''Sardaarji'' is a 2015 Indian Punjabi

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directed by

Rohit Jugraj Rohit Jugraj Chauhan is an Indian writer and director in the Punjabi cinema and Bollywood film industry. He has written screenplay for films like Players. He was assistant director to Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ram Gopal Varma. Personal life ...

, and starring

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 ...

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and

Neeru Bajwa Neeru Bajwa (born 26 August 1975) is a Canadian actress, director and producer who has mainly worked in Punjabi and Hindi films. She started her career in 1998 with Dev Anand's Bollywood film '' Main Solah Baras Ki'' and then moved on to work ...

in lead roles. The trailer of the film was released on 18 May 2015. ''Sardaar Ji'' is one of the first fantasy films to be made in

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. It released on 26 June 2015, and had the biggest opening ever for a Punjabi film in Punjab.

Plot

Jaggi (

) is tasked with driving away a ghost (

) who haunts a mansion in

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. However hilarious situations ensue when he falls in love with ghost.

Cast

as Jaggi, the ghost hunter from

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as Pinky, the spirit *

as Jasmine Kaur *

Jaswinder Bhalla Jaswinder Bhalla (born 4 May 1960) is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Punjabi cinema. He started his professional career as a comedian in 1988 with Chankata 88 and became actor with film Dulla Bhatti. He is best known for his comedy ...

as Armeek Singh ''Master'' *

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as Joondi, Jaggi's friend *

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as Bilal Choudary * Anita Kailey as Ruksana Bibi, Bilal's fiancée * Damanpreet Singh as young Jaggi * Avy Randhawa as Jaggi's Guide Angel * Sunita Dhir as Pinky's Mother * Jas Heer as Jasmine's Mother * Bhavkhandan Singh Rakhra as Jasmine's father * Darren Andrichuk as ghost Hunter from

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* Jessica Singh as Ghost * Punam Randhawa as Mrs. Sharma *

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as News Reporter * Baljinder Darapuri as villager *

Sonam Bajwa Sonampreet Bajwa (born 16 August 1989) is an Indian model and actress who predominantly appears in Punjabi language, Punjabi language films. In addition to few Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. She participated in the F ...

Special Appearance in ''Veervaar'' song

Soundtrack

Track listing

Reception

Box office

The movie had a record opening in the history of

Punjabi Cinema Punjabi cinema, sometimes Metonymy, metonymously referred to as Pollywood or Punjwood is the Punjabi language, Punjabi-language film industry centered around the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, and based in Amritsar and Mohali. The ci ...

, it opened to 100% occupancies and shattered previous openings record of ''

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''. It collected on its first day in Punjab while

earned on its opening day. Sardaar Ji also earned in its opening weekend recovering its making costs of . Sardaar Ji beat

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film

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at overseas box office and topped the international collection chart. In its first running week ''Sardaar Ji'' collected over , highest ever in

. It was the first Punjabi movie (''

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'' has total collection of as that movie was released in English, Hindi and Punjabi languages) to cross mark worldwide.

Critical response

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, ''

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'' & ''

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'' gave positive reviews to the movie. Film was also reviewed by British media like ''

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''.

Sequel

A Sequel, entitled ''Sardaar Ji 2'', directed by Rohit Jugaraj, written by Dheeraj Rattan and produced by White Hill Production, was released on 24 June 2016.

, Monica Gill and

starring as main leads.

Telugu remake

Telugu Filmmaker Vasu Manthena acquired the rights of ''Sardaar Ji'', to produce it in

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Television viewership record

In December 2015, ''Sardaar Ji'' broke UK TV ratings records by delivering the biggest ever audience for a channel as it registered a huge 54,900 viewers, peaking at 90,000 viewers.

Accolades

References

External links

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