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బ్రిటీష్ కాలంలో జరిగిన 'సారాగర్హి' యుద్ధమే కేసరి చిత్ర కథాంశం. అక్షయ్ కుమార్ ప్రధానపాత్రలో ఈ సినిమా తెరకెక్కింది.
కేసరి చిత్రంలో అక్షయ్ కుమార్
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Published : Feb 21, 2019, 12:26 PM IST
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చరిత్ర నేపథ్యంలో రూపొందిన సినిమాలు బాలీవుడ్లో చాలానే వస్తున్నాయి. 'మొహంజదారో', 'పద్మావతి', 'మణికర్ణిక' ఆ కోవలోకే వస్తాయి. తాజాగా అక్షయ్ కుమార్ ప్రధానపాత్రలో 'కేసరి' చిత్రం తెరకెక్కుతోంది. బ్రిటీష్ కాలంలో జరిగిన 'సారాగర్హి' యుద్ధమే ఈ చిత్ర కథాంశం. నేడు ఈ చిత్ర ట్రైలర్ విడుదలైంది.
బుద్ధి చెప్పాల్సిన సమయం వచ్చింది"నేను తన బానిసను, భారతీయులంతా మూర్ఖులని ఓ బ్రిటీష్ వ్యక్తి అన్నాడు. అలాంటి వారికి బుద్ధి చెప్పాల్సిన సమయం వచ్చింది" అంటూ అక్షయ్ పలికే డైలాగ్తో ట్రైలర్ మొదలైంది.
మార్చి 21న విడుదలవుతున్న ఈ చిత్రానికి అనురాగ్ కశ్యప్ దర్శకత్వం వహించారు. కేప్ ఆఫ్ గుడ్ హోప్ ఫిలిమ్స్, ధర్మ ప్రొడక్షన్స్ సంయుక్తంగా ఈ చిత్రాన్ని నిర్మిస్తున్నాయి.
చరిత్ర నేపథ్యంలో రూపొందిన సినిమాలు బాలీవుడ్లో చాలానే వస్తున్నాయి. 'మొహంజదారో', 'పద్మావతి', 'మణికర్ణిక' ఆ కోవలోకే వస్తాయి. తాజాగా అక్షయ్ కుమార్ ప్రధానపాత్రలో 'కేసరి' చిత్రం తెరకెక్కుతోంది. బ్రిటీష్ కాలంలో జరిగిన 'సారాగర్హి' యుద్ధమే ఈ చిత్ర కథాంశం. నేడు ఈ చిత్ర ట్రైలర్ విడుదలైంది.
బుద్ధి చెప్పాల్సిన సమయం వచ్చింది"నేను తన బానిసను, భారతీయులంతా మూర్ఖులని ఓ బ్రిటీష్ వ్యక్తి అన్నాడు. అలాంటి వారికి బుద్ధి చెప్పాల్సిన సమయం వచ్చింది" అంటూ అక్షయ్ పలికే డైలాగ్తో ట్రైలర్ మొదలైంది.
మార్చి 21న విడుదలవుతున్న ఈ చిత్రానికి అనురాగ్ కశ్యప్ దర్శకత్వం వహించారు. కేప్ ఆఫ్ గుడ్ హోప్ ఫిలిమ్స్, ధర్మ ప్రొడక్షన్స్ సంయుక్తంగా ఈ చిత్రాన్ని నిర్మిస్తున్నాయి.
RESTRICTIONS: PART MUST CREDIT KRIEGSHAUSER FAMILY
SHOTLIST:
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Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, UK - 13 February 2019
1. Pan down from trees on edge of park where US bomber Mi Amigo crashed while deliberately avoiding a group of playing children
2. Tilt up from children's swings to houses on edge of park
3. Pan from grassy area of park to the woods where plane crashed and memorial is now located
4. Various of Tony Foulds, 82, who was playing in the park when the plane crashed, tending to memorial
5. Pan down of plaques on memorial honouring crew who died
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Foulds, Mi Amigo flypast campaigner:
"We heard this plane coming over. And my friend said to me, he says: 'This plane doesn't sound right. I've never heard one like this.' And when it came over, (there was) only one engine working. It was spitting oil. You could actually see daylight through the tail of this bomber. That's how bad it was."
