Jun 15, 2016 07:42 AM
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Akshay Kumar has already played an Indian intelligence officer(Baby), Armyman(Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty) and a patriotic do-gooder minus a designation(Airlift, Gabbar etc.). With Rustom the Bollywood star is back as a “Decorated Officer. Devoted Family Man” but the story seems to be much less straight forward. On the afternoon of April 27, 1959, Commander Kawas Maneckshaw Nanavati’s wife confessed to him that she was in love with a family friend, Prem Ahuja. Without betraying any emotion, the officer – who was second in command of the Indian Navy’s flagship INS Mysore – Nanavati dropped his English wife Sylvia and two children at a film theatre.
The the 37-year-old officer then went to his ship, took his senior officer’s permission to leave for Ahmednagar and carry a revolver and six bullets. Nanavati went to Ahuja’s house and killed him. He gave himself up to police and confessed to the murder. The case went on and Nanavati got a reputation as the “honourable killer”. He was finally pardoned in 1962. He migrated to Canada with Sylvia and children.
