Jatt & Juliet 2 earned ₹25 crore. The industry stopped calling him a fluke. They started calling him “The People’s King.”
Jassi spent six months learning sword-fighting and lost 12 kilos. The film’s final shot—a lone turban lying on a blood-soaked field while a child’s voiceover recites the family tree of the martyrs—left the audience sobbing. Critics wrote, "Jassi Shergill is not a star. He is an actor."
On release night, the energy was manic. Fans set off firecrackers inside the theatre. The dialogue, "Ik vaar Jatt, do vaar Jatt, chaar vaar Jatt... saath vaari Jatt!" (Once a Jatt, twice a Jatt, four times a Jatt... seven times a Jatt!), became a war cry. 7hitmovies punjabi movies
The audience wept. Not from sadness, but from catharsis.
But Mitti da Putar captured the soul of Punjab. Jassi’s performance in the climax—where he holds a handful of dying, poisoned wheat while screaming, “Eh mitti meri maa hai!” (This soil is my mother)—broke hearts. The film collected ₹7 crore against a ₹1.5 crore budget. It was a superhit. For the first time, a "common man" had become a star. Jatt & Juliet 2 earned ₹25 crore
Jassi ignored them. The climax—where the heroine walks down the aisle only to find his empty wheelchair and a letter saying, "Milan agle janam te" (See you in the next life)—was devastating. Women walked out of cinemas red-eyed. Men sat in their cars for ten minutes before driving home.
Vapsi did not break box office records in terms of money. But it won the National Film Award for Best Punjabi Film. And the morning after the awards, Jassi Shergill held a press conference. The film’s final shot—a lone turban lying on
To prove he wasn’t pretentious, Jassi went full commercial. A heist-comedy about four friends trying to steal a golden pagri (turban) from a museum in London. It was silly, loud, and packed with one-liners.