INDEPENDENCE DAY SKIT SCRIPT
● STUDENTS/ YOUNG REVOLUTIONARIES
● INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN
● TRIBAL MOVEMENT
● FOCUS ON THE MASSES- WHAT IS A LEADER W/O FOLLOWERS
Characters:
● Satya
● Aadya
● Aakash
● Anand
● Maharani Chimnabai
● Woman 1
● Savitribai
● Woman 2
● Tribal Elder
● Birsa Munda
● Tribal Youth
● 7 martyrs
● 2-3 British officers
● + extras if possible
● Male narrator (NM)
● Female narrator (NF)
Main duties of the volunteers -
● Help actors
SCENE 1 - Anjali and Johanna
NF: The cousins are at their Daadi's house for their annual raksha bandhan celebrations (they
walk in with rakhis on their hand, dressed in their best clothes and come and sit in front of Daadi
who is sitting on her chair knitting.)
Aadhya: Daadi! look at what akash and anand got me! (gift)
Satya: Wow Aadhya! And what did you get them?
Anand and Akash hold up their rakhis
Satya: bache, do you know what these Rakhis stand for?
Anand: Yes Daadi, it symbolises our promise to protect our didi forever.
Aakash: Daadi, we wanted to talk to you about a skit we are putting up in school for
independence day. Can you tell us any of your own experiences in the freedom struggle?
Aadhya: We don’t want to talk about the same old protests and rallies
Satya: Okay kids, do you want to hear a story that my own Naani told me about the promises
she and her friends made to protect India forever?
All 3: Yes!
(CUE FLASH BACK MUSIC)
SCENE 2
NM: Picture this: the date is 5th Jan, 1927, in the bustling city of Poona, at the Ferguson
College where a gathering of over 2,000 attendees is taking place. This is the first session of the
All India Women’s Conference, led by Maharani Chimnabai Saheb Gaekwa of Baroda. It was
an authoritative and representative memorandum by women on educational reforms.
(kids enter with table and they sit around a table)
Maharani: Women's education can’t be addressed properly unless we deal with these harmful
social customs. If we let our girls get married at the age of 10, what hope do we have for
educating our women? (gets up)
Woman 1: You are right, Maharani Chimnabai! Education is the birthright of every child that
comes into this world, whether it be a girl or a boy. (hold maharanis shoulder and stand up too
and say her lines)
NF: Realising that early marriage was among the main impediments in the path of education
of girls, the women of the All India Women's Confress also supported the infamous Sarda Act
of 1929—an attempt to stop child marriage in India. It was not just a law—it was a statement.
A promise to girls, especially those from the depressed classes, across India: your future
matters. ( all the women come in front and grab signs)
Savitribai: We fight not with swords, but with education, with reform. That is our weapon.
That is our strength. (walks a bit more in front raises sign while saying this)
Woman 2: You are an inspiration to us all as the first female teacher, Savitribai. We may not
carry rifles, but we carry resolve. Our classrooms are our battlegrounds, our pens are our
swords. BHARAT MATA KI JAI! (hand up with newfound motivation)
NM: And so, women marched forward—not just in protest, but into classrooms, into the
streets, into prison cells. Their battle cry? Equality, dignity, and freedom. (women march
forward and exit)
NF: Let us honour their spirit with a dance. (while the women exit, followed by gr+kids, then the
narrators as the dances enter)
DANCE
SCENE 3
(gr+ks enter to the center, BOTH THE NS ARE ON STAGE TOO)
Aadhya: Daadi… I had no idea women fought so hard. I feel so inspired!
Satya: Ah, Aadhya… history forgets the quiet ones. But their strength built the foundation we
stand on.
Akash: Daadi, can we include one more story? Something different??
Anand: Yeah, like from the forests or something? We were reading about someone called Birsa
Munda.
Satya (smiling): Ah, Birsa. The tribal warrior. Not every hero wore a uniform or spoke in the
Parliament. Some roared from the jungles. ( Some roared from the jungles- birsa and tribe
enter)
JUNGLE MUSIC - SCENE 3 CONTD.
NM: We flashback to the forests of Chotanagpur in the late 1800s. Colonial forces had begun
exploiting tribal lands, cutting down forests, and taxing the Adivasis. ( all tribals enter and take
center stage)
Tribal Elder: Our land… our god… they are not separate. If they take our forests, they take our
soul. ( looks down for land and touches the stage and then looks up for god, has to be very
melodramatic.)
N: Enter Birsa. A young boy who would grow up to be a legend. A leader who became a god to
his people. “Dharti Aba” — Father of the Earth. (birsa enters, rest make v formation to let him
be in the front)
Birsa Munda: We will not bow down. Not to landlords. Not to the British. The land is ours.
