Sivakarthikeyan and Sai Pallavi-starrer Amaran is set to drop on Netflix on December 5, the day Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2 will hit theatres across India, according to a new announcement by the streaming platform on Saturday.
Sharing a poster of Amaran on Instagram, Netflix wrote, “Remember the date. Remember his name. Major Mukund Varadarajan. Watch Amaran on Netflix, out 5 Dec in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.”
Directed by Rajkumar Periasamy, Amaran became actor Sivakarthikeyan's highest-grossing film of all time with a collection of over Rs 300 crore worldwide. It is the eighth Tamil film of all time to breach the Rs 300-crore milestone at the global box office after Shankar’s 2.0, Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Leo and Vikram, Nelson Dilipkumar’s Jailer, Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 and Part 2 and Venkat Prabhu’s The Greatest of All Time.
Amaran is a biographical war drama based on the life of Major Mukund Varadarajan, an officer in the Indian Army’s Rajput Regiment, who received the Ashok Chakra posthumously for his valour during a counterterrorism operation with the 44th Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu and Kashmir.
Amaran stars Sivakarthikeyan as Major Mukund Varadarajan and Sai Pallavi as Indhu Varghese. The cast also includes Bhuvan Arora and Rahul Bose.
Released theatrically on October 31, the film adapts Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh’s book series India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes.
