KESARI 2019

          KESARI   2019

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ABOUT THE MOVIE

Kesari depicts events leading to the Battle of Saragarhi, a battle between the British Indian Army and Pashtun tribesmen. During the battle that was fought in the region that today lies in the northern part of Pakistan and Afghanistan, 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikhs of the British Indian Army held off 6,000–10,000^[a] Afridi and Orakzai tribesmen in a heroic last stand.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh had built the Sikh empire in North and North West India. His empire borders with Afghanistan. He had built many forts along the afghan border for the safety of the kingdom. The Sikh forces kept the Afghans at check. The British when took over India they deployed Sikh Troops in the Afghan borders as Sikhs are the only force capable of defeating the Afghans.

Havaldar Ishar Singh is part of a Sikh Regiment of British Indian Army posted at Gulistan fort along the Indian Afghan border. His immediate superior British officer is jealous of him because of Ishar Singh's superior fighting skills. The British officer thinks low about the native Indians thinking them cowards. While just returning from a border patrol, the troop sees a group of Afghan tribesmen are trying to kill a married Afghani woman. The woman was forcefully married and she is not acknowledging her marriage. She wanted to run away from her husband's household and got caught in that process. The tribesmen led by a Mullah named Saidullah is about to kill the woman in the Afghan Territory where as the Sikh troop was watching this just across the Indian border. Ishar Singh saves the woman by killing her husband thereby disobeying his immediate superior British officer.

Once the troop reaches the base fort, the British officer reports Ishar Singh's disobedience to his Commanding Officer who sits at nearby Lokhart fort. The Commanding Officer was on his way to Gulistan fort. The Afghans attack Gulistan fort and Ishar Singh fought valiantly killing many Afghans. The joint attack by the troops available in Gulistan fort and the troops of the Commanding Officer(who was on his way to Gulistan fort) made the afghans flee.

Ishar Singh is punished and is transfer to Saragarhi Fort. Saragarhi fort sits between Gulistan and Lackhort fort and enables communication between them. When Ishar Singh's transfer orders were issued his officer humiliates him telling the Indians are cowards and they are slaves to the British. Ishar Singh moves towards Saragarhi fort. The Afghani woman he had rescued earlier gives him sweet as a token of gratitude. Ishar Singh fondly remembers his wife on his way to Saragarhi. As Ishar Singh reaches the Sargarhi Fort to take charge, he found the troop to be in mess and loose. He enforces discipline in the troop and strengthened them. The troop respectes Ishar Singh. The troop has Gurmukh Singh who knew English. Naik Lal Singh was Ishar Singh's second in command. Khuda Daad is a pathan who works as the fort cook and orderly. Meanwhile, the Mullah who was trying to mob lynch the woman formed an alliance among the afghan tribes and motivates them to attack on the Indian Territories as an unified force.

Meanwhile, Ishar Singh and Lal Singh went to a nearby village in search of their informer. They came to know that the youth from the village had enlisted for war. The village is left with kids, old men and women. The villagers are struggling to repair the village mosque.Ishar Singh motivates his men to help the villagers build the mosque. The Sikhs were initially reluctant. But then they realised that the foundation of one Gurdwara was laid by a Muslim Saint. That information changed their heart. Ishar Singh and his men help the villagers with it and won the heart of the villagers. One Sikh sepoy (who is untouchable by Indian Society) was touched by the fact that one afghan village woman had gave him one almond and shown her love.

The British Commanding Officer from Lockhart fort saw the Afghan Forces marching towards Sargarhi Fort they then alert the Sargarhi Fort about the same. Ishar Singh and his men received the message and saw thousands of tribesmen encircling Sargarhi Fort. They have also alerted the Gulistan Fort. The tribesmen were around ten thousand. They cut all routes of re-enforcement to Sargarhi Fort. The Mullah kills the woman whom Ishar Singh had rescued earlier infront of the Sargarhi Fort. The Commanding Officer sent a message to the Sikh Troops to abandon the fort and flee. The Sikhs laughed listening the order of fleeing. One of the lance Naik Chanda Singh doubted the leadership capabilities of Ishar Singh. Ishar Singh wore his personal saffron turban(which was not a part of his uniform) and motivated the force to fight the Afghans in the name of Pride, Religion and Country(Free India), not because they are employed as sepoys in the British Indian Army. Saffron means kesari in Hindustani.

