Mehsampur

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In his attempt to rekindle a traumatic memory, a filmmaker pushes a fading musician and a disturbed actress to the edge.

 

Devrath arrives in Punjab to research for a film on the folk-singing duo Chamkila & Amarjot, The two were killed by Separatists in Mehsampur village in 1988. Devrath’s meeting with Chamkila’s associates don’t go as planned. After he finds a film crew shooting Chamkila’s biopic, Devrath gets desperate. Lal, Chamkila’s dholak player and a survivor of the massacre, begrudgingly agrees to accompany him to the village where Chamkila was assassinated – Mehsampur. Back at his hotel bar Devrath rescues an actress from local lechers and they end up in his room. The morning after she accuses him of rape and wants to be dropped home. But he doesn’t let her out of the car, forcing her to read his script. He picks up Lal and sets off to the cursed village of Mehsampur…

Year
2018

Director
Kabir Singh Chowdhry