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by Smrity Sharma,
…Watch Amar Singh Chamkila for the firebrand performer Diljit Dosanjh. Watch it for Imtiaz Ali’s flawless course and a heartwarming story of a easy singer with massive desires who threw warning to the wind and paid a heavy worth for entertaining his viewers. A particular shoutout and large congratulations to MAMI Yr Spherical Programme for bringing to us a narrative made with a lot coronary heart, Amar Singh Chamkila….
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by Rashmi Vasudeva,
…The songs are earworms and the one grouse is the pointless distraction of the Hindi supers (lyrics projected on the display screen for additional measure). A must-watch…
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by Deepa Gahlot,
…Ali makes use of animation, pictures and photographs of the true Chamkila and Amarjot, and a improbable dance quantity which exhibits why ladies additionally appreciated his raunchy numbers, to inform the story that took too lengthy to achieve the display screen. Perhaps it was ready for the appropriate actor to convey Chamkila to life….
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by Abhimanyu Mathur,
DNA
:
…To say that Chamkila is the most effective Imtiaz movie in years is an understatement. It’s also his bravest movie and probably the most politically charged since…effectively…all roads result in Rockstar. However in lots of departments, Amar Singh Chamkila surpasses its religious predecessor, giving us a movie for the ages….
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by Rahul Desai,
…That’s the essence of Amar Singh Chamkila. It reclaims the phrases from the headline. And it grieves the loss of life of not an individual, however a spot and time; it laments for a world that watched and puzzled. The movie isn’t a whodunit. It’s a ghost story – and it haunts a tradition that continues to shoot the messenger….
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by Lachmi Deb Roy,
…The story of Amar Singh Chamkila’s rise to fame after which homicide takes place through the time of turbulent instances of 1984 of Khalistani militancy in Punjab. Many say that the Khalistani leaders didn’t like his suggestive lyrics. Many even threatened him and he needed to shut their mouths with cash. In direction of the top, Chamkila turned fearless and he stopped paying them….
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by Baradwaj Rangan,
…However, not directly, at the very least, Imtiaz lets us see the place his sympathies lie. He’s for Chamkila, and towards cultural censorship. The movie offers us “logical” explanations – for instance, that Chamkila’s caste-mentality by no means actually went away, that he remained a “slave” of the viewers, giving them what they needed…..
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by Arushi Jain,
…Amar Singh Chamkila’ is price watching merely for its music and Diljit Dosanjh performing it. That it seems deeper and provides us a way of the person himself is what makes it particular. Imtiaz Ali brings fast sympathy to Chamkila as a performer and as a person….
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by Sakshi Verma,
India TV
:
…Amar Singh Chamkila is a should watch. A movie that deep dives into an rising artists life that offers with every little thing solely to carry out. The one who identified that he received’t final without end and makes a alternative. The one who finds an ideal age and life accomplice and the couple who will get to take pleasure in their profitable and loss of life collectively. Imtiaz Ali makes positive that few scene stays with you. Dialogues like, ‘Chammar hu per bhooka toh nahin marunga’ and ‘maine banaya hai Chamkile ko’ will include a baggage for the viewers….
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by Shubhra Gupta,
…However to Ali’s credit score, there isn’t an overt flattening, displaying a lovely confidence in the way in which he makes use of AR Rahman’s compositions to buoy the bawdy, salty lyrics. He doesn’t draw again from letting us hearken to what Chamkila sang. And that could be a clear win. It additionally helps that every one the actors have carried out their songs stay. Via the music, and thru Dosanjh’s lived-in act, we get a robust, shifting portrait of an artiste who lived and died by his beliefs….
