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Ajay Singh Deol popularly known as Sunny Deol was born to actor Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur. Sunny began acting with super hit film Betaab (1983) which was a love story also featuring another new comer Amrita Singh; this film was a major success and then he goes on making films which portrayed him as Bollywood's best action hero. There is Arjun (1985), Tridev (1989), Ghayal (1990) among others that are too numerous to mention. Ghayal was a major success action flick which brought Sunny his first award; then he goes on to Damini (1993) featured as best supporting actor as a drunk lawyer and then came Ghatak (1996), Ziddi (1997), Border (1997) among others. Sunny also strive to be a director with Dillagi (1999) which was not so successful; in the film he acted with his younger brother Bobby Deol. We cannot forget Darr (1993) which he acted opposite Shahrukh Khan; the film that we all know him as not only a good-looking but romantic young man. In the 2000's Sunny also made some remarkable hits, the film Gadar (2001) which displays his acting skills also Apne (2007) and Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011) which he also acted with his brother Bobby and his dad Dharmendra. And also not forgetting Heroes (2008) in which we all learn that if everyone tries in life then no one is handicapped. Overall Sunny is a remarkable personality and made a name for himself; hope he continue to progress in future.- Rajesh Sharma was born on 8 October 1980 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is an actor, known for The Dirty Picture (2011), Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) and The Tashkent Files (2019). He has been married to Sangeeta Sharma since 2011. He was previously married to Sudipta Chakraborty.
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Divya Dutta is an Indian Actress from Ludhiana (Punjab) who has acted in various Hindi and Punjabi movies.She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent in Ludhiana.She has won more than 25 awards in the Film Industry including Zee Cine awards for best supporting role in "Veer Zaara" and IIFA award for best supporting actress in "Delhi6".She has been nominated for Film Fare and Star Screen award twice.For her role in "Welcome To Sajjanpur" she won star sabse favorite kaun award.She has worked in more than 60 movies and is famous actress known in Bollywood.She has also worked in international movies and was seen in video of "Romeo" by a famous house music duo from London, England, Basement Jaxx.- Actress
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Juhi was born in the Chawla family on November 13, 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, and is the daughter of Punjabi-speaking dad, Dr. S. Chawla and Gujarati-speaking mom, Mona. She has a brother named Sanjeev. Her mother passed away in an accident during the year 1998 while Juhi was filming 'Duplicate'.
After completing her school in Ludhiana, the Chawla family moved to Bombay, Maharashtra, India, where Juhi attended at Sydenham College. After graduating, she entered in the Miss India competition and was crowned 'Miss India 1984', taking over from Miss India 1983, Rekha Hande.
Her first appearance on the tinsel screen was as Zarina in the 1986 release 'Sultanat'. She shot to fame after the release of 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' opposite Aamir Khan. As of August 2007, she has been bestowed with three awards for her performance in 'Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke', 'Duplicate', and '3 Deewarein'.
Juhi got married to multi-millionaire industrialist, Jai Mehta during the year 1998. Since then the couple have a daughter, Jhanvi, and son, Arjun.
Juhi continues to act in movies, and also makes appearances in many off-beat movies, rather than the mainstream cinema with which she started her career. She also appears in a number of TV ad commercials.- Actress
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Simi Garewal was born on October 17, 1947 to a Punjabi Sikh family in India. Her father was J.S Garewal who was in the military. Her mother was a homemaker. Her family migrated to London in early 1953 when she was barely 6 years old. In 1961, she moved back to India in order to become an actress. She was offered a small role in the English film Tarzan Goes to India (1962). When the film was released, she was noticed by filmmakers which resulted in getting more roles in Bollywood movies. However, her accented Hindi blocked her pathway to becoming a successful actress and hence, she was reduced to secondary roles in movies. In 1972, her nude scene in Siddhartha (1972) created a huge controversy in India and the film was not released due to censorship problems. After 1972, her demand began diminishing and she turned her attention to writing and direction. She now runs a TV show named Rendezvous with Simi in which she interviews popular Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities.- Actor
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Pankaj Kapur, born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, is a highly respected Indian actor, director, and playwright known for his exceptional contributions to the world of Indian cinema, television, and theater. With a career spanning over four decades, Pankaj Kapur has carved a niche for himself with his versatility, nuanced performances, and creative endeavors.
Pankaj Kapur began his acting journey in the theater, where he honed his skills and gained recognition for his exceptional talent. He made his mark in the world of television with the critically acclaimed series "Karamchand" (1985-1988), where he portrayed the titular character of the quirky detective Karamchand.
