Jimmy Shergill, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Mona Singh and Alizeh Agnihotri are set to come together for filmmaker Vikas Bahl’s next directorial. The untitled coming-of-age musical drama is set against the rise of the UK Punjabi music scene in the 1990s and will explore a generation caught between its cultural roots and life in Britain.

Jimmy Shergill headlines Vikas Bahl’s musical

The film is set in the early 1990s, when Punjabi music was finding a new audience among young British Asians. At a time when pirate radio, underground gigs and makeshift music spaces were becoming important platforms for emerging artists, a distinct sound was beginning to take shape. The film will look at that period through a story of friendship, family, music and identity.