Captain Miller

Captain Miller

In the 1930s, during the British Raj, Analeesan "Eesa", a villager, wants to gain respect because of caste issues in his village, and wants to join the British Indian Army. This is opposed by Sengannan alias Sengolan, his elder brother, who is leading a revolution against the British. Eesa meets Velmathi, a doctor and the niece of the royal king, Rajadhipathi, and falls in love with her. However, he learns that she is in love with someone else and, left with no choice, forgets about her. He soon joins the army and is called "Miller" due to the British not being able to pronounce the soldiers' birth names, but brands himself as "Captain Miller". In one of their many missions, Eesa, along with his army friends, Rafiq and Sembatta alias Stephen, are forced by their General, Buller, to shoot innocent and defenceless freedom fighters at a public gathering. When the soldiers are disposing of the freedom fighters' bodies, Stephen commits suicide out of guilt, prompting Eesa to kill Buller. Afterwards, he also attempts suicide, but Rafiq stops him and tells him to leave the army and return to his village. Eesa does so and learns that his brother was also killed along with the other freedom fighters in the gathering massacre. The villagers berate and throw him out of the village. During a skirmish between a group of revolutionaries and the British, Eesa helps the revolutionaries kill the Britishers through guerilla attacks and joins their group.

Director

Arun Matheswaran

Release

12 Jan 2024

Run time

157 min

Language

Tamil