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'''''Kaur''''' (2022), is a British [[short film]] co-written and produced by psychiatrist, actor, writer and producer Parvinder |
'''''Kaur''''' (2022), is a British [[short film]] co-written and produced by psychiatrist, actor, writer and producer Parvinder Shergill and presenter, producer and director Juggy Sohal. It depicts a young [[Sikhism in the United Kingdom|British Sikh]] woman who decides to wear a turban against the advice of her father. Her father had been traumatised by his own experience of being a turban-wearing Sikh immigrant in Britain, when in the 1980s he found his own [[Kesh (Sikhism)|hair]] had been cut off after an assault after leaving the bus from school. |
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The film features |
The film features Shergill as the young woman, [[Nina Wadia]] as her mother, and [[Stephen Uppal]] as her father. ''Kaur'' was first released in 2022 and toured [[Gurdwara|Gurudwaras]], festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK. Before appearing on [[Netflix]] in May 2024, it was broadcast on [[ITVX]] and [[BritBox]]. Generally seen as a success at the festivals, it was later announced that the film would form the basis of a Hollywood [[feature film]]. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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''Kaur'' is centred around Avani, a young British Sikh woman who tells her mother of the difficult decision she has made to commit to the baptism ceremony of [[Amrit Sanskar]], and wear a [[dastar|turban]] for the first time, against her father's wishes. The film begins with Avani on the steps of a [[List of gurdwaras in the United Kingdom|Gurudwara in England]], and a [[voice-over]] of quotes from [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Albert Einstein]], and [[Guru Nanak]]. The subsequent three main scenes focus on the conversations she has individually with each parent and then finally the ceremony. Interspersed are snippets of typical Gurudwara life in the UK, including [[Langar (Sikhism)|langar preparation]] and community gatherings. |
''Kaur'' is centred around Avani, a young British Sikh woman who tells her mother of the difficult decision she has made to commit to the baptism ceremony of [[Amrit Sanskar]], and wear a [[dastar|turban]] for the first time, against her father's wishes. The film begins with Avani on the steps of a [[List of gurdwaras in the United Kingdom|Gurudwara in England]], and a [[voice-over]] of quotes from [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Albert Einstein]], and [[Guru Nanak]]. The subsequent three main scenes focus on the conversations she has individually with each parent and then finally on the ceremony. Interspersed are snippets of typical Gurudwara life in the UK, including [[Langar (Sikhism)|langar preparation]] and community gatherings. |
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Avani's mother praises Avani's choice of clothing colour, tells her how "brave" she is and that her grandmother would have been proud. After seeing Avani's [[Kara (Sikhism)|steel bangle]], her mother presents her with the smaller one that Avani's father gave her when she was a young girl. Avani is surprised to hear that her maternal grandmother might have disproved, and that her father is present outside the building. She runs to find him and confronts him with questions on why he does not approve of her personal choice of wanting to wear a turban. He is clear that he will not support her in a choice that led to him to be tormented when he was a child. It was 1984, when he was an immigrant school child coming off a bus. |
Avani's mother praises Avani's choice of clothing colour, tells her how "brave" she is and that her grandmother would have been proud. After seeing Avani's [[Kara (Sikhism)|steel bangle]], her mother presents her with the smaller one that Avani's father gave her when she was a young girl. Avani is surprised to hear that her maternal grandmother might have disproved, and that her father is present outside the building. She runs to find him and confronts him with questions on why he does not approve of her personal choice of wanting to wear a turban. He is clear that he will not support her in a choice that led to him to be tormented when he was a child. It was 1984, when he was an immigrant school child coming off a bus. He explains that after feeling a blow to his head, he found his own [[Kesh (Sikhism)|hair]] had been cut off. He didn't want his child to go through what he did. |
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==Production== |
==Production and release== |
