6 people
Stars of the screen
Actors from the Punjab who lit up the cinemas of Bombay, Lahore and the world.
Colonial Punjab
1849 – 1947
Two Punjabs
1947 – today
Actor who began in the Punjabi films of Lahore and became Hindi cinema's most famous villain.
Actor and director born in Peshawar whose tramp in Awaara and Shree 420 was loved from Moscow to Cairo.
Partition refugee from Jhelum district who starred in Mother India and later led a peace march across Punjab in the 1980s.
Village boy from Ludhiana district who became one of Bombay's biggest stars, Veeru of Sholay.
Actor from Ambala whose craggy face carried Indian art cinema, Tamas and British films such as East Is East.