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Pothi Mala on Screen
Before the book, there was the place. These films offer a visual entry into the world at the heart of The Path Seeker — the ancestral haveli, the murals, the relics, and the lineage that has guarded them across almost three centuries.
Featured Video One
Pothi Mala — Rough Cut Directed by Gurdeep Dhaliwal | 2023 | 25 minutes
This documentary rough cut offers a rare, intimate look inside Pothi Mala as it stands today — its murals still vivid in places, its walls weathered by time and neglect, its sacred atmosphere intact despite decades of institutional indifference. Filmed in Guruharsahai, Punjab, it captures what photographs cannot: the scale of the building, the density of its frescoes, and the quiet urgency of a place that is still alive but needs the world to pay attention.
For readers of The Path Seeker, this film brings the haveli to life in a way that words alone cannot fully capture. Watch the same walls that the narrator pressed her palm against. See the murals she grew up beneath. Feel the weight of what is being lost — and what still remains.
Featured Video Two
Wall Paintings of Guru Harsahai & Relics from Guru Nanak's Time by The Sikh Foundation International | 2020 | 1 hour 36 minutes
This film explores the frescoes adorning the walls of Pothi Mala — the 300-year-old heritage building in Guruharsahai, Punjab — with custodian Diamond Sodhi and Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann, former Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Sikh Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
The frescoes are indicative of a shared heritage of Punjab among Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims — a rare monument to interfaith coexistence. The film also explores the relics from the time of Guru Nanak passed down through the Sodhi family: the Seli Topi, the Padam, the Saligram, and the now-lost Pothi, believed to be Sikhism's earliest manuscript.
This is the most academically rigorous visual record of Pothi Mala and its sacred contents currently available. Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann — one of the foremost scholars of Sikh Studies — brings scholarly context to Ruby Sodhi's upcoming memoir, which offers personal witness to the significance of these murals, these relics, and this lineage to the history of Sikhism and the cultural heritage of Punjab.
Diamond Sodhi, Ruby's twin sister and fellow custodian of the Sodhi lineage, appears in this film as one of its central guides — making it an intimate companion piece to The Path Seeker.
A Note on These Films
Together, these two films offer something rare: a visual and scholarly record of a place that most of the world has never heard of — and that the world cannot afford to lose.
Pothi Mala is not a famous monument. It does not appear in guidebooks. It has no institutional protector. What it has is a family that has guarded it for seventeen generations, a scholar who has documented it, a filmmaker who has recorded it, and now a memoir that tells its story in English for the first time.
These films and The Path Seeker are acts of the same impulse: to ensure that what is sacred does not disappear simply because no one thought to look.
Press and Media Inquiries
For journalists, documentary filmmakers, podcast producers, or media outlets interested in The Path Seeker, Pothi Mala, or the Sodhi lineage, Ruby Sodhi welcomes conversation.
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