He’d been going back to that sequestered memorial park, through a narrow passage to the entrance in Amritsar, every year since. It’s a scene Sircar had been living with, ever since he first visited the actual Jallianwala Bagh site in 1998 - much before he’d even thought of becoming a filmmaker. Shoojit Sircar joins Hitlist editor Mayank Shekhar for the first in-person edition of Sit With Hitlist post the pandemic One man dealing with dead bodies after dead bodies. No one allowed to help the injured and dead. But Sircar wanted to get April 13, 1919, just right. He would dip into it with a mug, splashing that blood to dry earth himself, to get the colour right - all the while operating the camera, filming the Jallianwala Bagh sequence in Sardar Udham (2021). But you’re not like this ,” an assistant on the sets of Sardar Udham exclaimed to filmmaker Shoojit Sircar - observing him seated, with two buckets full of fake blood, getting constantly replenished on either side of his feet.
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