Kirpal singh bomb disposal officer in the British Army world war II

Lights Camera Action...'Reel' Sikhs. Next up is a Sikh army officer from The English Patient. This highly acclaimed movie tells the stories of four individuals who come together at the end of World War II in an abandoned Italian monastery. One of them is Kirpal 'Kip' Singh (played by Naveen Andrews), a Sikh sapper or expert bomb disposal officer in the British Army. Kirpal's character plays a minor part in the on-screen version in contrast to the original novel written by the Sri Lankan-born Canadian author
Michael Ondaatje, who devoted one quarter of the book to the complex spiritual and psychological progress of the young Sikh character - as well as to his relationship with a French-Canadian nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche). The novel follows Kip's journey from willing recruit into the British Army who develops feelings of personal dislocation from the company of others, partly through the discrimination he feels, and partly through a series of bereavements including the memory of his mother’s loss. His sense of alienation reaches its peak when atomic bombs are dropped on non-white peoples (the Japanese). Also highlighted by Ondaatje is Kip's (and Sikhism's) inclusive cultural vision, sense of egalitarianism and spiritual connectedness by repeated mention of the Golden Temple of Amritsar where 'all faiths and classes were welcome and ate together'. To see Kip win, vote now with a Like + Share!