Gippy Grewal Biography: DESI ROCK STAR OF PUNJABI MUSIC & FILM INDUSTRY
Gippy Grewal is well-known artist all around the globe for his movies and songs. His real name is Rupinder Singh Grewal but is commonly known as Gippy Grewal. He started his career in 2002 but there are very few people who know about his family background, study and starting of his career in the field. He has a great struggle story behind his success. There have been times in his life when he has done job in Delhi as a waiter in a hotel.
Gippy Grewal was born in Koom Kalan village near Ludhiana, Punjab in a Sikh Family. He was just in 9th standard when his father was going through very bad phase of life because of some health issues. His father was paralysed and was admitted in hospital for a long time.
In 9th standard he has seen critical situation at his home for a long time which has never let him to enjoy the life like others did. Gippy Grewal’s elder brother Sippy Grewal is settled in Australia for now but during those times he was also not that mature to handle the things like a mature person does.
His mother has done a lot for both of the brothers, after getting discharged from the hospital, Gippy Grewal father was not too well for doing all the tasks like before and after around 8 years he passed away. Today also the thing that Gippy Grewal lacks in his life is the presence; of his father during this much success in his life.
In many interviews Gippy Grewal tells that his father wanted to see him as a Singer and he was alive when his very first album Chakk Lain ge ft. Jagdev Maan was released in 2002, his father passed away in 2003.
During the time of Hotel Management, Gippy Grewal used to take part in many cultural activities like plays, singing etc as he was madly in love with the art and the artist inside him. He has listened to the artists like Kuldeep Manak and Gurdas Maan while growing up that is why he admires them both.
When he started his work in Hotel Management and had to do works like room cleaner, chef, waiter etc, he thought that to be successful here in this line, he will be too old to have such kind of success. Then he started learning from Tarseem Walia and Atul Sharma, who is also the music director of his very first album and some of the next albums as well.
Gippy Grewal has worked in Canada also, as a security guard during his struggle days, while he was in college he fell in love with a girl. Later on with god’s grace he married to her and Gippy Grewal wife is Ravneet Kaur Grewal. He has two children named as Ekomkar Singh Grewal and younger one is named as Gurfateh Singh Grewal. Gippy Grewal’s production house is also named on his younger son, Gurfateh Singh Grewal’s name.
Coming into the industry is a new experience for every fresher; the same was with Gippy Grewal. He often says that in the influence of industry, he used to do many kinds of experiment with the songs that he has sung. That is the reason that we have a lot of verity in his songs, sad, happy, beat and many more but all these things also included the songs with the name of many weapons, promoting these types of things through his music.
He said in an interview that when he was a fresher, it was just out of joy that he sung such things as well but later on as we grow in the industry we become an icon more over a role model as well for many youngsters. That is why he has decided to now be very choosy for the topics he will be singing and working on.
He has also been a director of a very famous movie “Ardaas” which is full of life, family drama and brings up the issues that reflect different colours of one’s life.
Gippy Grewal is also the writer of Ardaas which shows his clean and pure thoughts for the common man living along with struggle in his life. His many movies like Jatt James Bond, Fraar, Kaptaan, Carry on Jatta etc have came up with very unique tastes and mix of many different stories that have made us laugh, filled up with excitement, thriller, suspense all over human emotions.
Gippy Grewal has a very clear image about having happiness in one’s life, he says that all this success, struggle, victory and defeating is the part of life. The formula for living happily is just that believe in god, don’t be too happy during the best days of life nor be too sad during the worst times. Both the things are common in life of a celebrity and common man. Just like the thing is in the industry there are many songs by them that become hit along with this there is a list that holds name of songs, movie that did not do well.
So the struggle never ends for one at any place, the thing is to just spend a quality time with the family and kids at home. Gippy Grewal has been awarded with many awards like award for best actor for his second movie Jihne Mera Dil Lutteya. Not only this but for Mirza, Singh Vs Kaur, Jatt James Bond and Carry on Jatta as well, he has got the same ward of best actor from PTC Punjabi Film Awards.
