Shrikumar Arjunan

It's a decent documentary in terms of narration, videography and content. However, it's quite biased. Though it does talk superficially about the atrocities committed by the officials and STF, especially Karnataka police, it doesn't delve deep into it. Even the interviewees like Sunaad Raghunath, the investigative journalist says things that reek of arrogance of Kannada officials towards the Tamil villagers. The Cauvery water/river issue has been just touched upon. Whereas, it has a much larger bearing on the whole Veerappan issue. Tamils living in the border villages of Karnataka's Chamarajanagar and Kolar districts have been demeaned and ill-treated and suppressed for generations and that's the background of Veerappan taking law in his own hands. The numerous rapes and unaccountable deaths committed by brash officers like Shankar Bidari have not been talked about in the movie. And the series misses on a whole large aspect of the Sandalwood mafia network. Veerappan was probably only the ground-level person in the chain, who supplied to the bigger mafias, which I am sure had politicians and underworld dons of Bangalore. It portrays as if Veerappan was a militant. He was an outlaw whom the law and system failed due to which he turned to take the violent path. That should have been brought out.