Shaheed

This is an excellent tribute to the great martyr Bhagat Singh who was hanged by the British in 1931. If I am not mistaken, one of the story writers (BK Dutt) was Bhagat's comrade in the freedom struggle, and was sentenced to life for 'waging war against the King'in the trial that sent Bhagat, Rajguru and Sukhdev to the gallows. Manoj Kumar a.k.a. Bharat Kumar managed to play Bhagat without excessive melodrama. The music and lyrics are awesome. The song, "Sarfaroshii Ki tamanna" (penned by another martyr Ramprasad 'Bismil') has been sung by Rafi , and he has poured all his heart into it. If you understand the song, and the emotions behind it, you will be touched and awed. The measure of Bhagat Singh's grip on Indian people's perception and imagination can be ascertained by the fact that two more movies were made about him recently. IMHO, the one with Ajay Devgan did greater justice to the man, and his ideas.

Shaheed is a patriotic film directed by Late S. Ram Sharma and starring Manoj Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Late Pran, late Iftekhar, Late Nirupa Roy, Prem Chopra, Late Anant Marathe, Late Madan Puri and Late Anwar Hussain.

The film is based on the life of one of the greatest freedom fighters of India great martyr Bhagat Singh.

I haven't seen such a beautiful portrayal of the life of the great Bhagat Singh. The film has one one of the brilliant cast who had portrayed their roles with utmost perfection and authenticity. Everything in the film looked very authentic and real.

The acting is superb and as mentioned everyone was perfect in their respective roles be it Manoj Kumar, Prem Chopra or the greatest versatile actor of Indian film industry the legend Pran sahab.

Music of the film was melodious and is still very popular, the screenplay is gripping. The film ends with an emotional climax.

A must watch film and one of the greatest films ever produced in the history of Indian cinema.

Shaheed-1965-The Kewal Kashyap-Manoj Kumar jointly made film is one of the most amazing films made in popular cinema. Although before this movie on the life of Bhagat Singh,2 films had already been made yet it was this film that did justice to Bhagat Singh's life. Although not much is known about the first movie on Bhagat Singh but the second movie on the freedom fighter was released in 1963 and starred top star Shammi kapoor as Bhagat and Prem nath as Sukhdev yet it sank without a trace. Manoj Kumar's script on the freedom fighter was hard-hitting and was amazingly shot jointly by Manoj kumar and Kewal Kashyap. Manoj gave his best performance to date and Prem chopra as Sukhdev was also brilliant. Prem Dhawan's recreation of Bhagat's songs was terrific and still the songs stir the patriotic feelings. The movie was a huge hit and swept the national awards. The movie had amazing emotional impact and is still the only hit movie based on Shaheed Bhagat Singh's life. In 2002 Ajay Devgan- Raj Kumar Santoshi made another cult film on The Legend of Bhagat Singh, however it was more on political idealogy of Bhagat singh and was amazing. For emotional effect, I still feel no film on Bhagat ji could match this one. At that time Manoj Kumar was seen as a romantic star with Dilip Kumar hangover in hits like Shaadi and Hariyali Aur Raasta. Playing a rebel was the last thing expected from him. Infact the rebel star-Shammi kapoor had tried his hand and though his personality matched with Bhagat but he failed to resurrect the legend on-screen. In that case the obvious choice should have been the first rebel of Indian cinema-Sunil Dutt but Manoj Kumar surprised everyone by playing the part so brilliantly. Although Kewal kashyap went into hibernation but Shaheed made Manoj Kumar the ultimate patriotic hero on-screen and film maker cum writer ever!

What can I say, this is the ultimate patriotic movie. The story revolves around India's favourite patriot Bhagat Singh. Manoj Kumar has made very detailed life of Bhagat. The script,the acting of all the cast is superb especially by Pran as the prisoner.

I was twelve the first time I saw this film and I recently watched it again. I thought it has stood the test of time.

The songs are absolutely brilliant and at times very emotional and you felt part of the freedom fighters. Songs like 'Pagri Sambal Jatta','Rang de basanti chola'and'Ae Watan', just fantastic. I really enjoyed this film as you can imagine.

Shaheed is Manoj kumar's first patriotic venture.All actors performance was mind blowing