Imtiaz Ali’s movie Amar Singh Chamkila, featuring Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra in the lead roles, has garnered positive reviews. The cast appeared on The Great Indian Kapil Show on Saturday night to promote the biopic. During the episode, Imtiaz shared an anecdote with Kapil Sharma from the shooting of Jab We Met in Punjab. He recalled assigning a local man to oversee the sets and ensure the portrayal of Punjabi cultural nuances was accurate.
Diljit Dosanjh said that despite being Punjabi, he didn’t know much about Chamkila until he met Imtiaz, who had done extensive research on the late singer. When Kapil asked Imtiaz why he chose to make a film about Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz mentioned that while filming in Punjab, he observed the unique atmosphere that develops in the evenings. He shared an incident during the Jab We Met shoot when a man objected to the portrayal of Dara Singhji’s family, particularly the colour of the turban. “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,” recalled Imtiaz.
He 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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