'Satluj' actress, Honey Trehan, further stated that the movie, 'Satluj' felt like pure telepathy. Massive credit went to ZEE for pulling this off.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleDiljit Dosanjh and Honey Trehan's movie, Satluj which was earlier named as Punjab 95 has been removed from digital streaming platform, Zee 5. Now, Satluj director Honey Trehan revealed being shocked about the film dropping digitally. Well, she revealed that only Diljit had the idea of Satluj being dropped on Zee 5. As soon as the movie released there was a lot of buzz on the internet.
Satluj director Honey Trehan, sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and revealed that a massive amount of swift operational heavy lifting was happening behind closed doors between RSVP and ZEE. He revealed that his brain had lost faith that it would ever come out. Honey stated that Diljit knew about the movie releasing on OTT and said:
"I was praying constantly, but you build a cynical wall. Even at 6:00 PM on Friday, I messaged the team asking, "Is this actually happening tonight? Apart from the core corporate team, the only person who knew about the drop was Diljit. Right after I pressed 'Send' on my anxious text to RSVP, a message flashed from Diljit Paaji saying, "Paaji, it's really coming out tonight."
Satluj director, Honey Trehan further stated that the movie felt like pure telepathy. Massive credit went to ZEE for pulling this off. She stated that he has nothing but monumental respect for how they championed this. Honey also stated that Satluj was released on Zee5 as it has always been a fantastic partner for RSVP. They made Sonchiriya together under Macguffin and RSVP, and Kedarnath was also done with ZEE as a partner. In his words:
"So it’s a long-standing association. It isn’t just about one or two projects; they have deep, long-term business ties, so this transition was smoothly ironed out as part of their broader digital rights arrangements. But initially, we completely intended to release this film theatrically. We wanted it to reach audiences on the big screen."
Honey Trehan stated that over the time, the roadblocks that the movie, Satluj saw had kept on multiplying. It was an endless cycle of cut this, delete that, alter this section. The frustrating part was that the actress wasn't receiving any legitimate, logical explanations (from CFBC) as to why these cuts were being demanded.
For the unversed, Satluj was released on July 3, 2026 on Zee5. Well, two days later the movie got removed, and earlier it had faced a long battle related to the life of Jaswant Singh Khalra. He was the human rights activist who had investigated the disappearance and the secret cremations of civilians that took place in Punjab back during the 1990s. Honey, speaking about the movie cuts, said:
"The final count was upwards of 127 cuts. The last conversation we had took place around December 24, right when we were navigating the international release strategy. The responses we were getting simply lacked legitimacy. We waited, and then we eventually approached the court, but nothing shifted. Over that prolonged period of stagnation, Ronnie [Screwvala] sir, in tandem with ZEE, took the definitive call to go straight to digital. On streaming platforms, you don’t strictly require a CBFC theatrical certificate."
Honey had also shared that when Zee had come on board, they truly loved the film and insisted it needed to see the light of day. In a way, they adopted an abandoned child. The sheer volume of love and global goodwill the film received since it dropped was overwhelming.
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