A six-year-old Bhangra dancer from Surrey noticed his desires come true — and have become a part of historical past — when he danced onstage with Punjabi famous person Diljit Dosanjh in entrance of a sold-out crowd at B.C. Place on Saturday.
Aanakh Bhullar was sitting on his father’s shoulders when Dosanjh pointed and referred to as him up on stage to bop with him for greater than 50,000 folks in the course of the Vancouver cease of the Dil-Luminati tour.
The star — the primary Punjabi performer ever to headline the venue — then hoisted the younger dancer up onstage himself and continued to sing his hit tune Vibe as Bhullar confirmed off his strikes.
Bhullar, who was dressed-up like Dosanjh for the live performance, stated it made him “blissful” to carry out along with his idol.
“I like his dancing strikes. And I really like him. He is one of the best singer,” stated Bhullar, who couldn’t decide his favorite tune by Dosanjh.
“I like all of them.”
The younger dancer has been taking Bhangra classes at Van Metropolis Bhangra for lower than a 12 months, however says he has already realized a whole lot of “cool strikes.”
Dosanjh hugged and kissed the boy on the cheek because the tune ended, and despatched him off stage with a parting reward Bhullar must develop into.
“After he danced he gave me the jacket and it was means too massive on me,” Bhullar stated.
“He gave it to me and it has a golden zipper. And it is a skeleton jacket.”
Barinder Bhullar, Aanakh’s father, says his son attended Dosanjh’s historic sold-out present at Rogers Place in June 2022 and has been manifesting this second for a very long time.
“After his bhangra courses, when he comes house, he pretended he was on stage with Diljit, [he] wished to decorate up like Diljit,” Bhullar stated on Sunday.
“It was outstanding, we have been shaking, crying, we had tears [and] textual content messages,” he stated of seeing his son on stage with Dosanjh.
Dosanjh is a part of a brand new technology of Punjabi stars inspiring younger kids like Aanakh within the Decrease Mainland and around the globe, based on 5X Fest govt director Harpo Mander.
“I believe there must be a bit little bit of an awakening to the worldwide influence that’s South Asian music, that by the way in which, virtually completely has its roots in Vancouver and Surrey,” she instructed CBC’s The Early Version final week.
Bhullar says Dosanjh’s influence is plain.
“Having somebody like Diljit bought out [and] for somebody like my son to embrace his tradition, his heritage, his language, is one thing so great and speaks to what Diljit has executed globally,” Bhullar stated.