In Bollywood, Pankaj Kapur's film career took off with films like "Mandi" (1983) and "Ek Doctor Ki Maut" (1990), where he showcased his ability to portray complex and layered characters. However, it was his collaboration with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj that brought him widespread acclaim.
Pankaj Kapur delivered memorable performances in Vishal Bhardwaj's films, including "Maqbool" (2003), "The Blue Umbrella" (2005), and "Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola" (2013). His collaborations with Bhardwaj were marked by their depth and authenticity, establishing Pankaj Kapur as a powerhouse performer in the industry.
Apart from his acting career, Pankaj Kapur has directed and produced television shows and films. His directorial venture, "Mausam" (2011), showcased his prowess behind the camera as well.
Pankaj Kapur is also known for his contribution to theater, where he has been associated with iconic productions. His work as a playwright and actor in plays like "Dopehri" has received critical acclaim and demonstrated his commitment to diverse forms of storytelling.
In recognition of his exceptional contribution to Indian cinema and entertainment, Pankaj Kapur has received numerous awards, including the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Raakh" (1989) and the National Film Award for Best Actor for "Ek Doctor Ki Maut" (1991).
Pankaj Kapur continues to be an influential figure in the Indian entertainment industry, maintaining a balance between cinema, television, and theater.- Actress
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Daljeet Kaur was born on 15 November 1982 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress and director, known for Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon (2011), Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega (2018) and C.I.D. (1998). She was previously married to Shaleen Bhanot.- Jasmin Bajwa was born on 26 September 1996 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress, known for Yaar Jigree Kasooti Degree (2018), Husband Material (2018) and Doorbeen (2019).
- Maneet Chauhan (born 27 October 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is an Indian American chef and television personality of Punjabi origin. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on "Chopped," "Guy's Grocery Games," etc. on the Food Network. She has appeared on "The Next Iron Chef," on "The View" on ABC, "Iron Chef America," "The Today Show" on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of "Worst Cooks in America" on Food Network. Chef Maneet Chauhan was invited by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the Annual Easter Egg Roll Hunt 2014 to the White House. She is also an invited member of Indiaspora that hosted 100 influential Indian American leaders as part of its first Forum in September 2012. The three-day Forum event aimed to energize the community and provide a voice with which it articulated collective goals. Chef Chauhan, a Culinary Institute of America alumna, delivered the keynote for the associate degree commencement on the college's Hyde Park campus and also received a recognition of "Distinguished Service to the Foodservice and Hospitality Industry" as the Ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America.
Chauhan was born into a Sikh household. She began her culinary career at the Manipal University's WelcomGroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal, India, where she graduated at the top of her class earning a bachelor's degree in Hotel Management. She then attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and graduated sweeping all of the awards of her class. As an apprentice chef, she worked in India with the Oberoi Group, Taj Group, Welcome Group, and Sheraton Group.
Right after graduation in 2000 she was hired as management for a startup restaurant in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where she headed a team and expanded the restaurant's capacity from 70 seats to 140 seats. In 2003, at the age of 27, she became the opening executive chef of Vermilion in Chicago, Illinois, earning her 3-Stars from The Chicago Tribune. In 2007, she moved to NYC to open At Vermilion where she was nominated as the 'Best Import to New York' by Time Out Magazine. Her style is described as "global fusion" with roots in Indian cuisine.
She wrote her first cookbook, "Flavors of My World: A Culinary Tour Through 25 Countries," published by Favorite Recipes Press, an imprint of Nashville-based Southwestern Publishing Group. She conducted a 21-city bus tour across the U.S. to promote the book and was noted as one of the Cookbooks of the Year. Her other book (electronic, publisher: Alta Editions), authored with Katy Sparks, Alex Raij, Rita Sodi and Kathleen Squires, called The Journey, won the award from International Association of Culinary Professionals 2014. Her most recent cookbook "Chaat," co-authored with Jody Eddy, was released in October 2020 and includes over eighty Indian recipes with a focus on street food and local cuisine.
Chauhan opened her first restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, called "Chauhan Ale and Masala House" and the location is 123 12th Ave North in The Gulch Area. The restaurant, which accommodates 150, opened in August 2014. In 4 years, she opened 4 restaurants and 3 breweries in the Nashville area. They were hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 and the closure of most food service locations, but she survived and entered 2021 with all 4 restaurants in business.
