Kollywood In the film, a crooked businessman unleashes locusts to destroy the livelihood of farmers. Tnm StaffKV Anand's Kaappaan, which opened to mixed reviews in 2019, is now in the news again after locust swarms entered India. In the film, a crooked businessman unleashes locusts to destroy the livelihood of farmers so that he can take over their lands. The character was played by Boman Irani. The film had Suriya in the lead, along with several other stars like Mohanlal, Arya and Sayyeshaa. While there was a diabolical reason for the entry of locusts in the film, in real life, the swarms have been attributed to climate change, winter storms and pre-monsoon rainfall. Currently, the locusts in India have spread to Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Following this, several memes on social media about how Kaappaan "predicted" the locust swarms have been doing the rounds. These...
- 5/28/2020
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
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