Streaming platform ZEE5 issued a statement hours after it was pulled on Monday Satluj From your platform. The platform urged viewers not to support piracy after pirated copies and illegal links of the Diljit Dosanjh starrer started circulating online. It also assured audiences that it was exploring all possible options to reinstate the film on the platform.

“We are hopeful and are doing everything we can. Please do not support piracy. We are committed to exploring every possible way to bring about the same.” Satluj Back to you (sic),” the statement read.

In its previous statement, ZEE5 had said take off the film Due to “current developments”, and did not mention any political or current certification issues.

The statement also included a message of thanks for the audience’s response to the film. It said, “Reaction Satluj Since its release it has been really tremendous. We are extremely grateful to every viewer who chose to subscribe, watch and champion the film. Your love and support means so much to us and everyone who brings this story to life.”

The platform also said that it stands with the film’s team and its vision. “At Zee5, we stand firmly Satluj And the creative vision behind it. We believe that powerful storytelling has the ability to inspire, endure, and leave a lasting impact. We are committed to promoting authentic and meaningful narratives,” it said.

All about Satluj

Satluj A separate journey had to be faced to get the certificate from the censor board. It took more than three years for this film to be released. For the theatrical release, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) had asked the team to make more than 125 cuts. The team did not move forward with those cuts and the film was never seen in theaters. Then on July 3, it arrived on ZEE5, without any prior notice or promotion.

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Given the politically sensitive subject matter, the film went long certificate hurdles. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) demanded extensive changes before granting approval, with the producers alleging that the demands went far beyond routine editing.

Directed by Honey Trehan and starring Diljit Dosanjh, Satluj tells the story of humans Rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. originally titled Punjab ’95The film is set against the backdrop of insurgency in Punjab in the 1990s.

Khalra gathered evidence of thousands of alleged illegal cremations carried out during Punjab’s insurgency years – in the ’90s – when families began searching for loved ones who had disappeared without a trace. What begins as an attempt to answer a grieving mother’s question slowly turns into one of the most dangerous investigations imaginable, as municipal registers, cremation records and bureaucratic files expose a system that has learned to erase people as efficiently as it has learned to erase evidence.

Khalra’s investigation drew international attention to human rights violations during one of Punjab’s most turbulent times. Khalra herself was kidnapped in 1995 and later murdered. Several police officers were later convicted in connection with her kidnapping and murder.

India Today gave the film a four-star rating. in its review. Part of the review reads, “Trehan understands what many political films often forget. The violence isn’t horrifying because we see it, it’s horrifying because of what it leaves behind. Silence, waiting, uncertainty and an inability to mourn because no one officially acknowledges there has ever been a death.”