Sardar Udham
7.2
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A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

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Vicky Kaushal
Udham Singh
Shaun Scott
Michael O'Dwyer
Stephen Hogan
Detective Inspector John Swain
Amol Parashar
Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Kirsty Averton
Eileen Palmer
Banita Sandhu
Reshma
Andrew Havill
General Reginald Dyer
Sam Redford
Detective Deighton
Albrekht Tsander
Junior Detective
Tim Berrington
John Hutchison
Mark Lingwood
Superintendent Sands
Simon Weir
King George VI
Tim Hudson
Winston Churchill
Richard Glover
Prosecutor
Nicholas Gecks
Justice Atkinson
Ritesh Shah
Koppikar
Jogi Malang
Surat Ali
Tushar Sheetal Singhal
Informer to Udham Singh
Andrey Tolshin
Main Government Spokesperson
Sarfaraz Alam Safu
Interpreter at Scotland Yard
Sergei Mazurenko
Senior Minister
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Photos Avik Mukhopadhyay
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Location India
Producer Ronnie Lahiri, Sheel Kumar
Director Shoojit Sircar
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CinemaSerf March 28 2022 04:43:48 PM

It is interesting to watch this film now, in a week where a British MP has been brutally stabbed to death doing his job, and to maybe ask ourselves a question. What has the killing of a man ever actually achieved? It never makes anything any better. It serves to galvanise both sides and retrench enmities and bitterness that can take many years to wain. This film depicts one such story. That of a man who also passionately believed it was acceptable to take a life. His motives appear demonstrably justifiable as we watch this beautifully shot, frequently harrowing, depiction of the lead up to the atrocity of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919. It is told through the eyes of the assassin - Udham Singh (Vicky Kaushal) and over the course of the next two hours, we are exposed to the events that drove a decent man to commit the ultimate sin, and to pay the ultimate penalty. Whilst it does take a little while to get going, Shoojit Sircar develops a story replete with conflicting emotions, that offers a critique on the prevailing imperial attitudes and on the very value of life itself. It clearly, and succinctly, exemplifies the cruelty visited on people who just wanted to be left to govern themselves; and of the shockingly arrogant superiority complex of those who believed these people to be little more capable of such aspirations than pets, or sheep. The film looks stunning - the imagery of India from grand scale to violent aftermath; the settings in London - all add hugely to the gutsy integrity of this story. As with so much about the man himself, much is still be be made public about these events and about the true intent of the vice-regal, or British, governments in making an example of these unarmed protesters - but this surmising offers an entirely plausible assessment of man's inhumanity to man - and sadly, over 100 years on from this - we appear to have learned little about the merits of killing another human being - friend or foe.

badelf October 05 2022 08:27:35 PM

It's quite the captivating story. Sadly, humanity seems to learn nothing from history, and so we are doomed to the fatal repetition of the past. This is one story that should have taught us a lesson, yet governments all over the world suppress and repress the truth. The non-linear film seems a little scattered in organization but picks up all the dangling pieces by the final reel.