The Lost Victory

The Lost Victory perfectly captures the cultural essence of 1942 and the urgency of this colourful and moving pageant of a nation about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially it is the story of Buta Singh a shrewd and wily official working with the British and of Sher Singh his vain and ambitious son driven to rebellion against the foreign master. It is also the story of the women of the family—Champak Sher’s beautiful wife her wild passions bursting the bonds of century-old prohibitions and Sabhrai Sher’s mother whose matriarchal strength sustains the family in its time of crisis. What happens to this family when a brutal and senseless murder sets father against son wife against husband is told against the background of an India torn by religious tension and fraternal strife.