This is just about Punjabi cinema but Bollywood is also rocked by this Desi Rockstar of Punjabi industry with songs like “Angreji Beat” which was a song released in 2012 which later on was featured in Saif Ali Khan’s Bollywood movie Cocktail.
He has made his image with release of various albums like Aaja Ve Mitra, Mere Mitran De, Phulkari, Akh Lad Gyi, Chandi De Challe and Desi Rockstar. There are many his singles as well in his list like Gabhru, Raj Karda, Kinni Sohni, Shut Up, Hello Hello, Photo and Naished De etc.
He did debut in Bollywood with the movie Second Hand Husband but unfortunately, it did not work but later on in 2017 he made a comeback with Farhan Akhtar’s movie Lucknow Central which was based on real-life events inside the Lucknow Central Jail.
He also made special appearances in some of the movies like Ardaas, Dharti and Dharam Sankat Mein.
Gippy Grewal Movies List
1. Jihne Mera Dil Luteya (2011)
2. Carry on Jatta (2012)
3. Singh vs. Kaur (2013
4. Lucky DI Unlucky Story (2013)
5. Best of Luck (2013)
6. Bha Ji in Problem (2013)
7. Jatt James Bond (2014)
8. Faraar (2015)
9. Kaptaan (2016)
10.Manje Bistre (2017)
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Upcoming Movies of Gippy Grewal
Best Movies of Gippy Grewal
But now in 2018 he is coming up with some of the great concepts for which he has done a lot of hard work. That is Gippy Grewal Upcoming movie Subedar Joginder Singh. Which is real life story of a soldier.
Carry on Jatta 2 is also the part of upcoming movies of Gippy Grewal. Out of both the films, the concepts are entirely different although for Subedar Joginder Singh once he was live on his facebook page and requested his fans to please go for the film as he has done a tremendous amount of hard work for this movie.
Gippy Grewal All Songs
1.Patt Lainge
2. Oscar
3. Taur
4. Chitta Kukad
5. Hick Vich Jaan
6. Patt Lainge
7. Jaan
8. Budwaar
9. Bara Bore
10. Bad Baby
11. Hik Vich Jaan
12. Patt Lainge
13. Etwaar
14. Party Like A Punjabi
15. Photo Ft. DJ Flow
16. Setti
17. Jatti
18. Chamkila
19. Redua
20. Car Nachdi
Gippy Grewal Awards
- Best Actor Award for the movie “Jihne Mera Dil Luteya” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
- Best Popular Star Of The Year Award for the movie “Carry On Jatta” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
- Best Actor Award for the movie “Singh Vs Kaur” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
- Best Actor Award for the movie “Jatt James Bond” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
- Critics Best Actor Award for the movie “Mirza: The Untold Story” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
- Best Popular Star Of The Year Award for the movie “Mirza: The Untold Story” in PTC Punjabi Film Awards
Gippy Grewal Biography/Biodata
Real Name Gippy Grewal
Full Name Rupinder Singh Grewal
Profession Actor, Singer, Producer
Height- 180 cm
Weight- 78 kg
Date of Birth 2 January 1983
Age 35 Years (as in 2018)
Birth Place Koom Kalan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Address- Chandigarh, India
School- Nankana Sahib Public School, Kot Gangu Rai, Ludhiana, Punjab
College-North India Institute of Hotel Management, Panchkula, Haryana
Educational Qualifications- Degree in Hotel Management
Debut Album Song: Chakk Ley(2002)
Debut Film: Mel Karade Rabba (2010)
Family Father- Late Santokh Singh
Mother- Kulwant Kaur
Brothers- Sippy Grewal
Hobbies Acting, Singing, Bhangra
Wife Ravneet Kaur
Son- Gurfateh Grewal, Ekomkar Grewal
Despite the films and the Songs, he also seen on the Television shows. He appeared as a guest in the Show “The Kapil Sharma Show” (TKSS) for the promotion of the movie.