India, Nov. 2 -- The journey of a filmmaker, who was to change the soul of Punjabi cinema, began with his first short film 'Pala', a documentary made on a folk singer of Punjab, who sang the lost tales of the land of the five rivers. The endeavour was sponsored by the India Foundation of the Arts (IFA) Bangalore and the proposal that Gurvinder had put forward, born and brought up in Delhi and alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and a chosen student of the famous director Mani Kaul, was his way of reconnecting with his roots in Punjab whose parents had migrated from West Punjab at the time of Partition. Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan asked to screen the 2003 film in the Chandigarh Press Club. Of course the Pala story...