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“Director Is A Fool”: Congress Leader Trichy Velusamy Slams Anti-Hindi DMK Propaganda Film Parasakthi, Says Kanimozhi Studied Hindi

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“Director Is A Fool”: Congress Leader Trichy Velusamy Slams Anti-Hindi DMK Propaganda Film Parasakthi, Says Kanimozhi Studied Hindi, Recalls How Karunanidhi Govt Shot Down Protesting Farmers

The film Parasakthi, by DMK stooge Sudha Kongara, which glorifies the arson during anti-Hindi agitation has been rubbished and trashed by Tamil audience at the box office.

The film has also widened the rift between alliance partners DMK and the Congress. The Congress party units in the state have vehemently opposed the characterisation of Indira Gandhi, use of specific vocabulary for Congress leaders and also for distorting history.

In this regard, Congress leader Trichy Velusamy denounced the film and the distortions in the movie. Speaking to a YouTube channel, he also called out the hypocrisy of the DMK leaders with regard to Hindi.

In the interview targeting Karunanidhi, he says, “The person who went around in the villages, provoking people saying, “Beat them up, kick them, do not study Hindi”, when his own nephew Maran was a minister in Delhi, a journalist asked him, “At such a young age he has a good name there, how?” At that time he replied, “He not only knows English, he knows Hindi very well too, that is why he is able to manage there in Delhi.” 

He also pointed out that Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi who is now a DMK MP knows Hindi very well.

He said, “Let me ask you one more thing directly. His daughter is Kanimozhi. Do you know that she has studied Hindi formally and she knows to read and write the language? Did her father teach her that, or did she learn it on her own? His daughter and his grandson, all of them are studying Hindi, that he has proudly said. But he told the people in the state that they should not study it at all. Which of these is right and which is wrong, this is left to the viewers to decide.”

It is to be noted that the anti-Hindi “Hindi Theriyathu Poda” T-Shirt campaign was initiated and publicized by DMK MP Kanimozhi back in 2020. In another incident, she claimed that she was asked whether she was an Indian by a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer at the airport as the legislator supposedly did not know Hindi.

But the fact of the matter is that when the Nira Radia tapes were made public, Radia can be heard speaking to Kanimozhi in Hindi.

Narrating a gory incident, he said, “I will now tell you one more thing; if you hear it, many people’s hearts will burn. When that agitation was at its peak, there is a place called Oothukuli, you know it, the place famous for butter, near Tiruppur. In that town, one day in broad daylight, around 12 or 1 in the afternoon, during that agitation, a police inspector’s hands were tied, and in broad daylight, public poured petrol on him and he was set on fire. He burned alive and died, screaming in agony. Everyone stood around and shouted slogans “Long live Tamil, down with Hindi”. The name of the inspector who was burnt like that was Ramasamy. His only daughter’s name is Tamizhselvi. ​He named her Tamizhselvi, but he was a ‘Hindi fanatic’.

Continuing, he said, “Afterwards, DMK came to power, they gave monetary compensation to the “language martyrs” like they give to freedom struggle martyrs, right? The people who burnt the ‘Hindi fanatic’ who named his daughter Tamizhselvi, weren’t they also given monetary compensation as ‘language martyrs’?  What a huge contradiction this is. If he had given her some other name, he could have given some other name, say Stalin; that is also a good Tamil name, no? Is Tamizhselvi not a good Tamil name?”

When the interviewer asks about the character played by Ravi Mohan – an IB officer asking for reinforcements from other states since he could not suppress the agitators with people named Tamil Pandian, Tamizhvaendan, Tamizharasan, Velusamy replies, “How can an IB officer ask a Chief Minister all this? The foolish and stupid director and producer must know this. Can an IB officer ask all this to a Chief Minister? Law and order is a State subject. No matter how bad the law and order situation becomes, only if the State government requests can Border Security Force or the military come in. If it is said that the IB officer asked for them, then he/she knows no politics, no law and knows nothing about the land.”

About whether the film had targeted the Congress party, Velusamy said, “You are still thinking that they are protecting Tamils in that film. After he came to power, after Karunanidhi became Chief Minister, within just two or three years, do you know that there was a farmers’ agitation? All over Tamil Nadu there was a big agitation. In how many places did police firing take place? You may not know because of your age. On a single specific day, in only two villages there was police firing and 25 people died. Those two villages are Pethanayakkanpalayam and Perumalnallur. Perumalnallur is a small village near Tiruppur, which might have grown a bit now. The other village, Pethanayakkanpalayam, is a small village near Attur in Salem district. At that time in the Assembly, from Pethanayakkanpalayam 13 or 14 people had died. In the Assembly, a Congress MLA said that in that village, farmers who were protesting had been wrongly shot dead. What the Chief Minister replied is still there in the Assembly records. He said, “The Congress party member is giving wrong information. The dead are not farmers; they are anti‑social elements. They came to attack the police station. To protect the station and themselves, the police fired back, and they died in that firing.” The funny part is, until that very minute there was not even a police station in that village. People who indulge in such fraud and thuggery, what qualification do they have to make this kind of film? Reality is something else.”

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