Amaran Mukundan

A true-life story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, a commissioned officer in the Indian Army`s Rajput Regiment, who was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his valor during a counterterrorism operation while on deputation to the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion in Jammu and Kashmir.
While the Movie excelled in potraying Mukundan's patriotism. It obscured his Brahmin background.
The movie shows the secondary character, his wife Indu Varghese as a devout Christian
why then obscure the background of the primary character Major Mukundan?
Because he is a brahmin. How can a Brahmin be shown goid and laying his life by the Leftist And Dravidian Tamil film Industry?

Sharing the post from one of the Major's cousins:

Brilliantly bares the lying and blacking out of identities, especially of Tamil Brahmins by Dravidian Movement. How dare a Brahmin be heroic instead of weak and cowardly as we portray in tamil movies and Brahmin women are to be mocked as easy or sluttish . The film ‘Amaran’ is careful to respectfully highlight the religious identity of Martyr Mukund Varadarajan’s wife, but cunningly fudges his own ( In the film he calls his father Naina , a telugu word for father, implying that he is NOT a tambrahm )

A post by Divya Ajithkumar, cousin of Major Mukund Varadarajan, Ashok Chakra winner

Major Mukund Varadarajan, my cousin, a simple middle class Tamil Brahmin boy from Tambaram Chennai, who had a zeal to serve his country. He got what he desired to be posted in hashtag#Kashmir under 44 RR. He was as quickly promoted to Major and took down 2 wanted terrorists before being martyred in 2014 in Shopian. The terrorist who was gunned down, rose from the debris like you see in the movies and opened fire when Mukund had turned his back. He received an Ashok Chakra for his bravery. He is survived by his wife Indhu and his daughter.

Which is why I was thrilled to hear that the Tamil movie industry was keen to pick up his life story after a decade. The movie is hashtag#Amaran a major production by veteran Kamal Hassan with an A list starcast. It released over the weekend in theatres to a resounding box office success. It’s going to be released in several languages. I couldn’t be happier for a better way to tell his story.

However, it does irk me that the film could have been more honest depicting the real life story like Shershah or Uri. Rather, it has taken the “mass” route. This doesn’t surprise me as movies in all genres and languages, have started adopting identity distortion. Which means you compromise the character, their dialect, faith etc to play to the gallery. Profits > Authenticity.

This was a rare opportunity to tell an honest story without identity distortion where you could have portrayed a brave character, who wore his faith, identity and dialect proudly, but the movie chose to underplay this by opting to neutralise his character as a mainstream “Tamil” hero. Similar to Captain Gopinath another Tamil Brahmin, whose character was also compromised in Soorarai Potru.

While there is a debate on why this aspect doesn’t matter, fact is the per capita contribution from TN is nowhere close to the North when it comes to hashtag#indianarmy enrolments. Leave alone a decorated Major martyr. Therefore much fewer chances of biopics. Given Brahmins represent an even smaller micro minority at 2%, often mocked, caricatured, ridiculed and persecuted through entertainment, academia and the vitriolic government in TN for vote bank politics, it becomes even more important to celebrare this community.

Let’s take some other instances to reinforce this -
•⁠ ⁠If you made a movie about a Sikh but chose not to show him with a turban would that not be sacrilegious?
•⁠ ⁠if you made a movie on the late Ratan Tata ji but chose to present him as a “Gujarati” not a Parsi is that fair?
•⁠ ⁠if the Stephen Hawking biopic chose to portray him as a Christian fundamentalist rather than the atheist he was would that be accepted?
•⁠ ⁠The Pianist is about a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Imagine if they stole the storyline but depicted the pianist as a Nazi supporter?
By
Divya Ajitkumar -Cousin of Major Mukund Varadarajan

 

True. I too studied in CBSE. Oh god so much chapters on Akbar and the Mughals.
Nalanda and Takshashila were the greatest educational universities that time. So many students from all over the world came to study there.
The Manuscripts and educational papers burnt for months.

 

Producer of this Movie is Raj Kamal international ie Kamal Hassan.

 

Let me try to explain.
The movie is a Biopic. So why not show the exact background of Major. ?

Tamil film industry is ruled by Red gaint movies. The state is run by DMK who have a known Anti brahmin ideology.
DMK is powerful in TN with no proper opposition
Mukund's parents may have it in their minds, but they can't openly state it in interviews. It's not that easy when living in TN. Freedom of speech does not exist in India as like USA.
The same goes for Gopinath. They have to go with the flow.
Also they maybe grateful that these Movies were made and people got to know about them.
Movies have a huge reach in common public.

 

That's good.
So caste does exist in Christianity too