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23rd March 1931: Shaheed
2002 Indian film directed by Guddu Dhanoa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, directed by Guddu Dhanoa which depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on 23 March 1931. The film stars Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh, his elder brother Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad, Amrita Singh in her comeback role as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu (Bhagat's mother) and Aishwarya Rai (special appearance). The film also stars Rahul Dev, Vicky Ahuja, Vivek Shauq and Raja Bundela.
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The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and titled The Legend of Bhagat Singh. Both films failed at the box office.[6][7]
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Plot
Set in the mid-1920s in British India, the film tells the story of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, who have only one motive in mind: freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and Others are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.
When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom." The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that India will continue to suffer, even after independence from the British, and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.
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Cast
- Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh
- Sunny Deol asChandra Shekhar Azad
- Amrita Singh as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu, Bhagat's mother
- Ranjan Koshal as Kishan Singh Sandhu, Bhagat's father
- Rahul Dev as Sukhdev Thapar
- Vicky Ahuja as Shivaram Rajguru
- Vivek Shauq as Bhagwati Charan Vohra
- Aishwarya Rai (special appearance) as Mannewali, the girl Bhagat's family wanted him to marry
- Raja Bundela as Lala Lajpat Rai
- Divya Dutta as Durgawati Devi a.k.a. "Durga Bhabhi"
- Sachin Khedekar as Lawyer Asaf Ali
- Vivek K Rawat as Batukeshwar Dutt
- Suresh Oberoi as Jailor Chadda
- Shakti Kapoor as Chattar Singh
- Imran Khan as Kartar Singh Sarabha
- Akshay Anand as Ram Prasad Bismil
- Tej Sapru as Dilbagh Singh
- Suresh Chatwal as Pandit Kishori Lal
- Deepak Sharma as Jatindra Nath Das a.k.a. "Jatin Das"
- Raman Khatri as Ashfaqulla Khan
- Rajesh Khera as Sardar Ajit Singh Sandhu, Bhagat's uncle
- Sanjay Tripathi as Hans Raj Vohra, traitor
- Rana Jung Bahadur as Public Prosecutor Ashish Verma
- Indal Singh as Jai Gopal, traitor
- Samaresh Routray as Yashpal
- Manoj Tiwari as Virbhadra Tiwari
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Music and soundtrack
The music for the songs of the film was composed by Anand Raaj Anand and the lyrics of the songs were penned by Dev Kohli. The background score of the movie was provided by Surinder Sodhi.
Box office
23rd March 1931: Shaheed was made on a budget of ₹20 crore (in 2002).[4] The film failed to cover its budget thus underperforming at the box office, collecting only ₹14.25 crore by the end of its theatrical run.[5]
Shubhra Gupta of Business Line attributed the film's commercial failure to its release on the same day as The Legend of Bhagat Singh, opining that "the two Bhagats ate into each other's business". [8] The producer of the film The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Ramesh Taurani, also acknowledged this as a reason for his film's failure, along with the release of another Bhagat Singh film Shaheed-E-Azam the week before.[9]
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See also
Other films based on Bhagat Singh:
- Shaheed - 1965 Indian film directed by S. Ram Sharma
- The Legend of Bhagat Singh - 2002 Indian film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
- Shaheed-E-Azam - 2002 Indian film directed by Sukumar Nair
Other films based on Indian Independence Movement:
- Sardar Udham - 2021 film based on Udham Singh and directed by Shoojit Sircar
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