"Sardar Udham" is the realisation of a long-cherished dream for director Shoojit Sircar and he wanted to ensure that the film depicted the story of the "unsung revolutionary" in a truthful and simple manner. Sircar started nurturing the dream to make a film on Sardar Udham Singh while he was still doing theatre in Delhi. It was an idea that struck him during an emotional visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre site in the 1990s, he said.source https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/shoojit-sircar-on-sardar-udham-had-to-be-responsible-as-there-won-t-be-a-second-chance-738370
