23rd March 1931: Shaheed

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23 March 1931: Shaheed
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Directed by Guddu Dhanoa [1]
Screenplay bySutanu Gupta
Dialogues bySanjay Masoomm
Produced by Dharmendra [1]
Starring Bobby Deol
Sunny Deol
Amrita Singh
Aishwarya Rai (special appearance)
Rahul Dev
Suresh Oberoi
Vivek Shauq
Shakti Kapoor
Divya Dutta
Cinematography Tirru [2]
Edited byKeshav Naidu [2]
Music bySongs:
Anand Raj Anand [3]
Score:
Surinder Sodhi
Lyrics by Dev Kohli
Production
company
Sunny Super Sound
Release date
  • 7 June 2002 (2002-06-07)
Running time
185 minutes [2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹20 crore [4]
Box office₹14.25 crore [5]

23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, directed by Guddu Dhanoa which depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on 23 March 1931. The film stars Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh, his elder brother Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad, Amrita Singh in her comeback role as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu (Bhagat's mother) and Aishwarya Rai (special appearance). The film also stars Rahul Dev, Vicky Ahuja, Vivek Shauq and Raja Bundela.

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The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and titled The Legend of Bhagat Singh . Both films failed at the box office. [6] [7]

Plot

Set in the mid-1920s in British India, the film tells the story of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, who have only one motive in mind: freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and Others are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.

When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom." The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that India will continue to suffer, even after independence from the British, and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.

Cast

Soundtrack

#SongSinger(s)
1"Mera Rang De Basanti Chola" Udit Narayan, Bhupinder Singh, Veer Rajinder
2"Deshnu Challo" Hans Raj Hans
3"Jogiya Ve" Alka Yagnik
4"Watanparaston Ki" Hans Raj Hans, Veer Rajinder
5"Pagadi Sambhal"Veer Rajinder
6"Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna" Bhupinder Singh, Mohammad Salamat, Vinod Rathod
7"Aye Watan"Veer Rajinder
8"Khush Raho"Veer Rajinder

Box office

23rd March 1931: Shaheed was made on a budget of ₹20 crore (in 2002). [4] The film failed to cover its budget thus underperforming at the box office, collecting only ₹14.25 crore by the end of its theatrical run. [5]

Shubhra Gupta of Business Line attributed the film's commercial failure to its release on the same day as The Legend of Bhagat Singh, opining that "the two Bhagats ate into each other's business". [8] The producer of the film The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Ramesh Taurani, also acknowledged this as a reason for his film's failure, along with the release of another Bhagat Singh film Shaheed-E-Azam the week before. [9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "rediff.com, Movies: 23 March 1931 -- Shaheed -- The Story In Pictures". www.rediff.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Elley, Derek (28 June 2002). "23rd March 1931: Shaheed / The Legend of Bhagat Singh". Archived from the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "BBC - Shropshire - Movies - 23rd March 1931- Shaheed". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 "23rd March 1931 Shaheed - Movie - Box Office India".
  5. 1 2 "23rd March 1931 Shaheed - Movie - Box Office India". Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "rediff.com: Movies: Which Bhagat Singh do we choose?". rediff.com.
  7. ↑ "At the movies: The Legend of Bhagat Singh". The Times of India. 8 June 2002. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Gupta, Shubhra (17 June 1998). "Problem of plenty?". Business Line . Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Ramesh Taurani reveals they lost Rs 22 crore on Ajay Devgn starrer 'The Legend Of Bhagat Singh' despite the National Award: 'Company ki economy hil jaati hai'". The Times of India . 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
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