The Great Indian Kapil Show: Imtiaz Ali reveals why a local man hurled abuses at Jab We Met’s team during the shoot in Punjab

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On Kapil Sharma’s show, Diljit Dosanjh revealed how being a Punjabi he thought he knew Chamkila quite well, but when he met Imtiaz, he surrendered to the homework that the director did on the late Punjabi singer. When Kapil asked Imtiaz what prompted him to make a film on a personality like Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz shared, “I have shot in Punjab several times, and in Punjab, during the evening people get into a mood. During the Jab We Met shoot, one man started abusing and saying cuss words, and people were trying to throw him out, but I went and spoke to him. So he said that I was doing something very wrong in showing Dara Singhji’s family. He objected to the colour of the turban that was being shown.”

Imtiaz added, “He said that was wrong, and the costume designer defended saying that the local man was right, but in films this kind of liberty works. But that’s when I said if I wanted to take regular liberties in filmmaking, why would I hire him from Punjab? The costume designer agreed to the local man, and then I put him in charge of the set, where till the time we were shooting we would run things through him and ask if he was okay with them. So slowly even I came to understand the different colours of Punjab.”

Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila is currently streaming on Netflix.

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