‘The Revolutionaries’ release date: Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf lead Prime Video’s period drama on India’s freedom struggle

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Prime Video has set September 11 for the global premiere of The Revolutionaries , bringing Nikkhil Advani’s ambitious period series to audiences across India and more than 240 countries and territories. The Hindi Original will also be available with dubs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali, alongside English and other international-language subtitles.

Created and directed by Advani, the series is inspired by historian and author Sanjeev Sanyal’s bestselling book Revolutionaries: The Other Story Of How India Won Its Freedom . The story focuses on a group of revolutionaries whose contributions to India’s independence movement have received comparatively limited attention in mainstream accounts of the freedom struggle.

Bhuvan Bam, Rohit Saraf, Pratibha Ranta and Gurfateh Pirzada headline the series as four historical figures who became involved in the underground revolutionary movement. Bam plays Rash Behari Bose, Saraf portrays Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ranta plays Pratibha Lahiri, while Pirzada takes on the role of Bagha Jatin.

The series is set in the decades following the Revolt of 1857, when revolutionary groups across India began organising against British rule. Its central characters are driven by the belief that armed resistance could challenge the colonial state, leading them into a world of secret networks, political conspiracies and personal sacrifice.

The ensemble also features Jason Shah, Paoli Dam and Tota Roy Chowdhury in key roles.

Advani has approached the material as a character-driven action drama, with the series combining historical events with the relationships between its central revolutionaries.

The series is written by Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh, Akshita Wadhwana, Shobhit Narang and Rutvi Mehta. It is produced by Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani under their Emmay Entertainment banner.

For Advani, The Revolutionaries marks another collaboration with Prime Video following their work on Mumbai Diaries . The filmmaker has previously directed films including Kal Ho Naa Ho , D-Day , Batla House and Satyameva Jayate , while his recent television work including Freedom at Midnight , has increasingly focused on stories rooted in contemporary and historical India.

The series takes its historical framework directly from Sanyal’s book, which argues for greater attention to revolutionary movements that operated alongside the better-known strands of India’s independence struggle. The Revolutionaries expands that material into a large-scale fictionalised drama centred on the people who participated in those movements.

The Revolutionaries premieres September 11, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video.

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