Kesari Chapter 2

Story:

The 2025 Indian Hindi-language historical courtroom drama Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh was produced by Cape of Good Films, Leo Media Collective, and Dharma Productions under the direction of Karan Singh Tyagi. The premise of this spiritual follow-up to Kesari (2019) is based on Raghu and Pushpa Palat’s book The Case That Shook The Empire, which revolves around C. Sankaran Nair and the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Starring in the movie are Ananya Panday, R. Madhavan, and Akshay Kumar. On April 18, 2025, the 106th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, it was made public.

The movie centers on C. Sankaran Nair (Akshay Kumar), a renowned Indian lawyer and Viceroy’s Council member who was first assigned by the British to look into the slaughter in the hopes of receiving a report that would support their position. Nair challenges the narrative of the British Empire by suing the Crown and General Reginald Dyer for genocide after learning of the horrifying truth of Dyer’s ordered massacre of defenseless villagers in Amritsar.

Nair fights against Neville McKinley (R. Madhavan), a cynical Anglo-Indian lawyer with a personal grudge sent to defend the British, with the help of a teenage rebel named Pargat Singh (Krish Rao) and a resolute law student named Dilreet Gill (Ananya Panday). While Nair’s fight for justice ignites a wave of patriotic resistance, the fierce legal battle reveals the colonial suppression of truth and media manipulation.