Fun fact: Bhagat Singh loved rasgullas. He also made women go weak in the knees (understandable, given his handsome face and tall, strapping body). But he resisted their overtures with the stoicism of a person who had shunned worldly pleasures for a greater good. The man liked singing. He often wrote poetry, and was rarely ever seen without a book in his hand. And yet, all we really know him to be is a heroic revolutionary who died for the country at the tender age of 23.

It's to shed light on his life beyond that basic fact that Piyush Mishra wrote Gagan Damama Bajyo, a play that's coming to Mumbai for three days starting tomorrow, 25 years after he conceived it. Mishra — an acclaimed Bollywood personality — tells us that there are various other titbits about Singh's life that have been largely ignored down the years, even as the man was put on a pedestal by both sides of the political divide. For instance, there was a plot that Chandrashekhar Azad, Singh's mentor, had laid to bomb the assembly.