Vicky Kaushal On Not Getting The National Award For Sardar Udham: ‘Opportunity Was Big, Rest Was Bonus’ –

After filmmaker Shoojit Sircar passionately supported Vicky Kaushal for the National Film Award for Best Actor, the actor has now shared his own perspective on the matter. Despite their joint effort, Sardar Udham, receiving five prestigious awards, including Best Hindi Film, at the 69th National Awards, Vicky Kaushal, who brilliantly portrayed Udham Singh, did not receive the Best Actor accolade. The award went to Allu Arjun, the lead actor of Pushpa: The Rise.

During a discussion with India Today, Vicky shared his thoughts about the film and its personal importance to him. When questioned if he felt disheartened about not receiving the National Award, Vicky replied, “Nahi! The thing is that many times, when you get a film, and get to work with a director that you like, you think that’s where your dream has come true, which is genuinely true for Sardar Udham. I am not just saying for the heck of it. Being a Punjabi, that topic, that man, that story is very, very close to my heart.”

Vicky said that people he knew the Udham Singh story since childhood and wondered why more people don’t know about it. “We have been listening to this story since our childhood days and always used to wonder why not many people know about this. So, for me, to eventually get the opportunity was a big deal and, after that, what I got or didn’t get, everything was a bonus. For me, the story to reach the world, to get appreciated, to get resonated, that is everything. After that, for the film to get all the rewards are all bonuses. I don’t have any qualms,” he said.

Apart from Vicky Kaushal, Sardar Udham also starred Banita Sandhu and Amol Parashar in significant roles. The movie is a biographical depiction of Udham Singh, a Punjabi freedom fighter who carried out the assassination of Michael O’Dwyer in London as retribution for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.