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According to psychiatrist, actor, writer and producer Parvinder Shergill, after ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'', she could not find another mainstream English film led by a woman that looked like her so she made her own and titled it ''Kaur''.<ref name="Stolworthy2023" /><ref name=BBC2023/><ref>{{cite web |title=South Asian History Month: An interview with actress, filmmaker and psychiatrist Dr Parvinder Shergill |url=https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/blogs/detail/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-blog/2020/07/08/south-asian-history-month-an-interview-with-actress-filmmaker-and-psychiatrist-dr-parvinder-shergill |website=www.rcpsych.ac.uk |access-date=1 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref> She co-wrote and co-produced it with presenter Juggy Sohal.<ref name="BBC21April2024"/> It was directed by Kaki Wong.<ref name="Verma">{{cite web |last1=Verma |first1=Swati |title=Kaur Review |url=https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/reviews/kaur |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603045813/https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/reviews/kaur |archive-date=3 June 2024 |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=UK Film Review |department=Film Reviews}}</ref> More than 70 South Asian women contributed, including [[Harpreet Kaur]].<ref name=BBC2023>{{cite news |date=24 February 2023 |title=Midlands producer wants more mainstream films about Sikh women |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-64759231 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527062106/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-64759231 |archive-date=27 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref> |
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⚫ | The film is set in a [[Gurdwara]] in [[Bedford]].<ref name="Chaudry2022">{{cite web |last1=Chaudry |first1=Farzana |date=9 May 2022 |title=BBC Three Counties Radio - Farzana Chaudry, Filming at Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Bedford and advocating for body positivity, The short film, Kaur, is filming at the Bedford Guru Nanak Gurdwara |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c5r1xb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603050522/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c5r1xb |archive-date=3 June 2024 |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=BBC}}</ref> The complete film lasts 13 minutes and 27 seconds.<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web |title=Kaur |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/kaur-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdixmdmz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607062814/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/kaur-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdixmdmz |archive-date=7 June 2024 |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=www.bbfc.co.uk |publisher=BBFC Board |language=en}}</ref> ''Kaur'' was first released in 2022 and toured Gurudwaras, festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK.<ref name="Stolworthy2023">{{cite news |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |date=17 July 2023 |title=Kaur: The short film exploring a Sikh girl's decision to wear a turban for the first time |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/kaur-sikh-film-watch-itv-b2376617.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526182526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/kaur-sikh-film-watch-itv-b2376617.html |archive-date=26 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |work=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, it was then broadcast on [[ITVX]] and [[BritBox]].<ref name="Stolworthy2023" /> It appeared on [[Netflix]] in May 2024.<ref name="BBC21April2024">{{cite news |date=21 April 2024 |title=Filmmaker of Netflix's Kaur aims to bring diversity to 'mainstream' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyj3mrd321do |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527062642/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyj3mrd321do |archive-date=27 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="BBC2024">{{cite news |date=24 April 2024 |title=Sikh short movie Kaur to get Hollywood remake |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68882075 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527061955/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-68882075 |archive-date=27 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref> |
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==Release== |
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⚫ | ''Kaur'' was first released in 2022 and toured Gurudwaras, festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK.<ref name=Stolworthy2023>{{cite news |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |date=17 July 2023 |title=Kaur: The short film exploring a Sikh |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
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*[[Parvinder |
*[[Parvinder Shergill]] as Avani<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
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*[[Nina Wadia]] as Avani's mother<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
*[[Nina Wadia]] as Avani's mother<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
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*[[Stephen Uppal]] as Avani's father<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
