Kesari Chapter 2 (2025)

Original title

केसरी चैप्टर 2: जलियांवाला बाग की अनकही कहानी

Directed by

Karan Singh Tyagi

Genre

drama, history

Country

India

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

16

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is a historical courtroom drama based on the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It follows C. Sankaran Nair as he takes on a legal battle related to the tragic event.

historicalcourtroomintensetragicpatrioticsoberingseriousdramatic

What happens

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language historical courtroom drama film directed by Karan Singh Tyagi and produced by Dharma Productions, Leo Media Collective, and Cape of Good Films. A spiritual sequel to Kesari (2019), the plot is based on the book The Case That Shook The Empire by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat, which is centered around C. Sankaran Nair and the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The film stars Akshay Kumar as Nair alongside R. Madhavan, Ananya Panday and Regena Cassandrra. Kesari Chapter 2 was released on 18 April 2025, coinciding with the 106th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The film received positive reviews from both critics and the audience alike, but underperformed at the box office. At the 56th IFFI 2025 it fetched the Best Debut Film of a Director trophy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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