Diljit Dosanjh's Punjab 95: Release Window, Plot, Cast, And More

Diljit Dosanjh is gearing up for the release of his next film, Punjab 95. The biopic will be on Jaswant Singh Khalra, a prominent human rights activist. As per recent reports, the film will be released without any cuts, which is surely a triumph for the team as it was embroiled in controversy with the Censor Board from day 1. Punjab 95 has been directed by Honey Trehan. Here's more to it. 
Punjab 95

Diljit Dosanjh is gearing up for the release of his next film, Punjab 95. The biopic will be on Jaswant Singh Khalra, a prominent human rights activist. As per recent reports, the film will be released without any cuts, which is surely a triumph for the team as it was embroiled in controversy with the Censor Board from day 1. Directed by Honey Trehan, Punjab 95 will hit the screens in February, even though the year was not mentioned by the makers.

Punjab 95: Diljit Dosanjh's Film is on Jaswant Singh Khalra

Diljit Dosanjh will be portraying the character of Jaswant Singh Khalra, a prominent Sikh human rights activist, in the film. The "95" in the title is probably alluding to 1995, the year Khalra was abducted by personnel of the Punjab police and killed. On September 6 of that year, he was last seen in front of his house washing his car. Reports state Khalra was taken toChabaalPolice Station by Punjab cops and tortured in custody. No one heard of him for months, after which his body was found with severe injury marks.

The reason why Khalra invited the ire of authorities was because of his social work. During the 1980s and 1990s, when the Punjab insurgency was on, he started probing the numerous extrajudicial killings and cremations of Sikh youth in the state with their bodies being labelled "unclaimed" or "without an heir."

He took it as a mission to uncover this blatant human rights violation in Punjab and soon discovered evidence of more than 25,000 unidentified bodies, which resulted in his abduction and killing. September 6, the day he died, is known as Khalra Day in many cities in Punjab, where the community honours his legacy.

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Apart from Dosanjh, Punjab 95 stars Arjun Rampal, Jagjeet Sandhu, Varun Badola, Kanwaljeet Singh, and Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, among many others. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP Movies, the movie had been stuck in the painful process of getting a clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) since 2022. Then in July 2024, the board asked for around 85 cuts, and 120 in September 2024.

At the time, Khalra’s wife Paramjit Kaur Khalra expressed her disappointment, saying they had consented to Trehan and his team to make the film and demanded it be released without cuts.

The fiasco was finally sorted when the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee stepped in and showed historians the film to judge the accuracy, after which Punjab 95 was passed without any cut.

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