After kick-starting 2019 with a bang, thanks to the humungous success of Uri: The Surgical Strike, Vicky Kaushal is now all set to play freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh in filmmaker Shoojit Sircar's next. The film is a biopic of the revolutionary Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India in 1940, to avenge the 1919 massacre.

Talking about casting Vicky, Shoojit said in a statement, "If you look at Vicky's track record, he is taking brave steps and making some really fabulous choices. I wanted an actor who is ready to give his heart and soul to the film. Plus, he is a Punjabi boy and my film is a story of a Punjabi man. So, in many ways, he turned to be the obvious choice."