Actor Randeep Hooda flagged off ‘Swatantraveer Savarkar Mukti Shatabdi Yatra’ from Yerawada Central Jail
Actor Randeep Hooda flagged off ‘Swatantraveer Savarkar Mukti Shatabdi Yatra’ from Yerawada Central Jail
Actor Randeep Hooda flagged off the Swatantraveer Savarkar Mukti Shatabdi Yatra from Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Saturday. Hooda is set to play freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the film ‘Swatantrya Veer Savarkar’.
Speaking to news agency Hooda said, “Today is a very historic day, as today it has been 100 years since Savarkar Ji was released from jail as he was kept under house arrest in Ratnagiri and was in district arrest. The day he left the jail, he first went to Bombay and then went to Ratnagiri, where he remained in the restricted movement for the next thirteen years.”
It is worthy to note that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was released from prison on January 6, 1924.
He added, “He is such a great freedom fighter for our country, about whom people know very little. I hope that through my movie, people will know more about him. If you read about him in detail, you will come to know that his contribution to the country was very big. Whatever wrong concepts people have about him, watch the movie once and read about him, then decide.”
In the village of Bhagur, close to the city of Nashik, Maharashtra, on May 28, 1883, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born into the Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin Hindu family.
He was a writer, an activist, and a freedom fighter. He held a prominent position in the ‘Hindu Mahasabha’. While still in high school, Savarkar began to take part in the freedom movement and he did so even while he was a student at Fergusson College in Pune.
While pursuing his legal studies in the UK, he became involved with organizations such as India House and the Free India Society. In addition, he wrote books endorsing revolutionary strategies for obtaining complete Indian independence.
The British colonial authorities outlawed one of his works, ‘The Indian War of Independence’, which was about the 1857 ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ or the First War of Independence.
Like Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Khudiram Bose, Madanlal Dhingra, and many others, Veer Savarkar also served as an inspiration. However, according to director Sandeep Singh, he was misunderstood by many people throughout history, and the film will reveal the truth about him and his efforts.
Directed and co-written by Randeep Hooda with Utkarsh Naithani, Swatantrya Veer Savarkar is produced by Anand Pandit Motion Pictures and Randeep Hooda Films with Legend Studios and Avak Films.
