Inqilab is a 2008 India

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n documentary film

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 directed by Gauhar Raza

Gauhar Raza

Gauhar Raza is an Indian scientist by profession, and a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary film maker working to popularize the understanding of science among general public, known for his films like Jung-e-Azadi, on the India's First War of Independence, and Inqilab on Bhagat Singh...

, about Indian freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh, co-produced by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD

ANHAD

ANHAD is an Indian socio-cultural organization established in March 2003, as a response to 2002 Gujarat riots. Shabnam Hashmi, sister of the slain activist Safdar Hashmi and founder of SAHMAT, Marxian historian Prof. K N Panikkar and social activist Harsh Mander are the founding members of ANHAD...

) in connection with birth centenary Bhagat Singh. .

Overview

The 40-minute documentary which contains archival footage and original visuals of locations, is a tribute to the memory and sacrifice of Bhagat Singh, one of the most venerated nationalist figures in contemporary India

India

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. The documentary

Documentary

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 traces the evolution of this revolutionary

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 icon as a political thinker and a visionary in the context of Indian freedom struggle. The film is an attempt to craft an intellectual biography of Bhagat Singh in an audio-visual format.The documentary is produced as a part of the year-long celebrations organised by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in connection with the 100th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh

It begins by tracking the early influences, beginning with Bhagat Singh's family, locating him in the national and international political context and finally tracing the roots of his future ideological formations. Through diverse textual material available at various repositories, it weaves through the biographical turning points to construct Bhagat Singh's dream of an independent, egalitarian, socialist and multicultural India .
Parts of the documentary contain narration by Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Segal is an Indian stage and film actress, who started her career as dancer with dancer Uday Shankar in 1935 and worked with him for the next eight years. She has appeared in many Bollywood films as well as English language films and television series...

, Suchitra Gupta and Sarah Hashmi. Apart from this renowned social activists, intellectuals and historians, including Swami Agnivesh

Swami Agnivesh

Agnivesh is an Indian social worker, self-proclaimed Arya Samaj scholar, and a Hindu social activist. He is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981...

, Kuldip Nayar

Kuldip Nayar

Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist and syndicated columnist, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator.-Early life and education:Nayar was born at Sialkot, Punjab, British India on 14 August 1923....

, Prof. Bipan Chandra, Prof. V.P. Dutt, Prof. K.N. Panikkar, Jagmohan Singh, Prof. Shantha Sinha

Shantha Sinha

Prof. Shantha Sinha is an anti-child labour activist of international reputation. She is the founder of Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation, popularly known as MV Foundation , and is a Professor in the Department of Political science in Hyderabad Central University...

, Prof. Chaman Lal

Chaman Lal

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, Prof. Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house....

, Dr S. Irfan Habib, Kamla Bhasin and Arpana Kaur, have also narrated parts of the script.http://www.my-india.net/pr/2008/08/nmml-releases-new-film-on-bhagat-singh.shtml

The documentary was shot at Lahore

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, Banga, Kolkata

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, Kanpur, Amritsar

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 and Delhi

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At the end of the documentary 'Bhagat Singh's' Ghodi was used as background song. The song is in Punjabi

Punjabi language

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 language. It was composed by students of DAV College, Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

just after Bhagat Singh's execution and even now is part of folk tradition on both sides of the India-Pak border.