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Not Your Butter Chicken
Not Your Butter Chicken
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Not Your Butter Chicken
Not Your Butter Chicken
Watch The Show
Meet The Crew
Events & Screenings
Press
What Are People Saying?
Watch The Show
Meet The Crew
Events & Screenings
Press
What Are People Saying?
If you are a voter please consider voting! #canadianscreenawards voting closes April 13
For Your Consideration 🏆 

Not Your Butter Chicken, a four-part docu-series celebrating untold stories of South Asians in Western Canada through the lens of food and wine expert Shiva Reddy, is officially up for SIX Canadian Screen Award categories!
Join Director Priyanka Desai for a hometown screening of Not Your Butter Chicken followed by an intimate chat with the director.

📅 October 8, 2025
🕕 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
📍120 14th St W North Vancouver, BC - Third Floor Program Room

In collaboratio
We are so honoured that Not Your Butter Chicken was nominated for two Leo Awards this year - Best Host & Best Direction, in the Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series. ✨

While we didn’t take home the award, we’re proud to have been
We’re honoured to share 2 Leo Award Nominations for Not Your Butter Chicken!

Priyanka Desai (@pdlight) has been nominated for Best Director and Shiva Reddy (@itsreddy91) for Best Host at this years Leo Awards in the Information, Lifestyle, or
We’re so thrilled to announce that Not Your Butter Chicken has been selected to be screened at VAFF 2024!

We’ll be screening during the Web Series Spotlight block “Comedy, Cowboys, and Curry” alongside our friends Arjun Chatt
What an incredible experience to be part of the @isaffcanada 2024 program line-up! 

We were so honoured to have Not Your Butter Chicken selected for the It’s A Series Matter episodics block, showcasing some of the most cutting-edge episodic co
We’re excited to announce that Not Your Butter Chicken has been selected to be screened at iSAFF 2024! We’ll be showcasing Episode 4, “What Will People Say,” during the episodic block “It’s a Series Matter” a
In India, the monsoons means it's time to make pakoras. On wet rainy days, pakoras bring a little crispy bite of happiness.⁠
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Onion, potatoes, gobi (cauliflower), spinach, salt, pepper, awain (carrom seeds), and besan (chickpea flour) is all you nee
POV: You're on set with us filming the final episode of Not Your Butter Chicken 🥲⁠
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1. Chef @amandosanj preparing our farm-to-table meal.⁠
2. @itsreddy91 in the grapevines of Kalala Organic Estate Winery with Karnail.⁠
3. In the cauliflower crops o
Join us in the final episode of Not Your Butter Chicken, there's a seat at the table. We invited the Kelowna trailblazers of Episode 4 to a farm-to-table dinner prepared by Aman Dosanj. Meet our guests:⁠
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👋 Jennifer Deol is the co-owner of There an
Behind-the-scenes of Episode 3: Darkness to Light, which takes place in Lethbridge, Alberta 🎬⁠
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1. Shiva Reddy and Food scientist Dr. Harwinder Sidhu at one of the largest agri-food centres in Canada 🌾⁠
2. Shiva Reddy and Comedian Laksh Gill at @g
This week, we introduce you to the next generation of Indo-Canadians in Lethbridge, Alberta.⁠
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👋 Lakshjit Gill is a comedian, setting the stage for his audience to look beyond the fact that you are a different colour.⁠
👋 Dr Hawinder is a food scie
"When I came here, nobody was here to talk with me. I missed my mom and roti!"⁠
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Shweta Suthar was a movie star in India. She began acting when she was 12 years old, and by the time she left India, she had acted in more than 500 music vide

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