Parineeti Chopra On Working With Diljit Dosanjh In Chamkila:”I Was A Scholar In Entrance Of Him”

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Mumbai:

Actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh on Thursday mentioned he was initially sceptical to be a part of Imtiaz Ali’s Hindi movie Amar Singh Chamkila as he felt the director would not have the ability to do justice with the life story of the late revolutionary Punjabi singer.

The upcoming drama will narrate the untold true story of Amar Singh Chamkila, who’s known as the ‘Elvis Presley of Punjab’. Thought to be probably the greatest live-stage performers to have come from Punjab, Chamkila and his spouse, singing accomplice Amarjot have been killed in 1988.

Within the Netflix movie, Dosanjh performs the title function with Parineeti Chopra starring as Amarjot. Dosanjh mentioned earlier than Ali approached him for the film, he had already been a part of a Punjabi movie titled Jodi, which revolved across the life story of Chamkila and Amarjot. The actor mentioned the film sadly could not see the sunshine of the day as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

“Once I acquired to know that in Bollywood (Hindi), there is a movie being made on Chamkila, I puzzled what (type) of movie they might make.

“Once I acquired a name from Imtiaz sir, I believed he would sue us as he has the rights (to Chamkila’s story) and we did not have it. However he mentioned, ‘I need to solid you for the movie’. I mentioned, ‘We have already got the story. When you nonetheless suppose that you simply need to make a movie with me, we’ll see’,” Dosanjh mentioned on the Subsequent on Netflix occasion right here.

Nevertheless, Dosanjh’s notion modified after he heard the script of Ali’s film and was amazed by the director’s consideration to element.

“I believed I knew so much about Chamkila earlier than assembly him (Ali). Once I heard his perspective, it was utterly totally different. It was an enormous factor for us that his story was being mentioned in such an enormous method. When sir provided me the movie, I surrendered to his imaginative and prescient,” he mentioned.

Ali, greatest identified for movies equivalent to Jab We Met, Love Aaj Kal, and Rockstar, mentioned he was eager to discover the story of Chamkila, whom he known as a “famous person singer”.

“What I appreciated about Chamkila is that he’s a grassroots famous person, and his songs are nonetheless being sung. He’s very talked-about and he was a grassroots-level artist. We felt we must always make a movie on him,” the director mentioned.

Composer AR Rahman and lyricist Irshad Kamil have contributed to the soundtrack of Amar Singh Chamkila. Dosanjh and Chopra have sung the songs within the film.

Rahman mentioned it was his “dream” to compose music for a movie that had a connection to Punjabi music.

“It was a protracted dream of mine to do a Punjabi music movie. After they approached me, they already had songs of Chamkila within the movie, and I used to be like, ‘The songs are already completed, so what is going to I do?’.

“Each Parineeti and Diljit have sung songs. We had our take for the film, and made it like a musical. Some components are like Broadway musicals the place we now have characters speaking about Chamkila,” the music director added.

Rahman, who has labored with Ali on Freeway, Rockstar, and Tamasha, believes the director has reinvented himself with the upcoming film.

Dosanjh mentioned he’s proud of the best way the movie’s music has turned out.

“I used to be questioning how they may do the music of the movie, however when you will have AR Rahman, Mohit Chauhan and Irshad Kamil ji then (it is an ideal factor). The songs of Chamkila are in Punjabi however there are different songs being performed within the background in Hindi. We now have unique songs of Chamkila,” he mentioned.

Dosanjh additionally praised co-star Chopra for nailing her character of Amarjot.

“Then I used to be pondering who will play the function of Amarjot, as a result of she would sing harder than Chamkila. However once they mentioned, Parineeti ji… I’ve heard her songs… However to sing like Amarjot is a distinct factor, and he or she did very nicely,” he mentioned.

Chopra mentioned she learnt so much from Dosanjh whereas engaged on the movie.

“Once I signed this movie, it was actually a dream function. Earlier than taking pictures this movie, I used to suppose I converse Punjabi nicely and I might sing songs nicely. Then I met Diljit ji, I acquired a actuality examine in each departments. I used to be a scholar in entrance of Diljit.

“I used to examine my diction with Diljit. (That) I’m saying the phrase appropriately or not, or how ought to I do it? The most important problem for us was that we must always not sing like us. We needed to attempt to sing like Amarjot and Chamkila,” she added.

Amar Singh Chamkila is about to premiere on April 12 on Netflix. It’s produced by Mohit Choudhary, Choose Media Holdings LLP, Saregama, and Window Seat Movies.