Harshdeep Singh Art Director
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Harshdeep Singh Art Director Expands His Screen Credits Across Hindi and Punjabi Cinema
By Amritpal Singh
Harshdeep Singh Art Director has built a varied screen portfolio through feature films and music videos, with credits spanning Hindi cinema and Punjabi productions. From the grounded world of Gone Kesh and the period setting of Saand Ki Aankh to the crime-driven atmosphere of Hit: The First Case and the family comedy of Bina Band Chal England, his work reflects the changing visual requirements of different stories.
Harshdeep Singh feature-film credits include Gone Kesh, Saand Ki Aankh, Hit: The First Case, Teri Meri Gal Ban Gayi, Bina Band Chal England, Jatt Nuu Chudail Takri, Vekhi Ja Chhedi Na and Ni Main Sass Kuttni 2. His credits also extend to a growing collection of music videos, while Jatt Di Queen is among his upcoming projects.
Starting With the Intimate World of Gone Kesh
Released in 2019, Gone Kesh presented a very different challenge from a conventional commercial comedy or thriller. Directed by Qasim Khallow, the Hindi film follows Enakshi, a young woman from Siliguri who develops alopecia and struggles with the impact of hair loss on her confidence, relationships and ambitions.
The film's story is rooted in ordinary family life rather than a large-scale cinematic setting. Enakshi's home, school, workplace and surrounding community become important parts of her journey as she deals with social judgement and gradually develops the confidence to accept herself. The film was also noted for bringing an uncommon subject—alopecia and the social stigma surrounding hair loss—into a mainstream Hindi story.
For the art department, such a film depends heavily on believable everyday spaces. The surroundings need to feel lived-in and appropriate for a middle-class family and a young woman growing up in Siliguri. Harshdeep Singh credit on Gone Kesh therefore forms part of a filmography that began with a story where realism and character-driven environments were central to the narrative.
A Period Setting With Saand Ki Aankh
Another significant 2019 title in Harshdeep Singh filmography was Saand Ki Aankh. Directed by Tushar Hiranandani, the film dramatizes the lives of sharpshooters Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar, two women from rural Uttar Pradesh who took up competitive shooting later in life.
The visual requirements of the film were considerably different from Gone Kesh. Instead of contemporary urban and family environments, the story required a convincing rural setting reflecting the period and social circumstances in which the two women lived.
The film follows the women's gradual transition from their traditional domestic roles to competitive shooting. Their journey also brings them into conflict with established expectations surrounding women, family and village life. The production consequently needed to establish not only shooting ranges and competition spaces but also the homes, streets and rural surroundings through which the characters' everyday lives are presented.
Harshdeep Singh is credited as an art director on the film. His involvement in a production with such a strong geographical and period identity adds an important dimension to his early feature-film credits.
Moving Into the Crime-Thriller Space With Hit: The First Case
By 2022, Harshdeep Singh credits included Hit: The First Case, a Hindi crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu and starring Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra.
The film follows Vikram Jaisingh, a police officer working with the Homicide Intervention Team. His investigation into the disappearance of a young woman becomes increasingly complicated as his own psychological trauma begins affecting his work.
Unlike a character-focused family drama, a crime investigation requires a different visual language. Police environments, investigation rooms, streets, homes and locations connected to the case all need to support the suspense of the narrative. The audience should feel that these spaces belong to an active investigation rather than simply serving as decorative backgrounds.
Harshdeep Singh art-direction credit on Hit: The First Case adds a crime-thriller environment to a filmography that had already covered more intimate and rural settings.
The project also illustrates why art direction can vary substantially from one production to another. In a thriller, the arrangement and appearance of locations can influence how viewers understand the investigation, while the same level of visual attention may be used differently in a family or romantic story.
Teri Meri Gal Ban Gayi Adds a Punjabi Feature
Harshdeep Singh 2022 credits also include the Punjabi film Teri Meri Gal Ban Gayi. The project marked another step in his association with Punjabi-language cinema.
While a romantic or family-oriented Punjabi film may not require the same period reconstruction as Saand Ki Aankh or the investigative environments of Hit: The First Case, its locations still play an important role in establishing relationships between characters.
Homes, social spaces and everyday surroundings can help establish the family's background and the social environment in which a romantic story develops. Harshdeep Singh involvement in the film placed another genre and regional production style within his growing body of work.
Bina Band Chal England Brings an International Setting
The 2023 Punjabi comedy Bina Band Chal England introduced another distinct visual environment. Directed by Satinder Singh Dev, the film centres on a young Punjabi couple, Gurman and Gurleen, who want to marry. Their plans become complicated when Gurleen's father expects Gurman's family to have a similar educational and professional standing.
