Bollywood films and songs have always celebrated every festival and portrayed different cultures from its lens to the viewers. But very rare movies in the industry have gotten to serve fans with the essence of the harvest season, depicting the celebration of Lohri. Lohri is a Punjabi harvest festival that marks the end of winter solstice and the start of a new harvesting season. It’s celebrated on January 13 each year with bonfires, prayers, dancing, and traditional folk music. Now as the date marks the first festival of the year 2025, let us take you to a whirlwind of bollywood movies and songs that have beautifully pushed out the essence of Lohri in them. From Veer Zara to Yamla Pagla Deewana, here are a handful of pictures that can be watched during Lohri or the songs of which can surely cheer you up to get grooving on the day.
Bollywood Movies Associated With Lohri 2025
Veer Zara
No other song in the Bollywood can portray the Lohri song better than how Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta did in Veer Zara. The song ‘Lo Aa Gayi Lohri Ve’ from the 2004 starrer film has purely poured out the essence of this harvest celebration. Set in the backdrop of a punjabi village, termed as ‘pind’, the song is completely high on energy where you get to see the Pakistani Veer get grooving on the Punjabi beats with Veer, a guy from India.
Yamla Pagla Deewana
Next is Yamla Pagla Deewana, the OG Lohri celebrators – Deol brothers who tend to steal the dance performance with their steps in the song ‘Chadha De Rang’. This song is another example of Lohri association in Bollywood films that explains the bonfire ritual. Bobby Deol starts the song with speaking to his love angle, while dancing alongside the bonfire in the middle of a Lohri evening celebration.
Maachis
This film’s song Chappa Chappa, is one from one of the most famous films Maachis, that shows a true portrayal of terrorism and youth in Punjab after the 1984 riots. The film has one song that brings in the beauty of the Lohri celebration. The song is set in the backdrop of Punjab militancy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It portrays the softer side of militants, yearning for their loved ones in the snow-capped Himalayas while they sit around a bornfire.
Good Newzz
Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar starrer film Good Newzz, is about starting a happy life after marriage. The film features a song Laal Ghagra which is completely about the Lohri celebration. The song begins to celebrate the new born baby’s first lohri, where the parents are seen travelling all the way from Delhi to Mumbai for the same.
Other Films You Can Watch For Lohri 2025
While these three are the top most favorite of the viewers to be watched on the occasion of Lohri festival, there are more films that reflect the cultural backdrop of the film, by including a song or a dance number on the festival. More bollywood movies that depict the song’s essence are Tanu Weds Manu, Son Of Sardar, and also said to be showing one of the scenes of Lohri is Rang De Basanti.
Other Lohri-themed songs include: “Balle Balle” from Mel Karade Rabba, Tu Kamaal Di from Ajay Devgn and Sonakshi Sinha’s Son Of Sardar and many more.
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