In TrendsSensex TodayRupee vs DollarGold and Silver PricesAsian StocksiPhone 18 ProThe real freedom fighters at the centre of Nikkhil Advani's 'The Revolutionaries'Nikkhil Advani’s period action thriller 'The Revolutionaries', adapted from economist and historian Sanjeev Sanyal’s 2023 book 'Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom' centres on the Ghadar movement and the 1915 uprising.By Asmita Pant September 10, 2026, 4:48:31 PM IST (Published)In the early decades of the twentieth century, an intricate, clandestine network of young radicals decided that India’s freedom would not be won through polite appeals or council debates. Convinced that direct, organised armed resistance was the only way to shatter the British Empire’s grip on the subcontinent, they built an underground web of secret societies, safe houses, and covert printing presses.At the core of this era was the Ghadar movement and the ambitious 1915 uprising, a coordinated, international attempt to capitalise on Britain’s vulnerabilities during World War I. Operating across continents, revolutionary networks in North America, Europe, and India conspired to spark a simultaneous mutiny across British Indian Army garrisons from Punjab to Bengal, backed by clandestine shipments of foreign arms.That high-stakes chapter of anti-colonial defiance takes centre stage in Nikkhil Advani’s period action thriller…
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