Kavi Raz
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kavi Raz is an Indian-born British actor, writer, director and producer. Born in Punjab, Raz left India at a young age for the United Kingdom, where he grew up. He acquired national prominence as an exceptional hockey player in the Midlands. He attended university in the San Francisco Bay area. Raz was a founder and artistic director of The Wandering Players Theater Company. The Company staged several World and US premieres of plays from India. Western audiences were exposed to the works of Rabindranath Tagore for the first time, in addition to plays like Sakharam Binder and Shakuntala. This was the first professional South Asian theatre company in the USA. In the mid-seventies, Raz arrived in Hollywood: a career as an actor was unheard of at a time when roles for South Asian actors in Hollywood television shows and films were limited. Raz had been quoted: “People, especially friends and relatives scoffed at the idea of my becoming an actor. They thought it was a passing fancy and would soon be over. But no, I had a dream and take what it may I journeyed on to make my dream a reality.” He became the first ever South Asian actor to be signed on as a regular in a major TV series, St Elsewhere. He was a cast member for the first two seasons of the medical drama, and after being let go continued to appear on a recurring basis. Raz has appeared in over 200 plays, TV shows and films, including guest appearances on The A-Team, M*A*S*H and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1978, Raz founded the production company, K.R. Films Hollywood. Its debut, Lehren - a television weekly variety series for the Asian audience - was shown throughout the United States and Canada. In 1988, K.R. Studios was built in Granada Hills. Housing several buildings including the main studio, it has state-of-art equipment for film and television productions, as well as a multi-track recording facility for post production and recording needs. The studio is now home to many award winning producers, writers and directors engaged in the production of commercials, TV programmes, music videos and films. Raz began his career as a filmmaker with The Gold Bracelet, a movie about a Sikh man faced with the realities of post-9/11. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kavi Raz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: January 01, 1953
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Keefer
1978-03-16
Keefer
Overview: An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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Pet Sematary
1989-04-21
Pet Sematary
Overview: After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-21
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Warning Sign
1985-08-23
Warning Sign
Overview: An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Under Siege
1986-02-09
Under Siege
Overview: Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Washington DC. FBI probes indicate that the attack is by Arab terrorists led by Iranians. Subsequent attacks are via airplanes exploded in mid-air, crowded restaurants, and an attack on a mall. Administration cabinet heads push the President to retaliate. The director of the FBI believes that there may be more to the story than the investigation has revealed and the Secretary of Defense is the only other person urging caution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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The Night Train to Kathmandu
1988-06-05
The Night Train to Kathmandu
Overview: A young girl leaves for Nepal with her parents and brother. She is unhappy to leave her home at first, but soon isn't when she meets a handome young man. The story unfolds into a romantic and daring quest in search of the "Invisible City."
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-05
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Shooter
1988-09-11
Shooter
Overview: "Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter and Tracey an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Terror Squad
1988-04-01
Terror Squad
Overview: A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, with the goal of car bombing a nuclear power plant. While attempting to escape local law enforcement, a massive car chase ensues, terrorizing the entire town before the terrorists end up at the local high school and take the detention class hostage. Will they escape? Will the crafty delinquents foil their plans? Will Chuck Connors step more than two feet away from his car? Watch and find out!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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All I Want for Christmas
1991-11-08
All I Want for Christmas
Overview: Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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Sarabha
2023-11-03
Sarabha
Overview: Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: pa
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Barefoot Warriors
Barefoot Warriors
Overview: In a quaint Punjab Village in North India, events unfold upon the arrival of an American man seeking to redeem his own failures in life. He ends up fulfilling century old dreams for the village folks.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
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Site
Site
Overview: After a terrifying encounter at an abandoned government test site, a small town family man begins seeing haunting visions of a past that threatens to destroy his present.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
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Stiletto
2008-04-29
Stiletto
Overview: The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-29
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Beyond the Next Mountain
1981-03-11
Beyond the Next Mountain
Overview: The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
Genres: Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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Big River
2006-01-20
Big River
Overview: Soon after he lands in America, Ali, a Muslim man from Pakistan, begins his search for his estranged wife, Nadia. On his journey, Ali meets with Teppei, a Japanese traveller hitchhiking his way across America, and Sarah, a local trailer park girl, who help him in his search. The three travellers succeed in finding Nadia, who, to Ali’s dismay, is living a new life in Phoenix with another man. Ali spends the rest of his stay in America with Teppei and Sarah, anxiously wondering where his life is leading. In the brief time they are together, the three companions commit to helping one another. Ali, Teppei and Sarah begin a new journey, to find their own individual identities and in the process they find each other. Big River is a road movie, a tale about the borderless realm of friendship and its ability to transcend culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985-10-01
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Overview: A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006-01-20
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Overview: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Hot Mess Holiday
2021-12-11
Hot Mess Holiday
Overview: A jilted woman and her friends end up with a 35-carat blood diamond during Diwali, but when it goes missing, they must find it before they get their eyes scooped out by a homicidal maniac.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-11
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
1988-01-01
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
Overview: This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Arranged Marriage
2022-10-13
Arranged Marriage
Overview: A westernized desi girl is ambushed by her parents with an arranged marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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The Gold Bracelet
2008-01-01
The Gold Bracelet
Overview: When tragedy strikes on 9/11, Arjun Singh (Kavi Raz) and his family -- devout Sikhs who emigrated from India to the suburbs of Los Angeles -- suddenly find themselves as targets of prejudice and discrimination. Trying to distance themselves from terrorists, they explain to once-friendly neighbors how their Sikh culture is nothing like Muslim extremism, but their words largely fall on deaf and suspicious ears. Archana Puran Singh co-stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Black Prince
2017-07-21
The Black Prince
Overview: The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and eventually sent off to England. His attempts to return to India and reclaim his kingdom were subsequently thwarted by the British.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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Tie the Knot
2016-05-04
Tie the Knot
Overview: When an American woman takes an impromptu journey to Mumbai too get away from her overbearing mother, she befriends an Indian woman striving to balance her family's culture with modern day demands. What ensues is an ethnic and generational mash-up that will leave audiences enthralled at the calamity of old-school traditions and contemporary lifestyle.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-04
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Blue Movies
1988-02-01
Blue Movies
Overview: The "slippery" comedy is about 2 easy-living young men. They decide to make sex films. This adventurous enterprise could be a little complicated but nothing will deter them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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I Am Singh
2011-01-01
I Am Singh
Overview: Neo-Nazis and bigoted police oppress and target vulnerable Sikhs & Asians in post 9-11 America.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The Three Kings
1987-12-17
The Three Kings
Overview: The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-17
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Storm in the Afternoon
1998-12-12
Storm in the Afternoon
Overview: "What's life without a dream?" Starting from the premise "What's life without a dream", STORM in the AFTERNOON tells the story of four people caught at the crossroads of changing social and cultural mores. The ethos of an ethnic immigrant identity is examined against the backdrop of the mythical "American melting pot."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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All Out Dysfunktion!
2016-09-14
All Out Dysfunktion!
Overview: Five narcissistic roommates rife with animosity hastily conspire to pull off an underground rave party, without their elderly landlady knowing about it. Things spiral out of control and everyone gets a little more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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