Amar Singh Chamkila and his spouse and co-singer Amarjot Kaur have been shot lifeless in March 1988.
Amarjot Chamkila’s older sister, Jaswant Kaur, lately opened up concerning the complexity of their euqation with late Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila.
The lifetime of the late Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila has as soon as once more come into highlight following the discharge of Imtiaz Ali’s Netflix movie. He and his second spouse, singer Amarjot, have been shot lifeless in Mehsampur, Punjab, the place they have been purported to carry out. Even 36 years after his tragic demise, his private life stays a topic of curiosity. In an interview, Jaswant Kaur, elder sister of Amarjot, revealed that Chamkila had stored his first marriage hidden from Amarjot’s household.
“There have been no plans of Amarjot’s marriage. Chamkila didn’t inform us that he’s already married. He informed us that he was single. My father had two circumstances – that the boy needs to be singer and single. They lastly tied the knot. After the start of Amarjot and Chamkila’s son, we acquired to learn about his first marriage,” she informed BBC Hindi.
She continued, “It has been 36 years however we nonetheless haven’t gotten any justice, no file was opened. We demand that the perpetrators be arrested and punished. We’ve got misplaced our relations so they need to be punished.”
In the meantime, Chamkila’s first spouse, Gurmail Kaur, spoke out about his tragic loss of life in a latest interview. “We didn’t have telephones again then. I heard about it by means of the information and phrase of mouth. My mother and father first despatched an individual to substantiate the information. When that man returned and confirmed the information, then we went to see them,” Gurmail stated in an interview with Love Punjab.
She additionally shared that the final time she met him was only a day or two earlier than he was shot lifeless. She added that Amarjot was with him. “We met him a day earlier than his loss of life. On the time, it was raining rather a lot,” she recalled.
“Amarjot and I have been within the kitchen and we watched him get drenched within the rain. I felt his face was completely different, I believed it had turned black. I checked out his face in numerous intervals and his face continued to look black,” she stated in Punjabi. “After I noticed his mortal stays, it was the identical black face that I used to be seeing the final time I noticed him,” she added.
