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| Kulraj Randhawa |
Kulraj Randhawa started her career with the well-liked TV serial 'Kareena Kareena'. A story about a girl who plays a twin personality role the eponymous 'Kareena Kareena'. The serial was aired on Zee TV and was a channel driver with the loftiest TRP's for that year. After having successfully nailing 2 hundred episodes, she subsequently locomoted on to 'Mannat' her first feature film in Punjabi. Produced by Anuradha Prasad (BAG Films) Kulraj Randhawa played the leading opposite Jimmy Shergill. The film was apprised in North India ( where it released ) and overseas including UK, Canada and USA. 'Mannat' provided a platform for Kulraj to demonstrate her acting skills and was noticed by none apart from Sharma ( 'Apne', 'Gaddar' ) to play the lead role for his upcoming film 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron' which launches Anil Sharma's bros ; Kapil Sharma as an actor and Sunjay Sharma as the debutant director.
Recently she has completed shooting for two Hindi feature films. 'Chintuji' produced by Bobby Bedi and directed by debutant Ranjit Kapoor. Kulraj Randhawa shares the screen with past times heartthrob Rishi Kapoor where she plays the lead female friend together with Priyanshu Chatterjee. The other one, 'Mastang Mama', produced by Nikhil Panchamiya is a roller-coaster giggle movie where she portrays a totally different role opposite Ruslaan Mumtaz. Both these films are schedule to release early 2009.
Tera Mera Ki Rishta is a Punjabi picture, starring Jimmy Shergill and Kulraj Randhawa in the main lead. Rest of the cast includes Anupam Kher, Raj Babbar, Archana Puran Singh, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Rana Ranbir, Balkaran Brar, Tee Jay Sidhu, Dolly Minhas and Akshita. The flick was released worldwide on tenth Apr 2009 and had earned $108,741 in first two weeks. The film was shot by Spice Cine Vision Studios and was spread by Eros World . The film was stated to be the costliest Punjabi movie ever made and was the 1st Punjabi picture to be shot in Switzerland.
Reviews of her last flick Tera Mera Ki Rishta are as the following, Tera Mera Ki Rishta is hoping to change the image of Punjabi cinema with it's sombre and grown up take on the old romantic formula matching a beautiful, just town girl from Punjab with a spoiled foreign Punjabi guy, or Non-Resident Indian. To the well-worn viewer of Bollywood and Punjabi romantic comedies, the tale of Rajjo ( Kulraj Randhawa ), the daughter of a wealthy landlord, and Meet ( Jimmy Sheirgill ), an ice-hockey playing, motorcyle-riding university student from Vancouver's Punjabi community, may seem like a a hundred flicks they've seen before. But director Navaniat Singh and veteran Bollywood/Punjabi screenplay writer Amrik Gill breathe new life into the old formula by creating clear characters and plausible eventualities, given the constraints of a conventional love story. The beautifully written dialogue is pitch-perfect. Meet and Rajjo reluctantly fall in love when they meet as guests (she is the bride's best mate and he is the bride's Canadian cousin ) at a lengthened marriage party, but the director-writer pair treat their chance showdown to shape out deeper themes of love, relationship, family, and longing, which resonate with earnestness. They have even taken care to mix the comedic ingredients ( which is usually a sequence of comedy skits to damage the sameness of the tale, and often have no relation to the central plot) by making Punjabi comedy king Gurpreet Ghuggi's character a marriage planner who still pines for his lost love. Leads Sheirgill and Randhawa, who previously starred in the commended Punjabi film Mannat, are supreme as lovers who have to manoeuvre family relationships to be together. They are backed by an A-list cast of Bollywood's top veteran actors like Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher, and Archana Puran Singh. Up and coming Punjabi film directors should make Tera Mera Ki Rishta an great refresher course for its firmly knitting structure and just about perfect execution.
