SYNOPSIS:
175 minutes/Color/Dolby Digital 5.1/NTSC Format/Single Sided (with English Subtitles)
Director Chitraarth
Music Sukhshinder Shinda
Producer Iqbal Dhillon
Starring Raj Babbar, Juhi Chawla, Gurdas Mann
July the 31st, 1940, Uddham Singh Alias Ram Mohammad Singh Azaad was executed in Pentonville prison, London at 9.00A.M. He had been charged with the murder of Sir Michael O Dwyer, who was the Lt. Governor of Punjab at the time of the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre and also the man behind the conspiracy which was hatched to teach a lesson to the revolting Indians. December 26, 1899, In a small town Sunam in the erstwhile Patiala state a boy is born to BiBi Harnam Kaur and Sardar Tehal Singh. Little did the poor duo know that the second son of theirs shall drag their names from the darkness and anonymity and write them in the annals of history. Ude Singh would have remained another no entity if it were not for the event of the April 13, 1919. On this bloody Baisakhi day he was one of the several volunteers who were serving water to the thirty thousands who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh next to the revered Golden Temple in Amritsar. Ude Singh was now a politically conscious man but the path that he wanted to lead to achieve India's freedom still alluded him. But not for long. He accepted the thinking and methodology of the Ghadar Party. After his arrival in India in 1927 he was arrested for illegal possession of arms and jailed for five years. In jail, Ude Singh did not take things lying down. He fought for better facilitiesand prison reforms. Unfortunately, he was still in prison when his close friend and Idol Bhagat Singh was arrested and hanged. After his release from jail. Ude managed to get the police off his back, got a passport in the name of Uddham Singh and went to England to write the last and most glorious chapter of his life.
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