Supreet Manchanda and Eileen Alden dreamt up this slick superhero as a way to combat the negative stereotypes about Sikhs that have been seeping into Western media. And with the help of artist Amit Tayal, Super Sikh is quickly becoming a reality.
If you told a regular secular American that the way to 100 million dollars was in this text, everyone would know Gurmukhi. People would be reading it as they commute to work, there would be blogs about it, online chats.
...I was a screenplay writer on the side, and he suggested that I consider making a Sikh character. My pension has always been for outside the box ideas...
[VIDEO] At the press round table the next day, Kingsley called the Sikh driver "a noble warrior." The story, according to Kingsley, unfolds due to divine intervention. Kingsley, who was working on another film when two financiers approached to back up Learning to Drive, "had just about three days to prepare for this role."