{"id":17272,"date":"2022-05-03T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:40:14","slug":"from-35-m-m-to-cinemascope-digitally-remastered-chann-pardesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=17272","title":{"rendered":"From 35 M.M. to Cinemascope: Digitally Remastered Chann Pardesi by Dr. Khushminder Kaur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From 35 M.M. to Cinemascope: Digitally Remastered Chann Pardesi<\/b><\/div>\n
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Chann Pardesi, which has won the National Film Award for making a mark in the world of Punjabi cinema, is now going to release again after 40 years.\u00a0 The print of the film, which was first released on July 10, 1981, has been technically remastered and replaced with 5.1 Sound (Surround Sound).\u00a0 At the same time, his background score has been changed along with cinemascope from 35 mm. \u00a0 The first producers of the film in 1980 were G.S. Cheema, Sardar Baldev Gill, Mrs. Swaran Sedha and executive producer Yograj Sedha.\u00a0 Sardar Chanan Singh Sidhu is the new producer of this film which will be released on 20th May in the year 2022.\u00a0 All the stories related to this film before and even now are witnesses of the hard work behind this film.<\/div>\n
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Forty years ago, a year before its release, the film won the National Award at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 through a committee headed by Chairperson V. Shantaram.\u00a0 The producers were awarded a silver medal and Rs.15,000 and the director was awarded Rs.7500 and a silver medal.\u00a0 While the film was technically suitable for the cinematic needs of the time, it also met all the criteria of film aesthetics.\u00a0 One of the great virtues of filmmaking was that the person working for each part of the film was involved in the study of theater or filmmaking.\u00a0 The star cast of the film was quite large with 44 various actors including Raj Babbar, Rama Vij, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajni Sharma, Om Puri, Sundar, Sushma Seth, Sunita Dheer, Meher Mittal, Amrish Puri, Joga Cheema, Mohan Baggan, Baldev Gill.\u00a0 Mohinder Mastana, Ravi Bhushan, Varyam Mast, Jagjit Sareen, Pran Sabharwal, Bharat Bhushan, Yograj Sedha, Gurcharan Baggan, Sundar Saroop, Harjit Sidhu, Nitu Cheema, Nachhatar Singh, Ajmer Gill, Harjinder Gill, Amrit Mann, Baby, Kuldeep Singh, Qureshi, Satwant Walia, Rana Jang Bahadur etc. were students of theater.<\/div>\n
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Apart from this, its lyricist, director and producer were also students of theater and film education.\u00a0 Overall this masterpiece was actually an art movie\/art film whose satisfying work played a major role in making it a commercial hit.\u00a0 As far as the story of the film is concerned, in the cinema of forty years ago, only the characters of the moneylenders and feudal lords dominating the social system of Punjab were drawn and exposed for film stories.\u00a0 In such a time, establishing a hero from a Dalit family was a big challenge for the producers.\u00a0 This challenge was accepted by the producers and they fulfilled it well because in order to raise public awareness it is necessary to deal with the forces that are in possession of the art.\u00a0 Artists must unite to promote good art.\u00a0 According to Karl Marx, \u201cThe great artist does not present motionless objects and situations but seeks to express the direction and tendency of the process. Therefore he must have a good grasp of the form of the process.\u00a0 The idea is to get away from the basics of life and art. ”\u00a0 Well, the movie Chann Pardesi is a good example of this in which the good actors united for this movie and tried to present a different concept to the people.<\/div>\n
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The film was directed by Chitrarath Singh under whose excellent direction it became the first film to win a Silver Medal.\u00a0 The music of the film was composed by Surinder Kohli and the background music was composed by Uttam Singh.\u00a0 The script and dialogues were written by Ravinder Pipat and the eleven songs in the film were written by Waryam Mast (who is now retired from the post of Regional Director, Department of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India), Ravinder Pipat, Pawan Kumar and Harjeet Gill.\u00a0 The song “Roz Takdi Phiran \u00a0Main Tera Raah” written by Waryam Mast was the most popular song in this film.\u00a0 All the songs of this film are in the minds of the people due to their style, status, and musicality which were sung by famous singers of the music world Mohammad Rafi, Asha Bhonsle, Dilraj Kaur, Anwar, Savita Suman.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Actors Rama Vij and actors Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rana Jung Bahadur, Om Puri, and Amrish Puri made their debut in the Punjabi cinema world with this film.\u00a0 Interestingly, Manmohan Singh who has been honored as a cameraman and director who has made a big difference in the subject matter of Punjabi films through diasporic and Punjabi nostalgia-based subjects also completed his film course from FTII Poona through this film.\u00a0 He started working in cinematography.\u00a0 Instead, cameraman Manmohan Singh himself sang three songs for the film.<\/div>\n
The dialogues are written by Ravinder Pipat which was filmed on Om Puri in this movie \u201cFattad hoja thodi khatar Hazur, Mai te samaundar pee ke vi Dakar na maraan” is still ingrained in people’s minds and\u00a0 Gave him a new identity in the world which later helped him to work in other Punjabi films.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 The significance of the re-release of this film today is due to the fact that in the year 1981, this film was dedicated to the art of some brilliant actors, which helped the people associated with today’s filmmaking world to understand the beauty of filmmaking and Inspiration is needed.\u00a0 Today, forty years later, the re-release of “Chann Pardesi\u201d is a milestone in the Punjabi film world like Hindi Film Sholey.\u00a0 The forty-year-old print stored in the film’s archives has been taken back to London by new producer Chanan Singh Sidhu for cinemascope.\u00a0 The one hundred and seventy-minute film now includes English subtitles which will make the film reach the global level.\u00a0 The cast of this film was unmatched in terms of acting, be it in today’s cinema or in the contemporary times of this film.\u00a0 This success did not come to any other movie than Chan Pardesi.\u00a0 Due to the love and affection it received, the film was running successfully in the cinemas of Amritsar for hundreds of weeks.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Khushminder Kaur<\/div>\n
Punjabi Cinema Researcher<\/div>\n
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From 35 M.M. to Cinemascope: Digitally Remastered Chann Pardesi Chann Pardesi, which has won the National Film Award for making a mark in the world of Punjabi cinema, is now going to release again after 40 years.\u00a0 The print of the film, which was first released on July 10, 1981, has been technically remastered and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}