Jogi Trailer: Diljit Dosanjh Film Recollects The Gritty Tales Of 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots

Netflix has released the trailer of Diljit Dosanjh's film Jogi. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, the film centres around a “resilient friendship and courage” during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. Zafar co-wrote the script with Sukhmani Sadana, who previously penned Rocketry: The Nambi Effect.

Jogi marks Zafar’s second major streaming project, after the Amazon Prime Video series Tandav, that starred Saif Ali Khan. He reunites with Tandav actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub for the upcoming film. Jogi also stars Kumud Mishra, Hiten Tejwani, Amyra Dastur and Paresh Pahuja. It will be released on Netflix on September 16.

Jogi trailer

The two-minute-long Jogi trailer sees Dosanjh play as a Punjabi college student residing with his family in Delhi. A phone call cuts the pleasant tone of the trailer. As gunshots ring through their neighbourhood, which is soon invaded by violent mobs, Dosanjh attempts to flee the city with his family, community and travel to Punjab, which is the safest place they can be in. The trailer suggests that the exodus was ‘the biggest human heist’ ever witnessed.

The 1984 anti-Sikh protests in Delhi were set off after the assassination of the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. This upset the locals, leading to a nationwide massacre, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Sikhs in the capital alone. The Dosanjh-led Jogi dramatises the said events from the perspective of an innocent Punjabi family, as they overcome hardships and discrimination through no fault of their own. A brief glimpse from the trailer suggests the same as one of the attacker yells on a bus passenger, “You have wronged us by being a Sikh!”

The riots were previously portrayed on film in 2014’s Punjab 1984, also starring Dosanjh, and in 31st October, starring Vir Das.

Zafar during the film's trailer launch said, "The most important part of the film was that it had to be told with full authenticity so that it looks real. We are very fortunate we got Diljit. Having Diljit as a part of the film's story makes it more justifiable. We shot the film in the Covid-19 pandemic during the first lockdown. It was difficult but we did it."

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