“It’s a great feeling when the audience grasps the soul of the movie. For a while, it even diverted attention from his talked-about December wedding with actor Katrina Kaif. Many have commented that this is his best performance so far.
Kaushal’s character-driven roles have cemented his reputation as a dependable leading actor in Hindi cinema. The movie shows him as a youngster in love, a young idealist rebel influenced by his friend Bhagat Singh, an activist who moves to London and tries to rebuild the HSRA (Hindustan Socialist Republican Association) movement, and an undertrial who won’t plead guilty after he shot Michael O’Dwyer, former lieutenant governor of the Punjab and a mastermind of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
The biopic of the 1899-born Singh, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, tells the story of the revolutionary at different stages of his life. Still from Sardar Udhamĭuring the re-enactment of this tragedy, Kaushal had another challenge to deal with: The 33-year-old actor had to maintain the innocence and body language of a 19-year-old. “In the course of the shoot, it hit me that there were real cries for help and bloodshed when the firing left so many people dead and injured. As the actor rushed to the aid of the injured, with a three-camera set-up focussing on him, he was asked to instinctively pick the injured persons he would attend to. Sircar, who often borrows his filmmaking methods from theatre, kept it organic and realistic.
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