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Film Name: Kesari
Actor: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra
Director: Anurag Singh
Despite one of the fiercest fights, the Battle of Saragarhi is lost somewhere in the annals of history. In Kesari, director Anurag Singh tells about celluloid's incredible story of 21 Sikh soldiers fighting valiantly against 10,000 Afghan soldiers. Although the public knows how it will end, it is worth watching the filmmaker tell this story.
On September 12, 1897, Afghan soldiers attempted to capture Saragarhi, which served as a bridge between Fort Gulistan and Fort Lockhart. , with the intention of cutting off any communication between the two forts. Despite the low number of ammunition and the fact that they receive no reinforcement, the 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army led by Havildar Ishar Singh (Akshay Kumar) are fighting hard against the battle.
Kesari takes the audience to where history textbooks did not do it. , in the lives of the soldiers. If one soldier is absent from his six-month-old daughter, another has been dealing with caste-based discrimination all of her life. It's these little emotional touches – a family letter, a pair of carefully kept shoes – that mark an agreement.
At the same time, Kesari has moments of light that offer welcome relief from intense combat scenes,
Akshay Kumar is the proverbial glue that keeps his regiment and his film alive. He goes effortlessly from emotional scenes to high-intensity war sequences. Parineeti Chopra, who plays the wife of Havildar Ishar Singh, has virtually no scene to speak of.
Kesari begins with a slide explaining that, even though the film is based on real events, it is a "work of pure fiction" endowed with many creative freedoms. . This is indeed the case when the aura of Akshay Kumar's superstar takes center, to the point of pushing the voluntary suspension of disbelief to its limits.
Next image: 10,000 Afghan soldiers march towards Saragarhi, many of them flying the war drums. However, just a man playing dhol to send them in a wondering silence.
Havildar Ishar Singh also seems invincible; a bullet in the chest seen up close, a sword in the stomach and lethal wounds can not kill him.
In an already heroic tale, such excessive parades appear unauthentic and misplaced. But then, that's Akshay Kumar.
Although Kesari is in the nineteenth century, his commentary is extremely relevant at a time when religious fundamentalism is on the rise. A mullah urging Pathans to attack "infidels" in the name of religion is questioned.
"Aap kyun baar baar Allah ko beech lain hai? Use insaan ke katl aur jung se kya lena dena?" asks a tribal leader to the mullah, who admits that religion is only a weapon of instigation in troubled times. "Jung bthi hathyaron ke nahi lade jaate Aap apna hathyar istemaal karein, aur mujhe mera hthyar istemaal karne dein", replies the mullah.
Although the first half of Kesari takes his own time to build himself, Havana is the last and his men make the impossible possible worth all your time. Among the songs, it is worth highlighting the captivating interpretation of Teri Mitti by B Praak.
Kesari is the patriotic film resulting that fans of Akshay Kumar are waiting all year long. But that's a lot more than that and deserves a watch this holi.
3 out of 5 stars for Kesari.
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