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The idea of Bhaskaran being so easily manipulated has also offended their sentiments.ДЈ. Bhaskaran and his followers then work with the ISI to kill the sitting Indian Prime Minister.ДЄlthough there have been allegations by the NIA and other agencies about links between the ISI and the LTTE in the past, this premise has not gone down well with Tamils who see their struggle as a righteous one.

LTTE shown working with the ISI: In the series, it is the ISI which kills Bhaskaran's brother but makes it look like it was the Indian government that did so. In reality, Prabhakaran lost almost his entire family to violence but remained committed to the Eelam cause till the very end.Дў. In the show, Bhaskaran is shown to have compromised on the struggle for personal vendetta. India had cordial relations with Prabhakaran but changed its outlook subsequently, and when Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) that is believed to have committed several atrocities against Eelam Tamils, the relationship was strained further. While the LTTE was indeed involved in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, history is more complicated. Bhaskaran decides to assassinate the Indian Prime Minister after his brother is captured in Chennai and killed in a blast at the court premises. The reason for Bhaskaran deciding to attack the Indian Prime Minister: The chief of the Eelam movement in the show is Bhaskaran, who is closely modelled on late LTTE chief Prabhakaran. The entire blame has been shifted to Tamil Nadu as such,' she says.ДЇrom the discussions that have been happening, here are the other major reasons why the Tamil community is upset with The Family Man Season 2 (major spoilers ahead):ДЎ. They haven't gone into the intricacies, to show how the Union government and not just the Tamil Nadu government supported the organisation. The geopolitical reasons are explained very superficially in the series. 'It is actually a very complicated issue in which the Indian government played a huge role in encouraging the movement in Sri Lanka and also diffusing it. Yazhini further points out that there is a perception in north India that the Tamil people have 'anti-national' tendencies due to the resistance to Hindi and national parties like the BJP that are popular everywhere else.

Eelam tamil movies series#

When they haven't done so and they watch the series for the first time, their first impression is that it's a terrorist movement that killed a former Prime Minister of our country, and that the Tamils were a huge part of it.' Even in Tamil Nadu, there is a large section that has not read anything about the Eelam Tamil movement. The second season is not only about the LTTE but also the Tamil rebels. There's already an agenda set in our country that Muslims are terrorists, and the first season reinforced this stereotype. But even in the first season, Muslims and Kashmiris were stereotyped. Dr Yazhini PM from Chennai, who has been part of several such discussions says, 'The making of Family Man Season 1 was excellent. In the past few days, discussions have been raging on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Club House.