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Shaheed Udham Singh (1999)

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Original title
Shaheed Uddham Singh
Directed by
Chitraarth
Genre
biographical film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 45m
Rated
15
Rating
8.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This biographical film follows an Indian revolutionary who witnessed the 1919 Amritsar massacre and becomes intensely focused on punishing the British official he holds responsible. It portrays his journey and the events that led him to seek justice for his countrymen.

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What happens

Shaheed Uddham Singh is a 1999 Indian Punjabi-language biographical film based on the life of Udham Singh, an Indian revolutionary who had witnessed the 1919 Amritsar massacre and wanted to avenge the mass killing of his countrymen. He was desperate to punish Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab for his involvement with the massacre. The film was theatrically released in India on 24 December 1999, just two days before Singh's birth centenary. The film was screened retrospective on 13 August 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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