He became a familiar face on TV with the famous serial, Krishna Rukmini Krishna Rukmini is a drama series which got aired Read More. Krishna mainly was an actor and acted in popular films and serials in Sandalwood industry. Sunil adopted the stage name Krishna, and most people remember him because of his stage name. He changed his name to ‘Darling Krishna’ after the success of his first Kannada serial, ‘Krishna Rukmini’ where he played the role of Krishna and people started calling by his on-screen name Krishna which eventually became his official screen name. ‘Punjab’ was expanding to the rhythm of a silent ominous beat.ĭarling Krishna’s real name is Sunil Kumar N. It raged in our tranquil hill sanctuary and the Jat-Gujjar outskirts of NCR. And this phenomenon wasn’t confined to its geographical borders.
All progress seemed getting reduced to form - swanky interiors, cars, silent ACs, giant LED screens, well produced AV kitsch - hollowed out of any progressive aspiration/s, at the same time. Punjab had lapsed, reclaimed by its own crude memory. All those little liberties won for the common man, especially women, by progressive content and arts, my own oeuvre playing a small part, seemed lost.
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I suddenly felt the need for security, tribal bondings and winking at crude behaviour to feel safe. The song and others like it had shrunk my safe space. I, father to two teenagers and husband to a pretty wife, suddenly felt exposed, vulnerable. My very first introduction to his music was via the chartbuster ‘G Wagon’ and I remember a chill running down my spine as I gleaned the lyrics from distorted speakers and the general cacophony: ‘Jithe bandaa maarke kasoor puchhde, Jatt uss pind nu belong kardaa.’ (Where you kill a man and then ask what his fault was, Jatt belongs to that village). Amrik-Sukhdev dhaba at Murthal, our favourite pit-stop on the way to the hills and my window into the Punjabi unconscious, played him on a loop. But it was hard to miss his mercurial rise, his near ubiquity.
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