Mumbai. Diljit Dosanjh starrer ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ has been released on Netflix. The film has been directed by Imtiaz Ali. Amar Singh Chamkila was one of the most popular singers of his time. He died suddenly at the age of 27. He was a very famous Punjabi singer in the 1980s. Diljit Dosanjh played the role of a Punjabi folk singer in the biopic. Everyone wants to know about Amar Singh Chamkila. He is also being known through the film. Meanwhile, it has come to light that late actress Sridevi wanted to work with him.
Amar Singh Chamkila’s popularity was so much that even Sridevi wanted to work with him. These claims were made by Amar Singh’s old friend Savarn Sivia in an interview. According to India Today report, Sivia said, “Sridevi was a fan of Amar Singh Chamkila. He asked him to become his hero in a film. But he refused.”
Amar Singh Chamkila would have suffered a loss of Rs 10 lakh
Sivia further said, “Amar Singh Chamkila said, ‘I cannot speak Hindi.’ Sridevi also offered Chamkila to get Hindi training within a month, but Chamkila refused saying, ‘I will suffer a loss of Rs 10 lakh in that one month.’ The lyricist claimed, “Sridevi agreed to do a Punjabi film with him, but it could not happen.”
Amar Singh Chamkila helped his friend
Sivia said, “People loved Amar Singh Chamkila very much in Punjab. People know Amar Singh Chamkila only as a singer. Very few people know that he was also a very good person. Once in 1986, when he came home, he saw that my mother was ill. He gave me Rs 10,000 and it was a huge amount at that time.”
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Tags: Diljit Dosanjh, Sridevi
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 12, 2024, 16:07 IST