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Based on the global spread of Sikhs, we’re only really looking at 30% of the Sikh population who live outside of India. The majority 70% of potential cinema sales is lost income for the filmmakers if Sadda Haq ban is not lifted. The financial hit will discourage other filmakers just as the Indian elite want.

Our job should now be to lift the ban in India. Now is the time to use our contacts with the Sants, Jatehdars, Jathebhandis etc to add to the pressure on SGPC to revoke their opinion against the movie.

But out of that 70%, how much of Indian Sikh population would had gone and seen the movie in Theatres, 90% of this 70% would had seen the movie at home on Pirated CDs!, and other 5% when movie comes on TV in 3-6 months.

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What are the procedures to nominate any movie to International Awards etc.? Some major speaking languages such as French, German, Spanish could also be explored. French is commonly spoken in most of Europe and even in Canada.

Lets not get over-enthusiastic. Firstly, objectively, is it worthy of awards from a direction, production, cinematograpy, acting, etc., perspective? If not then we'll look foolish making noise about the film being award-worthy just because it's dealing with a subject important to us, as opposed to judging the film on merit.

Just take the movie for what it is: A decent, eye-opening melodrama (albeit based on fact) dealing with political and social issues that are still relevant to a section of society in the north of India. That should be enough for now. If we want awards for movies such as these then I'm afraid the sophistication level of such endeavours will need to be ramped up, so that we are in-line with other international productions which deal with similar issues such as movies from as recently as 2012 like War Witch, The Impossible, or even something as off-beat as a slightly older movie like Persopelis (yes, that movie which isn't a cartoon, lol).

Like I said the publicity the film is gaining as of now is excellent, and that should suffice for now.

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