Madras Cafe (2013) on Netflix
NR20132h 10mActionDramaThriller
An Indian army officer, Vikram Singh, is picked by the R&AW chief to run covert operations in Sri Lanka against the LTF. There he meets Jaya Sahni, a war correspondent.
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Plot summary
Robin Dutt, who heads the R&AW, calls on Major Vikram Singh, an Indian army officer, to take charge of covert operations in northern Sri Lanka. Tamil youths there have taken up arms for the LTF, led by Anna Bhaskaran, who refuses to accept the peace accord India signed with the Sri Lankan government, and the Indian peacekeeping force has been withdrawn from the island. Vikram travels to Sri Lanka, where he meets Jaya Sahni, a British war correspondent covering the conflict, and reports to Bala, his superior there. Vikram sets out to find Shri, the one man he believes can stand against Bhaskaran, and promises him arms for the fight.
Cast
- Piyush Pandeyas Cabinet Secretary of India
- Kanan Arunachalamas Shri
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Madras Cafe (2013)
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- Because light machine gun fire was not permitted in India, several of Madras Cafe's civil war scenes were shot in Bangkok, where the production used real AK-47s, 9mm Berettas and M60s after obtaining special permission from the local authorities.
- American-based actress Freida Pinto was initially chosen to portray Jaya Sahni in Madras Cafe, but due to prior commitments she withdrew from the project.
- Unable to shoot in Sri Lanka, the crew recreated the city of Jaffna and large parts of inner Sri Lanka in India, filming most of it in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and converting the locations into a war zone.
- Director Shoojit Sircar said nobody was ready to produce the film because of the sensitivity of its subject, and that three others had already rejected the script before John Abraham and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures backed it.
- Madras Cafe was not released in the United Kingdom and Canada as planned because of protests by the Tamil diaspora over its depiction of Tamil militants, and it also skipped Tamil Nadu, where exhibitors feared the controversy was not worth the risk.
- A petition before the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court claimed that Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa had secretly financed the film to justify the human rights violations during the final stages of the war.
- American model-turned-actress Nargis Fakhri was cast as Jaya Sahni, a British journalist in Jaffna, and Madras Cafe became the first film in which her voice was not dubbed.
