DOSA HUNT, A Film By Amrit Singh

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!

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

[Img by Laura June Kirsch]

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