Neeraj Shridhar Live at Vibrant Brampton 2022

A huge thank you to the talented Neeraj Shridhar for joining us at Vibrant Brampton 2022! Our festival was a blast, with thousands of attendees. Enjoy this flashback of the amazing performance!

Neeraj Shridhar is an Indian film composer and singer-songwriter who was the lead vocalist of Indian pop and rock group Bombay Vikings. Bombay Vikings became popular with remix hits like "Kya Soorat Hai", "Woh Chali" and "Chod Do Anchal. Born into a Punjabi Family in Hoshiarpur, he later moved to Mumbai to make the tinsel town his new home.

Neeraj started working as a Bollywood playback singer in 2006 with the song "Tumko Dekha" for the film God Tussi Great Ho starring Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra. In the year 2006 his songs "Halke Halke" and "Bhagam Bhag were huge hits, which opened all the doors for him to be successful in Bollywood as well.

It was never looking back for Neeraj in Bollywood. His Chartbuster song “Hare Raam Hare Raam” from Bhool Bhulaiya picturized on Akshay Kumar was the biggest hit of the year and was nominated for the Filmfare Awards. This iconic song was recently adopted back on Kartik Aryan from the blockbuster Bhool Bhulaiya 2.

Success continued when Neeraj gave hit after hit. He has worked with almost all the main Bollywood music directors and his songs have been picturized on top Bollywood actors like Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, John Abraham, Kartik Aryan and many more. He has been nominated for several leading awards including Filmfare, Stardust and IIFA.

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About Vibrant Brampton 2022:

Downtown Brampton once again came alive to the sights and sounds of South Asian culture with award-winning Vibrant Brampton festival on July 22 and 23. Held at Garden Square in Brampton, the fun filled two day festival was the 7th annual edition of the Vibrant Brampton organized by the non-profit group Arts and Culture Initiative of South Asia (ACISA).

Thousands of people from Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Milton, Richmond Hill and other neighbouring areas attended the festivities with hundreds of musicians, singers and other performances.

Mayor of Brampton, Patrick Brown addressed the audience while Sonia Sidhu, MP from Brampton South, presented the organizers with a plaque and a congratulatory message from Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Bollywood playback singer NEERAJ SHRIDHAR, headliner for the first day, performed for two hours to the delight of the audience and had them singing along, dancing, and applauding to the sounds of his super hit numbers. The musician supported by a local band, The R&B United, entertained the audience with several of his songs including the chartbuster “Hare Ram Hare Ram” from the movie Bhul Bhulaiyan 2 and other songs including Salman Khan Starrer” Character Dhila hai” and Ranbir Kapoor’s super hit “Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani”.

As well, 50 other artists presented diverse music and myriad performances.

Local acts on July 22nd included the 2021 winners of #Vstar Talent Hunt & Mentorship program, launched back in 2020 as a platform to hunt for upcoming local artists and providing them a much bigger platform to perform alongside professional artists at the main stage of Vibrant Brampton Festival. Some of the notable acts on the first day included Indigenous artists Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone and Nichole Leveck, Bollywood, and fusion dance performances by DDA Canada and IND Toronto, Pakistani Canadian band “Raavi” and Mexican Canadian artist MC Sulek made everyone sway, swing and dance to the tunes of their music. Some of the other acts included a belly dance together with a local Arabic Jazz fusion band called Moneka.

The second day on July 23rd was even bigger in terms of attendance and performing artists. Punjabi pop singer from UK, JAZ DHAMI and Canadian legendary Punjabi singer, GEETA ZAILDAR were the two headliners along with over 90 other local artists. Besides these, the audience enjoyed performances from internationally recognized, award winning Canadian Indigenous artist David Maracle; local groups like Shivanjali Dance School performing a popular Garba dance and Nachdi Jawani Group with energetic bhangra acts.

Internationally famed GTA based Flamenco artist Carmen Romero choregraphed a well appreciated Flamenco dance act, while local upcoming Punjabi singer Damanjeet Singh stole lot of hearts with his Punjabi numbers, with original creations. The crowd frenzy was to be witnessed when Zaildar started with his most popular numbers like ‘Siti Mar Ke” and “Chitte Suit Te”. The audience danced and enjoyed his performance after which Jaz Dhami set the stage on fire with his ever popular numbers “Uchi Addi- High Heels te Nache” and “Bas”