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23 March 1931: Shaheed
23 March 1931: Shaheed
	DVD cover
Directed by	Guddu Dhanoa
Produced by	Dharmendra
Screenplay by	Sultanu Gupta
Dialogues by	Sanjay Masoomm
Story by	Sultanu Gupta
Starring	Bobby Deol<br/>Sunny Deol<br/>Amrita Singh<br/>Rahul Dev<br/>Vicky Ahuja<br/>Suresh Oberoi<br/>Shakti Kapoor<br/>Divya Dutta<br/>Aishwarya Rai
Music by	Songs:<br/>Anand Raaj Anand<br/>Score:<br/>Surinder Sodhi
Cinematography	Tirru
Edited by	Keshav Naidu
Production; company	Sunny Super Sound
Release date	7 June 2002;
Running time	185 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹20 crore<ref name="Budget">"23rd March 1931 Shaheed - Movie - Box Office India".</ref>
Box office	₹14.25 crore<ref name="Box Office">"23rd March 1931 Shaheed - Movie - Box Office India". Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.</ref>

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23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language biographical historical drama based on the life of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh directed by Guddu Dhanoa. It depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on 23 March 1931. The film stars Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh, his elder brother Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad, Amrita Singh as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu (Bhagat's mother) and Aishwarya Rai as Mannewali (special appearance), along with Rahul Dev, Vicky Ahuja, Vivek Shauq and Raja Bundela.

The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by Rajkumar Santoshi titled The Legend of Bhagat Singh. Both films failed at the box office.<ref>"rediff.com: Movies: Which Bhagat Singh do we choose?". rediff.com.</ref><ref>"At the movies: The Legend of Bhagat Singh". The Times of India. 8 June 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)</ref>

Plot

Photo of Singh (back row, fourth from right) in the Lahore College Drama Club (1924)

Lahore conspiracy case poster 9 October 1930

The Tribune (Lahore)'s front page headline on the 25th of March 1931: "BHAGAT SINGH, RAJGURU and SUKHDEV EXECUTED"

Set in the mid-1920s in British India, the film tells the story of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, who have only one motive in mind: freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and Others are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.

When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom." The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that India will continue to suffer, even after independence from the British, and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.

Cast

Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad
Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh
Amrita Singh as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu, Bhagat's mother.
Rahul Dev as Sukhdev Thapar
Akshay Anand as Ram Prasad Bismil
Vicky Ahuja as Shivaram Rajguru
Divya Dutta as Durgawati Devi
Aishwarya Rai as Mannewali, the girl Bhagat's family wanted him to marry. (special appearance)
Raja Bundela as Lala Lajpat Rai
Suresh Oberoi as Jailor Chaddha
Shakti Kapoor as Jail Warden Chattar Singh
Vivek Shauq as Bhagwati Charan Vohra
Samaresh Routray as Yashpal
Tej Sapru as Dilbagh Singh
Rajesh Khera as Sardar Ajit Singh, Bhagat's uncle.
Deepak Sharma as Jatindra Nath Das
Suresh Chatwal as Pandit Kishori Lal
Sachin Khedekar as Advocate Asaf Ali
Manoj Tiwari as Virbhadra Tiwari
Rana Jung Bahadur as Public Prosecutor Ashish Verma
Ranjan Koshal as Kishan Singh Sandhu, Bhagat's father.
Vivek Kumar Rawat as Batukeshwar Dutt
Imran Khan as Kartar Singh Sarabha
Raman Khatri as Ashfaqulla Khan
Sanjay Tripathi as Hans Raj Vohra
Indal Singh as Jai Gopal

Music and soundtrack

The music for the film’s songs was composed by Anand Raaj Anand with the lyrics penned by Dev Kohli. The background score was provided by Surinder Sodhi.

