4 films set in British Raj to watch before Kesari Chapter 2 releases
Arpita Sarkar
Kesari Chapter 2 release date
Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday, and R. Madhavan starrer courtroom drama, set in British period, will hit theaters on April 18. Ahead of it, watch other movies that are set in British Raj.
Lagaan (YouTube)
Aamir Khan starrer Lagaan is set in 1893, during the late Victorian era. Villagers suffering from heavy taxes and drought are challenged by a British army officer to a game of cricket to avoid paying their taxes.
Rang De Basanti (Netflix)
It tells the story of a British filmmaker who uses a documentary on Indian revolutionaries to inspire a group of politically apathetic young college students.
Mangal Pandey: The Rising (Prime Video)
The film depicts the events leading up to the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, also known as the First Indian War of Independence, during the British Raj in India.
Sardhar Udham (Prime Video)
The film is based on the life of Udham Singh, a freedom fighter from Punjab, who killed Michael O'Dwyer in London to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.
Kesari Chapter 2 plot
Kesari Chapter 2 is a historical courtroom drama that follows the life of C. Sankaran Nair, a lawyer and freedom fighter, who takes on the British Empire to expose the truth behind the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Kesari Chapter 2 cast
The film stars Akshay Kumar as Sankaran Nair. It also features R. Madhavan and Ananya Panday as lawyers.
More about Kesari Chapter 2
The story of the film is based on the book The Case That Shook The Empire by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.