Simerjit Singh

Most popular Director and Writer of Punjabi films Simerjit Singh was born and brought up in Moga district of Punjab on 6th of December 1973. He is best known for directing the hugely successful Punjabi films Angrej (2015) starring Amrinder Gill, Aditi Sharma, Sargun Mehta, Ammy Virk and Binnu Dhillon as the main cast of the film and it becomes second highest-grossing Punjabi film in 2015 and the fourth highest-grossing Punjabi film of all time. He got selected in top 5 Directors of Pollywood in a survey by an organation. He completed his graduation in commerce from Chandigarh University in 1993 & moved to Mumbai in 1997 to pursue his passion of films. He gets the chance to assist Director Anees Bazmee for his second directorial venture, Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha (1998), After that he joined to Anil Devgan for Raju Chacha (2000) & Blackmail (2005), He also assisted to Rohit Shetty for his directed debut film, Zameen (2003). While doing Blackmail he gets attracted towards Punjabi films and joins to Manoj Punj for Punjabi film Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris(2006) as chief assistant director. Simerjit written and directed his first film Chak Jawana in 2010 staring Gurdas Maan, Jonita Doda, Rana Ranbir, Karamjit Anmol, and Harry Sharan. Aalthough this film could not do well on box office. His second film was Daddy Cool Munde Fool (2013) starring Harish Verma, Amrinder Gill, Ihana Dhillon, Yuvika Chaudhary, Jaswinder Bhalla, Amar Noorie & Rana Ranbir. This film scored the fifth highest Punjabi film opening week collections at the time of release with an opening week collection of Rs 2.60 cr. The next venture of Simerjit was film Baaz (2014), an action Drama staring Babbu Maan, Pooja Verma, Yograj Singh, Sardar Sohi and Mukul Dev is in Negetive Rol. His latest released film Angrej (2015) starring Amrinder Gill, Aditi Sharma, Sargun Mehta, Ammy Virk and Binnu Dhillon, becomes huge success at the box office.