A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.
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Firstly I don’t think I had watched a scene in any Indian film as disturbing as Jallianwala Bagh massacre scene. Absolutely bold filmmaking and too real to say the least and it made me cry. The narrative is not an usual biopic writing that we see. This movie starts with an ending and ends with the beginning. So basically the film is exploring WHYs of Sardar Udham’s motive and in a non-linear way it takes the story forward. I liked this and have always liked such kind of a narrative if it’s done well but here this style slowly tends to fade as I could feel the dryness of the script, especially after 1 hour mark. Inconsistency and repetitiveness of Spy genre traits starts to creep in for another 30 minutes or so. This is where the beautifully shot movie with stunning production design takes the backseat as writing starts being repetitive and suddenly feels uninteresting. I would have…
Never Forget, Never Forgive.