Jatt Te Zameen

There are films,which dont age well,and its case with with 90 % punjabi films,Where in other film industries there is repeat value of many classics,But in Punjabi even most of successful Punjabi Films are long forgotten,may be thats because of lack of Punjabi Film Channels.

Jatt Te Zameen is one film,which was technically not of standard of Chann Pardesi or Nanak Naam Jahaj Hai or even Putt Jattan De,but over the years gained popularity among youngsters thanks to Youtube.

Jatt te Zameen can be fondly remember for various reasons.It was one of first Punjabi Film,in which Turbaned Hero was presented as action star as one of main lead-Sukhjinder Shera,who also produced and wrote the film(in past Turbaned Hero characters were written for Religious films only).Previously Sukhjinder worked with Veerendra in Yaari Jatt Di,so it was during Yaari Jatt Di,Jatt Te Zameen was planned.Varinder was killed during shoot of Jatt Te Zameen,one of the other major reason for its popularity.

Jatt Te Zameen launched and relaunched careers of every actor,associated with it.

Varinder and Sukhjinder Shera played main leads in the film,Earlier Preeti Sapru was suppose to do one of female lead,but she was busy with her own home production film.So Varinder decided to launch two newcomers with it.When he was in Bombay,he met an aspiring actress called Vijya-daughter of Punjabi Hindi Film Actor Balwant Bansal.He renamed her Manpreet Kaur,and she signed three film deal with Varinder.She was present at the scene,when Varinder was assassinated,She was badly disturbed with the incident,left the film industry and never did any other film.She later got married to an Actor Suraj Chadda(who also did Hindi Punjabi films and seriels)

For other female lead,they signed Suman Dutta,who was starting her singing career during that time.She got to do few more Punjabi Films after that,but concentrated more on her singing career,In one of Interview she said that Producers dont  pay well,and she cant spent her own money on costumes,transportation and other things.

Guggu Gill and Yograj Singh worked in few films prior to Jatt Te Zameen,but they got mass popularity with Jatt Te Jameen,Dialogues like Bhain Deya Veera(By Guggu Gill) and Jeeta Jeeta,Jihne Mera Lahu Peeta(By Yograj) went on to become very popular among cinegoers.

Sangeeta Mehta was a stage actress,after making a debut as lead actress in one of Punjabi Film in late 70s,she was mostly seen in small sidekick roles,In Jatt Te Zameen she played one of the pivotal role,originally written for noted Hindi Punjabi Film Character Actress Shammi,After Jatt Te Zameen,Sangeeta was regular in mother roles through out 90s.

Apart from them Artists like Gopi Bhalla,Saroop Parinda(known as Atro),Surinder Rihal(last directed Myself Paindu) etc also benefited from the movie.Varinder & Mehar Mittal were only two major names associated with the film.

Coming to that fateful evening,It was 6 Dec 1988, When during the shoot of film,Varinder was gunned down by extremists,Known Cinematographer of Punjabi Films,Pritam Singh Bhalla also got bullets,but he survived.

Film was released in Summer of 1989,there were already big Hindi films like Chandni,Elaan E Jung and Jadugar were releasing one after other at that time.Jatt Te Zameen got bumper opening and went on to become successful Punjabi Film.Varinder was only active lead actor,producer and director that time,so his demise left a big void in the Industry,but thanks to Jatt Te Zameen's success Industry got some new talent.

Sometime back Guggu Gill mentioned in one of his Interview that Jatt Te Zameen part two is being planned,it will be great if it happens.