Bollywood fans were treated to a delightful news on Friday when Karan Johar’s Dharma Production announced their upcoming project on acclaimed lawyer C Sankaran Nair. The courtroom drama will feature a star-studded cast, including Akshay Kumar, R. Madhavan, and Ananya Panday and is scheduled to be released across cinemas on March 14, 2025.
The film will uncover the powerful and untold story of Nair who fought a legal battle against the British empire in the 1920s.
The film is based on the book "The Case That Shook the Empire" by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.
he untitled movie is being made by Dharma Production in collaboration with Kumar's Cape of Good Films and Leo Media Collective.
The film will mark the directorial debut of writer Karan Singh Tyagi.
Taking to social media, Dharma Productions wrote, "An unknown story an unheard truth. Starring Akshay Kumar, R. Madhavan & Ananya Panday - this untitled film is releasing in cinemas on 14th March, 2025. Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi.”
According to the makers, the film revolves around the "shocking cover-up of a massacre that pushed India's top barrister C Sankaran Nair to fight an unprecedented battle against the British Empire".
"The Case That Shook the Empire" was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury India and explored the 1924 defamation trial in which Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and the architect of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, sued Nair.
Nair had criticised British atrocities in Punjab in his book, leading to the widely reported trial that exposed the brutalities of British rule in India.
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