Kesari Chapter 2 trailer review: An Akshay Kumar spectacle that explores the intense legal battle post Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Kesari Chapter 2 presents the legal battle between Sankaran Nair and the British crown after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that claimed the lives of over a thousand innocent people in 1919. 

Dharma Productions unveiled the trailer of Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday, and R Madhavan’s much-awaited period courtroom drama - Kesari Chapter 2 which documents the legal battle that unfolded after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919. Akshay portrays lawyer Sankaran Nair, who humbles General Dyer and sues the British Empire for carrying out the genocide in Amritsar which resulted in the death of at least 1,650 people.

The trailer opens with Sankaran Nair intensely interrogating the perpetrator of the massacre, General Dyer about the genocide. This is followed by a gory and impactless reenactment of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre where Nair resolves to suing the crown for mass slaughter. He then faces off against R Madhavan’s Neville McKinley, who is representing the British Empire. Ananya Panday also appears as a lawyer in the film. Overall, the trailer looks like a regular Bollywood courtroom drama that offers some high points.

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Watch the trailer here!

Helmed by Karan Singh Tyagi, the film has been produced by Dharma Productions, Cape Of Good Films, and Leo Media Collective present. It's written by Karan Singh Tyagi and Amritpal Singh Bindra. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre has been explored in numerous Hindi films and shows before with the most recent being Ram Madhvani's The Waking of a Nation. The webseries is centered around Kanti Lal Sharma (Taaruk Raina), a British-educated lawyer who returns to India and takes on the task of unraveling the events leading up to the genocide. The 2021 film, Sardar Udham, directed by Shoojit Sircar, starring Vicky Kaushal was also based on the same subject. The critically acclaimed film followed Udham Singh’s attempt to assassinate Michael O’Dwyer, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in 1919.

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