Title: [RS.com] The Terrorist (1999) DVDRip

Description: The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi - original Tamil title) is an Indian film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film portrays a period in the life of a nineteen-year-old woman, Malli (Ayesha Dharkar), sent to assassinate a leader in South Asia through a suicide bombing. It stars Dharkar, K. Krishna and Sonu Sisupal

The film is in Tamil, and is easily read as a commentary on the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, allegedly by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers). Released in 1998, the film was shot in 15 days, with natural lighting, on a budget of $50,000.

Actor John Malkovich first saw the film at the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival and subsequently adopted the film as a kind of post-facto executive producer (the reissued film's titles read "John Malkovich Presents").

Roger Ebert has included the movie in his list of Great Movies [1]. Ebert concludes his review with this linse "Every time I see the film, I feel a great sadness, that a human imagination could be so limited that it sees its own extinction as a victory."