I came across this old clip from Britain’s Got Talent, featuring Signature and got such a kick out of it.
and I realize it’s not just our punjabi superstar Akki….who is always so celebratory and jolts you off your seat :-)
punjabi in da house, let’s get the party rolling…
… the original Singh is King
here are a couple of punjabi songs:
Mauja Hi mauja from Jab We Met
Nagada Nagada from Jab We Met
u gotta luv this: -) Maa Da Laadla
here is a list of families and actors and directors of Punjabi descent from wikipedia, and you got to ask yourself, who is left in Bollywood who hasn’t punjabi roots?
Families
“The Kapoors – 1”. See Kapoor family for details. Prominent members were / are
- Prithviraj Kapoor
- Raj Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rishi Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Kareena Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor
The Kapoors – 2
- Surinder Kapoor
Shekhar Kapoor, Indian director.
- Boney Kapoor
- Anil Kapoor
- Sanjay Kapoor
- Sonam Kapoor
The Kapoors – 3
- Jeetendra (Ravi Kapoor)
- Tusshar Kapoor
- Ekta Kapoor
The Malhotras
The Sahnis
The Anands
The Chopras
The Deols
The Dutts
The Tullis
The Puris
The Khannas – 1
The Khannas – 2
The Roshans
The Bedis
The Sahneys
- Music Mughal Prof. Tej Bahadur sahney Of Kirana Gharana, Indian Classical Vocal & instrumental music, Father of Western Music of punjab
- Vivek Sahney Music Director & Writer
- Shankar Sahney
The Kapurs
- Pankaj Kapur
- Shahid Kapoor
Indian actor Shahid Kapoor.
The Devgans
The Oberois
The Paintals
The Bachchans
The Aroras
[edit] Individual artists
- Amrish Puri [13]
- Anand Bakshi
Akshay Kumar Indian film actor
- Achala Sachdev
- Akshay Kumar[14]
- Amrita Singh
- Aditya Pancholi
- Aryan Vaid
- Arjun Rampal
- Arjan Bajwa
- Anushka Sharma
- Bindiya Goswami
- Bhumika Chawla
- Celina Jaitley
Kareena Kapoor Indian film actress
Celina Miss India Universe 2001, Actress
- Deepak Parashar
Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actor.
- David Dhawan
- Deepti Naval
- Dara Singh
- Divya Dutta
- Deepa Sahi
- Kamini Kaushal
- Kanishtha Dhankar
Kanishtha Dhankar Femina Miss India World 2011, Model, Actress
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kirron Kher
- Karan Johar
- Lara Dutta
- Mahek Chahal
- Mahie Gill
- Manoj Kumar
- Mallika Sherawat
- Mangal Dhillon
- Minissha Lamba
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mandira Bedi
- Monica Bedi
- Mona Singh
- Neha Dhupia
- Nargis
- Neetu Singh
- Navin Nischol
- Om Puri
- Om Prakash
- Poonam Dhillon
- Prem Chopra[15]
- Pran
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bedi
- Priyanka Chopra[16]
Priyanka Chopra is an miss India World 2000, Miss World 2000, Indian film actress.
- Priya Gill
- Ruby Bhatia
- Ranjeet
- Raj Babbar
- Rati Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon
- Raageshwari
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rajit Kapur
- Samir Soni
- Simone Singh
- Geeta Basra
- Shiny Ahuja
- Suraiya
- Simi Garewal
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Shakti Kapoor
- Smriti Irani
- Sonu Walia
- Sonu Sood
- Upasana Singh
- Vinod Mehra
- Geeta Bali
- Yogeeta Bali
- Khursheed Bano
- Shyam
- Shyama
- Bina Rai
- Urvashi Sharma
- Veena
- Mumtaz Shanti
- Suresh
[edit] Singers
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Mukesh
- Daler Mehndi
- Mika Singh
- Labh Janjua
- Mohd. Rafi
- Suraiyya
- Shamshad Begum
- Shailendra Singh
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- Kundan Lal Saigal
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Wadali brothers
- Surinder Kaur
- Jaspinder Narula
- Sukhvinder Singh
- Sonu Nigam
- Richa Sharma
- Tulsi Kumar
- Bhupinder Singh
- Himani Kapoor
- Neha Bhasin
- Meena Kapoor
- Anushka Manchanda
- Taz (singer), lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation
(Vipen Malhotra) Karaoke Singer
- Soni Pabla, Bhangra Singer
- Satinder Sartaaj, Punjabi Sufi Singer
[edit] Directors
- Yash Chopra
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Subhash Ghai
- David Dhawan
- Mukul Anand
- Loveleen Tandan
- Karan Johar
- Harry Baweja
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- B. R. Chopra
- Abdur Rashid Kardar
- Aditya Chopra
- Kunal Kohli
- Gulzar
- Satish Kaushik
- Prakash Mehra
- Raj Kanwar
- Rajkumar Kohli
- Suneel Darshan
- Dharmesh Darshan
- J.P.Dutta
- Lekh Tandon
- Ravi Chopra
- Umesh Mehra
- Raj Khosla
- Rajiv Rai
- Abhishek Kapoor
- Vipin Handa
- Arjun Sablok
- Goldie Behl
- Ravi Tandon
- Siddharth Anand
[edit] Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
- Mira Nair
- Deepa Mehta
- Gurinder Chadha
- Namrata Singh Gujral
- Meera Syal
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Parminder Nagra
- Saira Mohan
- Purva Bedi
- Waris Ahluwalia
- Archie Panjabi
- Art Malik
- Tarsem Singh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Punjabi_people#Individual_artists