23rd March 1931: Shaheed

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23 March 1931: Shaheed
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Directed by	Guddu Dhanoa[1]
Written by	Sanjay Masoom (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Sutanu Gupta
Produced by	Dharmendra[1]
Starring	Bobby Deol Sunny Deol Amrita Singh Rahul Dev Suresh Oberoi Vivek Shauq Aishwariya Rai Shakti Kapoor Divya Dutta
Cinematography	Tirru[2]
Edited by	Keshav Naidu[2]
Music by	Songs: Anand Raj Anand[3] Score: Surinder Sodhi
Production company	Vijayta Films
Release date	7 June 2002 (2002-06-07)
Running time	185 minutes[2]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹20 crore[4]
Box office	₹14.25 crore[5]

23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, directed by Guddu Dhanoa which depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Singh and his companions Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar on 23 March 1931. The film stars Bobby Deol as Singh, his elder brother Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad and Amrita Singh in her comeback role as Vidyavati Kaur (Singh's mother).

The film's release coincided with another film based on Bhagat Singh directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and titled The Legend of Bhagat Singh. Both films failed at the box office.^[6][7] But both the films gained a cult status.

Set in the mid-1920s in British India, the film tells the story of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, who have only one motive in mind: freedom for India. They set about doing this task together with two other men, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police, and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified, and as a result, Bhagat and Rajguru are arrested and held in prison, where they are tortured relentlessly.

When produced in court, they dramatically admit to the killing and claim that it was done in the name of "freedom." The judge and the public prosecutor do not see it their way, and they are sentenced to life in prison. Bhagat's mother, Vidya, comes to meet him in prison, and he goes to greet her, shackled in chains from head to toe, and he foretells that India will continue to suffer, even after independence from the British, and that he will return in another birth to free his motherland. Subsequently, all three are charged with treason and assassination and are sentenced to death.

• Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh
• Sunny Deol as Chandra Shekhar Azad
• Amrita Singh as Vidyavati Kaur Sandhu, Bhagat's mother
• Ranjan Koshal as Kishan Singh Sandhu, Bhagat's father
• Rahul Dev as Sukhdev Thapar
• Vicky Ahuja as Shivram Hari Rajguru
• Vivek Shauq as Bhagwati Charan Vohra
• Aishwariya Rai as Mannewali (special appearance)
• Divya Dutta as Durgawati Devi a.k.a. "Durga Bhabhi"
• Sachin Khedekar as Advocate Asaf Ali
• Vivek Kumar Rawat as Batukeshwar Dutt
• Suresh Oberoi as Jailor Chadda
• Shakti Kapoor as Chattar Singh
• Raja Bundela as Lala Lajpat Rai
• Akshay Anand as Ram Prasad Bismil
• Suresh Chatwal as Kishori Lal
• Imran Khan as Kartar Singh Sarabha
• Deepak Sharma as Jatindra Nath Das a.k.a. "Jatin Das"
• Sanjay Tripathi as Hans Raj Vohra
• Raman Khatri as Ashfaqulla Khan
• Rana Jung Bahadur as Lawyer Ashish
• Tej Sapru as Dilbagh Singh
• Indal Singh as Jai Gopal
• Samaresh Routray as Yashpal
• Rajesh Khera as Sardar Ajeet Singh, Bhagat's uncle
• Manoj Tiwari as Veer Bhadra Tiwari

• 23rd March 1931: Shaheed at IMDb