Subedar Joginder Singh (film)

Subedar Joginder Singh ਸੂਬੇਦਾਰ ਜੋਗਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ
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	6 April 2018 (2018-04-06)
Country	India
Language	Punjabi
Box office	₹16.83 crore (US$2.3 million)

Subedar Joginder Singh (ਸੂਬੇਦਾਰ ਜੋਗਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ) is a 2018 Punjabi 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 will be directed by Simerjit Singh who belongs to the same region of Moga where Subedar was born. This film is ought to be the brain child of its writer and Art Director Rashid Rangrez who earlier proved his mettle with the creations like Super Singh, Angrej and lots more^[2]. This movie is going to be high budget film as the dialogues and picturization is anticipated to be authentic to that in the era of 1962^[3].

The first schedule of 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. The next schedule of the shooting is lined up in early October 2017 at Dras sector in Jammu and Kashmir to give real life experience of the Tawang valley during the 1962 Indo-China war.

Plot

This movie is based upon the life, struggle and valor of a Subedar in Indian Army who achieved his martyrdom while fighting Chinese in Indo-China war of 1962. This movie is believed to depict Subedar's professional and personal life and how he handled while serving his nation.

Cast

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 provide strategic advantage to India over neighboring Pakistan. It has been chosen for the shooting the first schedule of the film because of resemblance with the village of Punjab in undivided enslaved India back in 1921 where Subedar Joginder Singh lived his childhood and adolescence till he joined 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 Kargil sector in the summers 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
Soundtrack album by Jassi Katyal, Gurmeet Singh & Jaidev Kumar
Released	5 April 2018 (2018-04-05)[4]
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	26:35
Label	Saga Music
External audio Audio Jukebox on YouTube

References

• "My Role In Subedar Joginder Singh Is The Toughest One I've Done Till Date" - Harish Verma

External links

• Subedar Joginder Singh on IMDb