The excellent performances of the lead actors including the ever- reliable Jimmy Sheirgill, the veteran Guggu Gill, the brilliant learner Mukul Dev (coming from a contrasting world of Hindi films), the spirited Kuljinder Singh Sidhu and the beautiful Mahie Gill superbly add to its overall impact on the viewer without any doubt. Focusing well on its specific theme of mutual rivalry, the film has a script that strictly follows its core issue right till the end and keeps hitting the target repeatedly resulting in some strong engaging moments at regular intervals. Explaining the meaning of its title first, though in Urdu the word means 'participating, sharing' or 'associating', in the film's Punjabi context the word SHAREEK refers to a competitor, rival or enemy to be exact (that might be even cousins). So honestly where the majority of audience (of Punjab) might enjoy SHAREEK taking it as a highly satisfying extension of their own similar outlook towards various issues, I would like to draw a completely different picture of the film with a noble intention of diverting your heated energies to an extremely positive and socially relevant point of view in the text ahead.

Putting it differently, this family rivalry and a bloody history of ugly events related with the same can easily be considered as an essential feature of life in (mostly rural) Punjab and that is the reason a major chunk of the Punjabi Songs (even in the present times) revolve around the theme of ego wins, guns, clashes, killings, court cases and similar things. There were a significant number of Punjabi films made around this particular subject in the past decades and it was supposed to be a 'must-have' sub-plot even in the projects dealing with some contrasting genres.

Taking you back in time before the 90s (or rather 80s), SHAREEK once again brings forward an ages old feature of PUNJAB and its conventional style of living, wherein the ownership over land and ego issues were (and still are) widely considered as equivalent to some kind of 'social status' much ahead of any level of education, values, affection, love or even blood-relationships.

New punjabi movie shareek