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"MASTANEY"
Set in 1739, Nadar Shah's undefeated army was attacked by
Sikh Rebellions. Nadar demands to arrest them but it doesn't work out. This is the story of five brave Sikh soldiers as Khalsa band who faced the Nadar Shah and Zakaria khan bravely. Five ordinary men forced to become Sikh Rebellions but over time they learn what Sikhs are.
Release date : August 25, 2023 (India),Languages: Punjabi-Hindi-Tamil-Marathi-Telugu.
Production : Vehli Janta Films
Omjee Star Studios, Fateh Film
Production
Cast : Tarsem Jassar, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Simi Chahel, Karamjit
Anmol, Arif Jakaria, Rahul Dev and others
Director: Sharan Art, Writers: Sharan Art , Harnav Bir Singh.
STORYLINE: ( 1738-1739)
The story revolves around 1739 when Nadir Shah looted Delhi
and was returning to Iran via Akhnoor near Chenab river. The Sikh rebellion
attacked the Nadar Shah , fought with
his army and looted the booty and freed
almost all the 20000 girls and slaves from his captivity. Nadar Shah demands to
arrest them but it doesn't work out. This is the story of five brave Sikh
soldiers as Khalsa band who faced the Nadar Shah and Zakaria khan bravely. Five
ordinary men forced to become Sikh
Rebellions but over time they learn what
Sikhs are.
Historical Events:
Input from All About Sikhs:(
1738-1739);Babar was the first of the Mughals to invade India in 1521, and
seize power at Delhi by defeating the army of the Lodhi Sultan Ibrahim at
Panipat in 1526. towards December 1719, Mohammed Shah Rangila was placed on the
throne inspite of the protestations of his widowed mother. Power slowly passed
from the hands of the Sayad brothers into the hands of Mohammed Amin Khan. He
died in 1721 and was replaced hy his son Qamar-ud-din Khan. Mohammed Shah
remained an Emperor in name only till his death in 1748. During all these years
Afghanistan (then known as Kabul) had heen a part of the Mughal Kingdom, and at
the time of Mohammed Shah it was under Governor Nasir Khan. This man’s control over
his province was as weak as that of the Delhi Emperor. There was hardly any
collection of state revenues. The soldiers had not been paid for several years,
which in fact was happening in Delhi too.
Such conditions of unrest and frustration provided an
energetic outsider like Nadir Shah a golden opportunity to seize power. A son
of a poor shepherd in Khurasan, a province of Iran, Nadir had joined a robber
band when he was still a boy. He grew up to be its leader at about the time in
1717, when the Afghans occupied Khurasan and later the capital of Iran. Nadir’s
patriotic zeal was roused and he rallied a strong band of horsemen who helped
him regain Khurasan. By 1725, he had hecome a national hero, who drove the
Afghans out of Iran, and who hecame a sort of regent with a boy of the royal
family as King of Iran In 1736, when the boy King died, Nadir assumed the title
of Emperor of Iran.
The Afghans had invaded Iran several times, and to avenge
these raids, Nadir Shah advanced upon Ghazni and then Kabul, both of which were
occupied in May, 1738. The Governor Nasir Khan was then in Peshawar. As Nadir
Shah rode out towards the Khyher Pass in November 1738, Nasir tried to block
his passage with a force of 20,000 ill trained Afghans, who were just no match
for the fierce Khurasani horsemen. By December 1738, Nadir Shah had crossed the
river Indus, and the lush plains of the Punjah stretched before him, literally
beckoning him on. Zakaria Khan had made frantic requests for aid from Delhi,
but without success. When he himself came out to oppose the invaders at the
hanks of the river Ravi, his army was just brushed aside (January, 1739).
