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Name
  
Sarjit Bains


Role
  
Film director

Movies
  
Cash and Curry, Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees

Similar
  
Ronny Jhutti, Ameet Chana, Ines Boughanmi, Ernesto Cantu, Pooja Shah

AAAAAAAAH! Steve Oram


Sarjit Bains is the controversial UK-based film director of Punjabi Indian extraction.

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His debut feature film Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees (2003) caused an unprecedented furore when Ealing Southall (West London) MP Piara Khabra demanded the film be banned. Subsequently, the film was only screened in independent and arthouse theatres.

His second feature Cash and Curry, starring Ameet Chana and Pooja Shah, was completed in 2008 and was released in 2010 in the UK and Ireland.

Awards and film festivals

  • Cannes Film Festival - UK Pavilion Screening Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees (2003)
  • Bite The Mango Film Festival Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees (2004)
  • Black History Month - Far Out, Far East Film Festival Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees (2004)
  • Promax Awards Two-time winner
  • Filmography

  • Cash and Curry Director (2007)
  • Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees Director (2003)
  • References

    Sarjit Bains Wikipedia