Kesari 2 box office collection day 9: Akshay Kumar’s film sees spike on second Saturday, surpasses Rs 50 crore mark

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Kesari 2 is facing direct competition from Sunny Deol and Randeep Hooda’s Jaat, which has earned over Rs 82 crore in its 17-day theatrical run. Both the movies will next clash with Rajkumar Gupta’s Raid 2, featuring Ajay Devgn, Vaani Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, and Saurabh Shukla. It is scheduled to hit theatres on May 1.

Directed by Karan Singh Tyagi, Kesari Chapter 2, a courtroom drama, also starrng Regina Cassandra, Amit Sial, Simon Paisley Day and Alexx O’Nell, showcases the aftermath of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

In a recent interview, Kesari 2 director Karan Singh Tyagi said he aimed to stay true to the tragedy at the heart of the film, while taking some creative liberties to make the story more relatable to audiences.

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“With full respect and all humility, I want to say that we were compressing a court case which lasted over months into two hours. When that happens, you compress timelines, you combine characters. But we were mindful that we were not deviating from the factual realities of Jallianwala Bagh,” the filmmaker told PTI in an interview.

“We were not deviating from the fact that the incident of Jallianwala Bagh occurred the way it is depicted in the film. Like, an aeroplane flew over the Bagh to ascertain whether enough people had assembled. Gurkha soldiers were called, and a fake curfew was announced to label people as terrorists,” Tyagi added.