So, most of you have already heard ‘Kala Chashma’ song which is originally from the 90s. But Have you heard of Amrik Singh Shera? He is a head constable in the Punjab police in Kapurthala. And he is the writer of the song.
He has claimed that he wrote the song ‘kala Chasma’, which released in 1990 and later featured in ‘Baar Baar Dekho’. A Jalandhar-based record company reportedly approached him four months ago for his other songs and paid him Rs. 11,000. “No one told me that the song would feature in a movie,” said Shera. Shera had written the song as a ninth-grader, when he was 15. He approached many singers at the time with his songs.
“I started writing songs because I wanted to become famous in my village. That dream has come true. But I wanted to make my village famous too, which could have been possible only if the makers had invited me. Hardly anyone even in Punjab knows that it’s my song,” he says.
However, he says he has paid tribute to his village. “If you listen to ‘Kala Chashma’ carefully, in the last stanza I have mentioned my village Talwandi Chaudhrian’s name.”
If you haven’t heard the song, here it is :