KAUR

KAUR (2022)

Avani is a British Sikh girl who embraces her identity, and makes a life-changing decision to wear a turban, with support from her mother. Her choice results in conflict with her father, who is still traumatised by facing racism as a youth.

Date of release
2022-08-01
Runtime
13m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kaki Wong

Casting

Interesting facts

Kaur is a 2022 British short film co-written and produced by Parvinder Shergill and 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.

Production and release

According to British Sikh physician Parvinder Shergill, after Bend It Like Beckham, she could not find another mainstream English film led by a woman who looked like her so she made her own and titled it Kaur. She co-wrote and co-produced it with presenter Juggy Sohal. It was directed by Kaki Wong. More than 70 South Asian women contributed, including Harpreet Kaur.

The film is set in a gurudwara in Bedford. The complete film lasts 13 minutes and 27 seconds. Kaur was first released in 2022 and toured gurudwaras, festivals and university Sikh societies in the UK. In 2023, it was broadcast on ITVX and BritBox. It appeared on Netflix in May 2024.

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