Raj Kumar Santoshi's next film “The legend of Bhagat Singh” takes one through the remarkable and extraordinary life of the famous freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh (played by Ajay Devgan).
As a boy Bhagat Singh was deeply moved by the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar. Seeing the dead bodies of his countrymen, Bhagat Singh vowed to fight against the British aggression at the tender age of twelve.
At first he participated in Mahatma Gandhi's 1921 Non-cooperation movement. But soon he was disillusioned with the non-violent movement, as it was not effective against the British hegemony. A turning point in his life came with an abrasive meeting with Chandrashekhar Azad (Akhilendra Mishra).
As a result Bhagat Singh left his home, his loving mother (Farida Jalal) and his beloved (Amrita Rao) to join Azad's revolutionary party. He responded aggressively to the death of Lala Lajpat Rai owing to the brutal lathi-charge by the British. Ironically, this act brought him more criticism than praise from his own countrymen.
As a final revolt against the British, Bhagat Singh, along with his compatriots Sukhdev (Sushant Singh) and Rajguru (Santosh), planned and successfully executed a bomb explosion in the National Assembly. Consequently, the three were arrested, put behind the bars and sentenced to death by the British.
An imprisoned and tortured Bhagat Singh showed remarkable fortitude and heroism in the prison too. And finally on 23rd March 1923, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged, their bodies smuggled out of the prison secretly and buried somewhere in the dead of the night.
The event made Bhagat Singh a legend among the Indian freedom fighters.
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