After the success of Pulan Visaranai, Rowther decided to make another project with Vijayakanth and Selvamani titled "Captain Prabhakaran", the plotline of the film was based on the forest brigand Veerappan.
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The character of the antagonist Veerabhadran (played by Mansoor Ali Khan) is loosely based on the forest brigand Veerappan.
Since much of the southern area of the district is dense forest, it provided good refuge to the notorious bandit Veerappan, responsible for the death of over a hundred policemen.
He came into limelight after successful encounter of Veerappan.
He became Minister for Home in the S. M. Krishna Cabinet during a particularly trying time for Karnataka especially the Rajkumar kidnap by the notorious poacher Veerappan and the Cauvery Riots.In 2004, he was elected for the eighth consecutive time to the Karnataka Assembly and was once again considered a front runner to the post of the Chief Minister of Karnataka.
As such, on the requisition by the Chief Ministers of both states, a team of emissaries led by Nedumaran, went into the forests, met Veerappan and rescued Dr. Rajkumar.
Kannada film actor Rajkumar was kidnapped by forest brigand Veerappan on July 30, 2000 during the course of an armed attack on a farmhouse belonging to the actor in Gajanur, Tamil Nadu, India.
He has been jailed for withholding information about sandal wood smuggler Veerappan during Jayalalitha's chief ministership.
The company is based in Mumbai, India (Bombay) and its next upcoming venture is a film based on the notorious and famous smuggler "Veerappan" under Mr. Varma's guidance and will be directed by the writer of Sarkar Raj, Mr. Prashant Pandey