Months after Bollywood flick Udta Punjab, a film highlighting the medication threat in Punjab, made unsettles the nation over for the perfectly fine with respect to wrong reasons, another film Journey of Punjab 2016 is good to go for discharge by November end. Made on a restricted spending plan, the Punjabi flick may not bring out an indistinguishable reaction from Udta Punjab, but rather behind the camera, it holds the agony, melancholy, misfortune and injury of a family that lost its 37-year-old child because of smack habit.
Gurbinder Singh, a promising youthful kabaddi player and mentor got dependent on smack and kicked the bucket on October 30, 2014. After two years, his uncle Surjeet Singh Sidhu, 59, a school main has put in every one of his assets to create this film highlighting how Punjab's childhood is falling prey to drugs.
Addressing The Indian Express, Sidhu says how his sibling's child, winning admirably till 2010 and filling in as a kabaddi mentor in his own particular school fell prey to drugs.
Important at BKS College, Muhar of Ferozepur, Sidhu says, "He was tall, youthful chap who delighted in the round of kabaddi since adolescence. He went ahead to play different competitions in England and Canada and was a gold medallist in kabaddi at PU India Inter University competition. We truly don't realize what turned out badly till we got the signs. He began arriving home late, obscure individuals thumped the entryways late night and cash was vanishing from the house. One day, we discovered smack kept in his garments and he admitted of taking medications."
The family got him conceded at de-habit focus in Tarn Taran yet after a month he had returned to drugs. This proceeded for a long time. His
condition compounded after he fell wiped out because of Hepatitis C. "At last, he generally said a certain something, please spare me, I would prefer not to kick the bucket," says Sidhu, who was sincerely connected to his nephew since adolescence.
The film has been made by Red Arts Theater Group, an activity of graduated class of Punjabi University, Patiala, which first thought of a road play 'Aakhir Kadon Tak' (Till when will this proceed?) and organized it crosswise over schools and universities in Punjab. It was simply after Sidhu consented to put in his cash that the gathering began chipping away at a film a year ago. Sidhu would play a character of a street pharmacist in the film.
In any case, it's not the negatives that the film has concentrated on, says executive Balraj Sagar and essayist Jagdeep Deep. "Udta Punjab was business. It never
highlighted what a country Punjabi family unit experiences when it loses a child to drugs. We know we won't offer however a family can sit together and watch our film. Udta Punjab never achieved the greater part of provincial group of onlookers, we are pointing them," they say.
The film has four Punjabi adolescents in lead characters who depict Punjab in various shades.
All set to hit somewhere in the range of 50 screens generally single screens on November 25, Sidhu says putting in assets was never simple. "I took assistance from all companions and relatives, persuaded artistes to work for a cause. We shot crosswise over Bathinda to decrease costs. However, this must be done," says Sidhu.
