ReviewAs the serpentine history of Veerappan spanning two decades unravels, the series certainly keeps you on the edge of your seat. Veerappan is an eerily familiar name to those of us who grew up in the 1990s. He was a contemporary legend, presented to us as the proverbial Big Bad hiding out deep in the forests. The stories of his do-gooding also came to be reported, amusing the public imagination. After his eventual capture and killing by the police, the question remained: who was he after all? The reality of who he was, the grey areas of state excesses, and the mystery that continues to shroud him, are what Netflix’s new documentary drama, The Hunt for Veerappan, attempts to take on. The four-episode series, directed by Selvamani Selvaraj, opens strangely not with the many headlines Veerappan made over the years, but with romance. From the real-life Muthulakshmi Veerappan, we...
- 8/5/2023
- by NithyaP
- The News Minute
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