Penjub Historical Films

A Sikh serving in the British Indian Army is deputed to Europe to fight in World War I.

It is a biographical feature film on India's Highest Wartime Gallantry Award - Param Vir Chakra winner Subedar Joginder Singh. He fought three wars (as per records) for India before achieving martyrdom in the Sino-Indian War of 1962 while commanding a platoon in North Eastern Frontier Agency (NEFA) (Now Arunachal Pradesh). The story portrays his character and motivation in the scene of battle.

A thoughtful young man struggles to find a woman to marry.

The film Guru Da Banda is based on the life of the great warrior of Sikh History, Baba Banda Singh Bahadar. Banda Singh Bahadur established a monastery at Nanded, on the bank of the river Godavari, where, in September 1708, he was visited by and became a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who gave him the new name of Banda Singh Bahadur after initiating him into the Khalsa. Armed with the blessing and authority of Guru Gobind Singh, he came to Khanda in Sonipat and assembled a fighting force and led the struggle against the Mughal Empire.

Toba Tek Singh is a story about the aftershocks of the partition between India and Pakistan. The story is written by Saadat Hassan Manto.

The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he's far older, he'd better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive. Whereupon Buta Singh decides to marry her. They have a baby girl. And Buta is pretty happy that despite being overage, matrimonially speaking, he's leading a pleasant life. Others of his class usually had to actually buy women from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar whom they married. A jealous uncle who realizes the family property will now go to the Muslim girl, forcibly dumps Buta's wife into a truck bound for Pakistan. Buta realizes what has happened, sells all his land and goes along with his child to Pakistan illegally. He's quickly arrested and brought before a judge who's quite willing to free him if his wife owns up. But, under pressure from her family, the girl backs off. A disillusioned and distraught Buta jumps with his daughter before an oncoming train. He dies, but his daughter is saved. Pakistani youth, overcome by this, hail him thus: Shaheed-e-Mohabat (a martyr in the cause of love), erect a memorial and a trust in his name.

47 to 84 is the journey of a young Sikh girl, Sukhmani, who loses all her loved ones and is forced to leave the newly-formed Pakistan during the partition. Alone in the world with nowhere to go and no belongings, Sukhmani finds her way to Delhi. While fending for herself, Sukhmani builds a family and life over time. India was what she now called home and felt a strong sense of attachment and belonging here. But her world was turned upside down once again during the anti-Sikh Genocide of 1984. The lives of all her loved ones were in danger. The country that she called her motherland was now the most unsafe place for her, her family and her community. Will the Sikh community be able to live safe and secure in India and call it their home?

When the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bans music in India because he believes it turns people away from God, musicians go underground.