Only when a movie can be universal in its appeal, and resonate with people at the time it’s released, does it make sense to make it. With Chauthi Koot (Fourth Direction), I knew that would happen. That it would find an audience beyond Punjab. It’s because we are living in a time of disturbance here, and across the world,” says Gurvinder Singh, director of the National Award-winning Chauthi Koot, which became the first Punjabi film to be premiered at Cannes last year, and released across India this Friday.

The film is based on two stories by author Waryam Singh Sandhu, and was shot in Amritsar and Ferozepur