From web series “Kohrra” to movies, for example, “Sam Bahadur” and “Mission Raniganj”, Punjab played out enormous on screens this year. Yet, there’s much more available.
From Johny Switch playing the stereotypical lassi and bhangra fan Balwant Singh in “Raja Hindustani” to Anupam Kher as lively Kakke who wore vivid dungarees in “Mohabbatein” — gone is the period in the Hindi entertainment world when Sikh characters were saved just to stimulate amusing bones, tell senseless wisecracks or basically depict non-reality on the cinema.
A variety of ongoing deliveries in Bollywood and OTT stages have certified how Punjab-related topics, characters, plots, entertainers and music are predominantly forming the scene of the ongoing Hindi film and web series industry.
In the Hindi entertainment world, it was 2013 delivery “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag”, a biopic on the existence of nation’s miracle competitor late Milkha Singh, played by Farhan Akhtar, which hit a profound harmony with millions in the country. As the genuine ever persuasive story of the “Flying Sikh” was brought alive on the screen, many grew recently tracked down regard for the turban. And afterward came “Udta Punjab” in 2016, presumably the primary flick in standard Hindi film which investigated the profound nexus between drug mafia, police, hoodlums and artists in Punjab.
