The Indian government headed by Rajiv Gandhi supported the Hindu-believing Tamils in Sri Lanka to launch a riot, intensifying their ethnic conflict with the Buddhist Sinhalese. When the riots were declining, they directly sent troops to intervene in the civil war in the name of "peacekeeping", forcing a ceasefire between the government army and the Tamil armed forces that had prevailed in the civil war, and the Indian army isolated a buffer zone, while the Tamils took the opportunity to rest and regain their strength.
India is trying to seek an India-led peace negotiation to create de facto independence for Tamils in Sri Lanka and to create a proxy regime for its own use, which is what Rajiv Gandhi left behind when he continued his mother, Indira Gandhi policy; the Tamil armed forces in Sri Lanka are divided into factions, each with different motives. Prabalanka's (ANNA in the film) LTTE bloodbathed and annexed armed factions including Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, Eelam People's Liberation Front, Tamil Eelam People's Revolutionary Front, and then began to incite India Tamils in the territory participated in armed riots, seeking to separate from India. The pro-India Tamil National Alliance was unable to dominate the situation. The Indian intervention army began to exchange fire with the Tigers. The scale of the battle continued to expand. The Indian army sent 100,000 troops successively, as well as advanced navy and air force cover, but suffered losses in the guerrilla warfare of the Tigers. Heavy, and finally withdrew in a sullen manner, playing the shadow of the Indian version of the Vietnam War. Rajiv Gandhi himself failed to get along with each other, but instead held grudges everywhere. Since he came to power in China, he has been impeached and accepted bribes, and his foreign military expansion has failed completely, and he finally stepped down in despair. Later, when Rajiv Gandhi was running for prime minister again, he was traveling around to build momentum. The Tamils send him a human bomb, and the killer and the target die together, which is the climax of the film. This may be seen as the climax of the entire tragic narrative to Indian audiences, and a complete farce to foreign audiences.
Overall, the logic of the entire movie is contradictory from the start, and its narrative is awkward from the start. An Indian blockbuster needs to please local Indian audiences without offending the Tamil audience, so the opening chapter must focus on depicting the unilateral violence of the Sri Lankan government forces, which rationalizes and legitimizes the armed resistance of the Tamils. But next, when the Indian army went off to teach the Tamils a lesson, which led to the expansion of the conflict, it could neither overthrow the legitimacy it created for the Tamils three minutes ago, nor define its own army as an aggressor. , the logic of the whole movie collapsed from the beginning. It certainly cannot say that India went to Sri Lanka to stir up trouble in Sri Lanka out of its own interests, and the Indian army entered Sri Lanka out of justice. The Tamils on the other side are the righteous people who have been receiving assistance from India. It cannot be said that India's previous assistance was to feed the dogs. Since there is undisputed justice on both sides, the film's larger context—India's intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war—becomes a "good guy fights good guy for three years, many people die, and it's all a misunderstanding." If the top-level narrative logic of the film is not self-consistent, adding new elements to it will not save it. All its handsome boys and girls, gunfights and explosions, international and domestic struggles, espionage and betrayal of the main characters, and the protagonist going to the church to torture his soul, all appear vulgar, superficial and pretentious. It is worth mentioning that the film gave the assassinated Rajiv Gandhi an idealistic golden body and a perfect man without fault. His assassination was attributed to the trade goods of the espionage war, the victim of political strife, and the victim of unnamed European and American external forces interfering in Indian politics. This logic may hypnotize Indian audiences with Sri Lankan civil war feelings, but it completely ignores that India itself is the biggest and most direct interferer in the Sri Lankan civil war. Without the fate of imperialism, but dreaming of imperialist dreams, and ultimately shattered to pieces, it is really not far away, and anyone who hears it is a warning.
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