Sivakarthikeyan’s Amaran has a special connection to Prithviraj Sukumaran’s Picket 43; Find out here

Sivakarthikeyan's Amaran has been successfully running in theatres, earning both critics' praise and audiences' love. Sivakarthikeyan and Sai Pallavi are also receiving much appreciation for their performances in the film. Amaran is based on the life of late Major Mukund Varadarajan, a commissioned officer in the Indian Army's Rajput Regiment. He was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his operation with the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion.

The film showed the various stages of Mukund's life, his passion to join the Indian Army, and love story with his wife Indhu Rebecca Varghese. However, with Amaran in the spotlight, a certain 2015 Malayalam film is also doing the rounds on social media, which has a reference to Major Mukund and his martyrdom.

Special connection between Sivakarthikeyan’s Amaran and Prithviraj Sukumaran’s Picket 43

While Amaran threw much light on the life of Major Mukund Varadarajan, the 2015 Malayalam film Picket 43, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead role, has a special connection to the film. Written and directed by retired military officer Major Ravi, Picket 43 is an anti-war film starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Javed Jaffrey. It revolves around an Indian Army havildar who is stationed at LOC and forms an unlikely friendship with a Pakistan Army soldier.

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In one certain scene, the havildar is informed about the death of Major Mukund, by a soldier. The scene also acknowledges how Mukund had a three-year-old daughter at the time of his death, and how a soldier's life hangs on uncertainty. Various social media users have been sharing this particular scene, given how Major Mukund’s reference is found in an old Malayalam film.

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If you would like to stream the film, it is available on SunNXT and OTTplay Premium app. Picket 43 opened to positive reviews upon its release and went on to become a profitable film, much like Amaran. Renji Panicker, Anu Mohan, Sudheer Karamana and others are part of the cast. The film is known to have taken a different route as opposed to violence and war, and instead the psychological viewpoint of a soldier and the trauma he undergoes, to keep his motherland safe.

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