Jogi (2022 film)

The film is set in Delhi's eastside neighbourhood of Trilokpuri, and depicts a three-day period in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984, four months after Operation Blue Star. In the film, stories of the fictional characters centre on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. It's a usual routine morning for Jogi's traditional working class Sikh family of three generations. The children get ready for school, women fry parathas, and elders and men sit around the table and make jokes. They have no idea as to what is about to happen. By the time Jogi and his father are on the bus to work, news of Indira Gandhi's assassination by her two Sikh bodyguards that morning, spreads. Jogi and his father board a bus. A group men beat him and his father, who asks "what is our fault?" to which they reply is "you are a sardar".

Over the following three days, Sikhs are scapegoated and scenes depict pockets of violence towards them. They are recognised by their distinct appearances and by their names on the electoral register, propagated by the region's MLA Tejpal Arora. Jogi's brother-in-law is beaten as he opens his shop and burned alive. Mobs of people run down the streets and burn buildings. A man in a turban is shown running whilst on fire and shouting for help, and a Sikh family is shown being burned in a car.

Jogi returns home to find an empty house and his neighbours are cutting their children's hair in the hope that they will not be recognised. When Jogi reaches his sister's house, he sees Sukhi (Jogi's elder brother) along with other family members sitting and crying around Heer who is stitching a shirt on the sewing machine for her dead husband. Jogi consoles his sister and watching this, Sukhi who is already in deep shock, cannot bear the pain of his sister and he breaks down.

Rawinder Chautala, Jogi's friend and police officer, sees Jogi's family name on the target list and advises him to leave for Punjab. However, Jogi vows to help not just his own family but his whole Sikh community. Following an intensely emotional scene where he cuts his long hair, Rawinder and his friend Kareem, help him with his mission. Splitting the Sikhs into two groups, they take the first round of people in a truck (with Kareem's help) that they disguise as a weapon and alcohol truck, to find Sikhs and take them to Punjab.

A brief flashback explains Laali's vendetta with Jogi after Kamo's suicide. A final scene initially appearing to see the end of the community, eventually ends with the death of Jogi from a shot by Arora just moments after his community is saved by the Indian Army, brought in unexpectedly by Laali.

• Diljit Dosanjh as Joginder Singh "Jogi"^[4]
• Kumud Mishra as Tejpal Arora, MLA
• Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Rawinder Chautala, Jogi's Hindu friend and police officer
• Hiten Tejwani as Laali, police inspector
• Amyra Dastur as Kammo^[5]
• Apinderdeep Singh as "Sukhi", Jogi's elder brother^[6]
• Paresh Pahuja as Kaleem Ansari, Jogi's Muslim friend
• Neelu Kohli as Jogi's mother
• Mikhail Yawalkar as Daler Singh
• Mandeep Kaur as Sukhi's wife
• Charu Kumar as Heer, Jogi's sister
• Samarjit Singh Mahajan, Jogi's nephew
• K.P. Singh as Tejinder, Heer's husband
• Noyrika as Shehnaaz, Kaleem's wife