Maneet Chauhan has participated in fundraisers to benefit underprivileged children in India and the typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines. - Actress
Inayat Verma was born on 22 April 2012 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress, known for Ludo (2020), Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023) and Shabaash Mithu (2022).- Director
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Raj Khosla was born on 31 May 1925 in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India. He was a director and writer, known for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978), Ek Musafir Ek Hasina (1962) and Anita (1967). He died on 9 June 1991 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.- Teena Singh was born on 10 April 1994 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress, known for Kabir Singh (2019), Sense8 (2015) and The Incomplete Man (2021).
- Yesha Sagar (born on December 14) is a Canadian model, actress and fitness influencer. She began her career in Punjabi music industry in 2017 through her friend while she was in school. She has been appeared in more than 30 music videos including Punjabi and Hindi/Telugu. She will also be seen playing a role of single-mother in a bilingual short film.
Yesha was born and raised in Punjab, India. After finishing her Bachelors degree in India, she decided to move to Toronto, Canada in December 2015 to pursue further studies. While she was in school she was offered a lead role in one of her former classmate's music video which she happily accepted. And from there, her journey of acting & modelling began. she kept saying yes to all the opportunity offered which highly helped her to attain the acting skills, camera facing confidence and working with different kinds of people in a team. Little did she know that she will fall in love with acting and will continue to pursue it as her full-time career. - Lavina Tandon was born on 14 May 1991 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress, known for Hero Bhakti Hi Shakti Hai (2005), Jodha Akbar (2013) and Yahan Mein Ghar Ghar Kheli (2009).
- Avtar Gill was born on 13 May 1950 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is an actor, known for Airlift (2016), Dilwale (1994) and Veergati (1995).
- Krishna Mukherjee was born on 12 August 1992 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She is an actress, known for Shubh Shagun (2022), C.I.D. (1998) and Yeh Hai Chahatein (2019).
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One of India's most respected film personalities, Baldev Raj Chopra (better known as B.R. Chopra) has been an architect of what is now known as the golden era of the Bollywood industry. Having converted offbeat stories into immortal classics like Waqt (1965) and Naya Daur (1957), he commands high regard in the world film fraternity.
B.R. Chopra was born in Lahore, 1914, to an accountant in the PWD administration of the British Punjab administration. After graduating, he did his M.A. degree in English Literature from Lahore University. . Having a deep-rooted fascination for films, he switched over from a higher education to film journalism, surprising his family. He began his celluloid career writing and editing film reviews for the Cine Herald journal.
When the partition of India occurred in 1947, B.R. became a victim of communal riots. His house having been burnt down, he migrated to Bombay to live up to his dreams. In 1949, he produced his first film Karwat (1949). Unfortunately, it turned out to be a flop. In 1951, he tried again as the producer and director of the film Afsana (1951) and hit gold. His movie, a tale of mistaken identity with Ashok Kumar in a double role, was a runaway hit and went on to celebrate its silver jubilee.
Encouraged by this success, B.R. formed his production company, B.R. Films, in 1955, and started off on a roll with the release of Ek-Hi-Rasta (1956), a drama about widow remarriage. He churned out a string of successful films, the most notable being Naya Daur (1957), Sadhna (1958), Kanoon (1960), Gumrah (1963) and Hamraaz (1967). He also gave his younger brother, Yash Chopra, his first directorial opportunity with the box-office hit Dhool Ka Phool (1959) and in the subsequent years Yash made four more films for B.R., including Waqt (1965) and Ittefaq (1969).
B.R. has always endeavored to make socially relevant films, which at the same time try to cater to popular sentiment. For instance, Naya Daur (1957) told the story of a traditional rural community threatened with modernism and mechanism; B.R. perceives mechanism as evil and has the protagonist, a horse carriage rider, defeat an automobile in a race! B.R. has also made films that were regarded as ahead of their time - Kanoon (1960) was a courtroom drama without any songs at all (music being essential of all Hindi films, this was a novel technique); _Gumrah (1963)_qv told the tale of a woman resuming her affair after marriage; and Ittefaq (1969) showed the heroine as a murderess of her own husband!
B.R. continued to make films into the 1970s and 1980s, and met success with Insaf Ka Tarazu (1980), focusing on the issue of rape, and Nikaah (1982), a Muslim love triangle. His son Ravi did try to keep the banner going but none of the films did well except for Aaj Ki Awaz (1984), another courtroom tale, and the family epic Baghban (2003). However, B.R. Films turned to television in 1985 and made several successful television programs, the most successful of the being the serial Mahabharat (1988), based on the Hindu epic. Perhaps the most popular serial in the history of Indian cinema, it entered the Guinness Book of World Records by registering 96% world viewer ship. In 1999, B.R. was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian Cinema.
