Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday attended a special screening of Akshay Kumar-starrer
Kesari Chapter 2 in New Delhi, praising the historical drama movie for highlighting an overlooked chapter from Indian history.
Kesari Chapter 2, which is set to be released in theatres on 18, delves into an untold story of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
The two leaders attended the screening along with Delhi ministers Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Kapil Mishra, Ashish Sood, BJP MPs Anurag Thakur and Bansuri Swaraj, as well as Akshay and his co-star R Madhavan.
"I want the youth to go and see this movie, draw inspiration from it and to show how in difficult circumstances, you have individuals who stand up and swim against the tide. And that's how the country became independent. That is how we are what we are today. We're going to be one of the largest economies in the world, that's how we're reclaiming confidence," Puri told reporters in New Delhi after the screening.
He also took a jibe at the Congress, saying the opposition party leaders should watch the movie along with their children.
"I don't want to make a political point out of it... Congress' attitude to some of these things, they have been so busy promoting their own family that they lose sight of the larger reality and what is really important in so far as the country's growth is concerned," he added.
The film, directed by first-time filmmaker Karan Singh Tyagi, narrates the true story of lawyer C Sankaran Nair, who fought a legal battle against the British empire in the 1920s.
The movie is based on the book The Case That Shook the Empire by Nair's great grandson Raghu Palat and his wife Pushpa Palat. -- PTI
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