India’s Forgotten Freedom Fighter

Brut India

Vicky Kaushal reveals to Brut striking anecdotes of Sardar Udham’s life and beliefs. He plays the revolutionary freedom fighter in Amazon Prime Video’s latest venture, Sardar Udham.  Paid partnership with: Amazon Prime Video

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00:00Didn't people say I was a revolutionary?

00:31A biopic is not about a human being but it's a biopic about an ideology

00:35Music

00:57I think for a person who has experienced Jallianwala Bagh the massacre

01:00I think something really does shift in your core when you go through that

01:04Music

01:33Music

01:37They were against people who represented the evil of the imperialistic government

01:43The colonial government

01:45Music

01:54He was, he almost was a fanboy of Saheb Bhagat Singh

01:57Even being elder to him

01:58He used to call him Bhaktia, with love

02:01What many people don't realise is that Bhagat Singh was 23 when he was hanged

02:0623

02:07Many of us don't even know what we want to do in life at 23

02:10Music

02:17He had seen oppressions of all kinds across the globe

02:19Then if you're well read about politics and well travelled

02:22Simple ideologies of freedom are way more expanded than any normal person

02:27Music

02:49Music

02:59It's so important for us to never forget some things that have happened in the past

03:04Music

03:08It is our, I feel, moral responsibility to carry forward these stories to this generation

03:14And generation ahead through books, through films, through any kind of art form

03:19Music

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