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Velupillai Prabhakaran was born in the northern coastal town of Valvettithurai on 26 November 1954, the youngest of four children. [26] [27] His parents, Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy, belonged to the Karaiyar community. [28] [29] [30] Thiruvenkadam Velupillai was the District Land Officer in the Ceylon Government.
Methagu (transl. His Excellency) is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language political thriller film based on the life of Velupillai Prabhakaran.The release of the film was postponed several times due to legal issues, but finally had the digital release through OTT platform 'BS Value' on 25 June 2021 with positive response.
Methagu 2 was released on 19 August 2022 on the OTT platform tamilsott.com. [4] [5] Kalki of Tamil Guardian noted "despite its flaws, Methagu 2 is an important film in archiving the history of man who grew to be the leader of both the Tamil Tigers and of a movement that continues to have significant impact on the Tamil homeland and around the world".
In 2002, Judge Sarath Ambepitiya issued an open warrant to arrest LTTE's exclusive leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran in connection with the 1996 Central Bank Bombing. [11] The judge found him guilty on 51 counts and sentenced him to 200 years in prison.
Pictures have surfaced of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of LTTE founder and leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, alive, unharmed and in custody of the military. A photo from a few hours later shows the boy's dead body shot in the chest five times. [8]
Prabhakaran died in 2009, but in the proceeding years, some have come forward to say Prabhakaran is alive and living abroad, collecting money on his behalf. His family is trying to dispel the myth ...
The war film Inam (2013) by Santhosh Sivan was announced as "a hard-hitting political film scripted around the LTTE-related strife and the death of its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran". [62] In June 2012, Sivan stated "in Inam I want to look at the Sri Lankan situation from the perspective of a bunch of youngsters who get caught in the crisis.
The Tamil New Tigers (TNT) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant organization founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran on 22 May 1972. [1] The group was composed of a few close associates of Prabhakaran, who was only 17 years old when he founded the group. The group was a predecessor to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).