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Pictured in this screen capture of "Equality Street," this Sikh gentleman has appeared in many films and television shows. (Source: Buzzfeed)

Is this the world’s most famous Sikh extra?

October 1, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Based in the United Kingdom, the website Look! A Singh! — which identifies turban-wearing Sikh men in popular media — asks if the man pictured above is the “world’s most famous Sikh extra?” You may not know who he is but chances are he’s been on your TV. This individual has appeared in the backgrounds of scenes in at least a dozen television and film productions. Read more at Buzzfeed. (Thanks to Manpreet Singh for the tip.)

Categories: Profiles, TV/Movies • Tags: Buzzfeed, Look! A Singh!, movie extra

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Actor Sir Ben Kingsley on the set of the forthcoming film "Learning to Drive" in Brooklyn, New York. (Source: The Daily Mail)

Ben Kingsley dons turban, beard, in role of Sikh for forthcoming film

September 4, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Celebrated actor Sir Ben Kingsley takes on the role of a Sikh driving instructor in New York named Darwan in the forthcoming film Learning to Drive: …Wendy has to get a license. When she was married, her husband always drove the car if they went anywhere. Forcing herself to come out of hiding, she signs up for driving lessons. Her instructor (Darwan) is a Sikh, a political refugee from India. He tries to be patient with his student, who is […]

Categories: Picture of the Day, TV/Movies • Tags: Ben Kingsley, Learning to Drive, Sikh-face

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Photo from Kush. (Source: Kush website.)

Kush, film about 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, wins award at Venice film festival

September 3, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Recently featured at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, the film Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani– set during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in New Delhi, India — has been awarded the festival’s “Best Innovative Budget” award: “Kush” was made on a shoestring budget thanks to private contributions including by the Film Director and other individuals who sacrificed their fees and charges to make the film possible. The Director, a student of the School of Visual Arts in New York was also […]

Categories: 1984, Art, TV/Movies • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Indira Gandhi, Kush, School of Visual Arts, Shubhashish Bhutiani, Venice International Film Festival

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Scene from Kush, a short film by Shubhashish Bhutiani. (Source: Kush website)

Kush, film about 1984 anti-Sikh riots, to be screened at Venice film festival

August 22, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Based on a true story, Kush is a short film set in Delhi in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in October, 1984, when organized mobs engaged in an anti-Sikh pogrom in India’s capital city and beyond. Thousands of innocent Sikhs were killed, burned alive, beaten, raped and tortured to avenge the Prime Minister’s death. To this day, few — including government officials implicated in the massacre — have ever been held to account by India’s […]

Categories: 1984, Art, TV/Movies • Tags: 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Indira Gandhi, Kush, Shubhashish Bhutiani, Venice International Film Festival

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Christina Antonakos-Wallace, of with WINGS and ROOTS.

An interview with Christina Antonakos-Wallace, filmmaker of with WINGS and ROOTS

June 25, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Two weeks ago, I introduced the film project with WINGS and ROOTS by filmmaker Christina Antonakos-Wallace. with WINGS and ROOTS is a 90-minute documentary that tells the stories of five people from different immigrant communities living in New York or Berlin, Germany, who have struggled to shape their identity in various ways. The film features The Langar Hall’s own Sonny Singh, a Sikh living in New York. Part of his story was featured in the well-received short documentary Article of […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Profiles, TV/Movies • Tags: Article of Faith, Berlin, Christina Antonakos-Wallace, Germany, immigrants, Immigration, New York, Sonny Singh Brooklynwala, Where are you from from?, with WINGS and ROOTS

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Sonny Singh at a rally in New York. (Source: with WINGS and ROOTS)

with WINGS and ROOTS seeks public support

June 11, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

with WINGS and ROOTS is a documentary currently in production by filmmaker Christina Antonakos-Wallace in which she is presenting the stories of five people, living either in Berlin or New York, who come from recent immigrant communities.  The film highlights the individual and collective struggles of immigrants in their societies. Among the individuals featured in the film is Sonny Singh, a Sikh living in New York. Part of his story became the topic of the 2011 short film Article of […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, TV/Movies • Tags: Article of Faith, Berlin, Christina Antonakos-Wallace, Germany, New York, Sonny Singh, Where are you from from?, with WINGS and ROOTS

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Aasif Mandvi is an Indian-American actor-comedian who co-stars in The Internship, where, yes, he has an Indian accent. (Photo credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Snake-charming into Hollywood

June 7, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Actor/comedian Aasif Mandvi, an Indian American (though not a Sikh), talks about the stereotypical roles he was forced to accede in order to make his way in Hollywood: I got a callback, and my agent called to ask if I owned a turban. I said — a little defensively, I admit — that if I owned a turban, I would probably have worn it; it’s not something you leave home without. She laughed, saying, “Yeah, that makes sense — but […]

Categories: Profiles, TV/Movies • Tags: Aasif Mandvi, Hollywood, stereotypes

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A watercolor painting of the Star Trek character Khan Noonien Singh that appeared in the original series episode "Space Seed" in 1967. (source: Wikia Expert Showcase)

Has Star Trek’s Khan Noonien Singh been “whitewashed”?

May 16, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

When I was a child, the mere singular mention of the word “Sikh” on a television show only strengthened my bond with a science fiction franchise that I maintained through its incarnations in film and television for decades. In 1967, the science fiction television show Star Trek introduced a new character named Khan Noonien Singh, who, according to Wikipedia, is “a genetically engineered superhuman from India who once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars […]

Categories: TV/Movies • Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gene Roddenberry, J J Abrams, Khan Noonien Singh, Marissa Sammy, RaceBending.com, Ricardo Montalban, Star Trek, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: Into the Darkness

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New York fashion designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia in "Waris Ahluwalia's Long Road." (source: YouTube)

Your weekend Waris

May 10, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

A bit of New York designer/actor Waris Ahluwalia for your weekend. Go explore. (See previous posts about Waris Ahluwalia here.)

Categories: Profiles, TV/Movies • Tags: ASMALLWORLD, House of Waris, Waris Ahluwalia

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