Kesari

"The bravest battle ever fought."

2019 2h 31m HI

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In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down.

“The bravest battle ever fought.”

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Cast

Akshay Kumar
Havildar Ishar Singh
Parineeti Chopra
Jeevani Kaur
Mir Sarwar
Khan Masud
Ashwath Bhatt
Gul Badshah Khan
'Om' Rakesh Chaturvedi
Saidullah
Suvinder Vicky
Naik Lal Singh
Vivek Saini
Jiwan Singh
Vansh Bhardwaj
Lance Naik Chanda Singh

Credits

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Director: Anurag Singh
Writers: Girish Kohli, Anurag Singh, Anurag Singh
Languages: Hindi, Punjabi
Countries: India

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 151 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Hindi, Punjabi.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Kesari Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Anurag Singh, shot by Anshul Chobey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jasbir Jassi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Manish More shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra and Mir Sarwar carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Anurag Singh directs. Anshul Chobey behind the camera. Jasbir Jassi scores. Manish More cuts. Produced in India. Dialogue in Hindi, Punjabi.

Trivia

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1Clocks in at 151 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Released 7 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Hindi, Punjabi.
4Part of the "Kesari Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Anurag Singh, shot by Anshul Chobey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Jasbir Jassi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Manish More shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra and Mir Sarwar carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The bravest battle ever fought.".
10IMDB entry: tt6264938 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Anshul Chobey
Original score: Jasbir Jassi
Editing: Manish More
Costume design: Sheetal Sharma
VFX supervisor: Akhilesh Jain
Sound: Parikshit Lalwani
Stunt coordinator: Parvez Shaikh
Runtime: 151 min · 2h 31m
Status: Released
Original language: HI
Certification (US): 15
IMDB: Kesari (2019)

Part of

Kesari Collection

A Sikh havildar and his soldiers put their lives on the line to protect Saragarhi from the Afghans. The battle goes down in history as a shining example of their valour.

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Anurag Singh

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Bhargavi Chandrashekar2019-12-10
★ 6/10
The souls of all those communities associated with it, always lies beneath the saffron. For the eyes, mind and heart, there is nothing more beautiful, more soothing and more soul stirring than the color Saffron. Just the glimpses of saffron color instantly pump that courage, valor, bravery and Divinity within. The saffron plays a very important part in our lives. We live for it, we defend it and we sacrifice for it. Kesari: The Saragarhi battle is one of the most remarkable and powerful chapters in the history of Bharat under British rule; which knowingly and royally ignored to communicate to the people of Bharat and for the obvious reason, yes you guessed it right. The Saragarhi battle was fought between 21 Sikhs and 10,000 Afghans at Saragarhi fort and this full blown battle lasted until the sunset and while defending their fort; the brave 21 Sikhs fought tooth and nail till their last breathe, but made sure a good number of Afghan-Jihads were buried in the debris of their own, in unrecognizable conditions. Akshay Kumar, is walking on a different planet these days, when all his contemporaries are falling one after the other by doing the routine, mundane films; he rediscovers himself for every 4th month and charts into different terrain only to scale the victorious peaks. This is his career best performance and for a change he gleefully glides into a slim Sikh role (could notice while doing a boomerang-bending kind stunts while attacking Jihadis with his visibly saffron-hot sword). All the other performances were on DOT. The story takes its time to build in the first half with necessary Sikh-comedy, typical Bollywood secularism, but it’s the second hour where the full blown action occupies all the frames. The cinematography is top notch and cynosure to the eyes, music is equally and emotionally-effective; while the BGM provokes the audience while setting up the war frames. The air within Bollywood is blowing in a different direction as these days the films are being made on the right concept and true heroes which is a welcome change. The Nationalists are lapping up such films wholeheartedly.

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