Movie - Kesari Chapter 2
Cast - Akshaya Kumar, Ananya Pandey, R Madhavan. Amit Sial, Simon Passy Day, and Others
Director - Karan Singh Tyagi
Duration - 2 Hours and 15 Minutes
Where To Watch - Cinemas
Plot Overview
This film is a period drama based on a book written by Raghu Palit and Pushpa Palit, "The Case that Shook Empire." In it, Akshay Kumar plays the role of senior lawyer C Shankar Nair. After watching the film, people will get to know many things about him, like his honesty and loyalty towards the British Empire. He was a great favorite of the British, and he was also honored with the title of Knighthood.
Review
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened in 1919, so we can assume that this movie is of the period of 1920 or 1921. After watching the movie, I read some things about S. Shankar Nair, like in 1928, S. Shankar Nair was made the chairman of the Semen Commission. This was because the commission was made by the Indian people demanding the rights of the old society, whose chairman was S. Shankar Nair.
Now it is difficult to tell why and how that man, to whom the British Empire did so much, turned against them, but the way this case has been presented in the movie, there are many things which seem a bit strange, like in that case, General Dyer was acquitted, obviously the government, judge, law, court, all belonged to the British, so it was not that difficult for General Dyer to get bail, but the problematic thing is that the character of General Dyer has been shown as a victim of child abuse, which was very wrong and the surprising thing is that this argument is made by Shankar Nair who was fighting against him, but understand that when you are against someone, by saying such things about him and showing such things about him, why are you creating unnecessary pity in the hearts of the audience?
Now, being an Indian, if we study the history of our country, were all the Mughals, Cholas, and other such foreign rulers mentally challenged? This is one angle that at least seems strange to me.
All these dynasties that killed crores of Hindus, were all these people mentally ill, and the Portuguese burnt many Hindus alive because they refused to change their religion, were all these people suffering from childhood trauma? Even if we leave all this aside, why was the director trying to show General Dayer as a hero from the beginning? This thing is a bit difficult to digest somewhere.
After all this, our main character, C Shankar Nair, comes to know that a jury of 12 people was formed, and out of these, 3 jury members were bribed by the British, and they were on their side. When C Shankar Nair came to know about this, he got angry and abused the judge. As a result, a case was filed against C Shankar Nair, and the entire press and media were there to cover this case because the real case was against General Dair, and there was no media or press there. What investigation that was done in that case never came to the notice of the media.
Now, the second case in which C Shankar Nair was the main culprit, the entire press and media were called, but what was the conclusion, because everybody knows that it was General Dayar who had ordered the firing. Now, since the government was British, there was no punishment. Just for the sake of show, General Dayar was removed from his post.
But the entire inquiry that was conducted has to be questioned because the government was British. The courts were also British, and the person against whom the case was filed was also theirs. After all, did the British government have the courage to punish one of its own officers? And if not, then this case was nothing more than a sham.
C Shankaran Nair's speech in the climax is the best part of the film, and the way Akshay Kumar started crying after listening to this speech.
There is a scene in the film where Shankar asks a child why he doesn't go to school, the child replies, "The school of thought you come from, I don't think there is a place for people like me because many people opposed this English education system because people of that time felt that the education system of the British was just another step towards making us their slaves and nothing else."
Conclusion
To Summarize. Kesari Chapter 2 is technically well-made. Which brings a lot of things about this case in front of the audience, but on the contrary, there are some things which the audience may not digest, still, the film is worth watching once
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