patriotism. It obscured his Brahmin background.
The movie shows the secondary character, his woman Indu Varghese arsenic a devout Christian
why past obscure the inheritance of the superior quality Major Mukundan?
Because helium is simply a brahmin. How tin a Brahmin beryllium shown goid and laying his beingness by the Leftist And Dravidian Tamil movie Industry?

Sharing the station from 1 of the Major's cousins:

Brilliantly bares the lying and blacking retired of identities, particularly of Tamil Brahmins by Dravidian Movement. How situation a Brahmin beryllium heroic alternatively of anemic and cowardly arsenic we represent successful tamil movies and Brahmin women are to beryllium mocked arsenic casual oregon sluttish . The movie ‘Amaran’ is cautious to respectfully item the spiritual individuality of Martyr Mukund Varadarajan’s wife, but cunningly fudges his ain ( In the movie helium calls his begetter Naina , a telugu connection for father, implying that helium is NOT a tambrahm )

A station by Divya Ajithkumar, relative of Major Mukund Varadarajan, Ashok Chakra winner

Major Mukund Varadarajan, my cousin, a elemental mediate people Tamil Brahmin lad from Tambaram Chennai, who had a zeal to service his country. He got what helium desired to beryllium posted successful hashtag#Kashmir nether 44 RR. He was arsenic rapidly promoted to Major and took down 2 wanted terrorists earlier being martyred successful 2014 successful Shopian. The violent who was gunned down, roseate from the debris similar you spot successful the movies and opened occurrence erstwhile Mukund had turned his back. He received an Ashok Chakra for his bravery. He is survived by his woman Indhu and his daughter.

Which is wherefore I was thrilled to perceive that the Tamil movie manufacture was keen to prime up his beingness communicative aft a decade. The movie is hashtag#Amaran a large accumulation by seasoned Kamal Hassan with an A database starcast. It released implicit the play successful theatres to a resounding container bureau success. It’s going to beryllium released successful respective languages. I couldn’t beryllium happier for a amended mode to archer his story.

However, it does irk maine that the movie could person been much honorable depicting the existent beingness communicative similar Shershah oregon Uri. Rather, it has taken the “mass” route. This doesn’t astonishment maine arsenic movies successful each genres and languages, person started adopting individuality distortion. Which means you compromise the character, their dialect, religion etc to play to the gallery. Profits > Authenticity.

This was a uncommon accidental to archer an honorable communicative without individuality distortion wherever you could person portrayed a brave character, who wore his faith, individuality and dialect proudly, but the movie chose to underplay this by opting to neutralise his quality arsenic a mainstream “Tamil” hero. Similar to Captain Gopinath different Tamil Brahmin, whose quality was besides compromised successful Soorarai Potru.

While determination is simply a statement connected wherefore this facet doesn’t matter, information is the per capita publication from TN is obscurity adjacent to the North erstwhile it comes to hashtag#indianarmy enrolments. Leave unsocial a decorated Major martyr. Therefore overmuch less chances of biopics. Given Brahmins correspond an adjacent smaller micro number astatine 2%, often mocked, caricatured, ridiculed and persecuted done entertainment, academia and the vitriolic authorities successful TN for ballot slope politics, it becomes adjacent much important to celebrare this community.

Let’s instrumentality immoderate different instances to reenforce this -
•⁠ ⁠If you made a movie astir a Sikh but chose not to amusement him with a turban would that not beryllium sacrilegious?
•⁠ ⁠if you made a movie connected the precocious Ratan Tata ji but chose to contiguous him arsenic a “Gujarati” not a Parsi is that fair?
•⁠ ⁠if the Stephen Hawking biopic chose to represent him arsenic a Christian fundamentalist alternatively than the atheist helium was would that beryllium accepted?
•⁠ ⁠The Pianist is astir a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Imagine if they stole the storyline but depicted the pianist arsenic a Nazi supporter?
By
Divya Ajitkumar -Cousin of Major Mukund Varadarajan