That the LTTE has been decimated in Sri Lanka is not of much consequence, and no one should seriously object to the ploy in fiction since the LTTE assassinated India’s former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
#Eelam tamil movies series#
If there has to be a Season 2, an espionage series has to look elsewhere in another direction and looking southward towards Eelam Tamils, who have already had a history of terrorism, seems the most obvious choice. The film is an espionage thriller, and there is monotony in looking for terrorist threats only to the North-West. It is in this context that we must see the trailer of The Family Man Season 2. I overheard a local telling another at this moment with distant admiration tinged with envy, “ Agar koi Madarasi yahan hota toh bees minute mein kaam khatam ho jata.” I still remember a journey in the Himalayas 40 years ago when a landslide blocked the road, and the PWD was struggling with it. People across India know the characteristics of people from the regions and their special qualities. Since this would be founded in India’s plurality, the issue of some region presented in bad light would not arise. The issue is that given India’s diversity, homogeneous ‘pan-Indianness’ is at best an urban phenomenon among people who talk to each other in English.Īny film that claims to deal with ‘Indian’ issues should accommodate people from different regions and ethnicities speaking a variety of languages. What, for instance, are we to make of Narantak Roy (presumably Bengali) played by Jackie Shroff? Or Amritha Nair (presumably from Kerala) played by Shraddha Kapoor? Saaho himself is Siddanth Nandan Saaho (the alias of Ashok Chakravarthy), and if the name cannot be placed regionally, one may be sure that a numerologist was responsible for it rather than the scriptwriter. Saaho was touted as pan-Indian entertainment in which no attention is paid to where people in India come from, and the relationship between name, language, and region. If one were to describe what Saaho is about, one could say that it was about foreign criminal syndicate led by gangsters with Indian names and operating from a haven ‘Waaji’ that might be Wakanda from Black Panther. To give the reader an idea of earlier pan-Indian action cinema about terrorists, the last big saga was Saaho. Season 1 of The Family Man brought in Malayalis played by Malayalis and Kashmiris played by Kashmiri actors.
Multilingual television is a step forward for culture in India since it is an admission of India’s cultural plurality in which the spoken language plays a key part. As an action show about terrorists, it tried to introduce an element of plausibility into an arena overcrowded with absurdity.
Manoj Bajpayee played Srikanth Tiwari of NIA, and his Tamil wife Suchitra Iyer is played by South-Indian actress Priyamani. The show, as people would be aware, is pan-Indian television in the true sense since it uses South Indians who speak their own languages, alongside Hindi-speaking North-Indians. T here is an unseemly controversy, evidently political, which is erupting, over the portrayal of Eelam Tamils in the trailer of The Family Man Season 2.
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