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A Sri Lankan film director, who made a film on LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, has threatened to go on a hunger strike protesting confiscation of his movie cassettes in India, a media report said on Thursday.
Director of the film Prabhakaran, Thushara Pieris said he would start a hunger strike as a mark of protest against the confiscation of his movie cassettes by authorities in Chennai, the Daily Mirror reported.
Pieris, who went to India to complete the Tamil version of his maiden film, was assaulted by some people in Chennai last Tuesday. He was admitted in a hospital in Colombo for treatment, the report said.
He was attacked while coming out of a colour film lab in Chennai.
Pieris who completed the Sinhala version of his film, that revolves around the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, had gone to India last week to make the Tamil version of the film.
“There had been misleading propaganda claiming that the film was anti-Tamil,” Thusara said. The Sinhala version of the film was to be released on April 25 in Sri Lanka after getting clearance from the CensorBoard. High ranking Army officers of Sri Lanka had seen the film before giving their approval.
Peiris said his Prabhakaran was a movie on terrorism and had nothing to do with politics. Peiris, who studied filmmaking in Rome, said the lives of the LTTE cadres who did not want to be part of the terror killing influenced him to make the film.
