This Day That Year: Revisiting Gulzar’s Maachis

This Day That Year: Revisiting Gulzar’s Maachis

In this edition of Subhash K Jha's series, This Day That Year, he focuses on Gulzar’s period political drama, Maachis, released in 1996.

Long before cross-border terrorism, there was the Khalistan movement in Punjab. Gulzar’s Maachis is a parable on militancy with Chandrachur Singh being sucked into Punjab militancy.

Tabu played his beloved, who follows him into darkness.

Who can forget Tabu emoting to Lata Mangeshkar's immortal lines of homesickness ‘Paani pani re’?
The song is an anthem for all youth who have strayed into militancy.

Author's summary: Revisiting Gulzar's Maachis, a period drama.

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