The film Satluj, which examines extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances by the Punjab police in the 1990s, has disappeared from the streaming platform Zee5. Honey Trehan’s film, previously titled Punjab ’95 and led by Diljit Dosanjh, was released on Zee5 on Friday evening. By late Sunday evening, the movie had vanished from the platform.
In a statement on its social media handles, Zee5 said that “in light of the current developments, Satluj will be unavailable in India until further notice”. It did not elaborate on the nature of these developments.
The platform added, “We remain committed to exploring every appropriate avenue through due process to bring the film back to our audience at the earliest available opportunity.”
Satluj may have paused. But the conversation it started hasn’t.
Thank you for the incredible love.
We hope to bring it back soon.#Satluj pic.twitter.com/Ox3MZIBvlT— ZEE5Official (@ZEE5India) July 5, 2026
Trehan was unavailable for comment.
Punjab ‘95 faced tremendous censorship after it was completed in 2022. Over several months, the censor board demanded 127 cuts, effectively scuttling the release, Trehan told Scroll in an interview last year.
The version that was briefly available on Zee5 was uncut.
The film is based on human rights activist Jaswinder Singh Khalra’s efforts to expose the culture of brutality and impunity that prevailed in Punjab under the garb of fighting the Khalistani movement.
Khalra was abducted in September 1995, never to…
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