Amritsar, a city known for its holy Golden Temple, is also a place where over 1000 nonviolent protestors were killed in one of its parks, the famous Jallianwala Bagh. Today, April 13, India commemorates the 105th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which killed over 1000 persons, including innocent men, women, and children, after Brigadier General Reginald Dyer opened fire on them on April 13, 1919.

Some filmmakers have done their best to show our Indian audiences what happened at the atrocity location. Check out these five major Hindi-language films about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

1. Sardar Udham (2021):
Sardar Udham is a 2021 Hindi-language film starring Vicky Kaushal as the lead, with Shaun Scott, Stephen Hogan, Amol Parashar, Banita Sandhu, and Kirsty Averton in supporting parts. Shoojit Sircar directed this biographical drama, while Shubhendu Bhattacharya and Ritesh Shah wrote the screenplay.

2. Phillauri (2017):
A few sequences from Anushka Sharma's film Phillauri were filmed at Jallianwala Bagh. In the film, Anushka Sharma's character's spirit is unable to find peace after her beloved, played by Diljit Dosanjh, is killed at Jallianwala Bagh. 

3. Rang De Basanti (2006): 
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directs Rang De Basanti, which stars Aamir Khan, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, and Atul Kulkarni. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is depicted in black and white throughout the film, but not in its entirety. This film, released in 2006, became extremely popular among young people.

4. The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002): 
Rajkumar Santoshi directed the film. It is considered to be a near replica of Richard Attenborough's Freedom Fighter Bhagat Singh, in which Sardar Udham Singh was motivated to become a revolutionary following the Jallianwala Bagh event.

5. Jallianwala Bagh (1977): 
Balraj Tah directed the film, which stars Vinod Khanna, Parikshat Sahni, Shabana Azmi, Gulzar, and Deepti Naval in lead parts. Gulzar wrote the screenplay for the picture. It tells the narrative of Shaheed Udham Singh, who killed Michael O'Dwyer in 1940 to revenge the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.