'Captain Miller' True Story: Is Dhanush's Movie Based On Real-Life Events? Here's What We Know

While everyone thought it would be a great action drama, the Dhanush-starrer movie turned out to be a great political story as well. Everyone is hailing the Tamil actor's never-seen-before avatar and saying there's not even a single dull moment in the movie. You will enjoy the 160-minute movie, which also stars Shivarajkumar, Priyanka Arul Mohan, Aditi Balan, Sundeep Kishan, Edward Sonnenblick and John Kokken. Some fans even compared the movie to a Hollywood movie.

Who was Captain Miller? Is Dhanush-starrer movie based on a true story?

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Ever since the trailer of the movie was released, people on social media discussed if the movie was in any way inspired by a true story. Now, the director of the movie, Arun Matheswaran, has spilled the beans on the same. The director-writer said that he first got the idea of making a film on this topic when his uncle, who was in the military, narrated to him about this incident. "I was young motivated me a lot to make this film. The genesis of this thing... it came to mind after hearing about a true incident that took place in 1987, during the Sri Lankan civil war," he told Tamil Guardian in an interview.

He added that the movie was initially inspired by "a true incident" that took place in 1987 during the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle, alluding to the LTTE's first Black Tiger attack.

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Matheswaran said that when he was writing the movie, he was told not to do so as "they said it was too controversial and it can't be released here." He thought about it and agreed "We can¡¯t make that film here," he said. "To make it acceptable, I set the story in the pre-independence era so that no questions would arise and there would be no controversy. But still, it is a painful story."

Captain Miller real-life story: Know more about Black Tiger attack

Black Tigers were specialized suicide commando unit in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant organization advocating Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. The first Black Tiger was Vallipuram Vasanthan (by the nom de guerre Captain Miller) who carried out the first suicide mission. On July 5, 1987, amidst the Battle of Nelliady, he drove a compact truck filled with explosives into a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp in Nelliady, Jaffna peninsula. This act resulted in his own death and caused the fatalities of an estimated 39 to 100 Sri Lankan soldiers.

During the Sri Lankan Civil War from 1983 to 2009, the LTTE executed many suicide bombings. These attacks were directed at diverse locations, including government buildings, military installations, and even public spaces.

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