As India looks forward to celebrating its 78th Independence Day, our social media feed is bombarded with recommendations of movies, songs, dialogues, and scenes that ignite patriotic fervour. While we are in awe of actors who played freedom fighters on screen, here’s a quick rundown of those who essayed the role of British officers, either as antagonists or friends. ADVERTISEMENT Actor received overnight success after his work in the recently released OTT debut of auteur Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’.
Jason plays the role of Alastair Cartwright, a ruthless British officer who takes revenge against Manisha Koirala for insulting him after he invites her to perform at his party. English actor Paul Blackthorne played the role of Captain Andrew Russell in ‘Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India’ starring . Set in 1893, during the late Victorian period of India's colonial British Raj, the film follows the inhabitants of a village in Central India, who, burdened by high taxes and several years of drought, are challenged by an arrogant British Indian Army officer to a game of cricket as a wager to avoid paying the taxes they owe.
The villagers face the arduous task of learning a game that is alien to them and playing for victory. 'Sardar Udham' is a biopic of freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh, who killed Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India in 1940, to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. British actor Shaun.