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by “Pooja Darade “,
koimoi
:
…General, Amar Singh Chamkila is certainly one of Imtiaz Ali’s greatest films. It helps you perceive artwork and the artist and the way it’s the individuals who have the ability to make or break somebody. Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra deal with us with certainly one of their career-best performances. The film leaves such a beautiful affect on you and leaves you with a lingering query—why do among the greatest, modern and distinctive artists must pay the value due to society’s hypocrisy?…
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by Uday Bhatia,
…we see Chamkila really feel his method in direction of a brand new monitor, one secular, the opposite religious. He sings a line or two, stops, searches for phrases, goes once more, a smile on his face. It’s a singular pleasure, principally denied to us by the character of Indian movie, to see a singer play one other singer developing with a music….
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by Saibal Chatterjee,
NDTV
:
…Diljit Dosanjh is at his easiest as Chamkila. That, as his followers will vouch, needs to be sufficient to make the movie a deal with. However there’s extra to Amar Singh Chamkila, together with Parineeti Chopra and Anuraag Arora’s modulated interpretations and Imtiaz Ali’s grasp on the fabric….
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by Vanshika Singh,
…Vanshika Singh…
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by TITAS CHOWDHURY,
…Amar Singh Chamkila may not precisely be an antidote to Jab Harry Met Sejal and Love Aaj Kal. However it deserves a look ahead to Imtiaz’s fervent ardour, Diljit’s grit and mettle, Rahman’s extraordinary tunes and Chamkila’s dignified bravado. It’s not each day that you simply get to witness a pleasant live performance packaged within the type of a musical. It may not be healthful however is unquestionably a wholehearted try. In spite of everything, celebration of artwork towards all socio-political prejudices and violence is what the world has all the time wanted and craved for….
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by Prateek Sur,
…Sylvester Fonseca’s cinematography is sweet and helps you are feeling as in case you’re proper in the course of every little thing taking place. The best way he has shot the musical scenes offers you a really feel as in case you’re one of many individuals standing within the crowd listening stay. Additionally, he has stored the filming very uncooked which supplies you a really feel of how rural and rooted this story’s setting is….
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by Sukanya Verma,
Rediff
:
…Amar Singh Chamkila’s social commentary comes alive in its musical elegy for a ribald insurgent.
Brimming in exuberant covers of his authentic numbers, carried out in particular person by its leads, the biopic finds its alter ego in Irshad Kamil’s kaleidoscopic music writing….
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by Subhash Ok Jha,
Sulekha
:
…Unknowingly or not, some parts of Chamkila’s life are filmed extra as satire than tragedy when the truth is the necessity of the hour was gravitas. There’s this unintentionally hilarious sequence whereby a gaggle of “followers” barge into Chamkila’s residence, reward him to the skies after which threaten him in the identical breath….
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by Pratikshya Mishra,
…Amar Singh Chamkila shouldn’t be a movie on the lookout for solutions; as an alternative it poses one query after one other all whereas conserving its deal with one man and his story. What’s going to we be taught from Chamkila’s legacy and the place will these learnings match into an ever-changing world?…
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by Priyanka Roy,
…Amar Singh Chamkila, nonetheless, could seem overlong and repetitive in components and Parineeti’s efficiency, to be trustworthy, pales compared to Diljit’s scenery-chewing act. Particularly, when an undaunted Chamkila, his eyes blazing, sums up the spirit and soul of the person with: “Jeete ji marne se achha hain ki marr kar zinda rahein.”…
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by SUPARNA SHARMA,
The Week
:
…All of that is set towards the backdrop of rising militancy in Punjab. Its steady presence and risk are sometimes conveyed within the movie merely by the nozzle of an AK-47 that stands proud from behind the shoulders of males lined in heavy shawls. It is menacing and it is nice filmmaking….
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by Sonal Pandya,
…Greater than only a biopic, Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila additionally has a message about artwork, why we create it and why it’s so needed, it doesn’t matter what decade it’s….
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by Renuka Vyavahare,
…Given Chamkila’s questionable fame, unapologetic way of living, the movie doesn’t glorify nor justify his actions. It merely permits him an opportunity to be heard. This symphonic story of survival, disgrace and social standing makes for an immersive watch….