*[[Stephen Uppal]] as Avani's father<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
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==Reception and adaptation== |
==Reception and adaptation== |
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In 2022 ''Kaur'' received a |
In 2022 ''Kaur'' received a jury mention for Best Short Film and Best Director Short at the [[Global Indian Film Festival]].<ref name="GIFF2022">{{cite web |date=26 November 2022 |title=Winner List 2022 |url=https://giff.co.in/winner-2021/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603050809/https://giff.co.in/winner-2021/ |archive-date=3 June 2024 |access-date=28 May 2024 |website=Global Indian Film Festival}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''{{'}}s Jacob Stolworthy reported that the film was a success at festivals and has been seen as a "shining a light on Sikh families in the UK".<ref name=Stolworthy2023/> He wrote that the film "has been praised for the thought-provoking way it explores the challenges faced by British South Asian women in the UK, but also for its examination of the reason why Avani’s father, a Sikh Punjabi immigrant, responds to her decision in the way he does."<ref name="BBC2023" /><ref name=Stolworthy2023/> |
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''[[Asia Samachar]]'' reported that Shergill's intent was to reach out to a wider audience on stories about Asian women.<ref name=AsiaSam>{{cite web |date=17 December 2022 |title=Short film 'Kaur' aims to project stories told by British Asian woman |url=https://asiasamachar.com/2022/12/17/short-film-kaur-aims-to-project-stories-told-by-british-asian-woman/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527063309/https://asiasamachar.com/2022/12/17/short-film-kaur-aims-to-project-stories-told-by-british-asian-woman/ |archive-date=27 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |website=Asia Samachar}}</ref><ref name=Hussain2023>{{cite news |last1=Hussain |first1=Rangzeb |date=26 February 2023 |title=Short film highlights backlash against British Sikh women who choose to wear a turban |url=https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2023/02/26/short-film-highlights-backlash-british-sikh-women-choose-wear-turban/#:~:text=The%20visionary%20writers%20and%20producers,choose%20to%20wear%20a%20turban. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601201755/https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2023/02/26/short-film-highlights-backlash-british-sikh-women-choose-wear-turban/ |archive-date=1 June 2024 |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=I Am Birmingham}}</ref> News of ''Kaur'' and interviews with the cast appeared in several articles in the [[BBC News]], who reported that the film told the story of a conflict between a Sikh woman and her father, who disclosed to her his own experience as an immigrant Sikh child in 1980s Britain.<ref name="BBC2023" /><ref name=BBC21April2024/><ref name=BBC2024/> In 2024 the ''BBC'' and the ''[[Eastern Eye]]'' reported that the film would be the basis of a Hollywood [[feature film]].<ref name=BBC2024/><ref name=Singh2024>{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Mohnish |title=Sikh short film 'Kaur' set for a Hollywood remake - EasternEye |url=https://www.easterneye.biz/sikh-short-film-kaur-hollywood-remake/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527063618/https://www.easterneye.biz/sikh-short-film-kaur-hollywood-remake/ |archive-date=27 May 2024 |access-date=26 May 2024 |website=www.easterneye.biz|date=24 April 2024 }}</ref> |
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Kaur (2022), is a British short film co-written and produced by psychiatrist, actor, writer and producer Parvinder Shergill and presenter, producer and director Juggy Sohal. It depicts a young British Sikh woman who decides to wear a turban against the advice of her father. Her father had been traumatised by his own experience of being a turban-wearing Sikh immigrant in Britain, when in the 1980s he found his own hair had been cut off after an assault after leaving the bus from school.
The film features Shergill as the young woman, Nina Wadia as her mother, and Stephen Uppal as her father. Kaur was first released in 2022 and toured Gurudwaras, festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK. Before appearing on Netflix in May 2024, it was broadcast on ITVX and BritBox. Generally seen as a success at the festivals, it was later announced that the film would form the basis of a Hollywood feature film.
Plot
Kaur is centred around Avani, a young British Sikh woman who tells her mother of the difficult decision she has made to commit to the baptism ceremony of Amrit Sanskar, and wear a turban for the first time, against her father's wishes. The film begins with Avani on the steps of a Gurudwara in England, and a voice-over of quotes from Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and Guru Nanak. The subsequent three main scenes focus on the conversations she has individually with each parent and then finally on the ceremony. Interspersed are snippets of typical Gurudwara life in the UK, including langar preparation and community gatherings.
