Comedian Kunal Kamra says he recently watched Honey Trehan’s Punjab 95, a film based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra and starring Punjabi star Diljit Dosanjh in the lead. The makers of the movie have been waiting to receive a certificate from the Censor Board for over 18 months, he said. According to reports, the film certification body has demanded 127 cuts in Punjab 95.
Kunal Kamra, who has often courted controversy for his anti-establishment views, said he wonders who would be upset “if this film came out the way its team and director wanted it to”. In an Instagram post shared on Tuesday, the comedian said the authorities don’t want anyone to celebrate “a hero that hails from a minority community today”.
The discourse around Punjab 95 resurfaced on social media after Diljit Dosanjh and the producers of Sardaar Ji 3 landed in soup over Pakistani actor Hania Aamir’s caComedian Kunal Kamra on Tuesday shared a post in support of Punjab 95, a film directed by Honey Trehan and starring Diljit Dosanjh as the late human activist Jaswant Singh Khalra who investigated cases of mass cremations and extrajudicial killings of Sikhs in Punjab in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1995, the activist was allegedly abducted and murdered by Punjab Police.
In his post, the comic said, “I don’t think they want anyone to celebrate a hero that hails from a minority community today. I just finished watching Panjab 95, a film that refamiliarizes me with the martyrdom of Jaswant Singh Khalra… A man who was abducted, tortured and killed for his ‘crime’ of constitutionally demanding accountability from a system that had descended into depths of inhumanity
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