Bollywood action packed thriller, 23rd March 1931: Shaheed, directed by Guddu Dhanoa and written by Sanjay Masoom was release in the year 2002. The movie starred Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol and Aishwarya Rai in lead roles while Amrita Singh, Suresh Oberoi, Divya Dutta, Rahul Dev, Akshay Anand, Shakti Kapoor, Sachin Khedekar and Rana Jung Bahadur also played important roles in the film. The hit melodious music of the movie was directed by the music director Anand Raj Anand and Surendra Singh Sodhi in collaboration while the songs were crooned by Hans Raj Hans, Veer Rajinder, Udit Narayan, Vinod rathod and Alka yagnik.

The movie is a tribute to the legendary revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh ( Bobby Deol ) witnesses the death of of his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai in the ‘lathi-charge’ of British police. He gets enraged with this and decides to avenge the death of his mentor. He alongwith his colleagues decides to kill the responsible British officer. They manage to kill the British officer but unfortunately get identified. They then decides to plan something big which can results in producing fear in Britishers.

Bhagat then decides to throw a bomb in the British assembly. He alongwith his freind, Sukhdev ( Rahul Dev ) throws bomb in the assembly and get arrested by police. Both of them admits their deed when presented in court. They are sentenced to life in prison where they are brutally totured by police. They continues to fight against Britisher even in prison that only ends with the death.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Deshnu Chalo
2. Sarfaroshi ki tamanna
3. Kush raho
4. Mera rang de basanti
5. Pagadi sambhaal
6. Watanraston ki