Independence Day 2021: Kranti to Lagaan, India's fight for freedom through roving eye of cinema

The camera never forgets. And neither does cinema which imprinted on celluloid India's collective cry for independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. Movie makers both at home and from abroad found a trove of material to draw from but their central theme remained the same tumultuous events in an acknowledgement of the struggle of men and women who rid India of foreign rule. Reminiscing over some of the unforgettable films that have stoked the fire of patriotism in three generations of Indians.