Anurag Singh is an Indian film director. He is a Mumbai-based film director and writer known for '' Kesari'' which is the biggest blockbuster of 2019 in the Bollywood industry as well as for ''

Punjab 1984 ''Punjab 1984'' is a 2014 Indian Punjabi language period drama film directed by Anurag Singh. It is based on the 1984–86 Punjab insurgency's impact on social life, notably it is a story of a mother and her missing son. Starring Diljit Dosan ...

'', ''

Jatt and Juliet ''Jatt & Juliet'' is an Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy film directed by Anurag Singh and produced by Darshan Singh Grewal and Gunbir Singh Sidhu. The film stars Diljit Dosanjh opposite Neeru Bajwa. It was released to theaters on 29 ...

'' Series and ''

Yaar Annmulle ''Yaar Annmulle'' is a 2011 Indian Punjabi film directed by Anurag Singh. It stars Arya Babbar, Yuvraj Hans, Harish Verma, Jividha Sharma, Kajal Jain and Jenny Ghottra in lead roles. The film was released on 7 October 2011. Plot On his ...

''. ''Jatt and Juliet'' series and ''Punjab 1984'' are the top 3 highest grossers of Punjabi Cinema. He has also directed a Bollywood film '' Raqeeb'' which didn't do well at the box office. Anurag has assisted many blockbusters of Bollywood cinema. In 2005, he was married to his childhood sweetheart Madhurjeet Sarghi, a theatre artist and an actress who also hails from Jalandhar. In 2016 Anurag and Sarghi were blessed with a baby boy named Shivaye Anurag Singh. Anurag has an elder brother named Armaan Singh who is a well known chief engineer in

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. Anurag gets to interact a lot with kids especially his nephews and nieces who live in

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. Anurag made his production debut by producing '' Super Singh'' which broke many records, under his production company named as Brat Films. He has also produced ''

Shadaa ''Shadaa'' () is a 2019 Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Jagdeep Sidhu, and co-produced by A & A Advisors and Brat Films. The film starring Diljit Dosanjh and Neeru Bajwa, follows the story of an average man ...

'', which broke so many records, and ''

Puaada ''Puaada'' () is a 2021 Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy produced by A&A Pictures and Brat Films, directed by debutant director Rupinder Chahal, starring Ammy Virk and Sonam Bajwa in lead roles. The film follows the love story of a Punj ...

'', which is releasing in April 2021.

Early life

Anurag Singh was born on 17 November to Dr Charan Singh Thind and Dr Baljit Kaur. Singh was very brilliant in studies. This medical student went to Australia in search of his passion for movies. He was Class 10

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topper and also got PMT Rank 1. In that year he broke several records. He grew up in Jalandhar and is currently living in

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Career

Singh began working in Punjabi cinema, breaking out with the movie '' Jatt & Juliet'' in 2012. In 2005, he was married to Madhurjeet Sarghi. He assisted Bollywood director

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for several years before directing a Bollywood movie for his production house. The film ''Raqeeb'' starring

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was commercially unsuccessful. Later Singh worked with Punjabi

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for his first

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film ''

''. Later he worked with actor

Diljit Dosanjh Daljit Singh Dosanjh known professionally as Diljit Dosanjh (born 6 January 1984) is an Indian singer, actor, film producer and television personality. He works in Punjabi Music and subsequently in Punjabi cinema, Punjabi and Bollywood, Hind ...

in five films in the Punjabi language. Six of the films he directed starring Diljit Dosanjh were commercially very successful. He has been an assistant director and writer in Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Jurm and many more blockbusters of Bollywood.

Filmography

Awards

Won

* National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2013 - Best Director - '' Jatt & Juliet'' 2012 - Best Director - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2014 - Best Screenplay - ''

Jatt & Juliet 2 ''Jatt & Juliet 2'' ( pa, ਜੱਟ ਐਂਡ ਜੂਲੀਅਟ 2) is a 2013 Indian Punjabi romance comedy film directed by Anurag Singh. The film is a sequel to the 2012 blockbuster '' Jatt & Juliet'', however not directly or story-wise. Actor ...

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Story - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2014 - Best Director - ''

Jatt and Juliet 2 ''Jatt & Juliet 2'' ( pa, ਜੱਟ ਐਂਡ ਜੂਲੀਅਟ 2) is a 2013 Indian Punjabi romance comedy film directed by Anurag Singh. The film is a sequel to the 2012 blockbuster ''Jatt & Juliet'', however not directly or story-wise. Actors ...

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - (Critics Choice) Best Director - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Director -

* PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Dialogues - ''

Disco Singh ''Disco Singh'' is a 2014 Punjabi comedy film directed by Anurag Singh and starring Diljit Dosanjh and Surveen Chawla. This is the third collaboration between Singh and Dosanjh after the 2012 blockbuster '' Jatt and Juliet'' and the 2013 sequel ...

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Screenplay - ''

Nominated

* PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2012 - Best Screenplay & Dialogues - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2012 - Best Screenplay & Dialogues - Ek Noor * PTC Punjabi Film Awards * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Screenplay - ''Punjab 1984'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Screenplay - ''

'' * PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2015 - Best Dialogues - ''Punjab 1984''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Anurag Living people Punjabi-language film directors People from Kapurthala district Year of birth uncertain Film directors from Punjab, India 21st-century Indian film directors 1978 births