Punjab 95

Punjab 95 is one of the recently released movies of the biographical-drama genre. This new film’s story is set against the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s. The film’s plot kickstarts with Jaswant Singh Khalra, a mild-mannered bank manager who becomes an unwavering truth seeker when he discovers a horrific pattern of some extrajudicial killings. Then, he gets highly driven by the conscience; he meticulously goes on to document the thousands of illegal detentions, clandestine cremations, and cover-ups that were orchestrated by the Punjab Police. 

Some of the estimates revealed that as many as twenty thousand ‘unclaimed’ bodies as well as some twenty thousand police personnel were brutally punished to participate in their plan. As word of their finding spreads, the police officer Jaswant becomes a beacon of resistance; then he leverages official records, victim registers, and crematorium receipts and becomes the ultimate survivor to expose the corrupt system’s violence to the national as well as the international audiences.

Later, the story takes a tragic turn wherein his brave pursuit comes to an end when he gets abducted by the police personnel out of his hometown, Amritsar, when he was washing his car. Then, he disappears from there, and then it embarks on a huge and massive public outrage in the state. What will happen further? How will the system confront this outrage? Will Jaswant return back to the state in order to establish peace? This is one of the recent movie releases that has entertained the audiences through its drama, suspense, and thrill with the narrative of a man captured with the immersive visuals and an unorthodox storyline.