Vinayak Damodar Savarkar will be played by Randeep Hooda in the biopic Swatantra Veer Savarkar. The film will be released soon. On May 28, the 139th birthday of Veer Savarkar, the makers released the first glimpse of Randeep Hooda as the freedom fighter ahead of the start of filming. Mahesh Manjrekar is set to direct the film.
Sharing the first-look poster of Swatantra Veer Savarkar Randeep Hooda wrote, “A salute to one of the tallest unsung heroes of India’s struggle for freedom & self-actualisation. hope I can live up to the challenge of filling such big shoes of a true revolutionary & tell his real story which had been brushed under the carpet for so long #VeerSavarkarJayanti (sic).”
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A salute to one of the tallest unsung heroes of India’s struggle for freedom & self-actualisation. hope I can live up to the challenge of filling such big shoes of a true revolutionary & tell his real story which had been brushed under the carpet for so long#VeerSavarkarJayanti pic.twitter.com/R1UbFZebio
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) May 28, 2022
Mahesh Manjrekar also shared the first-look poster and wrote, “The revolutionary freedom fighter, presenting @RandeepHooda in & as #SwatantraVeerSavarkar! #139yearsofsavarkar @anandpandit63 @thisissandeeps @directorsamkhan@apmpictures @LegendStudios_ #roopapandit #zafarmehdi @deepaksahupr (sic).”
The revolutionary freedom fighter, presenting @RandeepHooda in & as #SwatantraVeerSavarkar! #139yearsofsavarkar@anandpandit63 @thisissandeeps @directorsamkhan@apmpictures @LegendStudios_ #roopapandit #zafarmehdi @deepaksahupr pic.twitter.com/taW5cKv6nM
— Mahesh Manjrekar (@manjrekarmahesh) May 28, 2022
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on May 28, 1883, in the village of Bhagur in the Maharashtra district of Nashik. He was a key figure in the Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organisation that also served as a political party. He was a politician, an activist, and a writer, among other things. He is credited with inventing Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist political ideology. Veer Savarkar died in Bombay on February 26, 1966.