7. Pan down memorial plaques
KRIEGSHAUSER FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT KRIEGSHAUSER FAMILY
ARCHIVE: Spokane, Washington, US - 22 October 1943
8. Zoom in on STILL of crew posing for photo in front of training plane at Geiger Field. Back row from left: Staff Sergeant Estabrooks, Sergeant Robbins, Staff Sergeant Mayfield, Sergeant Ambrosio, Sergeant Tuttle and Sergeant Williams. Front row from left: Lieutenant Hernandez, Lieutenant Humphrey, Lieutenant Curtis (holding the mascot) and Lieutenant John Kriegshauser
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Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, UK - 13 February 2019
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Foulds, Mi Amigo flypast campaigner:
"When he (the pilot) came over, he saw the green and thought 'I've got a good chance of landing on here, one engine working, so it's not going to be revving'. And when he saw us on (the grass), of course, he decided to circle, hoping that when he got back we would have gone - and we hadn't. When he came round again, which was a lot lower, the pilot went like that to us (moves his hands) and of course, eight years old, we thought they were just waving, so we just waved back. It went round again and this time it was just above the chimneys of the houses, that's how low it was. He had a choice to make. He could have landed on the green, or he could have died, because there's no way he would have got over these trees. And of course, we heard him rev, it went up and the other engine failed, and it dropped straight into ground here."
10. Pan of park
11. Rows of houses on edge of park
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Foulds, Mi Amigo flypast campaigner:
"It'll help them (the Mi Amigo crew). This is for them. They will know that there's been a flypast. And how many other places can you say? You've got cenotaphs all over. They're not going to get the treatment that these are going to get. People know about these now and never known about them. Till five weeks ago, I used to stand here on my own and not see a soul. But I used to spend all my time with these and this is what I do, still. And I love them to bits and I will always love them to bits."
13. Wide of memorial
14. Close up of note left at memorial reading "In memory of the bomber crew 'Mi Amigo'. And the lovely Tony Foulds whose (sic) dedicated his life in caring for this monument. Its (sic) touched our hearts."
KRIEGSHAUSER FAMILY HANDOUT - MUST CREDIT KRIEGSHAUSER FAMILY
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15. Zoom in on STILL showing Mi Amigo pilot Lieutenant John Kriegshauser ++PLEASE NOTE FAMILY'S SPELLING OF SURNAME IS KRIEGSHAUSER++
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Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, UK - 13 February 2019
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Foulds, Mi Amigo flypast campaigner:
"They're not just heroes. You see, they could have saved themselves. I've put myself in their place many a time and thought: 'Now if I was wanting to land and there were children on, I would think to myself: 'Well I'll land and hope I don't hit them'. I would never ever dream of taking my own life like these did. I feel and I've always felt that I killed these. It's something I've always thought. I've always had guilt in my mind and I don't know why I'm the only one out to the people who was on this park that feel the guilt."
(Reporter: 'Tony, you were eight years old')
"I know, I know, but through the years, the guilt has built up and built up and I put these (airmen) before anything, anything."
17. Close up stone at memorial decorated with poppy and "Lest we forget"
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Foulds, Mi Amigo flypast campaigner:
"It's not a memorial to me, this is what people don't understand. They are family to me and I am having my ashes put behind the memorial. My family's already agreed to it. So I'm going to be with them forever."
19. Pull focus from poppies to memorial
20. Foulds sits beside memorial
21. Close up of hand patting memorial
22. Close up of Foulds, with tears in his eyes, in silent contemplation on edge of memorial
23. Wide of Foulds sitting on edge of memorial
24. Close up of memorial plaque with name of John G Kriegshauser (note: name is mis-spelled on memorial)
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Chicago, US - 14 February 2019
25. John Kriegshauser, named after his uncle, Mi Amigo pilot Lieutenant John Kriegshauser, sitting at his computer
26. Kriegshauser looking at photo of uncle on screen
27. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kriegshauser, nephew of Mi Amigo pilot Lieutenant John Kriegshauser
"Of course, I want to thank him deeply, because he has been like a real leading light in keeping the memory of this alive and in fact assisting our family into knowing more about what actually happened."
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28. STILL Mi Amigo pilot Lieutenant John Kriegshauser
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Chicago, US - 14 February 2019
29. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kriegshauser, nephew of Mi Amigo pilot Lieutenant John Kriegshauser
"Yeah, I'm proud to have an uncle who was a hero and he really was a hero. So I'm very pleased by that. It's a little bit intimidating, because it's a big shadow to fall across you, but it just never occurred to me a time when it was not prideful to know about him and his sacrifice and the heroics of his crew and the bravery."
30. Kriegshauser looking out of window
STORYLINE:
The wartime heroism of an American air force crew will finally be honoured this week, 75 years after they sacrificed their lives to save a group of English schoolchildren.
Lieutenant John G. Kriegshauser was flying a mission from an English airbase to occupied Denmark in 1944 when his plane was hit by enemy fire.
He managed to coax the stricken aircraft back across the sea and found he was over the northern English city of Sheffield, where he spotted a park where he could try to crash-land.
But at the last moment he saw children playing in the park, and rather than risk hitting them, he veered off again and crashed into a nearby wood.
None of the ten airmen on board survived.
One of the children running around in the park on that day was Tony Foulds.
He's dreamed of honouring the airmen for decades, and now that he's 82, he is about to get his wish.
The retired engineer has a routine when he visits the stone memorial marking the site where they died.
