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A Painful Price To Pay Towards Publicising Sri Lanka's Public Enemy No.1 and Was It Worth It?Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb -April 2nd 2008That Chennai’s Gemini Colour Laboratory refused to hand back the Sinhalese and Tamil language negatives of the controversial film entitled Prabhakaran which was misappropriated by Indian thugs from the Director of the film Mr.Thushara Peiris while he was also brutally assaulted in Chennai seems no surprise. It even seems foolhardy that such a flim was even conceived towards production and perhaps even in bad taste given the trashy degenerate type individual being portrayed and for anyone to have attempted to have the final touches to the film done in India sounds overly ambitious given the hotbed of LTTE support that particular region of India where Tamil Nadu has a notoriety for LTTE sympathy is.
It also seems somewhat of a concern that the Indian Authorities so far have not batted an eyelid of any worthwhile mention to assuage the distress and sufferings Mr.Peiris was subjected to beyond a cockamanie ruling by some Judge obviously in collaboration with the LTTE camp which has further compounded the matter and thus far has preventd the negatives of the film being returned to its rightful owner Mr. Peiris as the scenario gets embroiled deeper in Indian red tape and the wrong bureaucracies! Mr Thushara Peiris obviously flirted with great danger and has probably paid the price of bad judgement! The backlash from LTTE supportives in India particularly those who view the criminal LTTE leader as a hero has proved this while the turn of events which led to his lackeys the LTTE's political activists in India robbing the negatives of his full length feature film named after the LTTE leader Prabhakaran which further asserts the reality that Mr Peiris' judgement to go to Chennai was not the most prudent. Mr.Peiris hopefully should realise in retrospect that after much psychological as well as physical pain he has encountered his venture was either premature given the fact that Prabhakaran was still uncaptured or perhaps a topic which should have been contained to the perimeters of Sri Lanka for production purposes where his personal safety should have been the guideline towards this decision.Surely one surmises speculatively at least that the technical aspects of the production of such a film including the lab work and the finished product could reasonably have been completed in Sri Lanka rather than India although the trend appears to indicate India being a popular choice for such a venture and even in the case of the felt need in the absence of facilities in Sri Lanka a risk that should have been avoided in Mr Peiris' best interests and another alternative perhaps in hindsight worthwhile !
Velupillai Prabhakaran has been given all the publicity he needs as
an internationally condemned and wanted criminal leader of a murderous
terrorist group.If Mr Peiris's venture was from a Box Office Stand point
the personal price tag was hardly worth it and if it was from a patriotic
standpoint to expose Prabhakaran's criminalities the necessary safety
measures should have been taken to ensure his personal safety despite
the effort then being a noble one and only he would know the difference |
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