With Dosa Hunt, Filmmaker Amrit Singh Emerges as Generational Voice

By Jim Luce, The Huffington Post

The closing gala for this year’s New York Indian Film Festival (HuffPo), held in a banquet hall above NYU’s Skirball Auditorium, was alive with artists, actors, filmmakers, and thinkers with work clearly committed to making the world better – and celebrating the illuminating power of film. I was fortunate to strike up a conversation with a young man I’d seen onstage earlier in the evening, bowing with the rest of the festival’s filmmakers, now adroitly making his way through a roomful of conversations.

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Amrit Singh is your average Queens-born Indian-American: musician, Law Journal editor, corporate securities litigator, and executive editor of the influential indie music website Stereogum.com. Also filmmaker. Credit: Laura June Kirsch.

“So, are you famous in some way that I should know?,” I asked tongue-in-cheek. He gracefully demurred, though within moments we were locked in a conversation about his intriguing personal history — as a musician, an International Law Journal editor, a corporate securities litigator, the executive editor of the influential indie music website Stereogum.com, an occasional television commentator, and not least, a Queens-born Indian-American. I was fascinated to learn how all these roles culminated in his moment here as a first-time filmmaker, having written, directed, produced, and appeared in the celebrated short film Dosa Hunt.

I was taken back by the breadth of his background and how well he could articulate it. I was also impressed by his film’s charming tagline: “The Greatest Hunt For South Indian Food In NYC Ever Committed To Film!” I promised to watch, but not before hearing more from its creator, Amrit Singh, himself.

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