Jallian Wala Bagh Explained

Jallian Wala Bagh
Director:Balraj Tah
Producer:Balraj Tah
Screenplay:Gulzar
Starring:Vinod Khanna
Parikshat Sahni
Shabana Azmi
Deepti Naval
Om Shivpuri
Music:R. D. Burman
Cinematography:Jaywant Pathare
Editing:Lachhman Dass
Country:India
Language:Hindi

Jallian Wala Bagh is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language film written, produced and directed by Balraj Tah, with a screenplay by Gulzar. It is based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, where in 1919 Colonel Reginald Dyer ordered troops under his command to fire into a crowd of unarmed Indian 379 civilians, killing.

It stars Vinod Khanna, Parikshat Sahni, Shabana Azmi, Sampooran Singh Gulzar, and Deepti Naval.

The film is also a part-biopic of Udham Singh (played by Parikshit Sahni) who assassinated Michael O'Dwyer, the governor of Punjab at the time of the massacre, in 1940.

Cast

Music

  1. "Ditti Heer Likha Ke Ae He Chitthi" - Bhupinder Singh
  2. "Suliyon Pe Chadke Choome (Part 1)" - Bhupinder Singh
  3. "Suliyon Pe Chadke Chume (Part- 2)" - Bhupinder Singh