Singer-actor Ammy Virk spoke up on Sikh stereotyping in Bollywood t about casting non-Sikhs in Sikh roles, and put them in incorrectly tied turbans.
During an interview Ammy said, “I was watching an interview of Diljit, and earlier what used to happen was that they’d get artists who didn’t even have beards and make them wear turbans in Bollywood films. But now, they prefer casting sardars as sardar characters. Even if they don’t cast sardars, at least they get a Sikh person from Punjab to tie the turban. Earlier, they turbans used to look like caps in Hindi films, and it used to feel strange, because that’s not what we look like.”
Also added, “Yes, we are a fun-loving people. We’re good at comedy, but that’s not all that we are.”