Nadir Shah was an able general and a wise administrator but
insane criminal. His band of soldiers would aptly be called freebooters,
rapists and looters. Atrocities were committed on Punjabi Muslims and Hindus
alike. Then, He accepted a gift of two million rupees and retained Zakaria Khan
as his governor at Lahore. He took as hostages a son of Zakaria and a son of
the minister Lakhpat Rai, and thus secure against revolt, he proceeded towards
Delhi. As his whole army was on horseback, his advance was rapid. Leaving
Lahore on the 26th January, he reached Sirhind on the 1st February, Ambala on
the 7th, and Karnal on the 12th Fehruary. The Delhi army had been alerted in
Novemher on the fall of Kabul. The generals dragged their feet in moving out of
Delhi. Every fresh report of Nadir s advance struck terror into them. They took
two months to move their large army and their heavy guns up to Karnal, a
distance of 75 miles. Here, they decided to give battle. They heavily
outnumbered the attackers, but had no discipline and hardly any heart for a
fight. On the 13th February, 1739, within three hours they had lost, over
20,000 killed or wounded, and the rest just scattered in all directions.
Nadir Shah entered Delhi as a victor on 9th March, 1739. He
demanded 2.5 million Rupees as retribution, but the Rangila Emperor had nothing
in his government treasury. He threw open his personal safe of jewels, and
Nadir availed himself of all the diamonds and rubies of the Peacock Throne, and
also the famous Koh-i-noor
He left Delhi at the beginning of May 1739, taking with him
a few thousand Indian girls (both Hindu and Muslim), a large number of boys as
slaves and thousands of elephants, horses and camels loaded with the booty his
men had collected. The hollow shell that made up the Mughal empire had been
smashed open by Nadir Shah with one sweep, and the Sikhs quickly moved in to
collect the broken pieces.
During his stay at Delhi, the Sikhs had come out of their
jungle retreats and had no difficulty in looting all the Mughal posts at
countryside from the river Chenab to the areas around Karnal. Zakaria Khan’s
police forces were too demoralised to offer resistance. So Nadir’s arrival was
most opportune for the Sikhs in the replenishment of their depleted stores.
Again when people learnt about his departure from Delhi, the rich landlords and
noblemen promptly evacuated the cities and headed for the hills as they could
not trust Mughals for their security anymore. Mohmmad Shah Rangila was a bad
administrator, all his croonies had looted the rich landlors and elite after
Nadir Shah left to fill up the coffers of Mughal kingdom.
Meahwhile, The Khalsa bands got together and passed a
resolution: “Nadir Shah must deliver a part of the booty he was carrying away
from Delhi.” Nadir, on the other hand, felt that his reputation was a
sufficient deterrent to anyone attacking him on the way. He had chosen the
route along the foothills of the northern mountains to escape the heat of the
plains. His baggage train being heavy-laden, lagged well behind his main force,
and it was quite a shock for him to hear on reaching Akhnoor by the river
Chenab, that all his slaves had been freed by Sikh bands, who had also seized a
large share of his gold. Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia who had just turned 21,
showed a glimpse of his greatness as a leader by planning those raids, and by
escorting the freed maidens to responsible homes from where they could return
to their families.
Zakaria Khan had accompanied Nadir Shah to Akhnoor, and
Nadir asked Zakaria Khan who those Sikhs were. On being told that they were all
bands of poor sadhus, without clothing or riches, he asked;
“Then why don’t you burn their houses down to punish them ?”
To that Zakaria replied, “Their only homes are the saddles
of their horses. They can last long periods without food and rest. They are known to sleep on
horseback. We have put prizes on their heads, but their numbers keep
increasing. They are never despondent, but are always singing the songs of
their Pirs.”
With a sigh, Nadir admitted that in that case the Sikhs
would one day rule the land. Then he obtained a promise of a tribute of 2
million Rupees annually from Lahore, and confirmed the appointment of Zakaria
Khan at Lahore and of his son Shah Nawaz Khan at Multan (where Abdus Samad Khan
had just died).
With the departure of Nadir Shah, Zakaria Khan took stock of
his household and saw it all in ruins. He decided to take full revenge on the
Sikhs for all his misfortunes. Then he goes on to massacre Sikhs on large scale to wipe out the trace of Sikhs from this country but could not succeed.
Historical Input from : https://www.allaboutsikhs.com.
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