The central conflict begins with a lie about family occupation, which subsequently creates confusion between the two families. The film uses this situation as the basis for its comedy and relationship-driven storyline.
The story's connection with the United Kingdom gives the production a visual dimension different from a Punjabi story confined to one local setting. The contrast between Punjabi family expectations and life abroad is part of the film's premise, making location and environment useful tools for distinguishing the characters' worlds.
For an art director, such a production requires attention to how different spaces communicate family background, social position and the film's comic situations. Harshdeep Singh credit on Bina Band Chal England therefore represents another change in visual territory within his filmography.
Three Punjabi Films in His 2024 Credits
The year 2024 became particularly notable in Harshdeep Singh feature-film credits, with Jatt Nuu Chudail Takri, Vekhi Ja Chhedi Na and Ni Main Sass Kuttni 2 appearing in his listed work.
Jatt Nuu Chudail Takri combines Punjabi comedy with supernatural elements. The film follows a married man whose views about relationships and "chudails" become complicated when he begins to believe that supernatural forces may be involved in his own marriage. The combination of family situations, romance and supernatural comedy gives the production a visual world that needs to move comfortably between familiar Punjabi surroundings and heightened comic situations.
Harshdeep Singh is credited as an art director on the film, adding a supernatural comedy to the range of genres represented in his work.
Vekhi Ja Chhedi Na further strengthened his association with Punjabi cinema during the same year. Rather than being defined by a single type of production, Harshdeep Singh 2024 credits demonstrate his ability to work across different Punjabi stories and production environments.
The third title, Ni Main Sass Kuttni 2, is a continuation of the Punjabi family-comedy franchise. The story builds on the familiar tensions between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, using family relationships as the basis for its humour and drama. The sequel once again places the characters within a family-centred environment, where domestic spaces become closely connected to the situations driving the story.
Harshdeep Singh credit on the film adds another family-oriented production to his recent Punjabi work.
His Work Extends Beyond Feature Films
Feature films represent only one part of Harshdeep Singh's listed credits. His filmography also includes numerous music videos, a format where art direction can have a particularly immediate visual impact.
His earlier music-video credits include Bapu from 2020, Tera Veham Delhi from 2021 and Chakme Brand from 2022. The list expands through 2024 with Janta Sudhar, Bhootan, Care and True Love.
In 2025, his listed projects include Broken Dream, Shuk La Patase, Updated King and Trader. His 2026 credits include Shak – Anmol Sama, Napde Killi, Teri Deed, Jindua, Punjab Siyaa and Chapter Closed.
His credits connected with Duma Dum Mast Kalandar also include the project's teaser, trailer and title track. This range shows that his work is not limited to long-form cinema and extends into shorter music-led productions where the visual environment has to communicate quickly.
Upcoming Project Jatt Di Queen
Among the projects ahead is Jatt Di Queen, an upcoming Punjabi film for which Harshdeep Singh is credited as art director.
The project is being positioned within the Punjabi romantic-drama space and is expected to add another feature to Harshdeep Singh recent run of Punjabi productions. The film's development gives the art department another opportunity to create a visual setting around a character-driven story, while its eventual release will add to Harshdeep Singh expanding list of feature-film credits.
With the project still ahead, Jatt Di Queen represents the next stage of a filmography that has increasingly included Punjabi cinema alongside Hindi productions and music videos.
A Filmography Built Around Different Visual Worlds
The career of Harshdeep Singh Art Director stands out for the variety of environments represented across his credits. Gone Kesh required an intimate, everyday setting for a story about identity and social acceptance. Saand Ki Aankh moved into a rural period setting based on the lives of two real-life shooters, while Hit: The First Case introduced the atmosphere of police investigation and psychological crime drama.
His later work in Punjabi cinema brought another range of requirements, from the relationship-driven comedy of Bina Band Chal England to the supernatural humour of Jatt Nuu Chudail Takri and the family conflicts of Ni Main Sass Kuttni 2.
Alongside these feature films, his expanding music-video credits show continued involvement in projects where visual presentation is closely tied to music, performers and mood.
Art direction is often one of the less visible parts of filmmaking for audiences, but the spaces created for a story can strongly influence how viewers experience its characters and situations. With Jatt Di Queen among his upcoming work, Harshdeep Singh's screen credits continue to expand across Punjabi entertainment, Hindi cinema and music-led productions.