Hira Randhawa is a Familiar Name in field of Punjabi Theatre and Journalism. He was born on March 27 in a small village Mohriwala (Part of Village Shahpur Jajan) of District Gurdaspur (Punjab) India. He is a self-made person and Ph.D., Post Graduate in Punjabi, Diploma in Civil Draftsman, Post Graduate in Journalism & Mass Communications, and Diploma in Computer Application. He got immigration of Canada in 2005 and presently he is living in Toronto.
AS THEATRE ACTOR:
He is doing Theatre since 1978 & worked long time with Famous Playwright Sh. Gursharn Singh known as Bhai Manna Singh. In 1989 he established his theatre group "Art Theatre Ludhiana". He participated in more than 250 plays presented about 1200 times in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh, and Rajasthan & other parts of India and abroad like U.S.A., Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Europe etc.
AS DIRECTOR:
He directed more than 150 Punjabi, Hindi & English plays. He participated in many theatre festivals organized by various organizations.
CHILDREN THEATRE:
He is organizing continuously Children Theatre Workshops every year. He trained more than 15000 children in these workshops.
STREET THEATRE:
He did a lot of work in Street Theatre and Presented more than 700 shows of street plays.
THEATRE ARTISTS TRAINED:
He trained more than 2,000 theatre artists who performed in different stage plays.
CONTRIBUTION IN LITERACY CAMPAIGN THROUGH THEATRE:
In Punjab he Trained more than 67 Theatre/cultural teams in 1995 of school students. The teams performed Plays, Skits, Songs, Jago, Gidha, Bhangra, (Punjabi Traditional dances) Choreography etc. in 1400 shows in villages and slums of Punjab, India under Total Literacy Campaign & RCH Project under population education program.
MOVIES:
Hira Randhawa acted in Hindi Feature Film "Train To Pakistan", English Movie "Never Again", and Punjabi Feature Films like “Deh Shiva Bar Mohi Ihai”, "Koko De Bache", ”Khund Carcha”, “Ghasita Houldar”, "Aawa oot", etc. He acted in many Punjabi songs Videos of different singers.
He worked with famous Film personalities like Dara Singh, Nirmal Pandey, Mohan Agasse, Late Mangal Dhillon, Rajat Kapoor, Diviya Dutta, Sukhjinder Shera, Anil Sharma, Surinder Sharma etc. in different movies.
TV SHOWS PARTICIPATION:
Hira Randhawa performed in Punjabi plays “Sanaata” “Jawan Tarang”, “Punjab Adhiyae-2”, “Surabhi”, “Sham Sandhoori”, “Panchani”, “Master ji”, and “Ek Noor Turia”, of Jalandhar Doordarshan Kendra and other Punjabi/Hindi channels.
BOOKSPUBLISHED:
Hira Randhawa created many Punjabi Plays and Poetry which are included in his published books: 1). Chanan Da Darya (Plays), 2). Chhatta Channana Da (Poetry), 3). Chanan Mamta Da (Plays & Poetry), 4). Jadon Jago Udon Savera (Plays). His books (with other writers) "Punjabi de Naat Parvachan" and "Natrang" were also published.
HOUNERED BY: He was honoured by more than 50 Organisations in India and Abroad.
PRESENT ACTIVITIES IN TORONTO (CANADA):
He is hosting and producing Program ‘Lok-Awaz’ on SSTV Toronto and on SurSagar Radio Toronto.
He hosted Punjabi Radio Program 'Lok-Awaz' on 770 AM Band Toronto.
He is doing Professional Theatre (in Punjabi Language) in Toronto, under Banner of 'HATS UP' (Heritage Arts & Theater Society of United Productions) and presented more than two dozen plays. The subject of his plays is always based on pro-people concerns like rational & scientific thinking, historical and comedy based on local social life.
He worked as Reporter of Daily Jagbani from Greater Toronto Area.
He worked as Executive Editor of Newspaper ‘Road News’ Toronto.
He is providing his services as freelancer journalist to different medium of media.
He is regularly performing in TV programs of Punjabi language telecasting in Canada.