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Krishnendu Das Baul, popularly known as Babukishan Baul is a Multi-Instrumentalist Music & Dance Instructor, Composer, Performer and Film Music Project Designer. Babukishan comes from an old and very traditional Baul folklore family. His grandfather, Guru Shri Nabani Das Baul, was a much celebrated singer and poet who was instrumental in bringing the Baul culture of Bengal to fame with the respected and admired status it enjoys today. Nabani Das Baul often collaborated with the writer of India’s National Anthem, a great poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, in popularizing the music of the Baul. Babukishan’s journey started in early childhood, his first 7 years of life were spent living with his grandparents Sri Nabani and Brajobala Dasi, learning and experiencing a deeply authentic spiritual Baul way of life.

Babukishan began his career as a performer by accompanying and studying the arts with his father, Purna Das Baul. He also participated in numerous youth folk festivals, traveling to places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Great Britain, all of Europe, the United States, and Canada. He played with both the Asian Performing Arts Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Worldwide Youth Festival in Carnegie Hall in New York.
Presently, he is the owner of BABUKISHAN BOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL with 30 years experience in Bollywood & Indian Cinema as Music Director, Designer, Star Maker, Film & Music Consultant, Music Bank, Film Maker, Film Production, Commercials, Event Management, Entertainment, Documentary, Feature. Get a glimpse into his versatility HERE.
Babu Kishan’s documentary-drama feature film Canadian Dream (also known as Dil Punjabi) is a great guide for new immigrants in Canada. It introduces new immigrants to the challenges parents and children may face if they take the wrong route. It gives an important message to parents to know what their children and teens are doing, to trust your intuition, and that there are resources in Canada that can provide help to new immigrants.

Immigrants, and immigrant children are the future of Canada, it is a story about changing our old cultural view, and really becoming a Canadian of acceptance, and rejection. The crossover 35mm digital movie by Babu Kishan is based on true story of new immigrants in Canada. An optimistic Indian family arrives in Canada with hopes, and dreams of a new life full of opportunity. They soon discover it is not easy to find work, or adjust to life in Canada. The teenage son is bullied, and disturbed watching his father struggle in a job that is below his level. This is a story of one young man’s struggle between working hard, and innocently enough he falls into the wrong company, the world of gangsters and drug dealing. He wants to make fast money, to help his family, and be accepted by a community that has rejected him. This family came with a vision of how life should be in Canada. The vision of the Canadian dream is now falling apart. The land of opportunity, has turned upside down when they realize their son is involved with a white girl, which is not acceptable in their own community. They start to wonder how he is making fast cash. Feeling isolated and estranged in this new land, they become aware there is a right way to go, there are resources to help them through this transition of realizing their Canadian Dream.

The movie has been highly acclaimed by viewers and critics alike. In January 2011, it became the first South Asian movie to premiere on Canadian Television. Babukishan is currently taking the movie to various international film festivals. Asked about his movie, “Feeling isolated and estranged in this new land, the movie displays some of the struggles parents and children may face if they take the wrong route in Canada,” says Babukishan. “It gives an important message to parents to know what their children and teens are doing, to trust your intuition, and that there are resources in Canada that can provide help to new immigrants.”
Check the movie out on Zinemaya.