Amazon Quiz (August 8): Ajay Devgn recently won his 3rd National Award for Best Actor for which film?

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Answer: Tanhaji

Ajay Devgn won the National Award for Best Actor for his eponymous role in ‘Tanhaji: the Unsung Warrior’ at the 68th National Film Awards for 2020. He split the award with Suriya, who received it for “Soorarai Pottru.”

Om Raut directed the film, which is based on the life of Tanaji Malusare, a 17th-century Maratha warrior and general of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It tells of the conquering of Kondana, now Sinhagad, by defeating the soldiers of Mughal commander Udaybhan Rathod.

The video depicts the incident in which Tanaji led his troops to recapture the Kondana Fort, which is located near present-day Pune.

Mughal soldiers headed by Rajput commander Jai Sinh I besieged Shivaji at the Purandar fort in Deccan in 1665, forcing him to sign the Treaty of Purandar. According to the terms of the agreement, Shivaji was required to hand over significant forts to the Mughals, including Purandar, Lohagad, Tung, Tikona, and Sinhagad (Kondhana).

As part of the contract, Shivaji committed to visiting Agra in 1666 to meet the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Shivaji was placed under house imprisonment here, but he managed to flee to Maharashtra in a daring escape. When Shivaji returned, he began recapturing the forts abandoned to the Mughals under the pact.

The Marathas sent Tanaji Malusare (played by Devgn in the film), a trusted general of Shivaji, and his brother Suryaji to reclaim Kondhana (Sinhagad). At the time, the fort was commanded by Mughal commander Uday Bhan Rathod (played by Saif Ali Khan).

Tanaji, with roughly 300 soldiers, successfully took the fort in the early hours of February 4, 1670, but lost his own life.

Shivaji, who is said to have mourned Tanaji’s death deeply, had the fort Kondhana renamed ‘Sinhagad’ in his honour (‘Sinh’ meaning ‘lion’). Tulsidas, a bard, was tasked with composing a ‘powada’ (ballad) for Tanaji, and this literary masterpiece is still popular in Maharashtra.

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