Avani's mother praises Avani's choice of clothing colour, tells her how "brave" she is and that her grandmother would have been proud. After seeing Avani's steel bangle, her mother presents her with the smaller one that Avani's father gave her when she was a young girl. Avani is surprised to hear that her maternal grandmother might have disproved, and that her father is present outside the building. She runs to find him and confronts him with questions on why he does not approve of her personal choice of wanting to wear a turban. He is clear that he will not support her in a choice that led to him to be tormented when he was a child. It was 1984, when he was an immigrant school child coming off a bus. He explains that after feeling a blow to his head, he found his own hair had been cut off. He didn't want his child to go through what he did.
Production and release
According to psychiatrist, actor, writer and producer Parvinder Shergill, after Bend It Like Beckham, she could not find another mainstream English film led by a woman that looked like her so she made her own and titled it Kaur.[1][2][3] She co-wrote and co-produced it with presenter Juggy Sohal.[4] It was directed by Kaki Wong.[5] More than 70 South Asian women contributed, including Harpreet Kaur.[2]
The film is set in a Gurdwara in Bedford.[6] The complete film lasts 13 minutes and 27 seconds.[7] Kaur was first released in 2022 and toured Gurudwaras, festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK.[1] In 2023, it was then broadcast on ITVX and BritBox.[1] It appeared on Netflix in May 2024.[4][8]
Cast
- Parvinder Shergill as Avani[1]
- Nina Wadia as Avani's mother[1]
- Stephen Uppal as Avani's father[1]
Reception and adaptation
In 2022 Kaur received a jury mention for Best Short Film and Best Director Short at the Global Indian Film Festival.[9] The Independent's Jacob Stolworthy reported that the film was a success at festivals and has been seen as a "shining a light on Sikh families in the UK".[1] He wrote that the film "has been praised for the thought-provoking way it explores the challenges faced by British South Asian women in the UK, but also for its examination of the reason why Avani’s father, a Sikh Punjabi immigrant, responds to her decision in the way he does."[2][1]
Asia Samachar reported that Shergill's intent was to reach out to a wider audience on stories about Asian women.[10][11] News of Kaur and interviews with the cast appeared in several articles in the BBC News, who reported that the film told the story of a conflict between a Sikh woman and her father, who disclosed to her his own experience as an immigrant Sikh child in 1980s Britain.[2][4][8] In 2024 the BBC and the Eastern Eye reported that the film would be the basis of a Hollywood feature film.[8][12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stolworthy, Jacob (17 July 2023). "Kaur: The short film exploring a Sikh girl's decision to wear a turban for the first time". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Midlands producer wants more mainstream films about Sikh women". BBC News. 24 February 2023. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "South Asian History Month: An interview with actress, filmmaker and psychiatrist Dr Parvinder Shergill". www.rcpsych.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ a b c "Filmmaker of Netflix's Kaur aims to bring diversity to 'mainstream'". BBC News. 21 April 2024. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ Verma, Swati. "Kaur Review". Film Reviews. UK Film Review. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Chaudry, Farzana (9 May 2022). "BBC Three Counties Radio - Farzana Chaudry, Filming at Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Bedford and advocating for body positivity, The short film, Kaur, is filming at the Bedford Guru Nanak Gurdwara". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Kaur". www.bbfc.co.uk. BBFC Board. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Sikh short movie Kaur to get Hollywood remake". BBC News. 24 April 2024. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Winner List 2022". Global Indian Film Festival. 26 November 2022. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Short film 'Kaur' aims to project stories told by British Asian woman". Asia Samachar. 17 December 2022. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ Hussain, Rangzeb (26 February 2023). "Short film highlights backlash against British Sikh women who choose to wear a turban". I Am Birmingham. Archived from the original on 1 June 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Singh, Mohnish (24 April 2024). "Sikh short film 'Kaur' set for a Hollywood remake - EasternEye". www.easterneye.biz. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.