It's great news for entertainment lovers as Karan Johar announced a new film today, October 18. The filmmaker shared that he produced the upcoming untitled film and directed it by Karan Singh Tyagi. It features Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan, and Ananya Panday and will be released on March 14, 2025. The movie will focus on Sankaran Nair's legendary courtroom battle with the British Raj to find the truth about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

Details about Karan Johar-produced upcoming film

A while ago, Karan Johar shared a picture in which all the details of his upcoming film are mentioned except the name of the film.

The texts of the picture read, "The untitled film on 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 film is inspired from real life events & adapted from the book "The Case That Shook The Empire" written by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat." 

Have a look:

While sharing it, he captioned it, "Starring Akshay Kumar, R. Madhavan & Ananya Panday - this untitled film is releasing in cinemas on 14th March, 2025. Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi." 

About C Sankaran Nair

This book,The Case That Shook the Empire: One Man’s Fight for the Truth about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat is about a defamation case filed by Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab during Jallianwala Bagh, against Chettur Sankaran Nair, a former Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council. 

The trial continued for five-and-a-half weeks in London. The judge was a racist who saw nothing wrong in Jallianwala Bagh, and the jury agreed with him.

For the unversed, C. Sankaran Nair was a prominent Indian lawyer, politician, and reformer who played a key role in India's freedom struggle. He resigned in protest after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 and this led to the British repealing martial law and press curbs in Punjab, and the appointment of the Hunter Commission. 

In 2021, filmmaker Karan Johar announced that he would be producing a movie inspired by Nair’s life and the infamous court case he fought against Michael Francis O’Dwyer, then Lt governor of Punjab and considered among the key planners of the attack.

The movie, to be directed by Karan Singh Tyagi, will follow the legendary courtroom battle that Sankaran Nair fought against the British Raj to uncover the truth about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In a statement, the makers also mentioned that Sankaran Nair's bravery ignited the freedom struggle across the country and is a testament to the strength of fighting for truth.

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