JOGI: FALLS SHORT OF DEPICTING THE TRAGEDY OF THE 1984 RIOTS
Netflix Original “Jogi” directed by Ali Abbas Zafar is a movie that tells the story of the Anti-Sikh Riots in 1984 following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. For context, the assassination occurred after the order of Operation Blue Star to secure the Harmandir Sahib Sikh temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab. The riots that place afterwards took the lives of anywhere between 8000-17000 Sikhs.