The Hunt on SonyLiv: Who was real-life 'One‑Eyed Jack' Sivarasan, Rajiv Gandhi's killing mastermind?

The Hunt - The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case was released on SonyLiv on July 4. Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, The Hunt - The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case is a 7-episode series and is an adaptation from Anirudhya Mitra’s nonfiction book “Ninety Days”. It revolves around the SIT that was formed to investigate the shocking assassination of (then) Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. Since you have landed on this page, True Scoop assumes you have already watched The Hunt - The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case on SonyLiv and are wondering about the real-life Sivarasan aka One‑Eyed Jack. Continue reading below to know all about Sivarasan aka One‑Eyed Jack- 

Who was real-life Sivasaran, aka One‑Eyed Jack?

Sivasaran's real name was Chandrasekharampillai Packiachandran. Sivasaran was termed as the mastermind of then-PM Rajiv Gandhi. As per DailyMirror Sri Lanka, Sivasaran hailed from Udupiddy, a town about 32 km from Jaffna City and about 3 km inland from coastal Valvettithurai the hometown of Prabhakaran. 

Packiachandran’s father was Chandrasekharampillai, a teacher of English at the Udupiddy American Mission School. Chandrasekharam Pillai lived in the northern part of the town near the Veerapathirar Temple. Packiyachandran  was born in 1958, the year of the first major anti-Tamil program in Sri Lanka. He was the eldest child and had three brothers and two sisters, all younger to him. 

Rajiv Gandhi's assassination was carried out due to personal animosity of the LTTE chief Prabhakaran towards Rajiv Gandhi, arising from his sending the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka. 

For the unversed, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) at a place called Sriperumbhudur in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on May 21st, 1991. 

What happened to Sivasaran, aka One‑Eyed Jac?

Sivarasan, who masterminded Rajiv Gandhi's murder, committed s*icide on August 20th  which was  the date of Rajiv Gandhi’s birth.

Coming back to the web series- The Hunt, it features Amit Sial as D.R. Kaarthikeyan, Sahil Vaid as Amit Verma, Bhagavathi Perumal as K. Ragothaman, Danish Iqbal as Amod Kanth, Girish Sharma as Radhavinod Raju, Vidyut Garg as Capt. Ravindran, Shafeeq Mustafa as Sivarasan (aka “One‑Eyed Jack”), Shruty Jayan as Dhanu (Kalaivani Rajaratnam), Anjana Balaji as Nalini, and more in the leading roles.