Yaari Jatt Di Was Produced By Late Surinder Singh Bahara

Everyone must have seen the Sliver Jubilee hit film Yaari Jatt Di of Punjabi cinema. He was the first Punjabi Film to be shot in England.This film made a special place in the hearts of the people. This film ran in cinemas for many months.


The film was made by a special man who wasju very close to Veerendra. Let's talk about Yaari Jatt Film producer Surinder Singh. Surinder Singh was born in the village of Bhanoki in Phagwara to father Avtar Singh Bahara and mother Pritam Kaur Bahara. A year after his birth, his father moved to England where he worked in a factory for a while and then bought his own shop. He was fond of expensive clothes and also mourned his son Surinder.


As a child, Surinder ran away from school to watch movies and his family did not know about it. When Surinder was 8 years old, his father took him to England. He was a fan of Dharmendra and Dara Singh from the beginning. He used to watch their films often. A song will shine brightly. They were often heard in those days.Once Surinder had come to a wedding and he was seeing a girl again and again and the girl too and Surinder's father said you like this girl. Surinder has said. Then Surinder's father talked to the girl's family and the relationship was established.


Then in November 1970, Surinder married Gurbinder Kaur. After the marriage, they had three sons. The eldest son was named Bharat Singh Bahara who was born on 15 August. That is why he was named Bharat and died some time ago. This was followed by twins named Deepak Singh Bahara and Sitel Singh Bahara.One day Surinder Singh's father said that we open cinemas and we will be the first in England to bring Hindi and Punjabi films. At that time when Punjabi films were made, the British people in England fought over why these films were made.


One day there was a fight outside the cinemas and the Punjabis beat the British a lot. Surinder Singh's bodyguard Pinder Singh Bhambra was very supportive and again no one objected. The cinema closed in 1985 for some reason. Then the deck album shop opened and started selling.Surinder Singh was very friendly with Bollywood and Bollywood actors and directors. Whenever movie stars came to England, Surinder would definitely meet them. Live in his house

Once it occurred to Surinder that he should make a Punjabi film. He thought that if he made a film, he would do it with Punjabi film superstar Veerendra. Veerendra used to come to England every year and stay at Surinder Hura's house. Veerendra came to England in 1984. He took some outside shots.


In which Surinder helped Veerendra. Surinder told Veerendra that he wanted to make a Punjabi film. Earlier, a film with Punjabi actor Sharandeep had become 10percent. Talking about three or four stories, one story was finalized which was named Yaari Jatt Di. Then there was a discussion about the songs of this film. Veerendea wanted the songs of Punjab actors to be included in this film.


But when Surinder sang Mangal Singh's songs, Veerendea liked it. Veerendra assigned Surinder's duty to select the song. The rest of the songs were chosen by Surinder. Veerendra played the role of step mother which was played by Pammi Sidhu in the film. Talking about this role, Surinder said, "I trust you a lot as you will do everything right, you can get a new face." For this film, two other producers also agreed. Onkar & Ravi , Ludhiana - Sahnewal, Disco Rves, Kanech Dorana.
                                    

The film was written and directed by Veerendra himself. The dialogue in the film was by Sukhjinder Shera. After the shooting of the film, Surinder came to India and Dharmendra and Veerendra came to pick him up at the Delhi airport. After staying with them for a few days, Surinder decided to go to his village Bhanoki because he wanted to go to his own village. He took a taxi to the village and started talking to the taxi driver. He said that I was making a film and that Surinder put the cassette with the deck in his car and sang the song to him and the song called "Taxi" was a hit and the film would also be a hit. The taxi driver's name was Parwinder.

Whenever he came to India, he would come to Punjab in his taxi. Meanwhile, Preeti Sapru also came to England with her mother many times. When the film was released, Veerendra became everywhere. Every show of this film was full. This film was talked about everywhere. The songs of this film were huge hits. This film had further increased the name of Veerendra and the audience of Veerendra. This film also got many awards. The film was a Silver Jubilee hit.

              Yaari Jatt Di Theater Poster

For this film, Veerendra got the award for Best Actor and Surinder Singh got the award for Best Producer. After the success of this film, Veerendra also received threats from unknown people in Punjab. This was also told to Surinder by Veerendra. Veerendra was shooting the film Jatt Te Zamneen at that time. Veerendra was to come to England to shoot a new film which was being produced by Surinder Singh. The film was to be shot in 90 per cent England and 10 per cent Punjab. With Yari Jatt's film, Veerendra's audiences in England also increased significantly.


Veerendra was to come to England for six months to shoot the film. But unfortunately Veerendra was killed and Surinder Singh's dream remained unfulfilled.When Veerendra died, the first phone call was made to Surinder by Veerendra's wife.Surinder had trust in Veerendra. He never made a film with anyone again.
                       
 
   After 1993, Surinder re-launched his cinema and brought Punjabi films which were very popular in cinema.Raj Babbar came to England in 1998 to shoot the Punjabi film Saheed Udham Singh. At that time he had some trouble shooting so Surinder helped Raj Babbar and the film team during the shooting of the film.

         On the Set Of Saheed Udham Singh 

In 2000 Surinder started selling DVDs. He did this for about ten years. During this time Surinder's life changed a lot. When the corona virus came, Surinder was in Punjab at that time but after some time Surinder's eldest son Bharat died in England.
                          Family Photo

Surinder was with Mika Chahna at that time. He wondered if I should go to England. By the time he arrived in England, he had contracted the c - v He remained in hospital for two weeks and then died. Baljeet Parmar, Darshan Rao was his special friend after Veerendra. If Veerendra had been there, Surinder would have made films and served Punjabi cinema. Went to May God grant peace to his soul.

Special thanks to - 
Late Surinder Singh Bahara 
    Deepak Singh Bahara 

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