Saturday, May 06, 2006

Today at the Silat Road Gurudawara I watched the screening of Kambdi Kalai .

I must say it was a very well made movie and is a first of its kind. A lot of Sikh movies have been made with a religious background, not thing wrong with that. However, we needed one about our culture - The Sikh culture.

Kambdi Kalai- a tribute to Bhai Veer Singh ji did very well in addressing the kind of problems the youth of today face. Issues about our roop, issues relating with our identity as Sikhs and citizens of a country,sardar jokes,12 O clock jokes, the events of 1984.

In addition, the movie took a very clear stand that a Sikh must have his roop, this stand was very well explained as well. Also they showed how people from different communities showed interest and studied Sikhism in depth. As a result of that they valued and appreciated the teachings of our Gurus more than some of our own people.

To read more about the movie click here.

Those of you who were unable to come/ or did not know about the movie screening, you have another chance to catch the movie

The movie is being screened again at Silat Road Gurudawara in Singapore at 3pm on Saturday 13th of May.

In Singapore, tThe DVD's of the movie will be available tomorrow at Katong Gurudawara and at the Sikh Centre at Silat Road( 0065 - 63272004). The DVD is priced at SGD 15 so please get a copy.

Ish Amtoj Kaur ji, the director will also be visiting Malaysia and maybe Indonesia in the next 1 or 2 weeks so there should be some screenings in Malaysia and Indonesia as well.

Please check with your local gurudawaras , once I get the details I will post them up as well. For those of you who reside in the USA you can buy a DVD here.

In the near future these DVD's will be available in other countries as well.

If any of you have watched the movie please do share your thoughts as well.

Guru Fateh!

Angad Singh

by Angad Singh @ 6:55 PM PermLink comments: 2

By  SikhSpeak, at Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:13:00 PM:

Just out of interest bhaji, do you thinks Sikhs have a culture so to speak? I often debate this one and am thinking of writing an article on Sikhism vs Punjabi Culture. I think in this movie aspects of Sikhism are shown NOT culture? jus interested... Love the musical framework articles!

 

By  durga, at Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:27:00 AM:

This movie has become one of my most favorites. I am so glad that finally we have a movie that shows Sikh aspects not culture. Sikhi is not a culture; it is a way of life; life in discipline. Sikhi is about being free of all the materialist expectations...
The movie is also a great tribute to Bhai Veer Singh Ji!