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Ae Watan Mere Watan (transl. Oh Country My Country) is a 2024 Hindi-language historical biographical film about India's struggle for freedom in 1942, based on the life of Usha Mehta, a brave young girl who starts an underground radio station to spread the message of unity, setting off a thrilling chase with the British authorities during the Quit India movement.
Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000 [3]) was a Gandhian and independence activist of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio , also called the Secret Congress Radio , an underground radio station , which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Congress Radio started with a broadcast on 27 August 1942 at 7:30 p.m. from the top floor of the Sea View building in Chowpatty Bombay with Usha Mehta, the founder of the station, announcing, "This is the Congress Radio calling on (a wavelength of) 42.34 metres from somewhere in India."
Kansara's acting career started in 2010 with a Hindi TV serial, Mukti Bandhan, which was an adaptation of the famous novel Mukti Bandhan by Shri Harkisan Mehta.Presented by Shobhana Desai's Production Pvt. Ltd. Mukti Bandhan [8] revolved around the story of a self-made businessman, I.M. Virani, and his daughter-in-law Devki Shah Virani, played by Esha as the female protagonist.
Usha Mangeshkar (born 1935), Indian singer; Usha Mehta (1920–2000), Indian Gandhian and freedom fighter; Usha Menon, Indian-British gynaecologist; Usha Sanyal, historian specializing in Asia; Usha Uthup (born 1947), Indian singer; K. K. Usha (1939–2020), Chief Justice of the high court of Kerala, India from 2000 to 2001; P. T. Usha (born ...
Ahsaas Channa (born 5 August 1999) is an Indian actress who works in the Hindi film and TV industry. As a child actress, she worked in Vaastu Shastra, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, My Friend Ganesha, Phoonk, among others, and as a teenager, [1] [2] she has been mostly active in television shows, such as Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev, Oye Jassie and MTV Fanaah.
"Capt. Lakshmi" from a 1945 newspaper photograph. Captain Lakshmi was born on 24 October 1914 to S. Swaminathan, a lawyer who practiced criminal law at Madras High Court, and A.V. Ammukutty, better known as Ammu Swaminathan, a social worker and independence activist from an aristocratic Nair family known as "Vadakkath" family of Anakkara, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India. [1]
Usha Mehta, an early Gandhian activist, remarked that "Even our old aunts and great-aunts and grandmothers used to bring pitchers of salt water to their houses and manufacture illegal salt. And then they would shout at the top of their voices: 'We have broken the salt law!'" [ 72 ] The growing number of women in the fight for sovereignty and ...