New Reel life siblings who are making news: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as a young Dalbir Kaur and Randeep Hooda as Sarabjit Singh in director Omung Kumar’s biopic ‘Sarbjit’. First look of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as a young Dalbir Kaur and Randeep Hooda as Sarabjit Singh was recently revealed.
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.