After tending to the memorial, he kisses his finger and lays it on the metal plate bearing their names.
Finally he sits beside the stone, laying his hand on it with the care of someone offering comfort to the shoulder of a loved one.
As he gently taps the stone, Foulds tells the missing men about the weather and his plans for the day.
He says it is the least he can do, because he believes the young Americans sacrificed their lives to save him and his friends.
Foulds has long dreamed of a more public recognition of the sacrifice made by the crew of the plane, a B-17G nicknamed "Mi Amigo''.
He wanted an aerial display - a flypast - something in the skies as befitting men who fell from them.
On Friday he will finally get his wish, as American and British air force plans combine to pay an aerial tribute.
John G. Kriegshauser, a 23-year-old pilot from St. Louis, Missouri, and his crew had arrived in Britain only six weeks before that fateful day, 22 February 1944, and were already on their 15th mission in their B-17G Flying Fortress.
Their target was a daring daylight raid on the Aalborg airfield in occupied Denmark, a key fighter base that protected Germany from allied bombers.
Mi Amigo was hit in the attack and limped back across the North Sea, trying to get back to its base in Chelveston, England.
But the weather was poor and when the plane broke through clouds looking for somewhere to land, it was over Sheffield, 80 miles (130 kilometres) to the northwest.
Foulds was eight years old at the time, and had gathered with other schoolchildren in Endcliffe Park, an oasis of green surrounded by terraced houses.
After five years of war, including German attacks on Sheffield's steel and armaments plants, the boys were accustomed to hearing planes and knew how to identify them.
But this time, the sound of the aircraft just wasn't right.
As the plane sputtered over the park, Kriegshauser waved his arms at the youngsters.
They waved back, thinking he was just being friendly.
Years later, Foulds realised the pilot was really trying to get them to run away.
The plane circled three times, the last time coming in so low that it was just above the chimneys of the houses.
Kriegshauser could have tried to land on the green, but he didn't.
He turned his plane into the woods, made a final effort to rev up his only working engine, and failed.
The Mi Amigo crashed nose down into the woods alongside the park.
Neighbours and the local fire brigade rushed to the scene, but there were no survivors.
Foulds says he has felt guilty ever since, wondering why he was blessed to go on with his life, to have children and grandchildren, when the young men onboard that plane were not.
As a boy, he didn't dwell on the events of that day.
But when he was 17, he came across the crater where the Mi Amigo crashed, and decided to make sure the crew were never forgotten.
A memorial was built in 1969, and as time went on, Foulds visited it as many as 260 times a year.
For him, the memorial is more than a marker to the events of 22 February 1944.
It is where he comes to sit and spend some time with the crew, talking to them and keeping them up on the news.
But Foulds always dreamed of a proper military honour for the young Americans: a flypast.
His ideas were modest at first, but he couldn't get anyone to pay attention.
Britain's royal air force ignored his letter, he says, and the police said no to a helicopter.
He even thought about having a hang-glider pass over carrying a US flag, but that didn't work out.
Foulds kept promising his friends, the Mi Amigo crew, that he wouldn't give up.
Finally, after a BBC presenter started a Twitter campaign to support Foulds in his quest, he was told his dream would come true.
This Friday, the Royal Air Force and the US Air Force will mark the 75th anniversary of the Mi Amigo crash with a flypast over Endcliffe Park by fighter jets and other military aircraft.
The family of the pilot are grateful, and a little surprised at all the fuss.
They remember Kriegshauser as athletic, extroverted and popular, a young man who grew up with the romance of aviation after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
After enlisting in the US Army Air Corps and serving as a radio operator before the war, he was selected for pilot training after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Some of his family are travelling to England for the big day and they can't wait to meet the man who has made it possible.
Foulds, for his part, can't wait to meet them.
Just the thought makes him cry.
But as he taps his hand on the stone memorial, he focuses on the crew, saying over and over again that the flypast will forever make the men feel special.
Foulds says he will never abandon the Mi Amigo crew.
When he dies, he says, he'll have his ashes buried behind the memorial.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The ten men who died in the Mi Amigo crash came from every corner of America: John G. Kriegshauser of St. Louis, Missouri, pilot; Second Lieutenant Lyle Curtis of Idaho Falls, Idaho, co-pilot; Second Lieutenant John W. Humphrey of Wyoming, Illinois, navigator; Second Lieutenant Melchor Hernandez of Los Angeles, bombardier; Staff Sergeant Robert Mayfield of Raymond, Illinois, radio operator; Sergeant Vito Ambrosio of Brooklyn, New York, waist gunner; Sergeant Harry Estabrooks of Mound Valley, Kansas, flight engineer and top turret gunner; Sergeant George M. Williams of Dallas, waist gunner; Sergeant Charles Tuttle of Raceland, Kentucky, ball turret gunner; Sergeant Maurice Robbins of Manor Texas, rear gunner.
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