Actors Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan and Ananya Panday will feature in an upcoming movie on acclaimed lawyer C Sankaran Nair, who fought a legal battle against the British empire in the 1920s. The film is based on the book 'The Case That Shook the Empire' by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.
Scheduled to be released in theatres on March 14, 2025, the untitled movie is backed by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions in collaboration with Akshay's Cape of Good Films and Leo Media Collective. The film will mark the directorial debut of writer Karan Singh Tyagi.
According to the studio, the film centres around the "shocking cover-up of a massacre that pushed India's top barrister C Sankaran Nair to fight an unprecedented battle against the British Empire".
'The Case That Shook the Empire' was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury India and explored the 1924 defamation trial in which Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and the architect of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, sued Sankaran. Sankaran had criticised British atrocities in Punjab in his book, leading to the widely reported trial that exposed the brutalities of British rule in India.
