India, July 6 -- Director Honey Trehan saw a long battle to ensure his film Satluj, earlier called Panjab 95, gets a release in the manner he intended. The film, based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, released on Zee5, uncut, this Friday. But it was unceremoniously taken down on Sunday with the streamer mentioning 'developments' in a statement. The filmmaker, however, remains hopeful that things could turn around, as evidenced by his brief reaction to the shadow ban on his film.

Satluj stars Diljit Dosanjh as the late Khalra, who was instrumental in investigating the cremation of thousands of unidentified bodies in Punjab during a 10-year period from 1984 to 1994. The film was controversial for its take on event...