Babbal Rai

Babbal Rai (born 3 March 1985) is an Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and film actor.[1] His real birth name is Simranjeet Singh Rai. Born in Samrala, a city in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India, He belongs to a Rai JATT Family and he graduated from DAV College, has always enjoyed a passion towards cricket. He was trained by Yograj Singh (father of Yuvraj Singh) and aspired to be a cricketer, later he moved to Melbourne where he uploaded a video called "Australian Challa" which made him a YouTube sensation. Later the adopted version of the song was released in the Bollywood movie Crook.[2][3] He rose to fame from the song Nikki Jehi Jind.[4] He also starred in the film Mr & Mrs 420, along with Jassi Gill and Binnu Dhillon.[5]

Babbal Rai
Born	3 March 1985 Samrala, Punjab, India
Occupation(s)	Singer,song writer
Years active	2008–present

Early life

Babbal Rai was born in Samrala , a city in the Ludhiana district of Punjab (India).[6] His birth name is Simranjit Singh Rai. His father, Late Sardar Manjit Singh Rai was a theatre artist and his mother Sardarni Nirmal Kaur is a homemaker.[7] He spent his early childhood in the city of Samrala where he did his schooling form National Public School and then moved to Chandigarh and completed his formal education and graduated from DAV College, Chandigarh. In 2007, he went to Melbourne[8] for studying further and enrolled himself in the course of Community welfare since, then, he did all the odd jobs to survive till, his Australian Challa video became popular on YouTube .[9]

Music career

Babbal Rai made his debut with the album SAU PUTT which too brought him into the limelight in the Punjabi music industry. His album, which was brought by the label Point Zero in March 2010, the album however was not a huge hit as Rai was unable to come to India and promote his album.[10] Meanwhile, he worked and collected money for making music and videos. In 2012 he released his single track "Sohni".[9] It is reported that Rai feels that his claim to fame is to sing what he feels from his heart.[10] The tracks Sohni made him an instant success followed by Taur and Tere Naam. Rai also sang his first playback song for Jimmy Shergill's Punjabi film Rangeelay and this has been his only known playback track uptill now. His multi starrer project for 9X Tashan "Kudi Tu Pataka" was released the following year and was highly acclaimed by the audience. In 2014 Babbal released[11] his second album Girlfriend[12] under the label Speed Records in which the tracks like "Yaarian", "Tere layi", "Tuttian", "Jattan da Munda" were a huge success. The song Akh Teri was the most acclaimed track in the album. He released videos of five songs- Akh Teri, Jattan Da Munda, Yaarian, Tere Layi and Girlfriend- from his album "Girlfriend" which were huge hits.[10]

Film career

He started his film career by special guest appearance in the Punjabi Film[13] in Singh vs Kaur in 2013 starring Gippy Grewal and Surveen Chawla.[14] In 2014 he featured in his debut film Mr and Mrs 420 along with Jassi Gill, Yuvraj Hans, Binnu Dhillon, and Jaswinder Bhalla[15] and appeared in a dual-role cameo, a first in Punjabi film industry.[16][17]

Discography

Year	Album	Music Director	Record Label
2010	Saau Putt[The First Chapter]	Anu-Manu	Point Zero
2014	Girlfriend	Mofolactic, Pav Dharia, Desi Routz, Beat Minister	Speed Records
2017	Professional Sardar	Pav Dharia, Beat Minister, Sukh-E (Muzical Doctorz), JSL Singh & Deep Jandu	Speed Records

Singles

Year	Music Director	Song	Album	Record Label	! Lyrics
2012	Pav Dharia	Sohni	Desi Grrari	Speed Records
2013	Jaidev Kumar	Rangeelay	-	Eros Now
2013	Pav Dharia	Taur	Do Ghutt	Speed Records
2013	Pav Dharia	Tera Naam	Red	Speed Records
2013	JSL Singh	Kudi tu Pataka	-	For 9x Tashan
2015	Preet Hundal	One Dream	ONE Dream	Speed Records
2016	Desi Routz	Deor Bharjayii	-	Speed Records	Narinder BATTH
2016	Deep Jandu	Khoo Te Tindan	-	BNW Records
2016	-Mofolactic	LokThat	J2B	Speed Record	Narinder Batth
2016	Desi routz	Yaar jatt de	J2B	Speed Records	Narinder batth
2017	Preet Hundal	sad song	Babbal Rai	Speed Records	Eyp Creation
2017	Preet Hundal	Rondi tere layii	-	Speed Records	Preet Hundal
2018	B Praak	Mai Terra Akshay ft.Bohemia (rapper)	-	Humble Music	Jaani (songwriter)
2019	Byg Byrd	Bang Bang ft.Bohemia (rapper)	-	Sony Music India	Karan Aujla, Elly Mangat

Film songs

Year	Film	Character Name	Co-Starring
2013	Singh vs Kaur	–	Gippy Grewal, Surveen Chawla, Binnu Dhillon, Japji Khaira, B.N. Sharma, Diljit Kaur, Rana Jung Bahadur, Avtar Gill, Sardar Sohi, Karamjit Anmol, Jelly, Rohit Khurana
2014	Mr & Mrs 420	Pinki/Babbu	Yuvraj Hans, Binnu Dhillon, Jassi Gill, Jaswinder Bhalla
2014	Oh My Pyo Ji	JJ	Binnu Dhillon, Bhanushree Mehra, Jaswinder Bhalla
2015	Dildariyaan	Sumair	Jassi Gill, Sagrika Ghatke, Binnu Dhillon
2017	Sargi	Kaim (Karamveer Singh)	Jassi Gill, Rubina Bajwa, Karamjit Anmol
2018	Ambran Da Chann	Kaadir	Binnu Dhillon, Sonam Bajwa, Sardar Sohi, Babbal Rai (special appearance)

References

1. "Babbal Rai has a childlike innocence in THIS throwback picture".
2. Kamra, Diksha (24 September 2010). "'Challa' inspiration for Crook". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
3. Dasgupta, Priyanka (7 October 2010). "I'm happy to get my credit now: Babbal". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
4. "Babbal Rai's Girlfriend – Return of Rai Music Review and All Songs Lyrics". MuzicMag. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
5. Grewal, Preetinder (19 March 2014). "Babbal Rai and Jassi Gill Promoting 'Mr and Mrs 420'". SBS. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
6. "Babbal Rai". Facebook.
7. "Photo: Babbal Rai looks unrecognizable in this throwback picture".
8. "Recalling his days in Australia, Babbal Rai shares a throwback video".
9. "Viral fame". hindustantimes.com/. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
11. PunjabNews. "Singer Babbal Rai arrives on Harley Davidson to launch his new album 'Girlfriend'". yespunjab.com. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
12. Babbal Rai is out with his new album 'Girlfriend' - Interview. YouTube. 10 February 2014.
13. Babbal Rai - Interview. YouTube. 21 October 2013.
14. Singh vs Kaur#Cast
15. "New Punjabi Film - Babbal Rai, Ravinder Grewal, Yuvraj Hans : Punjabi Movies". punjabiportal.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
16. Mr & Mrs 420
17. ""It's not that only one movie has been put on hold, films worldwide have been put on halt", says Babbal Rai on 'Maa' not being released today".