Neeru Bajwa (born 26 August 1975) is a Canadian actress, director and producer who has mainly worked in
Punjabi and
Hindi films
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
. She started her career in 1998 with
Dev Anand
Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was ...
's Bollywood film ''
Main Solah Baras Ki'' and then moved on to working in
Hindi
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soap operas and
Punjabi-language films.
Career
Bajwa started her career in
Indian soap opera
Indian television drama (in Indian English Indian serials) are television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indians and episodes broadcast on Indian television.
India's first television drama was '' Hu ...
s in 2005 with ''
Hari Mirchi Lal Mirchi
''Hari Mirchi Lal Mirchi'' is an Indian Hindi television series which premiered on 27 October 2005 on DD National.
Cast
* Tushar Dalvi as Rohan Khanna
* Shalini Kapoor / Sucheta Khanna as Ritu Khanna: Rohan's first wife (2005–2007)
* Neeru Ba ...
'' on
DD1 before moving on to ''
Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani'' on
Zee TV
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followed by ''
Jeet'' on
Star Plus
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and then ''Guns and Roses'' on
STAR One
Star One was an Indian pay television network based in Mumbai. It was launched on 1 November 2004 and was it owned by Star TV and distributed worldwide by Fox International Channels. In November 2006, Star One was launched in the UK on Sky.
...
.
In January 2013, Bajwa appeared in the multi-starer Punjabi film ''Saadi Love Story'', produced by
Jimmy Sheirgill
Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; 3 December 1970), also credited as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi and Punjabi films.
Sheirgill began his film career with the 1996 thriller ''Maachis''. His bre ...
productions, directed by
Dheeraj Rattan
Dheeraj Rattan is a screenplay and story writer known for films like '' Mumbai Salsa'' and '' Haal-e-dil''.
He has worked with Vikram Bhatt on three successive horror films - ''1920, Shaapit and Phirr''. He made his screenplay and dialogue wri ...
and starring
Diljit Dosanjh
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,
Amrinder Gill, and
Surveen Chawla
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. She paired up opposite Diljit Dosanjh again in the film ''
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 ...
'' which broke all the previous opening day collection records for Punjabi cinema. In August 2013, her film, ''
Naughty Jatts
''Naughty Jatts'' ( pa, ਨੌਟੀ ਜੱਟਸ) is a Punjabi romantic comedy film directed by Pankaj Batra and produced by Multiline Entertainment (Satish Katyal and Sandeep Bhalla). The film stars Aarya Babbar, Roshan Prince and Binnu Dhill ...
'' was released in which she featured along with
Binnu Dhillon
Binnu Dhillon (born 29 August 1975) is an Indian actor who is known for his roles in Punjabi cinema and Hindi films .
Early life and education
Dhillon was born on 29 August 1975 in Dhuri, Sangrur, Punjab, where he did his schooling from Guru ...
,
Arya Babbar
Aarya Babbar is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood and Punjabi films. In 2014, Aarya participated in the eighth season of ''Bigg Boss''.
Career
Aarya Babbar started his film career with Raj Kanwar's ''Ab Ke Baras'' alongside Amrita R ...
and
Roshan Prince
Roshan Prince is an Indian singer, producer, musician, songwriter and actor known for his Punjabi-language Bhangra songs. He was born on June 09 1981. In August 2021, Roshan begins shooting of his upcoming movie ''13Teen''.
Discography
Film ...
. The film got mixed reviews from critics.
Bajwa debuted as a director in 2017 with the Punjabi film ''
Sargi
''Sargi'' is a 2017 Indian Punjabi language romantic drama film, directed by Neeru Bajwa and starring Jassi Gill, Rubina Bajwa and Babbal Rai. The film released worldwide on 24 February 2017. The film marked the directional debut of Neeru Bajwa ...
'', which stars her sister
Rubina Bajwa
Rubina Bajwa is a Canadian actress and sister of Neeru Bajwa who works in Punjabi films. She started her career in 2017 in her sisters film '' Sargi,'' for which she was awarded the Debut Female Actress Award in 2018 during the PTC Punjabi Fil ...
in the leading role alongside
Jassi Gill
Jasdeep Singh Gill (born 26 November 1988) is an Indian singer, live perfomer and actor associated with Punjabi and Hindi language music and films. He debuted in Punjabi cinema with the 2014 film ''Mr & Mrs 420'' and in Hindi cinema with the 20 ...
and
Babbal Rai. She also owns a production company called ''Neeru Bajwa Entertainment''. In November 2019, Bajwa starrer and produced film ''Beautiful Billo'' went on floors, in which she will be sharing the screen with her sister
Rubina Bajwa
Rubina Bajwa is a Canadian actress and sister of Neeru Bajwa who works in Punjabi films. She started her career in 2017 in her sisters film '' Sargi,'' for which she was awarded the Debut Female Actress Award in 2018 during the PTC Punjabi Fil ...
. Since April 2021, Bajwa is hosting a Punjabi show ''Jazba''.
Personal life
Born to Jaswant Bajwa and Surinder Bajwa in
Surrey
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,
British Columbia
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, Canada,
Bajwa has two sisters
Rubina, an actress; Sabrina, a cloth designer and a brother Suhail. In her documentary film ''Bollywood Bound'', Bajwa admits to being a high school drop out who had little interest in studies and was always inspired by the glamour of Bollywood, so she moved to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
to fulfill her dreams.
Bajwa married Harry Jawandha on 8 February 2015. The couple had their first child, a girl, in August 2015.
In 2020, Bajwa gave birth to twins, both girls.
Filmography
As actor
As director
Music videos
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
*
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1980 births
Living people
Actresses from British Columbia
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Actresses in Punjabi cinema
Canadian actresses of Indian descent
Canadian expatriate actresses in India
Canadian film actresses
Canadian people of Punjabi descent
Canadian Sikhs
Canadian television actresses
People from Surrey, British Columbia
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses