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Sunil Dutt speaks about Hindi film Maachis. He says, "The root cause of violence is hatred but if love exists there is no space for violence and Punjab needs love and I congratulate every artist and technicians of film Maachis. Gulzar directed this film so well he understood the subject very well. There is no end for hatred." Maachis is a 1996 Indian Hindi period political thriller film directed by Gulzar and produced by R. V. Pandit. It stars Om Puri, Tabu, Chandrachur Singh and Jimmy Shergill in the lead roles. The film portrays the circumstances surrounding the rise of the Sikh insurgency in Punjab in the 1980s and traces the transformation of a youth from a boy next door to a dreaded terrorist bent on wreaking vengeance. The title is used as a metaphor that conveys that the youth of an
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