Bollywood Actor Jimmy Shergill

Jimmy Shergill

Personal

Jimmy Shergill was born on December 3, 1970 in Gorakhpur, India. His original name is Jasjiet Shergill and nickname is Jusjit. Jimmy is soft in speaking, have dreamy looks and plenty of talent in him. He knows Hindi and English and completed acting course at Roshan Taneja. He got his education from Hidnu College, Dehli. Jimmy Shergill’s hobby is to play cricket and he dislikes politics. He likes to eat home cooked Indian food. Mel Gibson, Shahrukh Khan, Meg Ryan, Sridevi and Kajol are his favorite celebrities. Notorious and Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayeinge are his favorite movies. Jimmy himself got success by working with Aditya Chopra who after "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" made his second movie, Mohabbatein. Jimmy Shergill selects his role and films before signing it which is not good for an actor after 11 year according to some critics. But he is a talented actor and nothing can stop him from being successful and busiest actor of Bollywood.

Career

Jimmy Shergill started his career with Maachis directed by Gulzar. This Bollywood movie was released in 1996. The title of this movie conveys that youth of any country is like matchsticks. This film was a hit on box office. The direction of Gulzar and music of Vishal Bhardwaj were its strong points. The cast of this movie is a mixture of some experienced Bollywood stars and some new comers. Stars who performed in this movie are Tabu, Chandrachur Singh, Om Puri, Suneel Sinha amd Jimmy Shergill. Jimmy played the role of hardcore militant but its role could not get reasonable attention.

Mohabbatein is a Bollywood movie directed by Aditya Chopra. In this movie Jimmy Shergill performed with Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Uday Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Shamita Shetty and Kim Sharma. It was filmed at Oxfored and Longleat and proved a success on box office. Both Bachchan and Khan won Filmfare Awards for their performances. This movie proved a milestone in the career of Jimmy Shergill and give fame and confidence to this new talent. Jimmy was one of the six youngsters in this movie who performed well and now enjoying fruit of his hard work.

Jimmy Shergill played an interesting role in Dil Hai Tumhaara directed by Kundan Shah. This romantic, comedy and family Bollywood movie was released in 2002. The other co-stars with Jimmy Shergill were Rekha, Preity Zinta, Mahima Chaudhry, Arjun Rampal and Alok Nath. This film was a failure on box office but its music was liked very much. Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai was released in 2002 and achieves moderate success. Director Sanjay Gadhvi and producer Yash Chopra cast Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill, Bipasha Basu and Tulip Joshi in the movie. Jimmy Shergill performed in Haasil directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. It is the award-winning movie, which was released in 2003. Other stars included in the cast were Hrishita Bhatt, Irfan Khan, Ashutosh Rana and Sudhir Pandey.

Dil Vil Pyar Vyar Bollywood movie was released in 2002. Yahaan was released in July, 2005. Jimmy Shergill, Minissha Lamba and Yashpal Sharma were included in the cast. Hum Tum was another movie which was released in May, 2004. Kunal Kohli was the director and Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra were the producer. Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji performed along with Jimmy Shergill. This movie won many filmfare awards including Best Actress Award for Rani Mukerji, Best Director Award for Kohli and awards for Comic Role and Female Playback Singer. He also performed in Dus Kahaniyaan, released in 2007. He also acted in hit movie 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard' directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and co-starring with Amitabh bachchan, Vidya Balan, Sanjay Dutt and Saif Ali Khan.

Jimmy also works in Punjabi movies such as Yaaran Naal Baharan and Mannat. He also performed in recent popular movies suhch as Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. This Bollywood musical comedy film was direct by Rajkumar Hirani and released in 2003. Other stars except Jimmy were Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Sunil Dutt, Gracy Singh and Boman Irani. So in short Jimmy has a reasonable experience in his professional career and worked with almost all top actors of Bollywood.

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