Politicians, film stars and fans turned up in large numbers to pay tributes to actor-comedian Jaswinder Bhalla during his cremation here this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Among those present were actors Binnu Dhillon, Karamjit Anmol, Gurpreet Ghuggi and Gippy Grewal.<\/p>\n
Popular Punjabi singers Mohammad Sadiq, Hans Raj Hans and Amar Noorie also paid tributes to Bhalla, along with Punjab Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond, British Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, and his long-time friend and Punjab Food Commission Chairman Bal Mukund Sharma.<\/p>\n
Describing him as an exceptional human being and a true pride of Punjab, Sond said Bhalla brought endless smiles to the faces of people and would always be remembered for his legendary role as Chacha Chatar Singh.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour words, your performances and your unique acting will remain alive in our memories forever,\u201d the minister said. \u201cWherever Punjabis are in the world, there is a wave of grief today,\u201d he said, adding that Bhalla\u2019s association with Sharma and Neelu in popular comedy series \u201cChhankata\u201d will remain evergreen in people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n
Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Vice-Chancellor Satbir Singh Gosal said the university would always be proud of its alumnus and former faculty member who created a distinctive global identity through his satire and comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politicians, film stars and fans turned up in large numbers to pay tributes to actor-comedian Jaswinder Bhalla during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-92662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}