Akshay Kumar is all set to bring ‘Kesari Chapter 2’ to the silver screen. The film will bring one of the biggest legal battles fought in our country’s history to audiences in theatres. Akshay will play the lawyer C. Sankaran Nair, who challenged the Crown for their inaction on General Dyer following his role in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
A video of Dyer’s granddaughter resurfaced on social media where she was seen with the family of a victim of the massacre and called the victim a “looter.” Filmmaker and producer of the film Kesari, Karan Johar, who has also seen the video, responded with anger after watching it.
Karan Johar’s statement on General Dyer’s graddaughter
At the press conference for the upcoming release, when Karan was asked if he had seen the video, he replied in the affirmative but also added, “Not just as an Indian or as a humanitarian, but anyone who has an iota of empathy or humanity within themselves, it will anger you.”
“I don’t want to mince my words, be diplomatic in my answer or certainly beat around the bush when I say, how ridiculous she is to say that and how dare she? She was calling those thousands of people looters? They were innocent people who conglomerated right there for what was meant to be the auspicious day of Baisakhi, thinking something else was going to be the eventuality of the day and look what happened.”
Karan also mentioned the infamous admission of General Dyer: “We only stopped shooting when the bullets ran out.” “And she went on to say in that interview that he loved India and all kinds of things about how he had the greatest compassion. What love can you have in your heart when your actions only spoke of hate? The fact that she is in a la la land of her own and in some delusion, I don’t know her or met her, and I don’t wish to meet her,” Johar emphasised.
“The fact that she has even said those things, makes me so angry on a humanitarian level. Khoon khaulta hai jab maine wo video dekha with the fact that she has such disdain for one of the biggest genocides in the history of our nation and the world. The fact that she was disdainful of it makes me just angry and want and demand an apology even more,” Karan further retaliated.
