Sardar Udham

An assassination which shook the British Empire

Directed by Shoojit Sircar

Produced by Kino Works, Rising Sun Films

A historically grounded, emotionally austere portrait of a revolutionary consumed by trauma and the need for vengeance across two decades.

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.