Canada-India deadlock to affect two Diljit Dosanjh starrers?
Now that India’s war against separatism has reached Canada, the repercussions are likely to be far reaching. The cancellation of Canadian rapper Shubh’s India concert was described by a well-placed source in the Indian administrative service as the “tip of the iceberg”. Cultural events and content of films pertaining to Punjab and the Sikh community are likely to be scrutinized even more closely. Diljit Dosanjh finds himself in more than one controversial film. Honey Trehan’s Ghallughara, the bio-pic on human-rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, and Imtiaz Ali’s Chamkila, based on the life of singer Amar Singh Chamkila who was slain at the age of 28, both featuring Dosanjh in the lead, are likely to undergo an even more rigorous scrutiny than they already have, and may not make it to the screen at all. Trehan’s Ghallughara is the third film based on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots featuring Diljit in the lead. Diljit did a moving film on the 1984 riots titled 1984....