Chetan Bhagat shares his experience after watching Kesari Chapter 2
Chetan Bhagat shares his experience after watching Kesari Chapter 2
Hindi Cinema’s popular writer Chetan Bhagat recently shared his experience and his thoughts after watching Akshay Kumar’s “Kesari Chapter 2”.
Akshay Kumar’s recently launched movie which created an impact. “Kesari Chapter 2” isn’t merely a movie it’s a deep delve into the history.
As per Chetan, even as the original “Kesari” focused on bravery on the battlefield, this sequel delves into a deeper, darker wound of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 and doesn’t just show the event. It demands a long overdue apology.
The film fictionalised central elements, however, in the depth of it the fact that over a thousand Indians were gunned down by British troops in cold blood, but the pain doesn’t just end with that it lingers generation after generation.
Taking to his “X” the writer asked one question in particular, and that is, while Britain has expressed “regret,” regret isn’t the same as an apology. So where is the “Sorry” which we all deserve?
What the movie does exceptionally well is uncover the cover ups, the colonial rule which painted the victims as threats and the movie unmasked them all. But watching this film, you can’t ignore the echoing absence of one word “Sorry”.
Still hiding behind its glorious imperial myths.
“Kesari Chapter 2” doesn’t just reopen a wound it demands a healing.
A formal apology can’t undo the past. But it can honour the truth. History was scripted But the refusal to say sorry? That’s still happening now.
News Edit KV Raman
