Hard Kaur

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Field	Value
name	Hard Kaur
image	Hard Kaur at the BIG Entertainment Awards 2014 (cropped).jpg
caption	Kaur in 2014
birth_date
birth_place	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
citizenship	United Kingdom
occupation
module	{{Infobox musical artist
origin	Birmingham, England
genre	Rap, hip hop, bollywood music
instrument	Vocals
years_active	1995–2017
label	Sony Music
associated_acts	Hiphop Tamizha, Country Chicken
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| name = Hard Kaur | image = Hard Kaur at the BIG Entertainment Awards 2014 (cropped).jpg | caption = Kaur in 2014 | birth_date = | birth_place = Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | citizenship = United Kingdom | occupation = | module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes | origin = Birmingham, England | genre = Rap, hip hop, bollywood music | instrument = Vocals | years_active = 1995–2017 | label = Sony Music | associated_acts = Hiphop Tamizha, Country Chicken | website =

Taran Kaur Dhillon (born 29 July 1979), known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is a British-Indian rapper and hip hop singer as well as playback singer and actress in the Bollywood industry.

Early life

Hard Kaur was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 29 July 1979 as Taran Kaur Dhillon into a Punjabi Jatt Sikh family of the Dhillon clan. She was raised in Kanpur, where her mother ran a small beauty parlour in the house. Her father was killed by a mob during 1984 anti-Sikh violence. Her paternal grandparents asked her mother to leave their house and wanted to keep her brother with them. Subsequently she, her brother and her mother moved to Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India to her maternal grandparents house, where they stayed for the next couple of years.

In 1991, her mother remarried a British citizen and her family moved to Birmingham, England, where her mother started working and studying to eventually open a beauty salon, in Smethwick. Meanwhile, Hard Kaur did her schooling as an Indian immigrant in the UK.

Career

She recorded the song "Ek Glassy" and was top for the UK then in 2007 rapped for Sriram Raghavan's movie *Johnny Gaddaar'''s song "Paisa Phek (Move Your Body)." Since then she has sung in movies like Ugly Aur Pagli ("Talli"), Singh Is Kinng, Kismat Konnection, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, and *Prince''. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Hard_Kaur_and_Birmingham_City_Councillor_Ian_Ward.jpg" caption="Hard Kaur with a [[Birmingham City Council]]lor, 2013."] ::

Kaur performed at Live Earth India, 2008.

Her first solo album Supawoman was released in 2007.

In 2008, Hard Kaur was nominated for two awards at the UK Asian Music Awards: "Best Urban Act" and "Best Female Act". She won "Best Female Act".

In October 2012, Hard Kaur released her second music album titled Party Loud All Year: P.L.A.Y. The album, produced in collaboration with Sony music, featured ten songs, all of which were written and composed by her. The most successful song of the album was Mujhe Peeney do.

In 2013, she collaborated with composer Ram Sampath and Rajasthani folk singer Bhanvari Devi for Coke Studio India. In the song Katey or Kathe – Bhanvari Devi's part is a Rajasthani folk song which is dedicated to Lord Krishna (Saanwariyo) and Rap by Hard Kaur – written by herself in which she express her personal life journey. At the time of elections, she composed a song "Karle Tu Voting" to spread awareness about voting. Hard Kaur composed a song for FIFA World Cup named "Goal Mar Goal Mar". The song aptly describes fan frenzy and is sung in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali & South language (?) too. She has also written the lyrics for the song. She also collaborated with the American hip hop group D12 in the same year on the track "Desi Dance".

Controversial Comments

Hard Kaur is originally from Kanpur, India; where she was born and raised and currently lives in the UK, in Birmingham, England as an Indian national and citizen and has expressed her support for the Sikh-separatist Khalistan movement on multiple occasions in videos, while criticizing the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the current Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, their supporters and followers, the Indian government, Hindu nationalists, the BJP party and the RSS.

In June 2019, a First Information Report was lodged against her for comments about Yogi Adityanath and Mohan Bhagwat. In August 2019, her Twitter account was suspended after she posted a video abusing Amit Shah and Narendra Modi with Khalistan Supporters.

Kaur released a song and music video in 2019 after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Government of India which revoked the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir state of India; supporting Kashmiri-Separatism in India, in which she called herself a 'proud Khalistani'.

Kaur released an IG video in 2020 calling Indian people "naked, hungry, dirty, idiots, illiterate, uneducated mother****ers".

In a now deleted video that Kaur uploaded on Instagram and Twitter, she slut-shamed Bollywood actresses, accusing them of 'sleeping their way to the top' and mocking the Indian #MeToo movement victims who spoke out against their perpetrators, who were mostly Film-directors, producers and senior actors by insinuating that they're lying and they asked for it and that they knew very-well about Bollywood's casting couch in advance.

