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DEAR JASSI
DEAR JASSI

• Director: Tarsem Singh
• INDIA, CANADA, USA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 132’ / Punjabi, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Amit Rai
• Director of Photography: Brendan Galvin
• Editing: Tarsem Singh
• Music: Kanwar Grewal
• Cast: Pavia Sidhu, Yugam Sood
• Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Vipul D Shah, Ashwin Varde, Rajesh Bahl, Sanjay Grover, Tarsem Singh
• Production Co.: T-Series, Wakaoo Films, Creative Strokes Group
• World Sales: Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark Inc.
• Turkish Rights: Pinema

2023 Toronto Best Film–Platform
2023 Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Non-U.S. Release

Music video, commercial and feature film director, the innovative filmmaker Tarsem Singh, best known for The Cell, and The Fall, returns to behind the camera after an eight-year hiatus, with his first film set in India that premiered at Toronto Film Festival. Dear Jassi is the true-life Romeo and Juliet tale of a young couple who are desperate to be together but are kept apart. The film is set in the 90s, when on a trip from Canada to visit her extended family in India, Jassi meets Mithu, a sweet rickshaw driver, and the two fall in love. However, everything is against them uniting, starting with their cruel families, geography, and the brutal universe in general. Dear Jassi chronicles a tragic romance that transcends time and space, ‘a love story, but with a grisly murder at its centre,’ as put by Singh who was inspired by a real life incident.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.