#	Song	Singer(s)
1	"Mera Rang De Basanti Chola"	Udit Narayan, Bhupinder Singh, Veer Rajinder
2	"Deshnu Challo"	Hans Raj Hans
3	"Jogiya Ve"	Alka Yagnik
4	"Watanparaston Ki"	Hans Raj Hans, Veer Rajinder
5	"Pagadi Sambhal"	Veer Rajinder
6	"Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna"	Bhupinder Singh, Mohammad Salamat, Vinod Rathod
7	"Aye Watan"	Veer Rajinder
8	"Khush Raho"	Veer Rajinder

Box office

The film failed to cover its budget thus underperforming at the box office, collecting only ₹14.25 crore by the end of its theatrical run.<ref name="Box Office"/>

Shubhra Gupta of Business Line attributed the film's commercial failure to its release on the same day as The Legend of Bhagat Singh, opining that "the two Bhagats ate into each other's business".<ref>Gupta, Shubhra (17 June 1998). "Problem of plenty?". Business Line. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.</ref> The producer of the film The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Ramesh Taurani, also acknowledged this as a reason for his film's failure, along with the release of another Bhagat Singh film Shaheed-E-Azam the week before.<ref>"Ramesh Taurani reveals they lost Rs 22 crore on Ajay Devgn starrer 'The Legend Of Bhagat Singh' despite the National Award: 'Company ki economy hil jaati hai'". The Times of India. 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2024.</ref>