The Afghans were playing their drums. Ishar Singh started playing his own drum. The afghans got demotivated and stopped playing their own. Ishar Singh then aimed at the afghans. One Afgan leader assured the Mullah that the gun is out of range and it would not reach the distance where the Afgans are standing. When Ishar Singh fired it hit one of the afgan soldier and he died. The Sikhs got astonished as the bullet was not supposed to cover such a long distance. Ishar Singh explains that the air is moving from their side to the Afgans. So due to the air flow the bullet was bound to hit the tribesman.

Ishar Singh deployed his force in position. Gurmukh Singh says the Commanding Officer has ordered them to fight, then why did Ishar Singh tell that the order was to flee. Ishar Singh says that the British considered the Indians as slaves. But the Sikhs denied the order to flee and choose to fight till death against a numerically far superior enemy by their free will and not because they are getting paid by British. Khuda Daad volunteered to fight. But Ishar Singh told him to provide water to all soldiers, both Sikhs and Afghans when they are thirsty and it would be the greatest service on the theater of war.

The attack started by the Afghans. Bhagwan singh is the first to get Martyred. Gurmukh Singh was an in-experienced soldier. He was unable to fight. So Ishar Singh asked him to keep on informing the CO about the battle condition. The information received that a British division would arrive by next day. So Ishar Singh decided to prolong the battle so that Afghans couldn't advance and Gulistan and Lockhart forts would survive. The war is stopped for a brief period where Afghani Chieftains and Ishar singh have a word about the war. Meanwhile, after the dialogue Ishar singh releases 2 Afghani attackers caught by Sikhs who secretly tries to explode fort by Grenades. A huge explosion takes place as the 2 attackers were themselves attached by grenades. Ishar Singh also kills the marksman by attaching his monocular into his gun and thereby exactly targeting the marksman who was hiding in between two big rocks. Few Pathans started attacking the Fort door Sikhs replies them with bullets but soon to combat Hand to hand with Afghanis. They attacked the pathans with bayonets and Indian club. Scared Afghanis run away. As Sikhs carrying injured inside fort afghans shoots them. Lal Singh alone fights with them outside the fort and asked one of the sepoy to close the fort door. Meanwhile, the pathans managed to destroy the back wall of the fort by using explosives. Only 3 Sikha remains. Ishar Singh asked Gurmukh to send message to his old superior who had humiliated him with expletives. Gurmukh Singh messaged the same expletives to the British officer. Ishar Singh removes his stripes from his uniform. Takes out a sword from the fire. He remembered his wife. The Afghanis enters the fort, a Afghani comes forward to attack Ishar singh when Ishar Singh kills him and lifts him in air seeing this other Afghani scared to hell stops marching ahead. Impressed with Ishar singh's bravery Khan Masud says Waah. Then a decisive battle takes place between Ishar Singh and afghans. When Ishar Singh was about to kill one afghan, he found him to be a kid and stopped for second to spare him. Taking advantage of this moment, an Afghan soldier shoots Ishar Singh . Ishar Singh keeps on fighting. He gets injured by multiple attack and finally the kid who was spared by Ishar singh kills him. Khuda Daad was providing drinking water to the dying afghans. The mullah kills him.The Mulla tries to remove Ishar singh's pagadi just then Ishar singh grabs his collar and pierce a pin in his neck killing Mulla instantly. The Afgan chieftain impressed by Ishar Singh's bravery warns his men not to touch any Sikh's Pagadi and asked what his name and says that he will always remember him. Chanda Singh also got killed in the process of killing many enemies. The afghans realised that their plan to take all the three forts by evening have failed. They could not advance any more. They need to go back. One afghan chief Gul Badshah couldn't digest his defeat. He wanted Gurmukh Singh to be burnt inside the signalling post. Gurmukh Singh had written the name of all martyred including his name in the fort wall with coal. He shoots few afgans. The afghans set the post on fire. Gurmukh Singh comes out of his post with his body on fire. He chants Bole so nihaal sat shri akal thrice and grabs Gul Badshah and takes grenade attached to his body and a huge explosion takes place. The shout reached nearby both forts. The Sikh soldiers present there also started shouting in the name of their Guru.

All the 21 Soldiers of 36 Sikh Regiment died in the battle of Sargarhi. The British Parliament honoured the martyrs with a silence of two minutes. Ishar Singh was awarded Victoria Cross - the highest battle honour in the British Empire. Battle of Saragarhi will always be remembered as one of the greatest and the bravest Last stands in military history.