Sikhs and September 11: actor and director Kavi Raz's film The Gold Bracelet is the first of its kind.

SINCE HIS 1982 BREAKOUT ROLE on the hit show St. Elsewhere, Kavi Raz has appeared in more than 200 television shows, plays and films. He has appeared in leading roles on television shows, like M.A.S.H and NYPD Blue and is the first Sikh American to produce and direct a Hindt film for video and television. The actor and filmmaker, who was born in Punjab, India and raised in Engiand, founded K.R. Films-Hollywood, a TV and film production company that features Asian actors.

Raz has written, directed and starred in the new film The Gold Bracelet, the first feature-length film to address the lives of Skih and Muslim Americans since the life-altering events of Sept. 11. The film is the story of Arjun Singh (played by Raz) and his family who are leading a comfortable middle-class life among ignorant neighbors and bigoted work clients--until the Twin Towers collapse and the Singhs come under deadly attack. Raz, who began writing the script after Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered in Arizona in the wake of 9/11, hopes that people watching the film will recognize that "we need to have a better understanding of different cultures--where they come from and what they stand for."