On Monday i.e. 27th September 2021, Vicky Kaushal has shared the teaser of his upcoming film, Sardar Udham. The teaser shows us an intriguing tale that revolves around the revolutionary freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh. In the video, it shows us the character of Vicky Kaushal who is piecing a document together. It follows the shifting of the focus to a stack of passports which will show us different names, probably aliases of our hero. Among them, one belongs to Sardar Udham Singh.
The short teaser has raised our expectations. It seems that this film will provide us with a compelling thriller-drama along with the talented duo Vicky Kaushal and the director Shoojit Sircar who are coming together for this feature. Everyone is expecting that the film will definitely live up to the hype.
The teaser has been shared by the actor Vicky Kaushal on his Instagram page along with a short note as a caption, “On the birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, I’m proud to bring to you the story of his ally- Sardar Udham Singh- one man, many aliases, one mission. Presenting the teaser of #SardarUdham.”
Belonging to the revolutionary Ghadar Party, Sardar Udham Singh assassinated Michael O’Dwyer, a former lieutenant governor of Punjab in India, on 13th March 1940 in the UK. He has killed Michael O’Dwyer in order to take revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O’Dwyer was responsible. He was hanged in July 1940 after being convicted of murder.
The shooting of the movie was finished in the month of December 2019 itself, but the post-production has taken a long time, and at the same time pandemic also created a huge delay in the whole process. It has come to know that Sardar Udham is a big-scale biopic made with a massive budget. Vicky Kaushal has shared a photo of himself that too not too long ago on social media, where he has made an announcement that he had finished his dubbing for the movie by sharing a picture from the studio, he had written, “Dubbed and dusted.”
The film has been produced by Rising Sun Films and it was further backed by Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar. The film Sardar Udham is going to be released on 16th October 2021.