References

External links

23rd March 1931: Shaheed on IMDb

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-| music          = '''Songs:'''<br>[[Anand Raj Anand]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/films/2002/06/23rd_march_shaheed.shtml|title=BBC - Shropshire - Movies - 23rd March 1931- Shaheed|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><br>'''Score:'''<br>[[Surinder Sodhi]]
+| starring       = [[Bobby Deol]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Sunny Deol]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Amrita Singh]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Rahul Dev]]&lt;br/&gt;Vicky Ahuja&lt;br/&gt;[[Suresh Oberoi]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Shakti Kapoor]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Divya Dutta]]&lt;br/&gt;[[Aishwarya Rai]]
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+| gross          = {{INR}}14.25 crore&lt;ref name="Box Office"&gt;{{cite web | url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=611 | title=23rd March 1931 Shaheed - Movie - Box Office India | access-date=29 November 2023 | archive-date=3 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203040357/https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=611 | url-status=live }}&lt;/ref&gt;
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-'''''23rd March 1931: Shaheed''''' is a 2002 Indian [[Hindi]] [[historical film|historical]]  [[biographical film]] about [[Bhagat Singh]], directed by [[Guddu Dhanoa]] which depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Indian [[Bhagat Singh|freedom fighter Bhagat Singh]] and his companions [[Shivaram Rajguru|Rajguru]] and [[Sukhdev]] on 23 March 1931. The film stars [[Bobby Deol]] as Bhagat Singh, his elder brother [[Sunny Deol]] as [[Chandrashekhar Azad]] and [[Amrita Singh]] in her comeback role as Bhagat Singh's mother.
-The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by [[Rajkumar Santoshi]] and titled ''[[The Legend of Bhagat Singh]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2002/may/03bhag.htm|title=rediff.com: Movies: Which Bhagat Singh do we choose?|website=rediff.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/At-the-movies-The-Legend-of-Bhagat-Singh/articleshow/12303758.cms|title=At the movies: The Legend of Bhagat Singh |website=The Times of India}}</ref>
+'''''23rd March 1931: Shaheed''''' is a 2002 Indian [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]]-language [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[historical drama]] based on the life of Indian revolutionary [[Bhagat Singh]] directed by [[Guddu Dhanoa]]. It depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions [[Shivaram Rajguru]] and [[Sukhdev Thapar]] on 23 March 1931. The film stars [[Bobby Deol]] as [[Bhagat Singh]], his elder brother [[Sunny Deol]] as [[Chandra Shekhar Azad]], [[Amrita Singh]] as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu (Bhagat's mother) and [[Aishwarya Rai Bachchan|Aishwarya Rai]] as Mannewali ({{small|special appearance}}), along with [[Rahul Dev]], Vicky Ahuja, [[Vivek Shauq]] and [[Raja Bundela]].
+The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by [[Rajkumar Santoshi]] titled ''[[The Legend of Bhagat Singh]]''. Both films failed at the box office.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2002/may/03bhag.htm|title=rediff.com: Movies: Which Bhagat Singh do we choose?|website=rediff.com}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/At-the-movies-The-Legend-of-Bhagat-Singh/articleshow/12303758.cms|title=At the movies: The Legend of Bhagat Singh|website=The Times of India|date=8 June 2002|archive-date=18 March 2018|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180318081925/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/at-the-movies-the-legend-of-bhagat-singh/articleshow/12303758.cms|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;
 ==Plot==
-Set in the mid-1920s, [[British India]], the film tells the story of freedom fighters [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Chandrashekhar Azad]] who have only one motive in mind: Freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor [[Lala Lajpat Rai]] is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and [[Shivaram Rajguru|Rajguru]] are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.
+[[File:Bhagat Singh 1929.jpg|thumb|Bhagat Singh (1929)]][[File:Bhagat-singh-dramatics-club.jpg|thumb|Photo of Singh (back row, fourth from right) in the Lahore College Drama Club (1924)]][[File:Bhagat Singh in jail,1927.jpg|thumb|Singh's photo during his first arrest]][[File:Lahore conspiracy case poster 9th Oct 193o jindal sunam 12x9 copy.jpg|thumb|Lahore conspiracy case poster 9 October 1930]][[File:Bhagat Singh's execution Lahore Tribune Front page.jpg|thumb|[[The Tribune (India)|The Tribune (Lahore)]]'s front page headline on the 25th of March 1931: "BHAGAT SINGH, RAJGURU and SUKHDEV EXECUTED"]]
-When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom". The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it that their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that [[India]] will continue to suffer, even after independence from the [[United Kingdom|British]], and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.
+Set in the mid-1920s in [[British Raj|British India]], the film tells the story of freedom fighters [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Chandrashekhar Azad]], who have only one motive in mind: freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor [[Lala Lajpat Rai]] is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and Others are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.
+When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom." The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that [[British Raj|India]] will continue to suffer, even after independence from the [[British Raj|British]], and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.
