DILJIT DOSANJH, SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Did Diljit Sell Out!? - Wednesday!

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Yo, what’s good? It’s a nippy Wednesday – super cold today, so I’m going to be quick. I saw a lot of people arguing about whether Diljit Dosanjh sold out. I don’t think he did, but let me give you some background.

Diljit Dosanjh is one of the biggest actors, a superstar in the Punjabi community right now. This guy’s doing Coachella, rocking movies – he’s the guy, right? He did a movie, Punjab ‘95, about Jaswant Singh Khalra. Jaswant Singh Khalra was a human rights lawyer and advocate. He was uncovering the extrajudicial murders of Punjabi youth who were being kidnapped and murdered by the police.

The police would say, “Hey, we don’t know what happened to them. They probably ran away, probably migrated to Canada,” coming up with lies to cover up what they were doing, which was killing Punjabi youth. They thought the Punjabi youth were getting too rowdy, too woke, too aware of what was happening around them. How do you suppress that? You murder it.

So, they were hiding these bodies. Khalra said, “Something fishy is going on,” and uncovered a bunch of what was going on through paperwork and the legal route. He wasn’t a controversial figure by any means. Then, in 1995, he too was disappeared – kidnapped, killed, his body hidden. The official statement was, “We don’t know what happened to him; it didn’t happen on our watch.”

So Diljit made a movie about this. The movie went to the censor board of India, and they said, “Not, not, not! Black marker, black marker! Can’t say this, can’t show that!” Eventually, the movie was essentially shut down. “You’re not releasing this in India; you’re not releasing this anywhere. And if you do, bam, sanctions on you!”

Diljit’s a poster boy in Punjab. He stood beside the farmers when Bollywood elites were like, “Filthy farmers, can’t trust them!” Diljit was like, “Yo, those are my people; can’t talk like that!” Everyone was like, “Okay, Diljit, we’re sorry.” Everyone’s like, “Yeah, Diljit’s down with us!” Then, when this movie came out, everyone was like, “What’s going on?”

Then he met with Modi, took flowers, kissed the ring (probably, I don’t know how it went down). Everyone’s like, “Well, that’s kind of shady.” But then they said, “Hey, we’re going to let you release this movie internationally!” Everyone was like, “Oh, okay, maybe kissing the ring helped.” Then, it came out just a few days ago that he said, “My bad, they said we’re not allowed to release the movie anywhere, and it’s kind of out of my control.”

So everyone’s like, “Was kissing the ring even worth it? Did you have to kiss the ring of the guy who doesn’t like your community?” A lot of people are saying he sold out. I don’t think he sold out, man. I think he was trying to do what he needed to do to try and get this movie out, and it didn’t work. He put himself out there, probably knew the type of hate he was going to get, and he still did it because he thought this movie was important enough to get out. But hey, it didn’t get out there. Sadness that way. But y’all tell me what you think. Till the next one, peace.

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updated_at 31-07-2025
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