[Reader-list] Celluloid and compact disks in Punjab

[daljit ami]

Ghabbar’s son is grown up; Poolan and Laden are in the same gang


When Jai and Biru killed Gabbar Singh in Sholey his wife migrated to Punjab with their son, Jabbar. On his father’s footsteps Jabbar is the name in Punjab, mothers use to make their kid keep quiet. Jabbar is equipped with Baseball sticks leaving his father’s two-barrel guns in the hills of Ramnagar. His mode of mobility is new brand motorbikes rather then horses running in hill terrains. Hairstyle and costume is similar to his father. His choices are different from last generation. This time his art-loving nature does not entrap him in police ambush rather Mahbobba-Mahboobba is performed at his Adda. He has to take revenge of his father’s death from Thakur who kick his father to death. Jabbar got the news that Thakur died sometime ago — Jai and Basanti are untraceable. One day Jabbar lands in police station by mistake in an over-drunk state to be freed by his colleagues under the leadership of Sambah’s new incarnation Tambah. 
This time five colleagues of Jabbar have returned unsuccessfully so they have to be punished but his revolver has six cartridges. Unlike his father he does not fire the extra round in air as he value ammunition so a sixth person is added. This is not about Sholey remake that Ram Gopal Verma is attempting. This is Dilawar Sidhu directed Murg-e-Hazm released by T-Series on compact disk. Punjab police equipped with rickshaw, cycle and sticks is chasing Jabbar. 
The lower caste women fight on trivial issues and expose each other’s pre/extra marital relations with upper caste men. The husband-wife fights seem to be perennial part of their lives. The film is an eighty-five minute long melodrama placed in central malwa region of Punjab. Two spoilt brats are making fool of everyone and promise to convert a donkey into man at the cost of rupees five hundred. When converted man is demanded they identify Jabbar who has refused to accept that he was a donkey. The two ladies (played by males), dressed shabbily and speaking foul language chase and allure him with green grass. 
The mood swings of the characters and film are far better then any electrically operated seesaw. Police personnel use every opportunity to make money but change themselves, suddenly, to take care of needy and arrest Jabbar. When police is back to its money making business Jabbar break jail in his father’s style.
Continuing the same story in the second part, Sabh Pharhe Jaange (Everyone will be arrested) Jabbar has new allies and foes. In the changed situation Jabbar want to revenge his arrest. Those who arrested him have been suspended. Jabbar and police are following two suspended police personnel, separately. They are trying to save themselves by disguising as different characters. Jabbar reaches the home of police officer to find that his lost sister is married to the police officer. The sister pledge to avenge his brother’s humiliation and kill her own husband. Here is Phoolan in the Jabbar’s gang. They have the support of Mr. Lenh Denh (literally give take). He is look like of Bin Laden and ready to train Jabbar in hijacking the plain to hit them into the two-storey house of Police Officers. This way Jabbar has cross border connection to avenge the humiliation he suffered when he was arrested. 
Suspended police personnel (dressed as females) survive molestation as Jhabbar lends helping hand to free them from the rival group. Jabbar is in love with his enemy who is in female attire. Jabbar chase her (him) and wash dishes for her (him) at roadside Dhaba. Mr. Lenh Denh bombards the Dhaba to take Jabbar back. 
In the end police did what even America could not. They arrest Mr. Lenh Denh and an award is expected from the American government. Mr. Lenh Denh talks of his human bombs whereas Jabbar is hopeful that his sister will return after training abroad to get him free.
It is quite possible that we may get the third film in which Phoolan is central character; Biru and Basanti have been traced with their two-dozen children and many more grandchildren
 imagine Biru as doing finance business or driving old modeled tractor and waiting for Basanti. What about Basanti coming on her moped named Dhano



Regards
Daljit Ami
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