 ==Cast==
-*[[Sunny Deol]] as [[Chandrashekhar Azad]]
+*[[Sunny Deol]] as [[Chandra Shekhar Azad]]
 *[[Bobby Deol]] as [[Bhagat Singh]]
-*[[Amrita Singh]] as Vidyavati Kaur
+*[[Amrita Singh]] as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu, Bhagat's mother.
-*Ranjan Koshal as Kishan Singh<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020607/art-trib.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Arts Tribune|website=m.tribuneindia.com}}</ref>
+*[[Rahul Dev]] as [[Sukhdev Thapar]]
-*[[Rahul Dev]] as [[Sukhdev]]
+*[[Akshay Anand]] as [[Ram Prasad Bismil]]
-*Vicky Ahuja as [[Shivaram Rajguru|Rajguru]]
+*Vicky Ahuja as [[Shivaram Rajguru]]
-*[[Divya Dutta]] as [[Durgawati Devi|Durga Bhabhi]]
+*[[Divya Dutta]] as [[Durgawati Devi]]
+*[[Aishwarya Rai]] as Mannewali, the girl Bhagat's family wanted him to marry. (special appearance)
+*[[Raja Bundela]] as [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]
+*[[Suresh Oberoi]] as Jailor Chaddha
+*[[Shakti Kapoor]] as Jail Warden Chattar Singh
 *[[Vivek Shauq]] as [[Bhagwati Charan Vohra]]
-*[[Sachin Khedekar]] as [[Asaf Ali|Advocate Asaf Ali]]
+*[[Samaresh Routray]] as [[Yashpal]]
+*[[Tej Sapru]] as Dilbagh Singh
+*[[Rajesh Khera]] as Sardar Ajit Singh,  Bhagat's uncle.
+*Deepak Sharma as [[Jatindra Nath Das]]
+*[[Suresh Chatwal]] as [[Pandit Kishori Lal]]
+*[[Sachin Khedekar]] as Advocate [[Asaf Ali]]
+*[[Manoj Tiwari (Delhi politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] as [[Virbhadra Tiwari]]
+*Rana Jung Bahadur as [[Prosecutor|Public Prosecutor]] Ashish Verma
+*Ranjan Koshal as Kishan Singh Sandhu, Bhagat's father.
 *Vivek Kumar Rawat as [[Batukeshwar Dutt]]
-*[[Suresh Oberoi]] as [[Jailor]] Chaddha
-*[[Shakti Kapoor]] as Chattar Singh
-*[[Raja Bundela]] as [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]
-*[[Akshay Anand]] as [[Ram Prasad Bismil]]
-*[[Suresh Chatwal]] as [[Kishori Lal]]
 *Imran Khan as [[Kartar Singh Sarabha]]
-*Deepak Sharma as [[Jatindra Nath Das]]
+*[[Raman Khatri]] as [[Ashfaqulla Khan]]
 *Sanjay Tripathi as [[Hans Raj Vohra]]
-*Raman Khatri as [[Ashfaqulla Khan]]
+*Indal Singh as [[Jai Gopal]]
-*Rana Jung Bahadur as [[Lawyer]]
-*[[Tej Sapru]] as Dilbagh Singh
-*Indal Singh as Jaigopal
-*[[Samaresh Routray]] as [[Yashpal]]
-*[[Rajesh Khera]] as [[Sardar Ajit Singh]]
-*[[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] as Veerbhadra Tiwari
-*[[Aishwariya Rai]] as Mannewali (special appearance in song "Jogiya Ve")
-==Soundtrack==
+==Music and soundtrack==
+The music for the film’s songs was composed by [[Anand Raaj Anand]] with the lyrics penned by [[Dev Kohli]]. The background score was provided by [[Surinder Sodhi]].
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 | "Khush Raho"
 | Veer Rajinder
-|-
 |}
+==Box office==
+The film failed to cover its budget thus underperforming at the box office, collecting only ₹14.25 crore by the end of its theatrical run.&lt;ref name="Box Office"/&gt;
+[[Shubhra Gupta]] of ''[[Business Line]]'' attributed the film's commercial failure to its release on the same day as ''The Legend of Bhagat Singh'', opining that "the two Bhagats ate into each other's business".&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite news |last=Gupta |first=Shubhra |date=17 June 1998 |title=Problem of plenty? |work=[[Business Line]] |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2002/06/17/stories/2002061700120200.htm |url-status=live |access-date=20 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320090832/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2002/06/17/stories/2002061700120200.htm |archive-date=20 March 2018}}&lt;/ref&gt; The producer of the film ''The Legend of Bhagat Singh'', Ramesh Taurani, also acknowledged this as a reason for his film's failure, along with the release of another Bhagat Singh film ''[[Shaheed-E-Azam]]'' the week before.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Ramesh Taurani reveals they lost Rs 22 crore on Ajay Devgn starrer 'The Legend Of Bhagat Singh' despite the National Award: 'Company ki economy hil jaati hai' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/ramesh-taurani-reveals-they-lost-rs-22-crore-on-ajay-devgn-starrer-the-legend-of-bhagat-singh-despite-the-national-award-company-ki-economy-hil-jaati-hai/articleshow/111808769.cms |website=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=21 July 2024 |date=18 July 2024 |archive-date=21 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721052806/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/ramesh-taurani-reveals-they-lost-rs-22-crore-on-ajay-devgn-starrer-the-legend-of-bhagat-singh-despite-the-national-award-company-ki-economy-hil-jaati-hai/articleshow/111808769.cms |url-status=live }}&lt;/ref&gt;
+==See also==
+{{Portal|Bollywood}}
+'''Other films based on [[Bhagat Singh]]''':
+* [[Shaheed (1965 film)|''Shaheed'']] - 1965 Indian film directed by S. Ram Sharma
+* ''[[The Legend of Bhagat Singh]]'' - 2002 Indian film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
+* [[Shaheed-E-Azam]] - 2002 Indian film directed by Sukumar Nair
+'''Other films based on Indian Independence Movement''':
+* ''[[Sardar Udham]]'' - 2021 Indian film directed by Shoojit Sircar – based on the life of [[Udham Singh]]
 ==References==
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-[[Category:Indian films]]
 [[Category:2002 films]]
 [[Category:Films about Bhagat Singh]]
 [[Category:Films set in 1931]]
 [[Category:Indian historical action films]]
-[[Category:2000s Hindi-language films]]
+[[Category:2002 Hindi-language films]]
+[[Category:Hindustani-language films]]&lt;!--Colloquial language used in the film--&gt;
 [[Category:Films scored by Anand Raj Anand]]
 [[Category:Vijayta Films films]]
-[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
 [[Category:Films scored by Surinder Sodhi]]
 [[Category:Films set in the British Raj]]
 [[Category:Films set in Lahore]]
 [[Category:2000s historical films]]