[8][9][10] It stars Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role and is based upon events of British India's Chittagong Uprising.

The story is set against the backdrop of a little-known saga in 1930s British colonial India's East Bengal (now Bangladesh), where a group of schoolboys and young women, led by a schoolteacher, Masterda Surya Sen, dared to take on the Empire.

Apart from fearing his father, Jhunku is also torn between his admiration and respect for the magistrate, Wilkinson, and his wife, who show great likings for him, and his fascination for the charismatic figure of Masterda, who is followed and revered by most of his friends.

Jhunku, due to his faith in Wilkinson, who is personally against torturing revolutionaries, has great belief in British justice and believes that by getting an English education he might better equip himself to free his country.

Wilkinson is opposed by the police inspector Major Johnson, who defies his orders and arrests the protesters and badly tortures Masterda.

In protest, some students hit the strict police officer Maj. Johnson (Alexx O'Nell) by spilling oil under his motorcycle, making him fall.

Masterda and his comrades Nirmal Sen, Loknath Bal, Ambika Chakraborthy, and Ananta Singh train the 50-odd students and plan to capture the city of Chittagong on 18 April 1930 by disconnecting all modes of communication.

The whole town is overjoyed at the success of the Indian Republican Army, and Chittagong is officially conquered by Surya Sen and his boys for one day.

Knowing of the army attack, the revolutionaries leave town before dawn and march towards the Jalalabad hill ranges, looking for a safe place.

In response, the colonial authorities call for reinforcements in the form of machine gunners, who inflict heavy casualties on the revolutionaries.

However, Pritilata Waddedar successfully attacks the Pahartali European Club and assassinates DIG Johnson; being gravely wounded, she commits suicide by swallowing cyanide.

The British block all the roads to godowns, leading Jhunku to an idea to create underground dungeons till the granaries.

[21] Bedabrata Pain, though, said it was delayed due to the distributors suggesting to postpone it despite him preferring it to release before Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey.

Several Bollywood biggies including Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Resul Pookutty and Anil Kapoor turned up to support the filmmaker.

[33] Jim Luce of Huffington Post wrote "The film Chittagong is a brilliant, poignant action-drama, made more so by the fact that it is true.