Title of film : Sardar Udham
Director Name : Shoojit Sircar
Cast & crew :
Producer : Ronnie Lahiri,Sheel Kumar
Editor : Chandrashekhar Prajapati,
Cast :
Synopsis : The film is an illustration on the life of Sardar Udham Singh exploring his reasons for assassinating O'Dwyer. Udham Singh (known as Sher Singh) is released from prison in Punjab in British India. He is constantly being watched by the authorities. He leaves India and goes to USSR and from there he makes his way to London by ship. He goes to Caxton Hall where O'Dwyer is giving a speech on his time as Lt. Governor of Punjab and how he had suppressed a major uprising. Udham makes his way to O'Dwyer and shoots him, and is arrested. Udham Singh appoints a lawyer who slowly makes him tell his back-story. Udham is brought to court but inspite of a good lawyer, the judges sentence him to death. However, he gives a passionate speech about the British atrocities in India mentioning that he does not hate the British, but just the figure-heads of their rule.
Director Bio : Cinema entered the ordinary life of a young, sports and soccer enthusiast Shoojit Sircar, studying in Delhi, India, quite by chance when he watched Satyajit Ray's “Pather Panchali” for the first time. His first big break as an independent director ironically was a commercial on football, which he followed with a music video, “Mann Ke Manjeere”. Shoojit's first directorial feature ‘Yahaan” (2005), won him the best director award in the Osian Film Festival 2005. He followed this with "Vicky Donor" (2012), “Madras Cafe” (2013), “Piku” (2015), ”Pink” (2016) “October” (2018) and “Gulabo Sitabo” (2020) winning many national and international awards over the years. With such a diverse and distinct repertoire of films, Shoojit Sircar today stands out as one of the most important and original voices of Indian Cinema.
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