The Bridge - Sammy Chand

About The Bridge - Sammy Chand

Meet Sammy Chand, Your Host on The Bridge— Welcome to The Bridge, the only daily show covering the diaspora of the Indian subcontinent, airing nationally across North America on Rukus Avenue Radio/iHeart Radio. I'm your host, Sammy Chand, and I'm thrilled to share my passion for South Asian music and culture with you. A Pioneer in the Industry— With almost three decades of experience, I've been at the forefront of the South Asian cultural movement in North America. As the Founder and CEO of Rukus Avenue, I've built a company that's committed to telling the story of the South Asian experience through music, podcasts, and radio. A Legacy of Excellence— My work has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and I've had the privilege of collaborating with some of the biggest names in the industry. From producing music for over 75 film and television shows to hosting TV shows for Viacom, I've made it my mission to promote South Asian talent and culture. The Bridge: Your Connection to South Asian Music and Culture— On The Bridge, I'll be sharing my expertise and passion for South Asian music, as well as interviewing some of the biggest names in the industry. From Bollywood and Hindi pop to Punjabi and Haryanvi music, we'll be exploring the diverse sounds and styles of the Indian subcontinent. Join the Conversation— Tune in to The Bridge every day to stay connected to the latest developments in South Asian music and culture. Join the conversation on social media, and get ready to experience the best of South Asian entertainment. I'm excited to share this journey with you, and I look forward to connecting with you on The Bridge! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-bridge-by-sammy-chand--6650619/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-bridge-by-sammy-chand--6650619/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

Sammy Chand

Category

music · music · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Apr 2025

Latest episode

29 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

407 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2026

   October 29, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Arshdeep Maan"

   The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 652 ON TODAY'S SHOW Arshdeep Maan, the singer behind Saun Lagge's climb up the countdown, joins Sammy from Barnala district in Punjab. Two years ago he was singing to his friends in the fields — no lessons, no training, a young man who would rather write than sing — until those friends made him do it for real; one of them became his director, and the first words he ever said into a microphone became the title of his album, Hazaare Ujde Baithe Ne, which he calls almost his own story: a boy in a village whose family won't let him sing or play and just wants him to settle down — that, he says, is how talent dies, and his ask is small: give a kid a year or two. College Di Canteen, the boy drinking tea in the field dreaming of a college canteen until his father calls him back to work. His advice to the next kid in the next village: practice, his own first hundred or two hundred songs went to waste; and if you love someone and can't say it, play them Saun Lagge. Sammy's Punjabi gets an apology on the way out. Nurse Laggi from the album goes into the conversation and Saun Lagge comes out of it, then Doyeeta Das Gupta's Artist Spotlight on Arjan Dhillon sets up his brand-new Said &amp; Done, Priya Ragu's Finally follows, and Saun Lagge plays the show out after the closing remarks. The hour opens with Niyam's Tum Se Tum Tak, Tesher's Possession for Halloween season and Amrinder Gill and Jasmeen Akhtar's Coffee into Dr. Roy's Word On The Avenue; Jass Manak's Kante into Aashi Arora's preview of Monday's Leaders Creating Ruckus; Aditya Rikhari's Jaan-E-Jaan, Jasmine Sandlas's Pyaar — with a first mention of the ten year-end awards — Karan Aujla's Ashke from Aujla Season 1 and Farak's Taare. Sammy opens with his thanks to Habiba Nosheen, Kalki Koechlin and Malvika for the week and points ahead to next week's guests, Rup Magon and Amrita Sen. Tomorrow: the Weekly Top 20 Countdown. FEATURED MUSIC Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam Possession — Tesher Coffee — Amrinder Gill, Jasmeen Akhtar Kante — Jass Manak Jaan-E-Jaan — Aditya Rikhari Pyaar — Jasmine Sandlas, Shekhar Chaudhary Ashke — Karan Aujla, Merci Beats Taare — Farak, 10A, Saswat Balan Nurse Laggi — Arshdeep Maan Saun Lagge — Arshdeep Maan Said &amp; Done — Arjan Dhillon Finally — Priya Ragu FEATURED GUESTS &amp; CONTRIBUTORS Arshdeep Maan — Interview Dr. Roy — Word On The Avenue Aashi Arora — Show Preview (Leaders Creating Ruckus) Doyeeta Das Gupta — Artist Spotlight (Arjan Dhillon) RUNDOWN 0:00 Sammy Opening (station IDs from Amaal Mallik, Rashmeet Kaur and Satinder Sartaaj at 0:15–0:36) 2:32 Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam 4:52 Sammy 5:07 Possession — Tesher 8:44 Sammy 9:00 Coffee — Amrinder Gill, Jasmeen Akhtar 11:29 Sammy 11:53 Dr. Roy with the Word On The Avenue 13:15 Sammy 13:16 Kante — Jass Manak 15:37 Sammy 16:02 Aashi Arora with a preview of her show 16:18 Sammy 16:21 Jaan-E-Jaan — Aditya Rikhari 18:36 Sammy 18:47 Pyaar — Jasmine Sandlas, Shekhar Chaudhary 21:22 Sammy 21:41 Ashke — Karan Aujla, Merci Beats 24:24 Sammy 24:41 Taare — Farak, 10A, Saswat Balan 27:00 Sammy 27:16 Nurse Laggi — Arshdeep Maan 31:23 Sammy talks to Arshdeep Maan 45:29 Saun Lagge — Arshdeep Maan 48:23 Sammy 49:03 Doyeeta Das Gupta with the Artist Spotlight 49:53 Sammy 49:56 Said &amp; Done — Arjan Dhillon 52:50 Sammy 53:09 Finally — Priya Ragu 55:43 Sammy delivers the Closing Remarks 57:25 Saun Lagge — Arshdeep Maan (second play, under the end of the remarks; plays out; show ends at about 1:00:43) Become a supporter of this podcast: <a...

