After the three-year censorship battle with the Central Board of Film Certification, Sutlet film was premiered on ZEE 5 on Friday and in just two days it was taken down from the streaming OTT channel without any official statement or explanation.
Many have objected to the treatment rendered to Diljit’s film and recently the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap took to Instagram in support of Diljit and the film He also stated that the banning only made the audience more curious than ever before and he sees more and more viewers now wanting to watch the film. He said he would now like to watch the film to understand why the film was banned in the first place.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma who saw the film on X also shared his review. He says Satluj is not a film it’s a deep would that would never heal. It is one of the darkest chapters of our history wrote the filmmaker.
It is a cinema of confrontation where Diljit Dosanjh acts with fury with no chest thumping showing off his heroism. He uses just one weapon that is a ledger and his conscience.
Ram Gopal Varma praised the film’s director Honey Trehan and wrote the film showcases the horror unfold instead of sensationalizing. The thriller through bureaucratic films and investigation is a slow burn, hushed conversations and cremation records. The overall restraint makes the brutality in the film as the subject matter which not only hits harder than ever before but it explodes the force of truth not the exploitation. He requested the censor board not to censor the film.
Satlut is set in Punjab in 1995 and follows the story of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Kalra. It is his story about how he disappears after uncovering allegations that Punjab Police have killed illegally and cremated nearly 2000 bodies which have been recovered.
Originally the film was to be released in theatres but reportedly the CBFC has asked for Rs. 125 cuts which the makers have refused to comply and hence the theatrical release has also been shelved. The film in the meantime quietly premiered on ZEE5 but it was taken down within two days.
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