1. Jimmy Sheirgill made his Punjabi film debut with Yaaran Naal Baharan in 2005.
21 Facts About Jimmy Sheirgill
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Jimmy Sheirgill won the PTC Award for Best Actor for Mel Karade Rabba.
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Jimmy Sheirgill was born on 3 December 1970, into a Jat family of Punjabi Sikh aristocracy.
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Jimmy Sheirgill studied at St Francis' College, Lucknow for a few years and then moved to his ancestral home state of Punjab, in 1985.
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Jimmy Sheirgill studied at The Punjab Public School, Nabha and at Bikram College, Punjabi University, Patiala.
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Jimmy Sheirgill completed his graduation degree from Post Graduate Government College - 11, Chandigarh and Panjab University.
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Jimmy Sheirgill went to Mumbai after a cousin convinced him to try his luck in the film industry.
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Jimmy Sheirgill started his acting career in 1996 with the critically acclaimed film Maachis, directed by Gulzar, based on the terrorism in Punjab.
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Jimmy Sheirgill worked with rising star of the time Amisha Patel in Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar.
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Jimmy Sheirgill started acting in Punjabi films in 2005 with Manmohan Singh's Yaaran Naal Baharan, which did well at the box office.
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Jimmy Sheirgill went on to act in several other Punjabi films.
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Jimmy Sheirgill is currently one of the top actors in the industry, and some of the films he has acted in have been hits.
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Jimmy Sheirgill has lined up two more films for production; the multi-star cast Saadi Love Story, in which he's cast Diljit Dosanjh, Amrinder Gill, Neetu Singh, Surveen Chawla and himself in a cameo and another film titled Rangeelay, which casts him in the lead with Neha Dhupia.
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Jimmy Sheirgill married his long time girlfriend Priyanka Puri in 2001.
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Sheirgill changed the spelling of his surname "Shergill" to "Sheirgill" because the name Jimmy Shergill was already used on social media.
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Jimmy Sheirgill walked the ramp with underprivileged children for a charity fashion show in 2013.
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Jimmy Sheirgill participated in the 6-hour telethon to raise funds to rebuild Kerala, which was devastated by floods in 2018.
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Sampada Sharma of Indian Express said that Jimmy Sheirgill is the actor "who focused more on the characters he played rather than being the hero".
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Jimmy Sheirgill further added that it has led to a lot of interesting work coming his way.
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Jimmy Sheirgill is a celebrity endorser for brands and products such as Ezeepay and Mahindra Verito.
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Jimmy Sheirgill has being the brand ambassador of Punjab Premier League.