“Swatantrya Veer Savarkar – The Pole Star”, Swarajyamag, March 27, 2024:
“Enough has been said about the movie itself so will not write yet another review. But suffice to say that Randeep Hooda has lived the character of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He has not acted, he has burrowed deep under the skin of one of the most towering personalities of the Indian Freedom Struggle.
It is not easy to encapsulate a lifetime of a man of many talents and accomplishments like Veer Savarkar in under three hours; obviously, a lot gets left out. But what Hooda has managed to cover in the movie is in itself awe-inspiring.
I discovered Savarkar at an early age. Our home in Goa was full of books, and there were quite a few by Savarkar. I read his first-person account of his tenure of Kala Paani, Mazi Janmathep, when I was 13 or 14, and was moved to tears. ….”
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