DOSA HUNT, A Film By Amrit Singh

DOSA HUNT in THE TIMES OF INDIA & THE INDIAN EXPRESS

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:48:08 -0400

Respect to The Times Of India for this!

“‘Dosa Hunt’ is more than just a search for New York’s best dosa. It’s a short film about the Indian community’s growth and search for cultural roots in the US.”

Also, respect to The Indian Express for their kind piece!

And finally, respect to all of our masis and mamas who saw these in print in India and called our parents in America and made us look good, also!

Love, DOSA.

foodisthenewrock: This week’s podcast guest is… Stereogum...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:35:10 -0400

foodisthenewrock:

This week’s podcast guest is…

Stereogum Executive Editor and “Dosa Hunt” Director Amrit Singh

He joins Chuck and Zach to talk about Dosa Hunt, the short film he made last year featuring members of Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, Das Racist and more in a van looking for dosa in Manhattan and Queens. We talk about what it was like to grow up as a brown indie rock dude in America and more importantly how hot Anand from Yeasayer’s mom is.

Download the episode for free on iTunes or by putting our RSS FEED into a player of your choice. You can also stream the episode below through Stitcher:

This is a fun hour, this Food Is The New Rock podcast — in which Amrit spreads a lot of love for DOSA HUNT, NYC & LA, and in which Zach and Chuck (the hosts) say a lot about the things they love. LISTEN UP (above, in that player)!

Reminder to NYC: DOSA HUNT will screen at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday 5/3 as an official selection for New York Indian Film Festival. Come enjoy lower Manhattan with us!

yoisthisracist: Get down Wednesday style! Amrit Singh, the...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:53:27 -0400

yoisthisracist:

Get down Wednesday style! Amrit Singh, the creator of Dosa Hunt, is back on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast as we talk country music.

PS. OH DIP, if you like that sort of thing, now you can subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud!

Herein Amrit and Andrew Ti shoutout the heroes at the Southern Poverty Law Center and their work in relation to the Wisconsin Sikh Temple killings, amongst many other triumphs. (Also they skewer country music that waxes nostalgic for “days of yore,” because obviously).

DOSA HUNT @ New York Indian Film Festival 2013 @ Tribeca Cinemas (Friday, May 3rd)

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:33:00 -0400

DOSA HUNT @ New York Indian Film Festival 2013 @ Tribeca Cinemas (Friday, May 3rd):

NYC! Proud to announce that DOSA HUNT is an official selection for 2013’s New York Indian Film Festival! We’ll screen at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday May 3rd. Ticket info, and the full schedule, is here. THIS IS A NICE THING!

yoisthisracist: This week on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast,...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:56:08 -0400

yoisthisracist:

This week on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast, Amrit Singh, the creator of Dosa Hunt, joins me in the studio! Today we get a weird question about Closed Captioning.

PS. OH DIP, if you like that sort of thing, now you can subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud!

Andrew Ti’s brilliant Yo, Is This Racist? podcast hosts Amrit as they do pretty much what DOSA HUNT does: Deal with whether stuff is racist while laughing at it. All week! Here’s Episode Monday.

LA Premiere @ The ArcLight Hollywood (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:31:56 -0400

LA Premiere @ The ArcLight Hollywood (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles):

Southern California friends: DOSA HUNT is finally ready for its LA premiere, as an official selection to the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles. We’ll screen TWICE — at 7PM on Wednesday 4/10 and Friday 4/12 — at Hollywood’s ArcLight Cinema. HOW NICE. Tickets are available at this link.

In addition to our film, IFFLA will screen a Yash Chopra retrospective, projecting the legendary Bollywood filmmaker’s finest directorial moments — like Kabhi Kabhie and Silsila — on the ArcLight’s big screen. We’re proud to play a part. SEE YOU SOON.

Dosa Hunt + a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Das Racist)

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:54:57 -0400

Dosa Hunt + a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Das Racist):

asianartmuseum:

caamedia:

An event all about film, music, art and food that you don’t want to miss!

After the West-Coast premiere of Dosa Hunt, part of CAAMFest 2013’s New Directions, stay for a Q&A with filmmaker Amrit Singh as well as a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Heems and Dap of Das Racist)…

Get your tickets before they sell out like hot dosas. This is happening next Thursday, 3/21, at our place. The perfect event for art, music, food, and film nerds. Did you see this line-up?!

Amrit Singh of Stereogum, plus members from Vampire Weekend, Neon Indian, Das Racist, and Yeasayer.

And dosas.

DOSA HUNT Winter Film Awards Screening In NYC On Saturday, March 2nd

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:20:00 -0500

DOSA HUNT Winter Film Awards Screening In NYC On Saturday, March 2nd:

NYC! DOSA HUNT has been selected to screen at the Winter Film Awards, a three-day non-profit festival recognizing excellence in independent film. Our screening is Saturday, March 2nd at the Hotel Pennsylvania’s Globetrotter Ballroom during the 2PM-5PM screening block. (The Hotel is near Penn Station.)

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. Read more info about the other films in DOSA HUNT’s screening block. It’ll be a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon in the city, come on out.

DOSA HUNT Screening @ San Francisco Asian Art Museum for CAAM Fest 2013

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:20:00 -0500

DOSA HUNT Screening @ San Francisco Asian Art Museum for CAAM Fest 2013:

Proud to share that DOSA HUNT has been selected as the “New Directions” choice for CAAM Fest (formerly San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) 2013! The three-hour DOSA HUNT event will be Thursday, March 21st from 6-9PM at the SF Asian Art Museum. There will be the screening, a performance by Das Racist’s Heems and Dapwell as Indian Bastards From Hell, a Q&A with filmmaker Amrit Singh, a beer, and access to the museum’s new Chinese Terracotta Warriors exhibit. Dosa will be served from a food truck, and also in the museum’s restaurant (Café Asia, of course). If you are near San Francisco then, please join us, it’s going to be perfect.

