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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 1791798" data-attributes="member: 212">Trailer[YOUTUBE]TRJGdNkNcHY[/YOUTUBE]The statement of Thushara Peiris, the director of "Prabhakaran".I went to India on the 20th of March to complete the Tamil version of my maiden film‘Prabhakaran’ . This film revolves around the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and recruitingof child soldiers. Throughout last week the film was a hot subject that was givenprominence in the Indian media creating headlines. I was not very much aware what wasgoing on. However there had been massive and misleading propaganda claiming that thefilm was anti-Tamil. A violent mob of more than 1000 which included Indian filmdirectors, producers and technicians started a protest in front of the Gemini Laboratoryfrom Tuesday morning. I completed my work and was coming out of the lab and thattime I was question by some people in the mob who were waiting outside.At that moment I realized that the mob was getting violent and somebody asked me torun back to the lab and I started running. They chased after me and started to attack me.They hit me on my head and I felt a cut on my back and then passed out After about 45minutes I came to my senses and realized that all my clothes were torn and I was lying onthe ground in a room. The crowd was still shouting slogans. During the attack I heardthem mentioning President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s name and I realized that they shoutingthat I had made a film for President Rajapaksa, which was totally wrong.{Now the officials of India have recognized that, Suba Weerapaandian (leader ofDravidian Tamil Movement Party), S. Wanniarasu (Leader of Widuthalai ChirunailalParty) and Seeman (A film director and a supporter of LTTE) had led the violent mob.}Later the media and police rushed to the place and the assailants themselves brought anew shirt and forced me to wash my face and kept me under hostage in a room in thelaboratory. I was not allowed to talk to the media neither by those assailants nor thepolice.Later the officers of the Indian intelligence RAW and Police escorted me to my hotel. AsI entered the hotel, all my belongings were ready at the entrance with my passport and Iwas taken to the airport where a number of RAW officers gave me protection.Before returning to Sri Lanka I was forced to participate in a conference where officersfrom Indian Police, film producers and technicians and Censor Board officialsparticipated. There the technicians demanded that they wanted to see the film to which Iagreed and requested them to screen it at the Gemini Lab. There I was made to sign adocument which stated that if there was any scene which was anti- Tamil or anti-terrorist,the film would not be screened in India.I had to leave the film at the Gemini Laboratory and leave India. I am worried about myfilm which I made spending nearly Rs. 40 million and I requested the Sri Lanka HighCommission in India to protect my work of art. I request the relevant authorities toprotect my film for all Sri Lankan and Tamils around the world to see. Eight copies of thefilm were to be released worldwide.I must say that this is not a pro-government or anti-LTTE film. It is a film about loss ofhumanity as a result of the thirty-year-old war and to show the LTTE view of the Sinhalacommunity.Official Site<a href="http://www.prabhakaranfilm.com/" target="_blank">http://www.prabhakaranfilm.com/</a></blockquote>

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