‘Panjab ’95’, Diljit Dosanjh film on activist Jaswant Singh Khalra to release globally on Feb 7; no date for India yet

Dosanjh’s caller gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sparked speculation that it could pb to the movie being released successful India.

On January 11, Dosanjh had posted a communicative connected his Facebook relationship successful which helium wrote: “Panjab 95. In February”.

Panjab ’95 is based connected the beingness of quality rights activistic Jaswant Singh Khalra. The CBFC had earlier projected 120 cuts to the film. Khalra had exposed the Punjab Police’s extra-judicial killings of Sikh younker during the militancy successful the aboriginal 90s. He was kidnapped successful 1995 and murdered. Later, six Punjab constabulary officials were convicted for kidnapping and murdering him.

On January 11, Dosanjh had posted a communicative connected his Facebook relationship successful which helium wrote: “Panjab 95. In February”. He has besides shared stills from the film. In a akin station connected Instagram, Dosanjh captioned the photos: “I Challenge the Darkness.”

Khalra’s woman Paramjit Kaur Khalra had condemned the censor board’s request for 120 cuts, saying the biopic connected her husband’s beingness was made with the family’s consent and should beryllium released without immoderate cuts.

She had said that implicit 4 years ago, her household had work the publication and granted support to manager Honey Trehan to marque the movie with Dosanjh portraying Khalra. The household had besides watched the movie successful 2022 and said it was satisfied with its depiction of the activist’s conflict for quality rights during a captious play successful Punjab’s history.