🪔 Bharathiraja dies at 84 - A director who stood with Eelam Tamils
Bharathiraja, the Tamil Nadu filmmaker known as Iyakkunar Imayam, died at his home in Chennai on 10 June 2026.
Bharathiraja sustained a record of public solidarity with Eelam Tamils that stretched from the ceasefire years to the final period of his life. It expressed itself as physical presence, political speech, open letters and legal demands, and it ran across more than two decades without interruption.
📸 April 2013, Bharathiraja in London calling for an independence referendum on Tamil Eelam.