Actress Deepika Padukone plays the role of Kalpana Dutta in Ashutosh Gowariker’s next Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey which is based on a true event.

The period thriller is based on the book Do and Die by Manini Chatterjee. Speaking about Kalpana Dutta, director Ashutosh Gowariker said, ” Kalpana Dutta was just 17 when the Chittagong Uprising took place.

She was a voracious reader and was inspired by stories of the youngest revolutionaries. Along with her friend Pritilata Wadadar, she played different roles within the revolutionary movement, including that of a courier  transporting acid from Calcutta to Chittagong.

After her arrest, the court took into consideration her age and sex and she was given a lifer. After she got released in May 1939 she married P.C. Joshi (General secretary of the Communist Party of India). The author Manini Chatterji is her daughter-in-law.