As the person who led the team, was the 36-hour wait very frustrating?
Waiting is always frustrating for commandos because waiting doesn't make any sense to us.
In any action, the surprise element has to be there. The enemy should not know you are there. Since he (Sivarasan) knew we were outside because of the public gathering there, the surprise element was lost.
It is not that I am the first person who is talking about this delay. So many books and statements have already come out. I have also shown it in my film. Because it is a film, it has become a matter of discussion. Now, everybody is asking, why such a long wait?
Basically, my film shows who Rajiv Gandhi was and why somebody came here and killed him. Indian security force were not ready to accept the fact that somebody came from outside and killed our former prime minister.
The CBI did a wonderful job of tracking down the killers, but at the end of the day, all the hard work went for a toss.
If we had gone inside and caught them alive, the operation would have been successful completely.
Photograph: Mammotty in a scene from the film Mission 90 Days.
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