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Kesari 2.0: The Lion Who Shook an Empire: A Celebration of CS Nair
Apr 21, 2025 05:30 pm
By
infodivyadelhi

Divya Delhi:   When I went to see Kesari 2.0 in my local theater, I sobbed. They claim men don't cry. This film is a flaming flame that destroys the hush around the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and revives Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, a nationalist barrister virtually obliterated by the Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra dynasty and its Marxist historian lapdogs. Kesari 2.0's soul-stirring performances by Akshay Kumar and R Madhavan urge a posthumous Bharat Ratna for Nair and a monument to Jallianwala's martyrs. Rewind to Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919. Baisakhi brings together thousands of men, women, and children, some opposing the Rowlatt Act. General Reginald Dyer, a British sociopath, shut the only exit and fired 1,650 shots in ten horrific minutes. Over 1,000 died, soaking the ground, and thousands were wounded. The British, masters of deception, estimated 379 deaths—as despicable as the act. 77 years after Independence, this slaughter festers silently. Congress seldom mentioned itself throughout decades of reign. British? Unapologetic. Their "regret" is a farce without redemption. As C.S. Nair, Akshay Kumar explodes this apathy in Kesari 2.0. Keralite lawyer Nair, knighted by the British, was the sole Indian on the Viceroy's Executive Council and a former Congress president. Jallianwala's terror prompted his resignation, shocking colonial society. Gandhi and Anarchy, his book, accused Punjab Lieutenant Governor Michael O'Dwyer of participation, precipitating a London King's Bench defamation trial. Nair's five-and-a-half-week trial against a hostile English jury and judge exposed British brutality worldwide. Kumar's portrayal of Nair is fueled by indignation and righteous grief.