Canada Di Flight | |
---|---|
Directed by | Roopesh Rai Sikand |
Written by | Roopesh Rai Sikand Manoj Sabharwal |
Screenplay by | Roopesh Rai Sikand Manoj Sabharwal |
Produced by |
|
Starring |
|
Cinematography | Madhusudan Shi John Wilmor |
Edited by | Rohit Dhiman |
Music by | Gurmeet Singh Jassi Katyal Altaaf Sayyed |
Production companies |
|
Release date |
|
Running time | 137 minutes |
Countries | |
Language | Punjabi |
Canada Di Flight (English: Flight To Canada ) is a Punjabi-language film directed by Roopesh Rai Sikand, written by Manoj Sabharwal and starring Yuvraj Hans, Navraj Hans, Tarun Mehta, Shobhita Rana, Akriti Bharati, and Aanushka Ramesh as the main cast. It was released worldwide on 1 April 2016. [1] [2]
Three close childhood friends living in a village in Punjab, Jigar, Harry, and Laddi, decide to immigrate to Canada for a better life and in search of their "dollar dreams." Jigar is a spoiled child of rich parents; Harry is a show-off and bragger; and Laddi aka Phattu is nebbish and clumsy. As they're hanging out in the village, they look upwards in the sky and point to a distant plane saying, "Look... The flight to Canada!" However, their parents are not supportive of their pursuit to settle abroad. The three come across a travel agent, Chawla, who ensures them each a visa and flight to Canada for Rs 1.5 million. They are aware that they won't get this kind of financial support from their parents.
They encounter Minto and Shurli, two men originally from their village and whom the three friends have known since childhood, who are now apparently settled in Canada. Minto alleges that he has worked hard in Canada to become a successful businessman today and invites the entire village for a party later that night. The three friends now get fully charged up for going to Canada. They somehow manage to accumulate the money and give it to Chawla. However, Chawla informs that they need to take a layover in Bangkok for three days and then catch the onward flight to Canada. The three bid farewell to their families and board the plane.
Upon their arrival in Bangkok, they check into a hotel arranged by Chawla. They learn that the hotel is owned by a rich Punjabi businessman, Kabir Gill. The friends notice two girls by the swimming pool of the hotel, and they mistake them for Kabir's sisters. The three get a little anxious as it has been two days and they haven't heard from Chawla. Chawla falsely assures them they will get the tickets the next day; and then he breaks his SIM card and shuts his shop for good. Chawla fails to pay the hotel, and the friends are thrown out after the three days of their stay. As the three friends are now getting frustrated on the streets of Bangkok, a Punjabi garage owner offers them assistance with employment, food and housing. The three now realize that they've become victims of Chawla's scam.
One day, Jigar and Harry capitalize on their visit to Kabir's house for delivering his car from their garage. They intend on getting into relationships with Kabir's "sisters" to receive a share of his enormous property and business. They introduce themselves as rich diamond merchants and begin relationships, Jigar with Roop and Harry with Gurnoor. Laddi meets a Punjabi girl named Sona at a club and the two hook up.
While going around the streets of Bangkok, the three friends spot Minto and Shurli, the two guys from their village who claimed to be living in Canada. The three figure out that Minto is actually a pimp and Shurli his associate. They start blackmailing Minto and Shurli, and quit their garage job. Getting despondent with their demands, Minto and Shurli decide to get the three killed and hire a contract killer, Babbu Don. Shurli informs Laddi about the proposed assassination and demands 7,000 Bath for giving that information. The trio approaches the garage owner for help.
In the meantime, Jigar and Harry have gotten engaged with their girlfriends. Laddi tells the entire series of events to Sona. Jigar and Harry join them and Laddi informs his friends that Sona is, in fact, the garage owner's sister. Roop and Gurnoor follow. The garage owner arrives and Roop and Gurnoor learn that Jigar and Harry work at the garage and are not diamond merchants. Kabir's wife also scolds Roop and Gurnoor that they should be home mopping the floor. Jigar and Harry realize that the girls are not Kabir's sisters but work in houses as maids. The three friends call their mothers and confides that were scammed and are stuck in Bangkok. The mothers advise their sons to return to Punjab. Jigar and Harry reunite with Roop and Gurnoor.
The three men, their girlfriends and garage owner hatch a plan to get rid of the contract killer by kidnapping Kabir's wife. Confusion prevails during the entire kidnapping. Babu Don, Kabir, Minto and Shurli are overpowered as a result and the garage owner suggests that those people should be sent to "no man's land" from where they won't be able to come back.
The film ends in Punjab where the trio are now married to the girls. As their wives get them lunch in the fields, their sons look upwards in the sky and point to a distant plane saying, "Look... The flight to Canada!" but they're chided by their fathers for doing that.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Tension Loka Nu" | Malhi Rachhpal | Gurmeet Singh | Navraj Hans | |
2. | "Dhol Nagade" | Atiya Sayyed | Altaaf Sayyed | Late Labh Janjua & Altaaf Sayyed | |
3. | "Drink Chak Lo" | Kumaar | Jassi Katyal | Navraj Hans | |
4. | "Canada Di Flight" | Kumaar | Jassi Katyal | Navraj Hans | |
5. | "Naina Waali Gal" | Kumaar | Altaaf Sayyed | Yuvraj Hans & Aaniya | |
6. | "Kinna Pachhtaunda" | Atiya Sayyed | Altaaf Sayyed | Yuvraj Hans & Aaniya | |
7. | "Rabba Tuiyon Dass" | Ashok Punjabi | Gurmeet Singh | Navraj Hans | |
8. | "Nazraan Da Fitoor" | Kumaar | Jassi Katyal | Kunal Ganjawala |
Madan Puri was an Indian actor of Hindi and Punjabi films. His brothers were actors Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri. As a character actor mainly in negative roles (villain), he acted in about 430 films in a career spanning above fifty years.
