By now, the pressure was immense. Six hits? No one in modern Pollywood had done six. The film was a larger-than-life action thriller. Jassi played a vigilante who uses traditional Punjabi martial arts (Gatka) to fight drug lords.
Director Anurag Singh cast him in a loose sequel to a blockbuster. Jassi played a bumbling NRI from Canada who falls for a feisty cop. The chemistry was electric. The music, by Dr. Zeus, became the anthem of every wedding season. The scene where Jassi tries to propose in broken English but ends up reciting a Bulleh Shah couplet went viral on early YouTube. 7hitmovies punjabi movies
The premiere was held in a single theatre in Amritsar. No fanfare. Just Jassi, now 31, looking tired and calm. The film was 2 hours of silence, longing, and a single scene where his character sees his childhood home on the other side of the border and just whispers, "Ghar aaja, veere." (Come home, brother.) By now, the pressure was immense
The industry panicked. "Are you insane? This is the seventh hit! You need fireworks!" The film was a larger-than-life action thriller
The seventh film was the most anticipated event in Punjabi cinema history. But Jassi didn’t choose a comedy or an action film. He chose a quiet, black-and-white art film about an old man who returns to his village in Pakistan during the Kartarpur Corridor opening.