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Kaattu Vithachavar

Kaattu Vithachavar poster
Country
India
Runtime
2h 15m
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How it feels

This film is about the death of a student in police custody during India's 1970s Emergency. It follows the legal fight to uncover what happened to him.

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What happens

The Rajan case refers to the death of P. Rajan, a student of the Regional Engineering College, Calicut, as a result of torture in local police custody in Kakkayam, Kerala during the nationwide Emergency in India in 1976, and the legal battle that followed, which revealed facts of the incident to the public. His remains are yet to be recovered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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