Sardar Udham—director Shoojit Sircar’s new film starring Vicky Kaushal as the revolutionary freedom fighter—is an indescribable epic that alternates between a spy thriller and a quiet character study, but has the scope of The Revenant and Lawrence of Arabia.
We discuss the film’s unique time-hopping structure, and the incredible final act, in which Sircar dramatises the Jallianwala Bagh massacre with uncompromising clarity.
We also talk about Sardar Udham’s sustained tone of dread, its dissection of British India and relevance to contemporary India, and the anger that courses through its veins.
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