Shaheed Udham Singh (film)

Shaheed Uddham Singh
Directed byChitraarth
Based onLife of Udham Singh
StarringRaj Babbar
Gurdas Maan
Amrish Puri
Barry John
Release date
  • 24 December 1999 (1999-12-24)
CountryIndia
LanguagePunjabi

Shaheed Uddham Singh is a 1999 Indian Punjabi-language biographical film based on the life of Udham Singh, an Indian revolutionary who had witnessed the 1919 Amritsar massacre and wanted to avenge the mass killing of his countrymen. He was desperate to punish Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab for his involvement with the massacre. The film was theatrically released in India on 24 December 1999, just two days before Singh's birth centenary. The film was screened retrospective on 13 August 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Pune: A film festival that celebrates freedom". The Indian Express. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Directorate of Film Festivals : Independence Day Film Festival" (PDF). Dff.nic.in. Retrieved 19 October 2016.