The untitled movie is supported by Leo Media Collective, Akshay Kumar’s Cape of Good Films, and Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. In an upcoming film, actors Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan, and Ananya Panday will portray renowned attorney C Sankaran Nair, who in the 1920s waged a legal war against the British Empire. The Case That Shook the Empire, written by Raghu and Pushpa Palat, served as the basis for the movie. The film, which has no title yet is backed by Dharma Productions, which is led by Karan Johar, in association with Cape of Good Films, which is led by Akshay, and Leo Media Collective. It is slated to hit theaters on March 14, 2025. Writer Karan Singh Tyagi will make his directorial debut with the movie.
“An unknown story an unheard truth. Starring Akshay Kumar, R. Madhavan & Ananya Panday – this untitled film is releasing in cinemas on 14th March, 2025. Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi,” Dharma Productions posted on social media. The narrative
The “shocking cover-up of a massacre that drove India’s top barrister C Sankaran Nair to fight a new battle against the British Empire” is the central theme of the movie, according to the studio.
The 2019 Bloomsbury India book The Case That Shook the Empire examined the 1924 defamation trial in which Sankaran was sued by Michael O’Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and mastermind of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The internationally publicized trial that revealed the atrocities of British rule in India resulted from Sankaran’s criticism of British crimes in Punjab in his book. The extensively reported trial, one of the longest in history, shocked a world that at last realized some of the horrors being committed by the British in India, according to the book’s synopsis. The Case That Shook the Empire presents, for the first time, the true facts of the crucial case that served as the turning point in India’s fight for independence through courtroom reports and a complex portrait of a complicated nationalist who put his principles above all else.
