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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".
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.
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.
Pulipaarvai (lit. ' Tiger's sight ') [1] is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Praveen Gandhi who also co-produced, composed and wrote all the songs and handled editing and art respectively.
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.
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 ]
Founded in May 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE was involved in armed clashes against the Sri Lankan government and its armed forces. Initially starting out as a guerrilla force , the LTTE increasingly came to resemble that of a conventional fighting force with a well-developed military wing that included a navy , an airborne unit , an ...
No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the ...