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The list goes on.ДЄre Punjabi pop stars natural actors? To try and understand this transformation from singing to acting, I am at Speed Records, a nerve centre of the Punjabi pop industry.

#HINDI PUNJABI MOVIES 2012 MOVIE#

In Punjab, the biggest movie stars (with the exception of Jimmy Shergill) started off as singers: Gurdas Maan, Harbhajan Mann, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Dosanjh, Grewal, Amrinder Gill. To truly comprehend the importance of what may at first glance seem like a rather ordinary or even obvious piece of information, one may contrast the phenomenon with Bollywood: After Kishore Kumar, almost no playback singer, no matter how versatile, has had any kind of commercial success as an actor. This is vital to understanding something crucial about the Punjabi entertainment industry: the exalted place of pop music and the way it directly influences the kind of cinema coming out of the state. Take Neeru Bajwa, for instance: SheвЂ™s been part of some of the biggest hits in recent times, but has barely had more than a scene or two to herself in any one of them. The idea of a strong female character, in short, is almost non-existent in the modern Punjabi commercial film. With the female lead often relegated to playing a distant second fiddle to these big-ticket pop stars as they sing about booze and big cars and dance in lush fields or neat-looking Canadian suburbs, most Punjabi films would spectacularly fail the Bechdel test. ThereвЂ™s another leitmotif to these films: The Jat boy, almost invariably, is played by a successful pop star. There are minor tweaks here and there: An organic farming field sometimes replaces the mustard field.

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Yet it is true that the plots of an overwhelmingly large number of Punjabi films are a variant of this: Jat boy in quest of fortune and fame goes to Canada/Australia, falls in love with Punjabi girl in Toronto/Sydney or at the airport immigration counter, overcomes initial casual racist spurns by the girl/scheming relatives and once professional success and personal bliss are achieved, comes back to his village of mustard fields to live happily ever after. In a review on CNN-News18, film critic Divya Pal called it вЂњincredibly moving'. Ardaas was favourably reviewed by critics in the national media. Set in rural Punjab, it is a deftly made film on the tricky subject of spirituality. Then thereвЂ™s singing sensation-turned-actor Gippy GrewalвЂ™s directional debut, Ardaas.

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