Sukhminder got his primary education from Ludhiana. From
the beginning he has been meritorious student and got
scholarship in every class. He completed his
matriculation from Sant Isher Dass memorial high school
in 1983. He secured good marks and stood first in the
school and second in the district. His achievements were
highly published in the daily regional newspapers. After pre engineering,
he completed his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in
1988 from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
He repeated his meritorious performance and stood first in the college and third in
Punjab . He also got scholarship of Rs 4500-00 from
Punjab
governments.
S Dhanjal was following the footsteps of his father. He
started writing and reciting poem in the village
during Baisakhi Mela. After
accessing his interest in music, his father send him
under the guidance of his maternal uncle S. Gurcharan
Singh Ghatoura to learn music
specially BENZO and Harmonium during his school holidays.
He also participates in the cultural activities of the school like drama song etc.
When Dhanjal joined the Guru Nanak Engineering college,
Ludhiana , he came in the fold
of the theatre group "Punjabi Kala Manch". He
serve the group as Assistant Director in various Punjabi plays like “SADHRAN DA KHOON”
“OOT Kabila” etc. In 1988 he completed his Diploma of electrical as well
as polishes his skill in theatre.
Now it was the time to think about his future.
As an our middle class Ramgarhia family think that the
boy has completed his study, then he must have to do some
job and provide the financial support to the
family. Being an intelligent and brilliant student, he
was
offered a job of Junior Engineer at Roper thermal plant.
He joined, but his inner artist was not happy with the
job.
He boarded the train and
landed in Mumbai with few bucks in the pocket to fulfil his dreams. In Mumbai he met few old friends,
those were in his theatre
group. He started to take rounds in the offices of
various producer directors. He started to earn his
livelihood while doing small assignments in Films. It
was 1992 when the riots started in the Mumbai one of the
director Pankuj Prashar has fixed shooting dates with
the renown actress of
south “Shree Devi” by chance the assistant director and
other crew member does not come to work. The producer
suddenly remembers his name and called him. He reached in
time and take beautiful and impressive shoots. The
producer was happy with his work, then he becomes
reliable and trustworthy person of the producer.He also
worked with renown producer as Pankuj
Prasher. Ravinder Peepat. K. C. Bokadia and T. Ramarao
Etc
With this his life took a brilliant boost. He
started to produce his own dream project "Baghi". The
film was a great success and fetched "National Award" in
the Regional category. Then he produced an another Punjabi Film
“MELA” , that film also got good response. Now he has
completed “Lagda Ishaq Ho gaya” and was in Punjab for
its release and promotion. During his visit he spare some time
and visited the office of ramgarhiakom to share his
achievements. |