In social media posts, Diljit Dosanjh suggests film on Jaswant Singh Khalra to be released in February
Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Punjab '95 is based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. The CBFC had earlier proposed 120 cuts to the film.
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Punjab '95 is based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. (Photo: Instagram/@diljitdosanjh)Stuck with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for more than a year, the Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Punjab ’95 may release in February, the Punjabi singer-actor hinted in social media posts on Saturday.
Dosanjh posted a story on his Facebook account in which he wrote: ‘Punjab 95. In February.’ He has also shared photographs from the film. In a similar post on Instagram, Dosanjh captioned the photos: “I Challenge the Darkness.”
Punjab ’95 is based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. The CBFC had earlier proposed 120 cuts to the film. It is still unclear if the movie will be released.
Dosanjh posted a story on his Facebook account in which he wrote: ‘Punjab 95. In February.’ (Photo: Instagram/@diljitdosanjh)
Khalra’s wife Paramjit Kaur Khalra had condemned the censor board’s demand for 120 cuts, saying the biopic on her husband’s life was made with the family’s consent and should be released without any cuts.
She had said that over four years ago, her family had read the script and granted permission to director Honey Trehan to make the movie with Dosanjh portraying Khalra. The family had also watched the film in 2022 and said it was satisfied with its depiction of the activist’s struggle for human rights during a critical period in Punjab’s history.
Khalra had exposed the Punjab Police’s extra-judicial killings of Sikh youth during the militancy in the late 90s. He himself was kidnapped in 1995 and murdered. Later, six Punjab police officials were convicted for kidnapping and murdering him.
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