Punjabi

I just thought that was an interesting story.

But I'm not alone.

There's a lot of Punjabis who have the same experience.

A lot of

Bengalis who have that experience.

Actually, you know, the funny thing is, it's actually the other way around.

how did filmmaking lead me into law if I look back at my history because from childhood you know if you look back in your childhood you can kind of place why you wanted to do certain things or why you became a certain type of person so if I take you back to my dad who was a photographer back in Punjab before he came over to England and started working on the buses he was like the residential photographer who used to go around taking photographs of all the Punjabi weddings in Nottingham back in the day he did all of that and he was really into that and I think somewhere you know that photography desire or that filming desire dropped in my head because I also remember as a child I was told by my aunt, my mother in Italy who said you're very creative you're a very creative brain and nurture that so that was probably the start of me before I even got to law now from that point we obviously all go to school and we have our you know our lessons of English, Maths etc given to us and then I think somewhere the injustice sat with me in a way that I wanted to kind of do something about it so it was kind of like at that point i had no idea like you know where my life was gonna go what i wanted to do but i think there was a meeting probably of law and film which was always brewing does that make sense

absolutely

it was kind i think if i look back now i think there was something that was probably brewing which was leading me towards these two professions um and i think By the grace of God, Belinda, I can't complain.

And it's not just obviously within Indian men that this happens.

This can happen with, you know, men in all communities that I found.

But I, again, if I have to root this, When we made our film, the current film, the Kama Sutra film that I'm talking about, this film focuses on me as a Punjabi Indian male who hasn't got married.

I'm 49 years old now and I talk you through my whole journey.

He was on like Jimmy Fallon.

He's a Punjabi singer.

And he had, she has like three songs with him.

And they're really, really good songs.

And it's because they're not comfortable with any other way of looking at it.

And one of the reasons is that if you look at the way Punjabi language is, Indian, North Indian languages are, they have to make use of masculine and feminine nouns, a bit like in French.

Like in English, a chair is a chair, a table is a table.

But in other languages, the word chair and table can have a feminine or a masculine.

When you have that in Punjabi, the translators feel like they have to add that bit in.

So where you use a masculine description of God, the English translators will say, well, because it's a masculine word, I have to use a word like he.

So,

for example, you might say in Punjabi, he chair or she chair.

I wonder if this quote unquote feminine sound, though, is the thing that keeps her from not being judged or something.

Like I'm thinking about there's a Punjabi singer, an Indian singer who has a really low voice and her singing is beautiful like that.

She's so moving.

You know who I'm talking about.

God

revealed to the Promised Messiah, it's a revelation in Punjabi, it's in the Punjabi language, that if you become mine, everything will become yours.

I always think about this.

It's not like they cannot... have the luxuries of this world.

Definitely.

Sometimes it happened on a very lighter note that you know you guys are angry with each other either on the business or the personal note you have said something in Punjabi and you said something in that.

Is it like that?

No.

But when she is angry she releases in Thai.

In Thai.

I am also Punjabi, so it happens at my home.

Punjabis only release it one day.

And when you are making those next steps in your career and you're sitting in an interview situation, for example, do you have to explain the path that you've taken or what How do you sort of, I guess, give a sort of narrative? I mean, I don't necessarily interview very well in

Punjabi interviews.

I mean, but I very much so focus on what is it – rather than tell the narrative because – It's never been a planned pathway for me, right? I'm telling you my story in hindsight, but actually when it comes to an interview setting, I'm trying to explore what is it that I've done so far that can contribute to the role that is sitting in front of me or for the job that I'm talking about or the contract, et cetera, or the business that I'm wanting to work with.

That's it.