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The Legend of Bhagat Singh (Patriotic movies ,2002)  Starring
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Synopsis
Raj Kumar Santoshi’s next film “The legend of Bhagat Singh” takes one through the remarkable and extraordinary life of the famous
freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh (played by Ajay Devgan).
As a boy Bhagat Singh was deeply moved by the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar. Seeing the dead bodies of his countrymen, Bhagat
Singh vowed to fight against the British aggression at the tender age of twelve.
At first he participated in Mahatma Gandhi’s 1921 Non-cooperation movement. But soon he was disillusioned with the non-violent
movement, as it was not effective against the British hegemony. A turning point in his life came with an abrasive meeting with
Chandrashekhar Azad (Akhilendra Mishra).
As a result Bhagat Singh left his home, his loving mother (Farida Jalal) and his beloved (Amrita Rao) to join Azad’s revolutionary
party. He responded aggressively to the death of Lala Lajpat Rai owing to the brutal lathi-charge by the British. Ironically, this act
brought him more criticism than praise from his own countrymen.
As a final revolt against the British, Bhagat Singh, along with his compatriots Sukhdev (Sushant Singh) and Rajguru (Santosh), planned
and successfully executed a bomb explosion in the National Assembly. Consequently, the three were arrested, put behind the bars and
sentenced to death by the British.
An imprisoned and tortured Bhagat Singh showed remarkable fortitude and heroism in the prison too. And finally on 23rd March 1923,
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged, their bodies smuggled out of the prison secretly and buried somewhere in the dead of
the night.
The event made Bhagat Singh a legend among the Indian freedom fighters.
Review
The story of Bhagat Singh has been presented on celluloid before too, but what makes Santoshi’s film special is the way the martyr’s
life is depicted on the big screen.
The film begins with the scene in which three bodies (of Bahagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru) are being secretly taken out of the
prison. The movie then goes in flashback and relates the chronology of events that led to Bhagat Singh’s transition from a callow
youth to the legendary freedom fighter. The story concludes with his martyrdom.
“The legend of Bhagat Singh” relate the events in Bhagat Singh’s life with simplicity without taking cinematic liberty and distorting
the facts. It shows Bhagat Singh as a man who stood against any aggression.
Santoshi convincingly creates the pre-independence ambience by capturing the minutest detail on the camera. Particularly moving are
the sequences of Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the courtroom scenes (after Bhagat Singh is arrested) in the second half.
Bhagat Singh’s courtroom dialogues show that he was not just an ordinary freedom fighter but a well-educated man, who had a fluent
command over English.
The climax of the film is quite emotional and even brings tears to the viewer’s eye.