In an interview, historian Hardeep Dhillon says that a grossly racialised legal structure was put in place by the British government to compensate Europeans affected in the massacre while undervaluing the claims made by families of Indians killed or injured in the incident.
Since cinema has been a tangible portrayal of good, evil and everything in between, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre has found expression in films down the ages and not just the ones by Indian filmmakers