It was another triumph for the movie mogul...- Music Artist
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Karan Aujla was born on 18 January 1997 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is a music artist and actor, known for Karan Aujla: Fallin Apart (2023), Koka vs Coca (2020) and Diljit Dosanjh: G.O.A.T. (2020).- Actor
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Arun Bakshi was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is known for Mahabharat (1988), Aankhen (2002) and Aankhen (1993).- Music Department
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A colossus among film lyricists, Sahir Ludhianvi was slightly different from his contemporaries. A man unable to praise Khuda (God), Husn (beauty) and/or Jaam (wine), his pen was at its best pouring out bitter but sensitive lyrics over the declining values of society, the senselessness of war and politics, and the domination of materialism over love. Whenever he wrote any love songs, they were tinged with sorrow, due to the realization that there were other, starker concepts more important than love. He could be called the underdog's bard; close to his heart were the soldier gone to fight someone's war, the woman forced to sell her body, the family living on the street and other victims of society.
Born in March 8 1921 as Abdul Hayee, Sahir was the only son of a zamindar. The separation of his parents and the event of partition caused him to shuttle between India and Pakistan...and also brought him face to face with the struggles of life. He made a living as a journalist and editor in Pakistan, but an arrest warrant from the Pakistani government of the day after publishing some unflattering articles caused him to flee to Bombay in 1949, where he began to write film songs.
Sahir made his debut in film lyrics with Naujawan (1951). His first major break came the same year when he wrote the lyrics for Sachin Dev Burman's music in Gamble (1951). The movie, directed by Guru Dutt, and its music was a success and together S.D. Burman and Sahir went on to create some of their work in Jaal (1952), House No. 44 (1955), Munimji (1955) and the immortal classic Thirst (1957). And although they parted ways after Pyaasa, Sahir was now a stalwart in Bollywood and during the 1960s and 1970s he wrote outstanding lyrics for films like Hum Dono (1961) and Taj Mahal (1963). However, he mostly composed lyrics for the Chopra brothers, before and after they separated, and some of his best work was in Kabhi Kabhie (1976), which went on to break all records.
He died in 1980 of a heart attack, in the midst of a card game. It was ironically appropriate; while the poet's heart bled for others, he never paid enough attention to his own life, and had a card-player nonchalance about life and death. He will be remembered along with Kaifi Azmi, as the poet who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures.- Actor
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Aashish Duggal was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is known for The Great Sardaar (2017), Needhi Singh (2016) and Saavi: A Bonded Bride (2015).- Sonpreet Jawanda was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is known for Holiday (2014), Marjaney (2021) and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022).
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Rahul Dua is a popular Indian standup comedian and actor. And he is hard to miss - as one of India's top 16 comedians in Netflix's Comedy Premium League, 1st Runners Up and one of the best performers on Amazon Prime's Comicstaan S01, Cricket Commentator during IPL 2021 on Hotstar Dosts, as a lead actor in CultFit & Zomato TVCs and Hyundai Grand i10, Nando's and Wakefit Mattresses' Digital Ad films. OMNIPRESENT. As one of the highest ticket sellers for a comedy special with more than 25,000 tickets sold across 50+ cities nationwide with having done 300+ public shows across the country garnering 2M+ live viewership with his widely popular special "Oh Hello!", Dua - with his measured delivery, charming on-stage persona, astute observations, gripping storytelling and heartfelt jokes - has had an exponential rise in the Indian comedy scene and has made it large and how! You know what - If you suddenly hear a sharp, high pitched shrill voice going "woohoo" in a peaceful, silent room- you know Dua is around.- Music Department
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Surinder Shinda was born Surinder Pal Dhammi in a Ramgharia Tarkhan Sikh family. He hails from Ludhiana, Punjab. He was a colleague of the Punjabi singer Kuldeep Manak and has also taught music to the late Amar Singh Chamkila, Gill Hardeep, Maninder Shinda, Shinda's son. He is Famous For his KALI(a singing-style) with Kuldeep Manak and several others. His Jeona Morh is considered as a Legend in Punjabi music. His song "Badla Le Layeen Sohneya" is one of the greatest hits of Punjabi music ever. Shinda is married to the cousin of Dev Tharikewala's wife who is known to have written lyrics for Shinda & Kuldeep Manak.- Producer
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Harry Baweja was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is known for Love Story 2050 (2008), Teesri Aankh: The Hidden Camera (2006) and Trinetra (1991).