The Indian human rights activist drama, Punjab ’95, has been pulled from this year’s TIFF lineup, Deadline has confirmed. We hear this was a decision made by the filmmakers, not the festival.
The pic, directed by Honey Trehan, tells the story of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, and was scheduled to world premiere in the Gala Presentations section on Sept.
11. The movie follows Khalra’s courageous campaign to uncover the murders and abduction of more than 25,000 Sikhs by Punjab police from 1984-1994.
Khalra disappeared in September 1995 with six Punjab police officers convicted for his abduction and murder ten years later.
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