Thursday evening turned out to be a memorable one for Ranjeet Savarkar, grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, India’s pioneer revolutionary. Ranjeet and his associates took time off to watch the film Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, a 178 minutes long biopic on the life and times of Savarkar at Mahim’s City Light Cinema. 

Savarkar, whose name has been maligned by powers that be as well as the Left ecosystem of the country, has been retold with facts by Randeep Hooda, the director who plays the lead role.

“It was a heart-rending experience. History was distorted by a section of the Indian academia to portray Savarkarji in poor light. This movie, based on facts, is a right step in the direction,” Ranjeet Savarkar, grandnephew of the freedom fighter told The Pioneer.

Ranjeet is the grandson of Dr Narayan Savarkar, younger brother of Savarkar. He was just two months old when Savarkar breathed his last. Narayan too was an accused in many cases foisted on Savarkar by the British masters and their acolyte, the communists.

According to Ranjeet, chairman, Swatantrya Veer Savarkar National Memorial, the ideology propagated by Savarkar has become more relevant now as the communism has collapsed all over the world and the Abrahamic religions are fighting among themselves for one-upmanship.

Media reports from various theatres where the movie has been released say that historians, sociologists and film lovers expressed their happiness over the work by Randeep Hooda. “Though a movie of this kind should have been made long back, it would not have been possible to bring it to the theatres because the ruling class and the fifth columnists would have sabotaged such a movie. I am sure the movie Swatantry Veer Savarkar would be a strong contender for top honours in the race for national awards. It is a movie of global standards,” said Sandeep Shinde, Sanatan Sanstha .