Shoojit Sircar dedicates ‘Sardar Udham’ national award win to Irrfan Khan

Sardar Udham on Thursday won National Award in five categories and the filmrsquos director Shoojit Sircar said the team including lead star Vicky Kaushal were dedicating the honour to late actor Irrfan Khan who was originally set to portray the central character The director and Irrfan collaborated in the 2015 film ldquoPikurdquo The actor passed away in April 2020 after a two yearlong battle with a rare form of cancer had to leave ldquoSardar Udhamrdquo as he was ailingldquoMe my team my producer Ronnie Lahiri Sheel Vicky Kaushal and the entire team of lsquoSardar Udhamrsquo want to dedicate this National award to the late Irrfan Khanrdquo Sircar told PTI in an interviewldquoI miss him every day I missed him in this film but Vicky Kaushal gave one of his finest performances He also dedicated his performance to Irrfan Khan Irrfan has created a vacuum in this industry and we are unable to digest the fact that he is not there He is missed that calibre of actor we need in the industryrdquo the filmmaker saidThe biopic which released on Prime Video last year tracks the life of the freedom fighter who assassinated Michael OrsquoDwyer the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India in 1940 to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacreAt the 69th National Film Awards Sardar Udham won Best Hindi Film Best Cinematography Avik Mukhopadhayay Best Costume Designer Veera Kapur Ee Best Production Design Dmitri Malich amp Mansi Dhruv Mehta and Best Audiography ReRecording Final Mixing Sinoy JosephSircar said he is thrilled that his team has received recognition in several categories and thanked everyone for supporting the moviersquos missionldquoWhen you get multiple awards it proves that cinema is a collaborative art and you collaborate with people with an artist and different creative minds These five awards that we have got shows that everybody was focusing on the vision of the film and we were together on the same pathrdquo he saidKnown for films like Vicky Donor Piku and Gulabo Sitabo Sircar said it is essential to tell stories about the revolutionaries who sacrificed their lives for Indiarsquos independenceldquoThere were many unsung heroes revolutionaries unsung martyrs who gave up their lives and sacrificed for our independence Apart from people in Punjab people were unaware of Sardar Udham what were his thoughts as a revolutionary how he was associated with Bhagat Singh and the ways in which he protested against BritishersldquoI hope many more films are being made on these unsung revolutionaries and present their point of view and what do you think a revolutionary should dordquo he addedSircar said the recognition that ldquoSardar Udhamrdquo received reaffirmed his faith that movies based on unsung heroes have an audienceSircarrsquos films including Vicky Donor Piku and ldquoPinkrdquo also won National honours in several categories Sircar claimed that this type of acknowledgment is significantldquoA national recognition is really prestigious The National award gives you a lot of courage that possibly what you are trying to do with a film the vision that you had has somehow reached like it has reached the jury also It is like coming full circlerdquo he saidUp next for Sircar is a sliceofdrama with Abhishek Bachchan and the director said the movie is currently in preproduction stageThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever