Kesari Chapter 2 is more than a film. It's a history chapter that must be watched, remembered and rewritten forever... Watch the full video to know 9 such reasons which would in turn make you catch the movie this Baisakhi, the same day when Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place back in 1919.
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00:009 Reasons Why Every Indian Should Watch Kesari Chapter 2
00:06The first, My Blood Boils Karan Johar's livid comment on Caroline
00:13Dyer's condemnable observation that the victims of the Jallianwala Bagh genocide were looters
00:19and rioters sums it up.
00:21It sums up how every Indian should be reacting to the horrific truth about a pre-planned,
00:26hate-fuelled act of butchery on Baisakhi on 13 April 1919.
00:32Caroline's great-grandfather General Reginald Dyer was the butcher of Amritsar who had orchestrated
00:38a genocide that killed more than 1,000 Indians and injured over 2,000.
00:44The official figures of the dead put out by the British at that time was a paltry 379.
00:51Reason No. 2 Every Baisakhi should be a reminder of how
00:55a festive gathering turned into a bloody massacre.
00:58In a planned conspiracy, Dyer had hemmed in the families of Indians gathered at Jallianwala
01:04Bagh, trained his machine guns on them and with no warning at all had given the order
01:09to fire on innocent men, women and children until he ran out of ammunition.
01:15106 years is a very long time to unmask the truth about what really happened in 1919.
01:22Reason No. 3 It's often said that history will be written by the hunter until the lion learns
01:29to write. Britain was the hunter who wrote our history. But the lion has learned to write
01:34and to make movies too. We don't always endorse all the movies that Karan Johar or Akshay Kumar make.
01:41But when they embark on a mission to stir the conscience of our nation, open our eyes to facts
01:46hidden thus far about our own people, our own history, it's time to say, guys, we're with you.
01:53Reason No. 4 Akshay Kumar may have had more setbacks at the box office than he can count on his fingers.
02:00But when he grabs your attention with one of his most passionate performances to tell the untold and
02:06real story of Indian lawyer C. Sankaran Nair's legal battle against the British Empire at a time when
02:13we were still under its mighty rule, the lion must have its roar.
02:18Reason No. 5 Ananya Pandey, the youngest in the lead cast of K3 Chapter 2, has said that
02:24doing this film and understanding the depth of the untold tragedy has changed her life forever.
02:31A genocide that caught an incomplete mention in our history books.
02:35After ditzy films like Student of the Year and Call Me Bay, K3 Chapter 2 is Ananya's first step
02:41forward as an actress in a period film. Playing the substantial role of a young lawyer with a
02:47conscience has changed Ananya's life. Watching the film should change our lives too.
02:54Reason No. 6 Urinal Humor is a brand of humor attributed to
02:59Winston Churchill, who one day met Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the cloakroom of the House of
03:04Commons. When Churchill stood far away from Attlee, the latter remarked,
03:09Stand offish, are we today, Winston? To this came Churchill's quick-witted repartee,
03:14Yes, every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.
03:19That urinal humor can be seen even in the trailer of K3 2, where Akshay Kumar,
03:24playing lawyer Sankaran Nayar, is told off that the cloakroom is only for the empire.
03:29Nayar sneers down at the Brit and says pithily, the empire is shrinking.
03:34It's a Siti Maro moment for Indians. The empire has shrunk since 1919.
03:40Reason No. 7 One month ago, filmmaker Ram Madhwani had released his limited series,
03:48The Waking of a Nation, on Sony Live, on the same subject of an Indian lawyer who had fought the
03:53British Empire to bring to the fore the truth about the Jallianwala Bagh conspiracy and genocide.
03:59To this, Karan Johar remarked that, irrespective of the format, film, documentary, web series,
04:05whatever. He welcomed whatever it takes to awaken the nation. Let's tell the untold story as many
04:12times as it needs to be told to embed it in our records.
04:17Reason No. 8 Watching K3 2 is not just to applaud Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar and director Karan
04:23Singh Tyagi for writing the untold story of an unsung hero on celluloid. It's also to support the
04:30unveiling of a planned genocide that was hidden from the world for far too long.
04:36Reason No. 9 Is it only about demanding an apology from the British?
04:41To be fair, six years ago, on the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre,
04:47Prime Minister Theresa May had not just expressed her deep regret, but had also called it a shameful
04:53scar on British Indian history, a distressing example of our past history with India.
04:58So, it's not just about an apology, but about recording a truth and correcting our history, forever.