Ranked #83 of 100
Sardar Udham
सरदार उधम · 2021
Twenty-one years after Jallianwala Bagh, Udham Singh shoots Michael O'Dwyer in London. The film waits until the end to show you why.
- Director
- Shoojit Sircar
- Year
- 2021
- Genre
- Biography · Historical
- Cast
- Vicky Kaushal, Shaun Scott, Banita Sandhu
Why it's at number 83
The final Jallianwala sequence is the most devastating thirty minutes in recent Indian cinema.
Twenty-one years after Jallianwala Bagh, Udham Singh shoots Michael O'Dwyer in London. The film waits until the end to show you why.
Sardar Udham sits in the 2020s alongside 12th Fail and Laapataa Ladies — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shoojit Sircar — also responsible for Vicky Donor, Piku.
- Released in 2021, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Historical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Sardar Udham (2021) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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