Prime Video on Thursday released the teaser for its highly anticipated period drama series The Revolutionaries, offering audiences a first glimpse at the show’s action-packed world set against the backdrop of India’s freedom struggle.
The over one-minute-long clip, shared on Prime Video’s official YouTube channel, follows the characters portrayed by Pratibha Ranta, Rohit Saraf, Bhuvan Bam, and Gurfateh Pirzada as they rise up against British rule in pursuit of “justice, liberty and freedom.”
A Story Set in 1912
The series is set in 1912 decades after the Indian rebellion of 1857 and chronicles how four young revolutionaries arm themselves and take on the British Raj. The teaser is packed with intense action sequences, painting a portrait of youth-driven defiance.
Prime Video captioned the video: “Born in the shadow of 1857’s failure, four young bloods driven by a mad passion for justice, liberty and freedom, set out to challenge the British Raj, with guns in their hands and rebellion in their hearts, they awaken a sleeping nation, and set out to do the unthinkable.”
About the Show
The Revolutionaries is produced by Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani and directed by Nikkhil Advani. The show is an adaptation of Sanjeev Sanyal’s book The Revolutionaries: The Other Story Of How India Won Its Freedom, and centres on real-life freedom fighters Rash Behari Bose, Sachindranath Sanyal, and Kartar Singh Sarabha. Jason Shah also stars in the series.
Filming took place across several locations in India, including Mumbai, Amritsar, Varanasi, and Dehradun, among others. While an official release date is yet to be announced, the show is set to stream on Prime Video later this year.
Nikkhil Advani on the Series
Earlier this year, director Nikkhil Advani spoke to news agency PTI about what sets this project apart. “The shooting is done. We are in post-production and it’s very different. But revolution is younger, more ‘josh’ (energy). I don’t have the burden of most people knowing or claiming to know Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Gandhi. They are going to discover these revolutionaries as 17-18 year old boys. These revolutionaries didn’t know how to use a gun, but they decided that they would throw the British out,” he said. He summed up the show’s spirit in one line: “Revolutionaries is about audacity.”
The Revolutionaries marks Nikkhil Advani’s second consecutive drama series rooted in India’s independence movement, following his 2024 directorial Freedom At Midnight.
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