In the year 2024, we will be talking a lot about duets in Punjabi music. Do-gaana: two singers singing. Back in 1960, a little over a decade after Punjab was recovering from the trauma of the ...

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali’s Netflix movie Amar Singh Chamkila has struck a chord with the audience. The film is the biopic on the life of the famous musical star from Punjab, who was assassinated at a ...

As a non-Punjabi who lived in Punjab for more than a decade (2005-16) and learnt the language reasonably well, my own discovery of Chamkila happened much after he had passed. By then I could access a ...

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Since its release, a lot has been written about Chamkila. While a section of critics gave thumbs up to the film and Imtiaz Ali’s craft, others questioned whether it was appropriate to glorify Amar ...

In the 1980s, singer Amar Singh Chamkila — born Dhani Ram in a Dalit Sikh family in Punjab — gained notoriety and fame for his rough musicality and teasing lyrics. His record-setting songs obsessed ...

It's poetic justice that Imtiaz Ali bounces back after a couple of duds with Amar Singh Chamkila, the biopic of a singer known for polarising his audience. With Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz Ali comes ...

Imtiaz Ali’s recent film, 'Chamkila,' is based on the life of Punjabi folk singer, Amar Singh Chamkila. The Netflix film has been receiving a lot of praise from audiences and critics alike. ‘Chamkila’ ...

Amar Singh Chamkila Was A Biopic On The Late Punjabi Singer (Photo Credit – Instagram) It was the unfateful day of March 8, 1988, when, at around 2 PM, in the village of Mehsampur (Punjab), two ...

Auteur Imtiaz Ali, who is receiving a lot of positive responses for his recently released streaming film ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’, shared that he met Chamkila’s close friend Tikki, who accompanied him on ...

Imtiaz Ali’s Chamkila is a full-on musical—down to translations of songs in Punjabi, flashing across the screen in Hindi, in Roman letters. If I recall right, Ali’s Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017) was the ...