Ae Watan Mere Watan Trailer Released: Sara Ali Khan Plays Usha Mehta

Prime Video has dropped a virtually three-minute-long trailer for Sara Ali Khan starrer Ae Watan Mere Watan, a political thriller based mostly on the lifetime of the liberty fighter Usha Mehta. The movie is ready in pre-Independence India’s Bombay of 1942 and significantly focuses on a secret unlawful underground radio station began by Usha that operated for about three months in the course of the Quit India Movement of 1942. The radio was used to broadcast recorded messages from Mahatma Gandhi and different distinguished leaders throughout India. This was on the time when the British had banned all newbie radio licenses.

Ae Watan Mere Watan’s trailer breaks open with just a few fast glimpses of younger Usha decided to struggle for the liberty of her nation. This is adopted by a tense group of individuals ready for her radio’s first broadcast, setting the tone for the principle theme of the movie. The trailer clearly emphasises the significance of radio as a strong weapon in opposition to the British.

Sara’s gutsy character is proven as stuffed with patriotism, braveness, willpower, and rise up, with an timeless spirit of bringing a change. She is totally satisfied that the British have impaired the Indians’ capacity to assume clearly, an concept additionally burdened within the gatherings she was part of.

However, her ordeals aren’t supported by her father (Sachin Khedekar), a choose underneath the British Raj, who’s clearly tense about her daughter’s actions, inviting bother for him. Her concept can also be ridiculed by what appears to be one other scholar, who mocks her concept of bringing independence with the assistance of pamphlets. She can also be warned by a motherly determine that the cruel British will not spare her if she continues together with her actions. Despite the opposition and challenges, Usha continues her struggle for freedom with much more decision.

The trailer has loads of scenes the place Indians may be seen protesting in opposition to the British and burning paper and different items. Police brutality can also be hinted at in some sequences, together with the one the place a baton is thrashing Sara’s character.

The cinematographers have tried to create a classic impact; the patriotic background rating provides to it.

Synchroneities with Real-Life

Interestingly, Sara’s dialogue “This is our country’s radio, from somewhere in India” is impressed by the precise phrases spoken by Usha Mehta in her first Azar Radio broadcast: “This is the Congress radio calling on [a wavelength of] 42.34 meters from someplace in India.”

The fact that Usha Mehta was a Gandhian in real life is also shown in the trailer in a few scenes where Sara Ali Khan is seen attending one of Mahatma Gandhi’s speeches and is seen echoing his slogan “Do or Die” while holding the Swaraj flag, during a protest. She is also spotted with a charkha (spinning wheel), a symbol of the Swadeshi movement that Mahatma Gandhi encouraged Indiana to use.

Halfway through the trailer, the British officials are seen panicking over the radio station, which functioned from different undisclosed locations in Bombay, plotting to shut it down at all costs and hang all those behind it. Like the trailer, in real life, Usha Mehta was caught and imprisoned. However, the gallant leader refused to give up or speak up against her people in the trials.

Ae Watan Mere Watan will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on March 21. Kannan Iyer (Ek Thi Daayan) directs.