revised version was published in 1939 with additions by Indra Prakash of the Hindu Mahasabha. A second edition of the book was published in 1987 by Veer Savarkar Prakashan, the official publisher of writings by Savarkar. In its preface, Ravindra Vaman Ramdas deduced that, "Chitragupta is none other than Veer Savarkar". In popular culture In the 1996 Malayalam movie Kaalapani directed by Priyadarshan, the Hindi actor Annu Kapoor played the role of Savarkar. The Marathi and Hindi music director and Savarkar follower, Sudhir Phadke, and Ved Rahi made the biopic film Veer Savarkar, which was released in 2001 after many years in production. Savarkar is portrayed by Shailendra Gaur. The 2015 Indian Marathi-language film What About Savarkar?, directed by Rupesh Katare and Nitin Gawde, depicted the journey of a man's revenge against those who have disrespect Savarkar's name. Books He wrote 38 books in English and Marathi, consisting in many essays, two novels called Moplah Rebellion and the Transportation, poetry and plays, the best-known of his books being his historical study The Indian war of independence, 1857 and his pamphlet Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?''. Notes Citations Bibliography Further reading External links Official Website of Savarkar National Memorial Savarkar's Hindu Pad-pada-shahi Indian independence activists from Maharashtra Marathi people Marathi-language writers Marathi-language poets Hindutva Hindu revivalist writers India House People acquitted of murder Deaths by euthanasia 1883 births 1966 deaths Indian atheists Indian Hindus Indian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Prisoners and detainees of British India 20th-century Indian philosophers Indian revolutionaries Hindu Mahasabha politicians 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Indian male dramatists and playwrights People from Maharashtra Poets from Maharashtra 19th-century Indian male writers Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan Mahatma Gandhi assassination conspirators Indian independence armed struggle activists Indian political philosophers