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   28 Oct 2026

   October 28, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Malvika"

   The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 651 ON TODAY'S SHOW Malvika — the LA singer from Fullerton who took her work to India and is thriving there — calls in from Mumbai for the back half of the hour: how the work connects from Mumbai rather than LA, and the album she is about to drop, December Baby, out December 10. Her Quirky takes the show out of the conversation. The hour opens with Niyam's Tum Se Tum Tak and Talwiinder's Mangda Wapis Kyun on the eve of Painted Feelings — the album drops tomorrow — then Jasmine Sandlas's Pyaar into Dr. Roy's Word On The Avenue, which closes on the Pirelli Calendar's tribute to Raghu Rai, carried forward by his daughter Avani. Aditya Rikhari's Jaan-E-Jaan from Between Distances, Harsh Nussi's Gall Manlaa, Priya Ragu's Madras and Aanchal Tyagi's HISAAB fill the middle, and tomorrow's guest Arshdeep Maan gets a preview with Saun Lagge going into the interview. Doyeeta Das Gupta's Artist Spotlight on Tesher — Saskatchewan's own — sets up Possession in Halloween week, with Sammy's closing remarks on Malvika ahead of it and Jass Manak's Kante closing the show. Sammy opens with his thanks to Kalki Koechlin for Tuesday. Tomorrow: Arshdeep Maan. FEATURED MUSIC Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam Mangda Wapis Kyun — Talwiinder, Kidjaywest, NDS Pyaar — Jasmine Sandlas, Shekhar Chaudhary Jaan-E-Jaan — Aditya Rikhari Gall Manlaa — Harsh Nussi Madras — Priya Ragu HISAAB — Aanchal Tyagi, Abhijeet Srivastava Saun Lagge — Arshdeep Maan Quirky — Malvika Possession — Tesher Kante — Jass Manak FEATURED GUESTS &amp; CONTRIBUTORS Malvika — Interview Dr. Roy — Word On The Avenue Doyeeta Das Gupta — Artist Spotlight (Tesher) RUNDOWN 0:00 Sammy Opening (station IDs from Rashmeet Kaur, Vir Das and Steel Banglez at 0:16–0:33) 2:30 Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam 4:48 Sammy 5:04 Mangda Wapis Kyun — Talwiinder, Kidjaywest, NDS 7:59 Sammy 8:19 Pyaar — Jasmine Sandlas, Shekhar Chaudhary 10:56 Sammy 11:12 Dr. Roy with the Word On The Avenue 13:04 Sammy 13:12 Jaan-E-Jaan — Aditya Rikhari 15:27 Sammy 15:39 Gall Manlaa — Harsh Nussi 17:50 Sammy 18:02 Madras — Priya Ragu 20:24 Sammy 20:38 HISAAB — Aanchal Tyagi, Abhijeet Srivastava 22:52 Sammy 23:00 Saun Lagge — Arshdeep Maan 25:53 Sammy talks to Malvika 48:30 Quirky — Malvika 51:42 Sammy 52:11 Doyeeta Das Gupta with the Artist Spotlight 53:15 Sammy 53:30 Possession — Tesher 57:08 Sammy delivers the Closing Remarks 57:26 Kante — Jass Manak (plays out; show ends at about 1:00:03) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-bridge-by-sammy-chand--6650619/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-bridge-by-sammy-chand--6650619/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Sammy Chand's daily radio show on Rukus Avenue Radio is the leading Indian music and culture show in the world. The one hour show airs daily worldwide. "South Asian music podcast," "Punjabi music show," "Bollywood commentary," "Indian diaspora radio", "Indian Music", "Top Indian Radio Show", "Punjabi Radio Show", "Indian Radio Host", "Punjabi Radio Host".

