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SECTIONS OF CELLULOID "HEROES" OF CHENNAI TO PREVENT PRABHAKARAN BEING GIVEN TO INDIA FOR GANDHI KILLINGBy Walter JayawardhanaVarious “patriotic” sections of the South Indian film industry
have questioned the wisdom of the controversial Director Bharathiraja
and other activists who are planning to launch a desperate attempt of
public agitation to save Velupillai Prabhakaran , a wanted man for the
murder of Rajiv Gandhi and a man working with other extremist organization
for the division of India, informed sources said. Some have accused that he had not even elected properly as the Directors
Council President. Prabhakaran’s and his intelligence Chief Pottuamman’s plea
to save them reached the film industry personnel after the attempts
of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (MDMK) leader Vaiko’s
attempts failed to stop the Sri Lankan government security forces from
marching towards Prabhakaran’s stronghold of Kilinochchi in the
Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has promised to hand him over
to India to try for the Rajiv Gandhi murder if they are able to capture
him alive. Some sections of the Chennai film industry, who are in support of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) policy of dividing India on
racial lines have responded by organizing to hold a rally of film industry
personnel together with members of the organizations like that of MDMK
to agitate against Sri Lanka’s anti-LTTE offensive at Rameshwaram,
in the state of Tamil Nadu on October 19. Using the same trade union sources which illegally held the copies
of the film “Prabhakaran” some months ago the pro-LTTE elements
are attempting to support this movement of saving the LTTE, which is
a banned organization in India. Those elements illegally held the film
entitled Prabhakaran, since they did not want the Tamils to see the
illegal kidnappings of the poor children in Sri Lanka’s North to
make them into child soldiers, the subject depicted in the film. Critics
have alleged that if the concerned film industry personnel were true
Tamil patriots how come they did not want the Tamil people to see how
small Tamil children were mercilessly being destroyed by Prabhakaran
and his LTTE, as cannon fodder of his war. Attempts by the United Nations
and other humanitarian organizations to stop the Tamil children’s
sorry plight have so far failed. Tamil people in the Kilinochchi and Mulaitivu areas have been disfranchised
by Prabhakaran for more than two decades and the South Indian Film industry
friends of the LTTE have shown no concern of it. Director Bharathiraja
has said his celluloid heroes and heroines will wear black bands in
support of Prabhakaran, the terrorist leader during these October 19
agitations. He has also said he would organize a film industry strike
between October 18 and 20 to bring pressure on the Indian government
to stop the anti-LTTE drive of the Sri Lanka government.( |
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