Surrey: Sanghera’s Music Waves expands into movies
For the past two decades, Kulwinder Sanghera has been a cultural icon in the Metro Vancouver Punjabi community. His company, Music Waves, records, manages and distributes Punjabi-language music artists. Since beginning operation in early 2006, Red FM, the radio station he runs out of a Surrey industrial park, has grown from 15 to 39 employees. He provides entertainers for Surrey cultural events, including the Fusion Festival and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
More recently, Sanghera has turned his attention to movies. In 2001, he distributed his first Punjabi-language film. In the last four years, he has distributed a half-dozen movies, not only in Metro Vancouver theatres, but throughout North America. Last weekend, he arranged for Indian film star Jimmy Shergill to appear at Surrey’s Fusion Festival, part of a promotion for the movie Mel Karade Rabba. Last year, he bankrolled and produced Jag Jeondeyan de Mele, a $1-million feature that was shot in 30 days in India and 30 days here, and the film enjoyed a 10-week run at Cineplex theatres in Canada. In the fall, he will produce a second feature, a $1.3-million Punjabi-language film with a 60-day shooting schedule in the Metro Vancouver area.
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