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Manoj Punj is a Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 15 june 1970
Manoj Punj (Punjabi: ਮਨੋਜ ਪੁੰਜ, Hindi: मनोज पुँज) was a successful Punjabi film director. He directed the hits in Punjabi Cinema. He died on 22 October 2006 due to a cardiac arrest at Mumbai in Maharashtra state of India at a young age of 36.
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Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris (2006)
, 2h18Directed by Manoj Punj
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla, Divya Dutta, Sushant Singh, Gurkirtan Chauhan, Mukesh Rishi
Rating75%
Mughal Ruler Aurangzeb bans music in India, since he believes that music turns a person away from God. This ban continues in the next generations. Music lovers and singers start living in secret places away from cities. Baba Makhdum (Mukesh Rishi) is staying near Kasur with some of his followers and practices music; Waris Shah (Gurdas Maan) comes and joins him. Baba Makhdum tells Waris that he appreciates his talent, but asks Waris to feel the pain in order to get best out of him.
Des Hoyaa Pardes (2004)
, 2h43Directed by Manoj Punj
Genres Drama
Actors Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla, Divya Dutta, Parmeet Sethi, Anup Soni, Gurkirtan Chauhan
Rating79%
In 1984 the former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, and since then the Sikhs have been a target of violent backlashes by radicals and the Punjab Police. During 1985 Gursharan Singh Soman lived a peaceful life as a farmer in rural Punjab, along with his elderly parents, Gurdev and Tejpal, and an unmarried sister, Guddi. Gursharan meets with and gets engaged to the Station House Officer's only daughter, Jassi Sandhu. Shortly thereafter her father is killed in a drive-by shooting, and a new Officer, Randhawa, takes over from him. Far from being ethical and honest, he is only concerned with fulfilling a quota of deaths of so-called terrorists by fake police encounters. Jassi and Gursharan get married as Jassi has no other relatives. When the police find a duffel bag of automatic weapons in Soman's house, they immediately arrest Gursharan and beat him up severely, even though he claims his innocence, alleging that real terrorists had forced themselves upon the family at gun-point. When a deputation from the town asks Randhawa to set him free, he does so, and the Soman family settle down. Guddi is soon to get married to a young man who loves her. Then in July, 1987, Sikh terrorists gun down a bus full of non-Sikhs, setting off a shock wave in the entire country. Punjab Police are instructed to maintain order, even if it means to do away with law. A large number of Sikhs are hunted down and killed in fake police encounters, scores are arrested and tortured. Gursharan is arrested again and severely beaten up in police custody. When Guddi goes to plead with Randhawa to release him, she too is imprisoned and beaten by a burly policewoman. Gursharan's American-based friend, Darshan Singh Gill, comes to their rescue and arranges for Gursharan to visit the U.S.A. on a travel visa as a hockey player. Once in America, Gursharan applies for political asylum, and is granted one, which also permits him to sponsor Jassi, and his new-born son to America. After Jassi's arrival, Gursharan gets a job in a corner store, while Jassi works as a Gas Attendant. It is then Gursharan gets the news that his father has suffered a heart-attack and may not live long. Gursharan is ready to leave for India to be near his family in this crucial hour, but his leaving America may well revoke his political asylum, and even if he does leave America and arrives in India, there is more than a bullet from the Punjab Police awaiting him.
Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai (2002)
Directed by Manoj Punj
Genres Drama
Actors Gurdas Maan, Tabu, Divya Dutta, Rajat Kapoor, Rajit Kapur, Ashish Vidyarthi
Rating57%
, 2hDirected by Shamim Ara, Manoj Punj
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gurdas Maan, Divya Dutta, Arun Bakshi, Raghubir Yadav, Chetana Das, Gurkirtan Chauhan
Rating80%
Film starring tript Dhaliwal with gurdas maan as supporting role .The film is set in the Punjab region around the time its of partition in 1947.
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Sukhmani (2010)
, 2h42Directed by Manjeet Maan
Genres Drama
Actors Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla, Anup Soni, Divya Dutta, Shammi, Anita Kanwar
Rating54%
Sukhmani- Hope For Life is a story based on the Journey of Major Kuldeep Singh, played by Gurdas Maan, a decorated officer of the Para Battalion, who overcomes personal trauma and social indignity to uphold the morals of the army and the honour of a woman rejected by society and family, while keeping alive the memory of his beloved daughter Sukhmani.