It’s wrong for Zee to pull Satluj. That Jaswant Singh Khalra was killed in a fake encounter is a court-established fact. If the film wraps this into a revisionist retelling of Punjab’s reign of terror, it’s a matter of debate or criticism, not censorship. Sometimes one-sidedness can also bring catharsis.
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