Mehsampur

Product Description

A filmmaker, a fading musician and an actress revisit the unsolved assassination of folk singers Chamkila & Amarjot.
Devrath arrives in Punjab to make a film on the popular husband and wife folk-singing duo Chamkila & Amarjot, who were killed amidst the cultural controversy of their music in 1988. Devrath interviews Chamkila’s past associates– his manager, a one-time singing partner, a fading drummer. Lal, who survived the yet-unsolved assassination, begrudgingly agrees to accompany Devrath on a road trip to the location of the fateful event, in the not-too-far-away village of Mehsampur. Meanwhile, at his hotel, Devrath rescues an ambitious (and disturbed) young actress from lechers, only for her to accuse him of sexual assault the next morning, which somehow doesn’t prevent him from convincing her to play Amarjot in the film. The trio sets out to the doomed Mehsampur, and the rest is… mystery.
The film is in three languages: Punjabi, Hindi, English w/English subtitles.
Bonus Materials
Trailer
WINNER Grand Jury Prize Mumbai Film Festival 2018

Review

A riveting piece of meta-cinema
Bhanuj Kappal, Mint
Turns tragedy into a mockumentary blend of fact and fiction
Nyay Bhushan, The Hollywood Reporter
An outrageous, shape shifting film
Sankhayan Ghosh –Film Companion