The Hindi political action thriller film "Madras Cafe" by Shoojit Sircar was released in August 2013. The film was set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film deals with an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency R&amp;AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw. Ajay Rathnam portrayed a character resembling Velupillai Prabhakaran.