Harjeeta wins Best Punjabi Movie: ‘Harjeeta’ has been declared as the Best Punjabi movie in the recently concluded National Awards.

Critically acclaimed Punjabi movie ‘Harjeeta’ has won the Best Punjabi Film award in the recently concluded 66th National Film Awards. Harjeeta, which had released in May 2018, was widely appreciated for its quality and the effort which was put behind making it.

Harjeeta was been produced by Nick Bahl, Munish Sahni, Bhushan K Chopra and Bhagwant Virk under the banners of Sizzlen Productions, Malika Productions, Omjee Group and Villagers Film Studio.

Directed by Vijay Kumar Arora and written by Jagdeep Sidhu, Harjeeta starred Ammy Virk, Sawan Rupowali, Sameep Singh, Pankaj Tripathi, Raj Jhinjer, Gurpreet K Bhangu, Parkash Gadu, Sukhi Chahal and Jarnail Singh in titular roles.

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Harjeeta was based on the real life story of Hockey player Harjeet Singh, who rose from an economically weaker background to lead the Indian Hockey team to victory in the U-19 Hockey World Cup in 2016.

While the producers of the movie deserve kudos for their attempt, Harjeeta winning the National award is a fitting reply to people who failed to judge the potential of the movie. Despite the movie not doing as well as it should have done, it winning the National award has undoubtedly recognized the labour put in together by the whole team.