Sir if you have seen the movie, please could you mention a gist of it. Is it a different story or the same madurai veeran kathai folk story (of madurai veeran killed by the madurai nayaks for falling in love with a 'vellaiammal' of their household) ?The Madurai Veeran story was well brought out on silver screen enacted by MGR with "vellayammal" etc. in the late fifties. It was only a cinematic treatment and a very well run film in those days. I cannot recall the religious part of it in the film. Maybe the people who made the film knew much about it.
Sir if you have seen the movie, please could you mention a gist of it. Is it a different story or the same madurai veeran kathai folk story (of madurai veeran killed by the madurai nayaks for falling in love with a 'vellaiammal' of their household) ?
I came across the deity Madurai Veeran only a few months back when i started studying various kula-devas and how they are related to various clans. From what i understand Madurai Veeran is the kula deity of several Pallar families. How Madurai Veeran became the diety of chakkalis or Arunthathiyars is a mystery to me.
Since the term Madurai Veeran simply translates to a brave warrior of madurai, i suppose there was more than one madurai veeran. Or perhaps a section of Pallars became downgraded as arundathiyars.