‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ distorts history, claim kin of ‘real hero’
Though the recently released ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ is touted as one of the best boxing movies that Indian cinema has produced and brings out the boxing history of North Chennai, the family of M Kitheri Muthu, one of the foremost and finest boxers of Sarpatta Parambarai, who peaked even before Independence, feels that boxing history was distorted in the movie.
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One of their key contentions is the character ‘Rangan Vadhiyar’, who allegedly defeated foreign boxer Teri has been an attempt to distort history as their grandfather Kitheri Muthu was the one who defeated Teri in 1942. “Earlier, there was Tamil boxing only, practised in North Chennai, in which the players have to hit each other only in the face. But in the 1940s, English boxing came into practice where boxers were permitted to hit in the body, above groins. Our grandfather who practised Tamil boxing shifted to English boxing and defeated Teri,” Johnson, the eldest grandson of Kitheri Muthu, told DT Next.
Poster of Kitheri Muthu with info on‘Dravida Veeran’ title given to him by Periyar; (r) students ofKitheri Muthu Boxing Academy seen practising
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