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   27 Oct 2026

   October 27, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Kalki Koechlin about Her Song"

   The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 650 ON TODAY'S SHOW Kalki Koechlin joins Sammy for the back half of the hour on Her Song, her first real comedy — an American film that flips thirty years of Indian cinema sending Indians abroad: an Indian star goes west to play a westerner going home. She is Olivia, a New York novelist who goes back to her grandmother's village in France and gets stuck there when the pandemic hits, the way her grandmother got stuck when the Nazis came — in World War II they ran out of writing paper, in the pandemic we ran out of toilet paper — and the director asked the French girl from Pondicherry to put an American accent on her French. Ten years since she and Sammy last crossed paths at the Indian Film Festival of LA; since then a child, and a book about it, The Elephant in the Womb, on the parts of pregnancy and postpartum nobody talks about. She wants to remake Piku in French, is still waiting for someone to offer her a kick-ass action movie, and is next up in Unearth on Amazon, a supernatural story told from a woman's point of view. Asked what she would tell the little girl in Pondicherry who kept hearing "but where are you really from," she said she felt like crying, then: a big hug, and be proud of your differences. The hour opens with Jass Manak's Kante and Niyam's Tum Se Tum Tak, then Hania Amir's Pablo into Dr. Roy's Word On The Avenue, Amaal Mallik and Arijit Singh's Yeh Awarapan into Neesh Riaz's preview of tonight's Garage Mahal, Maan Panu's I Met Her Again, Talwiinder's Mangda Wapis Kyun two days ahead of Painted Feelings, and MC Square's Long Way From Home into the conversation. Zeeshan Ali's Bandhe Zulfon Pe takes the show out of it; Doyeeta Das Gupta's Artist Spotlight on Vishal Mishra — rejected by nearly every audition before Indian Idol season 6 took him — sets up Toxic, his title track with Hanita Bhambri, then Jxggi's Knock Knock, Sammy's closing remarks on Kalki, and Jalwa E Jaanaan from Maati Season 2 to close. Tomorrow: Malvika [confirm name]. Thursday: Arshdeep Maan. FEATURED MUSIC Kante — Jass Manak Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam Pablo — Hania Amir Yeh Awarapan — Arijit Singh, Amaal Mallik I Met Her Again — Maan Panu, Tav Mangda Wapis Kyun — Talwiinder, Kidjaywest, NDS Long Way From Home — MC Square, Radhika Bhide, Wicked Sunny Bandhe Zulfon Pe — Zeeshan Ali, Dr. ANK Toxic — Vishal Mishra, Hanita Bhambri Knock Knock — Jxggi Jalwa E Jaanaan — Jyoti Nooran, Anurag Saikia (Maati S2) FEATURED GUESTS &amp; CONTRIBUTORS Kalki Koechlin — Interview Dr. Roy — Word On The Avenue Neesh Riaz — Show Preview (Garage Mahal) Doyeeta Das Gupta — Artist Spotlight (Vishal Mishra) RUNDOWN 0:00 Sammy Opening (station IDs from Yung Sammy, Amaal Mallik and Burrah at 0:15–0:34) 2:30 Kante — Jass Manak 4:50 Sammy 5:05 Tum Se Tum Tak — Niyam 7:26 Sammy 7:41 Pablo — Hania Amir 9:33 Sammy 10:19 Dr. Roy with the Word On The Avenue 12:01 Sammy 12:12 Yeh Awarapan — Arijit Singh, Amaal Mallik 16:52 Sammy 17:40 Neesh Riaz with a preview of his show 18:10 Sammy 18:14 I Met Her Again — Maan Panu, Tav 21:36 Sammy 21:50 Mangda Wapis Kyun — Talwiinder, Kidjaywest, NDS 24:47 Sammy 25:08 Long Way From Home — MC Square, Radhika Bhide, Wicked Sunny 29:06 Sammy talks to Kalki Koechlin 45:36 Bandhe Zulfon Pe — Zeeshan Ali, Dr. ANK 49:28 Sammy 49:58 Doyeeta Das Gupta with the Artist Spotlight 50:25 Sammy 50:26 Toxic — Vishal Mishra, Hanita Bhambri 52:57 Sammy 53:16 Knock Knock — Jxggi 55:16 Sammy delivers the Closing Remarks 57:14 Jalwa E Jaanaan — Jyoti Nooran, Anurag Saikia (plays out; show ends at about 1:01:27) Become a supporter of this podcast: <a...

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