Discography

EPs

• Voodoo Hill (1997)

Albums

• Supawoman (2007)
• Party Loud All Year: P.L.A.Y (2012)

Compilation appearances

• Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (soundtrack, 2009)
• The Rising - Volume 1 (mixtape, 2017)

Filmography

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Year	Film	Song	Language	Notes
2007	Johnny Gaddar	Move Your Body	Hindi	Special Appearance in Song
2008	Kismat Konnection	Move Your Body
Bachna Ae Haseeno	Lucky Boy
Ugly Aur Pagli	Tali
2009	Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani	Follow Me
Main Tera Dhadkan
2011	Patiala House	Laung Da Lashkara	First feature film role as Komal Chatwal
Rola Pae Gaya
F.A.L.T.U.	Char Baj Gaye
Faltu Title Track
2013	ABCD: Any Body Can Dance	Sadda Dil Vi Tu (Ga Ga Ga Ganpati)
Gippi	We Are Like This Only
Hanni		Punjabi
Vanakkam Chennai	Chennai City Gangsta	Tamil
2014	Babloo Happy Hai	Babloo Happy Hai	Hindi
The Shaukeens	Aashique Mizaz	Composer
2015	Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend	Zaalim Dilli
2016	Sarrainodu	Sarrainodu	Telugu
2017	OK Jaanu	Kaara Fankaara	Hindi
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Television acts

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Year	TV show	Language	Notes
2009	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 3	Hindi	Contestant
2010	Comedy Circus Ke Taansen	Hindi	Special Appearance with Krushna and Sudesh
2012	Bigg Boss 6	Hindi	Guest
2016	Box Cricket League	Hindi	Player in Ahmedabad Express
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References

References

1. (28 July 2010). "Sonna on song".
2. (1 March 2009). "An interview with rapper Hard Kaur". [[MiD DAY]].
3. (5 October 2013). "I don't want typical 'ladki' roles: Hard Kaur". [[The Times of India]].
4. Jaspreet Nijher. (26 May 2013). "I did not abuse anyone: Hard Kaur". [[The Times of India]].
5. Shaheen Parkar. (25 September 2013). "Hard Kaur in a verbal tussle at a Bandra nightspot". Mid Day.
6. (27 June 2013). "Hard Kaur turns composer, keen to work with". NDTV.
7. Rajiv Vijayakar. (18 July 2008). "Kaur competency". [[Screen (magazine).
8. (29 May 2009). "Reality shows a tough act: Rapper Hard Kaur". [[The Hindu]].
9. (27 March 2009). "NRIs are preferred in India: Hard Kaur". [[The Times of India]].
10. [http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/music/20080124-0.html Sassy singer Hard Kaur eyes Bollywood] By ApunKaChoice, 24 January 2008.
11. (30 August 2008). "It's a wrap". [[The Hindu]].
12. (10 March 2010). "Rapper Hard Kaur eyeing acting career in Bollywood". [[The Financial Express (India).
13. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fwrg BBC Review: "Britain's premier female Asian rapper finally releases her debut album..."] [[BBC]], 17 January 2008.
14. (18 January 2008). "UK Asian Music Awards nominees announced – The Asian News". menmedia.co.uk.
15. Nazhat. (8 March 2008). "The UK Asian Music Awards 2008". desiblitz.com.
16. (31 October 2012). "Hard Kaur recalls struggle to get known in Britain". NDTV Movies/Indo-Asian News Service.
17. Iti Shree, Misra. (22 October 2012). "Hard Kaur makes the alcohol anthem of India with her song Peeney Do". [[The Times of India]].
18. Badola, Shreya. (November 21, 2013). "I missed Eminem yet again: Hard Kaur".
19. (August 7, 2019). "Hard Kaur Article 370 & 35 | 2020 Khalistan Referendum CHANGE 1984"".
20. (June 22, 2019). ""Hard Kaur ANGRY On Indian Government, Uses ABUSIVE Language On Camera"".
21. (May 21, 2020). "Angry Hard Kaur Getting Khalistan Tattoo on her Forearm And Raising Slogan Against Government.".
22. (July 21, 2019). "Hard Kaur Joins Punjab Independence Movement (Khalistan 2020)".
23. (August 13, 2019). "Latest hard kaur khalistan viral abuse india | sedition".
24. (August 14, 2019). "Full Video: Singer Hard Kaur Uses Bad Words For Narendra Modi and Amit Shah".
25. (November 29, 2019). "Hard Kaur Replies To RSS BJP IT Cell Troll Bhakt & Mohan Bhagat | Khalistan 2020".
26. (June 19, 2019). "UK based singer Hard Kaur booked for her remarks against Bhagwat, Yogi".
27. (2019-06-21). "The Hard Line".
28. (13 August 2019). "Hard Kaur Challenges Modi, Shah in Video With Khalistan Supporters".
29. "Hard Kaur posts video abusing PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Twitter suspends her account". India Today.
30. (13 August 2019). "PM मोदी, अमित शाह के लिए हार्ड कौर ने इस्तेमाल की भद्दी भाषा, ट्विटर ने सस्पेंड किया अकाउंट".
31. (November 29, 2019). "Kashmir To Khalistan (#StandWithFarmers) - Hard Kaur | Hindi Rap +18 | Banned In India".
32. (October 27, 2019). "Hard Kaur replies to Indians again - Kartarpur Khalistan 2020".
33. (July 21, 2019). "Hard Kaur replies to rape threats - ਹਾਰਡ ਕੌਰ ਮੋਡੀ ਨੂੰ ਜਵਾਬ ਦਿੰਦੀ ਹੈ - ਪੰਜਾਬ ਬਚਾਓ! #MeToo".

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