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Kesari: An emotional war drama with solid action sequences

Kesari (transl. Saffron) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action-war film written and directed by Anurag Singh. It was jointly produced by Karan Johar, Aruna Bhatia, Hiroo Yash Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Sunir Khetarpal under the banners of Dharma Productions, Cape of Good Films, Azure Entertainment and Zee Studios. The film stars Akshay Kumar with Parineeti Chopra, Mir Sarwar, Vansh Bhardwaj, Jaspreet Singh, Vivek Saini and Vikram Kochhar in supporting roles.

It follows the events leading to the Battle of Saragarhi, a battle between 21 soldiers of the Sikh Regiment of the British Army and 6,000–10,000 Afridi and Orakzai mountain tribesmen from Afghanistan in 1897. Rachit Gupta of The Times of India gave Kesari four stars out of five, praising its “technical brilliance, intricate writing and thundering performances”.

Taran Adarsh gave it four stars and felt it “chronicles a significant chapter from history brilliantly... Nationalism, patriotism, heroism, scale and soul - Kesari has it all”. Writing for Times Now, Gaurang Chauhan rated the film three and a half stars out of five and opined, “Kesari is not the best patriotic film or an action film to come out of Bollywood, but it surely is worth the time and money”.

Bollywood Hungama rated it four stars out of five, remarking, “On the whole, Kesari is a brave and inspirational tale of courage, with patriotism and the dramatic battle sequences being the USP of the film”.

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