Chapekar Brothers (film)

Chapekar Brothers is a Hindi-language film directed by Devendar Kumar Pandey.

The film features Abhijit Bhagat, Sanjeet Dhuri and Manoj Bhatt as the Chapekar brothers, Indian revolutionaries involved in the 1896 assassination of the British Plague Commissioner of Pune, W C Rand.

Chapekar Brothers received a diktat from the Censor Board over a film scene.

The filmmakers objected to this diktat by showing references of a Marathi film ’22 June 1897’ released in the year 1979 depicting the same scene.

[5] Post that incident, MNS President Raj Thackeray has pledged his full support to the movie and slammed the Censor Board.