Buy tickets right here, which are $25 until 2/14 when they jump up in price. Here’s info on CAAM. Here’s info on the Asian Art Museum. Here’s info on the Terracotta Warriors exhibit. Here’s a photo of an adorable dog.

COME HAVE DOSA IN A MUSEUM WITH US. Hope to see you.

Love, Dosa.

NYC, we’re screening again for you! On Thursday, February...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:34:07 -0500

NYC, we’re screening again for you! On Thursday, February 7th at (le) poisson rouge in the Village, DOSA HUNT will play at around 8:30PM for Co-Lab, the earlier portion of DJ Rekha’s legendary Basement Bhangra dance party (which has just moved to LPR from S.O.B.’s). Arrive before 8PM and walk-up tickets are just $5. (Or buy them online now for $10; yes, you are paying a premium for insurance.) That gets you the screening, a DJ set from Dapwell, and the dance party that follows into the night. And if you don’t bhangra, don’t worry: There’s a free lesson that precedes the party. Info on the night’s other DJs and details at lepoissonrouge.com. This is going to be great.

Last night on NPR, Amrit and Anand joined John Schaefer on his...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:31:00 -0500

Last night on NPR, Amrit and Anand joined John Schaefer on his great WNYC programme Soundcheck. They discussed the film and straight up ate dosa ON THE AIR. It’s a good chat! You can hear it at the Soundcheck page, or you can stream it below, OR you can have this MP3 forever. As you like.

Here it is, the official DOSA HUNT movie poster! YESSS. Its...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:50:00 -0400

Here it is, the official DOSA HUNT movie poster! YESSS. Its backstory and creator (NYC tattoo artist Anil Gupta) are profiled in FADER, and Interview Mag, and over at the Asian American Writers Workshop. The poster will be available everywhere the film is showing — and we’ll have news on that front SOON Y’ALL. To be safe you can join the mailing list to keep up with future screenings news, provided we survive Hurricane Sandy. Stay dry, drink chai.

Ashok And Amrit Go To The Movies

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:34:09 -0400

Ashok And Amrit Go To The Movies:

This is a long, digressive, and inordinately illuminating interview by Ashok of Amrit, wherein they find a connective thread on everything from blogging and lawyering to Britney Spears and the Wisconsin gurdwara tragedy, and of course, DOSA HUNT. It’s a good one, it is at the Asian American Writers Workshop.

Billboard: DOSA HUNT Premiere Event Recap

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:45:00 -0400

Billboard: DOSA HUNT Premiere Event Recap:

Billboard’s piece on the film premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema hits on the important stuff: Who came. What was said. What Amrit’s Dad was wearing.

BlackBook Magazine: Five Out Of Five Bobby Jindals For DOSA HUNT

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:10:00 -0400

BlackBook Magazine: Five Out Of Five Bobby Jindals For DOSA HUNT:

BlackBook Magazine just filed the first proper DOSA HUNT review … and IT’S REALLY NICE. Some verbiage:

Singh contends, justifiably so, that “the film wasn’t just a vanity project,” but there’s certainly the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants of Cool-hood of pop music.

The rest of the verbiage is also very nice to consume. Read it at Blackbook.

NEW YORK Magazine took the cast’s Indian contingent out to lunch...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:20:00 -0400

NEW YORK Magazine took the cast’s Indian contingent out to lunch at Pongal (and called the film “sharply funny”). Catch the piece in NYMag’s new print issue, or online.

Photos from the DOSA HUNT Premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema on...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:59:57 -0400

Photos from the DOSA HUNT Premiere @ Nitehawk Cinema on 10/5

[Img by Laura June Kirsch]

Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:38:00 -0400

Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food:

If you are curious about the background and making of the film, this conversation between John Norris and Amrit Singh is the one to read.

thefader: FIRST LOOK: DOSA HUNT In a new short film, Stereogum...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:17:15 -0400

thefader:

FIRST LOOK: DOSA HUNT

In a new short film, Stereogum editor Amrit Singh invites six musicians on a hunt to find dinner. It debuts at Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn this week; buy tickets for the premiere run here and click through to read our story.

A lovely piece on the official poster and its artist, Anil Gupta.

Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk Cinema in...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:53:00 -0400

Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk Cinema in Williasmburg on Friday 10/5, Saturday 10/6, and Monday 10/8!

TICKETS ONSALE HERE.

Each ticket comes with dosa and samosa (provided by the delicious Anjappar). After each screening there will be a Q&A panel moderated by music television great John Norris. The afterparties will have complimentary Kingfisher beer, with DJ sets by DFA Artist REWARDS (Friday), Jagjaguwar artist Small Black (Saturday), and Quinn Walker of Frenchkiss Records outfit Suckers (Saturday). Tickets are $15 — for dinner, screening, beer, and friendship. THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.

Friday and Saturday doors are at 11PM (with dosa at 12AM, screening at 12:30AM), while Monday is a Columbus Day matinee at 1PM, which will be a special time. Dosa and drinking is a great way to observe that holiday given how much that dude loved Indians.

That above is an event-specific variation on the official film poster, by NYC tattoo artist/godbody Anil Gupta. He is the best.

We’re really proud of the movie and can’t wait to share it with you. These will be beautiful celebrations. We’d love to have you.