23rd March 1931: Shaheed is a historical biographical drama set in the mid-1920s, British India, narrating the life events of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh (played by Bobby Deol) and Chandra Shekhar Azad (played by Sunny Deol). Bhagat Singh is enraged when his mentor, Lala Lajpat Rai (played by Raja Bundela) is mercilessly beaten and ultimately killed by British police officers. He, along with his colleagues, sets out to avenge his mentor’s death, and succeeds in killing one of them. He and another freedom fighter Rajguru (played by Vicky Ahuja) are arrested for the charges of killing a police officer and are tortured relentlessly. They are then sentenced to death for the charges of assassination.