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Sardar Udham

2021 · 162 min

A slow, somber plunge into grief and resolve, punctuated by one harrowing massacre that you carry through the quiet decades of vengeance that follow.

Directed by
Shoojit Sircar
Genres
Crime, Drama, History
Tagline
An assassination which shook the British Empire
Overview
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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Directed by
Shoojit Sircar
Genres
Crime, Drama, History
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • grief
  • trauma
  • colonialism
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • prison
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror5
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Genres
crime, drama, history
Directed by
Shoojit Sircar
Written by
Ritesh Shah, Shubendu Bhattacharya
Starring
Vicky Kaushal, Shaun Scott, Stephen Hogan, Amol Parashar, Kirsty Averton, Banita Sandhu, Andrew Havill, Sam Redford
Music
Shantanu Moitra
Cinematography
Avik Mukhopadhyay
Runtime
162 min
Country
India

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