The forests are ours. And no one, and i mean NO ONE shall take it from us!
Tribal Youth: Birsa Bhai, what do we do? ( with pleading hands)
Birsa Munda: We rise. We fight. With our axes, our drums, and our unity. We are after all, sons
and daughters of the soil. (raises weapon- followed by the rest)
BRITISH VILLAIN MUSIC PLAYS
(Enter British soldiers with arms- fight against tribal during narration)
NF: The Munda Rebellion, though eventually suppressed, shook the British. Birsa’s voice still
echoes in the hills—reminding us that the fight for freedom wasn’t only in the cities, it was also
in the forests, in the villages, and among the common people.
NM: Now, let us hear the hearts of our freedom fighters through a song.
SONG
(CUE TRANSITION MUSIC — BACK TO DAADI'S HOUSE)
SCENE 5
Akash: Daadi… these people were so brave. But imagine if it was up to us ( he says looking at his
cousins) what could we even have done?
Satya (smiling gently): Let me tell you something. The freedom struggle wasn’t just built on
big names. It was built by the hands of students, just like you.
Aadhya: Students?
Satya: Yes, in 1920, when Gandhi gave the call for Non-Cooperation, students left British-run
schools. They boycotted classes, burnt foreign textbooks, and even built national institutions
from scratch. Some were your age. Some were younger.
Anand: That’s… that’s incredible.
Akash: Daadi, weren’t students part of the protest against the simon commission as well?
Satya: Yes Akash you’re absolutely right
NM2: Before Patna… before the flag was hoisted… there was another cry rising through the
streets of India — Simon Go Back!
NF2 : It was 1928. The Simon Commission, made entirely of British men, had come to India
to decide our future—without a single Indian voice.
(Students on stage begin to gather in groups with black cloths/banners. They wear headbands,
carry small placards or posters with “Simon Go Back”, “We Want Swaraj”, etc. written boldly.
Some have black armbands. )
NM2: From Lahore to Lucknow, Bombay to Madras—people poured onto the streets. It
wasn’t violence that shook the British. It was unity.
NF2: Among them were students, teachers, workers… and a young man named Lala Lajpat
Rai.
(One student actor stands boldly at front, as British police approach and mime lathi charge. A
slow-motion scene of him being hit. He collapses as other protestors kneel around him, holding up
“Simon Go Back” banners in defiance.)
NM2: Lala Lajpat Rai was brutally injured by the British police during a peaceful protest. He
later succumbed to his wounds. His last words?
NF2: "The blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of British rule in India."
(Music swells. Protesters stand tall, raise fists or signs high again. Freeze for a few seconds before
leaving the stage.)
Satya: The revolution of students is remembered through the famous ‘Seven Martyrs of
Patna’.
NM: It was the morning of 11th August 1942, three days after the Quit India Movement was
launched. At the time, over 6,000 students rushed into the gates of the Patna Secretariat.
They bore no arms and had a singular objective–to hoist the flag on the building of the
Secretariat, without causing any damage–neither to lives nor the public property. The British
forces tried to keep the students from reaching the Secretariat, but the students marched on.
They knew they could not stop the students, so they opened fire. They wanted to kill the one
bearing the flag. ( seven march until they reach the centre until the british villian music starts
playing and they are shot )
NF: Umakant Prasad Sinha (gunshot), Ramanand Singh (gunshot), Satish Chandra Jha
(gunshot), Jagatpati Kumar (gunshot), Devipada Choudhry (gunshot), Rajendra Singh
(gunshot), Ramgovind Singh (gunshot). These boys lost their lives trying to hoist the flag. Like
flies they fell, one after the other. The bravery of these heroic students was commemorated in
the form of the famous Shaheed Smarak Patna Memorial in Bihar.
(While Satya talks, 7 students along with two British officers come on stage in front of them. As
the story progresses there is the sound of a gunshot- the fist one falls- this goes on until statue is
recreated on stage)
Exit Students and officers
Satya (rising slowly, holding up the Rakhi to the crowd): This—this rakhi is a promise.
But it’s more than that. It’s a reminder. That protecting someone means fighting for justice.
Speaking up. Showing up.
Aadhya: Like they did.
Satya: Exactly. Remember this, my kids—freedom wasn’t won by a few loud voices. It was
won by a thousand quiet acts of courage. By women with books, tribals with axes, and students
with dreams. Freedom is not just a gift, It is a responsibility.
Satya (looking out at the audience): So today, don’t just celebrate the leaders. Let us honour
those who dared to dream of a free India. Let us remember the followers, the forgotten and the
fearless.
All Together: Jai Hind!
COSTUMES-
1.TRIBALS
WOMEN - sarees/ kurtis
Students - dhotas + white kurtas preferably
Satya - SareeKids - Indian festival clothes kinda