Hardavinder Singh Sandhu, better known as Harrdy Sandhu, is an Indian singer, actor and former cricketer. He came into limelight with his Punjabi song ‘Soch’.
Wiki/Biography
Harrdy Sandhu was born on 6 September 1986 in Patiala, Punjab (age 33 in 2019). His zodiac sign is Virgo. His hometown is Chandigarh. He has been passionate about cricket since childhood and wanted to make a career out of it. Sandhu has had a keen interest in music since childhood and started singing as a hobby when he was 4 years old. He gave his first stage performance at his uncle’s wedding.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5’7”
Weight (approximately): 75kg
Hair color: Bust 38 inches, waist 30 inches, biceps 13 inches
Eye color: black
Body measurements: brown
Family, caste and girlfriends
Harrdy Sandhu belongs to a Sikh family. Not much is known about his parents. He has an older brother.
Hardy is dating model Zenith Sidhu.
cricket career
Harrdy Sandhu started his cricket career in 2005. He is a fast bowler for India Under-19 team and Ranji Punjab team. He has played with the likes of Ishant Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. However, he suffered an injury in 2007 and had to give up his cricket career. He then traveled to Australia, where he worked as a taxi driver. After some time, Hardy returned to India, worked out and was selected for the Ranji Championship. Unfortunately, just two days before the match, he got injured again and had to retire from cricket.
Singing/film career
Sandhu started his singing career in 2012 with the song “Tequilla Shot”. However, he came to fame after the Punjabi song “Soch” became a hit. In the same year, he released the song “Joker”, which was deeply loved by the audience. He subsequently released many hit songs including “Saah”, “Naa Ji Naa”, “Hornn Blow”, “Backbone”, “Yaar Ni Milyaa”, “Naah” and “Kya Baat Ay”.
Hardy made his acting debut in 2014 with the Punjabi film Yaaran Da Katchup. He also appeared in the movie “Mera Mahi NRI”.
In 2019, Sandhu played the role of “Madan Lal” in the Bollywood movie “83”.
Awards
- PTC Punjabi Music Awards Most Romantic Folk Song of the Year “Soch” (2014)
- PTC Punjabi Music Awards Best Music Video for Song “Soch” (2014)
- PTC Punjabi Music Awards Most Popular Song of the Year “Horn Blow” (2017)
favorite thing
- Food: Grilled chicken, butter chicken, chickpeas
- Movies: Barfi, Punjab 1984, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
- Vacation destination: Thailand
fact
- His hobbies include dancing and fitness.
- He follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- Hardy was good at dancing during her school days and even studied Bhangra for about three or four years as a teenager.
- He doesn’t like sweets.
- He learned folk and classical singing from his mentor Nirmal Singh.
- Sandhu counts Sachin Tendulkar and Brett Lee as his idols.
- He is an avid animal lover and owns a pet dog, Juno, and a pet cat, Shae.
- It took Hardy a month to learn the dance moves to his song “Naah.”
- His song “Soch” made him the first Indian singer to receive over 100 million views within five months of its release.
- In 2016, when his song “Soch” was covered in the Bollywood film Airlift, Hardy was very disappointed with the makers of the song because it had been re-created without his knowledge. .
- Hardy owns a BMW.
- He has his girlfriend’s name “Zenith” tattooed on his left forearm, his own name “Hardy” on his right forearm and another tattoo on the left side of his neck.
- He got his nickname “Hardy” from a teammate he used to play cricket with. They started calling him Hardy because they found it difficult to pronounce his name.
- After the release of his hit song, people in Soch and Joker started saying that Harrdy could only sing slow songs and Sandhu suffered from depression. Then, he couldn’t sing for six or seven months.
- In an interview, Sandhu revealed how he got the role in the Bollywood film ’83’. He said——
Amy is a good friend of mine and I knew he was working on the film. One day when I was in Chandigarh, I got a call from Amy asking me to come and meet Kabir Khan and the coach who was training the team. They asked me if I could crack Madan Lal’s bowling action and told me that they were on lockdown and wanted me to send a video of myself once I mastered the action. I sent it and they loved it. So, I got the role. “
- Hardy Sandhu has experienced sexual harassment. He revealed in an interview that while performing at a private wedding, a woman in her 30s or 40s insisted on joining him on stage. Despite his repeated refusals, she persisted, so he later allowed her to join him and dance at her request. The situation took a turn when the woman licked Hardy’s ear after asking for a hug.
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