Background
Born to a Sikh business family, Japinder is the only daughter of Narinder Pal Singh (father) and Manjeet Kaur (mother).
Born to a Sikh business family, Japinder is the only daughter of Narinder Pal Singh (father) and Manjeet Kaur (mother).
Japinder was born in Dubai, and did her schooling from The Indian High School, Dubai with majors in Science with Computer Science. She graduated from Manipal University, Dubai with a specialization in Television Production. She continued her post graduation in Whistling Woods International Institute, Mumbai, and studied Film Direction there.
She has one sibling, Tarnpreet Singh (brother). While in college in Dubai, Japinder worked as a news reporter and producer for noted English television channel City 7 television She then directed a few short films that did rounds at the film festivals in India. Having assisted veteran directors such as Prakash Jha, Shashant Shah, Koushik Sarkar (Ad Filmmaker), she moved on to direct her first Bollywood feature film, Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend in 2013.