INTERVIEW | ‘Nationalism has to be rational’: Shoojit Sircar
Published : Aug 31, 2023 19:08 IST - 9 MINS READ Shoojit Sircar’s period piece, Sardar Udham, bagged five awards at the 69th National Film Awards: Best Hindi Film, Best Cinematography, Best Audiography, Best Costume Designer, and Best Production Design. In an exclusive interview with Frontline, he spoke of the making of Sardar Udham and why he chose to make a film on the revolutionary known for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in London. Highlights Shoojit Sircar talks about how he came to make a film on Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab under whose rule the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in Amritsar on April 13, 1919. Sircar explains why the film had to be a slow-burn period piece and why Udham Singh, transformed as he was by the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, had to be characterised as a solitary, brooding figure.
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