No takers for movie based on murdered rebel CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan

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Other theatres owners feared that their property would be attacked if the film was screened. He said as the show in government-owned theatres has gone incident-free on Friday, distributors are trying to bring back the theatre owners to screen the movie.

The director said he has been facing threatening calls from Gulf, saying that they would not allow screening of the movie. “The CPM had repeatedly demanded the artistes and crew of the film not to co-operate with the venture. We have completed the production overcoming such threats,” he said.

The director said the film was not against any political party. “We wanted to showcase the life of a real communist,’’ he said.

Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, who holds the charge of films, said the CPM should think whether preventing the release of a movie was a right approach. “Society has the right to review the film. The party that always defends the artistic freedom of expression should not have taken such a retrogressive stand. The film should not be denied the chance for screening,’’ said the minister.

CPM polit buro member M A Baby said the CPM is not afraid of any film and it does not believe in preventing a film from screening.

“The party had already made clear that it has no role in the murder of Chandrasekharan. Then why we should fear a movie based on his murder. Besides, there had been several films based on the Left and its leaders. We have only enjoyed such films,” said Baby.

Chandrasekharan, who broke away from CPM and formed Revolutionary Marxist Party in his home turf in Kozhikode district, was hacked to death in May 2012.

A few CPM local leaders were among those convicted in the most talked about political murder. He had sustained 51 hacks from the hired killer gang.

Hence the movie had adopted the titled TP 51.