Subedar Joginder Singh (film)
Subedar Joginder Singh is a 2018 Indian Punjabi-language biographical war film based on the life of Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who was killed in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra. It is produced by Saga Music and is set to release by 6 April 2018.[1] The film stars Gippy Grewal and Aditi Sharma and is directed by Simerjit Singh who belongs to the same region of Moga where Joginder Singh was born.[2] This movie was a high budget film. The film is authentic to that in the era of 1962.[3]
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| Directed by | Simerjit Singh |
| Produced by | Sumeet Singh |
| Screenplay by | Raashid Rangrez Simerjit Singh |
| Story by | Raashid Rangrez Simerjit Singh |
| Based on | Subedar Joginder Singh |
| Starring | Gippy Grewal Aditi Sharma Guggu Gill Kulwinder Billa Karamjit Anmol Rajvir Jawanda Sardar Sohi |
| Music by | Songs Jassi Katyal Jaidev Kumar Gurmeet Singh Background Music Amar Mohile |
| Cinematography | Navneet Misser |
| Edited by | Bunty Nagi |
Production company | Seven Colors Motion Pictures Unisys Infosolutions Pvt Ltd |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Punjabi |
The movie was shot in Suratgarh or Rajasthan which is nearly 100 km from the Indo-Pakistan border, to give a look of pre-independence village of Punjab. Additional shooting of the movie took place in October 2017 at the Dras sector in Jammu and Kashmir to give real life experience of the Tawang valley during the 1962 war.
Plot
This movie is based upon the life, struggle and valor of a subedar in Indian Army who achieved his martyrdom while fighting the Chinese in the Sino-Indian War in 1962. This movie is believed to depict the subedar's professional and personal life and how he handled while serving his nation.
Cast
- Gippy Grewal as Subedar Joginder Singh
- Aditi Sharma as Gurdyal Kaur
- Nirmal Rishi as Joginder Singh's Mother
- Guggu Gill as Maan Singh
- Kulwinder Billa as Ajaib Singh (Sipahi)
- Roshan Prince as Swaran Singh (Sipahi)
- Jaggi Singh as Santokh Singh (Sipahi)
- Jordan Sandhu as Bant Singh
- Raghveer Boli as Mahinder Singh
- Karamjit Anmol as Bawa Singh (Sipahi)
- Rajvir Jawanda as Bahadur Singh (Sipahi)
- Harish Verma as Commander
- Parminder Gill as Mother in law
- Harpreet Singh as Sepoy
- Sharan Maan as Bhaag Singh (Sipahi)
Shooting locations
Suratgarh is a small town in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan and is in the close proximity of Radcliffe Line demarcated between India and Pakistan. Suratgarh is also famous for its Air Force Base Station which provides strategic advantage to India over neighboring Pakistan. It was chosen for the shooting the first schedule of the film because of resemblance with the village of Punjab in undivided India back in 1921 where Joginder Singh lived his childhood and adolescence till he joined the British Indian Army.
Dras, a beauteous town on National Highway 1D or popularly known as Srinagar-Leh Highway came into prominence owing to Pakistani incursions in the Kargil sector in the summer of 1999, but it is also the second coldest inhabited place in the world. Second schedule is going on in the treacherous terrain of Dras and will wrapped up by the end of October 2017.
Soundtrack
| Subedar Joginder Singh | |||||
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| Soundtrack album by Jassi Katyal, Gurmeet Singh & Jaidev Kumar | |||||
| Released | 5 April 2018[4] | ||||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | ||||
| Length | 26:35 | ||||
| Label | Saga Music | ||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Gal Dil Di" | Kulwinder Billa | Jassi Katyal | Gippy Grewal, Kulwinder Billa, Rajvir Jawanda, Sharan Maan | 03:30 |
| 2. | "Naina" | Happy Raikoti | Jassi Katyal | Feroz Khan | 04:23 |
| 3. | "Ae Watan" | Devinder Khannewala | Jaidev Kumar | Kaler Kanth, Krishna Beura, Himanshu Sharma, Surtal Kular,Anil Sondhi,Sagar Sharma | 06:08 |
| 4. | "Ishq Da Tara" | Happy Raikoti | Jassi Katyal | Gippy Grewal, Raman Romana | 04:24 |
| 5. | "Hathyar" | Amardeep Singh Gill | Gurmeet Singh | Nachhatar Gill | 04:41 |
| 6. | "Soora So Pehchaniye" | Traditional | Jaidev Kumar | Daler Mehndi, Ustad Shaukat Ali Matoi | 03:26 |
| Total length: | 26:35 | ||||
References
- Dubey, Rachana. "Gippy Grewal: Even if I do only one Hindi film a year, it should be brilliant". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ANI (21 June 2017). "Gippy Grewal all set to star in war biopic 'Subedar Joginder Singh'". Business Standard India. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- Dubey, Rachana. "Gippy Grewal to play Subedar Joginder Singh". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- "Subedar Joginder Singh (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". iTunes.