Amaran review: Sai Pallavi poignantly anchors this story of love and courage
Amaran (Tamil)(3 / 5)
Much of Major Mukund Varadarajan’s story involves engaging in an external battle. The army officer (played by Sivakarthikeyan) in Amaran, who is taught early on to place his nation and fellow brothers in green first, goes to war against terrorism in Kashmir’s Shopian district. He endures bullet wounds, engages in battle, and plots to take down top militants. But there's also another battle that filmmaker Rajkumar Periasamy wants to tell us about — a silent, equally turbulent internal battle that is underway miles away in Chennai in the heart of Indhu Rebecca Varghese (Sai Pallavi). A battle that often floods the life of a military spouse. Amaran is as much Mukund’s story as it is Indhu’s, an aspect that gives this film a layer of balmy satisfaction.