Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, BJP President Amit Shah and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the first official poster of “Sarbjit” in New Delhi recently. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s first look from director Omung Kumar’s ‘Sarbjit’, the poster of which was unveiled last night in the Capital. Sarbjit Singh was a farmer from Bhikhiwind in Punjab (just 5 kms away from the Indo-Pakistan border), who in 1990 while farming, inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan after having a couple of drinks, got mistaken as an Indian spy and was given capital punishment in 1991, but was not hanged.
He was kept in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore for 23 years, before he was killed by inmates a few days after the death of Afzal Guru in India. During his 23 years in jail, his sister Dalbir Kaur, who treated him more like her son than her brother, got to meet him only thrice in jail and made it her life’s agenda to get him released.
