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EXCLUSIVE: Two world income agents person boarded nan documentary characteristic Breaking nan Code, nan inspiring communicative of Indian migrant Kanwal Rekhi who became a awesome fig successful nan emergence of Silicon Valley, laying nan instauration for nan internet.
Concourse Media, based successful Los Angeles, and Matter Entertainment, based successful Mumbai, will correspond Breaking nan Code successful cardinal world regions. The movie is co-directed by Ben Rekhi, Kanwal Rekhi’s son, and nan mononymic Swetlana, and executive produced by Guneet Monga. We person your first look astatine nan movie successful nan trailer below.
“Before nan net changed nan world, a extremist outsider changed nan internet,” notes a synopsis. “Told done nan lens of filmmaker Ben Rekhi, Breaking nan Code is nan gripping, profoundly individual communicative of his father, Kanwal Rekhi—one of Silicon Valley’s astir defiant and successful pioneers. As nan first Indian to shatter nan predominantly achromatic solid ceiling of large tech, Kanwal rubbed shoulders pinch Bill Gates and Steve Jobs earlier sparking an entrepreneurial gyration that helped propel India into nan world economical superpower it is today.”
The synopsis continues, “Now, faced pinch a situation that threatens to unravel their family, begetter and boy must face nan existent costs of success, and what it genuinely intends to belong.”
Breaking nan Code premiered arsenic nan opening nighttime action of nan Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, wherever it won nan Audience Award. It has gone connected to surface astatine CAAMFest successful San Francisco and nan New York Indian Film Festival and will proceed its show circuit passim nan summertime and into nan fall. The movie charts Kanwal Rekhi’s travel “from humble beginnings arsenic a Partition-refugee successful India to becoming nan first Indian to return a institution nationalist successful Silicon Valley. That company, Excelan, commercialized machine networking, nan exertion upon which nan modern net was built.”
The documentary debuts astatine a clip erstwhile nan Trump management has made a concerted effort to demonize immigrants, peculiarly those pinch brownish tegument (white South Africans, for instance, look to beryllium exempted).
“America is simply a state of immigrants, but excessively often those communities are marginalized for what they are perceived to person taken from society,” filmmaker Ben Rekhi said successful a statement. “Breaking nan Code is simply a communicative of 1 specified immigrant, my father, who came present pinch nothing, created thousands of jobs and helped build nan tech gyration that has reshaped each of our lives. It’s a profoundly inspiring communicative of 2 countries, and we’re thrilled to activity pinch Concourse and Matter to find a location successful each for this heartfelt communicative astir nan courageousness it takes to travel your dream.”
Concourse Media’s Matthew Shreder commented, “Breaking nan Code is precisely nan benignant of movie nan world needs correct now. It’s astatine erstwhile a family story, a emotion story, a rags-to-riches tale, and possibly astir strikingly, a humanities grounds of really nan Silicon Valley and nan modern world was built. We couldn’t beryllium much proud to partner pinch nan filmmakers to bring this unthinkable communicative to audiences astir nan world.”
Added Meghna Sharma of Matter Entertainment, “Breaking nan Code reminds america erstwhile again that nan individual is universal. The themes of family and perseverance will particularly resonate pinch Indian audiences who will spot themselves successful Kanwal’s singular journey. We can’t hold for audiences to spot this inspirational story.”
Breaking nan Code was produced by Shubhika Sharma, co-produced by Aishwarya Sonar and Triparna Bannerjee, and edited by Akanksha Kalhe. Ben Rekhi’s directing credits see The Reunited States (2020), The Ashram (2018), and Waterborne (2005). He produced nan 2002 action-drama characteristic Bomb nan System, which was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award.
Earlier this year, Kanwal Rekhi published a memoir, The Groundbreaker: Entrepreneurship, nan American Dream, and nan Rise of Modern India. The book features a foreword by Rep. Ro Khanna, nan Democratic Congressman who represents California’s 17th district.
Watch nan trailer for Breaking nan Code here:
