Seeking Balance

Daya Singh gave up a career as a chartered accountant to dedicate himself to Sikh sacred music, specifically to the project of taking that music beyond the walls of the Gurdwara and sharing it with audiences who had no prior connection to Sikhism. The decision was controversial. He was told he could not perform at the Golden Temple with non-Sikh audience members present. He persisted anyway, building a world music career that took him to festival stages around the globe and eventually brought the music to his own daughters, one of whom now sings publicly in the Gurdwara.

The film is also a portrait of a family navigating Sikh identity across generations, and specifically the question of what gets kept and what gets adapted. Daya's daughter married someone who was not born Sikh. His sons chose not to maintain their hair. These are not treated as failures but as the honest reality of a family living in the world rather than in a protected enclave. Seeking Balance is a film about what it means to hold onto the things you genuinely believe in without demanding that everyone around you make the same choices.