Why a Diljit Dosanjh film vanished – On a Friday, the Indian streaming platform ZEE5 launched Satluj, a film starring Bollywood actor Diljit Dosanjh, only for it to vanish from the service two days later. The abrupt departure of the movie from public view has raised questions about its censorship and the motivations behind its removal. ZEE5 cited “current developments” as the reason for its temporary unavailability in India, though the exact cause remained unspecified. The film, which had already been released, is now officially out of reach for Indian audiences, leaving its creators and fans puzzled.

Satluj is a biographical drama centered on Jaswant Singh Khalra, a human rights activist whose life and work became the film’s foundation. Khalra, a key figure in Punjab’s separatist movement, investigated claims of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by security forces during the 1980s and 1990s. His own disappearance in 1995, which led…