Director Mari Selvaraj’s recent film Bison Kaalamaadan vividly brings to life the inspiring journey of veteran kabaddi player Manathi Ganesan, one of the two kabaddi players to have received the Arjuna Award.
In the film, the confident captain of the Indian team assures sports officials that India would certainly defeat Pakistan. In real life, that captain was S. Rajarathinam, the first kabaddi player from Tamil Nadu to receive the Arjuna Award.
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