Kesari - 2: A Veridical Exposure of Jallianwala Bagh Genocide!

The cinema starts with how Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair served the British and how he received knighthood for his services, and eventually, post the Jallianwala Bagh incident, how he fought the British Empire in court for their atrocities and genocide in Jallianwala Bagh. The cinema is very well made. The scenes are very well shot and take us back to the 1920s.

- SANDEEP KRISHNARAO PATIL

"Get the f*** out of my country", a dialogue by Akshay Kumar will go down as one of the proudest and most encaptivating dialogues in Bharatiya cinema. The resounding applause and a realisation about the resilience exhibited by our ancestors captured the mood as one exited the theatre after watching Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh.

To summarise, this cinema is a masterpiece. The cinema not only brings to light the grit and tenacity of Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair but also presents how Jallianwala Bagh was a well-orchestrated genocide committed by the imperialist British.

The cinema is very hard-hitting and makes one traverse an entire spectrum of emotion from extreme joy to extreme sorrow, from being the proudest to the most despair; it is a roller coaster that grips the audience. The cinema takes us through history to make us understand the value of our freedom and the amount of sacrifice made by our ancestors to free us from the clutches of the British.

Let's understand the cinema in detail. Kesari Chapter 2 captures the fight of Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair against the British as he took the crown to court for the Jallianwala Bagh genocide. The cinema is a courtroom drama that takes creative liberties to depict the fight of Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair.

In contrast to the real-life case of defamation filed by Michael O'Dwyer in London High Court against Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair for his book Gandhi and Anarchy, in which he held Michael O'Dwyer responsible for Jallianwala Bagh genocide, the cinema shifts the entire landscape to Bharat and portrays General Dyer as the main antagonist instead of Michael O'Dwyer.