Gippy Grewal praises Chamkila's singing, recalls watching his live performance

Imtiaz Ali's Amar Singh Chamkila starring Diljit Dosanjh has garnered a lot of love from the audience and critics alike. TheNetflix movie tellsthe story of Chamkila, one of themost famous Punjabi singers of all time.

The movie has broughtthe life of the singer to the limelight again. Amid this, singer Gippy Grewal has shared the time when he attended Chamkila's life performance. The singer added that all the Punjabi singers, including himself and Diljit, have sung Chamkila’s songs. The singer went on to add that even he has recorded a few of Chamkila’s songs.

In a recent interview with Film Companion, Gippy praised singer Amar Singh Chamkila as he recalled watching hislive performance as a child.

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“Leave Diljit aside, even the rest of the people, he looked for such great people.”

Talking further, the singer recalled attending Chamkila's live performance as he said that the singer introduced Swaran Sivia to the audience as he sang his first devotional song ''Baba Tera Nankana'' even before he recorded it. "He said I'll record it if you like the song".

Hailing Imtiaz's realistic work, he said, "In the movie, the way they have shown the akhadas, that’s how they happened in real life too," he said.

In the movie, it is shown that Chamkila began singing devotional songs after he received threats for the vulgar lyrics of his songs.

More about Amar Singh Chamkila

Starring Diljit Dosanjh and Parineet Chopra, thebiographical drama is based on the life of a famous Punjabi singer who was known as the 'Elvis of Punjab'. The movie tells the rags-to-riches story of Chamkila, who went on to become one of the most famous singers of Punjab.

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WION's review of Chamkila

In her review of the film, WION's Shomini Sen praised Diljit Dosanjh's portrayal of Chamkila, calling it 'terrific'. "Diljit is known to be a terrific live performer, and so performing live as Chamkila may have come easy- but the transformation, with a change in body language to suit his character, is splendid and something that you want to watch with utmost patience just to devour his act. " Read the full review here