On Veer Savarkar Jayanti, Randeep Hooda shares his first look from the freedom fighter's biopic

Randeep Hooda will be seen playing the role of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the biopic Swatantra Veer Savarkar. The film will soon go on floor. Before they begin filming, the makers shared the first look of Randeep Hooda as the freedom fighter on May 28, which marks the 139th birth anniversary of Veer Savarkar. The film will be directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.

Sharing the first-look poster of Swatantra Veer Savarkar Randeep Hooda wrote, "A salute to one of the tallest unsung heroes of India’s struggle for freedom & self-actualisation. hope I can live up to the challenge of filling such big shoes of a true revolutionary & tell his real story which had been brushed under the carpet for so long #VeerSavarkarJayanti (sic)."

Mahesh Manjrekar also shared the first-look poster and wrote, "The revolutionary freedom fighter, presenting @RandeepHooda in & as #SwatantraVeerSavarkar! #139yearsofsavarkar @anandpandit63 @thisissandeeps @directorsamkhan@apmpictures @LegendStudios_ #roopapandit #zafarmehdi @deepaksahupr (sic)."

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on May 28, 1883, at Bhagur village of Nashik district in Maharashtra. He was one of the most important figures of the Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organisation and a political party. He was a politician, activist and writer. He is known to have developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva. Veer Savarkar died on February 26, 1966, in Bombay.