Kesari 2 director addresses Akshay Kumar’s ‘f**k you’ in the film, says they did their ‘research’: ‘We wanted to look Britishers in the eye and say it’ | Bollywood News

Kesari Chapter 2 released in theatres a few days ago and the film sees Akshay Kumar playing the role of C Sankaran Nair who took on the British empire for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. The film states that this is a fictionalised version of events, and in the teaser of the film, Akshay’s character can be seen abusing the empire when he tells them, “F**k you.” The director, Karan Singh Tyagi, recently said that they did their “research” and consulted with horians before they chose this phrase for the film.
In a chat with Filme Shilmy, Karan said that it was important for them to look directly at the British empire and abuse them for their brutal act. “It was very important for us to have the ‘f**k you’ in the film because for us, the whole point was to look Britishers in the eye and say ‘f**k you’ for what they have done. So that is the courage which we imbibed from Sankaran Nair’s story, and that is the courage which we wanted to depict,” he said.
When asked about the origin of the phrase, and if it was horically accurate, Karan Singh Tyagi said, “So the term was originated in the 16th century. We did our research, speaking to horians, we did that background check.”
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Kesari 2 is set after the events of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre when General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire on the innocent people gathered inside the site on the occasion of Baisakhi. The film shows that Akshay Kumar’s character took on the British empire for the brutal killings.
During the trailer launch of the film, when Akshay was asked about abusing the British empire, he told mediapersons gathered at the event, “Yes, I used that word. But what’s surprising is that you noticed this, yet the phrase ‘you are still a slave’ was not considered a big insult? I think there can be no bigger insult than that. I would have been happier if you had pointed out that they used the word ‘slave’ rather than focusing on ‘f**k you.’”
Akshay shared that his father was born in Amritsar and his grandfather witnessed all the events around him as he was living in Amritsar at the time. “In fact, my grandfather saw all of this happening around him. We have made this film with anger. I heard the stories from my dad, he heard them from my grandfather,” he said.Story continues below this ad
Kesari Chapter 2 also stars R Madhavan and Ananya Panday in significant roles.