Kesari 2 OTT: Chetan Bhagat Demands Apology

The famous writer Chetan Bhagat recently opened up about his experience and his thoughts after watching Akshay Kumar’s “Kesari Chapter 2”.

Akshay Kumar’s newly launched movie which created a wave in the OTTs, “Kesari Chapter 2” isn’t just a movie it’s a deep dive into the history.

While the original “Kesari” focused on bravery on the battlefield, this sequel dives into a deeper, darker wound of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 and it doesn’t just show the event it demands a long overdue apology.

The film fictionalised central elements but in the depth of it the fact that over a thousand Indians were gunned down by British troops in cold blood, but the pain doesn’t just end with that it lingers generation after generation.

On “X” the writer asked one question in particular, and that is, while Britain has expressed “regret,” regret isn’t the same as an apology. So where is the “Sorry” which we all deserve?

What the movie does exceptionally well is uncover the cover ups, the colonial rule which painted the victims as threats and the movie unmasked them all. But watching this film, you can’t ignore the echoing absence of one word “Sorry”.

Germany has apologized for the Holocaust. The U.S. has acknowledged its wrongs. But Britain? Still hiding behind its glorious imperial myths.

“Kesari Chapter 2” doesn’t just reopen a wound it demands a healing.

A formal apology can’t undo the past. But it can honour the truth. History happened. But the refusal to say sorry? That’s still happening now.