Des Hoyaa Pardes

About the film

Des Hoyaa Pardes is a 2004 Indian Punjabi-language film, directed by Manoj Punj, starring Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla, Divya Dutta and Anup Soni. It won the National Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi.

Plot

In 1984, the former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, which led to violent backlashes against the Sikh community by radicals and the Punjab Police. During 1985, Gurshan Singh Somal lived a peaceful life as a farmer in rural Punjab, along with his elderly parents, Gurdev and Tejpal, and his unmarried sister, Guddi. Gurshan gets engaged to Jassi Sandhu, the daughter of the Station House Officer. However, Jassi's father is killed in a drive-by shooting, and a new corrupt officer named Randhawa takes over. Far from being ethical and honest, he is only concerned with fulfilling a quota of deaths of so-called terrorists by fake police encounters. Jassi and Gurshan get married as Jassi has no other relatives. When the police find a duffel bag of automatic weapons in Somal's house, they immediately arrest Gurshan and beat him up severely, even though he claims his innocence, alleging that real terrorists had forced themselves upon the family at gun-point. When a deputation from the town asks Randhawa to set him free, he does so, and the Somal family settle down. Guddi is soon to marry a young man who loves her. Then in July, 1987, Sikh terrorists gun down a bus full of non-Sikhs, setting off a shock wave in the entire country. Punjab Police are instructed to maintain order, even if it means to do away with law. A large number of Sikhs are hu…

Music

Jaidev Kumar composed the music for playback singers Gurdas Maan, Jagjit Singh, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Bhupinder Singh, Arvinder Singh and Simi.

The music was released in November of the same year.

Awards

The film received the National Award for the best Best Feature Film in Punjabi and the actor Gurdas Maan got the Special Jury Award.

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