Amar Singh Chamkila’s last day: Singer foreshadowed his own death, saw his wife being shot and asked, ‘Babbi, tenu ki hoya’
The Indian Express - 2024-04-12T13:01:30.000Z

Lal Chand, the dholak player who accompanied Amar Singh Chamkila on the day he died, has often spoken about the impression that he had of the slain folk singer. Lal Chand himself took a bullet when Chamkila and his wife, Amarjot, were shot dead in the village of Mehsampur in Punjab, in the year 1988. Chamkila's story was retold by director Imtiaz Ali in a new biopic, released on Netflix on Friday. As interest in the singer's life grows, here's looking back at Lal Chand's stories about him, and... Read this story