{"id":273459,"date":"2025-04-03T22:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/kesari-chapter-2-trailer-akshay-kumar-emasculates-general-dyer-in-high-stakes-courtroom-drama-sues-the-crown-for-genocide\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:20:05","slug":"kesari-chapter-2-trailer-akshay-kumar-emasculates-general-dyer-in-high-stakes-courtroom-drama-sues-the-crown-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/kesari-chapter-2-trailer-akshay-kumar-emasculates-general-dyer-in-high-stakes-courtroom-drama-sues-the-crown-for-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesari Chapter 2 trailer: Akshay Kumar emasculates General Dyer in high-stakes courtroom drama, sues the Crown for genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kesari Chapter 2 trailer: Akshay Kumar emasculates General Dyer in high-stakes courtroom drama, sues the Crown for genocide\" title=\"Kesari Chapter 2 trailer: Akshay Kumar emasculates General Dyer in high-stakes courtroom drama, sues the Crown for genocide\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/kesari-2-teaser-akshay-kumar-plays-c-sankaran-nair-rejects-slave-label-as-he-takes-on-british-for-jallianwala-bagh-massacre-watch-9902842\/\" class=\"\">Kesari Chapter 2,<\/a> <\/strong>starring Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday, and R Madhavan, will be released in theatres later this month. On Thursday, Dharma Productions unveiled the film\u2019s first trailer, following a rather racy teaser that was debuted some days ago. The film is based on the legal battle that unfolded after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919. Akshay Kumar plays the lawyer Sankaran Nair, who sued the British Empire for carrying out a \u201cgenocide\u201d in Amritsar. The massacre resulted in the death of at least 1,650 people.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay\u2019s character questions the perpetrator of the massacre, General Dyer, who falsely claims that the crowd inside Jallianwala Bagh was full of terrorists, and was armed to the teeth. \u201cWhat weapons did you see in the hands of eight-month-old babies? Their kadas? Or their clenched fists?\u201d Sankaran Nair demands to know, as he faces off against R Madhavan\u2019s Neville McKinley, who is representing the British Empire. Ananya Panday also appears as a lawyer in the film.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p><strong>WATCH KESARI CHAPTER 2 TRAILER HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"r-7g08INMSI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KESARI CHAPTER 2 - OFFICIAL TRAILER | Akshay Kumar | R. Madhavan | Ananya | Karan S Tyagi | 18 April\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-7g08INMSI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the years since the massacre, there have been demands for an apology from the British government. In 2019, British Prime Minister Theresa May expressed her regret for the massacre but did not issue an apology for it.\u00a0Previously, the 2021 film Sardar Udham, directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring Vicky Kaushal, was also based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The acclaimed film followed Udham Singh\u2019s attempt to assassinate Michael O\u2019Dwyer, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in 1919.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Also read \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/kesari-2-teaser-akshay-kumar-plays-c-sankaran-nair-rejects-slave-label-as-he-takes-on-british-for-jallianwala-bagh-massacre-watch-9902842\/\" class=\"\">Kesari Chapter 2 teaser: Akshay Kumar plays C Sankaran Nair, rejects \u2018slave\u2019 label as he takes on British for Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi, the film has been produced by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/amid-nadaniyaan-criticism-karan-johar-announces-new-film-takes-a-jibe-at-trolls-24th-debutant-filmmaker-90-are-outsiders-9896357\/\" class=\"\">Dharma Productions,<\/a> <\/strong>Cape Of Good Films &amp; <a rel=\"noamphtml\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/leo\/\">Leo<\/a> Media Collective present. The film has been written by Karan Singh Tyagi &amp; Amritpal Singh Bindra.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/kesari-chapter-2-trailer-akshay-kumar-emasculates-general-dyer-in-high-stakes-courtroom-drama-sues-the-crown-for-genocide-9922062\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kesari Chapter 2, starring Akshay Kumar, Ananya Panday, and R Madhavan, will be released in theatres later this month. On Thursday, Dharma Productions unveiled the film\u2019s first trailer, following a rather racy teaser that was debuted some days ago. The film is based on the legal battle that unfolded after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[2719,2715,4857,100386,6700,59347,30501,7468,210213,210212,1032,17852,32168,185514,202433,210210,210211,209758,2720,1949,9561,2333],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273461,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273459\/revisions\/273461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}