The life of singer Amar Singh Chamkila, who is called the original rockstar of Punjab, was no less than a film story. Becoming famous at a young age and then a painful death shook everyone. Amar Singh Chamkila's life has now been seen in the movie.
Film producer and director Imtiaz Ali's film Amar Singh has been made on the life of Chamkila. The name of this film is 'Chamkila'. This film has been released on Netflix. Diljit Dosanjh is seen in the role of Amar Singh in the movie. Let us know who was Amar Singh Chamkila? Who killed Amar Singh Chamkila, what was the reason for his death?
Amar Singh Chamkila was a Punjabi singer who created a stir with his songs at the age of just 20. In a very short time, Chamkila had won the hearts of the world due to her wonderful songs. Amar Singh had given many hit songs in his career. Amar Singh was a folk singer.
In his short career, he achieved the progress that people spend their entire lives achieving. Let us tell you that Chamkila's songs had made the record of highest record selling at that time. His songs are still liked a lot in Punjab.
Singer Amar Singh, who ruled people's hearts with his songs in the 1980s, was the most popular star in the world of bright Punjabi music. During that period, Chamkila's cassettes were mostly recorded and sold. Chamkila ruled the Punjabi music industry for almost 8 years. After this, he became victim of Chamkila's bullet on 8 March 1988. Chamkila's painful death shook everyone. His journey from Dhani Ram to Amar Singh Chamkila was quite impressive.
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The songs sung by Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur started falling in the category of obscenity. Because of which the common youth liked his songs but they also started opposing him. The work of other singers of Punjab had almost come to a standstill. At that time there was a period of separatism in Punjab. The separatists threatened Chamkila to stop singing obscene songs. After which, in 1986, Chamkila apologized to the separatists and gave up singing obscene songs. After which Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur also sang religious songs. Around 21 religious songs sung by him also became quite famous. Which includes religious songs like Baba Tera Nankana and "Talwar Main Kalgidhar Di Haan". But on public demand, Chamkila started singing obscene songs again.
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