Kismat Konnection is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Aziz Mirza. The film stars Shahid Kapoor and Vidya Balan with Juhi Chawla in a guest appearance. Shah Rukh Khan is the narrator. Produced by Ramesh S. Taurani under the banner of Tips Industries, Kismat Konnection was released on 18 July 2008.
Punjabi cinema, popularly known as Pollywood, refers to the Punjabi-language film industry centered around the Indian state of Punjab, and based in Amritsar and Mohali.
Jaswinder Singh Bains, better known by his stage name Jazzy B, is a Canadian Punjabi singer and songwriter.
Neeru Bajwa 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 working in Hindi soap operas and Punjabi-language films.
Diljit Dosanjh is an Indian singer, songwriter, actor, film producer and television personality. He works in Punjabi Music and subsequently in Punjabi and Hindi cinema. Dosanjh entered Social 50 chart by Billboard in 2020. He is featured in various music charts including Canadian Albums Chart, UK Asian chart by Official Charts Company and New Zealand Hot Singles. His movies, including Jatt & Juliet 2, Punjab 1984, Sajjan Singh Rangroot and Honsla Rakh are among the highest grossing Punjabi films in history.
Akhiyaan To Door Jayeen Na is an Indian Punjabi language TV series broadcast on ETC Punjabi. The show premiered on 6 September 2010 and lasted for a six-month period, concluding on 30 March 2011. Gurbir Singh Grewal was responsible for writing, producing and directing the episodes. This show was celebrated television actress Surbhi Jyoti's (who is currently the lead of Qubool Hai acting debut after doing over three years of theatre.
Jatt & Juliet is an Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy film directed by Anurag Singh and produced by Darshan Singh Grewal and Gunbir Singh Sidhu. The film stars Diljit Dosanjh opposite Neeru Bajwa. It was released to theaters on 29 June 2012. Upon release, the film became a massive blockbuster at the box office and also won multiple awards at the PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2013 including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. The film also spawned a sequel the following year, titled Jatt & Juliet 2 featuring most of the same cast and crew. The sequel also broke records at the box office, and ended up becoming the highest-grossing Punjabi film ever. It was remade in Bengali in 2014 as Bangali Babu English Mem.
Singh vs Kaur is a 2013 Indian Punjabi romantic comedy starring Gippy Grewal, Surveen Chawla, Japji Khaira and Binnu Dhillon in lead roles. Singh vs Kaur was released on 15 February 2013.
Khabardar (Urdu:خبردار) is an Urdu and Punjabi comedy television show created and hosted by Aftab Iqbal, and broadcast on Express News. The first season of the show had its premiere on 10 September 2015, aired at 11:03 pm on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on Express News from 2015 to 2018. Khabardar returned for its second season on 21 January 2021.
Channo Kamli Yaar Di (2016) is a Punjabi film directed by Pankaj Batra and starring Neeru Bajwa and Binnu Dhillon with a released date of February 19, 2016. Channo is an emotional journey of a pregnant Punjabi girl who goes to Canada to find her missing husband, Jeet. Taji goes along with her.
Phillauri is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language fantasy-comedy film directed by Anshai Lal and produced by Fox Star Studios with Anushka Sharma and her brother Karnesh Sharma under their banner of Clean Slate Filmz. Director Navdeep Singh and writer Sudip Sharma are associated with the film as creative producers. The film stars Anushka Sharma, Diljit Dosanjh, Suraj Sharma and Mehreen Pirzada in the lead roles. The film's first official poster was released on 3 February 2017. The film was released on 24 March 2017. It failed at the box office.
Punjabi Canadians number approximately 950,000 and account for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census. Their heritage originates wholly or partly from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
Surkhi Bindi is a 2019 Indian-Punjabi drama film written by Rupinder Inderjit and directed by Jagdeep Sidhu. The film produced by Shri Narotam Ji Films and bankrolled by Ankit Vijan, Navdeep Narula, Gurjit Singh and Santosh Subhash Thite, stars Sargun Mehta, Gurnam Bhullar, Rupinder Rupi and Nisha Bano.
Udaariyaan is an Indian Hindi-language television family drama series that premiered on 15 March 2021 on Colors TV. Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey, it formerly starred Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Ankit Gupta, Twinkle Arora, and Hitesh Bharadwaj. Since August 2023, it stars Alisha Parveen Khan, Anuraj Chahal and Aditi Bhagat.
Honsla Rakh is a 2021 Indian Punjabi-language romantic comedy film directed by Amarjit Singh Saron starring Diljit Dosanjh, Sonam Bajwa, Shehnaaz Gill, it marks the debut of Diljit Dosanjh as producer. The film is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and depicts the story of a divorced father, who raised his son on his own. It was released worldwide theatrically on 15 October 2021.
Zindagi Mere Ghar Aana is an Indian television drama series that premiered on 26 July 2021 on StarPlus and it is digitally available on Disney+ Hotstar. Produced by Qissago Telefilms LLP, it starred Hasan Zaidi and Esha Kansara. The series ended on 1 January 2022. it was replaced by Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey in its timeslot.