Filmmakers and Producers

Balvinder Dhenjan

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Desi Remix Chicago Style
Balvinder Dhenjan
1996, 46 min., Color, US/UK
Shot in Chicago and London this energetic documentary follows three very different Punjabi bands and their attempts to use their music as a bridge between the competing cultural influences of India and America. They face and deal with racism, discover both Desi sex and Desi sexism, look for role mod...

The Pyre
Balvinder Dhenjan
1996, 4 min., Color
An impressionistic and experimental short which looks at the images that present themselves "glittering behind glass" when you go window shopping in Little India....

What Are Our Women Like in America?
Balvinder Dhenjan
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1994, 12 min., Color, US
An insightful and hilarious account of one immigrant Indian man's attempt to come to grips with American pop culture and "Westernized" Indian women. A TWN Workshop Production....

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