India, April 13 -- With Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz Ali comes home. It may not be his best work yet, but it's a fine balance between personal and political, conscious and subconscious, objective and subjective. It's also the first time he goes deep into the pind - to tell a real, rooted story devoid of urbanisation to make it accessible. He's Harry (Shah Rukh Khan) from Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017), who has visions of Punjab's lush greens calling him home.

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But what makes Chamkila a very personal story for Imtiaz is the parallel between the filmmaker and the late Punjabi singer. Both men, belonging to different eras and backg...