PVR Pictures – Ashutosh Gowariker ink comic book deal with ACK Media

PVR Pictures Ashutosh Gowariker’s Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey which stars Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, has collaborated with ACK Media to launch the second Amar Chitra Katha title, Read More">‘Surjya Sen and The Chittagong Uprising’. The story is about the unsung hero of India’s freedom movement; Surjya Sen. Publishers of theRead More

PVR Pictures Ashutosh Gowariker's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey which stars Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, has collaborated with ACK Media to launch the second Amar Chitra Katha title, 'Surjya Sen and The Chittagong Uprising'.

The story is about the unsung hero of India's freedom movement; Surjya Sen. Publishers of the comic book have tied-up with the producers of the film to churn out the paper-back copies.

Speaking on the tie-up with ACK Media, Ashutosh Gowariker, the director of the film, said, “The Indian freedom struggle was not a unified movement until near the end – for a long time, Read More">it was a disparate collection of separate little uprisings against the injustices of British rule. Many of these struggles are no longerRead More

Speaking on the tie-up with ACK Media, Ashutosh Gowariker, the director of the film, said, "The Indian freedom struggle was not a unified movement until near the end - for a long time, it was a disparate collection of separate little uprisings against the injustices of British rule. Many of these struggles are no longer remembered in our text-books. The Chittagong Uprising of 1930 is one of these forgotten struggles and I hope through my film and Amar Chitra Katha, Surjya Sen becomes a known freedom fighter across India like the others."

The comic strip will educate the younger generation about the 1930 uprising in a more entertaining fashion. The comic book is based on Arijit Dutta Chowdhary’s painstaking researched illustrations that bring to life the turbulent revolutionaries of the British ruled Bengal of the 1930’s.

The comic strip will educate the younger generation about the 1930 uprising in a more entertaining fashion. The comic book is based on Arijit Dutta Chowdhary's painstaking researched illustrations that bring to life the turbulent revolutionaries of the British ruled Bengal of the 1930's.

Read More">“Surjya Sen himself comes through as this enigmatic person. What little we know of him comes from his colleagues. Most of them were so young at the time of the uprising -Surjya Sen himself was not yet forty when he died; but the boys who made up the bulk of his army were often justRead More

"Surjya Sen himself comes through as this enigmatic person. What little we know of him comes from his colleagues. Most of them were so young at the time of the uprising -Surjya Sen himself was not yet forty when he died; but the boys who made up the bulk of his army were often just teenagers who had decided to give up their lives for a freedom they'd never get to experience," said Shalini Srinivasan, the scriptwriter of the comic strip. The book is slated to hit markets in the first week of December.