Punjabi Dharkan

What is Punjabi Dharkan?

Punjabi Dharkan is a half an hour TV feature promoting and serving the South Asian population of Canada.

 

The focus is on music in Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu (national languages of India and Pakistan, respectively). Each segment includes celebrity interviews, special guest appearences, songs from movies and pop songs, with a host presenting the material in a comical manner, which is very popular with the viewers.

 

There is a great market in Canada to be served in many different ways, and the show Punjabi Dharkan provides that service.

 

Punjabi Dharkan appears once weekly on Vision TV coast to coast in Canada, every Saturday afternoon at 6:30 pm E.S.T.

The Host

Gursharan Mann, the host of this show, is widely known in the South Asian community. He has been the host of many different radio and television shows since 1987. The character he plays on this show (Thuniaram) is extremely popular with the viewers. At many different times there have been articles in the South Asian newspapers referring to him as the most popular TV character in South Asian television.