Archive · 11 Sep 2026
The Revolutionaries Review Blends Glamour With Forgotten Freedom Struggles
The Revolutionaries is a historical thriller series on Prime Video.
It follows young Indians who fought British rule using secret plans and armed resistance.
Rash Behari Bose is the main character, with several other freedom fighters around him.
The story is set mostly in the early 1910s and eventually reaches the 1915 Ghadar Mutiny.
Reviewers say the show teaches viewers about people who are not often featured in screen versions of India’s freedom struggle.
They also praise the acting, especially Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Gurfateh Pirzada and Jason Shah.
The show uses chases, disguises, songs and dramatic speeches to make history exciting.
However, some events and relationships are changed or dramatized for entertainment.
One review gives the series 3.5 stars and recommends it as a vivid historical watch.
Nikkhil Advani’s Prime Video series follows young Indian revolutionaries resisting British rule in the early 1910s.
The story centers on Rash Behari Bose, Sachindranath Sanyal, Jatindranath Mukherjee, Pratibha Lahiri and Nanibala Devi.
The eight-episode series travels through Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Dehradun and Benaras before reaching the 1915 Ghadar Mutiny.
Reviewers praise its energetic performances, historical detail and focus on lesser-known freedom fighters, especially Bengali figures and families.
The series receives a 3.5-star review but is also criticized for glamorizing history and mixing fact with fiction.
- Who
- The series follows Rash Behari Bose, Sachindranath Sanyal, Jatindranath Mukherjee, Pratibha Lahiri, Nanibala Devi and other Indian revolutionaries; its cast includes Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Gurfateh Pirzada, Pratibha Ranta, Paoli Dam and Jason Shah.
- What
- The Revolutionaries is an eight-episode historical thriller about armed resistance to British colonial rule.
- When
- The main story is set in the early 1910s, reaching the Ghadar Mutiny in 1915; the series also references Shivkar Bapuji Talpade’s reported 1895 flight.
- Where
- The story moves mainly through Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Dehradun and Benaras, and the series streams on Prime Video.
- Why
- The series aims to dramatize the sacrifices of lesser-known freedom fighters and present a less familiar chapter of India’s independence movement.
Historical Tribute
Dramatized Entertainment
Approach to history
Historical Tribute
Reviewers praise the series for bringing lesser-known revolutionaries, Bengali freedom fighters and participating families to wider attention.
Dramatized Entertainment
The series openly mixes fact with fiction, and reviewers note that it changes or invents aspects of some historical events for dramatic effect.
Style and tone
Historical Tribute
The action, chases, disguises and songs make a relatively unfamiliar period accessible and gripping for younger viewers.
Dramatized Entertainment
The glamorous Bollywood-style presentation, inspiring speeches and slow-motion hero shots can make the freedom struggle feel more stylized than documentary-like.
Historical portrayals
Historical Tribute
The show gives viewers a backstory for Reginald Dyer and highlights figures such as Nanibala Devi and Sachindranath Sanyal.
Dramatized Entertainment
The review notes that Bose and Dyer never met in reality, while Nanibala Devi died from illness and poverty rather than torture in a British jail as depicted.
- Title
- The Revolutionaries
- Director and creator
- Nikkhil Advani
- Platform
- Prime Video
- Setting
- India during the early 1910s
- Central figure
- Rash Behari Bose, played by Bhuvan Bam
- Major historical episode
- The Ghadar Mutiny in Lahore in 1915
- Review rating
- 3.5 stars
- Format
- Eight episodes
