Diljit Dosanjh gets emotional at Chamkila trailer launch, Parineeti Chopra consoles him: Pics

Diljit Dosanjh, Parineeti Chopra, Imtiaz Ali, AR Rahman attended the trailer launch event of their movie Chamkila in Mumbai on Thursday.

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Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra attended the trailer launch of their upcoming movie Chamkila in Mumbai. At one point, Diljit even broke down in tears at the praise he got from film's director Imtiaz Ali.

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Diljit even touched the feet of his idol AR Rahman. The Oscar-winning composer has given the music to the film.

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The film, starring musician-actor Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra, revolves around the life and time of Amar Singh Chamkila, a popular Punjabi singer in the '80s who was shot dead with his singer-wife Amarjot in 1988. 

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Most of the film's music, which is composed by A R Rahman, was recorded on set with the actors singing live. Imtiaz Ali said it was important to have actors who could sing and Diljit and Parineeti were perfect.

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"It was inevitable that the actors had to be the singers. So, if Diljit wasn't in the film, then I don't know whether the film could be made. He's an authentic singer from Punjab who understands life, the cultural context and the linguistics of Chamkila better than anybody. It has been an interesting journey with him on this film." 

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AR Rahman performs songs from the movie at the trailer launch. Imtiaz Ali said he was fascinated by Chamkila's approach to music, which he treated as a "friend, an escape route from reality and as something that empowered him". 

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Ali said he started listening to Chamkila's songs before making the film to understand the psyche of the musician, who courted controversies with the lyrics of his songs. 

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Neha Dhupia was the emcee at the trailer launch, 

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Kailash Kher with Rahman and Ali. Some of Chamkila's popular songs include ‘Takue Te Takua’, ‘Pehle Lalkare Naal’, ‘Jatt Di Dushmani’, and devotional tracks like ‘Baba Tera Nankana’ and ‘Talwar Main Kalgidhar Di’. 

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Amar Singh Chamkila is the first biopic that Ali has directed. He said making a film that is backed by facts was an interesting process.  "It's a different movie than what I’ve done before. Since it's a biopic, I rely on facts to create scenes for a film rather than imagination. It's an interesting boundary to have and made me feel as though I was making my first film."