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To Topknot or Not?

Will Jag choose to fit in with his mates and cut his hair, or step up and wear a turban?

Would you turn your back on your religion just so you could fit in?

14-year-old Jag is a care-free, easy-going Sikh boy who loves nothing more than playing football with his mates, but he has finally lost his patience with his classmates after the new kid at school asks if he is wearing a handkerchief around his topknot. Jag feels like he spends his life answering stupid questions about his hair and has had enough. Is this something he is going to have to face all his life? And why didn鈥檛 his friends stick up for him? Would life be simpler if he just cut his hair? After all, his brother Kully did just that, and life seems easy for him now...but it鈥檚 not quite that simple for Jag.

In this short coming-of-age film, we see Jag make one of the toughest decisions of his life to date. Does he honour his Sikh family values and traditions and start to wear a turban, or will he cut off his hair to fit in with his mates?

6 months left to watch

9 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 Nov 2023 14:55

Music Played

  • George Ezra

    Budapest

  • Sigrid

    Fake Friends

  • Sigrid

    Fake Friends

  • Birdy

    Light Me Up

  • Chloe Adams

    Never Been Kissed

  • Sigrid

    Don't Kill My Vibe

  • Dua Lipa

    Dreams

  • Sigma

    Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)

  • Little Mix

    Hair

  • Rudimental

    Feel The Love (feat. John Newman)

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