''Work Weather Wife'' (
Gurmukhi
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: ਵਰਕ ਵੇਦਰ ਵਾਈਫ, Devanagari: वोर्क वेदेर वाईफ़) is a Canadian
Punjabi feature film starring
Harpreet Sandhu and Reema Nagra in the lead role with
Dilbag Brar and
Kirat Bhattal and is directed by
Harpreet Sandhu.
The film had two songs, "Moon" and "Long Braid" in consideration for a nomination for
Academy Award for Best Original Song
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prior to the
87th Academy Awards
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. At the
72nd Golden Globe Awards
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for Best Foreign Language Feature Film, ''Work Weather Wife'' was one of 53 films approved for consideration in the Foreign Language category.
Plot
Vick tricks his way into Dimple and CJ's fragile family. The film outlines the major community issue of honour killings. CJ, who belongs to the
working class
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, doesn't have time for the daily household routine, and Vick outsmarts CJ on a scam.
Cast
*
Harpreet Sandhu as Vick, an
NRI living in Vancouver, BC
* Reema Nagra as Dimple, an NRI living in Vancouver, BC
*
Dilbag Brar as CJ, Dimple's husband
*
B K Singh Rakhra as Vick's father
*
Mani Kahlon as Bobby, Vick's friend
*
Eline Mets as Amber
*
Abi Centrik
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Organizations
United States
* American Bankruptcy Institute
* American Beverage Institute
* American Biographical Institute
* Applied Biosystems Inc.
Elsewhere
* Agencia Boliviana de Información, a Bolivian press age ...
as Boy
*
Kirat Bhattal as Gugni, CJ's daughter
*
Jagmohan Bhandari
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as Psychiatrist
*
Monsoon Sondhi
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as Vick's sister
*
Sukhi Waraich as Vick's sister's boyfriend
*
Alicia Karl as
Monique
*
Deepika Singh
Deepika Singh Goyal (born 26 July, 1989) is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing the role of Sandhya Rathi in Star Plus's ''Diya Aur Baati Hum''.
Early life
Singh was born in New Delhi on 26 July 1989. She completed her Mast ...
as Kashish
Soundtrack
The soundtrack features ten songs composed by
Harpreet Sandhu,
Dilbag Brar and
Sukhjinder Alfaaz with lyrics by
Dilbag Brar and
Sukhjinder Alfaaz and voice rendered by
Alka Yagnik
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* Alka Ajith (born c. 1997), Indian multilingual playback singer
* Alka Amin (active from 2011), Indian television actress
* Alka Balram Kshatriya, Indian politician, Member of the Parliament of India rep ...
,
Arsh Avtar,
Sukhjinder Alfaaz,
Dilbag Brar, and Urdu poetry by
Harpreet Sandhu.
References
External links
WORK WEATHER WIFE FACEBOOK PAGE* {{IMDb title, 3219296, WWW: Work Weather Wife
2014 films
Indian drama films
2010s Punjabi-language films
Indian-Canadian films
Canadian drama films
2014 soundtrack albums
2010s Canadian films