Punjabi
legendary movie 'Chann Pardesi' to be Relaunched
Vinay kumar Sharma
Chandigarh
Punjabi's landmark movie 'Chann
Pardesi' is being relaunched in its digital version next year, informed J S
Cheema, producer of original movie. Majority of the cast members of the
Panjabi movie had got together after 40 years and relived their memories and
shared with the audience at the afternoon session of Literati, moderated by
Raavi Pandher. Present on the occasion included writer Baldev Gill,
director Chitraath Singh, editor Subhash Sehgal, noted cinematographer
Manmohan Singh, producer JS Cheema, besides Waryam Singh, Rana Jang Bahadur
among others. This was a movie in which most of the team members were raw
in their experience and many of them theatre artists, recalled Manmohan Singh,
who, driven by extreme passion, had got together to create legendary
cinema. Even Raj Babbar, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda slept
on make shift charpoys and never ever complained about the conditions or their
fee. Manmohan Singh recalled that Bollywood actress Simi Grewal was the
initial choice for the movie but with her ignorance about Panjabi language, the
idea was dropped and Rama Vij was signed up. They recalled how Raj
Babbar, a novice at driving tractor, almost ran over the camera team and hit a
tree as tractor went out of control, and how Amrish Puri, though a trained
horse rider, almost escaped sheer death-like situation when the horse galloped
into a shed and Amrish Puri just ducked at the nick of the moment and saved
himself. The film has been cleaned up and converted to digirtal format for
releasing it again next year, and the poster of the same was released on the
occasion.
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